Weekly Literature Review
Week 19 · May 4–May 10, 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
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in
CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation - Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on predrought growth conditions
- Raffinose synthase enhances drought tolerance through raffinose synthesis or galactinol hydrolysis in maize and Arabidopsis plants
- Effect of drought on growth, photosynthesis and total antioxidant capacity of the saharan plant Oudeneya africana
- Drought promotes soil phosphorus transformation and reduces phosphorus bioavailability in a temperate forest
- Drought‐Induced Soil Desiccation Cracking Behavior With Consideration of Basal Friction and Layer Thickness
- Drought and climate change impacts on cooling water shortages and electricity prices in Great Britain
- Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Future of the human climate niche
- Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot?
- Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau
- Fast response of cold ice-rich permafrost in northeast Siberia to a warming climate
- Monsoons Climate Change Assessment
- Climate change impact on yields and water use of wheat and maize in the North China Plain under future climate change scenarios
- Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe
- Integrating climate change in ocean planning
- Air conditioning and electricity expenditure: The role of climate in temperate countries
- Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh
- Sea‐Ice Induced Southern Ocean Subsurface Warming and Surface Cooling in a Warming Climate
- Mitigating Climate Change for Sugarcane Improvement: Role of Silicon in Alleviating Abiotic Stresses
- Variability and change in the hydro-climate and water resources of Iran over a recent 30-year period
- Maize, wheat and rice production potential changes in China under the background of climate change
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
- The Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model Grid‐Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3): Description and Evaluation
- Hadley cell expansion in CMIP6 models
- Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extreme events’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble
- A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling
- Water Management and Sustainability
- High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
- Google Earth Engine Open-Source Code for Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Landsat Series
- Soil organic matter and water retention
- Spatial prediction of groundwater potential mapping based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and support vector regression (SVR)
- RSVQA: Visual Question Answering for Remote Sensing Data
- Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones
- Urbanisation and emerging economies: Issues and potential solutions for water and food security
- The Boundaries of the Planetary Boundary Framework: A Critical Appraisal of Approaches to Define a “Safe Operating Space” for Humanity
- First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch
- Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey
- Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis
- Land subsidence and its relation with groundwater aquifers in Beijing Plain of China
- A high-resolution bathymetry dataset for global reservoirs using multi-source satellite imagery and altimetry
- Predicting the deforestation probability using the binary logistic regression, random forest, ensemble rotational forest, REPTree: A case study at the Gumani River Basin, India
- Source-related smart suspect screening in the aqueous environment: search for tire-derived persistent and mobile trace organic contaminants in surface waters
- Concentration estimation of dissolved oxygen in Pearl River Basin using input variable selection and machine learning techniques
- Hydrological limits to carbon capture and storage
- Toward an Improved Understanding of the Marine Barium Cycle and the Application of Marine Barite as a Paleoproductivity Proxy
- Surface Depression and Wetland Water Storage Improves Major River Basin Hydrologic Predictions
- Coupled online learning as a way to tackle instabilities and biases in neural network parameterizations: general algorithms and Lorenz 96 case study (v1.0)
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 3 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Ding, Vousdoukas et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Interpretable spatio-temporal attention LSTM model for flood forecasting
Authors: Yukai Ding, Yuelong Zhu, Jun Feng, Pengcheng Zhang, Zirun Cheng
Journal: Neurocomputing · DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2020.04.110 · Citations: 413
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
Abstract not available.
Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe
Authors: Michalis Vousdoukas, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Jochen Hinkel, Philip J. Ward, Ignazio Mongelli, Juan-Carlos Ciscar et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15665-3 · Citations: 287
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood, land surface model, earth system model
Extreme sea levels (ESLs) in Europe could rise by as much as one metre or more by the end of this century due to climate change. This poses significant challenges to safeguard coastal communities. Here we present a comprehensive analysis of economically efficient protection scenarios along Europe’s coastlines during the present century. We employ a probabilistic framework that integrates dynamic simulations of all ESL components and flood inundation, impact modelling and a cost-benefit analys…
Identification and validation of potential flood hazard area using GIS ‐based multi‐criteria analysis and satellite data‐derived water index
Authors: Pratik Dash, Jishnu Sar
Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12620 · Citations: 138
Matched topics: runoff, water management, flood
Abstract This article identifies potential flood hazard areas through multi‐criteria analysis in Allahabad district, India. The study has incorporated eight criteria, namely, flow accumulation, draining capability, elevation, groundwater depth, land use, runoff coefficient, slope, and geology for preparing hazard index. The weights of the criteria were obtained through the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method based on their relative importance for occurring floods. Finally, a flood hazar…
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Ukkola, Bose et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation
Authors: Anna Ukkola, Martin G. De Kauwe, Michael L. Roderick, Gab Abramowitz, A. J. Pitman
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087820 · Citations: 490
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, drought, seasonal, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Quantifying how climate change drives drought is a priority to inform policy and adaptation planning. We show that the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) simulations project coherent regional patterns in meteorological drought for two emissions scenarios to 2100. We find robust projected changes in seasonal drought duration and frequency (robust over >45% of the global land area), despite a lack of agreement across models in projected changes in mean precipitatio…
Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on predrought growth conditions
Authors: Arun K. Bose, Arthur Geßler, Andreas Bolte, Alessandra Bottero, Allan Buras, Maxime Cailleret et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15153 · Citations: 228
Matched topics: drought
Global climate change is expected to further raise the frequency and severity of extreme events, such as droughts. The effects of extreme droughts on trees are difficult to disentangle given the inherent complexity of drought events (frequency, severity, duration, and timing during the growing season). Besides, drought effects might be modulated by trees’ phenotypic variability, which is, in turn, affected by long-term local selective pressures and management legacies. Here we investigated th…
Raffinose synthase enhances drought tolerance through raffinose synthesis or galactinol hydrolysis in maize and Arabidopsis plants
Authors: Tao Li, Yumin Zhang, Ying Liu, Xudong Li, Guanglong Hao, Qinghui Han et al.
Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry · DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.013948 · Citations: 163
Matched topics: drought
-inositol levels via ZmRAFS-mediated galactinol hydrolysis in the leaves due to sucrose insufficiency in leaf cells and also enhanced raffinose synthesis in the seeds. Supplementation of sucrose to detached leaves converted ZmRAFS from hydrolyzing galactinol to synthesizing raffinose. Taken together, we demonstrate that ZmRAFS enhances plant drought tolerance through either raffinose synthesis or galactinol hydrolysis, depending on sucrose availability in plant cells. These results provide ne…
Effect of drought on growth, photosynthesis and total antioxidant capacity of the saharan plant Oudeneya africana
Authors: Sihem Talbi, José Antonio Rojas, Mariam Sahrawy, María Rodríguez‐Serrano, Katiuska E. Cárdenas, Mohamed Debouba et al.
Journal: Environmental and Experimental Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104099 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Drought promotes soil phosphorus transformation and reduces phosphorus bioavailability in a temperate forest
Authors: Hongzhi Zhang, Leilei Shi, Haibo Lü, Yuanhu Shao, Shirong Liu, Shenglei Fu
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139295 · Citations: 133
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Drought‐Induced Soil Desiccation Cracking Behavior With Consideration of Basal Friction and Layer Thickness
Authors: Hao Zeng, Chao‐Sheng Tang, Qing Cheng, Cheng Zhu, Li‐Yang Yin, Bin Shi
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026948 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Drought‐induced cracking of soils is of great concern with the advent of global climate change. The cracking process accelerates the evaporation rate of pore water, lowers the water retention capacity, and degrades the hydraulic‐mechanical properties of soils. Basal friction and layer thickness are two important aspects affecting the subsurface cracking. To explore their detailed effects on soils under drying, we conduct a series of desiccation tests on twelve slurry soil bars and se…
Drought and climate change impacts on cooling water shortages and electricity prices in Great Britain
Authors: Edward Byers, Gemma Coxon, Jim Freer, Jim W. Hall
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16012-2 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, drought, climate change, hydropower, earth system model
-order economic risks of cooling water shortage during droughts.
