Weekly Literature Review

Week 12 · March 16–March 22, 2020

50 relevant papers found across 6 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.


Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. New insights into US flood vulnerability revealed from flood insurance big data
    2. Flood risk assessment for Davao Oriental in the Philippines using geographic information system‐based multi‐criteria analysis and the maximum entropy model
    3. Climate change induced extreme flood disaster in Bangladesh: Implications on people’s livelihoods in the Char Village and their coping mechanisms
    4. Spatial and temporal distribution and trend in flood and drought disasters in East China
    5. Implications of land use transitions and climate change on local flooding in urban areas: An assessment of 42 Indian cities
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Prediction of droughts over Pakistan using machine learning algorithms
    2. Interactive effects of drought, organic fertilizer, and zinc oxide nanoscale and bulk particles on wheat performance and grain nutrient accumulation
    3. A novel strigolactone‐miR156 module controls stomatal behaviour during drought recovery
    4. Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate
    5. Nitric Oxide Stimulates Antioxidant System and Osmotic Adjustment in Soybean Under Drought Stress
    6. Woody litter protects peat carbon stocks during drought
    7. Czech Drought Monitor System for monitoring and forecasting agricultural drought and drought impacts
    8. Drought and intimate partner violence towards women in 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2011-2018: A population-based study
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models
    2. Continuity of Ice Sheet Mass Loss in Greenland and Antarctica From the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On Missions
    3. Links between circular economy and climate change mitigation in the built environment
    4. Modeling daily reference evapotranspiration via a novel approach based on support vector regression coupled with whale optimization algorithm
    5. Hydroclimate of the Andes Part I: Main Climatic Features
    6. Causal networks for climate model evaluation and constrained projections
    7. Observed and Projected Hydroclimate Changes in the Andes
    8. Warmer climate projections in EC-Earth3-Veg: the role of changes in the greenhouse gas concentrations from CMIP5 to CMIP6
    9. HCLIM38: a flexible regional climate model applicable for different climate zones from coarse to convection-permitting scales
    10. Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California
    11. Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution
    12. Measuring water security: A vital step for climate change adaptation
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Overview of the PALM model system 6.0
    2. Hydrologically Informed Machine Learning for Rainfall‐Runoff Modeling: A Genetic Programming‐Based Toolkit for Automatic Model Induction
    3. Occurrence, mass loads and risks of bisphenol analogues in the Pearl River Delta region, South China: Urban rainfall runoff as a potential source for receiving rivers
    4. Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – technical overview
    5. Comparison of microwave remote sensing and land surface modeling for surface soil moisture climatology estimation
    6. Exploring synergies in the water-food-energy nexus by using an integrated hydro-economic optimization model for the Lancang-Mekong River basin
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach
    2. The Ability of Conservation Agriculture to Conserve Soil Organic Carbon and the Subsequent Impact on Soil Physical, Chemical, and Biological Properties and Yield
    3. Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes
    4. Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere–troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1
    5. Reconstruction of GRACE Data on Changes in Total Water Storage Over the Global Land Surface and 60 Basins
    6. Identifying the spatiotemporal changes of annual harvesting areas for three staple crops in China by integrating multi-data sources
    7. Groundwater as a major source of dissolved organic matter to Arctic coastal waters
    8. High-Performance Salt-Rejecting and Cost-Effective Superhydrophilic Porous Monolithic Polymer Foam for Solar Steam Generation
    9. Groundwater quality and human health risk assessment for safe and sustainable water supply of Dhaka City dwellers in Bangladesh
    10. A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security
    11. A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping. The Case Study of the Liguria Region in Italy
    12. Seasonal hysteresis of surface urban heat islands
    13. Evaluation of Groundwater Quality for Suitability of Irrigation Purposes: A Case Study in the Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand
    14. Concept and Performance Evaluation of a Novel UAV-Borne Topo-Bathymetric LiDAR Sensor
    15. A better Amazon road network for people and the environment
    16. Role of delta‐front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea‐level rise and fluvial sediment decline
    17. Root morphological characteristics and soil water infiltration capacity in semi-arid artificial grassland soils
    18. Review and Evaluation of Deep Learning Architectures for Efficient Land Cover Mapping with UAS Hyper-Spatial Imagery: A Case Study Over a Wetland
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 5 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Wing, Cabrera et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

