Weekly Literature Review
Week 35 · August 29–September 4, 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 Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2, with 965 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
- Executive Summary
- Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage
- A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science
- Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large‐Scale Patterns of Recent Sea‐Surface Temperature and Sea‐Level Pressure Change
- Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle
- Firm‐Level Climate Change Risk and CEO Equity Incentives
- Climate Change and Chronic Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Global Land Surface Evapotranspiration Monitoring by ETMonitor Model Driven by Multi-source Satellite Earth Observations
- Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?
- How standard are standardized drought indices? Uncertainty components for the SPI & SPEI case
- Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing
- Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought-induced embolism in angiosperms.
- Insight into Recent Progress and Perspectives in Improvement of Antioxidant Machinery upon PGPR Augmentation in Plants under Drought Stress: A Review
- Psychological responses, mental health, and sense of agency for the dual challenges of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic in young people in the UK: an online survey study
- The impact of climate change on the efficiency of agricultural production in the world’s main agricultural regions
- Life cycle environmental impacts of current and future battery-grade lithium supply from brine and spodumene
- Effect of Potassium Silicate and Irrigation on Grain Nutrient Uptake and Water Use Efficiency of Wheat Under Calcareous Soils
- Natural variations of ZmSRO1d modulate the trade-off between drought resistance and yield by affecting ZmRBOHC-mediated stomatal ROS production in maize
- Effective mitigation of climate change with sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems
- Assessing the impact of drought-land cover change on global vegetation greenness and productivity
- The existential risk space of climate change
- Altitudinal Migration of Species of Fir (Abies spp.) in Adaptation to Climate Change
- Forest vulnerability to drought controlled by bedrock composition
- Using plant diversity to reduce vulnerability and increase drought resilience of permanent and sown productive grasslands
- Theoretical and paleoclimatic evidence for abrupt transitions in the Earth system
- Changes in students’ knowledge, values, worldview, and willingness to take mitigative climate action after attending a course on holistic climate change education
- Caught Between Extremes: Understanding Human‐Water Interactions During Drought‐To‐Flood Events in the Horn of Africa
- Earlier ice loss accelerates lake warming in the Northern Hemisphere
- Effectiveness of scenario-based learning and augmented reality for nursing students’ attitudes and awareness toward climate change and sustainability
- Quantification of CO2 removal in a large-scale enhanced weathering field trial on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia
- Early warning signal for a tipping point suggested by a millennial Atlantic Multidecadal Variability reconstruction
- Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
- Gaussian process emulation of spatio-temporal outputs of a 2D inland flood model.
- An exploratory study of Sentinel-1 SAR for rapid urban flood mapping on Google Earth Engine
- Automatic monitoring of surface water dynamics using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data with Google Earth Engine
- Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
- Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
- Hydropower and Renewable Energy-Water Systems
- Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
- Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2
- Toward underground hydrogen storage in porous media: Reservoir engineering insights
- Inter-regional ecological compensation in the Yellow River Basin based on the value of ecosystem services.
- Microplastics in urban runoff: Global occurrence and fate.
- Assessing the Physical Realism of Deep Learning Hydrologic Model Projections Under Climate Change
- Process, influencing factors, and simulation of the lateral transport of heavy metals in surface runoff in a mining area driven by rainfall: A review.
- Review article: Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing
- Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–2060
- Interfacial tension and contact angle measurements for hydrogen-methane mixtures/brine/oil-wet rocks at reservoir conditions
- Contrasting Fate of Western Third Pole’s Water Resources Under 21st Century Climate Change
- Prevalence and risk assessment of microplastics in the Nile Delta estuaries: “The Plastic Nile” revisited
- Going Beyond Low Flows: Streamflow Drought Deficit and Duration Illuminate Distinct Spatiotemporal Drought Patterns and Trends in the U.S. During the Last Century
- Geology-driven modeling: A new probabilistic approach for incorporating uncertain geological interpretations in 3D geological modeling
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage
This week features 29 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.
