Weekly Literature Review
Week 21 · May 22–May 28, 2023
50 relevant papers found across 6 themes
Executive Summary
This week’s review covers 50 papers across 6 themes. The most cited paper examines Quantifying the human cost of global warming, with 309 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
- Quantifying the human cost of global warming
- Shifting microbial communities can enhance tree tolerance to changing climates
- Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes
- Linkages of unprecedented 2022 Yangtze River Valley heatwaves to Pakistan flood and triple-dip La Niña
- Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate
- Do foreign institutional investors influence corporate climate change disclosure quality? International evidence
- Recent decreases in snow water storage in western North America
- Effects of drought stress on photosynthetic physiological characteristics, leaf microstructure, and related gene expression of yellow horn
- Impact of Climate Change on Agroecosystems and Potential Adaptation Strategies
- Tracking policy uncertainty under climate change
- Honey Production and Climate Change: Beekeepers’ Perceptions, Farm Adaptation Strategies, and Information Needs
- Representation of soil hydrology in permafrost regions may explain large part of inter-model spread in simulated Arctic and subarctic climate
- Very short-lived halogens amplify ozone depletion trends in the tropical lower stratosphere
- Performance assessment of bias correction methods using observed and regional climate model data in different watersheds, Ethiopia
- Warming and greening exacerbate the propagation risk from meteorological to soil moisture drought
- Climate change and ideal thermal transmittance of residential buildings in Iran
- Future drought risks in the Yellow River Basin and suggestions for targeted response
- Sustainable development substantially reduces the risk of future drought impacts
- The 2018 west-central European drought projected in a warmer climate: how much drier can it get?
- Overexpression of the transcription factor MdWRKY115 improves drought and osmotic stress tolerance by directly binding to the MdRD22 promoter in apple
- Application of water quality index (WQI) and statistical techniques to assess water quality for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes of the Ghaghara River, India
- Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures
- Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning
- Efficient low-temperature simulations for fermionic reservoirs with the hierarchical equations of motion method: Application to the Anderson impurity model
- Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
- Recent Advances and New Frontiers in Riverine and Coastal Flood Modeling
- Hydrodynamic and anthropogenic disturbances co-shape microbiota rhythmicity and community assembly within intertidal groundwater-surface water continuum
- Flood susceptibility mapping using support vector regression and
hyper‐parameter optimization - Integrated SUSTAIN-SWMM-MCDM Approach for Optimal Selection of LID Practices in Urban Stormwater Systems
- Evaluating the Efficacy of Different DEMs for Application in Flood Frequency and Risk Mapping of the Indian Coastal River Basin
- Rainstorm events trigger algal blooms in a large oligotrophic reservoir
- Experimental study on water flooding mechanism in low permeability oil reservoirs based on nuclear magnetic resonance technology
- Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
- Hydropower and Renewable Energy-Water Systems
- Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
- Sources and identification of microplastics in soils
- Improving water use efficiency in vertical farming: Effects of growing systems, far-red radiation and planting density on lettuce cultivation
- Groundwater Depletion Rate Over China During 1965–2016: The Long‐Term Trend and Inter‐annual Variation
- Challenges for Circular Economy under the EU 2020/741 Wastewater Reuse Regulation
- Using PROMETHEE Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making: Applications and Procedures
- Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
- Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink
- Soil Loss Estimation
- Collective enhancement in hydrophobicity and electrical conductivity of gas diffusion layer and the electrochemical performance of PEMFCs
- Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations
- iHydroSlide3D v1.0: an advanced hydrological–geotechnical model for hydrological simulation and three-dimensional landslide prediction
- Predicting soil erosion and deposition on sloping farmland with different shapes in northeast China by using 137Cs
- Controls on the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rainfall‐Runoff Event Characteristics—A Large Sample of Catchments Across Great Britain
- Sediment yield estimation and evaluating the best management practices in Nashe watershed, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
- Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?
- Human activities change suspended sediment concentration along rivers
- 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.
