Weekly Literature Review
Week 33 · August 10–August 16, 2020
50 relevant papers found across 6 themes
Executive Summary
This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability
- Optimization of state-of-the-art fuzzy-metaheuristic ANFIS-based machine learning models for flood susceptibility prediction mapping in the Middle Ganga Plain, India.
- Identifying societal challenges in flood early warning systems
- Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China
- Sorting over flood risk and implications for policy reform
- Anthropogenic climate change and glacier lake outburst flood risk: local and global drivers and responsibilities for the case of lake Palcacocha, Peru
- Assessing human vulnerability to urban flood hazard using the analytic hierarchy process and geographic information system
- Quantification of flood mitigation services by urban green spaces using InVEST model: a case study of Hyderabad city, India
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Drought in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and trends in rainfall characteristics
- Dominance of summer monsoon flash droughts in India
- High-throughput phenotyping platform for analyzing drought tolerance in rice
- Global patterns of biomass allocation in woody species with different tolerances of shade and drought: evidence for multiple strategies
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw
- Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat
- Urban Climates and Climate Change
- Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest
- Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change
- Extreme rainfall in East Africa, October 2019–January 2020 and context under future climate change
- Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation
- Climate change mitigation potential of wetlands and the cost-effectiveness of their restoration
- The ERA5-Land soil temperature bias in permafrost regions
- The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future
- Homogenization of Structural Breaks in the Global ESA CCI Soil Moisture Multisatellite Climate Data Record
- Personal Stories Can Shift Climate Change Beliefs and Risk Perceptions: The Mediating Role of Emotion
- Relevance of Plant Growth Promoting Microorganisms and Their Derived Compounds, in the Face of Climate Change
- The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes
- Global Socioeconomic Risk of Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL‐ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics
- Heavy Precipitation over Italy from the Mediterranean Storm “Vaia” in October 2018: Assessing the Role of an Atmospheric River
- Quantifying the impact of vegetation changes on global terrestrial runoff using the Budyko framework
- Splash erosion affected by initial soil moisture and surface conditions under simulated rainfall
- Water Management and Sustainability
- The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500
- Increased likelihood of heat-induced large wildfires in the Mediterranean Basin
- Historical CO 2 emissions from land use and land cover change and their uncertainty
- Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water and sediments from two urban watersheds in Nevada, USA.
- Testing the EKC hypothesis for the top six hydropower energy-consuming countries: Evidence from Fourier Bootstrap ARDL procedure
- Evaluation of ecological city and analysis of obstacle factors under the background of high-quality development: Taking cities in the Yellow River Basin as examples
- Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource
- An Analytical Review of Different Approaches to Wastewater Discharge Standards with Particular Emphasis on Nutrients
- Landslides after wildfire: initiation, magnitude, and mobility
- Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss
- Groundwater level prediction in Apulia region (Southern Italy) using NARX neural network
- Impact of biochar on greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in corn grown under drip irrigation with mulching.
- FORUM: Unique Far-Infrared Satellite Observations to Better Understand How Earth Radiates Energy to Space
- The Value of Initial Condition Large Ensembles to Robust Adaptation Decision‐Making
- The rise of the democracy – authoritarianism cleavage and opposition coordination in Turkey (2014–2019)
- Exploiting High-Resolution Remote Sensing Soil Moisture to Estimate Irrigation Water Amounts over a Mediterranean Region
- Global and Arctic effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic gases and aerosols in MRI-ESM2.0
- Water quality assessment using NSFWQI, OIP and multivariate techniques of Ganga River system, Uttarakhand, India
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 8 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Tabari, Arora et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability
Authors: Hossein Tabari
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70816-2 · Citations: 1447
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, flood, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, earth system model
The hydrological cycle is expected to intensify with global warming, which likely increases the intensity of extreme precipitation events and the risk of flooding. The changes, however, often differ from the theorized expectation of increases in water-holding capacity of the atmosphere in the warmer conditions, especially when water availability is limited. Here, the relationships of changes in extreme precipitation and flood intensities for the end of the twenty-first century with spatial an…
Optimization of state-of-the-art fuzzy-metaheuristic ANFIS-based machine learning models for flood susceptibility prediction mapping in the Middle Ganga Plain, India.
