Impact of Irrigation over the California Central Valley on Regional Climate

Irrigation, while being an important anthropogenic factor affecting the local to regional water cycle, is not typically represented in regional climate models. An irrigation scheme is incorporated into the Noah land surface scheme of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model that has a calibr...

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Main Authors: Yang, Zhao, Dominguez, Francina, Zeng, Xubin, Hu, Huancui, Gupta, Hoshin, Yang, Ben
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Hydrol & Atmospher Sci
Language:en
Published: AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625202
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/625202