Irrigation in the Earth system

S McDermid, M Nocco, P Lawston-Parker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

[HTML][HTML] A review of globally available data sources for modelling the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

JW Lodge, AP Dansie, F Johnson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEFN) is gaining attention as an important
approach to manage resources more holistically. Data availability, however, is a crucial …

[HTML][HTML] How accurately can we retrieve irrigation timing and water amounts from (satellite) soil moisture?

L Zappa, S Schlaffer, L Brocca, M Vreugdenhil… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
While ensuring food security worldwide, irrigation is altering the water cycle and generating
numerous environmental side effects. As detailed knowledge about the timing and the …

[HTML][HTML] WorldCereal: a dynamic open-source system for global-scale, seasonal, and reproducible crop and irrigation map**

K Van Tricht, J Degerickx, S Gilliams… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
The challenge of global food security in the face of population growth, conflict, and climate
change requires a comprehensive understanding of cropped areas, irrigation practices, and …

[HTML][HTML] A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future through high-resolution Earth observations

L Brocca, S Barbetta, S Camici, L Ciabatta, J Dari… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is profoundly affecting the global water cycle, increasing the likelihood and
severity of extreme water-related events. Better decision-support systems are vital to …

Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP

S Modanesi, C Massari, M Bechtold… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
In recent years, the amount of water used for agricultural purposes has been rising due to an
increase in food demand. However, anthropogenic water usage, such as for irrigation, is still …

Irrigation estimates from space: Implementation of different approaches to model the evapotranspiration contribution within a soil-moisture-based inversion algorithm

J Dari, P Quintana-Seguí, R Morbidelli… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Irrigation is the most impacting and uncertain human intervention on the water resource. The
possibility of retrieving information on irrigation practices through remote sensing technology …

Microwave remote sensing for agricultural drought monitoring: Recent developments and challenges

M Vreugdenhil, I Greimeister-Pfeil… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between
multiple hydro-meteorological processes. Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent …

Is It Possible to Quantify Irrigation Water‐Use by Assimilating a High‐Resolution Satellite Soil Moisture Product?

E Jalilvand, R Abolafia‐Rosenzweig… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation is the largest human intervention in the water cycle that can modulate climate
extremes, yet irrigation water use (IWU) remains largely unknown in most regions …

Perspective on satellite-based land data assimilation to estimate water cycle components in an era of advanced data availability and model sophistication

GJM De Lannoy, M Bechtold, C Albergel, L Brocca… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data
and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of …