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.
Two years of post-wildfire impacts on dissolved organic matter, nitrogen, and precursors of disinfection by-products in California stream waters
Authors: Habibullah Uzun, Randy A. Dahlgren, Christopher I. Olivares, Cagri Utku Erdem, Tanju Karanfil, Alex Chow
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115891 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 14 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Future of the human climate niche
Authors: Chi Xu, Timothy A. Kohler, Timothy M. Lenton, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Marten Scheffer
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910114117 · Citations: 834
Matched topics: land surface model
All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations have resided in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT). Supporting the fundamental nature of this temperature niche, current production of crops and livestock is largely limited to the same conditions, and t…
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot?
Authors: Alexandre Tuel, Elfatih A. B. Eltahir
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0910.1 · Citations: 431
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change
Abstract Higher precipitation is expected over most of the world’s continents under climate change, except for a few specific regions where models project robust declines. Among these, the Mediterranean stands out as a result of the magnitude and significance of its winter precipitation decline. Locally, up to 40% of winter precipitation could be lost, setting strong limits on water resources that will constrain the ability of the region to develop and grow food, affecting millions of already…
Permafrost thawing puts the frozen carbon at risk over the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Taihua Wang, Dawen Yang, Yuting Yang, Shilong Piao, Xin Li, Guodong Cheng et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz3513 · Citations: 311
Matched topics: earth system model
Soil organic carbon (SOC) stored in permafrost across the high-latitude/altitude Northern Hemisphere represents an important potential carbon source under future warming. Here, we provide a comprehensive investigation on the spatiotemporal dynamics of SOC over the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau (TP), which has received less attention compared with the circum-Arctic region. The permafrost region covers ~42% of the entire TP and contains ~37.21 Pg perennially frozen SOC at the baseline period (2…
Fast response of cold ice-rich permafrost in northeast Siberia to a warming climate
Authors: Jan Nitzbon, Sebastian Westermann, Moritz Langer, Léo Martin, Jens Strauß, Sebastian Laboor et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15725-8 · Citations: 274
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
The ice- and organic-rich permafrost of the northeast Siberian Arctic lowlands (NESAL) has been projected to remain stable beyond 2100, even under pessimistic climate warming scenarios. However, the numerical models used for these projections lack processes which induce widespread landscape change termed thermokarst, precluding realistic simulation of permafrost thaw in such ice-rich terrain. Here, we consider thermokarst-inducing processes in a numerical model and show that substantial perma…
Monsoons Climate Change Assessment
Authors: Bin Wang, Michela Biasutti, Michael P. Byrne, Christopher L. Castro, Chih-Pei Chang, Kerry H. Cook et al.
Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-19-0335.1 · Citations: 266
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, climate change, earth system model
Abstract Monsoon rainfall has profound economic and societal impacts for more than two-thirds of the global population. Here we provide a review on past monsoon changes and their primary drivers, the projected future changes, and key physical processes, and discuss challenges of the present and future modeling and outlooks. Continued global warming and urbanization over the past century has already caused a significant rise in the intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall events in all mons…
Climate change impact on yields and water use of wheat and maize in the North China Plain under future climate change scenarios
Authors: Dengpan Xiao, De Li Liu, Bin Wang, Puyu Feng, Huizi Bai, Jianzhao Tang
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106238 · Citations: 225
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe
Authors: Virgilio Ciancio, Ferdinando Salata, Serena Falasca, Gabriele Curci, Iacopo Golasi, Pieter de Wilde
Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102213 · Citations: 182
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Integrating climate change in ocean planning
Authors: Catarina Frazão Santos, Tundi Agardy, Francisco Andrade, Helena Calado, Larry B. Crowder, Charles N. Ehler et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0513-x · Citations: 177
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Air conditioning and electricity expenditure: The role of climate in temperate countries
Authors: Teresa Randazzo, Enrica De Cian, Malcolm Mistry
Journal: Economic Modelling · DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.05.001 · Citations: 166
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
This paper investigates how households adopt and use air conditioning to adapt to climate change and increasingly high temperatures, which pose a threat to the health of vulnerable populations. The analysis examines conditions in eight temperate, industrialized countries (Australia, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland). The identification strategy exploits cross-country and cross-household variations by matching geocoded households with climate data. Our fin…
Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh
Authors: Jeetendra Prakash Aryal, Tek B. Sapkota, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Timothy J. Krupnik, Sumona Shahrin, M. L. Jat et al.
