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SUBMITTER: Thiery W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6962396 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thiery Wim W Visser Auke J AJ Fischer Erich M EM Hauser Mathias M Hirsch Annette L AL Lawrence David M DM Lejeune Quentin Q Davin Edouard L EL Seneviratne Sonia I SI
Nature communications 20200115 1
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 unknown. Here we provide observational and model evidence that expanding irrigation has dampened historical anthropogenic warming during hot days, with particularly strong effects over South Asia. We show that irrigation expansion can explain the negative correlation between global observed changes in daytime ...[more]