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Investigating the response of land–atmosphere interactions and feedbacks to spatial representation of irrigation in a coupled modeling framework
Patricia Lawston-Parker
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Joseph A. Santanello Jr.
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Nathaniel W. Chaney
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University,
Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Short summary
Irrigation has been shown to impact weather and climate, but it has only recently been considered in prediction models. Prescribing where (globally) irrigation takes place is important to accurately simulate its impacts on temperature, humidity, and precipitation. Here, we evaluated three different irrigation maps in a weather model and found that the extent and intensity of irrigated areas and their boundaries are important drivers of weather impacts resulting from human practices.
Irrigation has been shown to impact weather and climate, but it has only recently been...
