Weekly Literature Review

Week 42 · October 17–October 23, 2022

50 relevant papers found across 5 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across 5 themes. The most cited paper examines Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic, with 396 citations. Key research areas include climate change and terrestrial water storage, flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation, machine learning and ai for hydrological prediction.

Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage
    1. Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic
    2. TaERF87 and TaAKS1 synergistically regulate TaP5CS1/TaP5CR1‐mediated proline biosynthesis to enhance drought tolerance in wheat
    3. Recent frontiers of climate changes in East Asia at global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C
    4. A High‐End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners
    5. Changes in Water Chemistry Associated with Rainstorm Events Increase Carbon Emissions from the Inflowing River Mouth of a Major Drinking Water Reservoir
    6. Climate change exposure, risk management and corporate social responsibility: Cross-country evidence
    7. Cyanobacterial blooms
    8. Climate change disclosure and sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the 2030 agenda: the moderating role of corporate governance
    9. A meta‐analysis on morphological, physiological and biochemical responses of plants with PGPR inoculation under drought stress
    10. Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk
    11. Climate change and the nonlinear impact of precipitation anomalies on income inequality
    12. SMEs respond to climate change: Evidence from developing countries
    13. The Role of Irrigation Expansion on Historical Climate Change: Insights From CMIP6
    14. Impact of innovation in climate change mitigation technologies related to chemical industry on carbon dioxide emissions in the United States
    15. Retrieval strategy and possible explanations for the abnormal growth of research publications: re-evaluating a bibliometric analysis of climate change
    16. Vegetation dynamics influenced by climate change and human activities in the Hanjiang River Basin, central China
    17. High-resolution crop yield and water productivity dataset generated using random forest and remote sensing
    18. Metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal that sucrose synthase regulates maize pollen viability under heat and drought stress
    19. Groundwater and climate change: threats and opportunities
    20. Assessing impacts of global climate change on water and food security in the black soil region of Northeast China using an improved SWAT-CO2 model
    21. Supplemental irrigation and modified plant density improved photosynthesis, grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat under ridge-furrow mulching
    22. A national hydrological projections service for Australia
    23. A Plant Endophytic Bacterium Priestia megaterium StrainBP-R2 Isolated from the Halophyte Bolboschoenus planiculmis Enhances Plant Growth under Salt and Drought Stresses
    24. Compound risk dynamics of drought by extreme precipitation and temperature events in a semi-arid watershed
  3. Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
    1. Quantitative flood hazard assessment methods: A review
    2. The impact of flooding on food security across Africa
    3. Potential flood-prone area identification and mapping using GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making and analytical hierarchy process in Dega Damot district, northwestern Ethiopia
    4. A Coupled River Basin‐Urban Hydrological Model (DRIVE‐Urban) for Real‐Time Urban Flood Modeling
    5. Global changes in floods and their drivers
  4. Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
    1. Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption
    2. Meta-Heuristic Optimization of LSTM-Based Deep Network for Boosting the Prediction of Monkeypox Cases
    3. Status and prospects for drought forecasting: opportunities in artificial intelligence and hybrid physical–statistical forecasting
    4. Development of a Machine learning assessment method for renewable energy investment decision making
    5. Parallel and deep reservoir computing using semiconductor lasers with optical feedback
    6. An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science
  5. Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
    1. Relations between physical and ecosystem service flows of freshwater are critical for water resource security in large dryland river basin
    2. Adaptation of water resources management under climate change
    3. Adapting Irrigation Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts: A Value Engineering Approach
    4. The influence of the first filling period length and reservoir level depth on the operation of underground hydrogen storage in a deep aquifer
  6. Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
    1. Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport
    2. Environmental regulation effect on green total factor productivity in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
    3. Hydrography90m: a new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset
    4. Models with higher effective dimensions tend to produce more uncertain estimates
    5. Risk assessment of microplastic pollution in urban lakes and peripheral Rivers of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    6. Climate change mitigation by coral reefs and seagrass beds at risk: How global change compromises coastal ecosystem services
    7. Coupling and coordinated relationship of water utilization, industrial development and ecological welfare in the Yellow River Basin, China
    8. Soil core study indicates limited CO2 removal by enhanced weathering in dry croplands in the UK
    9. Uncertainty of ICESat-2 ATL06- and ATL08-derived snow depths for glacierized and vegetated mountain regions
    10. Stabilizing Pt Electrocatalysts via Introducing Reducible Oxide Support as Reservoir of Electrons and Oxygen Species
    11. The Orbits of the Main Saturnian Satellites, the Saturnian System Gravity Field, and the Orientation of Saturn’s Pole*
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage

