Abstract: ore severe droughts in the United States will bring great challenges to irrigation water supply. Here, the authors assessed the potential adaptive effects of irrigation infrastructure under present and more extensive ...

Abstract: ortheast China (NEC) is one of the major agricultural production areas in China, producing about 30% of China?s total maize output. In the past five decades, maize yields in NEC increased rapidly. However, farmer yields ...

Abstract: While sharing many common qualities in design and operation, mesonets across the United States were established independently and organically over the last several decades. In numerous instances, the unique ways each network ...

Abstract: The objective of this research is to determine whether poorly sited long-term surface temperature monitoring sites have been adjusted in order to provide spatially representative independent data for use in regional and ...