A new paper is published in Global Change Biology link. This work shows how irrigation cooling benefits maize yield.
Li, Y., Guan, K., Peng, B., Franz, T. E., Wardlow, B., & Pan, M. (2020). Quantifying irrigation cooling benefits to maize yield in the US Midwest. Global Change Biology, (August 2019), gcb.15002. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15002