This week features 24 papers examining the intersection of climate change and terrestrial water dynamics. Studies investigate water storage changes, drought mechanisms and projections, vegetation-water interactions, and Earth system model uncertainties. Key contributions address large-scale water storage trends, land-atmosphere coupling effects on drought onset, and methods for characterizing future drought under climate change scenarios.

Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic

Authors: E. Schuur, Benjamin W. Abbott, R. Commane, J. Ernakovich, E. Euskirchen, G. Hugelius et al.

Journal: Annual Review Environment and Resources · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011847 · Citations: 396

Matched topics: climate change

Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much permafrost carbon will be released, over what time frame, and what the relative emissions of carbon dioxide and methane will be is key for understanding the impact on global climate. In addition, the response of vegetation in a warming climate has the potential to offset at least some of the accelerating feedback to the climate f…

TaERF87 and TaAKS1 synergistically regulate TaP5CS1/TaP5CR1‐mediated proline biosynthesis to enhance drought tolerance in wheat

Authors: Linying Du, Xueling Huang, Li Ding, Zhongxue Wang, Dongling Tang, Bin Chen et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.18549 · Citations: 144

Matched topics: drought

Drought stress limits wheat production and threatens food security world-wide. While ethylene-responsive factors (ERFs) are known to regulate plant response to drought stress, the regulatory mechanisms responsible for a tolerant phenotype remain unclear. Here, we describe the positive regulatory role of TaERF87 in mediating wheat tolerance to drought stress. TaERF87 overexpression (OE) enhances drought tolerance, while silencing leads to drought sensitivity in wheat. RNA sequencing with bioch…

Recent frontiers of climate changes in East Asia at global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C

Authors: Qinglong You, Zhihong Jiang, Xu Yue, Weidong Guo, Yonggang Liu, Jian Cao et al.

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00303-0 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract East Asia is undergoing significant climate changes and these changes are likely to grow in the future. It is urgent to characterize both the mechanisms controlling climate and the response of the East Asian climate system at global warming of 1.5 and 2 °C above pre-industrial levels (GW1.5 and GW2 hereafter). This study reviews recent studies on East Asian climate change at GW1.5 and GW2. The intensity and variability of the East Asian summer monsoon are expected to increase modestl…

A High‐End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners

Authors: Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Robert J. Nicholls, David Béhar, Kathleen L. McInnes, Detlef Stammer, Jason Lowe et al.

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002751 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: hydropower, earth system model

Sea level rise (SLR) is a long-lasting consequence of climate change because global anthropogenic warming takes centuries to millennia to equilibrate for the deep ocean and ice sheets. SLR projections based on climate models support policy analysis, risk assessment and adaptation planning today, despite their large uncertainties. The central range of the SLR distribution is estimated by process-based models. However, risk-averse practitioners often require information about plausible future c…

Changes in Water Chemistry Associated with Rainstorm Events Increase Carbon Emissions from the Inflowing River Mouth of a Major Drinking Water Reservoir

Authors: Yuyang Li, Yongqiang Zhou, Lei Zhou, Yunlin Zhang, Hai Xu, Kyoung‐Soon Jang et al.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06405 · Citations: 99

Matched topics: hydrology, river, reservoir

fueled by the surge and decomposition of fresh terrestrially derived biolabile DOM in this and likely many other reservoir’s major inflowing river mouths.

