Weekly Literature Review

Week 20 · May 16–May 22, 2022

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. Towards a global seasonal and permanent reference water product from Sentinel-1/2 data for improved flood mapping
    2. Flood risk perception and communication: The role of hazard proximity
    3. Pattern of spatio-temporal variability of extreme precipitation and flood-waterlogging process in Hanjiang River basin
    4. Flood susceptibility evaluation through deep learning optimizer ensembles and GIS techniques
    5. Study on urban flood early warning system considering flood loss
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Projected U.S. drought extremes through the twenty-first century with vapor pressure deficit
    2. Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use – evidence from intra‐annual tree‐ring characteristics
    3. Historical and future Palmer Drought Severity Index with improved hydrological modeling
    4. Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift
    5. Drought-induced decoupling between carbon uptake and tree growth impacts forest carbon turnover time
    6. Drought Occurrence Probability Analysis Using Multivariate Standardized Drought Index and Copula Function Under Climate Change
    7. Drought assessment of terrestrial ecosystems in the Yangtze River Basin, China
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Multi-objective operation of cascade reservoirs based on short-term ensemble streamflow prediction
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Climate Change and Cascading Risks from Infectious Disease
    2. Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts
    3. The Climate Change Challenge: A Review of the Barriers and Solutions to Deliver a Paris Solution
    4. Climate Adaptive Response Estimation: Short and long run impacts of climate change on residential electricity and natural gas consumption
    5. Climate Controls on River Chemistry
    6. Saudi Arabia’s Climate Change Policy and the Circular Carbon Economy Approach
    7. Dynamic spillover effects and connectedness among climate change, technological innovation, and uncertainty: Evidence from a quantile VAR network and wavelet coherence
    8. Multi-century dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios
    9. Modelling armed conflict risk under climate change with machine learning and time-series data
    10. Stable climate simulations using a realistic general circulation model with neural network parameterizations for atmospheric moist physics and radiation processes
    11. Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change
    12. The climate change perspective of photovoltaic power potential in Brazil
    13. Social Engagement with climate change: principles for effective visual representation on social media
    14. Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services
    15. Hydrological application and accuracy evaluation of PERSIANN satellite-based precipitation estimates over a humid continental climate catchment
    16. Application of DPSIR model to identify the drivers and impacts of land use and land cover changes and climate change on land, water, and livelihoods in the L. Kyoga basin: implications for sustainable management
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Combining downscaled-GRACE data with SWAT to improve the estimation of groundwater storage and depletion variations in the Irrigated Indus Basin (IIB)
    2. Evaluating the Impact of Chemical Complexity and Horizontal Resolution on Tropospheric Ozone Over the Conterminous US With a Global Variable Resolution Chemistry Model
    3. The evaluation of IMERG and ERA5-Land daily precipitation over China with considering the influence of gauge data bias
    4. Rainfall Generation Revisited: Introducing CoSMoS‐2s and Advancing Copula‐Based Intermittent Time Series Modeling
    5. Robust bias-correction of precipitation extremes using a novel hybrid empirical quantile-mapping method
    6. Impact of stormwater infiltration on rainfall-derived inflow and infiltration: A physically based surface–subsurface urban hydrologic model
    7. InVEST model analysis of the impacts of land use change on landscape pattern and habitat quality in the Xiaolangdi Reservoir area of the Yellow River basin, China
    8. Multi-Model Forecast Quality Assessment of CMIP6 Decadal Predictions
    9. Observed trends and variability of seasonal and annual precipitation in Pakistan during 1960–2016
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Methods included
    2. South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater
    3. A global synthesis of human impacts on the multifunctionality of streams and rivers
    4. Morphometric analysis for prioritizing sub-watersheds of Murredu River basin, Telangana State, India, using a geographical information system
    5. Use of interpretable machine learning to identify the factors influencing the nonlinear linkage between land use and river water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
    6. Remote Sensing of Surface Water Dynamics in the Context of Global Change—A Review
    7. Early impacts of the largest Amazonian hydropower project on fish communities
    8. Integrated strategic planning and multi-criteria decision-making framework with its application to agricultural water management
    9. Explainable step-wise binary classification for the susceptibility assessment of geo-hydrological hazards
    10. Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests
    11. Response of macroinvertebrate community to water quality factors and aquatic ecosystem health assessment in a typical river in Beijing, China
    12. Improving the spatiotemporal resolution of remotely sensed ET information for water management through Landsat, Sentinel-2, ECOSTRESS and VIIRS data fusion
  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 Martinis, Ali et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Towards a global seasonal and permanent reference water product from Sentinel-1/2 data for improved flood mapping

