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The impact of climate extremes and irrigation on US crop yields

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ID15549014
AuthorsTara J Troy (0000-0001-5366-0633, Lehigh University, corresponding author), Chinpihoi Kipgen (Columbia University), Indrani Pal (0000-0003-0680-5785, University of Colorado Denver)
Year2015
Volume10
Issue5
Pages054013-054013
Publication date2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Research Letters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326
PublisherIOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054013
OpenAlexW2109438227
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited23

Climate variability and extremes are expected to increase due to climate change; this may have significant negative impacts for agricultural production. Previous work has primarily focused on the impact of mean growing season temperature and precipitation on rainfed crop yields with little work on irrigated crop yields or climate extremes and their timing. County-level crop yields and daily precipitation and temperature data are pooled to quantify the impact of climate variability and extremes on four major staple crops in the United States. Conditional density plots are used to graphically explore the relationship between climate extremes and crop yields, thereby avoiding assumptions about linearity or underlying probability distributions. Non-linear and threshold-type relationships exist between yields and both precipitation and temperature climate indices; irrigation significantly reduces the impact of all climate indices. In some cases, this occurs by shifting the threshold, such that a more extreme weather event is necessary to negatively impact yields. In other cases, irrigation essentially decouples the crop yields from climate. This work demonstrates that irrigation may be a beneficial adaptation mechanism to changes in climate extremes in coming decades

Agriculture · Agronomy · Climate change · Climate extremes · Climate model · Climatology · Crop · Crop yield · Geography · Growing season · Irrigation · Meteorology · Precipitation · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate variability and models · Environmental Science · Ecology

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Citations per year4,33
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
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