New insights into US flood vulnerability revealed from flood insurance big data

Authors: Oliver Wing, Nicholas Pinter, Paul Bates, Carolyn Kousky

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15264-2 · Citations: 228

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, flood, earth system model

Improvements in modelling power and input data have vastly improved the precision of physical flood models, but translation into economic outputs requires depth-damage functions that are inadequately verified. In particular, flood damage is widely assumed to increase monotonically with water depth. Here, we assess flood vulnerability in the US using >2 million claims from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). NFIP claims data are messy, but the size of the dataset provides powerful emp…


Flood risk assessment for Davao Oriental in the Philippines using geographic information system‐based multi‐criteria analysis and the maximum entropy model

Authors: Jonathan Salar Cabrera, Han Soo Lee

Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12607 · Citations: 158

Matched topics: flood

Abstract The assessments of flood‐prone areas and flood risk due to pluvial flooding for Davao Oriental on Mindanao Island in the Philippines were carried out by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and maximum entropy (Maxent) models using multiple criteria such as slope, elevation, soil type, rainfall, drainage density, distance to the main channel, and population density. Flood records from 70 survey points were obtained and used to verify the model results. The criteria weights of the top…


Climate change induced extreme flood disaster in Bangladesh: Implications on people’s livelihoods in the Char Village and their coping mechanisms

Authors: Babul Hossain, Md. Salman Sohel, Crispin Magige Ryakitimbo

Journal: Progress in Disaster Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100079 · Citations: 126

Matched topics: flood, climate change

This study is an attempt to explore the impacts of floods on the livelihoods of people in Char Village, particularly on the income, occupation, and also explores their coping strategies. Data have been collected from three villages in Fulchari Upazila (sub-district). The study is predominantly qualitative. At the same time, quantitative data have also been used. As a result, a mixed approach has been followed to make this research meaningful, where respectively quantitative and qualitative da…


Spatial and temporal distribution and trend in flood and drought disasters in East China

Authors: Jun Shi, Linli Cui, Zhan Tian

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109406 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: flood, drought

Abstract not available.


Implications of land use transitions and climate change on local flooding in urban areas: An assessment of 42 Indian cities

Authors: Vidhee Avashia, Amit Garg

Journal: Land Use Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104571 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: hydrology, flood, climate change

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 8 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Khan, Dimkpa et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Prediction of droughts over Pakistan using machine learning algorithms

Authors: Najeebullah Khan, D. A. Sachindra, Shamsuddin Shahid, Kamal Ahmed, Mohammed Sanusi Shiru, Nadeem Nawaz

Journal: Advances in Water Resources · DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103562 · Citations: 268

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Interactive effects of drought, organic fertilizer, and zinc oxide nanoscale and bulk particles on wheat performance and grain nutrient accumulation

Authors: Christian O. Dimkpa, Joshua Andrews, Joaquin Sanabria, P.S. Bindraban, Upendra Singh, Wade H. Elmer et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137808 · Citations: 166

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


A novel strigolactone‐miR156 module controls stomatal behaviour during drought recovery

Authors: Ivan Visentin, Chiara Pagliarani, Eleonora Deva, Alessio Caracci, Veronika Turečková, Ondřej Novák et al.

Journal: Plant Cell & Environment · DOI: 10.1111/pce.13758 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: drought, irrigation

miR156 is a conserved microRNA whose role and induction mechanisms under stress are poorly known. Strigolactones are phytohormones needed in shoots for drought acclimation. They promote stomatal closure ABA-dependently and independently; however, downstream effectors for the former have not been identified. Linkage between miR156 and strigolactones under stress has not been reported. We compared ABA accumulation and sensitivity as well as performances of wt and miR156-overexpressing (miR156-o…


Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate

Authors: Claire Depardieu, Martin P. Girardin, Simon Nadeau, P. Lenz, Jean Bousquet, Nathalie Isabel

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.16551 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: drought, earth system model

Drought intensity and frequency are increasing under global warming, with soil water availability now being a major factor limiting tree growth in circumboreal forests. Still, the adaptive capacity of trees in the face of future climatic regimes remains poorly documented. Using 1481 annually resolved tree-ring series from 29-yr-old trees, we evaluated the drought sensitivity of 43 white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) populations established in a common garden experiment. We show that gen…


Nitric Oxide Stimulates Antioxidant System and Osmotic Adjustment in Soybean Under Drought Stress

Authors: Maryam Rezayian, Hassan Ebrahimzadeh, Vahid Niknam

Journal: Journal of soil science and plant nutrition · DOI: 10.1007/s42729-020-00198-x · Citations: 109

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Woody litter protects peat carbon stocks during drought

Authors: Nathalie Fenner, Chris Freeman

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0727-y · Citations: 107

Matched topics: hydrology, drought

Abstract not available.