A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science
Authors: Matthias Demuzere, Jonas Kittner, Alberto Martilli, Gerald Mills, Christian Moede, Iain D. Stewart et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022 · Citations: 292
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. There is a scientific consensus on the need for spatially detailed information on urban landscapes at a global scale. These data can support a range of environmental services, since cities are places of intense resource consumption and waste generation and of concentrated infrastructure and human settlement exposed to multiple hazards of natural and anthropogenic origin. In the face of climate change, urban data are also required to explore future urbanization pathways and urban des…
Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large‐Scale Patterns of Recent Sea‐Surface Temperature and Sea‐Level Pressure Change
Authors: Robert C. J. Wills, Yue Dong, Cristian Proistosecu, Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2022gl100011 · Citations: 287
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Abstract Observed surface temperature trends over recent decades are characterized by (a) intensified warming in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool and slight cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific, consistent with Walker circulation strengthening, and (b) Southern Ocean cooling. In contrast, state‐of‐the‐art coupled climate models generally project enhanced warming in the eastern equatorial Pacific, Walker circulation weakening, and Southern Ocean warming. Here we investigate the ability of 16 cl…
Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle
Authors: Vinícius B. P. Chagas, Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe, Günter Blöschl
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32580-x · Citations: 173
Matched topics: streamflow, water management, hydropower, earth system model
Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle, however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land management have not been assessed at the continental scale. We analyze streamflow data in major South American tropical river basins and show that water use and deforestation have amplified climate change effects on streamflow extremes over the past four decades. Drying (fewer floods and more droughts) is aligned with decreasing ra…
Firm‐Level Climate Change Risk and CEO Equity Incentives
Authors: Ashrafee T Hossain, Abdullah Al Masum, Samir Saadi, Ramzi Benkraiem, Nirmol Chandra Das
Journal: British Journal of Management · DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12652 · Citations: 178
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract We document evidence that CEOs who lead firms that face higher climate change risk (CCR) receive higher equity‐based compensation. Our finding is consistent with the compensating wedge differential theory and survives numerous robustness and endogeneity tests. The result is more prominent for firms that are socially responsible, susceptible to higher environmental litigation and part of the non‐high‐tech industries. Furthermore, we find supportive evidence that firms offering higher …
Climate Change and Chronic Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Pritha Mitra, Filiz Unsal, Mai M. Farid, Laurent Kemoe, Dominique Fayad, J. G. Spray et al.
Journal: Departmental Paper · DOI: 10.5089/9798400218507.087 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Global Land Surface Evapotranspiration Monitoring by ETMonitor Model Driven by Multi-source Satellite Earth Observations
Authors: Chaolei Zheng, L. Jia, G. Hu
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128444 · Citations: 143
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract not available.
Reducing Carbon Footprint of Agriculture—Can Organic Farming Help to Mitigate Climate Change?
Authors: Małgorzata Holka, Jolanta Kowalska, Magdalena Jakubowska
Journal: Agriculture · DOI: 10.3390/agriculture12091383 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: climate change
In the face of a changing climate, intensive efforts are needed for limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C. Agricultural production has the potential to play an important role in mitigating climate change. It is necessary to optimize all of the agricultural practices that have high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Among the plant production processes, mineral fertilization is of the greatest importance in the formation of the carbon footprint (CF) of crops. There are many…
How standard are standardized drought indices? Uncertainty components for the SPI & SPEI case
Authors: Johannes Laimighofer, Gregor Laaha
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128385 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: drought
Standardized drought indices such as the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) or the Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) are frequently used around the world to assess drought severity across a continent or a larger region covering different meteorological regimes. But how standard are these standardized indices? In this paper we quantify the uncertainty of SPI and SPEI based on an Austrian dataset to shed light on what are the main sources of uncertainty in the s…
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing
Authors: Soong‐Ki Kim, Jongsoo Shin, Soon‐Il An, Hyo-Jeong Kim, Nari Im, Shang‐Ping Xie et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01452-z · Citations: 134
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Some climate variables do not show the same response to declining atmospheric CO 2 concentrations as before the preceding increase. A comprehensive understanding of this hysteresis effect and its regional patterns is, however, lacking. Here we use an Earth system model with an idealized CO 2 removal scenario to show that surface temperature and precipitation exhibit globally widespread irreversible changes over a timespan of centuries. To explore the climate hysteresis and reversibil…
Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought-induced embolism in angiosperms.
