Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 (English)

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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Behrer,Arnold Patrick;

Wang,Sherrie;
Document Date
2022/03/03
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS9953
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1
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1
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United States,
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Other,
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2022/03/03
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Disclosed
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050
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Behrer,Arnold Patrick; Wang,Sherrie.

Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9953 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/412661646340432785

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