Weekly Literature Review
Week 16 · April 13–April 19, 2020
50 relevant papers found across 5 themes
Executive Summary
This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Sea-level rise exponentially increases coastal flood frequency
- Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures
- AHP-GIS analysis for flood hazard assessment of the communities nearby the world heritage site on Ayutthaya Island, Thailand
- Data‐driven flood emulation: Speeding up urban flood predictions by deep convolutional neural networks
- High Resolution Modeling of River‐Floodplain‐Reservoir Inundation Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin
- Estimation of Direct and Indirect Economic Losses Caused by a Flood With Long‐Lasting Inundation: Application to the 2011 Thailand Flood
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios
- Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought
- Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production
- Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought
- On the essentials of drought in a changing climate
- Proline metabolic dynamics and implications in drought tolerance of peanut plants
- Toward Monitoring Short-Term Droughts Using a Novel Daily Scale, Standardized Antecedent Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index
- Long-term thinning effects on tree growth, drought response and water use efficiency at two Aleppo pine plantations in Spain
- Metabolomics Response for Drought Stress Tolerance in Chinese Wheat Genotypes (Triticum aestivum)
- Forest browning trends in response to drought in a highly threatened mediterranean landscape of South America
- Selection and screening of drought tolerant high yielding chickpea genotypes based on physio-biochemical indices and multi-environmental yield trials
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Climate change causes critical transitions and irreversible alterations of mountain forests
- Unprecedented atmospheric conditions (1948–2019) drive the 2019 exceptional melting season over the Greenland ice sheet
- Hybrid particle swarm optimization with extreme learning machine for daily reference evapotranspiration prediction from limited climatic data
- Archaeology, climate, and global change in the Age of Humans
- Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change?
- Golden carbon of Sargassum forests revealed as an opportunity for climate change mitigation
- Expanding use of archaeology in climate change response by changing its social environment
- Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean
- Estimating the potential for coral adaptation to global warming across the Indo‐West Pacific
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Deep learning convolutional neural network in rainfall–runoff modelling
- Land Suitability Assessment and Agricultural Production Sustainability Using Machine Learning Models
- Flexible watershed simulation with the Raven hydrological modelling framework
- More Than a First Flush: Urban Creek Storm Hydrographs Demonstrate Broad Contaminant Pollutographs
- A predictive model of recreational water quality based on adaptive synthetic sampling algorithms and machine learning
- Water Management and Sustainability
- High resolution temporal profiles in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research
- Arctic Sea Ice in CMIP6
- Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers
- Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series
- Antarctic Sea Ice Area in CMIP6
- Testing the EKC hypothesis for the top six hydropower energy-consuming countries: Evidence from Fourier Bootstrap ARDL procedure
- The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming
- Wetland buffer zones for nitrogen and phosphorus retention: Impacts of soil type, hydrology and vegetation.
- Impact of biochar on greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in corn grown under drip irrigation with mulching
- Winter Arctic Sea Ice Thickness From ICESat‐2 Freeboards
- Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning
- Development of Future Heatwaves for Different Hazard Thresholds
- Current Advances of Polymer Composites for Water Treatment and Desalination
- Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero‐flow stream gage readings
- Borehole Equilibration: Testing a New Method to Monitor the Isotopic Composition of Tree Xylem Water in situ
- Sustainability assessment of hydropower projects
- Sustainable water management for cross-border resources: The Balkhash Lake Basin of Central Asia, 1931–2015
- Thirty-five years of restoring Great Lakes Areas of Concern: Gradual progress, hopeful future
- Dynamical and thermodynamical drivers of variability in European summer heat extremes
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 6 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Taherkhani, Tiggeloven et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Sea-level rise exponentially increases coastal flood frequency
Authors: Mohsen Taherkhani, Sean Vitousek, Patrick L. Barnard, L. Neil Frazer, Tiffany R. Anderson, Charles H. Fletcher
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62188-4 · Citations: 321
Matched topics: hydrology, flood, earth system model
century for 90% of the U.S. coast. Our findings underscore the need for immediate planning and adaptation to mitigate the societal impacts of future flooding.
Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures
Authors: Timothy Tiggeloven, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, Dirk Eilander, Gilles Erkens, Eskedar Gebremedhin et al.
