Weekly Literature Review
Week 13 · March 23–March 29, 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
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Ensemble flood forecasting: Current status and future opportunities
- Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Hazard, Downstream Impact, and Risk Over the Indian Himalayas
- Assessing the impact of topography and land cover data resolutions on two-dimensional HEC-RAS hydrodynamic model simulations for urban flood hazard analysis
- Dramatic decrease of flood frequency in the Mekong Delta due to river-bed mining and dyke construction
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003
- Knockout of the OsNAC006 Transcription Factor Causes Drought and Heat Sensitivity in Rice
- Biochemically Triggered Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance in Rice by Proline Application
- A Novel Sweetpotato WRKY Transcription Factor, IbWRKY2, Positively Regulates Drought and Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis
- Characterization of the Gh4CL gene family reveals a role of Gh4CL7 in drought tolerance
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California
- How psychology can help limit climate change.
- Climate Change Drives Poleward Increases and Equatorward Declines in Marine Species
- Foreign direct investment and renewable energy in climate change mitigation: Does governance matter?
- The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change
- Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems
- Climate change increases the risk of fisheries conflict
- The changing physical and ecological meanings of North Pacific Ocean climate indices
- The Ultimate Challenge: Nationalism and Climate Change
- Modeling the future impacts of climate change on water availability in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal Himalaya
- Identifying a human signal in the North Atlantic warming hole
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
- The Double‐ITCZ Bias in CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Models Based on Annual Mean Precipitation
- P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production
- Future Changes of Summer Monsoon Characteristics and Evaporative Demand Over Asia in CMIP6 Simulations
- Simulating coupled surface–subsurface flows with ParFlow v3.5.0: capabilities, applications, and ongoing development of an open-source, massively parallel, integrated hydrologic model
- A novel water quality module of the SWMM model for assessing low impact development (LID) in urban watersheds
- The Recent Decline and Recovery of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Relative Roles of External Forcing and Internal Variability
- Scaling Point‐Scale (Pedo)transfer Functions to Seamless Large‐Domain Parameter Estimates for High‐Resolution Distributed Hydrologic Modeling: An Example for the Rhine River
- Intraseasonal Drainage Network Dynamics in a Headwater Catchment of the Italian Alps
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Effectiveness of Entropy Weight Method in Decision-Making
- Heat health risk assessment in Philippine cities using remotely sensed data and social-ecological indicators
- Deceleration of China’s human water use and its key drivers
- Groundwater potential zone mapping using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and GIS for Kancheepuram District, Tamilnadu, India
- Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)
- Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data
- Global Patterns in Marine Sediment Carbon Stocks
- Human health risk assessment of elevated and variable iron and manganese intake with arsenic-safe groundwater in Jashore, Bangladesh
- Landscape Drivers of Dynamic Change in Water Quality of U.S. Rivers
- Evaluation of Sentinel-1 & 2 time series for predicting wheat and rapeseed phenological stages
- Historical assessment and future sustainability challenges of Egyptian water resources management
- Efficient irrigation water allocation and its impact on agricultural sustainability and water scarcity under uncertainty
- Future exacerbation of hot and dry summer monsoon extremes in India
- Study of statistical methods for texture analysis and their modern evolutions
- Soil Macrofauna: A key Factor for Increasing Soil Fertility and Promoting Sustainable Soil Use in Fruit Orchard Agrosystems
- A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition
- Accounting for Training Data Error in Machine Learning Applied to Earth Observations
- Sources and Leaching of Nitrate Contamination in Groundwater
- Stable Dispersion of Coal Fines during Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback in Coal Seam Gas Reservoirs—An Experimental Study
- Technical Note: Flow velocity and discharge measurement in rivers using terrestrial and unmanned-aerial-vehicle imagery