Czech Drought Monitor System for monitoring and forecasting agricultural drought and drought impacts

Authors: Miroslav Trnka, Petr Hlavinka, Martin Možný, Daniela Semerádová, Petr Štěpánek, Jan Bálek et al.

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.6557 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: hydrology, drought

Abstract The awareness of drought and its impacts on Central Europe increased after the significant drought episodes in 2000, 2003, 2012 and 2015, which were all estimated to have caused over 500 million Euro in damage in the Czech Republic alone. These events indicated the need for timely and high‐resolution monitoring tools that would enable analysing, monitoring and forecasting of drought events. Monitoring soil water availability in near real time and at high‐resolution (up to 0.5 × 0.5 k…


Drought and intimate partner violence towards women in 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2011-2018: A population-based study

Authors: Adrienne Epstein, Eran Bendavid, Denis Nash, Edwin D. Charlebois, Sheri D. Weiser

Journal: PLoS Medicine · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003064 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: drought

BACKGROUND: Drought has many known deleterious impacts on human health, but little is known about the relationship between drought and intimate partner violence (IPV). We aimed to evaluate this relationship and to assess effect heterogeneity between population subgroups among women in 19 sub-Saharan African countries. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We used data from 19 Demographic and Health Surveys from 2011 to 2018 including 83,990 partnered women aged 15-49 years. Deviations in rainfall in the year…


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 1 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.

Inferred inflow forecast horizons guiding reservoir release decisions across the United States

Authors: Sean Turner, Wenwei Xu, Nathalie Voisin

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-1275-2020 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, reservoir, water management, hydropower, earth system model

Abstract. Medium- to long-range forecasts often guide reservoir release decisions to support water management objectives, including mitigating flood and drought risks. While there is a burgeoning field of science targeted at improving forecast products and associated decision support models, data describing how and when forecasts are applied in practice remain undeveloped. This lack of knowledge may prevent hydrological modelers from developing accurate reservoir release schemes for large-sca…


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 12 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models

Authors: Katarzyna Tokarska, Martin B. Stolpe, Sebastian Sippel, Erich Fischer, Chris Smith, Flavio Lehner et al.

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz9549 · Citations: 744

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Future global warming estimates have been similar across past assessments, but several climate models of the latest Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) simulate much stronger warming, apparently inconsistent with past assessments. Here, we show that projected future warming is correlated with the simulated warming trend during recent decades across CMIP5 and CMIP6 models, enabling us to constrain future warming based on consistency with the observed warming. These findings car…


Continuity of Ice Sheet Mass Loss in Greenland and Antarctica From the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On Missions

Authors: I. Velicogna, Yara Mohajerani, A Geruo, Felix W. Landerer, J. Mouginot, Brice Noël et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087291 · Citations: 321

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract We examine data continuity between the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow‐On (FO) missions over Greenland and Antarctica using independent data from the mass budget method, which calculates the difference between ice sheet surface mass balance and ice discharge at the periphery. For both ice sheets, we find consistent GRACE/GRACE‐FO time series across the data gap, at the continental and regional scales, and the data gap is confidently filled with mass b…


Authors: Alejandro Gallego‐Schmid, Han-Mei Chen, Maria Sharmina, Joan Manuel F. Mendoza

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121115 · Citations: 312

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Modeling daily reference evapotranspiration via a novel approach based on support vector regression coupled with whale optimization algorithm

Authors: Babak Mohammadi, Saeid Mehdizadeh

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106145 · Citations: 253

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Hydroclimate of the Andes Part I: Main Climatic Features

Authors: Jhan Carlo Espinoza, René Garreaud, Germán Poveda, Paola A. Arias, Jorge Molina‐Carpio, Mariano Masiokas et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00064 · Citations: 211

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

The Andes is the longest cordillera in the world and extends from northern South America (11°N) to the southern tip of the continent (53°S). The Andes runs through seven countries and is characterized by a wide variety of ecosystems strongly related to the contrasting climate over its eastern and western sides and along its latitudinal extension. In fact, the tropical Andes is the most biodiverse region on Earth. Currently, this region faces the highest potential impact of climate change, whi…