Authors: Sandro Martinis, Sandro Groth, Marc Wieland, Lisa Knopp, Michaela Rättich

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113077 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: water management, flood, seasonal

Abstract not available.


Flood risk perception and communication: The role of hazard proximity

Authors: Asher Ali, Irfan Ahmad Rana, Ather Ali, Fawad Ahmed Najam

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115309 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Pattern of spatio-temporal variability of extreme precipitation and flood-waterlogging process in Hanjiang River basin

Authors: Pengxin Deng, Mingyue Zhang, Qingfang Hu, Leizhi Wang, Jianping Bing

Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106258 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: river, flood

Abstract not available.


Flood susceptibility evaluation through deep learning optimizer ensembles and GIS techniques

Authors: Romulus Costache, Alireza Arabameri, Iulia Costache, Anca Crăciun, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Sani I. Abba et al.

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115316 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: flood, land surface model

Abstract not available.


Study on urban flood early warning system considering flood loss

Authors: Yawen Zang, Yu Meng, Xinjian Guan, Hong Lv, Denghua Yan

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103042 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Gamelin, Martínez‐Sancho et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Projected U.S. drought extremes through the twenty-first century with vapor pressure deficit

Authors: Brandi Gamelin, Jeremy Feinstein, Jiali Wang, Julie Bessac, Eugene Yan, V. R. Kotamarthi

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12516-7 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: drought, earth system model

Global warming is expected to enhance drought extremes in the United States throughout the twenty-first century. Projecting these changes can be complex in regions with large variability in atmospheric and soil moisture on small spatial scales. Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) is a valuable measure of evaporative demand as moisture moves from the surface into the atmosphere and a dynamic measure of drought. Here, VPD is used to identify short-term drought with the Standardized VPD Drought Index (…


Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use – evidence from intra‐annual tree‐ring characteristics

Authors: Elisabet Martínez‐Sancho, Kerstin Treydte, Marco M. Lehmann, Andreas Rigling, Patrick Fonti

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.18224 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: drought

C but a reduction in cell enlargement and wall-thickening processes, which impacted the anatomical characteristics. These adjustments diminished carbon sequestration by 67% despite an 11% increase in water-use efficiency during drought. However, with the resumption of a positive hydric state in the stem, we observed a fast recovery of cell formation rates based on the accumulated assimilates produced during drought. Our findings enhance our understanding of carbon and water fluxes between the…


Historical and future Palmer Drought Severity Index with improved hydrological modeling

Authors: Zhengrong Wang, Yuting Yang, Cicheng Zhang, Hui Guo, Ying Hou

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127941 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, drought, land surface model, surface water

Abstract not available.


Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift

Authors: Zachary Hoylman, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Kelsey Jencso

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30316-5 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: streamflow, drought, climate change

Despite the acceleration of climate change, erroneous assumptions of climate stationarity are still inculcated in the management of water resources in the United States (US). The US system for drought detection, which triggers billions of dollars in emergency resources, adheres to this assumption with preference towards 60-year (or longer) record lengths for drought characterization. Using observed data from 1,934 Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) sites across the US, we show that conc…


Drought-induced decoupling between carbon uptake and tree growth impacts forest carbon turnover time

Authors: Steven A. Kannenberg, Antoine Cabon, Flurin Babst, Soumaya Belmecheri, Nicolas Delpierre, Rossella Guerrieri et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108996 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: drought, earth system model

de niveau recherche, publis ou non, manant des tablissements d’enseignement et de recherche franais ou trangers, des laboratoires publics ou privs.