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 4 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Wu, Dubey et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Ensemble flood forecasting: Current status and future opportunities
Authors: Wenyan Wu, Rebecca Emerton, Qingyun Duan, Andrew W. Wood, Fredrik Wetterhall, David Robertson
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1432 · Citations: 265
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, water management, flood, hydropower, earth system model
Abstract Ensemble flood forecasting has gained significant momentum over the past decade due to the growth of ensemble numerical weather and climate prediction, expansion in high performance computing, growing interest in shifting from deterministic to risk‐based decision‐making that accounts for forecast uncertainty, and the efforts of communities such as the international Hydrologic Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX), which focuses on advancing relevant ensemble forecasting capabilities…
Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Hazard, Downstream Impact, and Risk Over the Indian Himalayas
Authors: Saket Dubey, Manish Kumar Goyal
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026533 · Citations: 167
Matched topics: flood, hydropower
Abstract Indian Himalayas are home to numerous glacial lakes, which can pose serious threat to downstream communities and lead to catastrophic socioeconomic disasters in case of a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). This study first identified 329 glacial lakes of size greater than 0.05 km 2 in the Indian Himalayas, and then a remote sensing‐based hazard and risk assessment was performed on these lakes. Different factors such as avalanche, rockfall, upstream GLOF, lake expansion, identificati…
Assessing the impact of topography and land cover data resolutions on two-dimensional HEC-RAS hydrodynamic model simulations for urban flood hazard analysis
Authors: Emrah Yalçın
Journal: Natural Hazards · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-03906-z · Citations: 126
Matched topics: flood, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Dramatic decrease of flood frequency in the Mekong Delta due to river-bed mining and dyke construction
Authors: Edward Park, Ho Huu Loc, Dung Duc Tran, Xiankun Yang, Enner Alcântara, Éder Renato Merino et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138066 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: river, flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 5 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Buras, Wang et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003
Authors: Allan Buras, Anja Rammig, Christian Zang
Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-1655-2020 · Citations: 509
Matched topics: drought
Abstract. In recent decades, an increasing persistence of atmospheric circulation patterns has been observed. In the course of the associated long-lasting anticyclonic summer circulations, heatwaves and drought spells often coincide, leading to so-called hotter droughts. Previous hotter droughts caused a decrease in agricultural yields and an increase in tree mortality. Thus, they had a remarkable effect on carbon budgets and negative economic impacts. Consequently, a quantification of ecosys…
Knockout of the OsNAC006 Transcription Factor Causes Drought and Heat Sensitivity in Rice
Authors: Bo Wang, Zhaohui Zhong, Xia Wang, Han Xiangyan, Deshui Yu, Chunguo Wang et al.
Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences · DOI: 10.3390/ijms21072288 · Citations: 135
Matched topics: drought
in drought responses, and provide valuable information for genetic manipulation to enhance stress tolerance in future plant breeding programs.
Biochemically Triggered Heat and Drought Stress Tolerance in Rice by Proline Application
Authors: Sajid Hanif, Muhammad Farrukh Saleem, Muhammad Kaleem Sarwar, Muhammad Irshad, Abdul Shakoor, Muhammad Ashfaq Wahid et al.
Journal: Journal of Plant Growth Regulation · DOI: 10.1007/s00344-020-10095-3 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
A Novel Sweetpotato WRKY Transcription Factor, IbWRKY2, Positively Regulates Drought and Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Arabidopsis
Authors: Hong Zhu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Hong Zhai, Shaozhen He, Ning Zhao, Qingchang Liu
Journal: Biomolecules · DOI: 10.3390/biom10040506 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: drought
was induced by drought and salt treatments. These results provide clues regarding the mechanism by which IbWRKY2 contributes to the regulation of abiotic stress tolerance.
Characterization of the Gh4CL gene family reveals a role of Gh4CL7 in drought tolerance
Authors: Shichao Sun, Xianpeng Xiong, Xiaoli Zhang, Hongjie Feng, Qian‐Hao Zhu, Jie Sun et al.
Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-2329-2 · Citations: 102
Matched topics: drought
BACKGROUND: The function of 4-coumarate-CoA ligases (4CL) under abiotic stresses has been studied in plants, however, limited is known about the 4CL genes in cotton (G. hirsutum L.) and their roles in response to drought stress. RESULTS: and up-regulated stress-related genes under the drought stress conditions. In addition, compared to their respective controls, the Gh4CL7-silencing cotton plants and the Gh4CL7-overexpressing Arabidopsis lines had a ~ 20% reduction and a ~ 10% increase in lig…
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.
Data Assimilation for Streamflow Forecasting Using Extreme Learning Machines and Multilayer Perceptrons
Authors: Marie‐Amélie Boucher, John Quilty, Jan Adamowski
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026226 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow
Abstract Data assimilation allows for updating state variables in a model to represent the initial condition of a catchment more accurately than the initial OpenLoop simulation. In hydrology, data assimilation is often a prerequisite for forecasting. According to Hornik (1991, https://doi.org/10.1016/0893-6080(91)90009-T ) artificial neural networks can learn any nonlinear relationship between inputs and outputs. Here, we hypothesize that neural networks could learn the relationship between t…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 11 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California
Authors: M. Goss, D. L. Swain, J. Abatzoglou, A. Sarhadi, C. Kolden, A. P. Williams et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab83a7 · Citations: 511
Matched topics: climate change
California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong offshore winds coincident with unusually dry vegetation enabled by anomalously warm conditions and late onset of autumn precipitation. In this study, we quantify observed changes in the occurrence and magnitude of meteorological factors that enable extreme autumn wildfires in California, and use climate model simulations t…
How psychology can help limit climate change.
Authors: Kristian Steensen Nielsen, Susan Clayton, Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Stuart Capstick, Lorraine Whitmarsh
Journal: American Psychologist · DOI: 10.1037/amp0000624 · Citations: 353
Matched topics: climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has encouraged psychologists to become part of the integrated scientific effort to support the achievement of climate change targets such as keeping within 1.5°C or 2°C of global warming. To date, the typical psychological approach has been to demonstrate that specific concepts and theories can predict behaviors that contribute to or mitigate climate change. Psychologists need to go further and, in particular, show that integrating psychological c…
Climate Change Drives Poleward Increases and Equatorward Declines in Marine Species
Authors: Reuben A. Hastings, Louise A. Rutterford, Jennifer Freer, Rupert A. Collins, Stephen D. Simpson, Martin J. Genner
Journal: Current Biology · DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.043 · Citations: 238
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Foreign direct investment and renewable energy in climate change mitigation: Does governance matter?
Authors: Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Samuel Adams, Thomas Leirvik
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121262 · Citations: 206
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change mitigation is a topical issue with growing debate in the context of the renewable energy transition, global partnership, governance, and economic growth. The complexness of climate change makes it difficult to predict relationships and formulate policies across varied countries. Motivated by the core mandate of the Kyoto Protocol, we examined the individual, combined and interactive impact of growth in income, renewable energy, foreign direct investment, and governance on green…
The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change
Authors: Binh Pham-Duc, F. Sylvestre, F. Papa, F. Frappart, C. Bouchez, J. Crétaux
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62417-w · Citations: 179
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, seasonal, climate change, surface water, earth system model
Lake Chad, in the Sahelian zone of west-central Africa, provides food and water to ~50 million people and supports unique ecosystems and biodiversity. In the past decades, it became a symbol of current climate change, held up by its dramatic shrinkage in the 1980s. Despites a partial recovery in response to increased Sahelian precipitation in the 1990s, Lake Chad is still facing major threats and its contemporary variability under climate change remains highly uncertain. Here, using a new mul…
Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems
Authors: Rupert Seidl, Juha Honkaniemi, Tuomas Aakala, Alexey Aleinikov, Per Angelstam, Mathieu Bouchard et al.
