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Environmental Atlas of the Iowa-Kansas-Missouri-
Nebraska Climate-Change Study Region
(March 1990)
In 1988 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began an integrated research project to study the potential effect of changing climate on environmental resources. The area of study chosen was the four-state midwestern region of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Baseline years are defined as 1984 1987 for agricultural crops and livestock and 1985 for water resources. Agriculture and water resources that are sensitive to climate, interactive, and important to the study region and to the United States were chosen for study. Essential to an integrated regional study is a comprehensive data base of environmental resources in the region, both to characterize the regional resources as they exist today and to serve as input for modeling the response of the resources to climate change. This atlas contains 45 maps and corresponding tabulated data showing the baseline agricultural and water resource data for the Iowa-Kansas-Missouri-Nebraska study region along with basic geographic reference data. This atlas may serve as input for modeling the response of resources to climate change and provides DOE project investigators with critical baseline agricultural and water resource data for the Iowa-Kansas-Missouri-Nebraska study region.
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