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-20-1025-2020 · Citations: 216
Matched topics: flood, earth system model
Abstract. Coastal flood hazard and exposure are expected to increase over the course of the 21st century, leading to increased coastal flood risk. In order to limit the increase in future risk, or even reduce coastal flood risk, adaptation is necessary. Here, we present a framework to evaluate the future benefits and costs of structural protection measures at the global scale, which accounts for the influence of different flood risk drivers (namely sea-level rise, subsidence, and socioeconomi…
AHP-GIS analysis for flood hazard assessment of the communities nearby the world heritage site on Ayutthaya Island, Thailand
Authors: Suthirat Kittipongvises, Athit Phetrak, Patchapun Rattanapun, Katja Brundiers, James L. Buizer, R. Shep Melnick
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101612 · Citations: 162
Matched topics: runoff, flood
Abstract not available.
Data‐driven flood emulation: Speeding up urban flood predictions by deep convolutional neural networks
Authors: Zifeng Guo, J. Leitão, N. Simões, V. Moosavi
Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12684 · Citations: 162
Matched topics: flood
Computational complexity has been the bottleneck for applying physically based simulations in large urban areas with high spatial resolution for efficient and systematic flooding analyses and risk assessment. To overcome the issue of long computational time and accelerate the prediction process, this paper proposes that the prediction of maximum water depth can be considered an image‐to‐image translation problem in which water depth rasters are generated using the information learned from dat…
High Resolution Modeling of River‐Floodplain‐Reservoir Inundation Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin
Authors: Sanghoon Shin, Yadu Pokhrel, Dai Yamazaki, Xiaodong Huang, Nathan Torbick, Jiaguo Qi et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026449 · Citations: 140
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, streamflow, reservoir, surface water
Abstract Numerous studies have examined the changes in streamflow in the Mekong River Basin (MRB) using observations and hydrological modeling; however, there is a lack of integrated modeling studies that explicitly simulate the natural and human‐induced changes in flood dynamics over the entire basin. Here we simulate the river‐floodplain‐reservoir inundation dynamics over the MRB for 1979–2016 period using a newly integrated, high‐resolution (~5 km) river hydrodynamics‐reservoir operation m…
Estimation of Direct and Indirect Economic Losses Caused by a Flood With Long‐Lasting Inundation: Application to the 2011 Thailand Flood
Authors: Masahiro Tanoue, Ryo Taguchi, S. Nakata, Satoshi WATANABE, Shinichiro Fujimori, Yukiko Hirabayashi
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026092 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: hydrology, flood, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract River floods are common natural disasters that cause serious economic damage worldwide. In addition to direct economic damage, such as the destruction of physical assets, floods with long‐lasting inundation cause direct and indirect economic losses within and outside the affected area. Direct economic losses include loss of opportunity, due to interruption of business activities, and the costs associated with emergency measures such as cleaning, while indirect economic losses affect …
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 11 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Cook, Williams et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios
Authors: Benjamin I. Cook, Justin Mankin, Kate Marvel, Park Williams, Jason E. Smerdon, Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2019ef001461 · Citations: 1010
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, drought
Abstract There is strong evidence that climate change will increase drought risk and severity, but these conclusions depend on the regions, seasons, and drought metrics being considered. We analyze changes in drought across the hydrologic cycle (precipitation, soil moisture, and runoff) in projections from Phase Six of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The multimodel ensemble shows robust drying in the mean state across many regions and metrics by the end of the 21st century,…
Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought
Authors: Park Williams, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Benjamin I. Cook, John T. Abatzoglou, Kasey Bolles et al.