Authors: F. Lens, S. Gleason, G. Bortolami, C. Brodersen, S. Delzon, S. Jansen
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.18447 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: drought
Hydraulic failure resulting from drought-induced embolism in the xylem of plants is a key determinant of reduced productivity and mortality. Methods to assess this vulnerability are difficult to achieve at scale, leading to alternative metrics and correlations with more easily measured traits. Such efforts have led to the longstanding and pervasive assumed mechanistic link between vessel diameter and vulnerability in angiosperms. However, there are at least two problems with these assumptions…
Insight into Recent Progress and Perspectives in Improvement of Antioxidant Machinery upon PGPR Augmentation in Plants under Drought Stress: A Review
Authors: H. G. Gowtham, S. Singh, N. Shilpa, M. Aiyaz, K. Nataraj, A. C. Udayashankar et al.
Journal: Antioxidants · DOI: 10.3390/antiox11091763 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: drought
Agriculture has a lot of responsibility as the rise in the world’s population demands more food requirements. However, more than one type of biotic and abiotic stress continually impacts agricultural productivity. Drought stress is a major abiotic stress that significantly affects agricultural productivity every year as the plants undergo several morphological, biochemical, and physiological modifications, such as repressed root and shoot growth, reduced photosynthesis and transpiration rate,…
Psychological responses, mental health, and sense of agency for the dual challenges of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic in young people in the UK: an online survey study
Authors: Emma Lawrance, Neil Jennings, Vasiliki Kioupi, Rhiannon Thompson, James Diffey, Ans Vercammen
Journal: The Lancet Planetary Health · DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00172-3 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: climate change
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are both significant and pressing global challenges, posing threats to public health and wellbeing. Young people are particularly vulnerable to the distress both crises can cause, but understanding of the varied psychological responses to both issues is poor. We aimed to investigate these responses and their links with mental health conditions and feelings of agency. METHODS: ), respectively. FINDINGS: After excluding 18 suspected bots and …
The impact of climate change on the efficiency of agricultural production in the world’s main agricultural regions
Authors: Hongpeng Guo, Yujie Xia, Jingshu Jin, Chulin Pan
Journal: Environmental Impact Assessment Review · DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106891 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Life cycle environmental impacts of current and future battery-grade lithium supply from brine and spodumene
Authors: Mudit Chordia, Sanna Wickerts, Anders Nordelöf, Rickard Arvidsson
Journal: Resources Conservation and Recycling · DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106634 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: hydropower
Life cycle assessment studies of large-scale lithium-ion battery (LIB) production reveal a shift-of-burden to the upstream phase of cell production. Thus, it is important to understand how environmental impacts differ based on the source and grade of extracted metals. As lithium is highly relevant to several current and next-generation cell chemistries, we reviewed the effect of varying grades in different sources of lithium (brine and spodumene) worldwide. The review covered the Ecoinvent da…
Effect of Potassium Silicate and Irrigation on Grain Nutrient Uptake and Water Use Efficiency of Wheat Under Calcareous Soils
Authors: H. Saudy, E. Salem, W. R. Abd El-Momen
Journal: Gesunde Pflanzen · DOI: 10.1007/s10343-022-00729-9 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: irrigation
In calcareous soil, two field experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of two potassium silicate treatments (with and without) and three irrigation levels (100, 80 and 60%, of crop evapotranspiration, abbreviated as IW100, IW80 and IW60, respectively) on wheat yield and nutrient uptake and water use efficiency (WUE). The experimental design was a strip plots design in randomized complete block arrangement with three replicates. Findings reveal that potassium silicate improved gra…
Natural variations of ZmSRO1d modulate the trade-off between drought resistance and yield by affecting ZmRBOHC-mediated stomatal ROS production in maize
Authors: Huajian Gao, Cui Junjun, Shengxue Liu, Shuhui Wang, Yongyan Lian, Yunting Bai et al.
