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Climate change and chill accumulation: implications for tree fruit production in cold-winter regions by Noorazar, Hossein, Kalcsits, Lee, Jones, Vincent P., Jones, Matthew S., Rajagopalan, Kirti

“…Winter chill accumulation is critical for the productivity and profitability of perennial tree fruit systems. Several studies have quantified the impacts of…”
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Seasonal forecasts have sufficient skill to inform some agricultural decisions by Kondal, Ashish, Hegewisch, Katherine, Liu, Mingliang, Abatzoglou, John T, Adam, Jennifer C, Nijssen, Bart, Rajagopalan, Kirti

“…Abstract Seasonal forecasts, which look several months into the future, are currently underutilized in active decision-making, particularly for agricultural…”
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Warmer autumns and winters could reduce honey bee overwintering survival with potential risks for pollination services by Rajagopalan, Kirti, DeGrandi-Hoffman, Gloria, Pruett, Matthew, Jones, Vincent P., Corby-Harris, Vanessa, Pireaud, Julien, Curry, Robert, Hopkins, Brandon, Northfield, Tobin D.

“…Honey bees and other pollinators are critical for food production and nutritional security but face multiple survival challenges. The effect of climate change…”
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Controlled drainage and subirrigation suitability in the United States: A meta‐analysis of crop yield and soil moisture effects by Singh, Navdeep, Kogan, Clark, Chaudhary, Siddharth, Rajagopalan, Kirti, LaHue, Gabriel T.

“…Controlled drainage and subirrigation (CDSI) is an important water management strategy in many regions, but the conditions under which CDSI is most likely to…”
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Climate analogs can catalyze cross-regional dialogs for US specialty crop adaptation by Chaudhary, Siddharth, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Kruger, Chad E., Brady, Michael P., Fraisse, Clyde W., Gustafson, David I, Hall, Sonia A., Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Melnick, Rachel L., Reyes, Julian, Stöckle, Claudio O., Sulser, Timothy B.

“…Communication theory suggests that interactive dialog rather than information transmission is necessary for climate change action, especially for complex…”
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Reviewing the Tradeoffs between Sunburn Mitigation and Red Color Development in Apple under a Changing Climate by Willsea, Noah, Blanco, Victor, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Campbell, Thiago, Howe, Orlando, Kalcsits, Lee

“…Orchard systems have drastically changed over the last three decades to high-density plantings that prioritize light interception that is evenly distributed…”
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Evapotranspiration of Irrigated Crops under Warming and Elevated Atmospheric CO2: What Is the Direction of Change? by Scarpare, Fabio V., Rajagopalan, Kirti, Liu, Mingliang, Nelson, Roger L., Stöckle, Claudio O.

“…Future changes in crop evapotranspiration (ETc) are of interest to water management stakeholders. However, long-term projections are complex and merit further…”
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Downscaling global land-use/cover change scenarios for regional analysis of food, energy, and water subsystems by Yourek, Matt, Liu, Mingliang, Scarpare, Fabio V., Rajagopalan, Kirti, Malek, Keyvan, Boll, Jan, Huang, Maoyi, Chen, Min, Adam, Jennifer C.

“…Integrated assessment models (IAMs) capture synergies between human development and natural ecosystems that have important implications for the…”
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Northwest U.S. Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Collaboratively Defined Research and Extension Priorities by Yorgey, Georgine G., Hall, Sonia A., Allen, Elizabeth R., Whitefield, Elizabeth M., Embertson, Nichole M., Jones, Vincent P., Saari, Brooke R., Rajagopalan, Kirti, Roesch-McNally, Gabrielle E., Van Horne, Beatrice, Abatzoglou, John T., Collins, Harold P., Houston, Laurie L., Ewing, Timothy W., Kruger, Chad E.

“…In order for agricultural systems to successfully mitigate and adapt to climate change there is a need to coordinate and prioritize next steps for research and…”
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Evaluating tomato production in open-field and high-tech greenhouse systems by Maureira, Fidel, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Stöckle, Claudio O.