Quantifying the human cost of global warming
Authors: Timothy M. Lenton, Chi Xu, Jesse F. Abrams, Ashish Ghadiali, Sina Loriani, Boris Sakschewski et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01132-6 · Citations: 309
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche. By end-of-century (2080–2100), current policies leading to around 2…
Shifting microbial communities can enhance tree tolerance to changing climates
Authors: Cassandra M. Allsup, Isabelle George, Richard A. Lankau
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.adf2027 · Citations: 202
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is pushing species outside of their evolved tolerances. Plant populations must acclimate, adapt, or migrate to avoid extinction. However, because plants associate with diverse microbial communities that shape their phenotypes, shifts in microbial associations may provide an alternative source of climate tolerance. Here, we show that tree seedlings inoculated with microbial communities sourced from drier, warmer, or colder sites displayed higher survival when faced with drought,…
Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes
Authors: Emanuele Massaro, Rossano Schifanella, M. Piccardo, L. Caporaso, H. Taubenböck, A. Cescatti et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38596-1 · Citations: 194
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water
The population experiencing high temperatures in cities is rising due to anthropogenic climate change, settlement expansion, and population growth. Yet, efficient tools to evaluate potential intervention strategies to reduce population exposure to Land Surface Temperature (LST) extremes are still lacking. Here, we implement a spatial regression model based on remote sensing data that is able to assess the population exposure to LST extremes in urban environments across 200 cities based on sur…
Linkages of unprecedented 2022 Yangtze River Valley heatwaves to Pakistan flood and triple-dip La Niña
Authors: Shankai Tang, Shaobo Qiao, Bin Wang, Fei Liu, Taichen Feng, Jie Yang et al.
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-023-00386-3 · Citations: 146
Matched topics: river, flood, earth system model
In July-August 2022, Yangtze River Valley (YRV) experienced unprecedented hot summer, with the number of heatwave days exceeding climatology by four standard deviations. The heatwaves and associated severe droughts affected about 38 million people and caused devastating economic losses of about five billion US dollars. Here we present convergent empirical and modelling evidence to show that the record-breaking Pakistan rainfall, along with the 2022 tripe-dip La Niña, produces anomalous high p…
Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate
Authors: J. Christian, E. Martin, J. Basara, J. C. Furtado, J. Otkin, L. Lowman et al.
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00826-1 · Citations: 144
Matched topics: drought, earth system model
Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture. However, potential changes to flash drought risk in a warming climate remain unknown. In this study, projected changes in flash drought frequency and cropland risk from flash drought are quantified using global climate model simulations. We find that flash drought occurrence is expected to increase globally among all scenarios, with the sharpest increase…
Do foreign institutional investors influence corporate climate change disclosure quality? International evidence
Authors: Sudipta Bose, Edwin KiaYang Lim, Kristina Minnick, Syed Shams
Journal: Corporate Governance An International Review · DOI: 10.1111/corg.12535 · Citations: 87
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Research Question/Issue We examine the association between foreign institutional ownership and climate change disclosure quality from 2006 to 2018 across 34 countries. We find that firms with a higher level of foreign institutional ownership demonstrate better quality climate change disclosures, whereas domestic institutional ownership has immaterial impacts on such disclosures. We utilize a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) analysis using a firm’s addition to the Morgan Stanley Capita…
Recent decreases in snow water storage in western North America
Authors: K. Hale, Keith S. Jennings, K. N. Musselman, Ben Livneh, N. P. Molotch
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00751-3 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, land surface model, hydropower
< 0.05) from 1950-2013 in over 25% of mountainous areas, as a result of substantially earlier snowmelt and rainfall in spring months, with additional declines in winter precipitation. The SSI and associated trends offer a new perspective on hydrologic sensitivity to climate change which have broad implications for water resources and ecosystems.