Drought Occurrence Probability Analysis Using Multivariate Standardized Drought Index and Copula Function Under Climate Change

Authors: Kimia Naderi, Mahnoosh Moghaddasi, Ashkan Shokri

Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-022-03186-1 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: drought, climate change

Abstract not available.


Drought assessment of terrestrial ecosystems in the Yangtze River Basin, China

Authors: Mengqi Shi, Zhe Yuan, Xiaoliang Shi, Mingxin Li, Fei Chen, Yi Li

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132234 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: river, drought

Abstract not available.


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.

Multi-objective operation of cascade reservoirs based on short-term ensemble streamflow prediction

Authors: Shaokun He, Shenglian Guo, Jiayu Zhang, Zhangjun Liu, Zhen Cui, Yuhang Zhang et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127936 · Citations: 60

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, reservoir, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 16 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Climate Change and Cascading Risks from Infectious Disease

Authors: J. Semenza, J. Rocklöv, K. Ebi

Journal: Infectious Disease and Therapy · DOI: 10.1007/s40121-022-00647-3 · Citations: 223

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change is adversely affecting the burden of infectious disease throughout the world, which is a health security threat. Climate-sensitive infectious disease includes vector-borne diseases such as malaria, whose transmission potential is expected to increase because of enhanced climatic suitability for the mosquito vector in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America. Climatic suitability for the mosquitoes that can carry dengue, Zika, and chikungunya is also likely to increase, facil…


Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts

Authors: Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero, Tanja Stanelle, Sabine Egerer, Yafang Cheng, Hang Su, Yolanda Cantón et al.

Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-00942-1 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) cover ~12% of the global land surface. They are formed by an intimate association between soil particles, photoautotrophic and heterotrophic organisms, and they effectively stabilize the soil surface of drylands. Quantitative information on the impact of biocrusts on the global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust, however, is not available. Here, we combine the currently limited experimental data with a global climate model to investigate th…


The Climate Change Challenge: A Review of the Barriers and Solutions to Deliver a Paris Solution

Authors: F. Santos, Paulo Ferreira, J. Pedersen

Journal: Climate · DOI: 10.3390/cli10050075 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: climate change

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to grow persistently since 1750. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1994 to stabilize GHG emissions. Since then, the increasingly harmful impacts of global climate change and repeated scientific warnings about future risks have not been enough to change the emissions trend and enforce policy actions. This paper synthesizes the climate change challenges and the insofar insufficient mitiga…


Climate Adaptive Response Estimation: Short and long run impacts of climate change on residential electricity and natural gas consumption

Authors: Maximilian Auffhammer

Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102669 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: climate change

This paper proposes a simple two-step estimation method (Climate Adaptive Response Estimation - CARE) to estimate sectoral climate damage functions, which account for long-run adaptation. The paper applies this method in the context of residential electricity and natural gas demand for the world’s fifth largest economy — California. The advantage of the proposed method is that it only requires detailed information on intensive margin behavior, yet does not require explicit knowledge of the ex…


Climate Controls on River Chemistry

Authors: Li Li, Bryn Stewart, Wei Zhi, Kayalvizhi Sadayappan, Shreya Ramesh, Devon Kerins et al.

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2021ef002603 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: hydrology, river

Abstract How does climate control river chemistry? Existing literature has examined extensively the response of river chemistry to short‐term weather conditions from event to seasonal scales. Patterns and drivers of long‐term, baseline river chemistry have remained poorly understood. Here we compile and analyze chemistry data from 506 minimally impacted rivers (412,801 data points) in the contiguous United States (CAMELS‐Chem) to identify patterns and drivers of river chemistry. Despite disti…


Saudi Arabia’s Climate Change Policy and the Circular Carbon Economy Approach

Authors: Thamir Al Shehri, Jan Frederik Braun, Nicholas Howarth, Alessandro Lanza, Mari Luomi

Journal: Climate Policy · DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2070118 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: climate change

During its Presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2020, Saudi Arabia launched the concept of the circular carbon economy (CCE) as a framework for reducing emissions to a level consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The concept, which was endorsed by both G20 leaders and energy ministers, comes at a time when Saudi Arabia appears to have stabilised its domestic emissions after decades of rapid growth. This article describes the CCE concept and positions it alongside other relate…


