Weekly Literature Review
Week 9 · February 27–March 5, 2023
50 relevant papers found across 5 themes
Executive Summary
This week’s review covers 50 papers across 5 themes. The most cited paper examines Firm‐Level Climate Change Exposure, with 1086 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
- Firm‐Level Climate Change Exposure
- Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change
- Contribution of plastic and microplastic to global climate change and their conjoining impacts on the environment - A review.
- Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict
- Oceanic climate changes threaten the sustainability of Asia’s water tower
- Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth
- Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States
- Fresh Water availability and It’s Global challenge
- Coherency and phase delay analyses between land cover and climate across Italy via the least-squares wavelet software
- Phosphorus price spikes: A wake-up call for phosphorus resilience
- Substantial increase in abrupt shifts between drought and flood events in China based on observations and model simulations.
- Global Surface Ocean Acidification Indicators From 1750 to 2100
- Nanotechnology as a sustainable approach for combating the environmental effects of climate change
- Application of MK trend and test of Sen’s slope estimator to measure impact of climate change on the adoption of conservation agriculture in Ethiopia
- Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau
- Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging for Early Detection of Drought and Heat Stress in Strawberry Plants
- RRS1 shapes robust root system to enhance drought resistance in rice
- Rapid and Nondestructive Evaluation of Wheat Chlorophyll under Drought Stress Using Hyperspectral Imaging
- Utilization Management to Ensure Clean Water Sources in Coastal Areas
- Allelic variation of TaWD40-4B.1 contributes to drought tolerance by modulating catalase activity in wheat
- Drought-flood abrupt alteration events over China
- Impacts of recent climate change on crop yield can depend on local conditions in climatically diverse regions of Norway
- Climate change impacts on regional agricultural irrigation water use in semi-arid environments
- Compound and successive events of extreme precipitation and extreme runoff under heatwaves based on CMIP6 models.
- Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
- Climate change increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan
- Performance of the flood warning system in Germany in July 2021 – insights from affected residents
- A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling
- When We Don’t Want to Know More: Information Sufficiency and The Case Of Swedish Flood Risks
- Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
- Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
- Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure
- Impacts of water scarcity on agricultural production and electricity generation in the Middle East and North Africa
- Global distribution of pesticides in freshwater resources and their remediation approaches
- Complex Policy Mixes are Needed to Cope with Agricultural Water Demands Under Climate Change
- Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
- The Pakistan Flood of August 2022: Causes and Implications
- Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation
- Non-monotonic changes in Asian Water Towers’ streamflow at increasing warming levels
- Electronic/Optoelectronic Memory Device Enabled by Tellurium‐based 2D van der Waals Heterostructure for in‐Sensor Reservoir Computing at the Optical Communication Band
- Wastewater concentrations of human influenza, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and seasonal coronavirus nucleic-acids during the COVID-19 pandemic: a surveillance study
- Soil moisture-evaporation coupling shifts into new gears under increasing CO2
- Antibiotic pollution of the Yellow River in China and its relationship with dissolved organic matter: Distribution and Source identification.
- Urbanization and agriculture intensification jointly enlarge the spatial inequality of river water quality.
- A primer on stream temperature processes
- Hydrodynamic impacts on algal blooms in reservoirs and bloom mitigation using reservoir operation strategies: A review
- Hysteresis effect and seasonal step-like creep deformation of the Jiuxianping landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir region
- On strictly enforced mass conservation constraints for modelling the
Rainfall‐Runoff process - Contamination Pattern and Risk Assessment of Polar Compounds in Snow Melt: An Integrative Proxy of Road Runoffs
- Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale
- The role of grassland for erosion and flood mitigation in Europe: A meta-analysis
- Irreversible and Large‐Scale Heavy Metal Pollution Arising From Increased Damming and Untreated Water Reuse in the Nile Delta
- Statistics
- 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.
