Drought -- National Drought Mitigation Center
Date of this Version
1983
Citation
Published in Coping with Droughts, edited by Vujica Yevjevich, Luis da Cunha, and Evan Vlachos, pp. 355–368
Abstract
There is good evidence that droughts have been a recurrent feature of the climate of the Great Plains for as far back. at least. as man has inhabited the region. Much of the evidence is based on chronologies of tree rings. Specimens of red cedar and western yellow pine found in western Nebraska were studied by Weakly (1965). In the time span extending back to 1220 A.D, he found many short periods of drought. Droughts frequently lasted for more than five years. and one such period lasted 38 years. Will (1946) found a similar pattern in central North Dakota extending back to 1539 A.D. More recently. Stockton. Mitchell and Meko (1981) have prepared time series of drought indices based on tree rings since 1700 A.D. for several Great Plains sites.
Comments
Copyright Water Resources Publications, 1983.