Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050
Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change is likely to increase the number and size of these fires and subsequent smoke plumes. These smo...
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okr-10986-371062022-03-10T05:10:49Z Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 Behrer, Arnold Patrick Wang, Sherrie IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL LAND CARBON SINK CLOUD FORMATION EXPOSURE TO SMOKE SEVERE DROUGHT IMPACT ON YIELD METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change is likely to increase the number and size of these fires and subsequent smoke plumes. These smoke plumes change direct, diffuse, and total sunlight during the crop growing season and consequently influence yields of both corn and soybeans. The analysis in this paper uses a twelve-year panel of county-level yields from all counties east of the 100th meridian combined with measures of exposure to smoke plumes of low and high density during the growing season. It shows that low-density plumes enhance yields, likely by increasing in the fraction of diffuse light, while high-density plumes decrease yields. Because there are more low-density plumes today, the net effect is a slight increase in yields on average. As climate change makes wildfires larger and more frequent, the overall impact of smoke on yields is expected to be substantially more negative. 2022-03-09T18:43:14Z 2022-03-09T18:43:14Z 2022-03-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/412661646340432785/Current-Benefits-of-Wildfire-Smoke-for-Yields-in-the-US-Midwest-May-Dissipate-by-2050 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37106 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research United States |
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IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL LAND CARBON SINK CLOUD FORMATION EXPOSURE TO SMOKE SEVERE DROUGHT IMPACT ON YIELD METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES Behrer, Arnold Patrick Wang, Sherrie Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 |
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Wildfires throughout western North
America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the
agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change
is likely to increase the number and size of these fires and
subsequent smoke plumes. These smoke plumes change direct,
diffuse, and total sunlight during the crop growing season
and consequently influence yields of both corn and soybeans.
The analysis in this paper uses a twelve-year panel of
county-level yields from all counties east of the 100th
meridian combined with measures of exposure to smoke plumes
of low and high density during the growing season. It shows
that low-density plumes enhance yields, likely by increasing
in the fraction of diffuse light, while high-density plumes
decrease yields. Because there are more low-density plumes
today, the net effect is a slight increase in yields on
average. As climate change makes wildfires larger and more
frequent, the overall impact of smoke on yields is expected
to be substantially more negative. |
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Behrer, Arnold Patrick Wang, Sherrie |
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 |
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 |
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 |
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 |
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 |
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current benefits of wildfire smoke for yields in the us midwest may dissipate by 2050 |
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2022 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/412661646340432785/Current-Benefits-of-Wildfire-Smoke-for-Yields-in-the-US-Midwest-May-Dissipate-by-2050 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37106 |
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