Effects of drought stress on photosynthetic physiological characteristics, leaf microstructure, and related gene expression of yellow horn
Authors: Fang Hu, Yunxiang Zhang, Jinping Guo
Journal: Plant Signaling & Behavior · DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2023.2215025 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: drought
Yellow horn grows in northern China and has a high tolerance to drought and poor soil. Improving photosynthetic efficiency and increasing plant growth and yield under drought conditions have become important research content for researchers worldwide. Our study goal is to provide comprehensive information on photosynthesis and some candidate genes breeding of yellow horn under drought stress. In this study, seedlings’ stomatal conductance, chlorophyll content, and fluorescence parameters decr…
Impact of Climate Change on Agroecosystems and Potential Adaptation Strategies
Authors: Teodoro Semeraro, Aurelia Scarano, Angelo Leggieri, Antonio Calisi, Monica De Caroli
Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land12061117 · Citations: 70
Matched topics: climate change
Agriculture is currently one of the leading economic sectors most impacted by climate change. Due to its great field of application and its susceptibility to meteorological variability, the effects of climate change on agriculture have significant social and economic consequences for human well-being. Moreover, the increasing need for land spaces for population growth has produced strong competition between food and urbanization, leading to a loss of the agroecosystem that supports food secur…
Tracking policy uncertainty under climate change
Authors: Boqiang Lin, Hengsong Zhao
Journal: Resources Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103699 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Honey Production and Climate Change: Beekeepers’ Perceptions, Farm Adaptation Strategies, and Information Needs
Authors: Rafael Landaverde, Mary T. Rodriguez, Jean A. Parrella
Journal: Insects · DOI: 10.3390/insects14060493 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: water management, climate change
Because climate change has severely impacted global bee populations by depleting their habitats and food sources, beekeepers must implement management practices to adapt to changing climates. However, beekeepers in El Salvador lack information about necessary climate change adaptation strategies. This study explored Salvadoran beekeepers’ experiences adapting to climate change. The researchers used a phenomenological case study approach and conducted semi-structured interviews with nine Salva…
Representation of soil hydrology in permafrost regions may explain large part of inter-model spread in simulated Arctic and subarctic climate
Authors: P. de Vrese, G. Georgievski, J. F. González Rouco, Dirk Notz, T. Stacke, N. Steinert et al.
Journal: The Cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-2095-2023 · Citations: 36
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. The current generation of Earth system models exhibits large inter-model differences in the simulated climate of the Arctic and subarctic zone, with differences in model structure and parametrizations being one of the main sources of uncertainty. One particularly challenging aspect in modelling is the representation of terrestrial processes in permafrost-affected regions, which are often governed by spatial heterogeneity far below the resolution of the models’ land surface component…
Very short-lived halogens amplify ozone depletion trends in the tropical lower stratosphere
Authors: Julián Villamayor, Fernando Iglesias‐Suarez, Carlos A. Cuevas, Rafael P. Fernández, Qinyi Li, Marta Ábalos et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01671-y · Citations: 52
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract In contrast to the general stratospheric ozone recovery following international agreements, recent observations show an ongoing net ozone depletion in the tropical lower stratosphere (LS). This depletion is thought to be driven by dynamical transport accelerated by global warming, while chemical processes have been considered to be unimportant. Here we use a chemistry–climate model to demonstrate that halogenated ozone-depleting very short-lived substances (VSLS) chemistry may accoun…
Performance assessment of bias correction methods using observed and regional climate model data in different watersheds, Ethiopia
Authors: Habtamu Daniel
Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2023.115 · Citations: 44
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
Abstract Bias correction methods are used to compensate for any tendency to overestimate or underestimate the downscaled variables. Rainfall, maximum, and minimum temperatures are the key climate variables where the socioeconomic activities of the regions are principally based on rain-fed agriculture. This paper compares the performance of regional climate models (RCMs) and bias correction methods in Gelana and Deme watersheds in Ethiopia during the base period of 1988–2019. Observed data obt…
Warming and greening exacerbate the propagation risk from meteorological to soil moisture drought
Authors: Yifei Li, Shengzhi Huang, Hao Wang, Qiang Huang, Pei Li, Xudong Zheng et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129716 · Citations: 48
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Climate change and ideal thermal transmittance of residential buildings in Iran
Authors: Eugénio Rodrigues, Nazanin Azimi Fereidani, Marco S. Fernandes, Adélio Rodrigues Gaspar
Journal: Journal of Building Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2023.106919 · Citations: 46
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change will make the Iranian climate hotter and drier. This increase in the harshness of the boundary conditions poses a new question of whether today’s high-performance buildings, whose envelope thermophysical properties are optimized for the current climate, will underperform. Therefore, it is important to (i) identify the regions in Iran that will lead to such underperformance and (ii) determine to what extent the thermophysical properties will need to change to remain optimal. Thi…
Future drought risks in the Yellow River Basin and suggestions for targeted response
Authors: Haoyu Deng, Yunhe Yin, Xuezheng Zong, Mijia Yin
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103764 · Citations: 36
Matched topics: river, water management, drought
Abstract not available.
