Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | A Long-term Perspective on Drought in the Great Plains and West |
Creator | Fritz, Sherilyn C. |
Description | Management of water resources requires an understanding of the full range of natural variability and its consequences. The weather record, which spans the last 100 years or so, provides a snapshot of the contemporary history of drought and its impacts, but this record is relatively short and is inadequate for understanding long-term trends or for evaluating the magnitude of human impacts. A variety of so-called paleoclimatic records - such as tree rings, lake sediments, and sand dunes -... |
Date | 2006-11-29T08:00:00Z |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Identifier | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/watercenterpubs/3 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/watercenterpubs/article/1002/viewcontent/FritzBriefing.pdf |
Source | Faculty Publications from The Water Center |
Publisher | DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
Subject | Water Resource Management |