Journal: Molecular Plant · DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2022.08.009 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Effective mitigation of climate change with sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems
Authors: Şiir Kılkış, Goran Krajačić, Neven Duić, Marc A. Rosen, Moh’d A. Al-Nimr
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116146 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Assessing the impact of drought-land cover change on global vegetation greenness and productivity
Authors: Jinlong Chen, Zhenfeng Shao, Xiao Huang, Qingwei Zhuang, Chaoya Dang, Bowen Cai et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158499 · Citations: 84
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
The existential risk space of climate change
Authors: Christian Huggel, Laurens M. Bouwer, Sirkku Juhola, Reinhard Mechler, Veruska Muccione, Ben Orlove et al.
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-022-03430-y · Citations: 83
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is widely recognized as a major risk to societies and natural ecosystems but the high end of the risk, i.e., where risks become existential, is poorly framed, defined, and analyzed in the scientific literature. This gap is at odds with the fundamental relevance of existential risks for humanity, and it also limits the ability of scientific communities to engage with emerging debates and narratives about the existential dimension of climate change that have recently gained consi…
Altitudinal Migration of Species of Fir (Abies spp.) in Adaptation to Climate Change
Authors: Oktay Tekin, Mehmet Çetin, Tuğrul Varol, Halil Barış Özel, Hakan Şevik, İlknur Zeren Çetin
Journal: Water Air & Soil Pollution · DOI: 10.1007/s11270-022-05851-y · Citations: 83
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Forest vulnerability to drought controlled by bedrock composition
Authors: Russell P. Callahan, C. S. Riebe, L. S. Sklar, Sylvain Pasquet, Ken L. Ferrier, W. Jesse Hahm et al.
Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01012-2 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Using plant diversity to reduce vulnerability and increase drought resilience of permanent and sown productive grasslands
Authors: A. Lüscher, Karim Barkaoui, John A. Finn, D. Suter, Matthias Suter, Florence Volaire
Journal: Grass and Forage Science · DOI: 10.1111/gfs.12578 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Climate change associated with a greater variability of inter‐ and intra‐annual droughts and the occurrence of extreme events act in combination to challenge semi‐natural and sown productive grasslands in Europe. Successful plant strategies under drought strongly depend on stress intensity. Drought resistance to maintain leaf growth under moderate stress trades off with drought survival after growth cessation under life‐threatening drought. Substantial intra‐specific variability exis…
Theoretical and paleoclimatic evidence for abrupt transitions in the Earth system
Authors: Niklas Boers, Michael Ghil, Thomas F. Stocker
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8944 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Specific components of the Earth system may abruptly change their state in response to gradual changes in forcing. This possibility has attracted great scientific interest in recent years, and has been recognized as one of the greatest threats associated with anthropogenic climate change. Examples of such components, called tipping elements, include the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the polar ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, as well as the tropical monsoon systems. T…
Changes in students’ knowledge, values, worldview, and willingness to take mitigative climate action after attending a course on holistic climate change education
Authors: Sakari Tolppanen, Jingoo Kang, Laura Riuttanen
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133865 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: climate change
Though the need for holistic climate change education has been realized around the world, there is a lack of studies that examine the multidimensional impact of climate change education in higher education. To amend for this gap in literature, this paper uses a pre- and post-questionnaire (N = 245) to examine how students’ knowledge, values, worldview and willingness to take mitigative climate actions change during a course on climate change. Though the course was designed to be multidiscipli…
