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2021

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Mapping Heat Vulnerability Index Based on Different Urbanization Levels in Nebraska, USA, Babak J. Fard, Rezaul Mahmood, Michael Hayes, Clinton M. Rowe, Azar M Abadi, Martha Shulski, Sharon Medcalf, Rachel Lookadoo, and Jesse E. Bell

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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Extreme Precipitation in the Missouri River Basin from 1950 to 2019, Paul Flanagan and Rezaul Mahmood

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Observational and Modeling Analysis of Land-Atmosphere Interactions over Adjacent Irrigated and Rainfed Cropland During the GRAINEX Field Campaign., Eric Rappin, Rezaul Mahmood, Udaysankar S. Nair, and Roger A. Pielke Sr.

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The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment (GRAINEX), Eric Rappin, Rezaul Mahmood, Udaysankar S. Nair, Roger A. Pielke Sr., William Brown, Steven Oncley, Joshua Wurman, Karen Kosiba, Aaron Kaulfus, Chris Phillips, Emilee Lachenmeier, Joseph A. Santanello Jr., Edward Kim, and Patricia Lawston-Parker

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A model-based exploratory study of sulfur dioxide dispersions from concentrated animal feeding operations in the Southeastern United States, Jesse Winchester, Rezaul Mahmood, William Rodgers, Philip J. Silva, Nanh Lovanh, Joshua D. Durkee, and John Loughrin

2020

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Modeling Irrigation Impacts on Atmospheric Conditions during the 2012 Historic Drought, Kierstin Blomberg, Paul Flanagan, Rezaul Mahmood, Clinton Rowe, and Michael Hayes

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The American Association of State Climatologists' Recommendations and Best Practices for Mesonets, Christopher Fiebrich, Kevin R. Benson, Nathan L. Edwards, Stuart A. Foster, Rezaul Mahmood, Christopher A. Redmond, Megan Schargorodski, Jeffrey A. Andresen, and Xiaomao Lin

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Toward the Standardization of Mesoscale Meteorological Networks, Christopher Fiebrich, Kevin Brinson, Rezaul Mahmood, Stuart Foster, Megan Schargorodski, Nathan L. Edwards, Christopher A. Redmond, Jennie R. Atkins, Jeffrey Andresen, and Xiaomao Lin

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Primary Atmospheric Drivers of Dry and Wet Periods over the U.S. Great Plains within CMIP5 Models, Paul Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, Elinor Martin, Rezaul Mahmood, and Jason C. Furtado

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Impacts of Future Land-Use Land Cover on Boundary Layer Development in the North-Central United States, Paul Flanagan, Rezaul Mahmood, Terry Sohl, Mark Svoboda, Brian Wardlow, and Michael Hayes

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A Hydrometeorological Assessment of the Historic 2019 Flood of Nebraska and Iowa, Paul Flanagan, Rezaul Mahmood, Natalie Umphlett, Erin Hacker, Chittaranjan Hacker, William Sorensen, Crystal J. Stiles, David Pearson, and Paul Fajman

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A Hydrometeorological Assessment of the Historic 2019 Flood of Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota, Paul Xavier Flanagan, Rezaul Mahmood, Natalie Umphlett, Erin M.K. Haacker, Chittaranjan Ray, Bill Sorensen, Martha Shulski, Crystal J. Stiles, David Pearson, and Paul Fajman

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Impacts of Irrigated Agriculture on the Near Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Atmosphere: Results from the Great Plains Irrigation Experiment (GRAINEX), Emilee Lachenmeier

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The Impacts of Irrigated and Rainfed Agriculture on Near-Surface Atmosphere: Preliminary Results from GRAINEX, Emilee Lachenmeier, Rezaul Mahmood, Trenton E. Franz, Eric Rappin, Udaysankar S. Nair, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Aaron Kaulfus, Chris Phillips, William O. Brown, and Steven P. Oncley

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A Design for a Sustained Assessment of Climate Forcing and Feedbacks Related to Land Use and Land Cover Change, Thomas Loveland and Rezaul Mahmood

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Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Data Representation on Weather Forecast Quality: A Case Study in Central Mexico, Rezaul Mahmood

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Significance Statements Communicate Our Science More Widely, Rezaul Mahmood

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Data Availability Principles and Practice, Rezaul Mahmood, Joseph A. Santanello, and Xiaoyang Zhang