Causal networks for climate model evaluation and constrained projections

Authors: Peer Nowack, Jakob Runge, Veronika Eyring, Joanna D. Haigh

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15195-y · Citations: 180

Matched topics: earth system model

Global climate models are central tools for understanding past and future climate change. The assessment of model skill, in turn, can benefit from modern data science approaches. Here we apply causal discovery algorithms to sea level pressure data from a large set of climate model simulations and, as a proxy for observations, meteorological reanalyses. We demonstrate how the resulting causal networks (fingerprints) offer an objective pathway for process-oriented model evaluation. Models with …


Observed and Projected Hydroclimate Changes in the Andes

Authors: José Daniel Pabón-Caicedo, Paola A. Arias, Andrea F. Carril, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Lluís Fita, Katerina Goubanova et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00061 · Citations: 145

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, earth system model

The Andes is the most biodiverse region across the globe. In addition, some of the largest urban areas in South America are located within this region. Therefore, ecosystems and human population are affected by hydroclimate changes reported at global, regional and local scales. This paper summarizes progress of knowledge about long-term trends observed during the last two millennia over the entire Andes, with more detail for the period since the second half of the 20th century, and presents a…


Warmer climate projections in EC-Earth3-Veg: the role of changes in the greenhouse gas concentrations from CMIP5 to CMIP6

Authors: Klaus Wyser, Erik Kjellström, Torben Koenigk, Helena Martins, Ralf Döscher

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab81c2 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Climate projections for the 21st century for CMIP6 are warmer than those for CMIP5 despite nominally identical instantaneous radiative forcing. Many climate modeling groups attribute the stronger warming in the CMIP6 projections to the higher climate sensitivity of the new generation of climate models, but here we demonstrate that also changes in the forcing datasets can play an important role, in particular the prescribed concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) that are used to for…


HCLIM38: a flexible regional climate model applicable for different climate zones from coarse to convection-permitting scales

Authors: Danijel Belušić, Hylke de Vries, Andreas Dobler, Oskar Landgren, Petter Lind, David Lindstedt et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-1311-2020 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. This paper presents a new version of HCLIM, a regional climate modelling system based on the ALADIN–HIRLAM numerical weather prediction (NWP) system. HCLIM uses atmospheric physics packages from three NWP model configurations, HARMONIE–AROME, ALARO and ALADIN, which are designed for use at different horizontal resolutions. The main focus of HCLIM is convection-permitting climate modelling, i.e. developing the climate version of HARMONIE–AROME. In HCLIM, the ALADIN and ALARO configur…


Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California

Authors: Chaopeng Hong, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Jennifer Burney, Yang Zhang, Amir AghaKouchak, Frances C. Moore et al.

Journal: Nature Food · DOI: 10.1038/s43016-020-0043-8 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution

Authors: Donald Slater, F. Denis, Fiammetta Straneo, Heiko Goelzer, Christopher M. Little, Mathieu Morlighem et al.

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-985-2020 · Citations: 107

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

Abstract. Changes in ocean temperature and salinity are expected to be an important determinant of the Greenland ice sheet’s future sea level contribution. Yet, simulating the impact of these changes in continental-scale ice sheet models remains challenging due to the small scale of key physics, such as fjord circulation and plume dynamics, and poor understanding of critical processes, such as calving and submarine melting. Here we present the ocean forcing strategy for Greenland ice sheet mo…


Measuring water security: A vital step for climate change adaptation

Authors: Mukand S. Babel, Victor R. Shinde, Devesh Sharma, Nguyen Mai Dang

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109400 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 6 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Overview of the PALM model system 6.0

Authors: Björn Maronga, Sabine Banzhaf, Cornelia Burmeister, Thomas Esch, Renate Forkel, Dominik Fröhlich et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-1335-2020 · Citations: 394

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. In this paper, we describe the PALM model system 6.0. PALM (formerly an abbreviation for Parallelized Large-eddy Simulation Model and now an independent name) is a Fortran-based code and has been applied for studying a variety of atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers for about 20 years. The model is optimized for use on massively parallel computer architectures. This is a follow-up paper to the PALM 4.0 model description in Maronga et al. (2015). During the last years, PALM has be…