Caught Between Extremes: Understanding Human‐Water Interactions During Drought‐To‐Flood Events in the Horn of Africa
Authors: Alessia Matanó, Marleen de Ruiter, Johanna Koehler, Philip J. Ward, Anne F. Van Loon
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002747 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: flood, drought
Abstract Disaster risks are the results of complex spatiotemporal interactions between risk components, impacts and societal response. The complexities of these interactions increase when multi‐risk events occur in vulnerable contexts characterized by ethnic conflicts, unstable governments, and high levels of poverty, resulting in impacts that are larger than anticipated. Yet, only few multi‐risk studies explore human‐environment interactions, as most studies are hazard‐focused, consider only…
Earlier ice loss accelerates lake warming in the Northern Hemisphere
Authors: Xinyu Li, Shushi Peng, Yi Xi, R. Iestyn Woolway, Gang Liu
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32830-y · Citations: 68
Matched topics: surface water
How lake temperatures across large geographic regions are responding to widespread alterations in ice phenology (i.e., the timing of seasonal ice formation and loss) remains unclear. Here, we analyse satellite data and global-scale simulations to investigate the contribution of long-term variations in the seasonality of lake ice to surface water temperature trends across the Northern Hemisphere. Our analysis suggests a widespread excess lake surface warming during the months of ice-off which …
Effectiveness of scenario-based learning and augmented reality for nursing students’ attitudes and awareness toward climate change and sustainability
Authors: Carmen Álvarez‐Nieto, Cristina Álvarez-García, Laura Parra‐Anguita, Sebastián Sanz-Martos, Isabel M. López‐Medina
Journal: BMC Nursing · DOI: 10.1186/s12912-022-01023-9 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: climate change
BACKGROUND: Mainstreaming sustainable healthcare into the curricula of health professions is a key action to raise awareness and change attitudes. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the contribution of scenario-based learning and augmented reality to the environmental awareness and attitudes toward climate change and sustainability among undergraduate nursing students. METHODS: This study was designed as a time-series analysis. Undergraduate nursing students in their 3 years were in…
Quantification of CO2 removal in a large-scale enhanced weathering field trial on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia
Authors: Christina Larkin, M. Grace Andrews, Christopher R. Pearce, Kok Loong Yeong, David J. Beerling, Joshua Bellamy et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Climate · DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2022.959229 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Modeling studies show that large-scale deployment of enhanced rock weathering on croplands has the potential to reduce levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the end of the century. There is, however, a pressing need to verify model predictions through long-term field trials. Here we report results from the first 3 years of an ongoing enhanced weathering field trial, carried out on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia. Crushed silicate rock was applied to three hydrologically isolated c…
Early warning signal for a tipping point suggested by a millennial Atlantic Multidecadal Variability reconstruction
Authors: Simon Michel, Didier Swingedouw, Pablo Ortega, Guillaume Gastineau, Emmanuel Mignot, Gerard McCarthy et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32704-3 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: earth system model
Atlantic multidecadal variability is a coherent mode of natural climate variability occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean, with strong impacts on human societies and ecosystems worldwide. However, its periodicity and drivers are widely debated due to the short temporal extent of instrumental observations and competing effects of both internal and external climate factors acting on North Atlantic surface temperature variability. Here, we use a paleoclimate database and an advanced statistical …
Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
Flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation research are well represented this week with 4 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.
Gaussian process emulation of spatio-temporal outputs of a 2D inland flood model.