Journal: Ecography · DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04995 · Citations: 168
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Disturbance regimes are changing in forests across the world in response to global climate change. Despite the profound impacts of disturbances on ecosystem services and biodiversity, assessments of disturbances at the global scale remain scarce. Here, we analyzed natural disturbances in boreal and temperate forest ecosystems for the period 2001–2014, aiming to 1) quantify their within‐ and between‐biome variation and 2) compare the climate sensitivity of disturbances across biomes. We studie…
Climate change increases the risk of fisheries conflict
Authors: Elizabeth Mendenhall, Cullen S. Hendrix, Elizabeth Nyman, PM Roberts, John Robison Hoopes, James R. Watson et al.
Journal: Marine Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103954 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
The changing physical and ecological meanings of North Pacific Ocean climate indices
Authors: Michael A. Litzow, Mary E. Hunsicker, Nicholas A. Bond, Brian J. Burke, Curry J. Cunningham, Jennifer L. Gosselin et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921266117 · Citations: 124
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is likely to change the relationships between commonly used climate indices and underlying patterns of climate variability, but this complexity is rarely considered in studies using climate indices. Here, we show that the physical and ecological conditions mapping onto the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) index have changed over multidecadal timescales. These changes apparently began around a 1988/1989 North Pacific climate shift…
The Ultimate Challenge: Nationalism and Climate Change
Authors: Daniele Conversi
Journal: Nationalities Papers · DOI: 10.1017/nps.2020.18 · Citations: 118
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Climate change has rapidly expanded as a key topic of research across disciplines, but it has remained virtually untouched in nationalism studies. Climate change is a boundless, uncontainable phenomenon that ignores class, geographic, and ethnonational boundaries. As such, it can hardly be comprehended within the limits of a nationalist world vision. This article reassesses this intuition by focusing on the situational and adaptive plasticity of nationalism, characterized by its noto…
Modeling the future impacts of climate change on water availability in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal Himalaya
Authors: Piyush Dahal, Madan L. Shrestha, Jeeban Panthi, Dhiraj Pradhananga
Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109430 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, climate change, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Identifying a human signal in the North Atlantic warming hole
Authors: Rei Chemke, Laure Zanna, Lorenzo M. Polvani
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15285-x · Citations: 97
Matched topics: earth system model
North Atlantic sea surface temperatures have large climate impacts affecting the weather of the Northern Hemisphere. In addition to a substantial warming over much of the North Atlantic, caused by increasing greenhouse gases over the 21st century, climate projections show a surprising region of considerable future cooling at midlatitudes, referred to as the North Atlantic warming hole. A similar pattern of surface temperature trends has been observed in recent decades, but it remains unclear …
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 9 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
Authors: L. K. Emmons, Rebecca H. Schwantes, John J. Orlando, Geoffrey S. Tyndall, Douglas E. Kinnison, Jean‐François Lamarque et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms001882 · Citations: 642
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) includes a detailed representation of chemistry throughout the atmosphere in the Community Atmosphere Model with chemistry and Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model configurations. These model configurations use the Model for Ozone and Related chemical Tracers (MOZART) family of chemical mechanisms, covering the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere. The new MOZART tropospheric chemistry scheme (T1) has a n…
The Double‐ITCZ Bias in CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Models Based on Annual Mean Precipitation
Authors: Baijun Tian, Xinyu Dong
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087232 · Citations: 361
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract The double‐intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) bias is one of the most outstanding errors in all previous generations of climate models. Here, the annual double‐ITCZ bias and the associated precipitation bias in the latest climate models for Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Phase 6 (CMIP6) are examined in comparison to their previous generations (CMIP Phase 3 [CMIP3] and CMIP Phase 5 [CMIP5]). All three generations of CMIP models share similar systematic annual multi‐mo…
P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production
Authors: Benjamin D. Stocker, Han Wang, Nicholas G. Smith, Sandy P. Harrison, Trevor F. Keenan, David Sandoval et al.