Hydrologically Informed Machine Learning for Rainfall‐Runoff Modeling: A Genetic Programming‐Based Toolkit for Automatic Model Induction

Authors: Jayashree Chadalawada, Herath Mudiyanselage Viraj Vidura Herath, Vladan Babovic

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026933 · Citations: 156

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract Models of water resources systems are conceived to capture the underlying environmental dynamics occurring within watersheds. All such models can be regarded as working hypotheses, differing in the aspects of process representation and conceptualization. Most of the associated efforts in the water resources research community is dedicated to development of new models that perform well under specific atmospheric conditions and catchment properties. In this context, flexible modeling f…


Occurrence, mass loads and risks of bisphenol analogues in the Pearl River Delta region, South China: Urban rainfall runoff as a potential source for receiving rivers

Authors: Huang Zheng, Jian‐Liang Zhao, Yuanyuan Yang, Yuwei Jia, Qian-Qian Zhang, Chang-Er Chen et al.

Journal: Environmental Pollution · DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114361 · Citations: 143

Matched topics: river, runoff, surface water

Bisphenol (BP) analogues are widely used as industrial materials and various product additives and are inevitably released into environment. However, knowledge on the sources of different BPs, especially those from urban rainfall runoff to the receiving rivers is very limited. In this study, 15 BPs were determined in surface water, sediments, wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and rainfall runoff samples in the Pearl River region, South China. Eleven BPs were detected in surface water and sedi…


Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – technical overview

Authors: M. Righi, B. Andela, V. Eyring, A. Lauer, V. Predoi, Manuel Schlund et al.

Journal: Geoscientific Model Development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020 · Citations: 137

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. This paper describes the second major release of the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool), a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Compared to version 1.0, released in 2016, ESMValTool version 2.0 (v2.0) features a brand new design, with an improved interface and a revised preprocessor. It also features a significantly enhanced diagnostic part th…


Comparison of microwave remote sensing and land surface modeling for surface soil moisture climatology estimation

Authors: Jianzhi Dong, Wade T. Crow, Kenneth J. Tobin, Michael H. Cosh, David D. Bosch, Patrick J. Starks et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111756 · Citations: 127

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract not available.


Exploring synergies in the water-food-energy nexus by using an integrated hydro-economic optimization model for the Lancang-Mekong River basin

Authors: Pierre Do, Fuqiang Tian, Tingju Zhu, Bahtiyor Zohidov, Guangheng Ni, Hui Lü et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137996 · Citations: 99

Matched topics: river, hydropower, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 18 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

Authors: Martin Jung, Christopher R. Schwalm, Mirco Migliavacca, Sophia Walther, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Sujan Koirala et al.

Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-1343-2020 · Citations: 814

Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model, surface water, earth system model

Abstract. FLUXNET comprises globally distributed eddy-covariance-based estimates of carbon fluxes between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Since eddy covariance flux towers have a relatively small footprint and are distributed unevenly across the world, upscaling the observations is necessary to obtain global-scale estimates of biosphere–atmosphere exchange. Based on cross-consistency checks with atmospheric inversions, sun-induced fluorescence (SIF) and dynamic global vegetation models (DGV…


The Ability of Conservation Agriculture to Conserve Soil Organic Carbon and the Subsequent Impact on Soil Physical, Chemical, and Biological Properties and Yield

Authors: Kathryn Page, Yash P. Dang, Ram C. Dalal

Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.00031 · Citations: 339

Matched topics: water management, surface water, earth system model

Increases in human populations and the emerging challenges of climate change mean that the world’s agricultural systems will need to produce more food in an environment that is increasingly variable and where the quality of our natural resource base is declining. One central measure of an agricultural system’s capacity to do this is its ability to preserve soil organic carbon (SOC), due to the pivotal role that this plays in maintaining soil physical, chemical and biological properties and ul…


Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes

Authors: Giovanni Forzieri, Diego G. Miralles, Philippe Ciais, Ramdane Alkama, Youngryel Ryu, Grégory Duveiller et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0717-0 · Citations: 334

Matched topics: land surface model, surface water

Abstract not available.


Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere–troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1

Authors: Alexander T. Archibald, Fiona M. O’Connor, Nathan Luke Abraham, Scott Archer‐Nicholls, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Mohit Dalvi et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-1223-2020 · Citations: 301

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. Here we present a description of the UKCA StratTrop chemical mechanism, which is used in the UKESM1 Earth system model for CMIP6. The StratTrop chemical mechanism is a merger of previously well-evaluated tropospheric and stratospheric mechanisms, and we provide results from a series of bespoke integrations to assess the overall performance of the model. We find that the StratTrop scheme performs well when compared to a wide array of observations. The analysis we present here focuses…


Reconstruction of GRACE Data on Changes in Total Water Storage Over the Global Land Surface and 60 Basins

Authors: Zhangli Sun, Di Long, Wenting Yang, Xueying Li, Yun Pan

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026250 · Citations: 238

Matched topics: hydrologic model, surface water

Abstract Launched in May 2018, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow‐On mission (GRACE‐FO)—the successor of the erstwhile GRACE mission—monitors changes in total water storage, which is a critical state variable of the regional and global hydrologic cycles. However, the gap between data of the two missions is breaking the continuity of the observations and limiting its further application. In this study, we used three learning‐based models, that is, deep neural network, multiple …


Identifying the spatiotemporal changes of annual harvesting areas for three staple crops in China by integrating multi-data sources

Authors: Yuchuan Luo, Zhao Zhang, Ziyue Li, Yi Chen, Liangliang Zhang, Juan Cao et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab80f0 · Citations: 202

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract Reliable and continuous information on major crop harvesting areas is fundamental to investigate land surface dynamics and make policies affecting agricultural production, land use, and sustainable development. However, there is currently no spatially explicit and time-continuous crop harvesting area information with a high resolution for China. The spatiotemporal patterns of major crop harvesting areas at a national scale have rarely been investigated. In this study, we proposed a n…


Groundwater as a major source of dissolved organic matter to Arctic coastal waters

Authors: Craig T. Connolly, M. Bayani Cardenas, Greta A. Burkart, Robert G. M. Spencer, J. W. McClelland

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15250-8 · Citations: 193

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, earth system model

of freshwater, 14-71 kg of DOC, and 1-4 kg of DON to the coastal ocean per km of shoreline per day during late summer. These substantial fluxes are expected to increase as massive stocks of frozen organic matter in permafrost are liberated in a warming Arctic.


High-Performance Salt-Rejecting and Cost-Effective Superhydrophilic Porous Monolithic Polymer Foam for Solar Steam Generation

Authors: Jingxian He, Zheng Zhang, Chaohu Xiao, Fang Liu, Hanxue Sun, Zhaoqi Zhu et al.

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22832 · Citations: 181

Matched topics: surface water

irradiation. Moreover, the introduction of ionic liquid moiety (imidazolium tetrafluoroborate) into VMP results in its interesting superhydrophilic wettability, which can accelerate water transportation (wetting in 5s) and resolve the crystalline salt within 1.13 h. In addition, the interconnected macropores of the VMP, as water channels, can replenish the vaporized brine on the surface to prevent salt from adhering. The VMP shows a salt-resistant performance, for example, its solar evaporati…


Groundwater quality and human health risk assessment for safe and sustainable water supply of Dhaka City dwellers in Bangladesh

Authors: Md. Bodrud-Doza, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Tanjena Rume, Shamshad B. Quraishi, M. Safiur Rahman, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan

Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100374 · Citations: 160

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security

Authors: Jonas Jägermeyr, Alan Robock, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Lili Xia, Nikolay Khabarov et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919049117 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

A limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan could ignite fires large enough to emit more than 5 Tg of soot into the stratosphere. Climate model simulations have shown severe resulting climate perturbations with declines in global mean temperature by 1.8 °C and precipitation by 8%, for at least 5 y. Here we evaluate impacts for the global food system. Six harmonized state-of-the-art crop models show that global caloric production from maize, wheat, rice, and soybean falls by 13 (±1)%, 11 …


A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping. The Case Study of the Liguria Region in Italy

Authors: Marj Tonini, Mirko D’Andrea, Guido Biondi, Silvia Degli Esposti, Andrea Trucchia, Paolo Fiorucci

Journal: Geosciences · DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10030105 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Wildfire susceptibility maps display the spatial probability of an area to burn in the future, based solely on the intrinsic local proprieties of a site. Current studies in this field often rely on statistical models, often improved by expert knowledge for data retrieving and processing. In the last few years, machine learning algorithms have proven to be successful in this domain, thanks to their capability of learning from data through the modeling of hidden relationships. In the present st…


