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. 2023 Sep 22;14:5928. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41668-x

Fig. 5. Causal connections from river-interlinking to reduced precipitation.

Fig. 5

a Selected regions where irrigation was applied in irrigation run (IRR). b Selected regions of September precipitation where drying is observed due to interlinking. c Connections form change in latent heat flux (IRR - control run (CTL)) in the irrigated regions to change in precipitation (IRR-CTL) in the highlighted regions using Transfer Entropy. Links are labeled as the number of years, when they were found out to be statistically significant (p < 0.05) out of 22 years of simulations (1991–2012). This shows that change in precipitation from CTL to IRR experiment is causally related to the corresponding change in latent heat flux of other regions indicating consistent land-atmosphere feedback.