Indicators of water use efficiency across diverse agroecosystems and spatiotemporal scales

DL Hoover, LJ Abendroth, DM Browning, A Saha… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between water and production within and across
agroecosystems is essential for addressing several agricultural challenges of the 21st …

Modeling arid/semi-arid irrigated agricultural watersheds with SWAT: applications, challenges, and solution strategies

M Samimi, A Mirchi, D Moriasi, S Ahn, S Alian… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We review over twenty years of publications on Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)
applications in arid/semi-arid irrigated agricultural watersheds. Our review reveals strict …

Spatial variation of the rain–snow temperature threshold across the Northern Hemisphere

KS Jennings, TS Winchell, B Livneh… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite the importance of precipitation phase to global hydroclimate simulations, many land
surface models use spatially uniform air temperature thresholds to partition rain and snow …

The future role of dams in the U nited S tates of A merica

M Ho, U Lall, M Allaire, N Devineni… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Storage and controlled distribution of water have been key elements of a human strategy to
overcome the space and time variability of water, which have been marked by catastrophic …

Review of water policy and management: Comparing the USA and Africa

ZQS Nwokediegwu, A Adefemi, OB Ayorinde… - Engineering Science & …, 2024 - fepbl.com
This research paper conducts a comparative analysis of water policies and management in
the United States (USA) and Africa, aiming to distill insights, challenges, and …

Crop evapotranspiration, irrigation water requirement and water productivity of maize from meteorological data under semiarid climate

K Djaman, M O'neill, CK Owen, D Smeal, K Koudahe… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Under the semiarid climate of the Southwest United States, accurate estimation of crop water
use is important for water management and planning under conservation agriculture. The …

Alleviating water scarcity by optimizing crop mixes

BD Richter, Y Ao, G Lamsal, D Wei, M Amaya… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigated agriculture dominates freshwater consumption globally, but crop production and
farm revenues suffer when water supplies are insufficient to meet irrigation needs. In the …

[HTML][HTML] A multidataset assessment of climatic drivers and uncertainties of recent trends in evaporative demand across the continental United States

CM Albano, JT Abatzoglou, DJ McEvoy… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Multidataset Assessment of Climatic Drivers and Uncertainties of Recent Trends in
Evaporative Demand across the Continental United States in: Journal of Hydrometeorology …

Ocean-forcing of cool season precipitation drives ongoing and future decadal drought in southwestern North America

R Seager, M Ting, P Alexander, H Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
The US Southwest is in a drought crisis that has been developing over the past two
decades, contributing to marked increases in burned forest areas and unprecedented efforts …

Managed aquifer recharge through off‐season irrigation in agricultural regions

RG Niswonger, ED Morway, E Triana… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Options for increasing reservoir storage in developed regions are limited and prohibitively
expensive. Projected increases in demand call for new long‐term water storage to help …