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Irrigation cooling effect on land surface temperature across China based on satellite observations

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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 705, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135984

Keywords

Irrigated area; Remote sensing; Observational evidence; Spatiotemporal variation; Google Earth Engine

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41790424, 41771360, 41971295]
  2. National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
  3. Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [2017CFA029]
  4. National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFB0501403]
  5. Shenzhen Science and Technology Program [JCYJ20180306170645080]

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The effect of irrigation on temperature has attracted much attention because its cooling effect may mask the warming due to other factors, such as greenhouse gas forcing. Although many studies have examined the irrigation cooling effect (ICE) based on near-surface air temperature from meteorological observations or climate model simulations, few studies have directly addressed the effect of irrigation on land surface temperature (LST), which is closely linked to the surface energy balance and near-surface air temperature. In this paper, an ICE detection (ICED) method is proposed to assess the effect of irrigation on LST using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) products across China. The magnitude of the ICE is calculated as the 1ST difference between irrigated area and adjacent non-irrigated area in the self-adaptive moving window determined by the ICED method. The results show that irrigation cools daytime LST by 1.15 K, and cools nighttime LST by 0.13 K, on average, across irrigated areas in China. The effect of irrigation on LST differs greatly among the climate zones and seasons, characterized by the enhanced ICE in arid regions and the growing season. In the arid climate zone, nearly all the irrigated areas show a lower daytime LST than the adjacent non-irrigated areas, leading to a strong ICE magnitude of >6 K in the growing season. In the humid climate zone, the impact of irrigation on 1ST is generally negligible, with a magnitude around zero throughout the year. This study provides observational evidence and a comprehensive assessment of the effect of irrigation on LST. The proposed ICED method has the potential to be used to study the spatiotemporal variation of the effect of irrigation on 1ST over other regions with intensive irrigation. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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