Dynamic spillover effects and connectedness among climate change, technological innovation, and uncertainty: Evidence from a quantile VAR network and wavelet coherence

Authors: Rabeh Khalfaoui, Nicolae Stef, Ben Arfi Wissal, Ben Jabeur Sami

Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change · DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121743 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Multi-century dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios

Authors: Charles D. Koven, Vivek K. Arora, Patricia Cadule, Rosie A. Fisher, Chris Jones, David M. Lawrence et al.

Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-13-885-2022 · Citations: 72

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. Future climate projections from Earth system models (ESMs) typically focus on the timescale of this century. We use a set of five ESMs and one Earth system model of intermediate complexity (EMIC) to explore the dynamics of the Earth’s climate and carbon cycles under contrasting emissions trajectories beyond this century to the year 2300. The trajectories include a very-high-emissions, unmitigated fossil-fuel-driven scenario, as well as a mitigation scenario that diverges from the fi…


Modelling armed conflict risk under climate change with machine learning and time-series data

Authors: Quansheng Ge, Mengmeng Hao, F. Ding, Dong Jiang, Jürgen Scheffran, David Helman et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30356-x · Citations: 65

Matched topics: climate change

Understanding the risk of armed conflict is essential for promoting peace. Although the relationship between climate variability and armed conflict has been studied by the research community for decades with quantitative and qualitative methods at different spatial and temporal scales, causal linkages at a global scale remain poorly understood. Here we adopt a quantitative modelling framework based on machine learning to infer potential causal linkages from high-frequency time-series data and…


Stable climate simulations using a realistic general circulation model with neural network parameterizations for atmospheric moist physics and radiation processes

Authors: Xin Wang, Yilun Han, Wei Xue, Guangwen Yang, Guang J. Zhang

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-15-3923-2022 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. In climate models, subgrid parameterizations of convection and clouds are one of the main causes of the biases in precipitation and atmospheric circulation simulations. In recent years, due to the rapid development of data science, machine learning (ML) parameterizations for convection and clouds have been demonstrated to have the potential to perform better than conventional parameterizations. Most previous studies were conducted on aqua-planet and idealized models, and the problem…


Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

Authors: Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Érika Berenguer, Imma Oliveras Menor, D.E. Bauman, José Javier Corral‐Rivas, María Guadalupe Nava‐Miranda et al.

Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution · DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01747-6 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


The climate change perspective of photovoltaic power potential in Brazil

Authors: Cristian Felipe Zuluaga, Alvaro Ávila-Díaz, Flávio Justino, Fernando Ramos Martins, Wilmar L. Cerón

Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.029 · Citations: 60

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Social Engagement with climate change: principles for effective visual representation on social media

Authors: Bienvenido León, Samuel Negredo, M. Carmen Erviti Ilundain

Journal: Climate Policy · DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2022.2077292 · Citations: 60

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change communication on social media plays a prominent role in efforts undertaken by state agencies, NGOs, and international organizations, to make citizens aware of this phenomenon. The images used to communicate climate change are of great importance, since they can help to effectively raise citizen awareness. Building upon news values theory and the concept of availability heuristics, this research paper aims to identify principles that can be used for effective visual communicatio…


Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services

Authors: Stella Manes, Mariana M. Vale, Artur Malecha, Aliny P. F. Pires

Journal: Ecosystem Services · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101439 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Hydrological application and accuracy evaluation of PERSIANN satellite-based precipitation estimates over a humid continental climate catchment

Authors: Mohammad Reza Eini, Akbar Rahmati Ziveh, Mikołaj Piniewski

Journal: Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101109 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

The Wełna catchment (52°30’–53°N and 16°35’–17°50’E) is a medium-sized, lowland catchment in the central part of Poland in Central Europe with a total catchment area of 2621 km2. Research evaluating the performing of satellite-based precipitation datasets in Poland and Central Europe is scarce. This study assesses the accuracy and implements five satellite-based precipitation estimates in hydrological simulations. PERSIANN (a satellite-based precipitation dataset) family datasets (consisting …


