Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change is likely to increase the number and size of these fires and subsequent smoke plumes. These smoke plumes change direct, diffuse, and total sunlight during the crop growing season and consequently influence yields of both corn and soybeans. The analysis in this paper uses a twelve-year panel of county-level...
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2022/03/03
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS9953
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2022/03/03
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050
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development research group