Journal: Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1007/s00267-020-01291-8 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: flood, land surface model
Rural households in South Asia’s coastal deltas face numerous livelihood challenges, including risks posed by climatic variability and extreme weather events. This study examines major climate risks, farmers’ adaptation strategies, and the factors affecting the choice of those strategies using data collected from 630 households in southwestern coastal Bangladesh. Farmers identified cyclones, excessive rain and flooding, and salinity as direct climate risks. Increased crop diseases/pests and l…
Sea‐Ice Induced Southern Ocean Subsurface Warming and Surface Cooling in a Warming Climate
Authors: F. Alexander Haumann, Nicolas Gruber, Matthias Münnich
Journal: AGU Advances · DOI: 10.1029/2019av000132 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract Much of the Southern Ocean surface south of 55° S cooled and freshened between at least the early 1980s and the early 2010s. Many processes have been proposed to explain the unexpected cooling, including increased winds or freshwater fluxes. However, these mechanisms so far failed to fully explain the surface trends and the concurrent subsurface warming (100 to 500 m). Here, we argue that these trends are predominantly caused by an increased wind‐driven northward sea‐ice transport, e…
Mitigating Climate Change for Sugarcane Improvement: Role of Silicon in Alleviating Abiotic Stresses
Authors: Krishan K. Verma, Pratiksha Singh, Xiu‐Peng Song, Mukesh Kumar Malviya, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Gan‐Lin Chen et al.
Journal: Sugar Tech · DOI: 10.1007/s12355-020-00831-0 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Variability and change in the hydro-climate and water resources of Iran over a recent 30-year period
Authors: Davood Moshir Panahi, Zahra Kalantari, Navid Ghajarnia, Samaneh Seifollahi‐Aghmiuni, Georgia Destouni
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64089-y · Citations: 101
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model
Comprehensive assessment of hydro-climatic variations and change trends is essential for understanding, mitigating, and adapting to key water resource changes in different parts of the world. We performed such an assessment on Iran, as representative of an arid/semi-arid and geopolitically important world region. We acquired and calculated data time series of surface temperature (T), precipitation (P), runoff (R), evapotranspiration (ET), and water storage change (DS), to determine their stat…
Maize, wheat and rice production potential changes in China under the background of climate change
Authors: Li Fei, Zhou Meijun, Jiaqi Shao, Chen Zehui, Xiaoli Wei, Yang Jiuchun
Journal: Agricultural Systems · DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102853 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 5 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Authors: Jing Gao, Brian C. O’Neill
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15788-7 · Citations: 633
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Urban land expansion is one of the most visible, irreversible, and rapid types of land cover/land use change in contemporary human history, and is a key driver for many environmental and societal changes across scales. Yet spatial projections of how much and where it may occur are often limited to short-term futures and small geographic areas. Here we produce a first empirically-grounded set of global, spatial urban land projections over the 21st century. We use a data-science approach exploi…
The Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model Grid‐Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3): Description and Evaluation
Authors: Lijuan Li, Yongqiang Yu, Yanli Tang, Pengfei Lin, Jinbo Xie, Mirong Song et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002012 · Citations: 315
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract This paper introduces the Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model: Grid‐Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3) and evaluates its basic performance based on some of its participation in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) experiments. Our results show that many significant improvements have been achieved by FGOALS‐g3 in terms of climatological mean states, variabilities, and long‐term trends. For example, FGOALS‐g3 has a small (−0.015°C/100 yr) climate…
