Present-day irrigation mitigates heat extremes

Thiery, W; Davin, EL; Lawrence, DM; Hirsch, AL; Hauser, M; Seneviratne, SI

Thiery, W (reprint author), ETH, Inst Atmospher & Climate Sci, Zurich, Switzerland.; Thiery, W (reprint author), Vrije Univ Brussel, Dept Hydrol & Hydraul Engn, Brussels, Belgium.

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, 2017; 122 (3): 1403

Abstract

Irrigation is an essential practice for sustaining global food production and many regional economies. Emerging scientific evidence indicates that irr......

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