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A Strong Linkage between Seasonal Crop Growth and Groundwater Storage Variability in India

Asoka, Akarsh and Mishra, Vimal, 2021. A Strong Linkage between Seasonal Crop Growth and Groundwater Storage Variability in India. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(1):125–138, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-20-0085.1.

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@ARTICLE{2021JHyMe..22..125A,
       author = {{Asoka}, Akarsh and {Mishra}, Vimal},
        title = "{A Strong Linkage between Seasonal Crop Growth and Groundwater Storage Variability in India}",
      journal = {Journal of Hydrometeorology},
         year = 2021,
        month = jan,
       volume = {22},
       number = {1},
        pages = {125-138},
     abstract = "{Groundwater is rapidly depleting in India primarily because of pumping
        for irrigation. However, the crucial role of crop growth at
        annual and seasonal time scales in groundwater storage
        variability remains mostly unexplored. Using the data from the
        Gravity Recovery Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites and well
        observations, we show that crop growth is negatively correlated
        with groundwater storage at annual and seasonal time scales in
        north India. Precipitation is positively associated with
        groundwater storage variability at the yearly time scale in
        north-central India (NCI) and south India (SI). In contrast,
        precipitation is negatively correlated with groundwater storage
        from the GRACE satellites in northwest India (NWI). The negative
        correlation between precipitation and groundwater from the GRACE
        in NWI is primarily due to groundwater depletion due to
        anthropogenic pumping from deep aquifers. Precipitation and
        groundwater storage from the well observations are positively
        correlated in all the three regions, indicating the influence of
        precipitation on shallow aquifers. Analysis of the two main crop
        growing seasons (Rabi and Kharif) showed that crop growth is
        negatively related to groundwater storage in both Kharif (June-
        September) and Rabi seasons in north India (NWI and NCI).
        Groundwater contributes more than precipitation in NCI during
        the Kharif season and in NWI and SI during the Rabi season.
        Granger's causality test showed that groundwater is a
        significant contributor to crop growth in NWI and NCI in both
        Kharif and Rabi seasons. Our results highlight the need for
        agricultural water management in both the crop growing seasons
        in north India for reducing the rapid groundwater depletion.}",
          doi = {10.1175/JHM-D-20-0085.1},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JHyMe..22..125A},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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