Climate change exposure, risk management and corporate social responsibility: Cross-country evidence

Authors: William Mbanyele, Linda Tinofirei Muchenje

Journal: Journal of Multinational Financial Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.mulfin.2022.100771 · Citations: 103

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Cyanobacterial blooms

Authors: G.A. Codd, B.W. Ibelings, J.M.H. Verspagen, Hans W. Paerl, J. Huisman, P.M. Visser

Journal: UNC Libraries · DOI: 10.17615/ggjk-rs77 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: water management

Cyanobacteria can form dense and sometimes toxic blooms in freshwater and marine environments, which threaten ecosystem functioning and degrade water quality for recreation, drinking water, fisheries and human health. Here, we review evidence indicating that cyanobacterial blooms are increasing in frequency, magnitude and duration globally. We highlight species traits and environmental conditions that enable cyanobacteria to thrive and explain why eutrophication and climate change catalyse th…

Climate change disclosure and sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the 2030 agenda: the moderating role of corporate governance

Authors: Mohamed Toukabri, Mohamed A. Youssef

Journal: Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society · DOI: 10.1108/jices-02-2022-0016 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: climate change

Purpose This study is justified by the economic importance of information on greenhouse gases, as well as the interest in the question of governance structure after the adoption of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda. The problem is also explained by the lack of research that has investigated the relationship between the best governance structure that contributes to achieving sustainability goals, including climate actions (SDG13) and clean energy adoption (SDG7) as part of the 2030 Agenda. Des…

A meta‐analysis on morphological, physiological and biochemical responses of plants with PGPR inoculation under drought stress

Authors: Xiaowen Zhao, Xiaomai Yuan, Yuanjun Xing, Jicao Dao, Deqiang Zhao, Yuze Li et al.

Journal: Plant Cell & Environment · DOI: 10.1111/pce.14466 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: drought

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can help plants to resist drought stress. However, the mechanisms of how PGPR inoculation affect plant status under drought remain incompletely understood. We performed a meta-analysis of plant response to PGPR inoculation by compiling data from 57 PGPR-inoculation studies, including 2, 387 paired observations on morphological, physiological and biochemical parameters under drought and well-watered conditions. We compare the PGPR effect on plants pe…

Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk

Authors: Kate Duffy, Tarik C. Gouhier, Auroop R. Ganguly

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01490-7 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Climate-mediated changes in thermal stress can destabilize animal populations and promote extinction risk. However, risk assessments often focus on changes in mean temperatures and thus ignore the role of temporal variability or structure. Using Earth System Model projections, we show that significant regional differences in the statistical distribution of temperature will emerge over time and give rise to shifts in the mean, variability and persistence of thermal stress. Integrating…

Climate change and the nonlinear impact of precipitation anomalies on income inequality

Authors: Elisa Palagi, Matteo Coronese, Francesco Lamperti, Andrea Roventini

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203595119 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: climate change

Climate anomalies, such as floods and droughts, as well as gradual temperature changes have been shown to adversely affect economies and societies. Although studies find that climate change might increase global inequality by widening disparities across countries, its effects on within-country income distribution have been little investigated, as has the role of rainfall anomalies. Here, we show that extreme levels of precipitation exacerbate within-country income inequality. The strength and…

SMEs respond to climate change: Evidence from developing countries

Authors: Ashraful Alam, Anna Min Du, Mahfuzur Rahman, Hassan Yazdifar, Kaleemullah Abbasi

Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change · DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122087 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: climate change

Given the concerns stemming from climate change, it is important to investigate whether SMEs could become innovative (and thereby invest in technologies mitigating climate change) because of heightened climate change risk. This study explores the impact of climate change on SMEs’ innovation from a resource-based view (RBV) standpoint. Using the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of panel data for 443 SMEs from 14 developing countries during the period 2007–2016, we found that clim…

The Role of Irrigation Expansion on Historical Climate Change: Insights From CMIP6

Authors: Amen Al‐Yaari, Agnès Ducharne, Wim Thiery, Frédérique Cheruy, David M. Lawrence

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002859 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: land surface model, climate change, irrigation, earth system model

Abstract To produce food for a growing world population, irrigated areas have increased from approximately 0.63 million km 2 of land in 1900 to 3.1 million km 2 of land in 2005. Despite this massive expansion, irrigation is still overlooked in most state‐of‐the‐art Earth system models (ESMs) involved in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6). To our knowledge, only three CMIP6 models represent irrigation activities: CESM2, GISS‐E2‐1‐G, and NorESM2‐LM. Here, we investigate t…