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz9600 · Citations: 954
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, drought, land surface model, earth system model
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA) motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of anthropogenic climate change. We use hydrological modeling and new 1200-year tree-ring reconstructions of summer soil moisture to demonstrate that the 2000-2018 SWNA drought was the second driest 19-year period since 800 CE, exceeded only by a late-1500s megadrought. The megadrought-like trajectory of 2000-2018 soil moisture was driven …
Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production
Authors: F. D. de Vries, R. Griffiths, C. Knight, O. Nicolitch, Alex Williams
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5192 · Citations: 687
Matched topics: drought
Root-associated microbes can improve plant growth, and they offer the potential to increase crop resilience to future drought. Although our understanding of the complex feedbacks between plant and microbial responses to drought is advancing, most of our knowledge comes from non-crop plants in controlled experiments. We propose that future research efforts should attempt to quantify relationships between plant and microbial traits, explicitly focus on food crops, and include longer-term experi…
Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought
Authors: T. Brodribb, J. Powers, H. Cochard, B. Choat
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7631 · Citations: 596
Matched topics: drought
Trees are the living foundations on which most terrestrial biodiversity is built. Central to the success of trees are their woody bodies, which connect their elevated photosynthetic canopies with the essential belowground activities of water and nutrient acquisition. The slow construction of these carbon-dense, woody skeletons leads to a slow generation time, leaving trees and forests highly susceptible to rapid changes in climate. Other long-lived, sessile organisms such as corals appear to …
On the essentials of drought in a changing climate
Authors: T. Ault
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5492 · Citations: 479
Matched topics: drought
Droughts of the future are likely to be more frequent, severe, and longer lasting than they have been in recent decades, but drought risks will be lower if greenhouse gas emissions are cut aggressively. This review presents a synopsis of the tools required for understanding the statistics, physics, and dynamics of drought and its causes in a historical context. Although these tools have been applied most extensively in the United States, Europe, and the Amazon region, they have not been as wi…
Proline metabolic dynamics and implications in drought tolerance of peanut plants
Authors: Ana Laura Furlan, Eliana Bianucci, Walter Giordano, Stella Castro, Donald Becker
Journal: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.04.010 · Citations: 255
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Toward Monitoring Short-Term Droughts Using a Novel Daily Scale, Standardized Antecedent Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index
Authors: Jun Li, Zhaoli Wang, Xushu Wu, Chong‐Yu Xu, Shenglian Guo, Xiaohong Chen
Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-19-0298.1 · Citations: 176
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Recent events across many regions around the world have shown that short-term droughts (i.e., daily or weekly) with sudden occurrence can lead to huge losses to a wide array of environmental and societal sectors. However, the most commonly used drought indices can only identify drought at the monthly scale. Here, we introduced a daily scale drought index, that is, the standardized antecedent precipitation evapotranspiration index (SAPEI) that utilizes precipitation and potential evap…
Long-term thinning effects on tree growth, drought response and water use efficiency at two Aleppo pine plantations in Spain
Authors: Àngela Manrique‐Alba, Santiago Beguerı́a, Antonio J. Molina, María González-Sanchis, Miquel Tomàs‐Burguera, Antonio D. del Campo et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138536 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Metabolomics Response for Drought Stress Tolerance in Chinese Wheat Genotypes (Triticum aestivum)
Authors: Xiaoyang Guo, Zeyu Xin, Tiegang Yang, Xingli Ma, Yang Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang et al.
Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants9040520 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: drought
Metabolomics is an effective biotechnological tool that can be used to attain comprehensive information on metabolites. In this study, the profiles of metabolites produced by wheat seedlings in response to drought stress were investigated using an untargeted approach with ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) to determine various physiological processes related to drought tolerance from the cross between drought-tolerant genotype (HX10) and drought-sensitive geno…
Forest browning trends in response to drought in a highly threatened mediterranean landscape of South America
Authors: Alejandro Miranda, Antonio Lara, Adison Altamirano, Carlos Di Bella, Mauro E. González, J. Julio Camarero
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106401 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: hydrology, drought, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Selection and screening of drought tolerant high yielding chickpea genotypes based on physio-biochemical indices and multi-environmental yield trials
Authors: Tariq Shah, Muhammad Imran, Babar Manzoor Atta, Muhammad Ashraf, Amjad Hameed, Irem Waqar et al.
Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02381-9 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: drought
BACKGROUND: Chickpea is one of the major legume crops being cultivated in the arid and semi-arid regions of Pakistan. It is mainly grown on the marginal areas where, terminal drought stress is one of the serious threats to its productivity. For defining the appropriate selection criteria for screening drought tolerant chickpea genotypes, present study was conducted. Distinct chickpea germplasm was collected from different pulses breeding institutes of Pakistan and evaluated for drought tolera…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 9 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Climate change causes critical transitions and irreversible alterations of mountain forests
Authors: Katharina Albrich, Werner Rammer, Rupert Seidl
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15118 · Citations: 262
Matched topics: climate change
Mountain forests are at particular risk of climate change impacts due to their temperature limitation and high exposure to warming. At the same time, their complex topography may help to buffer the effects of climate change and create climate refugia. Whether climate change can lead to critical transitions of mountain forest ecosystems and whether such transitions are reversible remain incompletely understood. We investigated the resilience of forest composition and size structure to climate …
Unprecedented atmospheric conditions (1948–2019) drive the 2019 exceptional melting season over the Greenland ice sheet
Authors: Marco Tedesco, Xavier Fettweis
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-1209-2020 · Citations: 216
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff
Abstract. Understanding the role of atmospheric circulation anomalies on the surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is fundamental for improving estimates of its current and future contributions to sea level rise. Here, we show, using a combination of remote sensing observations, regional climate model outputs, reanalysis data, and artificial neural networks, that unprecedented atmospheric conditions (1948–2019) occurring in the summer of 2019 over Greenland promoted new recor…
Hybrid particle swarm optimization with extreme learning machine for daily reference evapotranspiration prediction from limited climatic data
Authors: Bin Zhu, Yu Feng, Daozhi Gong, Shouzheng Jiang, Lu Zhao, Ningbo Cui
Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105430 · Citations: 195
Matched topics: hydrology, water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Archaeology, climate, and global change in the Age of Humans
Authors: Torben C. Rick, Daniel H. Sandweiss
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003612117 · Citations: 152
Matched topics: climate change
We live in an age characterized by increasing environmental, social, economic, and political uncertainty. Human societies face significant challenges, ranging from climate change to food security, biodiversity declines and extinction, and political instability. In response, scientists, policy makers, and the general public are seeking new interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches to evaluate and identify meaningful solutions to these global challenges. Underrecognized among these chal…
Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change?
Authors: Gareth Rees, Annika Hofgaard, Stéphane Boudreau, David M. Cairns, Karen A. Harper, Steven D. Mamet et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15113 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: climate change
m/year) unlikely. The lack of empirical evidence for swift forest relocation and the discrepancy between CCV and FTE response contradict equilibrium model-based assumptions and warrant caution when assessing global-change-related biotic and abiotic implications, including land-atmosphere feedbacks and carbon sequestration.
Golden carbon of Sargassum forests revealed as an opportunity for climate change mitigation
Authors: Lidiane Gouvêa, Jorge Assis, Carlos Frederico D. Gurgel, Ester Á. Serrão, Thiago César Lima Silveira, Rui Santos et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138745 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Expanding use of archaeology in climate change response by changing its social environment
Authors: Marcy Rockman, Carrie Hritz
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914213117 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: climate change
Climate science has outlined targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions necessary to provide a substantial chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change on both natural and human systems. How to reach those targets, however, requires balancing physical realities of the natural environment with the complexity of the human social environment, including histories, cultures, and values. Archaeology is the study of interactions of natural and social environments through time and a…
Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean
Authors: Kristina Douglass, Jago Cooper
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914211117 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, and changes in distribution and health of marine organisms are among the most significant processes affecting island communities worldwide. On islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean (SWIO), however, today’s climate change impacts are magnified by historical environmental injustice and colonial legacies, which have heightened the vul…
Estimating the potential for coral adaptation to global warming across the Indo‐West Pacific