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-1545-2020 · Citations: 210
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Terrestrial photosynthesis is the basis for vegetation growth and drives the land carbon cycle. Accurately simulating gross primary production (GPP, ecosystem-level apparent photosynthesis) is key for satellite monitoring and Earth system model predictions under climate change. While robust models exist for describing leaf-level photosynthesis, predictions diverge due to uncertain photosynthetic traits and parameters which vary on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here, we descr…
Future Changes of Summer Monsoon Characteristics and Evaporative Demand Over Asia in CMIP6 Simulations
Authors: Kyung‐Ja Ha, Suyeon Moon, Axel Timmermann, Daeha Kim
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087492 · Citations: 161
Matched topics: water management, seasonal
Abstract Future greenhouse warming is expected to influence the characteristics of global monsoon systems. However, large regional uncertainties still remain. Here we use 16 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models to determine how the length of the summer rainy season and precipitation extremes over the Asian summer monsoon domain will change in response to greenhouse warming. Over East Asia the models simulate on average on the earlier onset and later retreat; whereas ov…
Simulating coupled surface–subsurface flows with ParFlow v3.5.0: capabilities, applications, and ongoing development of an open-source, massively parallel, integrated hydrologic model
Authors: Benjamin Nana Osei Kuffour, Nicholas B. Engdahl, Carol S. Woodward, Laura E. Condon, Stefan Kollet, R. M. Maxwell
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-1373-2020 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract. Surface flow and subsurface flow constitute a naturally linked hydrologic continuum that has not traditionally been simulated in an integrated fashion. Recognizing the interactions between these systems has encouraged the development of integrated hydrologic models (IHMs) capable of treating surface and subsurface systems as a single integrated resource. IHMs are dynamically evolving with improvements in technology, and the extent of their current capabilities are often only known t…
A novel water quality module of the SWMM model for assessing low impact development (LID) in urban watersheds
Authors: Sang‐Soo Baek, Mayzonee Ligaray, JongCheol Pyo, Jong-Pyo Park, Joo‐Hyon Kang, Yakov Pachepsky et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124886 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, water management
Abstract not available.
The Recent Decline and Recovery of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Relative Roles of External Forcing and Internal Variability
Authors: Xin Huang, Tianjun Zhou, Andrew G. Turner, Aiguo Dai, Xiaolong Chen, Robin Clark et al.
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0833.1 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) rainfall affects a large population in South Asia. Observations show a decline in ISM rainfall from 1950 to 1999 and a recovery from 1999 to 2013. While the decline has been attributed to global warming, aerosol effects, deforestation, and a negative-to-positive phase transition of the interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO), the cause for the recovery remains largely unclear. Through analyses of a 57-member perturbed-parameter ensemble of model simulat…
Scaling Point‐Scale (Pedo)transfer Functions to Seamless Large‐Domain Parameter Estimates for High‐Resolution Distributed Hydrologic Modeling: An Example for the Rhine River
Authors: Ruben Imhoff, Willem van Verseveld, Bart van Osnabrugge, Albrecht Weerts
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026807 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, land surface model
Abstract Moving toward high‐resolution gridded hydrologic models asks for novel parametrization approaches. A high‐resolution conceptual hydrologic model (wflow_sbm) was parameterized for the Rhine basin in Europe based on point‐scale (pedo)transfer functions, without further calibration of effective model parameters on discharge. Parameters were estimated on the data resolution, followed by upscaling of parameter fields to the model resolution. The method was tested using a 6‐hourly time ste…
Intraseasonal Drainage Network Dynamics in a Headwater Catchment of the Italian Alps
Authors: Nicola Durighetto, Filippo Vingiani, Leonardo Bertassello, Matteo Camporese, Gianluca Botter
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr025563 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract In the majority of existing studies, streams are conceived as static objects that occupy predefined regions of the landscape. However, empirical observations suggest that stream networks are systematically and ubiquitously featured by significant expansion/retraction dynamics produced by hydrologic and climatic variability. This contribution presents novel empirical data about the active drainage network dynamics of a 5 km 2 headwater catchment in the Italian Alps. The stream network…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 20 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Effectiveness of Entropy Weight Method in Decision-Making
Authors: Zhu Yuxin, Dazuo Tian, Feng Yan
Journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering · DOI: 10.1155/2020/3564835 · Citations: 756
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, water management, earth system model
