Empirical Analysis of Extreme Precipitation Damage to U.S. crops

The expected increase of extreme precipitation events with climate change would likely have important impacts on agriculture. Individual fields frequently experience yield losses due to hydrologically driven events such as waterlogging, but quantifying the effect of heavy precipitation over broader spatial and temporal scales needs improvement. One challenge is the needs for daily-scale data which captures effects of short-term events that can be missed by monthly averages. While controlling for such averages, we investigate county-level extreme precipitation measures from daily data and their correlation with county-level and nationally aggregated yields.