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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Deliberate enhancement of rainfall using desert plantations.

Oliver Branch, Volker Wulfmeyer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Hydrological implications of large-scale afforestation in tropical biomes for climate change mitigation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  3. Article
  4. Reply to Wang and D'Odorico: On the sustainability of large-scale desert plantations as a partial solution for climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  5. Water limitations to large-scale desert agroforestry projects for carbon sequestration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Oliver BranchInstitute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany oliver_branch@uni-hohenheim.de.ORCID 0000-0002-7802-311X
Volker WulfmeyerInstitute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4882-2524

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large-scale afforestation is increasingly being considered as a negative emissions method for sequestering large quantities of atmospheric CO

Indexed as

Desert ClimateForestryRainAtmosphereCarbon SequestrationClimate ChangeEcosystemModels, TheoreticalSoilTreesSoildesert plantationsrainfall enhancementweather modification

Identifiers

PMID31481616
PMCPMC6754602

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