Entropy weight method (EWM) is a commonly used weighting method that measures value dispersion in decision-making. The greater the degree of dispersion, the greater the degree of differentiation, and more information can be derived. Meanwhile, higher weight should be given to the index, and vice versa. This study shows that the rationality of the EWM in decision-making is questionable. One example is water source site selection, which is generated by Monte Carlo Simulation. First, too many ze…
Heat health risk assessment in Philippine cities using remotely sensed data and social-ecological indicators
Authors: Ronald C. Estoque, Makoto Ooba, Xerxes Seposo, Takuya Togawa, Yasuaki Hijioka, Kiyoshi Takahashi et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15218-8 · Citations: 315
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
More than half of the world’s population currently live in urban areas and are particularly at risk from the combined effects of the urban heat island phenomenon and heat increases due to climate change. Here, by using remotely sensed surface temperature data and social-ecological indicators, focusing on the hot dry season, and applying the risk framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we assessed the current heat health risk in 139 Philippine cities, which account for abou…
Deceleration of China’s human water use and its key drivers
Authors: Feng Zhou, Yan Bo, Philippe Ciais, Patrice Dumas, Qiuhong Tang, Xuhui Wang et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1909902117 · Citations: 305
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, water management, land surface model, irrigation, earth system model
afterward. These decelerations were attributed to reduced water use intensities of irrigation and industry, which partly offset the increase driven by pronounced socioeconomic development (i.e., economic growth, population growth, and structural transitions) by 55% in 1975 to 1992 and 83% after 1992. Adoptions for highly efficient irrigation and industrial water recycling technologies explained most of the observed reduction of water use intensities across China. These findings challenge conv…
Groundwater potential zone mapping using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and GIS for Kancheepuram District, Tamilnadu, India
Authors: Thiyagarajan Saranya, Subbarayan Saravanan
Journal: Modeling Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s40808-020-00744-7 · Citations: 256
Matched topics: water management, surface water
Abstract not available.
Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)
Authors: Nicolás Reul, Semyon A. Grodsky, Manuel Arias, J. Boutin, Rafael Catany, Bertrand Chapron et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111769 · Citations: 248
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, seasonal, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Operated since the end of 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission is the first orbiting radiometer that collects regular and global observations from space of two Essential Climate Variables of the Global Climate Observing System: Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and Soil Moisture. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aquarius mission, with the primary objective to provide global SSS measurements from space operated from mi…
Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data
Authors: Zander S. Venter, Oscar Brousse, Igor Esau, Fred Meier
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111791 · Citations: 237
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where most of the world’s population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts on ambient air temperatures (Tair) has relevance for human health risk, building energy use efficiency, vector-borne disease control and urban biodiversity. Remote sensing of urban climate has been focused on land surface temperature (LST) due to a scarcity of data on Tair which is usually interpolated at 1 km resolution. We assessed th…
Global Patterns in Marine Sediment Carbon Stocks
Authors: Trisha B. Atwood, Andrew Witt, Juan Mayorga, Edd Hammill, Enric Sala
Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science · DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00165 · Citations: 213
Matched topics: runoff
To develop more accurate global carbon (C) budgets and to better inform management of human activities in the ocean, we need high-resolution estimates of marine C stocks. Here we quantify global marine sedimentary C stocks at a 1-km resolution, and find that marine sediments store 2322 (2239–2391) Pg C in the top 1 m (nearly twice that of terrestrial soils). Sediments in abyss/basin zones account for 79% of the global marine sediment C stock, and 49% of that stock is within the 200-mile Exclu…
Human health risk assessment of elevated and variable iron and manganese intake with arsenic-safe groundwater in Jashore, Bangladesh
Authors: Gopal Chandra Ghosh, Md. Jahed Hassan Khan, Tapos Kumar Chakraborty, Samina Zaman, A. H. M. Enamul Kabir, Hiroaki Tanaka
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62187-5 · Citations: 206
Matched topics: surface water
Groundwater through hand-operated tubewell (a type of water well) tapping is the main source of drinking water in Bangladesh. This study investigated iron and manganese concentration in groundwater across Jashore district-one of the worst arsenic contaminated area in Bangladesh. One working tubewell that had been tested previously for arsenic and marked safe (green) was selected from each unions of the district. Results revealed that approximately 73% and 87% of groundwater samples exceeded t…
Landscape Drivers of Dynamic Change in Water Quality of U.S. Rivers
Authors: Edward G. Stets, Lori A. Sprague, Gretchen P. Oelsner, Henry M. Johnson, Jennifer C. Murphy, Karen R. Ryberg et al.
Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05344 · Citations: 204
Matched topics: river, water management
Water security is a top concern for social well-being, and dramatic changes in the availability of freshwater have occurred as a result of human uses and landscape management. Elevated nutrient loading and perturbations to major ion composition have resulted from human activities and have degraded freshwater resources. This study addresses the emerging nature of streamwater quality in the 21st century through analysis of concentrations and trends in a wide variety of constituents in streams a…
Evaluation of Sentinel-1 & 2 time series for predicting wheat and rapeseed phenological stages
Authors: Audrey Mercier, Julie Betbeder, Jacques Baudry, Vincent Le Roux, Fabien Spicher, Jérôme Lacoux et al.
Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.03.009 · Citations: 166
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Historical assessment and future sustainability challenges of Egyptian water resources management
Authors: Pingping Luo, Yutong Sun, Shuangtao Wang, Shuangtao Wang, Simeng Wang, Simeng Wang et al.
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121154 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Efficient irrigation water allocation and its impact on agricultural sustainability and water scarcity under uncertainty
Authors: Mo Li, Yaowen Xu, Qiang Fu, Vijay P. Singh, Dong Liu, Tianxiao Li
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124888 · Citations: 153
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Future exacerbation of hot and dry summer monsoon extremes in India
Authors: Vimal Mishra, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Deepti Singh, Saran Aadhar
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-0113-5 · Citations: 138
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Summer monsoon (June-September) precipitation is crucial for agricultural activities in India. Extremes during the monsoon season can have deleterious effects on water availability and agriculture in the region. Here, we show that hot and dry extremes during the summer monsoon season significantly impact food production in India and find that they tend to occur during El Niño years during the observed record of 1951–2018. We then use an ensemble of climate simulations for the histori…
Study of statistical methods for texture analysis and their modern evolutions
Authors: Ayushman Ramola, Amit Kumar Shakya, Dai Van Pham
Journal: Engineering Reports · DOI: 10.1002/eng2.12149 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Texture analysis is widely performed in the current time as it is considered as an intimate property of the surface. It is widely used in the field of image processing, remote sensing applications, biomedical analysis, document processing, and so on. In this investigation, we present a detailed study of four different methodologies that have been developed for texture classification. These methodologies include gray level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM), local binary pattern (LBP), autoco…
Soil Macrofauna: A key Factor for Increasing Soil Fertility and Promoting Sustainable Soil Use in Fruit Orchard Agrosystems
Authors: Adriano Sofo, Alba N. Mininni, Patrizia Ricciuti
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10040456 · Citations: 135
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff
Soils and crops in orchard agrosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change and environmental stresses. In many orchard soils, soil biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides are under threat from a range of natural and manmade drivers. In this scenario, sustainable soil use aimed at increasing soil organic matter (SOM) and SOM-related benefits, in terms of soil quality and fertility, plays a crucial role. The role of soil macrofaunal organisms as colonizers, comminutors and…
A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition
Authors: Johan van den Hoogen, Stefan Geisen, Diana H. Wall, David A. Wardle, Walter Traunspurger, R.G.M. de Goede et al.
