Earth System Science Case Study

• Energy Budget and Landscape Changes Resulting from Drought

   - Study Article - Available directly from USATODAY at USATODAY.com - Western drought shrinking Big Muddy or from the TRESTE web page as a pdf file, USATODAY - Western drought shrinking Big Muddy.

      > Additional information - NASA web page Drought in the Black Hills. MISR images contrasting 2000 and 2004.
      > Additional information - S.D. Public Radio story pertaining to the Current Status of the Upper Missouri River: Another spring, another disappointment for environmental concerns along the Missouri River. Guests include Mike Gillispie, Hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, Mike Webb, Deputy Director, Missouri Department of Natural Resources and Chad Smith, Nebraska Field Office, American Rivers.
      > Additional information - Another S.D. Public Radio story pertaining to the The Mighty Mo from Montana to the Dakotas.
      >NASA web page Drought in the Great Plains. MODIS image showing vegetation changes.

Below are the PowerPoint slides used in the Drought Case Study section of the workshop agenda. Two versions of the presentation are listed below, a PowerPoint native file and a pdf file. Both are provided as sometimes PowerPoint native files do not translate from one computer to another well.

• Drought case study (PowerPoint file)
  Drought case study (pdf file)

The Word and animation files below are used in the Drought Case Study PowerPoint file above.

• Soil moisture vs surface temperature lab (Word file)


• Land-cover land-use animation (GIF image)


• Long-term drought index animation for the U.S. (Movie file)