Sustainable development substantially reduces the risk of future drought impacts
Authors: Hossein Tabari, Patrick Willems
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00840-3 · Citations: 45
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Drought is a major natural hazard that can cause cascading impacts on socioeconomic sectors, and its risk is expected to increase under future climate change and socioeconomic developments. However, a comprehensive cross-disciplinary drought risk outlook is currently lacking to support integrative disaster risk reduction efforts. To address this gap, our analysis examines drought exposure, vulnerability, and risk towards the end of this century under four future pathways. The study i…
The 2018 west-central European drought projected in a warmer climate: how much drier can it get?
Authors: Emma Aalbers, Erik van Meijgaard, Geert Lenderink, Hylke de Vries, Bart van den Hurk
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-23-1921-2023 · Citations: 44
Matched topics: drought
Abstract. Projections of changes in extreme droughts under future climate conditions are associated with large uncertainties, owing to the complex genesis of droughts and large model uncertainty in the atmospheric dynamics. In this study we investigate the impact of global warming on soil moisture drought severity in west-central Europe by employing pseudo global warming (PGW) experiments, which project the 1980–2020 period in a globally warmer world. The future analogues of present-day droug…
Overexpression of the transcription factor MdWRKY115 improves drought and osmotic stress tolerance by directly binding to the MdRD22 promoter in apple
Authors: Qinglong Dong, Yi Tian, Xuemei Zhang, Dingyue Duan, He Zhang, Kaiyu Yang et al.
Journal: Horticultural Plant Journal · DOI: 10.1016/j.hpj.2023.05.005 · Citations: 43
Matched topics: drought
Abiotic stress reduces plant yield and quality. WRKY transcription factors play key roles in abiotic stress responses in plants, but the molecular mechanisms by which WRKY transcription factors mediate responses to drought and osmotic stresses in apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) remain unclear. Here, we functionally characterized the apple Group III WRKY gene MdWRKY115. qRT-PCR analysis showed that MdWRKY115 expression was up-regulated by drought and osmotic stresses. GUS activity analysis re…
Application of water quality index (WQI) and statistical techniques to assess water quality for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes of the Ghaghara River, India
Authors: N Ravi, Pawan Kumar Jha, Kriti Varma, Piyush Tripathi, Sandeep Kumar Gautam, Kirpa Ram et al.
Journal: Total Environment Research Themes · DOI: 10.1016/j.totert.2023.100049 · Citations: 38
Matched topics: river, irrigation
Ghaghara river samples were analysed to determine their quality and fitness for household, agriculture, and industrial use. In Ghaghara River, the cations were present in order of Ca2+ > Mg2+ > Na+ > K +, and anions were in order of HCO3– > SO42− > Cl− > NO3– > F−. Gibbs’s diagram indicated that carbonate and silicate weathering significantly influence the Ghaghara River ion chemistry. Piper trilinear diagrams indicated that Ca2++ Mg2+ exceeded the Na++ K +, and anions of weak acids dominated…
Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures
Authors: Ralph J. M. Temmink, Bjorn J. M. Robroek, Gijs van Dijk, Adam H. W. Koks, Sannimari A. Käärmelahti, Alexandra Barthelmes et al.
Journal: AMBIO · DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01875-8 · Citations: 42
Matched topics: hydrology
Peatlands are among the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystems and hotspots of carbon storage. Although peatland drainage causes strong carbon emissions, land subsidence, fires and biodiversity loss, drainage-based agriculture and forestry on peatland is still expanding on a global scale. To maintain and restore their vital carbon sequestration and storage function and to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, rewetting and restoration of all drained and degraded peatlands is urgently required…
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning
Authors: Jan Sodoge, Christian Kuhlicke, Mariana Madruga de Brito
Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2023.100574 · Citations: 42
Matched topics: drought
Droughts are expected to increase both in terms of frequency and magnitude across Europe. Despite the multitude of adverse effects these disasters impose on social-ecological systems, most impact assessments are constrained to single event and/or single sector analyses. Furthermore, existing longitudinal multi-sectoral datasets are limited in spatiotemporal homogeneity and scope, resulting in fragmented datasets. To address this gap, we propose a novel method for the automatized detection of …
Efficient low-temperature simulations for fermionic reservoirs with the hierarchical equations of motion method: Application to the Anderson impurity model
Authors: Xiaohan Dan, Meng Xu, Jürgen T. Stockburger, Joachim Ankerhold, Qiang Shi
Journal: Physical review. B./Physical review. B · DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.195429 · Citations: 41
Matched topics: reservoir
The hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) approach is an accurate method to simulate open system quantum dynamics, which allows for systematic convergence to numerically exact results. To represent effects of the bath, the reservoir correlation functions are usually decomposed into summation of multiple exponential terms in the HEOM method. Since the reservoir correlation functions become highly non-Markovian at low temperatures or when the bath has complex band structures, a present challe…
Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
Flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation research are well represented this week with 7 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.
