Yang, H., Dobbie, S., Ramirez‐Villegas, J. et al. (11 more authors) (2016) Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: a study of Indian groundnut. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (22). 11,786-11,795. ISSN 0094-8276
Abstract
Geoengineering has been proposed to stabilize global temperature, but its impacts on crop production and stability are not fully understood. A few case studies suggest that certain crops are likely to benefit from solar dimming geoengineering, yet we show that geoengineering is projected to have detrimental effects for groundnut. Using an ensemble of crop-climate model simulations, we illustrate that groundnut yields in India undergo a statistically significant decrease of up to 20% as a result of solar dimming geoengineering relative to RCP4.5. It is somewhat reassuring, however, to find that after a sustained period of 50 years of geoengineering crop yields return to the nongeoengineered values within a few years once the intervention is ceased.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2016. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | geoengineering; agriculture; climate change; groundnut; GLAM |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Advanced Manufacturing Institute (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2021 12:02 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2021 12:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/2016gl071209 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175231 |