Less Rain in Town, More Rain on the Farm: the Effects of Urbanization and Irrigation on Mid-Atlantic Summer Precipitation (IMAGE)

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Less Rain in Town, More Rain on the Farm: the Effects of Urbanization and Irrigation on Mid-Atlantic Summer Precipitation

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Irrigation and urbanization can affect rainfall locally and remotely in different ways. Composite photograph of irrigated fields and a cityscape.

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Original photos by Brad Smith, Stephan Otte, and Tom Magliery | Flickr.com. Composite image by Beth Mundy | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

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Original photos by Brad Smith, Stephan Otte, and Tom Magliery | Flickr.com. Composite image by Beth Mundy | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

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