http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04095_dust_bowl.html
Elvia H. Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1696)
Krishna Ramanujan
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 607/273-2561)
March 18, 2004
RELEASE: 04-095
NASA Explains 'Dust Bowl' Drought
NASA scientists have an explanation for one of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States, the "Dust Bowl" drought, which devastated the Great Plains and all but dried up an already depressed American economy in the 1930's.
Siegfried Schubert of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues used a computer model developed with modern-era satellite data to look at the climate over the past 100 years. The study found cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface temperatures combined with warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures to create conditions in the atmosphere that turned America's breadbasket into a dust bowl from 1931 to 1939.
AMO and PDO are to blame just like I wrote the other day. How warmers blame global warming is just lazy ignorance.
Elvia H. Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1696)
Krishna Ramanujan
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 607/273-2561)
March 18, 2004
RELEASE: 04-095
NASA Explains 'Dust Bowl' Drought
NASA scientists have an explanation for one of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States, the "Dust Bowl" drought, which devastated the Great Plains and all but dried up an already depressed American economy in the 1930's.
Siegfried Schubert of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues used a computer model developed with modern-era satellite data to look at the climate over the past 100 years. The study found cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface temperatures combined with warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures to create conditions in the atmosphere that turned America's breadbasket into a dust bowl from 1931 to 1939.
AMO and PDO are to blame just like I wrote the other day. How warmers blame global warming is just lazy ignorance.