Hadley cell expansion in CMIP6 models
Authors: Kevin M. Grise, Sean Davis
Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-5249-2020 · Citations: 161
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. In response to increasing greenhouse gases, the subtropical edges of Earth’s Hadley circulation shift poleward in global climate models. Recent studies have found that reanalysis trends in the Hadley cell edge over the past 30–40 years are within the range of trends simulated by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models and have documented seasonal and hemispheric asymmetries in these trends. In this study, we evaluate whether these conclusions hold for the newest…
Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extreme events’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble
Authors: Martha M. Vogel, Mathias Hauser, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab90a7 · Citations: 159
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Concurrent extreme events, i.e. multi-variate extremes, can be associated with strong impacts. Hence, an understanding of how such events are changing in a warming climate is helpful to avoid some associated climate change impacts and better prepare for them. In this article, we analyse the projected occurrence of hot, dry, and wet extreme events’ clusters in the multi-model ensemble of the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). Changes in ‘extreme extremes’,…
A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling
Authors: Frederik Kratzert, D. Klotz, Sepp Hochreiter, G. Nearing
Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.31223/osf.io/pjm5a · Citations: 127
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract. A deep learning rainfall–runoff model can take multiple meteorological forcing products as input and learn to combine them in spatially and temporally dynamic ways. This is demonstrated with Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs) trained over basins in the continental US, using the Catchment Attributes and Meteorological data set for Large Sample Studies (CAMELS). Using meteorological input from different data products (North American Land Data Assimilation System, NLDAS, Maurer, a…
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.
High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015
Authors: Xiaoping Liu, Yinghuai Huang, Xiaocong Xu, Xuecao Li, Xia Li, Philippe Ciais et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0521-x · Citations: 851
Matched topics: flood, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Google Earth Engine Open-Source Code for Land Surface Temperature Estimation from the Landsat Series
Authors: Sofia L. Ermida, Patrícia Comes Soares, Vasco Mantas, Frank Göttsche, Isabel F. Trigo
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12091471 · Citations: 670
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Land Surface Temperature (LST) is increasingly important for various studies assessing land surface conditions, e.g., studies of urban climate, evapotranspiration, and vegetation stress. The Landsat series of satellites have the potential to provide LST estimates at a high spatial resolution, which is particularly appropriate for local or small-scale studies. Numerous studies have proposed LST retrieval algorithms for the Landsat series, and some datasets are available online. However, those …
Soil organic matter and water retention
Authors: Rattan Lal
Journal: Agronomy Journal · DOI: 10.1002/agj2.20282 · Citations: 399
Matched topics: water management
Abstract The current and projected anthropogenic global warming and the attendant increase in the severity and extent of soil degradation may exacerbate the intensity and duration of drought occurrence in agroecosystems. Restoration of the soil organic matter (SOM) content of degraded/depleted soils can increase soil water retention (SWR) more at field capacity (FC) than that at the permanent wilting point (PWP), and thus increase the plant available water capacity (PAWC). The magnitude of in…
Spatial prediction of groundwater potential mapping based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and support vector regression (SVR)
Authors: Mahdi Panahi, Nitheshnirmal Sãdhasivam, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Fatemeh Rezaie, Saro Lee
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125033 · Citations: 354
Matched topics: water management, land surface model
Abstract not available.