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Meteorological Response to a Total Solar Eclipse, Rezaul Mahmood, Megan Schargorodski, Eric Rappin, Melissa Griffin, Patrick Collins, Kevin Knupp, Andrew Quilligan, Ryan Wade, Kevin Cary, and Stuart Foster

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The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017: Meteorological Observations from a Statewide Mesonet and Atmospheric Profiling Systems, Rezaul Mahmood, Megan Schargorodski, Eric Rappin, Melissa Griffin, Patrick Collins, Kevin Knupp, Andrew Quilligan, Ryan Wade, Kevin Cary, and Stuart Foster

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Growing Season Air mass Equivalent Temperature (TE) in the East Central USA, Dolly Na-Yemeh, Rezaul Mahmood, Gregory Goodrich, Keri Younger, Kevin Cary, and Joshua D. Durkee

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Growing Season Air mass Equivalent Temperature (TE) in the East Central USA, Dolly Na-Yemeh, Rezaul Mamood, Gregory Goodrich, Keri Younger, Kevin Cary, and Joshua D. Durkee

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Observational and Modeling Analysis of Land–Atmopshere Coupling over Adjacent Irrigated and Rainfed Cropland during the GRAINEX Field Campaign, Eric Rappin, Rezaul Mahmood, Udaysankar S. Nair, Roger A. Pielke Sr., William O.J. Brown, S. P. Oncley, Josh Wurman, Karen Kosiba, Aaron Kaulfus, Chris Phillips, Joseph A. Santanello, E. J. Kim, and Patricia Lawston-Parker

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Building Adaptive Capacity in Tribal Communities of the Missouri River Basin to Manage Drought and Climate Extremes: A Case Study from the Wind River Indian Reservation, Crystal J. Stiles, Natalie Umphlett, and Mitch Cottenoir

2019

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Role of Sea Surface Temperatures in Forcing Circulation Anomalies Driving U.S. Great Plains Pluvial Years, Paul X. Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason C. Furtado, Elinor R. Martin, and Xiangming Xiao

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A Technical Overview of the Kentucky Mesonet, Rezaul Mahmood, Megan Schargorodski, Stuart Foster, and Andrew Quilligan

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The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017: Meteorological Observations from a Statewide Mesonet and Atmospheric Profiling Systems, Rezaul Mahmood, Megan Schargorodski, Eric Rappin, Melissa Griffin, Patrick Collins, Kevin Knupp, Andrew Quilligan, Ryan Wade, Kevin Cary, and Stuart Foster

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Influence of Land Cover and Soil Moisture based Brown Ocean Effect on an Extreme Rainfall Event from a Louisiana Gulf Coast Tropical System, Udaysankar S. Nair, Eric Rappin, Emily Foshee, Warren Smith, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Rezaul Mahmood, Jonathan L. Case, Clay B. Blankenship, Marshall Shepherd, Joseph A. Santanello, and Dev Niyogi

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Influence of Land Cover and Soil Moisture based Brown Ocean Effect on an Extreme Rainfall Event from a Louisiana Gulf Coast Tropical System, Udaysankar S. Nair, Eric Rappin, Emily Foshee, Warren Smith, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Rezaul Mamood, Jonathan L. Case, Clay B. Blankenship, Marshall Shepherd, Joseph A. Santanello, and Dev Niyogi

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Umphlett QCI June 2019, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI March 2019, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Sept 2019, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Dec 2019, Natalie A. Umphlett

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Enhancing ACIS Maps: Increasing Usability through a GIS Portal, Natalie Umphlett, Warren Pettee, Bill Sorensen, and Crystal J. Stiles

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Conducting a drought-specific THIRA (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment): A powerful tool for integrating all-hazard mitigation and drought planning efforts to increase drought mitigation quality, Elliot Wickham, Deborah J. Bathke, Tarik Abdel-Monem, Tonya K. Bernadt, Denise Bulling, Lisa M. PytlikZillig, Crystal J. Stiles, and Nicole Wall

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Irrigation impacts on minimum and maximum surface moist enthalpy in the Central Great Plains of the USA, Tianyi Zhang, Rezaul Mahmood, Xiaomao Lin, and Roger A. Pielke Sr.

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Irrigation impacts on minimum and maximum surface moist enthalpy in the Central Great Plains of the USA, Tianyi Zhang, Rezaul Mahmood, Xiaomao Lin, and Roger A. Pielke Sr.