Application of DPSIR model to identify the drivers and impacts of land use and land cover changes and climate change on land, water, and livelihoods in the L. Kyoga basin: implications for sustainable management

Authors: John Peter Obubu, Robinson Odong, Tena Alamerew, Tadesse Fetahi, Seyoum Mengistou

Journal: ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH · DOI: 10.1186/s40068-022-00254-8 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: water management, climate change

Land use, land cover, and climate change impacts are current global challenges that are affecting many sectors, like agricultural production, socio-economic development, water quality, and causing land fragmentation. In developing countries like Uganda, rural areas with high populations dependent on agriculture are the most affected. The development of sustainable management measures requires proper identification of drivers and impacts on the environment and livelihoods of the affected commu…


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.

Combining downscaled-GRACE data with SWAT to improve the estimation of groundwater storage and depletion variations in the Irrigated Indus Basin (IIB)

Authors: Arfan Arshad, Ali Mirchi, Maryam Samimi, Bashir Ahmad

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156044 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: irrigation

in the downstream canal command areas. GWS declined by -325.55 mm/year at Dehli Doab, followed by -186.86 mm/year at BIST Doab, -119.20 mm/year at BARI Doab, and -100.82 mm/year at JECH Doab. The rate of groundwater depletion is increasing in the canal command areas of Delhi Doab and BIST Doab by 0.21-0.35 m/year. Larger groundwater depletion in some canal command areas (e.g., RACHNA, BIST Doab, and Delhi Doab) is associated with the rice-wheat cropping system, low rainfall, and low flows fro…


Evaluating the Impact of Chemical Complexity and Horizontal Resolution on Tropospheric Ozone Over the Conterminous US With a Global Variable Resolution Chemistry Model

Authors: Rebecca H. Schwantes, Forrest Lacey, Simone Tilmes, L. K. Emmons, P. H. Lauritzen, Stacy Walters et al.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002889 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: earth system model

A new configuration of the Community Earth System Model (CESM)/Community Atmosphere Model with full chemistry (CAM-chem) supporting the capability of horizontal mesh refinement through the use of the spectral element (SE) dynamical core is developed and called CESM/CAM-chem-SE. Horizontal mesh refinement in CESM/CAM-chem-SE is unique and novel in that pollutants such as ozone are accurately represented at human exposure relevant scales while also directly including global feedbacks. CESM/CAM-…


The evaluation of IMERG and ERA5-Land daily precipitation over China with considering the influence of gauge data bias

Authors: Wenhao Xie, Shanzhen Yi, Chuang Leng, Defeng Xia, Mingli Li, Zewen Zhong et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12307-0 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: streamflow

Evaluating the accuracy of the satellite and reanalysis precipitation products is very important for understanding their uncertainties and potential applications. However, because of underestimation existing in commonly used evaluation benchmark, gauge precipitation data, it is necessary to investigate the influence of systematic errors in gauge data on the performance evaluation of satellite and reanalysis precipitation datasets. Daily satellite-based IMERG and model-based ERA5-Land, togethe…


Rainfall Generation Revisited: Introducing CoSMoS‐2s and Advancing Copula‐Based Intermittent Time Series Modeling

Authors: Simon Michael Papalexiou

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr031641 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow

Abstract What elements should a parsimonious model reproduce at a single scale to precisely simulate rainfall at many scales? We posit these elements are: (a) the probability of dry and linear correlation structure of the wet/dry sequence as a proxy reproducing the distribution of wet/dry spells, and (b) the marginal distribution of nonzero rainfall and its correlation structure. We build a two‐state rainfall model, the CoSMoS‐2s, that explicitly reproduces these elements and is easily applic…


Robust bias-correction of precipitation extremes using a novel hybrid empirical quantile-mapping method

Authors: Maike Holthuijzen, Brian Beckage, Patrick J. Clemins, Dave Higdon, Jonathan M. Winter

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Climatology · DOI: 10.1007/s00704-022-04035-2 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract High-resolution, daily precipitation climate products that realistically represent extremes are critical for evaluating local-scale climate impacts. A popular bias-correction method, empirical quantile mapping (EQM), can generally correct distributional discrepancies between simulated climate variables and observed data but can be highly sensitive to the choice of calibration period and is prone to overfitting. In this study, we propose a hybrid bias-correction method for precipitati…


Impact of stormwater infiltration on rainfall-derived inflow and infiltration: A physically based surface–subsurface urban hydrologic model

Authors: Kun Zhang, Anthony J. Parolari

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127938 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract not available.