RSVQA: Visual Question Answering for Remote Sensing Data
Authors: Sylvain Lobry, Diego Marcos, Jesse Murray, Devis Tuia
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.2988782 · Citations: 252
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
This article introduces the task of visual question answering for remote sensing data (RSVQA). Remote sensing images contain a wealth of information, which can be useful for a wide range of tasks, including land cover classification, object counting, or detection. However, most of the available methodologies are task-specific, thus inhibiting generic and easy access to the information contained in remote sensing data. As a consequence, accurate remote sensing product generation still requires…
Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones
Authors: Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas L. Delworth, William Cooke, Ming Zhao, Baoqiang Xiang, Pang‐Chi Hsu
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922500117 · Citations: 248
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Owing to the limited length of observed tropical cyclone data and the effects of multidecadal internal variability, it has been a challenge to detect trends in tropical cyclone activity on a global scale. However, there is a distinct spatial pattern of the trends in tropical cyclone frequency of occurrence on a global scale since 1980, with substantial decreases in the southern Indian Ocean and western North Pacific and increases in the North Atlantic and central Pacific. Here, using a suite …
Urbanisation and emerging economies: Issues and potential solutions for water and food security
Authors: Rai S. Kookana, Pay Drechsel, Priyanka Jamwal, Joanne Vanderzalm
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139057 · Citations: 247
Matched topics: surface water
Urbanisation will be one of the 21st century’s most transformative trends. By 2050, it will increase from 55% to 68%, more than doubling the urban population in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Urbanisation has multifarious (positive as well as negative) impacts on the wellbeing of humans and the environment. The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form the blueprint to achieve a sustainable future for all. Clean Water and Sanitation is a specific goal (SDG 6) within the suite of 17 …
The Boundaries of the Planetary Boundary Framework: A Critical Appraisal of Approaches to Define a “Safe Operating Space” for Humanity
Authors: Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim
Journal: Annual Review of Environment and Resources · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-080337 · Citations: 213
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
In 2009, a group of 29 scholars argued that we can identify a set of “planetary boundaries” that humanity must not cross at the cost of its own peril. This planetary boundaries framework has been influential in generating academic debate and in shaping research projects and policy recommendations worldwide. Yet, it has also come under heavy scrutiny and been criticized. What is today’s overall significance and impact of the notion of planetary boundaries for earth system science and earth sys…
First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch
Authors: Matthias Egger, Fatimah Sulu‐Gambari, Laurent Lebreton
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64465-8 · Citations: 196
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water
in the deep sea. The plastic particles in the NPGP water column are mostly in the size range of particles that are apparently missing from the ocean surface and the polymer composition of plastic in the NPGP water column is similar to that of floating debris circulating in its surface waters (i.e. dominated by polyethylene and polypropylene). Our results further reveal a positive correlation between the amount of plastic debris at the sea surface and the depth-integrated concentrations of pla…
Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey
Authors: Benjamin P. Horton, Nicole S. Khan, Niamh Cahill, Janice Ser Huay Lee, Timothy A. Shaw, Andra J. Garner et al.
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-0121-5 · Citations: 177
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Sea-level rise projections and knowledge of their uncertainties are vital to make informed mitigation and adaptation decisions. To elicit projections from members of the scientific community regarding future global mean sea-level (GMSL) rise, we repeated a survey originally conducted five years ago. Under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 2.6, 106 experts projected a likely (central 66% probability) GMSL rise of 0.30–0.65 m by 2100, and 0.54–2.15 m by 2300, relative to 1986–…
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis
Authors: Mauro Bologna, Gerardo Aquino
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63657-6 · Citations: 148
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
In this paper we afford a quantitative analysis of the sustainability of current world population growth in relation to the parallel deforestation process adopting a statistical point of view. We consider a simplified model based on a stochastic growth process driven by a continuous time random walk, which depicts the technological evolution of human kind, in conjunction with a deterministic generalised logistic model for humans-forest interaction and we evaluate the probability of avoiding t…
Land subsidence and its relation with groundwater aquifers in Beijing Plain of China
Authors: Beibei Chen, Huili Gong, Yun Chen, Xiaojuan Li, Chaofan Zhou, Kunchao Lei et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139111 · Citations: 146
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
A high-resolution bathymetry dataset for global reservoirs using multi-source satellite imagery and altimetry
Authors: Yao Li, Huilin Gao, Gang Zhao, Kuo‐Hsin Tseng
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111831 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: hydrologic model, reservoir, surface water
Abstract not available.