2018

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Primary Atmospheric Drivers of Pluvial Years in the United States Great Plains, Paul Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason C. Furtado, and Xiangming Xiao

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Spatial and temporal analysis of a 17–year lightning climatology over Bangladesh with LIS data, Rezaul Mahmood

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Anatomy of an interrupted irrigation season: Micro-drought at the Wind River Indian Reservation, Shannon M. McNeeley, Cadida F. Dewes, Crystal J. Stiles, Tyler A. Beeton, Imtiaz Rangwala, Michael T. Hobbins, and Cody L. Knutson

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Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains, Heather Tollerud, Jesslyn Brown, Thomas Loveland, Rezaul Mahmood, and Norman Bliss

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Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains, Heather Tollerud, Jesslyn Brown, Tom Loveland, Rezaul Mamood, and Norman Bliss

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Umphlett QCI June 2018, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI March 2018, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Sept 2018, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Dec 2018, Natalie A. Umphlett

2017

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High Plains Regional Climate Center (poster)

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The Effect of the Dry Line and Convective Initiation on Drought Evolution over Oklahoma during the 2011 Drought, Paul X. Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, Bradley G. Illston, and Jason A. Otkin

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Droughts of the twentieth and early twenty first centuries: Influences on the production of beef and Forage in Kentucky, USA, Rezaul Mahmood

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Mesonets: Meso-scale weather and climate observations for the U.S., Rezaul Mahmood

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Recent Land Cover Changes and Sensitivity of the Model Simulations to Various Land Cover Datasets for China, Rezaul Mahmood

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Mesonets: Mesoscale Weather and Climate Observations for the United States, Rezaul Mahmood, Ryan Boyles, Kevin Brinson, Christopher Fiebrich, Stuart Foster, Ken Hubbard, David Robinson, Jeff Andresen, and Dan Leathers

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Umphlett QCI June 2017, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI March 2017, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Sept 2017, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Dec 2017, Natalie A. Umphlett

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A Model-Based Assessment of Potential Impacts of Man-Made Reservoirs on Precipitation, Jesse Winchester, Rezaul Mahmood, William Rodgers, Faisal Hossain, Eric Rappin, Joshua D. Durkee, and Themis Chronis

2016

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Atmospheric Sensitivity to Roughness Length in a Regional Atmospheric Model Over the Ohio-Tennessee River valley, Rezaul Mahmood

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Climate-Relevant Land Use and Land Cover Change Policies, Rezaul Mahmood, Roger A. Pielke Sr., and Clive McAlpine

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Support for Drought Response and Community Preparedness: Filling the Gaps between Plans and Action, Kelly Helm Smith, Crystal J. Stiles, Michael Hayes, and Christopher Carparelli

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Umphlett QCI June 2016, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI March 2016, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Sept 2016, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Dec 2016, Natalie A. Umphlett

2015

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Neural network analysis on the effect of heat fluxes on greenhouse gas emissions from anaerobic swine waste treatment lagoon, N. Lovanh, J. Loughrin, M. Rysz, A. I. Quintanar, B. T. Oh, and Rezaul Mahmood

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Investigating Diurnal and Seasonal Climatic Response to Land Use and Land Cover Change Over Monsoon Asia with the Community Earth System Model, Rezaul Mahmood

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Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Regional Climate Over the Loess Plateau During 2001-2009 – Part II., Rezaul Mahmood

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Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Regional Climate Over the Loess Plateau During 2001-2009 – Part I. Observed Evidences, Rezaul Mahmood

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Twentieth Century Droughts and Agriculture: Examples from Impacts on Soybean Production in Kentucky, USA, Rezaul Mahmood

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The Gravity Environment of Zhouqu Debris Flow of August 2010 and Its Implication for Future Recurrence, Diandong Ren, Lance M. Leslie, Xinyi Shen, Yang Hong, Qingyun Duan, Rezaul Mahmood, Yun Li, Gang Huang, Weidong Guo, and Mervyn J. Lynch

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A Historical Perspective on Nebraska’s Variable and Changing Climate, Martha Shulski, William Baule, Crystal J. Stiles, and Natalie A. Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI March 2015, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Sept 2015, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI 2015, Natalie A. Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI June 2015, Natalie A. Umphlett

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Development of a Long-Term (1884-2006) Serially Complete Dataset of U.S. Temperatures and Precipitation for Climate Services, Jinshing You, Kenneth G. Hubbard, Martha Shulski, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes

2014

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Investigating the Effect of the ‘‘Land between the Lakes’’ on Storm Patterns, Joshua D. Durkee, Ahmed M. Degu, Faisal Hossain, Rezaul Mahmood, Jesse Winchester, and Themis Chronis

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Winter Wind Chill Climatology for the High Plains Region, Holly B. Lussenden, Natalie A. Umphlett, Martha D. Shulski, and Daniel Ebert

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Assessing Satellite-Based Start-of-Season Trends in the U.S High Plains, Rezaul Mahmood

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Land Cover Changes and Their Biogeophysical Effects on Climate, Rezaul Mahmood

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Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate, Rezaul Mahmood, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Kenneth Hubbard, Dev Niyogi, Paul Dirmeyer, Clive McAlpine, Andrew Carleton, Robert Hale, Samuel Gameda, Adriana Beltran-Przekurat, Bruce Baker, Richard McNider, David R. Legates, Marshall Shepherd, Jinyang Du, Peter D. Blanken, Oliver W. Frauenfeld, U. S. Nair, and Souleymane Fall

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Climate Masters of Nebraska: An Innovative Action-Based Approach for Climate Change Education, Tapan Pathak, Tonya Bernadt, and Natalie A. Umphlett

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A comparison of the MM5 and the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System simulations for land--atmosphere interactions under varying soil moisture, Astrid Suarez, Rezaul Mamood, Arturo I. Quintanar, Adriana Beltran-Prezekurat, and Roger Pielke Sr.

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Umphlett QCI June 2014, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI March 2014, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Sept 2014, Natalie Umphlett

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Umphlett QCI Dec 2014, Natalie A. Umphlett

2013

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Regional Climate Trends and Scenarios for the U.S. National Climate Assessment Part 4. Climate of the U.S. Great Plains, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Laura E. Stevens, Scott E. Stevens, Liqiang Sun, Emily Janssen, Donald Wuebbles, Michael C. Kruk, Devin Thomas, Martha Shulski, Natalie A. Umphlett, Kenneth G. Hubbard, Kevin Robbins, Luigi Romolo, Adnan Akyuz, Tapan B. Pathak, Tony R. Bergantino, and J. Greg Dobson

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Climate Change on the Prairie: A Basic Guide to Climate Change in the High Plains Region - UPDATE, Lincoln, Ne

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Did Irrigation Impact 20th Century Temperature in the High Plains Aquifer Region?, Rezaul Mahmood

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Drought and Corn in Kentucky, Rezaul Mahmood

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Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Waste Lagoon, Arturo I. Quintanar, Rezaul Mamood, Nanh Lovanh, Justin M. Rawley, Evi Becerra-Acosta, and John H. Loughrin

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Climate Change: What Does It Mean for Nebraska?, Martha D. Shulski, Natalie A. Umphlett, Tapan B. Pathak, and Kenneth G. Hubbard

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Umphlett QCI Dec 2013, Natalie A. Umphlett

2012

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A Synoptic Perspective of the Record 1-2 May 2010 Mid-South Heavy Precipitation Event, Joshua D. Durkee, Lee Campbell, Kyle Berry, Dustin Jordan, Gregory Goodrich, Rezaul Mahmood, and Stuart Foster

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Seasonal Variation in Heat Fluxes, Predicted Emissions of Malodorants, and Wastewater Quality of an Anaerobic Swine Waste Lagoon, Rezaul Mahmood

2011

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BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE NETWORK OF DROUGHT COMMUNITIES, Deborah J. Bathke, Nicole Wall, Jeff Nothwehr, Kelly Helm Smith, Donna L. Woudenberg, Tonya K. Bernadt, Crystal Bergman, Joseph P. Robine, Michael Hayes, Mark Svoboda, Lisa Darby, Roger S. Pulwarty, The National Drought Mitigation Center, and The National Integrated Drought Information System Program Office

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Influence of Karst Landscape on Planetary Boundary Layer Atmosphere: A Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model–Based Investigation, Ronnie Leeper, Rezaul Mamood, and Arturo I. Quintanar

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Heat Flux Measurements and Modeling of Malodorous Compounds Above an Anaerobic Swine Lagoon, Rezaul Mahmood

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Impacts of Irrigation on Dry Season Precipitation in India, Rezaul Mahmood