Authors: Daleng Xin, Manzoor Ahmad, Shoukat Iqbal Khattak

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134746 · Citations: 70

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Retrieval strategy and possible explanations for the abnormal growth of research publications: re-evaluating a bibliometric analysis of climate change

Authors: Fang Liu

Journal: Scientometrics · DOI: 10.1007/s11192-022-04540-1 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Vegetation dynamics influenced by climate change and human activities in the Hanjiang River Basin, central China

Authors: Shaokang Yang, Ji Liu, Chenghao Wang, Te Zhang, Xiaohua Dong, Yanli Liu

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109586 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: river, climate change

Assessing the dynamics of vegetation and its response to environmental changes is essential to understanding ecosystem changes and the sustainable use of natural resources. In this study, we investigated the impacts of climate change and human activities on vegetation growth in the Hanjiang River Basin. We classified the basin into the portion mainly affected by climate change (VClimate) and the portion affected by both climate change and anthropogenic activities (VClimate+Human). Using an im…

High-resolution crop yield and water productivity dataset generated using random forest and remote sensing

Authors: Minghan Cheng, Xiyun Jiao, Lei Shi, Josep Peñuelas, Lalit Kumar, Chenwei Nie et al.

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01761-0 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: hydrology

Accurate and high-resolution crop yield and crop water productivity (CWP) datasets are required to understand and predict spatiotemporal variation in agricultural production capacity; however, datasets for maize and wheat, two key staple dryland crops in China, are currently lacking. In this study, we generated and evaluated a long-term data series, at 1-km resolution of crop yield and CWP for maize and wheat across China, based on the multiple remotely sensed indicators and random forest alg…

Metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal that sucrose synthase regulates maize pollen viability under heat and drought stress

Authors: Hongwei Li, Manish Tiwari, Yulou Tang, Lijuan Wang, Sen Yang, Haochi Long et al.

Journal: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114191 · Citations: 66

Matched topics: drought

Maize pollen is highly sensitive to heat and drought, but few studies have investigated the combined effects of heat and drought on pollen viability. In this study, pollen’s structural and physiological characteristics were determined after heat, drought, and combined stressors. Furthermore, integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of maize pollen were conducted to identify potential mechanisms of stress responses. Tassel growth and spikelet development were considerably suppressed,…

Groundwater and climate change: threats and opportunities

Authors: Tibor Stigter, Jodie Miller, Jianyao Chen, Viviana Ré

Journal: Hydrogeology Journal · DOI: 10.1007/s10040-022-02554-w · Citations: 59

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract The important role of groundwater in adaptation to climate change is explored, and the competing threats and opportunities that climate change pose to groundwater systems are evaluated. This has been achieved through a review of current thinking on the complex interactions between human activities, climate and the hydrological cycle affecting groundwater quantity and quality, across different regions and time scales.

Assessing impacts of global climate change on water and food security in the black soil region of Northeast China using an improved SWAT-CO2 model

Authors: Yingqi Zhang, Haipeng Liu, Junyu Qi, Puyu Feng, Xueliang Zhang, De Li Liu et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159482 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Supplemental irrigation and modified plant density improved photosynthesis, grain yield and water productivity of winter wheat under ridge-furrow mulching

Authors: Yulong Dai, Junliang Fan, Zhenqi Liao, Chen Zhang, Jiang Yu, Hanlong Feng et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107985 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: irrigation

In the semi-arid and semi-humid areas, ridge-furrow planting with film mulch on the ridge (R) has been found to significantly enhance crop yields and water productivity, but the interaction effects of supplemental irrigation and plant density on the growth, photosynthesis, grain yield and water productivity (WP) of winter wheat under ridge-furrow mulching are still poorly understood. A two-season experiment (during October 2020 - June 2021 and October 2021 - June 2022) was undertaken on winte…

A national hydrological projections service for Australia

Authors: Louise Wilson, Ulrike Bende‐Michl, Wendy Sharples, Elisabeth Vogel, Justin Peter, Sri Srikanthan et al.

