Articles | Volume 27, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2787-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2787-2023
Research article
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26 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2023

Investigating the response of land–atmosphere interactions and feedbacks to spatial representation of irrigation in a coupled modeling framework

Patricia Lawston-Parker, Joseph A. Santanello Jr., and Nathaniel W. Chaney

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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.
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