Seasonal hysteresis of surface urban heat islands

Authors: G. Manoli, S. Fatichi, E. Bou‐Zeid, G. Katul

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917554117 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: seasonal

Significance Urban heat islands represent a major threat to public health with implications for energy consumption and climate adaptation policies. A ubiquitous feature in the seasonality of surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) is distinctive hysteretic cycles between urban and rural surface temperature that still await a general explanation. A coarse-grained model of SUHI serving as a minimalist representation of urban–rural seasonal dynamics based on urban scaling laws and mass/energy conserv…


Evaluation of Groundwater Quality for Suitability of Irrigation Purposes: A Case Study in the Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand

Authors: Kshitindra Kr. Singh, Geeta Tewari, Suresh Kumar

Journal: Journal of Chemistry · DOI: 10.1155/2020/6924026 · Citations: 135

Matched topics: hydrology, irrigation, earth system model

In the present study, the groundwater quality for suitability in agriculture from Udham Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand, has been evaluated. A total of 50 groundwater samples have been collected and analysed for pH, EC, TH, HCO 3 − , CO 3 2− , Cl − , SO 4 2− , NO 3 – , Ca 2+ , Mg 2+ , Na + and K + . To assess the groundwater quality for irrigation purpose, parameters like sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), soluble sodium percentage (SSP), residual sodium carbonate (RSC), magnesium hazards (MHs)…


Concept and Performance Evaluation of a Novel UAV-Borne Topo-Bathymetric LiDAR Sensor

Authors: Gottfried Mandlburger, Martin Pfennigbauer, Roland Schwarz, Sebastian Mikolka-Flöry, Lukas Nussbaumer

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12060986 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: hydrology

We present the sensor concept and first performance and accuracy assessment results of a novel lightweight topo-bathymetric laser scanner designed for integration on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), light aircraft, and helicopters. The instrument is particularly well suited for capturing river bathymetry in high spatial resolution as a consequence of (i) the low nominal flying altitude of 50–150 m above ground level resulting in a laser footprint diameter on the ground of typically 10–30 cm a…


A better Amazon road network for people and the environment

Authors: Thaís Vilela, Alfonso Malky Harb, Aaron Bruner, Vera Laísa da Silva Arruda, Vivian Ribeiro, Ane Alencar et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910853117 · Citations: 126

Matched topics: hydropower, earth system model

The rapidly expanding network of roads into the Amazon is permanently altering the world’s largest tropical forest. Most proposed road projects lack rigorous impact assessments or even basic economic justification. This study analyzes the expected environmental, social and economic impacts of 75 road projects, totaling 12 thousand kilometers of planned roads, in the region. We find that all projects, although in different magnitudes, will negatively impact the environment. Forty-five percent …


Role of delta‐front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea‐level rise and fluvial sediment decline

Authors: Shi Lun Yang, Xiangxin Luo, Stijn Temmerman, Matthew L. Kirwan, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Kehui Xu et al.

Journal: Limnology and Oceanography · DOI: 10.1002/lno.11432 · Citations: 122

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Accelerating sea‐level rise and decreasing riverine sediment supply are widely considered to lead to global losses of deltaic marshes and their valuable ecosystem services. However, little is known about the degree to which the related erosion of the seaward delta front can provide sediments to sustain salt marshes. Here, we present data from the mesomacrotidal Yangtze Delta demonstrating that marshes have continued to accrete vertically and laterally, despite rapid relative sea‐leve…


Root morphological characteristics and soil water infiltration capacity in semi-arid artificial grassland soils

Authors: Yü Liu, Lei Guo, Ze Huang, Manuel López‐Vicente, Gao‐Lin Wu

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106153 · Citations: 110

Matched topics: surface water, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Review and Evaluation of Deep Learning Architectures for Efficient Land Cover Mapping with UAS Hyper-Spatial Imagery: A Case Study Over a Wetland

Authors: Mohammad Pashaei, Hamid Kamangir, Michael J. Starek, P. Tissot

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12060959 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: earth system model

Deep learning has already been proved as a powerful state-of-the-art technique for many image understanding tasks in computer vision and other applications including remote sensing (RS) image analysis. Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) offer a viable and economical alternative to a conventional sensor and platform for acquiring high spatial and high temporal resolution data with high operational flexibility. Coastal wetlands are among some of the most challenging and complex ecosystems for lan…


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