Recent Advances and New Frontiers in Riverine and Coastal Flood Modeling
Authors: Keighobad Jafarzadegan, Hamid Moradkhani, Florian Pappenberger, Hamed Moftakhari, Paul Bates, Peyman Abbaszadeh et al.
Journal: Reviews of Geophysics · DOI: 10.1029/2022rg000788 · Citations: 145
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, flood, earth system model
Abstract Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all advances, these models still fall short in accuracy and reliability and are often considered computationally intensive to be fully operational. This could be attributed to insufficient comprehension of the causative mechanisms of flood processes, assumptions in model development and inadequate consideration of unc…
Hydrodynamic and anthropogenic disturbances co-shape microbiota rhythmicity and community assembly within intertidal groundwater-surface water continuum
Authors: Ze Zhao, Lu Zhang, Guoqing Zhang, Han Gao, Xiaogang Chen, Ling Li et al.
Journal: bioRxiv · DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.06.515374 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: surface water
Tidal hydrodynamics drive the groundwater-seawater exchange and shifts in microbiota structure in the coastal zone. However, how the coastal water microbiota structure and assembly patterns respond to periodic tidal fluctuations and anthropogenic disturbance remain unexplored in the intertidal groundwater-surface water (GW-SW) continuum, although it affects biogeochemical cycles and coastal water quality therein. Here, through hourly time-series sampling in the saltmarsh tidal creek, rhythmic…
Flood susceptibility mapping using support vector regression and hyper‐parameter optimization
Authors: Aryan Salvati, Alireza Moghaddam Nia, Ali Salajegheh, Kayvan Ghaderi, Dawood Talebpour Asl, Nadhir Al‐Ansari et al.
Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12920 · Citations: 51
Matched topics: hydrology, flood
Abstract Floods are both complex and destructive, and in most parts of the world cause injury, death, loss of agricultural land, and social disruption. Flood susceptibility (FS) maps are used by land‐use managers and land owners to identify areas that are at risk from flooding and to plan accordingly. This study uses machine learning ensembles to produce objective and reliable FS maps for the Haraz watershed in northern Iran. Specifically, we test the ability of the support vector regression …
Integrated SUSTAIN-SWMM-MCDM Approach for Optimal Selection of LID Practices in Urban Stormwater Systems
Authors: Amirhossein Nazari, Abbas Roozbahani, Seied Mehdy Hashemy Shahdany
Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-023-03526-9 · Citations: 50
Matched topics: runoff, water management
Abstract Rapid urbanization has increased impervious areas, leading to a higher flood hazard across cities worldwide. Low Impact Development (LID) practices have shown efficacy in reducing urban runoff; nevertheless, choosing the best combinations in terms of implementation cost and performance is of great importance. The present study introduces a framework based on green infrastructure, multi-objective optimization, and decision support tools to determine the most cost-effective LID solutio…
Evaluating the Efficacy of Different DEMs for Application in Flood Frequency and Risk Mapping of the Indian Coastal River Basin
Authors: Parth Gangani, Nikunj K. Mangukiya, Darshan Mehta, Nitin Muttil, Upaka Rathnayake
Journal: Climate · DOI: 10.3390/cli11050114 · Citations: 28
Matched topics: hydrology, river, streamflow, flood
Floods are among the most occurring natural hazards that cause severe damage to infrastructure and loss of life. In India, southern Gujarat is affected during the monsoon season, facing multiple flood events in the Damanganga basin. As the basin is one of the data-scarce regions, evaluating the globally available dataset for flood risk mitigation studies in the Damanganga basin is crucial. In the present study, we compared four open-source digital elevation models (DEMs) (SRTM, Cartosat-1, AL…
Rainstorm events trigger algal blooms in a large oligotrophic reservoir
Authors: Pengcheng Shi, Mengyuan Zhu, Rifu You, Huiyun Li, Wei Zou, Hai Xu et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129711 · Citations: 42
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Experimental study on water flooding mechanism in low permeability oil reservoirs based on nuclear magnetic resonance technology
Authors: Jianguang Wei, Dong Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Runnan Zhou
Journal: Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.127960 · Citations: 37
Matched topics: reservoir, flood
Abstract not available.
Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
This week’s 3 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.
In Defense of Metrics: Metrics Sufficiently Encode Typical Human Preferences Regarding Hydrological Model Performance
Authors: Martin Gauch, Frederik Kratzert, Oren Gilon, Hoshin V. Gupta, Juliane Mai, Grey Nearing et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2022wr033918 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, land surface model
Building accurate rainfall-runoff models is an integral part of hydrological science and practice. The variety of modeling goals and applications have led to a large suite of evaluation metrics for these models. Yet, hydrologists still put considerable trust into visual judgment, although it is unclear whether such judgment agrees or disagrees with existing quantitative metrics. In this study, we tasked 622 experts to compare and judge more than 14,000 pairs of hydrographs from 13 different m…
Oceanic mesoscale eddies as crucial drivers of global marine heatwaves
Authors: Ce Bian, Zhao Jing, Hong Wang, Lixin Wu, Zhaohui Chen, Bolan Gan et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38811-z · Citations: 67
Matched topics: earth system model
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme warm water events in the ocean, exerting devastating impacts on marine ecosystems. A comprehensive knowledge of physical processes controlling MHW life cycles is pivotal to improve MHW forecast capacity, yet it is still lacking. Here, we use a historical simulation from a global eddy-resolving climate model with improved representation of MHWs, and show that heat flux convergence by oceanic mesoscale eddies acts as a dominant driver of MHW life cy…
Embedding theory of reservoir computing and reducing reservoir network using time delays
Authors: Xing-Yue Duan, Ying Xiong, Siyang Leng, Jürgen Kurths, Wei Lin, Huanfei Ma
Journal: Physical Review Research · DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.l022041 · Citations: 49
Matched topics: reservoir
The dynamics of reservoir computing (RC), a compact recurrent neural network, is validated as a higher-dimensional embedding of the input nonlinear dynamics. Based on this rigorous validation, a delayed RC is established with a significantly reduced network size and a promoted memory capacity, which can achieve dynamics reconstruction even in the reservoir with a single neuron.
Hydropower and Renewable Energy-Water Systems
The integration of hydropower with renewable energy systems is addressed by 1 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.
Fish biodiversity declines with dam development in the Lower Mekong Basin
Authors: Ratha Sor, Peng Bun Ngor, Sovan Lek, Kimsan Chann, Romduol Khoeun, Sudeep Chandra et al.
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35665-9 · Citations: 42
Matched topics: hydrology, hydropower
Hydropower dams are a source of renewable energy, but dam development and hydropower generation negatively affect freshwater ecosystems, biodiversity, and food security. We assess the effects of hydropower dam development on spatial-temporal changes in fish biodiversity from 2007 to 2014 in the Sekong, Sesan, and Srepok Basins-major tributaries to the Mekong River. By analyzing a 7-year fish monitoring dataset, and regressing fish abundance and biodiversity trends against cumulative number of…
Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
Water management research this week spans 5 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.
Sources and identification of microplastics in soils
Authors: Weixin Fan, Chunsheng Qiu, Qian Qu, Xiangang Hu, Mu Li, Ziwei Gao et al.
