Choice of Irrigation Water Management Practice Affects Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Its Extremes

Devanand, Anjana; Huang, Maoyi; Ashfaq, Moetasim; Barik, Beas; Ghosh, Subimal

doi:10.1029/2019GL083875

Title: Choice of Irrigation Water Management Practice Affects Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Its Extremes

Journal Article · Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083875· OSTI ID:1580689

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Indian Inst. of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (India); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Indian Inst. of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (India)

There is an emerging understanding toward the importance of land–atmosphere interactions in the monsoon system, but the effects of specific land and water management practices remain unclear. Here, using regional process–based experiments, we demonstrate that monsoon precipitation is sensitive to the choice of irrigation practices in South Asia. Experiments with realistic representation of unmanaged irrigation and paddy cultivation over north–northwest India exhibit an increase in the late season terrestrial monsoon precipitation and intensification of widespread extreme events over Central India, consistent with changes in observations. Such precipitation changes exhibit substantially different spatial patterns in experiments with a well–managed irrigation system, indicating that increase in unmanaged irrigation might be a factor driving the observed changes in the intraseasonal monsoon characteristics. Furthermore, our findings stress the need for accurate representation of irrigation practices to improve the reliability of earth system modeling over South Asia.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: Government of India; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830; AC05‐00OR22725; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1580689

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1557004; OSTI ID: 1558465

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-147331; TRN: US2100736

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 46, Issue 15; ISSN 0094-8276

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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