Journal: Climate Services · DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100331 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, water management

Australia’s water management and infrastructure decision making needs detailed high-resolution climate and water forecasts and projections to inform the process of water-sensitive decision making, raise awareness and understand future risks, and to mitigate, adapt, and capitalise on the impacts of a changing climate in industries ranging from agriculture and water management to fire risk. Until now no nationally consistent information on hydrological change has existed preventing standardised…

A Plant Endophytic Bacterium Priestia megaterium StrainBP-R2 Isolated from the Halophyte Bolboschoenus planiculmis Enhances Plant Growth under Salt and Drought Stresses

Authors: Hau‐Hsuan Hwang, Pei-Ru Chien, Fan-Chen Huang, Pin-Hsien Yeh, Shih-Hsun Walter Hung, Wen‐Ling Deng et al.

Journal: Microorganisms · DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10102047 · Citations: 58

Matched topics: drought

) content, electrolyte leakage (EL), and malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration accumulated less in the BP-R2-inoculated plants than in the mock-inoculated control plants under salt and drought stresses. In summary, the plant endophytic bacterium strain BP-R2 increased host plant growth and stress tolerance to salt and drought conditions.

Compound risk dynamics of drought by extreme precipitation and temperature events in a semi-arid watershed

Authors: Jingyi Hu, Zhifeng Yang, Congyu Hou, Wei Ouyang

Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106474 · Citations: 52

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation

Flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation research are well represented this week with 5 papers advancing methodologies for flood susceptibility mapping, early warning systems, and resilience evaluation. Multiple studies employ GIS-based multi-criteria approaches and machine learning methods for spatial flood hazard assessment across diverse regions. Research also addresses the social dimensions of flood preparedness and strategic planning for flood mitigation.

Quantitative flood hazard assessment methods: A review

Authors: A. Maranzoni, M. D’Oria, Carmine Rizzo

Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12855 · Citations: 128

Matched topics: flood

Flood hazard assessment is a fundamental step in flood risk mapping. Quantitative assessment requires hydrodynamic modelling of the flooding process in order to calculate the spatial distribution of suitable flood hazard indicators representative of flooding intensity and frequency, hence its potential to result in harm. Flood hazard indicators are usually defined by combining relevant flooding parameters, mainly flood depth and flow velocity, but also flooding arrival time, flooding duration…

The impact of flooding on food security across Africa

Authors: Connor Reed, Weston Anderson, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Jennifer Nakamura, Dominy Gallo, Richard Seager et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119399119 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: flood

Recent record rainfall and flood events have prompted increased attention to flood impacts on human systems. Information regarding flood effects on food security is of particular importance for humanitarian organizations and is especially valuable across Africa’s rural areas that contribute to regional food supplies. We quantitatively evaluate where and to what extent flooding impacts food security across Africa, using a Granger causality analysis and panel modeling approaches. Within our mod…

Potential flood-prone area identification and mapping using GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making and analytical hierarchy process in Dega Damot district, northwestern Ethiopia

Authors: Ajanaw Negese, Dessale Worku, Alazar Shitaye, Haile Getnet

Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-022-01772-7 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: flood

Flood is one of the natural hazards that causes widespread destruction such as huge infrastructural damages, considerable economic losses, and social disturbances across the world in general and in Ethiopia, in particular. Dega Damot is one of the most vulnerable districts in Ethiopia to flood hazards, and no previous studies were undertaken to map flood-prone areas in the district despite flood-prone areas identification and mapping being crucial tasks for the residents and decision-makers t…

A Coupled River Basin‐Urban Hydrological Model (DRIVE‐Urban) for Real‐Time Urban Flood Modeling

Authors: Weitian Chen, Huan Wu, John S. Kimball, Lorenzo Alfieri, Nergui Nanding, Xiaomeng Li et al.

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr031709 · Citations: 35

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, runoff, water management, flood

Abstract Reliable urban flood modeling is highly demanded in emergency response, risk management, and urban planning related to urban flooding. In this paper, the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is adapted to simulate urban rainfall‐runoff and pipe drainage processes within the Dominant river tracing‐Routing Integrated with VIC Environment (DRIVE) model which accounts for natural river basin runoff generation and routing processes. The integrated DRIVE‐SWMM model (referred to as DRIVE‐Urb…

Global changes in floods and their drivers

Authors: Jianyu Liu, Shuyun Feng, Xihui Gu, Yongqiang Zhang, Hylke E. Beck, Jiawen Zhang et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128553 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction

This week’s 6 papers demonstrate continued momentum in applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to hydrological prediction challenges. Contributions span groundwater level forecasting, streamflow prediction, river flow modeling, and physics-informed approaches that integrate domain knowledge with data-driven methods. Notable advances include uncertainty quantification in ML predictions and optimization of model architectures for improved hydrological forecasting.

Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption

Authors: Yunqian Zhu, Charles Bardeen, Simone Tilmes, Michael Mills, Xinyue Wang, V. Lynn Harvey et al.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00580-w · Citations: 133

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract The January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption injected a relatively small amount of sulfur dioxide, but significantly more water into the stratosphere than previously seen in the modern satellite record. Here we show that the large amount of water resulted in large perturbations to stratospheric aerosol evolution. Our climate model simulation reproduces the observed enhanced water vapor at pressure levels ~30 hPa for three months. Compared with a simulation without a w…

Meta-Heuristic Optimization of LSTM-Based Deep Network for Boosting the Prediction of Monkeypox Cases

Authors: Marwa M. Eid, El‐Sayed M. El‐kenawy, Nima Khodadadi, Seyedali Mirjalili, Ehsaneh Khodadadi, Mostafa Abotaleb et al.

Journal: Mathematics · DOI: 10.3390/math10203845 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: earth system model

Recent technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data are essential for supporting healthcare monitoring systems, particularly for monitoring Monkeypox confirmed cases. Infected and uninfected cases around the world have contributed to a growing dataset, which is publicly available and can be used by artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict the confirmed cases of Monkeypox at an early stage. Motivated by this, we propose in this paper a new approac…

Status and prospects for drought forecasting: opportunities in artificial intelligence and hybrid physical–statistical forecasting

Authors: Amir AghaKouchak, Baoxiang Pan, Omid Mazdiyasni, Mojtaba Sadegh, Shakil Jiwa, Wenkai Zhang et al.

Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0288 · Citations: 63

Matched topics: streamflow, drought

Despite major improvements in weather and climate modelling and substantial increases in remotely sensed observations, drought prediction remains a major challenge. After a review of the existing methods, we discuss major research gaps and opportunities to improve drought prediction. We argue that current approaches are top-down, assuming that the process(es) and/or driver(s) are known—i.e. starting with a model and then imposing it on the observed events (reality). With the help of an experi…

Development of a Machine learning assessment method for renewable energy investment decision making

Authors: Milad Izanloo, Alireza Aslani, Rahim Zahedi

Journal: Applied Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120096 · Citations: 66

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract not available.

Parallel and deep reservoir computing using semiconductor lasers with optical feedback

Authors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kazutaka Kanno, Atsushi Uchida

Journal: Nanophotonics · DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0440 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: reservoir

Photonic reservoir computing has been intensively investigated to solve machine learning tasks effectively. A simple learning procedure of output weights is used for reservoir computing. However, the lack of training of input-node and inter-node connection weights limits the performance of reservoir computing. The use of multiple reservoirs can be a solution to overcome this limitation of reservoir computing. In this study, we investigate parallel and deep configurations of delay-based all-op…

An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science

Authors: George L. W. Perry, Rupert Seidl, André M. Bellvé, Werner Rammer

Journal: Ecosystems · DOI: 10.1007/s10021-022-00789-y · Citations: 53

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract Rapid advances in hardware and software, accompanied by public- and private-sector investment, have led to a new generation of data-driven computational tools. Recently, there has been a particular focus on deep learning—a class of machine learning algorithms that uses deep neural networks to identify patterns in large and heterogeneous datasets. These developments have been accompanied by both hype and scepticism by ecologists and others. This review describes the context in which d…

Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater

Water management research this week spans 4 papers covering integrated water resources management, irrigation scheduling, groundwater monitoring, and water-energy-food nexus analyses. Studies range from global-scale assessments to site-specific irrigation optimization, with particular attention to satellite-based monitoring of water use and land subsidence from groundwater extraction.

Relations between physical and ecosystem service flows of freshwater are critical for water resource security in large dryland river basin

Authors: Siqi Sun, Yihe Lü, Bojie Fu

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159549 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: river, water management

Abstract not available.

