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A Comparison between Variable Deficit Irrigation and Farmers’ Irrigation Practices under Three Fertilization Levels in Cotton Yield (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Using Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing, Soil Analyses, and Crop Growth Modeling

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Climatic and anthropogenic controls on groundwater dynamics in the Mekong River Basin

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Imagining AI-driven decision making for managing farming in developing and emerging economies

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Estimates of irrigation requirements throughout Germany under varying climatic conditions

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GMIE: a global maximum irrigation extent and central pivot irrigation system dataset derived via irrigation performance during drought stress and deep learning methods

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Long-term migration trends and rising temperatures: the role of irrigation

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Impacts of Large‐Scale Urbanization and Irrigation on Summer Precipitation in the Mid‐Atlantic Region of the United States

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Improving global hydrological simulations through bias-correction and multi-model blending

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From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals

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Parameterization of a hydrologic model with geophysical data to simulate observed subsurface return flow paths

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Assessing groundwater irrigation sustainability in the Euro-Mediterranean region with an integrated agro-hydrologic model

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Informing Equitable Water and Food Policies through Accurate Spatial Information on Irrigated Areas in Smallholder Farming Systems

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Global scenarios of irrigation water abstractions for bioenergy production: a systematic review

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Impacts of irrigation expansion on moist-heat stress based on IRRMIP results

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Uncertainties as a Guide for Global Water Model Advancement

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Mapping Irrigated Area at Field Scale Based on the OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) Using Landsat Images and Google Earth Engine

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Most Global Gauging Stations Present Biased Estimations of Total Catchment Discharge

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Hybrid Theory‐Guided Data Driven Framework for Calculating Irrigation Water Use of Three Staple Cereal Crops in China

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Influence of irrigation on root zone storage capacity estimation

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A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils

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Identifying the Links Among Poverty, Hydroenergy and Water Use Using Data Mining Methods

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Evaluating the impact of the environment on depleting groundwater resources: a case study from a semi-arid and arid climatic region

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A Deep Learning Approach to Mapping Irrigation Using Landsat: IrrMapper U-Net

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Recent Decline of Irrigation‐Induced Cooling Effect Over the North China Plain in Observations and Model Simulations

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Soil inorganic carbon storage and spatial distribution in irrigated farmland on the North China Plain

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SEN2-AGRI – CROP TYPE MAPPING PILOT STUDY USING SENTINEL-2 SATELLITE IMAGERY IN INDIA

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Irrigation Post-Modernization. Farmers Envisioning Irrigation Policy in the Region of Valencia (Spain)

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Disentangling Effects of Vegetation Structure and Physiology on Land–Atmosphere Coupling

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Water scarcity challenges across urban regions with expanding irrigation

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Irrigation Impacts on Scaling Properties of Soil Moisture and the Calibration of a Multifractal Downscaling Model

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Impact of climate forcing uncertainty and human water use on global and continental water balance components

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A Collaborative Framework for Hydropower Development and Sustainable Livelihood of Farmers in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: A Review with the Perspective of Energy-Water-Food Nexus

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Multivariate analysis to assess the impact of irrigation on groundwater quality

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Spatial and temporal forecasting of groundwater anomalies in complex aquifer undergoing climate and land use change

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Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance?

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First evidence of widespread, severe soil erosion underneath centre-pivot irrigation systems

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Spatiotemporal characterization and hydrological impact of drought patterns in northwestern Morocco

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An evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index for assessing inter‐annual rice yield variability in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna region

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Are African irrigation dam projects for large-scale agribusiness or small-scale farmers?

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The nitrogen dilemma: Food or the environment

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Socio-economic factors constrain climate change adaptation in a tropical export crop

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Climate and management impacts on the spatiotemporal dynamics of water-carbon fluxes in the North China Plain

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Low flow sensitivity to water withdrawals in Central and Southwestern Europe under 2 K global warming

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Representing farmer irrigated crop area adaptation in a large-scale hydrological model

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Improving soil and water conservation and ecosystem services by sustainable soil management practices: From a global to an Italian soil partnership

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Mapping incentives for sustainable water use: global potential, local pathways

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A Variable Rate Drip Irrigation Prototype for Precision Irrigation

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Validation of a new global irrigation scheme in the land surface model ORCHIDEE v2.2

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Dry Me a River: Ecological Effects of Drought in the Upper San Francisco Estuary

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Unraveling human influence on evapotranspiration over East Asian monsoon river basins by using GRACE/GRACE-FO data and land surface models

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A Reconstruction of Irrigated Cropland Extent in China from 2000 to 2019 Using the Synergy of Statistics and Satellite-Based Datasets

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Assessing the capacity of agricultural research and development to increase the stability of global crop yields under climate change

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Potential Use of Data-Driven Models to Estimate and Predict Soybean Yields at National Scale in Brazil

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Mapping Irrigated Croplands from Sentinel-2 Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

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Intensive irrigation buffers groundwater declines in key European breadbasket

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Study on the Classification and Change Detection Methods of Drylands in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

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Regional differences in the performance of drought mitigation measures in 12 major wheat-growing regions of the world

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Groundwater stress in Europe—assessing uncertainties in future groundwater discharge alterations due to water abstractions and climate change

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Assessing the field-scale crop water condition over an intensive agricultural plain using UAV-based thermal and multispectral imagery

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