Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

FUTURE CROP YIELDS

Heavy rain, come today

Nature Climate Change volume 10, pages 805–806 (2020)Cite this article

Subjects

More intense precipitation is an expected consequence of anthropogenic climate change. Now research quantifies the effect of more concentrated rainfall on American agriculture.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: High-resolution rainfall.

References

  1. Lesk, C., Coffel, E. & Horton, R. Nat. Clim. Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0830-0 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Schlenker, W. & Roberts, M. J. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 15594–15598 (2009).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Carlson, R. E. J. Prod. Agric. 3, 293–297 (1990).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Menne, M. J., Williams, C. N. Jr & Vose, R. S. United States Historical Climatology Network Daily Temperature, Precipitation, and Snow Data (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, 2015).

  5. Fishman, R. Environ. Res. Lett. 11, 024004 (2016).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Held, I. M. & Soden, B. J. J. Clim. 19, 5686–5699 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Lin, Y. GCIP/EOP Surface: Precipitation NCEP/EMC 4KM Gridded Data (GRIB) Stage IV Data Version 1.0 (UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, accessed 29 April 2020); https://doi.org/10.5065/D6PG1QDD

  8. Mueller, N. D. et al. Clim. Change 6, 317–322 (2016).

    Google Scholar 

  9. de Bruyn, L. P. & de Jager, J. M. Agric. Meteorol. 19, 35–40 (1978).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Lin, Y. & Mitchell, K. E. The NCEP Stage II/IV hourly precipitation analyses: development and applications. In 19th Conference on Hydrology Paper 1.2 (American Meteorological Society, 2005).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Ethan E. Butler

Authors
  1. Ethan E. Butler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ethan E. Butler.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Butler, E.E. Heavy rain, come today. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 805–806 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0834-9

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0834-9

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing Anthropocene

Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Anthropocene newsletter — what matters in anthropocene research, free to your inbox weekly.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing: Anthropocene