Firm‐Level Climate Change Exposure
Authors: Zacharias Sautner, Laurence van Lent, Grigory Vilkov, RUISHEN ZHANG
Journal: The Journal of Finance · DOI: 10.1111/jofi.13219 · Citations: 1086
Matched topics: climate change
ABSTRACT We develop a method that identifies the attention paid by earnings call participants to firms’ climate change exposures. The method adapts a machine learning keyword discovery algorithm and captures exposures related to opportunity, physical, and regulatory shocks associated with climate change. The measures are available for more than 10,000 firms from 34 countries between 2002 and 2020. We show that the measures are useful in predicting important real outcomes related to the net‐ze…
Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change
Authors: Sha Zhou, Bofu Yu, Yao Zhang
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo1638 · Citations: 246
Matched topics: climate change
Increases in concurrent climate extremes in different parts of the world threaten the ecosystem and our society. However, spatial patterns of these extremes and their past and future changes remain unclear. Here, we develop a statistical framework to test for spatial dependence and show widespread dependence of temperature and precipitation extremes in observations and model simulations, with more frequent than expected concurrence of extremes around the world. Historical anthropogenic forcin…
Contribution of plastic and microplastic to global climate change and their conjoining impacts on the environment - A review.
Authors: Shivika Sharma, Vikash Sharma, Subhankar Chatterjee
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162627 · Citations: 229
Matched topics: climate change
Plastics are fossil fuel-derived products. The emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) during different processes involved in the lifecycle of plastic-related products are a significant threat to the environment as it contributes to global temperature rise. By 2050, a high volume of plastic production will be responsible for up to 13 % of our planet’s total carbon budget. The global emissions of GHG and their persistence in the environment have depleted Earth’s residual carbon resources and have …
Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict
Authors: B. Abrahms, N. Carter, T. J. Clark‐Wolf, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Erik Johansson, A. McInturff et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01608-5 · Citations: 223
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Oceanic climate changes threaten the sustainability of Asia’s water tower
Authors: Qiang Zhang, Zexi Shen, Yadu Pokhrel, Daniel Farinotti, Vijay P. Singh, Chong‐Yu Xu et al.
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05643-8 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: climate change
. However, the mechanisms behind the heterogeneous trends observed in terrestrial water storage (TWS) over the TP remain poorly understood. Here we use a Lagrangian particle dispersion model and satellite observations to attribute about 1 Gt of monthly TWS decline in the southern TP during 2003-2016 to westerlies-carried deficit in precipitation minus evaporation (PME) from the southeast North Atlantic. We further show that HMA blocks the propagation of PME deficit into the central TP, causin…
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth
Authors: Xianfeng Liu, Gaopeng Sun, Zheng Fu, Philippe Ciais, Xiaoming Feng, Jing Li et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16657 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: drought, earth system model
). Regions with large increase in VPD trend generally accompanied with decreasing trend in SM, leading to a widespread increasing trend in compound droughts across 37.62% land areas. We further found compound droughts dominated the vegetation browning since late 1990s, contributing to a declined NDVI of 64.56%. Earth system models agree with the dominant role of compound droughts on vegetation growth, but their negative magnitudes are considerably underestimated, with half of the observed res…
Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States
Authors: Kim‐Pong Tam, Hoi‐Wing Chan, Susan Clayton
Journal: Journal of Environmental Psychology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101991 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change anxiety is becoming recognized as a way in which climate change affects mental health. It is not only observed in populations that suffer the most from the direct impacts of climate change but also can be trigged by the mere thought and perception about such impacts. Although climate change is a global problem that is a cause for concern around the world, research on climate anxiety has only recently utilized validated measures, and it has mostly been conducted in Western and d…
Fresh Water availability and It’s Global challenge
Authors: R. K. Mishra
Journal: Journal of Marine Science and Research · DOI: 10.58489/2836-5933/004 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: hydrology, surface water
Water is prime natural resources fulfilling our needs in a precisious assets. We must acts to preserve and utilize every drop of water. Water resources can be assessed on the basis of surface and subsurface water bodies. Climate change impact on ground Water the impact of climate change on ground water has been studied much less than the impact on surface waters. Ground water reacts to climate change mainly due to change in ground water recharge, but also change in river level in response to …
Coherency and phase delay analyses between land cover and climate across Italy via the least-squares wavelet software
Authors: Ebrahim Ghaderpour, Paolo Mazzanti, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza, Francesca Bozzano
Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103241 · Citations: 114
Matched topics: streamflow
Land cover and climate monitoring is a crucial task in agriculture, forestry, hazard management, and ecosystems assessment. In this paper, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), land surface temperature (LST), and land cover products by the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) as well as precipitation were utilized to monitor the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation and climate along with their correlation and coherency across Italy during 2000–2021. The analyses wer…
Phosphorus price spikes: A wake-up call for phosphorus resilience
Authors: Will J. Brownlie, Mark A. Sutton, Dana Cordell, David Reay, Kate V. Heal, Paul J. A. Withers et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1088776 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: hydrology, water management
Food systems depend on reliable supplies of phosphorus to fertilize soils. Since 2020, a pandemic, geopolitical disputes, trade wars and escalating fuel prices have driven a >400% increase in phosphorus commodity prices, contributing to the current food crisis. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has disrupted phosphate trade further. Concurrently, phosphorus losses to freshwaters, through insufficient municipal wastewater treatment and inappropriate fertilizer use and land management practice…
Substantial increase in abrupt shifts between drought and flood events in China based on observations and model simulations.