Authors: Mikhail V. Matz, Eric A. Treml, Benjamin C. Haller
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15060 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: earth system model
The potential of reef-building corals to adapt to increasing sea-surface temperatures is often debated but has rarely been comprehensively modeled on a region-wide scale. We used individual-based simulations to model adaptation to warming in a coral metapopulation comprising 680 reefs and representing the whole of the Central Indo-West Pacific. Encouragingly, some reefs-most notably Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, New Caledonia and the southern half of the Great Barrier Reef-exhibited high capacity f…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 5 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Deep learning convolutional neural network in rainfall–runoff modelling
Authors: S. Van, Hoang-Minh Le, Dat Vi Thanh, Thanh Duc Dang, Ho Huu Loc, D. T. Anh
Journal: Journal of Hydroinformatics · DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2020.095 · Citations: 242
Matched topics: runoff
Rainfall–runoff modelling is complicated due to numerous complex interactions and feedback in the water cycle among precipitation and evapotranspiration processes, and also geophysical characteristics. Consequently, the lack of geophysical characteristics such as soil properties leads to difficulties in developing physical and analytical models when traditional statistical methods cannot simulate rainfall–runoff accurately. Machine learning techniques with data-driven methods, which can captu…
Land Suitability Assessment and Agricultural Production Sustainability Using Machine Learning Models
Authors: Ruhollah Taghizadeh‐Mehrjardi, Kamal Nabiollahi, Leila Rasoli, Ruth Kerry, Thomas Scholten
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10040573 · Citations: 195
Matched topics: earth system model
Land suitability assessment is essential for increasing production and planning a sustainable agricultural system, but such information is commonly scarce in the semi-arid regions of Iran. Therefore, our aim is to assess land suitability for two main crops (i.e., rain-fed wheat and barley) based on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) “land suitability assessment framework” for 65 km2 of agricultural land in Kurdistan province, Iran. Soil samples were collected from genetic layers of 1…
Flexible watershed simulation with the Raven hydrological modelling framework
Authors: James R. Craig, Genevieve Brown, Robert Chlumsky, R. Wayne Jenkinson, Georg Jost, Konhee Lee et al.
Journal: Environmental Modelling & Software · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104728 · Citations: 182
Matched topics: hydrologic model, surface water
Abstract not available.
More Than a First Flush: Urban Creek Storm Hydrographs Demonstrate Broad Contaminant Pollutographs
Authors: Katherine T. Peter, Fan Hou, Zhenyu Tian, Christopher L. Wu, Matt Goehring, Fengmao Liu et al.
Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00872 · Citations: 132
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, water management
Stormwater runoff clearly impacts water quality and ecological health of urban receiving waters. Subsequent management efforts are often guided by conceptual models of contaminant “first flushes”, defined by disproportionate concentrations or mass loads early in the storm hydrograph. However, studies examining the dynamics of contaminant transport and receiving water hydrology have primarily focused on “traditional” stormwater contaminants and point sources, with less evaluation of chemically…
A predictive model of recreational water quality based on adaptive synthetic sampling algorithms and machine learning
Authors: Tingting Xu, Giovanni Coco, M. W. Neale
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115788 · Citations: 121
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 19 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
High resolution temporal profiles in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research
Authors: Monica Crippa, Efisio Solazzo, Ganlin Huang, Diego Guizzardi, Ernest N. Koffi, Marilena Muntean et al.
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0462-2 · Citations: 755
Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model, earth system model
Emissions into the atmosphere from human activities show marked temporal variations, from inter-annual to hourly levels. The consolidated practice of calculating yearly emissions follows the same temporal allocation of the underlying annual statistics. However, yearly emissions might not reflect heavy pollution episodes, seasonal trends, or any time-dependant atmospheric process. This study develops high-time resolution profiles for air pollutants and greenhouse gases co- emitted by anthropog…
Arctic Sea Ice in CMIP6
Authors: Dirk Notz, SIMIP Community
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2019gl086749 · Citations: 710
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract We examine CMIP6 simulations of Arctic sea‐ice area and volume. We find that CMIP6 models produce a wide spread of mean Arctic sea‐ice area, capturing the observational estimate within the multimodel ensemble spread. The CMIP6 multimodel ensemble mean provides a more realistic estimate of the sensitivity of September Arctic sea‐ice area to a given amount of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions and to a given amount of global warming, compared with earlier CMIP experiments. Still, most CMIP6 …
Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers
Authors: Kendra K. McLauchlan, Philip E. Higuera, Jessica Miesel, Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer A. Schweitzer, J. K. Shuman et al.
