Ximing Cai

Dados Biográficos

ID6929340
NOMEXiming Cai
PRENOMESXiming
SOBRENOMECai
ASSINATURACAI X
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0002-7342-4512
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2008
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • The consequences of trade for agricultural water use

    Open AccessHari Manish Dave, Hari Dave et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    We investigate the subnational impact of trade on water use in the contiguous United States (CONUS). We develop an econometric model employing the instrumental variable (IV) approach to understand the causal impact of previous-year trade on current-year water use. Specifically, our analysis focuses on irrigated area and irrigation water use by water source (surface, groundwater, and total) across states in the CONUS for 2012–13, 2017–18, and 2022…

  • Sustaining crop yield and water quality under climate change in intensively managed agricultural watersheds—the need for both adaptive and conservation measures

    Open AccessSundar Niroula, Ximing Cai et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    The projected near-future climate (2031–2059) of wetter springs and drier summers may negatively affect agricultural production in the US Midwest, mostly through reduced aeration of the root zone due to excess soil water and frequent loss of nutrients such as nitrate (NO 3 -N) and total phosphorus. Several agricultural adaptations—such as adding tile drains and increasing fertilizer rates—may be deployed to mitigate potential reductions in crop y…

  • Hydrological responses to the synergistic climate and land-use changes in the upper Lancang river basin

    Open AccessMingyue Xie, Yu Li et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Climate change trends in the upper Lancang river basin (LRB), a high-mountain area, are prominent on a global scale, and climate-induced land use change with increasing cropland and migration has been observed in the past decades and is expected to expand in the future. We assessed land use and sediment yield from the basin in the past and future under the synergistic impact of projected climate change and associated land use change. We found tha…

  • Modeling Users’ Trust in Drought Forecasts

    Majid Shafiee‐Jood, Majid Shafiee-Jood et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2021

    Forecast valuation studies play a key role in understanding the determinants of the value of weather and climate forecasts. Such understanding provides opportunities to increase the value that users can obtain from forecasts, which can in turn increase the use of forecasts. One of the most important factors that influences how users process forecast information and incorporate forecasts into their decision-making is trust in forecasts. Despite th…

  • Machine learning based estimation of land productivity in the contiguous US using biophysical predictors

    Open AccessPan Yang, Qiankun Zhao et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Estimation of land productivity and availability is necessary to predict land production potential, especially for the emerging bioenergy crop production, which may compete land with food crop production. This study provides land productivity estimates in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) through a machine learning approach. Land productivity is defined as the potential in producing agricultural outputs given biophysical properties including c…

  • Harnessing emerging technologies to reduce Gulf hypoxia

    Open AccessMadhu Khanna, Benjamin M Gramig et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019

  • Hydropower versus irrigation—an analysis of global patterns

    Open AccessRuijie Zeng, Ximing Cai et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Numerous reservoirs around the world provide multiple flow regulation functions; key among these are hydroelectricity production and water releases for irrigation. These functions contribute to energy and food security at national, regional and global levels. While reservoir operations for hydroelectricity production might support irrigation, there are also well-known cases where hydroelectricity production reduces water availability for irrigate…

  • Climate change impacts on global agricultural land availability

    Open AccessXiao Zhang, Ximing CaiARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2011

    Climate change can affect both crop yield and the land area suitable for agriculture. This study provides a spatially explicit estimate of the impact of climate change on worldwide agricultural land availability, considering uncertainty in climate change projections and ambiguity with regard to land classification. Uncertainty in general circulation model (GCM) projections is addressed using data assembled from thirteen GCMs and two representativ…

  • Substitution between water and other agricultural inputs

    Open AccessXiming Cai, Claudia Ringler et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2008