Authors: Yuqing Zhang, Qinglong You, Safi Ullah, Changchun Chen, Liucheng Shen, Zhuo Liu
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162822 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: flood, drought
Drought-flood abrupt alternation (DFAA) refers to the rapid transformation between droughts and floods, posing serious threats to ecological security, food production, and human safety. Previous studies of DFAA have insufficiently investigated DFAA events at large regional scales using high-resolution observations and model simulations. In this study, the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index was used to construct the DFAA magnitude index, which considers the asymmetric effects …
Global Surface Ocean Acidification Indicators From 1750 to 2100
Authors: Li‐Qing Jiang, John P. Dunne, Brendan R. Carter, Jerry Tjiputra, Jens Terhaar, Jonathan D. Sharp et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2022ms003563 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Accurately predicting future ocean acidification (OA) conditions is crucial for advancing OA research at regional and global scales, and guiding society’s mitigation and adaptation efforts. This study presents a new model‐data fusion product covering 10 global surface OA indicators based on 14 Earth System Models (ESMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), along with three recent observational ocean carbon data products. The indicators include fugacity of c…
Nanotechnology as a sustainable approach for combating the environmental effects of climate change
Authors: Neha Chausali, Jyoti Saxena, Ram Prasad
Journal: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100541 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: climate change
Currently, there are a huge number of environmental issues that the world is facing from past few decades. However, the climate change is possibly the major environmental threat to deal with. The rise of 1.5–2 °C surface temperature has been recorded in last 40–50 years. In next 50–100 years the earth temperature will create harsh conditions for living and consequences would be catastrophic. Global warming is the major cause of climate change. The common reason of global warming is carbon-ass…
Application of MK trend and test of Sen’s slope estimator to measure impact of climate change on the adoption of conservation agriculture in Ethiopia
Authors: Jiqin Han, Fikiru Temesgen Gelata, Samerawit Chaka Gemeda
Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2023.508 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, climate change
Abstract The objective of this study is to identify the adoption level of this agricultural technology affected by climate change and to confirm the relationship with conservation agriculture. The assessment was carried out using the Mann–Kendall trend test and the Sen’s slope is used. The collected data were statistically analyzed by Statistical Down Scaling Model Software to compare the observed and climate model scenarios of temperature and precipitation. According to the results of the st…
Coupling physical constraints with machine learning for satellite-derived evapotranspiration of the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Ke Shang, Yunjun Yao, Zhenhua Di, Kun Jia, Xiaotong Zhang, Joshua B. Fisher et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113519 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging for Early Detection of Drought and Heat Stress in Strawberry Plants
Authors: Muhammad Akbar Andi Arief, Ha Won Kim, Hary Kurniawan, A. P. Nugroho, Taehyun Kim, B. Cho
Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants12061387 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: drought
The efficiency of photosynthesis in strawberry plants is measured to maintain the quality and quantity of strawberries produced. The latest method used to measure the photosynthetic status of plants is chlorophyll fluorescence imaging (CFI), which has the advantage of obtaining plant spatiotemporal data non-destructively. This study developed a CFI system to measure the maximum quantum efficiency of photochemistry (Fv/Fm). The main components of this system include a chamber for plants to ada…
RRS1 shapes robust root system to enhance drought resistance in rice
Authors: Jie Gao, Yong Zhao, Zhikun Zhao, Wei Liu, Conghui Jiang, Jinjie Li et al.
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.18775 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: drought
allele, originating from wild rice, possibly increases root length by means of weakening regulation of OsIAA3. Knockout of RRS1 enhances drought resistance by promoting water absorption and improving water use efficiency. This study provides a new gene resource for improving root systems and cultivating drought-resistant rice varieties with important values in agricultural applications.
Rapid and Nondestructive Evaluation of Wheat Chlorophyll under Drought Stress Using Hyperspectral Imaging
Authors: Yucun Yang, Rui Nan, Tongxi Mi, Yinming Song, Fanghui Shi, Xinran Liu et al.
Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences · DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065825 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: drought
Chlorophyll drives plant photosynthesis. Under stress conditions, leaf chlorophyll content changes dramatically, which could provide insight into plant photosynthesis and drought resistance. Compared to traditional methods of evaluating chlorophyll content, hyperspectral imaging is more efficient and accurate and benefits from being a nondestructive technique. However, the relationships between chlorophyll content and hyperspectral characteristics of wheat leaves with wide genetic diversity a…
Utilization Management to Ensure Clean Water Sources in Coastal Areas
Authors: Ahmad Syarif Sukri, M Saripuddin, Riswal Karama, Nasrul Nasrul, Romy Talanipa, Abdul Kadir et al.
Journal: Journal of Human Earth and Future · DOI: 10.28991/hef-2023-04-01-03 · Citations: 58
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, hydropower, surface water
Coastal communities utilize tidal water sources; existing surface water does not meet clean water standards, and communities are greatly affected by current water use. Managing existing water sources to meet the needs of the community is very difficult to obtain, so research is needed to determine the quality, quantity, and distance of water sources needed to meet the standards. This study aims to determine the quality, quantity, and distance of water sources. This study used a descriptive qu…
Allelic variation of TaWD40-4B.1 contributes to drought tolerance by modulating catalase activity in wheat
Authors: Geng Tian, Shubin Wang, Jianhui Wu, Yanxia Wang, Xiutang Wang, Shuwei Liu et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36901-6 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: drought
could be useful for molecular breeding of drought tolerant wheat.
Drought-flood abrupt alteration events over China
Authors: Wuxia Bi, Meng Li, Baisha Weng, Denghua Yan, Zhaoyu Dong, Jianming Feng et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162529 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: flood, drought
Abstract not available.
Impacts of recent climate change on crop yield can depend on local conditions in climatically diverse regions of Norway
Authors: Shirin Mohammadi, Knut Rydgren, Vegar Bakkestuen, Mark A. Gillespie
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30813-7 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: climate change
Globally, climate change greatly impacts the production of major crops, and there have been many attempts to model future yields under warming scenarios in recent years. However, projections of future yields may not be generalisable to all crop growing regions, particularly those with diverse topography and bioclimates. In this study, we demonstrate this by evaluating the links between changes in temperature and precipitation and changes in wheat, barley, and potato yields at the county-level…
Climate change impacts on regional agricultural irrigation water use in semi-arid environments
Authors: Xin Tian, Jianzhi Dong, Shuangyan Jin, Hai He, Hao Yin, Xi Chen
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108239 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: climate change, irrigation, earth system model
Agricultural irrigation water is essential for global food production. Climate change may significantly increase future atmosphere evaporative demand, which can further intensify local water stress, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. In this study, we investigate climate change impacts on future irrigation water use (IWU) change, with a focus on a semi-arid (Zhangye) region in Northwest China. Specifically, this approach estimates crop water demand using Penman-Monteith-[CO2] equatio…
Compound and successive events of extreme precipitation and extreme runoff under heatwaves based on CMIP6 models.
Authors: P. Sun, Yifan Zou, R. Yao, Z. Ma, Yaojin Bian, Chenhao Ge et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162980 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: runoff
Global warming accelerates the rate of interregional hydrological cycles, thus leading to a significant increase in the frequency and intensity of global extreme events. An extreme event that causes other extreme events within a short period of time is a successive event. Compound and successive extreme events are more harmful than single extreme events. Therefore, this study revealed the evolution characteristics of compound heatwave and extreme precipitation/runoff events (CHP/CHR), success…
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.