Adaptation of water resources management under climate change

Authors: Mengqi Zhao, Jan Boll

Journal: Frontiers in Water · DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2022.983228 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: water management, climate change

The rapid growth of demand in agricultural production has created water scarcity issues worldwide. Simultaneously, climate change scenarios have projected that more frequent and severe droughts are likely to occur. Adaptive water resources management has been suggested as one strategy to better coordinate surface water and groundwater resources (i.e., conjunctive water use) to address droughts. In this study, we enhanced an aggregated water resource management tool that represents integrated …

Adapting Irrigation Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts: A Value Engineering Approach

Authors: Walaa Y. El-Nashar, Ahmed Elyamany

Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-022-03353-4 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: water management, climate change, irrigation

Abstract Water scarcity and climate change are posing new challenges to irrigation management. Climate change increases water demand and decreases crop yields. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework to select the most efficient irrigation strategy to mitigate the impacts of climate change and achieve food security. Value engineering (VE) methodology is utilized to assure the functionality of the strategy and add an element of creativity while creating the value alternatives. The life…

The influence of the first filling period length and reservoir level depth on the operation of underground hydrogen storage in a deep aquifer

Authors: Katarzyna Luboń, Radosław Tarkowski

Journal: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.09.284 · Citations: 53

Matched topics: reservoir

Underground storage is a method of storing large amounts of renewable energy that can be converted into hydrogen. One of the fundamental problems associated with this process concerns determining the timing and amount of injected gas in the first filling period for the operation of an underground storage facility. Ascertaining the hydrogen flow rate is essential to ensure that the capillary and fracturing pressures are not exceeded. The value of the flow rate was assessed by modelling the inj…

Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing

This theme encompasses 11 papers advancing understanding of hydrological processes through field observations, modeling, and remote sensing. Research covers snow distribution and dynamics in cold regions, forest-hydrology interactions, land use change impacts on river systems, rainfall-runoff modeling uncertainty, and satellite-based monitoring of terrestrial water resources.

Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport

Authors: Zhimin Jian, Yue Wang, Haowen Dang, Mahyar Mohtadi, Yair Rosenthal, David W. Lea et al.

Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05302-y · Citations: 112

Matched topics: hydrologic model, surface water

Abstract not available.

Environmental regulation effect on green total factor productivity in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

Authors: Huan Zheng, Shao-yang Wu, Ying Zhang, Yu He

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116465 · Citations: 110

Matched topics: river

As a typical watershed ecological economy in China, the Yangtze River Economic Belt has two equally important objectives, namely ecological protection and economic development. Improving green total factor productivity is an essential approach to achieve these two objectives and promote sustainable growth in this area as well as the whole country. Therefore, this study explores the impact of environmental regulation on green total factor productivity with a panel data of 108 cities in the Yan…

Hydrography90m: a new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset

Authors: Giuseppe Amatulli, Jaime García Márquez, Tushar Sethi, Jens Kiesel, Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Maria M. Üblacker et al.

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-4525-2022 · Citations: 92

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract. The geographic distribution of streams and rivers drives a multitude of patterns and processes in hydrology, geomorphology, geography, and ecology. Therefore, a hydrographic network that accurately delineates both small streams and large rivers, along with their topographic and topological properties, with equal precision would be indispensable in the earth sciences. Currently, available global hydrographies do not feature small headwater streams in great detail. However, these head…

Models with higher effective dimensions tend to produce more uncertain estimates

Authors: Arnald Puy, Pierfrancesco Beneventano, Simon A. Levin, Samuele Lo Piano, T. Portaluri, Andrea Saltelli

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn9450 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model

Mathematical models are getting increasingly detailed to better predict phenomena or gain more accurate insights into the dynamics of a system of interest, even when there are no validation or training data available. Here, we show through ANOVA and statistical theory that this practice promotes fuzzier estimates because it generally increases the model’s effective dimensions, i.e., the number of influential parameters and the weight of high-order interactions. By tracking the evolution of th…

Risk assessment of microplastic pollution in urban lakes and peripheral Rivers of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Authors: Fahmida Parvin, Md. Anamul Hassan, Shafi M. Tareq