Authors: J. Donnelly, S. Abolfathi, J. Pearson, O. Chatrabgoun, A. Daneshkhah
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119100 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: flood
The computational limitations of complex numerical models have led to adoption of statistical emulators across a variety of problems in science and engineering disciplines to circumvent the high computational costs associated with numerical simulations. In flood modelling, many hydraulic and hydrodynamic numerical models, especially when operating at high spatiotemporal resolutions, have prohibitively high computational costs for tasks requiring the instantaneous generation of very large numb…
An exploratory study of Sentinel-1 SAR for rapid urban flood mapping on Google Earth Engine
Authors: Md Tazmul Islam, Qingmin Meng
Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.103002 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: flood
Real-time, near-real-time, and accurate flood extent information is critical for emergency response during disaster events such as floods. Accurate extents are critical for disaster management and relief efforts. Despite multiple efforts, there are still many challenges in automated processing of Sentinel-1 SAR to generate reliable inundation maps. The major advantage of SAR compared to optical imagery is its data collection capability despite any weather conditions even thick cloud situation…
Automatic monitoring of surface water dynamics using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data with Google Earth Engine
Authors: Zhiheng Chen, Shuhe Zhao
Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.103010 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: surface water
Dynamic monitoring of floods is important for water resource management and disaster prevention. Obtaining multitemporal surface water distribution maps using remote sensing technology can help in elucidating the trends in water expansion so that measures can be quickly formulated. Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observation data are particularly suitable for this task because of their high spatial resolution and short revisit cycle, as well as its cloud-penetration ability. However…
Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
Authors: Smriti Mallapaty
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-02813-6 · Citations: 57
Matched topics: flood
Huge swathes of the country are under water, following an intense heatwave and a long monsoon that has dumped a record amount of rain. Huge swathes of the country are under water, following an intense heatwave and a long monsoon that has dumped a record amount of rain.
Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
This week’s 2 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.
Wildfire Danger Prediction and Understanding With Deep Learning
Authors: Spyros Kondylatos, Ioannis Prapas, Michele Ronco, Ioannis Papoutsis, Gustau Camps‐Valls, María Piles et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2022gl099368 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract Climate change exacerbates the occurence of extreme droughts and heatwaves, increasing the frequency and intensity of large wildfires across the globe. Forecasting wildfire danger and uncovering the drivers behind fire events become central for understanding relevant climate‐land surface feedback and aiding wildfire management. In this work, we leverage Deep Learning (DL) to predict the next day’s wildfire danger in a fire‐prone part of the Eastern Mediterranean and explainable Artif…
Forward and inverse modeling of water flow in unsaturated soils with discontinuous hydraulic conductivities using physics-informed neural networks with domain decomposition
Authors: Toshiyuki Bandai, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-4469-2022 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract. Modeling water flow in unsaturated soils is vital for describing various hydrological and ecological phenomena. Soil water dynamics is described by well-established physical laws (Richardson–Richards equation – RRE). Solving the RRE is difficult due to the inherent nonlinearity of the processes, and various numerical methods have been proposed to solve the issue. However, applying the methods to practical situations is very challenging because they require well-defined initial and b…
Hydropower and Renewable Energy-Water Systems
The integration of hydropower with renewable energy systems is addressed by 2 papers this week, focusing on optimal capacity configuration, generation prediction, and climate change adaptation strategies for hybrid energy-water systems. Studies demonstrate the complementary potential of hydro-wind-solar systems and explore machine learning approaches for hydropower generation forecasting.
Stochastic simulation-optimization framework for the design and assessment of renewable energy systems under uncertainty
Authors: Georgia-Konstantina Sakki, Ioannis Tsoukalas, Panagiotis Kossieris, Christos Makropoulos, Andreas Efstratiadis
Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112886 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: hydropower
As the share of renewable energy resources rapidly increases in the electricity mix, the recognition, representation, quantification, and eventually interpretation of their uncertainties become important. In this vein, we propose a generic stochastic simulation-optimization framework tailored to renewable energy systems (RES), able to address multiple facets of uncertainty, external and internal. These involve the system’s drivers (hydrometeorological inputs) and states (by means of fuel-to-e…
Current status, prospects, and implications of renewable energy for achieving sustainable development goals in Nepal
Authors: Sunil Prasad Lohani, Prekshya Gurung, Bhawana Gautam, Ural Kafle, David Fulford, Marc Jeuland
Journal: Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1002/sd.2392 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract The energy mix in Nepal is currently dominated by the traditional and inefficient use of biomass (66.54%) and fossil fuels (27.24%), and energy poverty remains extremely high. This paper reviews relevant literature to provide an overview of the current renewable energy status and energy mix in Nepal, and to discuss prospects for the country to achieve a sustainable energy transition. Nepal‐specific papers from peer‐reviewed sources and other agency and academic reports were included …
Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
This theme encompasses 13 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.
Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2
Authors: Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson, Brian Prest, Lisa Rennels, Richard G. Newell, William A. Pizer et al.
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05224-9 · Citations: 965
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
values, compared with estimates currently used in policy evaluation, substantially increase the estimated benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation and thereby increase the expected net benefits of more stringent climate policies.
Toward underground hydrogen storage in porous media: Reservoir engineering insights
Authors: Esuru Rita Okoroafor, Sarah D. Saltzer, Anthony R. Kovscek
Journal: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.07.239 · Citations: 171
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Inter-regional ecological compensation in the Yellow River Basin based on the value of ecosystem services.
Authors: Zixuan Zhou, Xin-xiu Sun, Xuantao Zhang, Yong Wang
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116073 · Citations: 163
Matched topics: river
Ecological compensation in the Yellow River Basin aims to improve its ecological and environmental management capacity. Based on data on land-use changes in the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2020, this study used the equivalent factor method to assess the value of ecosystem services in the basin. This was measured at three spatial scales in the upper, middle, and lower reaches, encompassing; nine provinces and 72 cities. The priority and amount of ecological compensation were determined for…
Microplastics in urban runoff: Global occurrence and fate.
Authors: Chengqian Wang, David O’Connor, Liuwei Wang, Wei-Min Wu, Jian Luo, Deyi Hou
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119129 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: runoff
Public concerns on microplastic (MP) pollution and its prevalence in urban runoff have grown exponentially. Huge amounts of MPs are transported from urban environments via surface runoff to different environment compartments, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and oceans. The global concentrations of MPs in urban runoff range from 0 to 8580 particles/L. Understanding the sources, abundance, composition and characteristics of MPs in urban runoff on a global scale is a critical cha…
Assessing the Physical Realism of Deep Learning Hydrologic Model Projections Under Climate Change
Authors: S. Wi, S. Steinschneider
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2022WR032123 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, climate change
This study examines whether deep learning models can produce reliable future projections of streamflow under warming. We train a regional long short‐term memory network (LSTM) to daily streamflow in 15 watersheds in California and develop three process models (HYMOD, SAC‐SMA, and VIC) as benchmarks. We force all models with scenarios of warming and assess their hydrologic response, including shifts in the hydrograph and total runoff ratio. All process models show a shift to more winter runoff…
Process, influencing factors, and simulation of the lateral transport of heavy metals in surface runoff in a mining area driven by rainfall: A review.
Authors: Pengwei Qiao, Shuo Wang, Jiabin Li, Qianyun Zhao, Yan Wei, M. Lei et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159119 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: runoff
The lateral transport of heavy metals can expand the scope of original contamination, and an accurate prediction of heavy metal migration is necessary to control heavy metal transport. However, previous studies have mainly focused on the migration of soil pollutants in the runoff-soil-groundwater system, whereas research on the lateral migration of heavy metals in surface soil driven by rainfall is relatively scarce. Therefore, in this study we analyzed the horizontal migration of water-solub…
Review article: Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing
Authors: Leung Tsang, Michael Durand, Chris Derksen, Ana P. Barros, Do‐Hyuk Kang, Hans Lievens et al.