Predicting the deforestation probability using the binary logistic regression, random forest, ensemble rotational forest, REPTree: A case study at the Gumani River Basin, India
Authors: Sunil Saha, Mantosh Saha, Kaustuv Mukherjee, Alireza Arabameri, Phuong Thao Thi Ngo, Gopal Chandra Paul
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139197 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Source-related smart suspect screening in the aqueous environment: search for tire-derived persistent and mobile trace organic contaminants in surface waters
Authors: Bettina Seiwert, Philipp Klöckner, Stephan Wagner, Thorsten Reemtsma
Journal: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry · DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02653-1 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: runoff, land surface model
A variant of suspect screening by liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) is proposed in this study: Samples of a potential source of contamination and of an environmental sample close to this source are first analyzed in a non-targeted manner to select source-related suspects and to identify them. The suspect list compiled from such an exercise is then applied to LC-HRMS data of environmental samples to ascribe and to identify persistent and mobile contaminants in t…
Concentration estimation of dissolved oxygen in Pearl River Basin using input variable selection and machine learning techniques
Authors: Wenjing Li, Huaiyang Fang, Guangxiong Qin, Xiuqin Tan, Zhiwei Huang, Fantang Zeng et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139099 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Hydrological limits to carbon capture and storage
Authors: Lorenzo Rosa, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Marjorie Went, Paolo D’Odorico
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0532-7 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
Toward an Improved Understanding of the Marine Barium Cycle and the Application of Marine Barite as a Paleoproductivity Proxy
Authors: Samantha C. Carter, Adina Paytan, Elizabeth M. Griffith
Journal: Minerals · DOI: 10.3390/min10050421 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Marine barite (BaSO4) is a relatively ubiquitous, though minor, component of ocean sediments. Modern studies of the accumulation of barite in ocean sediments have demonstrated a robust correlation between barite accumulation rates and carbon export to the deep ocean. This correlation has been used to develop quantitative relationships between barite accumulation rates and export production and is used to reconstruct export production in the geologic past, particularly during times of dynamic …
Surface Depression and Wetland Water Storage Improves Major River Basin Hydrologic Predictions
Authors: Adnan Rajib, Heather E. Golden, Charles R. Lane, Qiusheng Wu
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026561 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, surface water
(70%) of the basin area, and (c) provided realistic spatial distributions of rootzone wetness conditions corresponding to satellite-based data. Results further suggest that storage capacity (i.e., volume) alone does not fully explain depressions’ cumulative effects on landscape hydrologic responses. Local (i.e., subbasin level) climatic and geophysical drivers and downstream flowpath-regulating structures (e.g., reservoirs and dams) influence the extent to which depression storage volume in a…
Coupled online learning as a way to tackle instabilities and biases in neural network parameterizations: general algorithms and Lorenz 96 case study (v1.0)
Authors: Stephan Rasp
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-2185-2020 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. Over the last couple of years, machine learning parameterizations have emerged as a potential way to improve the representation of subgrid processes in Earth system models (ESMs). So far, all studies were based on the same three-step approach: first a training dataset was created from a high-resolution simulation, then a machine learning algorithm was fitted to this dataset, before the trained algorithm was implemented in the ESM. The resulting online simulations were frequently pla…
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| Rejected (not relevant) | 647 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| The Science of The Total Environment | 5 |
| Nature Communications | 4 |
| Nature Sustainability | 3 |
| Scientific Reports | 3 |
| Water Resources Research | 2 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 |
| Neurocomputing | 1 |
| Journal of Flood Risk Management | 1 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Journal of Biological Chemistry | 1 |
| Environmental and Experimental Botany | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Science Advances | 1 |
| Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| Sustainable Cities and Society | 1 |
| Economic Modelling | 1 |
| Environmental Management | 1 |
| AGU Advances | 1 |
| Sugar Tech | 1 |
| Agricultural Systems | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 1 |
| Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Agronomy Journal | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry | 1 |
| Minerals | 1 |
| Geoscientific model development | 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
Databases: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex