Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation

  • Wim Thiery,
  • Auke J. Visser,
  • Erich M. Fischer,
  • Mathias Hauser,
  • Annette L. Hirsch,
  • David M. Lawrence,
  • Quentin Lejeune,
  • Edouard L. Davin,
  • Sonia I. Seneviratne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14075-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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How the effects of irrigation on the climate conditions compare to other anthropogenic forcings is not well known. Observational and model evidence show that expanding irrigation has dampened historical anthropogenic warming during hot days, an effect that is particularly strong over South Asia.