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-3531-2022 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: streamflow, water management, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract. Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent, covering an average of 46 × 106 km2 of Earth’s surface (31 % of the land area) each year, and is thus an important expression and driver of the Earth’s climate. In recent years, Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover has been declining at about the same rate (∼ −13 % per decade) as Arctic summer sea ice. More than one-sixth of the world’s population relies on seasonal snowpack and glaciers for a wa…
Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–2060
Authors: C. Soued, J. Harrison, S. Mercier-Blais, Y. Prairie
Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01004-2 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Interfacial tension and contact angle measurements for hydrogen-methane mixtures/brine/oil-wet rocks at reservoir conditions
Authors: Vahideh Mirchi, Morteza Dejam, Vladimir Alvarado
Journal: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.08.056 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Contrasting Fate of Western Third Pole’s Water Resources Under 21st Century Climate Change
Authors: Fengge Su, Hamish D. Pritchard, Tandong Yao, Jingheng Huang, Tinghai Ou, Fanchong Meng et al.
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002776 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, streamflow, climate change, earth system model
Abstract Seasonal melting of glaciers and snow from the western Third Pole (TP) plays important role in sustaining water supplies downstream. However, the future water availability of the region, and even today’s runoff regime, are both hotly debated and inadequately quantified. Here, we characterize the contemporary flow regimes and systematically assess the future evolution of total water availability, seasonal shifts, and dry and wet discharge extremes in four most meltwater‐dominated basi…
Prevalence and risk assessment of microplastics in the Nile Delta estuaries: “The Plastic Nile” revisited
Authors: Soha Shabaka, Madelyn N. Moawad, Mohamed I. A. Ibrahim, Abeer A.M. El-Sayed, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Amr Z. Hamouda et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158446 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: surface water
Abstract not available.
Going Beyond Low Flows: Streamflow Drought Deficit and Duration Illuminate Distinct Spatiotemporal Drought Patterns and Trends in the U.S. During the Last Century
Authors: J. Hammond, C. Simeone, J. Hecht, G. Hodgkins, Melissa A. Lombard, G. McCabe et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2022WR031930 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: streamflow, drought
Streamflow drought is a recurring challenge, and understanding spatiotemporal patterns of past droughts is needed to manage future water resources. We examined regional patterns in streamflow drought metrics and compared these metrics to low flow timing and magnitude using long‐term daily records for 555 minimally disturbed watersheds. For each streamgage, we calculated streamflow drought duration (number of days) and deficit (flow volume below a specified threshold) for each climate year (Ap…
Geology-driven modeling: A new probabilistic approach for incorporating uncertain geological interpretations in 3D geological modeling
Authors: Rasmus Bødker Madsen, Anne‐Sophie Høyer, Lærke Therese Andersen, Ingelise Møller, Thomas Mejer Hansen
Journal: Engineering Geology · DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106833 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Combining different sources of information about the subsurface is an inherent challenge in the process of making realistic geological and hydrostratigraphic models. Often the available geological and hydrological data from boreholes or outcrops are sparse and modeling is supplemented spatially with geophysical data to obtain a better understanding of the 3D lithological, structural, and hydrological relations in the study area. In traditional geological modeling, the modeler combines all thi…
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| Topics searched | 16 |
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| After deduplication | 644 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 594 |
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| Nature Communications | 3 |
| Nature | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2 |
| Water Research | 2 |
| Water Resources Research | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Nature Geoscience | 2 |
| International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 2 |
| Earth s Future | 2 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 2 |
| Earth system science data | 1 |
| British Journal of Management | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 1 |
| Departmental Paper | 1 |
| Agriculture | 1 |
| Science of the Total Environment | 1 |
| Nature Climate Change | 1 |
| The cryosphere | 1 |
| New Phytologist | 1 |
| Antioxidants | 1 |
| The Lancet Planetary Health | 1 |
| Environmental Impact Assessment Review | 1 |
| Resources Conservation and Recycling | 1 |
| Gesunde Pflanzen | 1 |
| Molecular Plant | 1 |
| Energy Conversion and Management | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Climatic Change | 1 |
| Water Air & Soil Pollution | 1 |
| Grass and Forage Science | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 1 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| BMC Nursing | 1 |
| Frontiers in Climate | 1 |
| Engineering Geology | 1 |
| Sustainable 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