InVEST model analysis of the impacts of land use change on landscape pattern and habitat quality in the Xiaolangdi Reservoir area of the Yellow River basin, China

Authors: Longshan Zhao, Wanyang Yu, Ping Meng, Jinsong Zhang, Jinxin Zhang

Journal: Land Degradation and Development · DOI: 10.1002/ldr.4361 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: river, reservoir

Abstract Changes in land use impact the landscape pattern and habitat quality (LPHQ) of ecosystems. Since 1999, the Grain‐for‐Green Program (GGP) has brought dramatic changes in land use in Western China. Although many studies have reported positive contributions of the GGP to sediment reduction, the effects of the GGP on LPHQ remain unclear. This study aimed to assess the spatiotemporal characteristics of LPHQ in the Xiaolangdi Reservoir Area in China (XRAC) before and after GGP implementati…


Multi-Model Forecast Quality Assessment of CMIP6 Decadal Predictions

Authors: Carlos Delgado‐Torres, Markus G. Donat, Nube González-Reviriego, Louis‐Philippe Caron, Panos Athanasiadis, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière et al.

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-21-0811.1 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Decadal climate predictions are a relatively new source of climate information for interannual to decadal time scales, which is of increasing interest for users. Forecast quality assessment is essential to identify windows of opportunity (e.g., variables, regions, and forecast periods) with skill that can be used to develop climate services to inform users in several sectors and define benchmarks for improvements in forecast systems. This work evaluates the quality of multi-model for…


Authors: Azfar Hussain, Jianhua Cao, Shaukat Ali, Sher Muhammad, Waheed Ullah, Ishtiaq Hussain et al.

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7709 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract Long‐term precipitation monitoring plays a vital role in water resource management and disaster prevention and mitigation. This study assesses spatial and temporal trends in seasonal and annual precipitation in Pakistan between 1960 and 2016 at an interannual scale. The Mann–Kendall (MK) test, Sen’s slope (SS) estimator, and Sequential Mann–Kendall (SQMK) test were employed to assess trends. Cluster analysis and L ‐moment approach were used to identify the homogenous precipitation re…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 12 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Methods included

Authors: Michael R. Crusoe, Sanne Abeln, Alexandru Iosup, Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, Nebojša Tijanić et al.

Journal: Communications of the ACM · DOI: 10.1145/3486897 · Citations: 166

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow

Standardizing computational reuse and portability with the Common Workflow Language.


South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater

Authors: Arthur Lutz, Walter W. Immerzeel, Christian Siderius, René R. Wijngaard, Santosh Nepal, A. B. Shrestha et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01355-z · Citations: 113

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, irrigation

Abstract not available.


A global synthesis of human impacts on the multifunctionality of streams and rivers

Authors: Mario Brauns, Daniel C. Allen, Iola G. Boëchat, Wyatt F. Cross, Verónica Ferreira, Daniel Graeber et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16210 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: river, hydropower

Human impacts, particularly nutrient pollution and land-use change, have caused significant declines in the quality and quantity of freshwater resources. Most global assessments have concentrated on species diversity and composition, but effects on the multifunctionality of streams and rivers remain unclear. Here, we analyse the most comprehensive compilation of stream ecosystem functions to date to provide an overview of the responses of nutrient uptake, leaf litter decomposition, ecosystem …


Morphometric analysis for prioritizing sub-watersheds of Murredu River basin, Telangana State, India, using a geographical information system

Authors: Padala Raja Shekar, Aneesh Mathew

Journal: Journal of Engineering and Applied Science · DOI: 10.1186/s44147-022-00094-4 · Citations: 72