Journal: Soil & Environmental Health · DOI: 10.1016/j.seh.2023.100019 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: runoff
Large-scale production, rapid consumption, insufficient recovery and management, and slow degradation lead to a large accumulation of plastic waste and microplastics. Microplastics are characterized as stable, small, and having a large specific surface area and strong hydrophobicity. They are carriers of many hydrophobic organic pollutants, heavy metals, pathogenic bacteria and drug resistance genes. Worldwide, microplastic pollution in soils has attracted much attention. The progress and per…
Improving water use efficiency in vertical farming: Effects of growing systems, far-red radiation and planting density on lettuce cultivation
Authors: Laura Carotti, Alessandro Pistillo, Ilaria Zauli, Davide Meneghello, Michael Martin, Giuseppina Pennisi et al.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108365 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: water management
Vertical farms (VFs) are innovative urban production facilities consisting of multi-level indoor systems equipped with artificial lighting in which all the environmental conditions are controlled independently from the external climate. VFs are generally provided with a closed loop fertigation system to optimize the use of water and nutrients. The objective of this study, performed within an experimental VF at the University of Bologna, was to quantify the water use efficiency (WUE, ratio bet…
Groundwater Depletion Rate Over China During 1965–2016: The Long‐Term Trend and Inter‐annual Variation
Authors: Zhongwei Huang, Xing Yuan, Siao Sun, Guoyong Leng, Qiuhong Tang
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2022jd038109 · Citations: 40
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management, land surface model
Abstract Many countries have experienced the increase of groundwater depletion rate (GWDR), posing great challenges to the environment and society. Given the slow variation of groundwater, long‐term estimation of GWDR at high‐resolution is critical for sustainable managements of regional water resources and risks of hydrological extremes in a changing climate. However, limited in‐situ and satellite observations and uncertainties from hydrological model simulations prohibit reliable estimation…
Challenges for Circular Economy under the EU 2020/741 Wastewater Reuse Regulation
Authors: Julio Berbel, Enrique Mesa‐Pérez, Pedro Simón
Journal: Global Challenges · DOI: 10.1002/gch2.202200232 · Citations: 52
Matched topics: water management
Wastewater reuse is seen as an opportunity to support a circular economy and optimize water resources. However, the use of wastewater is limited by the need for the proper protection of health and the environment and demands a certain minimum quality of treated reclaimed water. The objective of this work is to evaluate the opportunities both for the agents in the water treatment chain (from municipalities to farmers) and for technology providers under the recently approved Regulation EU-2020/…
Using PROMETHEE Method for Multi-Criteria Decision Making: Applications and Procedures
Authors: Hamed Taherdoost
Journal: Iris Journal of Economics & Business Management · DOI: 10.33552/ijebm.2023.01.000502 · Citations: 47
Matched topics: hydrology, water management
PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation) is one of the main MCDM methods helping decision-makers to investigate a set of alternatives considering different criteria. This method is particularly useful when the decision-makers need to compare a set of alternatives based on multiple criteria. The PROMETHEE method has been applied in various fields, including business, finance, hydrology, and water management. In business, for instance, PROMETHEE can be used t…
Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
This theme encompasses 10 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.
Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink
Authors: Judith A. Rosentreter, Goulven G. Laruelle, Hermann W. Bange, Thomas S. Bianchi, Julius Busecke, Wei‐Jun Cai et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01682-9 · Citations: 225
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Soil Loss Estimation
Authors: K. G. Renard, Leonard J. Lane, G. R. Foster, J. M. Laflen
Journal: ** · DOI: 10.1201/9781003418177-9 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: runoff
Zingg is often credited with the development of the first erosion-prediction equation used to evaluate erosion problems and select conservation practices to reduce excessive erosion. RUSLE is a major revision of the USLE. While retaining the equation structure of the USLE, several concepts from process-based erosion modeling have been incorporated in RUSLE to improve erosion predictions. Roughness and clodiness of soils also affect the degree and rate of soil sealing by raindrop impact. Rough…
Collective enhancement in hydrophobicity and electrical conductivity of gas diffusion layer and the electrochemical performance of PEMFCs
Authors: Xueliang Wang, Zhiguo Qu, Guofu Ren
Journal: Journal of Power Sources · DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233077 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: water management, surface water
Abstract not available.
Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations
Authors: Anna Kukkola, Robert L. Runkel, Uwe Schneidewind, Sheila F. Murphy, Liam Kelleher, Gregory H. Sambrook Smith et al.
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120112 · Citations: 53
Matched topics: river, water management, surface water
While microplastic inputs into rivers are assumed to be correlated with anthropogenic activities and to accumulate towards the sea, the impacts of water management on downstream microplastic transport are largely unexplored. A comparative study of microplastic abundance in Boulder Creek (BC), and its less urbanized tributary South Boulder Creek (SBC), (Colorado USA), characterized the downstream evolution of microplastics in surface water and sediments, evaluating the effects of urbanization …
iHydroSlide3D v1.0: an advanced hydrological–geotechnical model for hydrological simulation and three-dimensional landslide prediction
Authors: Guoding Chen, Ke Zhang, Sheng Wang, Yi Xia, Lijun Chao
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-2915-2023 · Citations: 52
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow
Abstract. Forecasting flood–landslide cascading disasters in flood- and landslide-prone regions is an important topic within the scientific community. Existing hydrological–geotechnical models mainly employ infinite or static 3D stability models, and very few models have incorporated the 3D landslide model into a distributed hydrological model. In this work, we modified a 3D landslide model to account for slope stability under various soil wetness states and then coupled it with the Coupled R…
Predicting soil erosion and deposition on sloping farmland with different shapes in northeast China by using 137Cs
Authors: Yingli Shen, Ju Gu, Gang Liu, Xiaokang Wang, Hongqiang Shi, Chengbo Shu et al.