Climate change increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan
Authors: Friederike E. L. Otto, Mariam Zachariah, Fahad Saeed, Ayesha Siddiqi, Shahzad Kamil, Haris Mushtaq et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Climate · DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/acbfd5 · Citations: 171
Matched topics: flood, climate change
Abstract As a direct consequence of extreme monsoon rainfall throughout the summer 2022 season Pakistan experienced the worst flooding in its history. We employ a probabilistic event attribution methodology as well as a detailed assessment of the dynamics to understand the role of climate change in this event. Many of the available state-of-the-art climate models struggle to simulate these rainfall characteristics. Those that pass our evaluation test generally show a much smaller change in li…
Performance of the flood warning system in Germany in July 2021 – insights from affected residents
Authors: A. Thieken, P. Bubeck, A. Heidenreich, J. von Keyserlingk, Lisa Dillenardt, A. Otto
Journal: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-23-973-2023 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: flood
Abstract. In July 2021 intense rainfall caused devastating floods in western Europe and 184 fatalities in the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (NW) and Rhineland-Palatinate (RP), calling into question their flood forecasting, warning and response system (FFWRS). Data from an online survey (n=1315) reveal that 35 % of the respondents from NW and 29 % from RP did not receive any warning. Of those who were warned, 85 % did not expect very severe flooding and 46 % reported a lack o…
A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling
Authors: Dirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon, Tim Leijnse, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Dai Yamazaki, Sanne Muis et al.
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-23-823-2023 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: streamflow, flood
Abstract. Coastal river deltas are susceptible to flooding from pluvial, fluvial, and coastal flood drivers. Compound floods, which result from the co-occurrence of two or more of these drivers, typically exacerbate impacts compared to floods from a single driver. While several global flood models have been developed, these do not account for compound flooding. Local-scale compound flood models provide state-of-the-art analyses but are hard to scale to other regions as these typically are bas…
When We Don’t Want to Know More: Information Sufficiency and The Case Of Swedish Flood Risks
Authors: Yuliya Lakew, Ulrika Olausson
Journal: Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · DOI: 10.30658/jicrcr.6.1.3 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: flood
This study investigates the phenomenon of information (in)sufficiency in the context of flood risks. Individuals’ perception of how much risk information they need is a major trigger and driver of information-seeking behavior, and therefore it is an important part of creating effective preventive risk-communication campaigns. To understand factors that contribute to individuals’ sense of information (in)sufficiency, the roles played by prior experiences of floods and general risk sensitivity …
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.
Assessing and forecasting water quality in the Danube River by using neural network approaches.
Authors: P. Georgescu, Simona Moldovanu, C. Iticescu, M. Calmuc, V. Calmuc, C. Topa et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162998 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: river
The health and quality of the Danube River ecosystems is strongly affected by the nutrients loads (N and P), degree of contamination with hazardous substances or with oxygen depleting substances, microbiological contamination and changes in river flow patterns and sediment transport regimes. Water quality index (WQI) is an important dynamic attribute in the characterization of the Danube River ecosystems health and quality. The WQ index scores do not reflect the actual condition of water qual…
Reservoir computing as digital twins for nonlinear dynamical systems.
Authors: Ling-Wei Kong, Yang Weng, Bryan Glaz, M. Haile, Y. Lai
Journal: Chaos · DOI: 10.1063/5.0138661 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: reservoir
We articulate the design imperatives for machine learning based digital twins for nonlinear dynamical systems, which can be used to monitor the “health” of the system and anticipate future collapse. The fundamental requirement for digital twins of nonlinear dynamical systems is dynamical evolution: the digital twin must be able to evolve its dynamical state at the present time to the next time step without further state input-a requirement that reservoir computing naturally meets. We conduct …
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.
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure
Authors: Oleksandra Shumilova, Klement Tockner, Alexander Sukhodolov, V.К. Khilchevskyi, Luc De Meester, Sergiy Stepanenko et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01068-x · Citations: 214
Matched topics: water management, hydropower
Abstract The armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia that began in late February 2022 has far-reaching environmental consequences, especially regarding water resources and management. Here we analysed the multifaceted impacts of the military actions on freshwater resources and water infrastructure during the first three months of the conflict. We identified the nature of the impacts, the kind of pressures imposed on the water sector and the negative consequences for the availability and qua…
Impacts of water scarcity on agricultural production and electricity generation in the Middle East and North Africa
Authors: Mohamad Hejazi, Silvia R. Santos da Silva, Fernando Miralles‐Wilhelm, Son H. Kim, Page Kyle, Yaling Liu et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science · DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1082930 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: streamflow, water management
Incorporating the interdependencies between water, energy and food (WEF) within an integrated approach of planning and management could help nations worldwide to address sustainability concerns. This is a topic of great importance for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where water is a very limited resource. In this study, we develop an analytical framework to analyze the water-energy-food nexus in the MENA region to inform the formulation of integrated strategies for water, ener…
Global distribution of pesticides in freshwater resources and their remediation approaches
Authors: Sandeep Singh, Meenakshi Rawat, Sandeep K. Malyan, Rajesh Singh, Vinay Kumar Tyagi, Kaptan Singh et al.
Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115605 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
Complex Policy Mixes are Needed to Cope with Agricultural Water Demands Under Climate Change
Authors: Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama, Jorge Olcina Cantos, Gonzalo Delacámara, Emilio Guirado, Fernando T. Maestre
Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-023-03481-5 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: water management, climate change
Abstract The divergence between agricultural water use and the annual supply of water resources (water gap) has been increasing for decades. The forecast is that this water gap will continue to widen, compromising the water security of a large share of the global population. On the one hand, the increase in demand is attributed to an ever-growing population that, in addition, is adopting a high-water consumption per capita lifestyle (e.g., meat-rich diet, increased use of biofuels and of irri…
Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
This theme encompasses 16 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.
The Pakistan Flood of August 2022: Causes and Implications
Authors: J. S. Nanditha, Anuj Prakash Kushwaha, Raj Pal Singh, Iqura Malik, Hiren Solanki, Dipesh Singh Chuphal et al.
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2022ef003230 · Citations: 240
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, flood
Abstract The risk of floods has increased in South Asia due to high vulnerability and exposure. The August 2022 Pakistan flood shows a glimpse of the enormity and devastation that can further rise under the warming climate. The deluge caused by the floods in 2022, which badly hit the country’s southern provinces, is incomparable to any recent events in terms of the vast spatial and temporal scale. The flood event is ranked second in human mortality, while this was the top event that displaced…
Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation
Authors: Callum Smith, Jessica C. A. Baker, Dominick V. Spracklen
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05690-1 · Citations: 246
Matched topics: hydrology, hydropower
. A wider analysis of interactions between deforestation and precipitation-and especially how any such interactions might vary across spatial scales-is lacking. Here we show reduced precipitation over deforested regions across the tropics. Our results arise from a pan-tropical assessment of the impacts of 2003-2017 forest loss on precipitation using satellite, station-based and reanalysis datasets. The effect of deforestation on precipitation increased at larger scales, with satellite dataset…
Non-monotonic changes in Asian Water Towers’ streamflow at increasing warming levels
Authors: Tong Cui, Yukun Li, Long Yang, Yi Nan, Kunbiao Li, Mahmut Tudaji et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36804-6 · Citations: 161
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, hydropower
Previous projections show consistent increases in river flows of Asian Water Towers under future climate change. Here we find non-monotonic changes in river flows for seven major rivers originating from the Tibetan Plateau at the warming levels of 1.5 °C, 2.0 °C, and 3.0 °C based on an observation-constrained hydrological model. The annual mean streamflow for seven rivers at 1.5 °C warming level decreases by 0.1-3.2% relative to the present-day climate condition, and increases by 1.5-12% at 3…
Electronic/Optoelectronic Memory Device Enabled by Tellurium‐based 2D van der Waals Heterostructure for in‐Sensor Reservoir Computing at the Optical Communication Band
Authors: Jiajia Zha, Shuhui Shi, A. Chaturvedi, Haoxin Huang, Peng Yang, Yao Yao et al.