Journal: Journal of Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13403 · Citations: 678
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. It also presents a rapidly growing societal challenge, due to both increasingly destructive wildfires and fire exclusion in fire‐dependent ecosystems. As an ecological process, fire integrates complex feedbacks among biological, social and geophysical processes, requiring coordination …
Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series
Authors: Amy Pickens, Matthew C. Hansen, Matthew Hancher, Stephen V. Stehman, Alexandra Tyukavina, Peter Potapov et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111792 · Citations: 478
Matched topics: surface water
Global surface water extent is changing due to natural processes as well as anthropogenic drivers such as reservoir construction and conversion of wetlands to agriculture. However, the extent and change of global inland surface water are not well quantified. To address this, we classified land and water in all 3.4 million Landsat 5, 7, and 8 scenes from 1999 to 2018 and performed a time-series analysis to produce maps that characterize inter-annual and intra-annual open surface water dynamics…
Antarctic Sea Ice Area in CMIP6
Authors: Lettie A. Roach, Jakob Dörr, Caroline Holmes, François Massonnet, Ed Blockley, Dirk Notz et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2019gl086729 · Citations: 388
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Fully coupled climate models have long shown a wide range of Antarctic sea ice states and evolution over the satellite era. Here, we present a high‐level evaluation of Antarctic sea ice in 40 models from the most recent phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). Many models capture key characteristics of the mean seasonal cycle of sea ice area (SIA), but some simulate implausible historical mean states compared to satellite observations, leading to large intermodel s…
Testing the EKC hypothesis for the top six hydropower energy-consuming countries: Evidence from Fourier Bootstrap ARDL procedure
Authors: Uğur Korkut Pata, Mücahit Aydın
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121699 · Citations: 267
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract not available.
The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming
Authors: Christian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov, Juraj Balkovič, Rastislav Skalský, Piero Visconti, Philippe Ciais et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0505-x · Citations: 248
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, irrigation, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Wetland buffer zones for nitrogen and phosphorus retention: Impacts of soil type, hydrology and vegetation.
Authors: C. Walton, D. Zak, J. Audet, R. J. Petersen, Jelena Lange, C. Oehmke et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138709 · Citations: 175
Matched topics: hydrology
Wetland buffer zones (WBZs) are riparian areas that form a transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments and are well-known to remove agricultural water pollutants such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). This review attempts to merge and compare data on the nutrient load, nutrient loss and nutrient removal and/or retention from multiple studies of various WBZs termed as riparian mineral soil wetlands, groundwater-charged peatlands (i.e. fens) and floodplains. Two different soil typ…
Impact of biochar on greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in corn grown under drip irrigation with mulching
Authors: Wei Yang, Gary Feng, D.M. Miles, Lihua Gao, Yonglin Jia, Changjian Li et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138752 · Citations: 172
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Winter Arctic Sea Ice Thickness From ICESat‐2 Freeboards
Authors: Alek Petty, N. T. Kurtz, R. Kwok, T. Markus, T. Neumann
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans · DOI: 10.1029/2019jc015764 · Citations: 171
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite‐2 (ICESat‐2) mission was launched in September 2018 with the primary goal of monitoring our rapidly changing polar regions. The sole instrument onboard, the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System, is now providing routine, very high‐resolution, surface elevation data across the globe, including the Arctic and Southern oceans. In this study, we demonstrate our new processing chain fo…
Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning
Authors: Adrian Wicki, Peter Lehmann, Christian Hauck, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Peter Waldner, Manfred Stähli
Journal: Landslides · DOI: 10.1007/s10346-020-01400-y · Citations: 164
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract In mountainous terrain, rainfall-induced landslides pose a serious risk to people and infrastructure. Regional landslide early warning systems (LEWS) have proven to be a cost-efficient tool to inform the public about the imminent landslide danger. While most operational LEWS are based on rainfall exceedance thresholds only, recent studies have demonstrated an improvement of the forecast quality after the inclusion of soil hydrological information. In this study, the potential of in s…
Development of Future Heatwaves for Different Hazard Thresholds
Authors: Martha M. Vogel, Jakob Zscheischler, Erich Fischer, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2019jd032070 · Citations: 150
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
thresholds indicates that seasonal mean warming alone can explain large parts of the warming of extremes. The strong sensitivity of simulated future heatwaves to hazard thresholds should be considered in the projections of potential future heat-related impacts.
