Super Heat | Corn ‘Sweat’ Makes Climate Worse
Автор: The Planet Journey
Загружено: 2025-07-31
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Vast fields of corn can actually intensify heat waves—rising humidity, trapped heat, and a surprising feedback loop—all due to a phenomenon known as corn sweat.
In this short video, discover:
How corn doesn’t just grow—it sweats, releasing vast quantities of moisture into the air via evapotranspiration
Why cornfields can increase local humidity by up to 40%
How MODIS, NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard Terra and Aqua satellites, tracks subtle moisture fluxes across agricultural regions - https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/
July 16–20, 2011, when corn sweat contributed to intensified humidity, trapped longwave radiation, and elevated apparent temperatures by up to 5 °C - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32714...
As the climate warms and heatwaves become more frequent, understanding the interplay between agriculture and the atmosphere is more important than ever. Could smarter land management—such as crop diversification or irrigation timing—help cool our summers?
#cornsweat #heatwave #climate #evapotranspiration #MODIS #agriculture #environmentalscience #publichealth
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