↓ Skip to main content

North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, July 2018
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Citations

dimensions_citation
321 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
312 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation
Published in
Nature Communications, July 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-05252-y
Pubmed ID
Authors

Suchul Kang, Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Abstract

North China Plain is the heartland of modern China. This fertile plain has experienced vast expansion of irrigated agriculture which cools surface temperature and moistens surface air, but boosts integrated measures of temperature and humidity, and hence enhances intensity of heatwaves. Here, we project based on an ensemble of high-resolution regional climate model simulations that climate change would add significantly to the anthropogenic effects of irrigation, increasing the risk from heatwaves in this region. Under the business-as-usual scenario of greenhouse gas emissions, North China Plain is likely to experience deadly heatwaves with wet-bulb temperature exceeding the threshold defining what Chinese farmers may tolerate while working outdoors. China is currently the largest contributor to the emissions of greenhouse gases, with potentially serious implications to its own population: continuation of the current pattern of global emissions may limit habitability in the most populous region, of the most populous country on Earth.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 291 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 312 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 312 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 54 17%
Researcher 42 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 8%
Student > Master 20 6%
Professor 13 4%
Other 52 17%
Unknown 106 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 53 17%
Environmental Science 40 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 8%
Engineering 18 6%
Social Sciences 8 3%
Other 44 14%
Unknown 125 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 924. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2024.
All research outputs
#18,559
of 25,582,611 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#365
of 57,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#342
of 341,219 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#7
of 1,340 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,582,611 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 57,704 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 55.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 341,219 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,340 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.