Journal: Advances in Materials · DOI: 10.1002/adma.202211598 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: reservoir
Although 2D materials are widely explored for data storage and neuromorphic computing, the construction of 2D material‐based memory devices with optoelectronic responsivity in the short‐wave infrared (SWIR) region for in‐sensor reservoir computing (RC) at the optical communication band still remains a big challenge. In this work, an electronic/optoelectronic memory device enabled by tellurium‐based 2D van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure is reported, where the ferroelectric CuInP2S6 and tellur…
Wastewater concentrations of human influenza, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and seasonal coronavirus nucleic-acids during the COVID-19 pandemic: a surveillance study
Authors: A. Boehm, B. Hughes, Dorothea H Duong, V. Chan-Herur, A. Buchman, M. Wolfe et al.
Journal: The Lancet Microbe · DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00386-X · Citations: 143
Matched topics: seasonal
Background Respiratory disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality; however, surveillance for circulating respiratory viruses is passive and biased. Wastewater-based epidemiology has been used to understand SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection rates at a community level but has not been used to investigate other respiratory viruses. We aimed to use wastewater-based epidemiology to understand community viral respiratory infection occurrence. Methods …
Soil moisture-evaporation coupling shifts into new gears under increasing CO2
Authors: Hsin Hsu, Paul A. Dirmeyer
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36794-5 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: land surface model
, the range of SM extends into unprecedented coupling regimes in many locations. Solely wet regime areas decline globally by 15.9%, while transitional regimes emerge in currently humid areas of the tropics and high latitudes. Many semiarid regions spend more days in the transitional regime and fewer in the dry regime. These imply that a larger fraction of the world will evolve to experience multiple gears of land-atmosphere coupling, with the strongly coupled transitional regime expanding the…
Antibiotic pollution of the Yellow River in China and its relationship with dissolved organic matter: Distribution and Source identification.
Authors: Zhaoxin Su, Kun Wang, Fengchun Yang, Zhuang Tao
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119867 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: river
Understanding the sources of antibiotics is important for managing antibiotic contamination and preventing environmental risks in the aquatic environment. In this study, the distribution of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and 24 antibiotics from four typical classes (quinolones, macrolides, sulfonamides and tetracyclines) in the Yellow River basin containing distinct sources of pollution was investigated. In particular, relationships between the antibiotic concentrations and fluorescent proper…
Urbanization and agriculture intensification jointly enlarge the spatial inequality of river water quality.
Authors: Yuan Li, Wujuan Mi, Li Ji, Qiusheng He, Pingheng Yang, S. Xie et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162559 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: river
Rivers are severely polluted by multiple anthropogenic stressors. An unevenly distributed landscape pattern can aggravate the deterioration of water quality in rivers. Identifying the impacts of landscape patterns on the spatial characteristics of water quality is helpful for river management and water sustainability. Herein we quantified the nationwide water quality degradation in China’s rivers and analyzed its responses to spatial patterns of anthropogenic landscapes. The results showed th…
A primer on stream temperature processes
Authors: Jason A. Leach, Christa Kelleher, Barret L. Kurylyk, R. D. Moore, Bethany T. Neilson
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1643 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management
Abstract Stream temperature is one of the most critical factors controlling aquatic ecosystem health. Practitioners and researchers from a range of fields, including biology, ecology, hydrology, engineering, and watershed management, are concerned with how climate and environmental changes are impacting stream thermal regimes. This primer provides an introduction to the various energy and water exchange processes that underpin stream temperature patterns from small headwater streams to large …
Hydrodynamic impacts on algal blooms in reservoirs and bloom mitigation using reservoir operation strategies: A review
Authors: Yang Song
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129375 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Hysteresis effect and seasonal step-like creep deformation of the Jiuxianping landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir region
Authors: Haiqing Yang, Kanglei Song, Lichuan Chen, Lili Qu
Journal: Engineering Geology · DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2023.107089 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: seasonal
Abstract not available.