Journal: Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances · DOI: 10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100187 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: river, surface water

Although microplastics (MPs) are considered as a ubiquitous pollutants, most of the studies on MPs in water have paid little attention to the analysis of the ecological risk of MPs, which is decisive in understanding the effect of MPs on the aquatic ecosystem. Therefore, to evaluate possible ecological risks, this study investigated the abundance of MPs in surface water and underlying sediments of several lakes and peripheral rivers of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. 19 sites (in five lakes and five …

Climate change mitigation by coral reefs and seagrass beds at risk: How global change compromises coastal ecosystem services

Authors: Rebecca K. James, Lennart Keyzer, Sebastiaan van de Velde, P.M.J. Herman, Marieke M. van Katwijk, Tjeerd J. Bouma

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159576 · Citations: 66

Matched topics: climate change

Seagrass meadows provide valuable ecosystem services of coastal protection and chemical habitat formation that could help mitigate the impact of sea level rise and ocean acidification. However, the intensification of hydrodynamic forces caused by sea level rise, in addition to habitat degradation threaten the provision of these ecosystem services. With quantitative field measurements of the coastal protection and chemical habitat formation services of seagrass meadows, we statistically model …

Coupling and coordinated relationship of water utilization, industrial development and ecological welfare in the Yellow River Basin, China

Authors: Yingjie Feng, Aikong Zhu, Pei Liu, Zhenglan Liu

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134824 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.

Soil core study indicates limited CO2 removal by enhanced weathering in dry croplands in the UK

Authors: Frances Buckingham, Gideon M. Henderson, P. Holdship, Phil Renforth

Journal: Applied Geochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105482 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model

The application of crushed silicate minerals to agricultural soils has been suggested as a route to enhance weathering rates and increase CO2 drawdown. Laboratory studies have attempted to evaluate the potential of enhanced weathering as a CO2 removal technique but do not simulate the geochemical complexity of soil environments, and studies in the field are limited in the nature of data they can collect. To overcome these limitations, this study uses an experimental set-up which fully encapsu…

Uncertainty of ICESat-2 ATL06- and ATL08-derived snow depths for glacierized and vegetated mountain regions

Authors: Ellyn M. Enderlin, Colten M. Elkin, Madeline Gendreau, Hans‐Peter Marshall, S. O’Neel, Christopher McNeil et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113307 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model

Seasonal snow melt dominates the hydrologic budget across a large portion of the globe. Snow accumulation and melt vary over a broad range of spatial scales, preventing accurate extrapolation of sparse in situ observations to watershed scales. The lidar onboard the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation, Satellite (ICESat-2) was designed for precise mapping of ice sheets and sea ice, and here we assess the feasibility of snow depth-mapping using ICESat-2 data in more complex and rugged mountain lands…

Stabilizing Pt Electrocatalysts via Introducing Reducible Oxide Support as Reservoir of Electrons and Oxygen Species

Authors: Liting Yang, Yao Li, Siyuan Zhu, Zhaoping Shi, Wang Xian, Jiadong Jiang et al.

Journal: ACS Catalysis · DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04158 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: reservoir

The limited durability of Pt-based catalysts has largely plagued the road of proton conductive membrane fuel cell-based vehicles to the mass market for years. Herein, we overcome the degradation issue by employing intelligent catalyst design to concomitantly suppress the oxidation and dissolution of Pt via introducing reducible niobium oxide (Nb2O5) support as a reservoir for electron and oxygen species. Benefiting from the corrosion resistance of Nb2O5 and strong metal–support interactions, …

The Orbits of the Main Saturnian Satellites, the Saturnian System Gravity Field, and the Orientation of Saturn’s Pole*

Authors: Robert A. Jacobson

Journal: The Astronomical Journal · DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ac90c9 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Four spacecraft have been sent to investigate the Saturnian system: Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Cassini. By analyzing data acquired with these spacecraft together with Earth-based and Hubble Space Telescope satellite astrometry and Saturnian ring and satellite occultations, we constructed a model for the orientation and precession of Saturn’s pole and determined gravitational parameters of the system and the orbits of the Saturnian satellites. This article provides details …

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