Quantifying Dust Bowl Storms

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Quantifying Dust Bowl Storms

• By
• Sean King
• ME449 Air Quality

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Topic 1 2
• Topic 3
• Maps
• Conclusion/Summary

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Background/Introduction

• Objective of the project (the 1 liner)
• why us my part important
• statement of methods
• what is in the report
• how bowl came about
• picures of dust bowl storm distribution
• how it was fixed

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Causes for the dust bowl

• Clean up
• In the lat 19thC, the population of the southern
  plains exploded due to new settlers, most farmers
• Repeated drought and farming of marginally
  productive acreage was intensified by a lack of
  soil conservation methods
• Not recognizing the problems of initiating
  massive agricultural programs meant farmers had
  no contingency plans when the drought hit.
• Farming was introduced on land once considered
  sufficient only for grazing of livestock
• (1879-1887) when phenomenally heavy rains fell on
  a patch of the High Plains from Texas to Canada
• Crop production shifted from a variety of crops,
  used as fallbacks if one failed to predominantly
  wheat
• The appearance of modern mechanical farm
  equipment encouraged farmers to plow up more land
  and to plant on acreage that was otherwise
  unuseable

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Maps of the dust storms
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Maps depicting dust activity in early 1936
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How it was resolved

• Conservation
• bills
• rain

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What This Means

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