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Description: SVG map of the Great Plains (shaded in green), focusing on its placement within United States borders. The 100th meridian west is marked in red.
While it is not entirely clear how climate change will impact precipitation trends across all of the Great Plains in the coming decades, there are warning signs in states like Montana, where the ...
Due to the highly variable climatic regimes across the Great Plains, many aspects of climate change are not expected to affect all areas of the eco-region equally. In regards to precipitation, this means an exacerbation of extremes where dry areas in the south are expected to get drier and wetter areas in the north to get wetter.
The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.The region is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland.
His map included a comment in the region, "not a stick of timber". [7] In 1823, Major Stephen Long, a government surveyor and leader of the next official exploration expedition, produced a map labeling the area as the "Great American Desert." [8] In the report that accompanied the map, the party's geographer Edwin James wrote of the region:
A federal report released Tuesday gives a wide-ranging look at the ways climate change is already harming the U.S. — including the Midwest, often seen as a climate haven.. The National Climate ...
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