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0437-3 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
As the most abundant animals on earth, nematodes are a dominant component of the soil community. They play critical roles in regulating biogeochemical cycles and vegetation dynamics within and across landscapes and are an indicator of soil biological activity. Here, we present a comprehensive global dataset of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. This dataset includes 6,825 georeferenced soil samples from all continents and biomes. For geospatial mapping purposes these sa…
Accounting for Training Data Error in Machine Learning Applied to Earth Observations
Authors: Arthur Elmes, Hamed Alemohammad, Ryan Avery, K. K. Caylor, J. Ronald Eastman, Lewis Fishgold et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12061034 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Remote sensing, or Earth Observation (EO), is increasingly used to understand Earth system dynamics and create continuous and categorical maps of biophysical properties and land cover, especially based on recent advances in machine learning (ML). ML models typically require large, spatially explicit training datasets to make accurate predictions. Training data (TD) are typically generated by digitizing polygons on high spatial-resolution imagery, by collecting in situ data, or by using pre-ex…
Sources and Leaching of Nitrate Contamination in Groundwater
Authors: Saurabh Shukla, Abhishek Saxena
Journal: Current Science · DOI: 10.18520/cs/v118/i6/883-891 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: runoff, surface water, earth system model
Nitrate is an important and widespread contaminant of groundwater and surface water resources. Nitrate formed either by the natural processes (atmospheric fixation, lightning storms) or added through anthropogenic activities (fertilizer applications, septic tanks) enters the hydrosphere with virtual ease. In this article we review various concepts discussing the different sources behind elevated nitrate levels. Moreover, an attempt is also made towards preparing a comprehensive framework to u…
Stable Dispersion of Coal Fines during Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback in Coal Seam Gas Reservoirs—An Experimental Study
Authors: Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Alireza Keshavarz, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Sarmad Al‐Anssari, Ahmed Al‐Yaseri, Ataollah Nosrati et al.
Journal: Energy & Fuels · DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00045 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: reservoir
In subterranean coal seam gas (CSG) reservoirs, massive amounts of small-sized coal fines are released during the production and development stages, especially during hydraulic fracturing stimulation. These coal fines inevitably cause mechanical pump failure and permeability damage due to aggregation and subsequent pore-throat blockage. This aggregation behavior is thus of key importance in CSG production and needs to be minimized. Consequently, such coal fines dispersions need to be stabiliz…
Technical Note: Flow velocity and discharge measurement in rivers using terrestrial and unmanned-aerial-vehicle imagery
Authors: Anette Eltner, Hannes Sardemann, Jens Grundmann
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-1429-2020 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract. An automatic workflow to measure surface flow velocities in rivers is introduced, including a Python tool. The method is based on particle-tracking velocimetry (PTV) and comprises an automatic definition of the search area for particles to track. Tracking is performed in the original images. Only the final tracks are geo-referenced, intersecting the image observations with water surface in object space. Detected particles and corresponding feature tracks are filtered considering par…
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| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 1084 |
| After deduplication | 681 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 631 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Water Resources Research | 4 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 2 |
| Scientific Reports | 2 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 |
| Nature Communications | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| Geoscientific model development | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 2 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water | 1 |
| Natural Hazards | 1 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 1 |
| Biogeosciences | 1 |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 1 |
| Journal of Plant Growth Regulation | 1 |
| Biomolecules | 1 |
| BMC Plant Biology | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| American Psychologist | 1 |
| Current Biology | 1 |
| Ecography | 1 |
| Marine Policy | 1 |
| Nationalities Papers | 1 |
| Environmental Research | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Mathematical Problems in Engineering | 1 |
| Modeling Earth Systems and Environment | 1 |
| Frontiers in Marine Science | 1 |
| Environmental Science & Technology | 1 |
| ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
| Engineering Reports | 1 |
| Agronomy | 1 |
| Scientific Data | 1 |
| Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Current Science | 1 |
| Energy & Fuels | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
Filtering Criteria
Topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, water management, flood, drought, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, hydropower, surface water, irrigation, earth system model
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