“…High-tech greenhouse production of vegetables has been proposed as a path to sustainable intensification of food production. While these systems have clear…”
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Changing climate risks for high-value tree fruit production across the United States by Preston, Shawn, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Yourek, Matthew, Kalcsits, Lee, Singh, Deepti

“…Abstract Climate change poses growing risks to global agriculture including perennial tree fruit such as apples that hold important nutritional, cultural, and…”
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When Should Irrigators Invest in More Water‐Efficient Technologies as an Adaptation to Climate Change? by Malek, Keyvan, Adam, Jennifer, Stockle, Claudio, Brady, Michael, Rajagopalan, Kirti

“…The western U.S. is expected to experience more frequent and severe droughts as a result of climate change, with potentially large impacts on agricultural…”
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Sensitivity of snow magnitude and duration to hydrology model parameters by Singh, Bhupinderjeet, Ferdousi, Tanvir, Abatzoglou, John T., Swarup, Samarth, Adam, Jennifer C., Rajagopalan, Kirti

“…•Peak SWE was most sensitive to the rain-snow partitioning temperature threshold.•Peak SWE was also sensitive to the albedo of new snow in some contexts.•These…”
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Impacts of irrigation efficiency on water-dependent sectors are heavily controlled by region-specific institutions and infrastructures by Malek, Keyvan, Adam, Jennifer, Yoder, Jonathan, Givens, Jennifer, Stockle, Claudio, Brady, Michael, Karimi, Tina, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Liu, Mingliang, Reed, Patrick

“…Farmers’ investment in more efficient irrigation systems represents a primary adaptation strategy when confronting climate change. However, the regional…”
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Errors in temporal disaggregation of temperature can lead to non-negligible biases in agroecosystem risk assessment by Savalkar, Supriya, Khan, Md. Redwan Ahmad, Singh, Bhupinderjeet, Pruett, Matt, Peters, R. Troy, Stöckle, Claudio O, Hill, Sean E., Rajagopalan, Kirti

“…•Temporal temperature disaggregation can lead to large agroecosystem model errors.•Change assessments can be sensitive to temporal temperature disaggregation…”
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The Economic and Environmental Benefits of Partial Leasing of Agricultural Water Rights by Khanal, Rajendra, Brady, Michael P., Stöckle, Claudio O., Rajagopalan, Kirti, Yoder, Jonathan, Barber, Michael E.

“…Balancing out‐of‐stream water demands and ecological instream flows is a difficult challenge in watershed‐scale management. Many watersheds already experience…”
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Concurrently assessing water supply and demand is critical for evaluating vulnerabilities to climate change by Hall, Sonia A., Whittemore, Aaron, Padowski, Julie, Yourek, Matthew, Yorgey, Georgine G., Rajagopalan, Kirti, McLarty, Sasha, Scarpare, Fabio V., Liu, Mingliang, Asante‐Sasu, Collins, Kondal, Ashish, Brady, Michael, Gustine, Rebecca, Downes, Melissa, Callahan, Michael, Adam, Jennifer C.

“…Aligning water supply with demand is a challenge, particularly in areas with large seasonal variation in precipitation and those dominated by winter…”
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In pursuit of more fruitful food systems by Gustafson, David, Asseng, Senthold, Fraisse, Clyde, Guan, Kaiyu, Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Kruger, Chad, Kruse, John, Matlock, Marty, Melnick, Rachel, Parajuli, Ranjan, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Stöckle, Claudio, Sulser, Timothy B., Tarar, Layla, Thoma, Greg, Wiebe, Keith

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VIC–CropSyst-v2: A regional-scale modeling platform to simulate the nexus of climate, hydrology, cropping systems, and human decisions by Malek, Keyvan, Stöckle, Claudio, Chinnayakanahalli, Kiran, Nelson, Roger, Liu, Mingliang, Rajagopalan, Kirti, Barik, Muhammad, Adam, Jennifer C

“…Food supply is affected by a complex nexus of land, atmosphere, and human processes, including short- and long-term stressors (e.g., drought and climate…”
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Food for thought: Agricultural production in the Columbia River Basin under global change by Rajagopalan, Kirti

“…An increasing global population is expected to double agricultural production demand by the 2050s, resulting in a food security challenge. Water being a…”
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