On strictly enforced mass conservation constraints for modelling the Rainfall‐Runoff process
Authors: Jonathan Frame, Frederik Kratzert, Hoshin V. Gupta, Paul Ullrich, Grey Nearing
Journal: Hydrological Processes · DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14847 · Citations: 52
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow
Abstract It has been proposed that conservation laws might not be beneficial for accurate hydrological modelling due to errors in input (precipitation) and target (streamflow) data (particularly at the event time scale), and this might explain why deep learning models (which are not based on enforcing closure) can out‐perform catchment‐scale conceptual and process‐based models at predicting streamflow. We test this hypothesis with two forcing datasets that disagree in total, long‐term precipi…
Contamination Pattern and Risk Assessment of Polar Compounds in Snow Melt: An Integrative Proxy of Road Runoffs
Authors: Loïc Maurer, Eric Carmona, Oliver Machate, Tobias Schulze, Martin Krauß, Werner Brack
Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c05784 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: runoff
-phenylenediamine quinone (6-PPDQ) at concentrations known to cause acute toxicity in sensitive fish species. The analysis also detected 149 other compounds such as food additives, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. Several biocides were identified as major risk contributors, with a more site-specific occurrence, to acute toxic risks to algae (five samples) and invertebrates (six samples). Ametryn, flumioxazin, and 1,2-cyclohexane dicarboxylic acid diisononyl ester are the main compounds contri…
Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale
Authors: Tristan Salles, Laurent Husson, Patrice Rey, Claire Mallard, Sabin Zahirovic, Beatriz Hadler Boggiani et al.
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.add2541 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: earth system model
Our capability to reconstruct past landscapes and the processes that shape them underpins our understanding of paleo-Earth. We take advantage of a global-scale landscape evolution model assimilating paleoelevation and paleoclimate reconstructions over the past 100 million years. This model provides continuous quantifications of metrics critical to the understanding of the Earth system, from global physiography to sediment flux and stratigraphic architectures. We reappraise the role played by …
The role of grassland for erosion and flood mitigation in Europe: A meta-analysis
Authors: Filippo Milazzo, Richard M. Francksen, Laura Zavattaro, Mohamed Abdalla, Stanislav Hejduk, Simone Ravetto Enri et al.
Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2023.108443 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: runoff, flood
Permanent grasslands are widely recognized for their role in protecting the landscape against soil erosion and flooding. However, this role has not yet been comprehensively quantified. Also, the degradation of grasslands is accelerating at an alarming pace, leading to erosion and runoff generation. This study aims to (i) quantify the erosion and flooding mitigation effect of permanent grasslands in the EU and the UK, compared to other land uses; (ii) review all soil erosion and runoff generat…
Irreversible and Large‐Scale Heavy Metal Pollution Arising From Increased Damming and Untreated Water Reuse in the Nile Delta
Authors: Abotalib Z. Abotalib, Ahmed Awad Abdelhady, Essam Heggy, Salem G. Salem, Esam Ismail, Ahmed Ali et al.
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2022ef002987 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: water management
Abstract Egypt observes one of the highest water budget deficits in Africa that is mainly compensated by intensive reuse of untreated agricultural drainage water in the Nile Delta. The implications of untreated water reuse on increasing soil pollution levels remain poorly characterized; however, a large‐scale pollution can compromise crop production and water quality. To address this deficiency, we evaluate the level of heavy metal pollution in the Nile Delta, identify its sources and explore…
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| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 901 |
| After deduplication | 665 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 615 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Science of the Total Environment | 5 |
| Nature Communications | 3 |
| Earth s Future | 2 |
| Nature | 2 |
| The Journal of Finance | 1 |
| Science Advances | 1 |
| Nature Climate Change | 1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Environmental Research Climate | 1 |
| Advances in Materials | 1 |
| Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences | 1 |
| The Lancet Microbe | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Psychology | 1 |
| Journal of Marine Science and Research | 1 |
| International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 1 |
| Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems | 1 |
| Natural hazards and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Journal of Agriculture and Food Research | 1 |
| Journal of Water and Climate Change | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research | 1 |
| Plants | 1 |
| New Phytologist | 1 |
| Frontiers in Environmental Science | 1 |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 1 |
| Journal of Human Earth and Future | 1 |
| Environmental Research | 1 |
| Water Resources Management | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| Engineering Geology | 1 |
| Chaos | 1 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 1 |
| Scientific Reports | 1 |
| Hydrological Processes | 1 |
| Environmental Science & Technology | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| Science | 1 |
| Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | 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