Increased heat waves with loss of irrigation in the United States

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Lu, Yaqiong ^a   Kueppers, Lara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CLM; dynamic crop model; heatwaves; irrigation; WRF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; CROPS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GROUNDWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

CLM; CROP MODEL; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; HEATWAVES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; TEMPERATURE THRESHOLDS; WRF;

IRRIGATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PLANT; GROWTH RATE; HUMIDITY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE WATER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937468930     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064010     Document Type: Article

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