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Tab Title: Agricultual Meteorology Laboratory
Research Facilities
Agrometeorology Laboratory
Field facilities include an Agrometeorology laboratory at the University Agricultural Research and Development Center (ARDC) near Mead, Nebraska, approximately 30 miles north of Lincoln.
Tab Title: Undergraduate Major
Undergraduate Major
Applied Climate Science Emphasis in Environmental Studies
Applied Climate Science gives students a basic understanding of climate and how it affects the environment, society, and the economy. Currently, it is available as an emphasis for Environmental Studies majors.
Tab Title: Weather Data
Resource
Automated Weather Data Network
The High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC) maintains a collection of weather station across Nebraska and surrounding states. The HPRCC's mission is to increase the use and availability of climate data in the High Plains region.
Tab Title: Drought Center
Center
National Drought Mitigation Center
The NDMC helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vunerability to drought. The Drought Monitor Map is one of the monitoring tools available from the center.
Tab Title: Climate Variability & Change
Research Specialty
Climate Variability & Change
The earth's climate has always been changing. Only the rate of the change differed from time to time, showing variations of very different temporal scales in the climate system. What will be the effects of these changes on society and the management of natural resources?
Tab Title: Climate Assessment
Research Specialty
Climate Assessment
Timely and reliable climate information is critical to improving our ability to more effectively manage climate variability. The faculty and staff of the Applied Climate Science (ACS) group of SNR are actively involved in research on several key areas.
Tab Title: Crop Simulation
Research Specialty
Crop Simulation
Crop simulation modeling is a powerful scientific tool that can be used to explore several avenues of research in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Processes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum occur at the electron level over the smallest of time scales.
Tab Title: Drought Research
Research Specialty
Drought Monitoring, Mitigation, Planning & Policy
Research and outreach activities on drought planning and mitigation are conducted largely through the National Drought Mitigation Center's (NDMC) program, located in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Tab Title: Instrumentation
Research Specialty
Instrumentation
Instrumentation deals with the broad topic of sensors that measure the properties of the atmosphere. In our particular case, we are focused on the lower boundary layer of the atmosphere and the underlying surfaces, both vegetation and soils.
Tab Title: Micrometeorology & Microclimate
Research Specialty
Micrometeorology & Microclimate
Micrometeorology is the study of the meteorology near the ground, generally defined within the first few meters above the earth's surface in which plants and animals live. Microclimate deals with the long-term averages of micrometeorological variables as well as their seasonal and annual changes.
Tab Title: Severe Storms
Research Specialty
Severe Storms
Nebraska, because of its location near the center of the continental 48 states and the heart of the Great Plains, experiences a wide variety of weather ranging from winter blizzards to spring and summer tornadoes. Our location provides an ideal opportunity to conduct field-oriented severe storms research.
Tab Title: Water Balance
Research Specialty
Water Balance
Water balance is the area that deals with how the mass of water in a given volume of soil is conserved when all sources and sinks are considered. Water balance is re-emerging as an area important to a better understanding of man's influences on the climate.
Tab Title: High Plains Regional Climate Center
Center
High Plains Regional Climate Center
The mission of the High Plains Regional Climate Center is to increase the use and availability of climate data in the High Plains region. The long-term objectives of the HPRCC are to carry out applied climate studies, develop improved climate information products, and provide climate services in the High Plains region.
Tab Title: GPRC
Center
Great Plains Regional Center for Global Environmental Change
The Great Plains Regional Center for Global Environmental Change (GPRC) is devoted to interdisciplinary research that develops quantitative information on the role of key ecosystems as sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Tab Title: Agricultural Meteorology
Students
Agricultural Meteorology Graduate Specialization
Agricultural Meteorology is a specialization within the M.S. and PhD. cooperative program with the School of Natural Resources and the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture.
Tab Title: Bio-Atmospheric Interactions
Students
Bio-Atmospheric Interactions Graduate Specialization
The Bio-Atmospheric Interactions specialization was designed to provide students with a unique learning environment to promote understanding of the interactions between the atmosphere and the biosphere and to encourage cooperation among the community of scientists within the bio-atmospheric research area.
Tab Title: Climate Assessment & Impacts
Students
Climate Assessment & Impacts Graduate Specialization
The Climate Assessment & Impacts specialization promotes an understanding of the interactions between climate and society and methodologies for climate assessment and impact.
