Irrigation cooling effect on land surface temperature across China based on satellite observations

Q Yang, X Huang, Q Tang - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of irrigation on temperature has attracted much attention because its cooling effect
may mask the warming due to other factors, such as greenhouse gas forcing. Although many …

A review on irrigation parameterizations in Earth system models

A Valmassoi, JD Keller - Frontiers in Water, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Irrigation is the process of artificially providing water to agricultural lands in order to provide
crops with the necessary water supply to ensure or foster the growth of the plants. However …

Past and projected future patterns of fractional vegetation coverage in China

Z Kong, H Ling, M Deng, F Han, J Yan, X Deng… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the intensifying climate change and the strengthening ecosystem management,
quantifying the past and predicting the future influence of these two factors on vegetation …

Estimating the cooling potential of irrigating green spaces in 100 global cities with arid, temperate or continental climates

PK Cheung, SJ Livesley, KA Nice - Sustainable cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern agricultural irrigation can produce extensive cooling that is strong enough to mask
the current effect of global climate change. Irrigating urban green spaces therefore has the …

IrrMapper: A machine learning approach for high resolution mapping of irrigated agriculture across the Western US

D Ketchum, K Jencso, MP Maneta, F Melton… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
High frequency and spatially explicit irrigated land maps are important for understanding the
patterns and impacts of consumptive water use by agriculture. We built annual, 30 m …

Irrigation‐induced crop growth enhances irrigation cooling effect over the north China plain by increasing transpiration

G Liu, W Wang - Water Resources Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The large‐scale irrigation is demonstrated to significantly affect regional hydroclimatic
regime by changing underlying surface (eg, crop growth and soil moisture), yet the …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of different irrigation methods on regional climate in North China Plain: A modeling study

T Yuan, APK Tai, J Mao, OHF Tam, RKK Li… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agricultural irrigation is important in boosting crop yields in especially water-stressed
regions, but little is known about the distinct climatic effects induced by different irrigation …

Irrigation enhances local warming with greater nocturnal warming effects than daytime cooling effects

X Chen, SJ Jeong - Environmental research letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To meet the growing demand for food, land is being managed to be more productive using
agricultural intensification practices, such as the use of irrigation. Understanding the specific …

Rural agriculture largely reduces the urban heating effects in China: A tale of the three most developed urban agglomerations

Z Yan, D Zhou - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023 - Elsevier
Agriculture, as a widespread high-intensity land use activity in urban surroundings, may
dramatically alter urban climate through advection and atmospheric feedbacks. However, it …

Numerical simulation of the irrigation effects on surface fluxes and local climate in typical mountain‐oasis‐desert systems in the Central Asia arid area

M Zhang, G Luo, X Cao, R Hamdi, T Li… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting model was coupled with an improved
Noah land surface model (WRF‐Noah) where dynamic flood and drip irrigation processes …