Systematic modeling of impacts of land use and land cover changes on regional climate: a review

X Deng, C Zhao, H Yan - Advances in Meteorology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There have been tremendous changes in the global land use pattern in the past 50 years,
which has directly or indirectly exerted significant influence on the global climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation

W Thiery, AJ Visser, EM Fischer, M Hauser… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Irrigation affects climate conditions–and especially hot extremes–in various regions across
the globe. Yet how these climatic effects compare to other anthropogenic forcings is largely …

Present‐day irrigation mitigates heat extremes

W Thiery, EL Davin, DM Lawrence… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation is an essential practice for sustaining global food production and many regional
economies. Emerging scientific evidence indicates that irrigation substantially affects mean …

Irrigation signals detected from SMAP soil moisture retrievals

PM Lawston, JA Santanello Jr… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation can influence weather and climate, but the magnitude, timing, and spatial extent of
irrigation are poorly represented in models, as are the resulting impacts of irrigation on the …

Simulating agriculture in the Community Land Model version 5

DL Lombardozzi, Y Lu, PJ Lawrence… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural expansion and management have greatly increased global food production and
altered Earth's climate by changing physical and biogeochemical properties of terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated water resources management for an inland river basin in China

P Kumar, W Liu, X Chu, Y Zhang, Z Li - Watershed Ecology and the …, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a crucial need to achieve a more sustainable management of the world's water
resources with serious water scarcity and water pollution. The trans-basin movement of …

Observation of irrigation‐induced climate change in the Midwest United States

MA Nocco, RA Smail, CJ Kucharik - Global change biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigated agriculture alters near‐surface temperature and humidity, which may mask global
climate change at the regional scale. However, observational studies of irrigation‐induced …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the effects of groundwater-fed irrigation on terrestrial hydrology over the conterminous United States

G Leng, M Huang, Q Tang, H Gao… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Human alteration of the land surface hydrologic cycle is substantial. Recent studies suggest
that local water management practices including groundwater pumping and irrigation could …

Significant impacts of irrigation water sources and methods on modeling irrigation effects in the ACME L and Model

G Leng, LR Leung, M Huang - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
An irrigation module considering irrigation water source and irrigation method has been
incorporated into the ACME Land Model (ALM). Global numerical experiments were …

Modeling the effects of irrigation on land surface fluxes and states over the conterminous United States: Sensitivity to input data and model parameters

G Leng, M Huang, Q Tang, WJ Sacks… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies on irrigation impacts on land surface fluxes/states were mainly conducted
as sensitivity experiments, with limited analysis of uncertainties from the input data and …