Increase in near-surface atmospheric moisture content due to land use changes: Evidence from the observed dewpoint temperature data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1554-1561

  Mahmood, Rezaul ^a   Hubbard, Kenneth G ^b   Leeper, Ronnie D ^a   Foster, Stuart A ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GROUNDWATER; LAND USE; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE CONTENT; DEW-POINT TEMPERATURE; EVAPO-TRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; LAND USE CHANGES; MODELING STUDIES; MOISTURE CONTENT (MC); NATURAL GRASS; ROOT ZONE; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE (SEB); TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MOISTURE CONTENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 45749084621     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2040.1     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Adegoke, J. O., R. A. Pielke Sr., J. Eastman, R. Mahmood, and K. G. Hubbard, 2003: A regional atmospheric model study of the impact of irrigation on midsummer surface energy budget in the U.S. High Plains. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 556-564.
2. Allen, R. G., M. Smith, L. S. Pereira, and A. Perrier, 1994: An update for the calculation of reference evapotranspiration. ICID Bull., 43, 35-92.
3. Bonan, G., 1997: Effects of land use on the climate of the United States. Climatic Change, 37, 449-486.
4. Bonan, G., 2001: Observational evidence for reduction of daily maximum temperature by croplands in the Midwest United States. J. Climate, 14, 2430-2442.
5. Chase, T. N., T. G. F. Kittel, J. S. Baron, and T. J. Stohlgren, 1999: Potential impacts on Colorado Rocky Mountain weather due to land use changes on the adjacent Great Plains. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 16 673-16 690.
6. Christy, J. R., W. B. Norris, K. Redmond, and K. Gallo, 2006: Methodology and results of calculating central California surface temperature trends: Evidence of human-induced climate change? J. Climate, 19, 548-563.
7. 2 and landscape change using a coupled plant and meteorological model. Global Change Biol., 7, 797-815.
8. Geerts, B., 2002: On the effects of irrigation and urbanisation on the annual range of monthly-mean temperatures. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 72, 157-163.
9. Kalnay, E., and M. Cai, 2003: Impact of urbanization and land use change. Nature, 423, 529-531.
10. Mahmood R., and K. G. Hubbard, 2002: Anthropogenic land use change in the North American tall grass-short grass transition and modification of near surface hydrologic cycle. Climate Res., 21, 83-90.
11. Mahmood R., K. G. Hubbard, and Q. Hou, 2001: Soil moisture monitoring and modeling in the Great Plains. Automated Weather Stations for Applications in Agriculture and Water Resources Management: Current Use and Future Perspectives, K. G. Hubbard and M. V. K. Sivakumar, Eds., High Plains Climate Center and World Meteorological Organization, 163-171.
12. Mahmood R., K. G. Hubbard, and C. Carlson, 2002: Land use change and modification of near-surface thermal records in the northern Great Plains. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 504.
13. Mahmood R., K. G. Hubbard, and C. Carlson, 2004: Modification of growing-season surface temperature records in the northern Great Plains due to land use transformation: Verification of modeling results and implications for global climate change. Int. J. Climatol., 24, 311-327.
14. McPherson, R. A., D. J. Stensrud, and K. C. Crawford, 2004: The impact of Oklahoma's wheat belt on the mesoscale environment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 405-421.
15. Murray, F. W., 1967: On the computation of saturation vapor pressure. J. Appl. Meteor., 6, 203-204.
16. Sandstrom, M. A., R. G. Lauritsen, and D. Changnon, 2004: A central U.S. summer extreme dew-point climatology (1949-2000). Phys. Geogr., 25, 191-207.
17. University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), 2000: Center-Pivot Irrigation Systems in Nebraska, 1997.
18. Waisenan, P. J., and N. B. Bliss, 2002: Changes in population and agricultural land in conterminous United States, 1790 to 1997. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16, 1137, doi:10.1029/2001GB001843.