Current Advances of Polymer Composites for Water Treatment and Desalination
Authors: Mohamed R. Berber
Journal: Journal of Chemistry · DOI: 10.1155/2020/7608423 · Citations: 149
Matched topics: surface water
Over the past five years, a lot of research activities in polymer composites were done in order to improve environmental sustainability and to present advantages for commercial applications of water treatment and desalination. Polymers offered tunable properties, improved processability, remarkable stability, high surface area for fast decontamination, selectivity to eliminate different pollutants, and cost-cutting of water treatment. Hence, the development of polymeric materials is one of th…
Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero‐flow stream gage readings
Authors: Margaret Zimmer, Kendra E. Kaiser, Joanna R. Blaszczak, Samuel C. Zipper, John C. Hammond, Ken M. Fritz et al.
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1436 · Citations: 132
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Streamflow observations can be used to understand, predict, and contextualize hydrologic, ecological, and biogeochemical processes and conditions in streams. Stream gages are point measurements along rivers where streamflow is measured, and are often used to infer upstream watershed-scale processes. When stream gages read zero, this may indicate that the stream has fully dried; however, zero-flow readings can also be caused by a wide range of other factors. Our ability to identify whether or …
Borehole Equilibration: Testing a New Method to Monitor the Isotopic Composition of Tree Xylem Water in situ
Authors: John D. Marshall, Matthias Cuntz, Matthias Beyer, Maren Dubbert, Kathrin Kuehnhammer
Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00358 · Citations: 119
Matched topics: streamflow, earth system model
Forest water use has been difficult to quantify. One promising approach is to measure the isotopic composition of plant water, e.g., the transpired water vapor or xylem water. Because different water sources, e.g., groundwater versus shallow soil water, often show different isotopic signatures, isotopes can be used to investigate the depths from which plants take up their water and how this changes over time. Traditionally such measurements have relied on the extraction of wood samples, which…
Sustainability assessment of hydropower projects
Authors: Himanshu Nautiyal, Varun Goel
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121661 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract not available.
Sustainable water management for cross-border resources: The Balkhash Lake Basin of Central Asia, 1931–2015
Authors: Weili Duan, Shan Zou, Yaning Chen, Daniel Nover, Gonghuan Fang, Yi Wang
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121614 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: runoff, water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Thirty-five years of restoring Great Lakes Areas of Concern: Gradual progress, hopeful future
Authors: John H. Hartig, Gail Krantzberg, Peter J. Alsip
Journal: Journal of Great Lakes Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2020.04.004 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: water management
In 1985, remedial action plan development was initiated to restore impaired beneficial uses in 42 Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs). A 43rd AOC was designated in 1991. AOC restoration has not been easy as it requires networks focused on gathering stakeholders, coordinating efforts, and ensuring use restoration. As of 2019, seven AOCs were delisted, two were designated as Areas of Concern in Recovery, and 79 of 137 known use impairments in Canadian AOCs and 90 of 255 known use impairments in…
Dynamical and thermodynamical drivers of variability in European summer heat extremes
Authors: Laura Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Wolfgang A. Müller, Chao Li, Jochem Marotzke
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05233-2 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract We use the 100-member Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble (MPI-GE) to disentangle the contributions from colocated dynamic atmospheric conditions and local thermodynamic effects of moisture limitation as drivers of variability in European summer heat extremes. Using a novel extreme event definition, we find that heat extremes with respect to the evolving mean climate increase by 70% under a moderate warming scenario during the twenty-first century. With a multiple regression approach…
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| The Science of The Total Environment | 3 |
| Global Change Biology | 3 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 3 |
| Water Resources Research | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| Scientific Reports | 1 |
| Natural hazards and earth system sciences | 1 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 1 |
| Journal of Flood Risk Management | 1 |
| Earth s Future | 1 |
| Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrometeorology | 1 |
| Plants | 1 |
| Ecological Indicators | 1 |
| BMC Plant Biology | 1 |
| The cryosphere | 1 |
| Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 1 |
| Journal of Hydroinformatics | 1 |
| Agronomy | 1 |
| Environmental Modelling & Software | 1 |
| Environmental Science & Technology | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| Scientific Data | 1 |
| Journal of Ecology | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Science of the Total Environment | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans | 1 |
| Landslides | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 1 |
| Journal of Chemistry | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water | 1 |
| Frontiers in Plant Science | 1 |
| Journal of Great Lakes Research | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
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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