Matched topics: hydrology, river, streamflow

Abstract The Murredu watershed in Telangana State was chosen for the morphometric and land use/land cover (LULC) analysis in this current study. Geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) techniques can estimate the morphometric features and LULC analysis of a catchment. A total of fourteen sub-watersheds (SWs) were created from the watershed (SW 1 to SW 14), and sub-watersheds were prioritized based on morphometric and LULC features. Evaluation of various morphometric char…


Use of interpretable machine learning to identify the factors influencing the nonlinear linkage between land use and river water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Authors: Zhenyu Zhang, Jinliang Huang, Shuiwang Duan, Yaling Huang, Juntao Cai, Jing Bian

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108977 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: river

Understanding the relationship between land use and water quality is essential for effective watershed management. However, it remains challenging to identify such a relationship owing to its nonlinearity. We developed an interpretable machine learning method that integrated the random forest regression (RFR) model with the Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) method to explore the relationship between water quality and land use in the Potomac River Basin (PRB), the second largest tributary e…


Remote Sensing of Surface Water Dynamics in the Context of Global Change—A Review

Authors: Patrick Sogno, Igor Klein, Claudia Kuenzer

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs14102475 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: hydrology, hydropower, surface water

Inland surface water is often the most accessible freshwater source. As opposed to groundwater, surface water is replenished in a comparatively quick cycle, which makes this vital resource—if not overexploited—sustainable. From a global perspective, freshwater is plentiful. Still, depending on the region, surface water availability is severely limited. Additionally, climate change and human interventions act as large-scale drivers and cause dramatic changes in established surface water dynami…


Early impacts of the largest Amazonian hydropower project on fish communities

Authors: Friedrich W. Keppeler, Marcelo Ândrade, Paulo Arthur A. Trindade, Leandro Melo de Sousa, Caroline C. Arantes, Kirk O. Winemiller et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155951 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract not available.


Integrated strategic planning and multi-criteria decision-making framework with its application to agricultural water management

Authors: Ahmad Radmehr, O. Bozorg‐Haddad, H. Loáiciga

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12194-5 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: water management

Sustainable water resources management involves social, economic, environmental, water use, and resources factors. This study proposes a new framework of strategic planning with multi-criteria decision-making to develop sustainable water management alternatives for large scale water resources systems. A fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making model is developed to rank regional management alternatives for agricultural water management considering water-resources sustainability criteria. The deci…


Explainable step-wise binary classification for the susceptibility assessment of geo-hydrological hazards

Authors: Ömer Ekmekcioğlu, Kerim Koç

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106379 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

Authors: Thaiane R. Sousa, Juliana Schietti, Igor Oliveira Ribeiro, Thaíse Emilio, Rafael Herrera Fernández, Hans ter Steege et al.

Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography · DOI: 10.1111/geb.13531 · Citations: 47

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract Aim Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given that plants take up water from the soil, the impacts of climatic water supply on plants are likely to be modulated by soil water conditions. Location Lowland Amazonian forests. Time period 1…


Response of macroinvertebrate community to water quality factors and aquatic ecosystem health assessment in a typical river in Beijing, China

Authors: Xiao-Hong Hu, Depeng Zuo, Zongxue Xu, Zhenfang Huang, Bo Liu, Yuna Han et al.

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113474 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Improving the spatiotemporal resolution of remotely sensed ET information for water management through Landsat, Sentinel-2, ECOSTRESS and VIIRS data fusion

Authors: Jie Xue, Martha C. Anderson, F. Gao, C. Hain, K. Knipper, Yun Yang et al.

Journal: Irrigation science · DOI: 10.1007/s00271-022-00799-7 · Citations: 45

Matched topics: water management

Robust information on consumptive water use (evapotranspiration, ET) derived from remote sensing can significantly benefit water decision-making in agriculture, informing irrigation schedules and water management plans over extended regions. To be of optimal utility for operational usage, these remote sensing ET data should be generated at the sub-field spatial resolution and daily-to-weekly timesteps commensurate with the scales of water management activities. However, current methods for fi…


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