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2023.107238 · Citations: 57
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
Controls on the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rainfall‐Runoff Event Characteristics—A Large Sample of Catchments Across Great Britain
Authors: Yanchen Zheng, Gemma Coxon, Ross Woods, Jianzhu Li, Ping Feng
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2022wr033226 · Citations: 34
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, streamflow, land surface model, surface water
Abstract This study reveals the spatiotemporal variability of event characteristics and their controls from 290,743 rainfall‐runoff events across 431 Great Britain catchments. Metrics characterizing event runoff coefficient, event timescale and normalized peak discharge and their mean, variability and seasonality statistics are extracted to quantify event characteristics. Using random forest models, we find climate attributes are most influential in controlling the spatial pattern, with land …
Sediment yield estimation and evaluating the best management practices in Nashe watershed, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
Authors: Megersa Kebede Leta, Muhammad Waseem, Khawar Rehman, Jens Tränckner
Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s10661-023-11337-z · Citations: 37
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, hydropower
Sediment yield estimation along with identification of soil erosion mechanisms is essential for developing sophisticated management approaches, assessing, and balancing different management scenarios and prioritizing better soil and water conservation planning and management. At the watershed scale, land management practices are commonly utilized to minimize sediment loads. The goal of this research was to estimate sediment yield and prioritize the spatial dispersion of sediment-producing hot…
Why do our rainfall–runoff models keep underestimating the peak flows?
Authors: András Bàrdossy, Faizan Anwar
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-1987-2023 · Citations: 38
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, streamflow
Abstract. In this paper, the question of how the interpolation of precipitation in space by using various spatial gauge densities affects the rainfall–runoff model discharge if all other input variables are kept constant is investigated. The main focus was on the peak flows. This was done by using a physically based model as the reference with a reconstructed spatially variable precipitation model and a conceptual model calibrated to match the reference model’s output as closely as possible. …
Human activities change suspended sediment concentration along rivers
Authors: John Gardner, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Simon Topp, Xiao Yang, Matthew Ross, Sagy Cohen
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd8d8 · Citations: 45
Matched topics: river
Abstract Humans have drastically disrupted the global sediment cycle. Suspended sediment flux and concentration are key controls over both river morphology and river ecosystems. Our ability to understand sediment dynamics within river corridors is limited by observations. Here, we present RivSed, a database of satellite observations of suspended sediment concentration (SSC) from 1984 to 2018 across 460 large (>60 m wide) US rivers that provides a new, spatially explicit view of river sedim…
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| Metric | Count |
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 814 |
| After deduplication | 578 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 528 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Nature Climate Change | 2 |
| Nature Communications | 2 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 2 |
| Water Resources Research | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Science | 1 |
| Reviews of Geophysics | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 1 |
| Soil & Environmental Health | 1 |
| Corporate Governance An International Review | 1 |
| Plant Signaling & Behavior | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Journal of Power Sources | 1 |
| Land | 1 |
| Resources Policy | 1 |
| bioRxiv | 1 |
| Insects | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| Geoscientific model development | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 1 |
| CATENA | 1 |
| Journal of Flood Risk Management | 1 |
| Water Resources Management | 1 |
| The Cryosphere | 1 |
| Global Challenges | 1 |
| Iris Journal of Economics & Business Management | 1 |
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Physical Review Research | 1 |
| Journal of Water and Climate Change | 1 |
| Scientific Reports | 1 |
| Journal of Building Engineering | 1 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Natural hazards and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Horticultural Plant Journal | 1 |
| Total Environment Research Themes | 1 |
| Climate | 1 |
| AMBIO | 1 |
| Weather and Climate Extremes | 1 |
| Energy | 1 |
| Physical review. B./Physical review. B | 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