The Role of Irrigation Expansion on Historical Climate Change: Insights From CMIP6

Abstract To produce food for a growing world population, irrigated areas have increased from approximately 0.63 million km2 of land in 1900 to 3.1 million km2 of land in 2005. Despite this massive expansion, irrigation is still overlooked in most state‐of‐the‐art Earth system models (ESMs) involved...

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Main Authors: A. Al‐Yaari, A. Ducharne, W. Thiery, F. Cheruy, D. Lawrence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-11-01
Series:Earth's Future
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002859