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Fig. 1 a Fraction of area equipped for irrigation in South Asia based on the reference year 2000 (Siebert
et al. 2005 ). b Locations of Indus and Ganges catchments at 0.5 resolution
conditions obtained from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
reanalysis (ERA40) (Uppala et al. 2005 ). In order to take into account the effect of
irrigation, a map of areas equipped for irrigation (Fig. 1 a; Siebert et al. 2005 ) was used in
the simulation and the results for four SASM summer months June, July, August and
September (JJAS) were presented. For the potentially irrigated fraction of a grid box, the
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