Climate change would increase the water intensity of irrigated corn ethanol

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 6030-6037

  Dominguez Faus, Rosa ^a   Folberth, Christian ^b   Liu, Junguo ^c,d   Jaffe, Amy M ^a   Alvarez, Pedro J J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Eawag   (Switzerland)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREAT LAKES REGIONS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; IRRIGATION REQUIREMENTS; PRECIPITATION PREDICTIONS; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; WATER REQUIREMENTS;

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATCHMENTS; ETHANOL; IRRIGATION; LASERS; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALCOHOL; CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; ETHANOL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; IRRIGATION; MAIZE; POLICY MAKING; RAINFALL; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MAIZE; PRECIPITATION; SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; BIOFUELS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHANOL; GREAT LAKES REGION; GROUNDWATER; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER; WATER SUPPLY; ZEA MAYS;

OGALLALA AQUIFER; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84878626234     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400435n     Document Type: Article

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