Authors: Aman Arora, A. Arabameri, M. Pandey, M. A. Siddiqui, U. Shukla, D. Bui et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141565 · Citations: 207
Matched topics: flood, land surface model
This study is an attempt to quantitatively test and compare novel advanced-machine learning algorithms in terms of their performance in achieving the goal of predicting flood susceptible areas in a low altitudinal range, sub-tropical floodplain environmental setting, like that prevailing in the Middle Ganga Plain (MGP), India. This part of the Ganga floodplain region, which under the influence of undergoing active tectonic regime related subsidence, is the hotbed of annual flood disaster. Thi…
Identifying societal challenges in flood early warning systems
Authors: Duminda Perera, Jetal Agnihotri, Ousmane Seidou, Riyanti Djalante
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101794 · Citations: 195
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China
Authors: Bo Wang, Becky P.Y. Loo, Feng Zhen, Guangliang Xi
Journal: Cities · DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102884 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: flood
Applying a novel approach based on the fusion of social media data, land use data and other information, this paper examines the spatio-temporal patterns of public responses towards urban flooding in Nanjing city during July 1–21, 2016. Spatially, “pockets” of high public concern towards urban flooding were found in areas with low altitude, high percentage of water bodies, and rapid urban construction in recent years. Temporally, public responses tend to peak during the rainstorm period, rath…
Sorting over flood risk and implications for policy reform
Authors: Laura Bakkensen, Lala Ma
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102362 · Citations: 119
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Anthropogenic climate change and glacier lake outburst flood risk: local and global drivers and responsibilities for the case of lake Palcacocha, Peru
Authors: Christian Huggel, Mark Carey, Adam Emmer, Holger Frey, Noah Walker-Crawford, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-20-2175-2020 · Citations: 111
Matched topics: flood, climate change
Abstract. Evidence of observed negative impacts on natural and human systems from anthropogenic climate change is increasing. However, human systems in particular are dynamic and influenced by multiple drivers and hence identifying an anthropogenic climate signal is challenging. Here we analyze the case of lake Palcacocha in the Andes of Peru, which offers a representative model for other glacier lakes and related risks around the world because it features a dynamic evolution of flood risk dr…
Assessing human vulnerability to urban flood hazard using the analytic hierarchy process and geographic information system
Authors: Tanaya Sarmah, Sutapa Das, Aishwarya Narendr, Bharath H. Aithal
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101659 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Quantification of flood mitigation services by urban green spaces using InVEST model: a case study of Hyderabad city, India
Authors: Ashok Kadaverugu, Ch Nageshwar Rao, G. K. Viswanadh
Journal: Modeling Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s40808-020-00937-0 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 4 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Mahlalela, Mahto et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Drought in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and trends in rainfall characteristics
Authors: Precious Mahlalela, Ross C. Blamey, Neil Hart, C. J. C. Reason
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05413-0 · Citations: 145
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Dominance of summer monsoon flash droughts in India
Authors: Shanti Shwarup Mahto, Vimal Mishra
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abaf1d · Citations: 120
Matched topics: hydrologic model, drought
Flash droughts intensify rapidly after onset and cause short-term but devastating impacts on agriculture and the ecosystem. However, the drivers and characteristics of flash droughts in India have not been examined. Here we use a well-calibrated and evaluated variable infiltration capacity (VIC) hydrological model to simulate root-zone soil moisture to identify flash droughts in India for 1951–2018 period. We show that flash droughts predominantly occur during the monsoon (June to September) …
High-throughput phenotyping platform for analyzing drought tolerance in rice
Authors: Song Lim Kim, Nyunhee Kim, Hongseok Lee, Eun‐Gyeong Lee, Kyeong-Seong Cheon, Minsu Kim et al.
Journal: Planta · DOI: 10.1007/s00425-020-03436-9 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: drought
MAIN CONCLUSION: A new imaging platform was constructed to analyze drought-tolerant traits of rice. Rice was used to quantify drought phenotypes through image-based parameters and analyzing tools. Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of drought, which limits crop production worldwide. Developing new cultivars with increased drought tolerance and short breeding cycles is critical. However, achieving this goal requires phenotyping a large number of breeding populations in a s…
Global patterns of biomass allocation in woody species with different tolerances of shade and drought: evidence for multiple strategies
Authors: Giacomo Puglielli, Lauri Laanisto, Hendrik Poorter, Ülo Niinemets
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.16879 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: drought
The optimal partitioning theory predicts that plants of a given species acclimate to different environments by allocating a larger proportion of biomass to the organs acquiring the most limiting resource. Are similar patterns found across species adapted to environments with contrasting levels of abiotic stress? We tested the optimal partitioning theory by analysing how fractional biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots differed between woody species with different tolerances of shade a…
Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 1 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.
Future streamflow regime changes in the United States: assessment using functional classification
Authors: Manuela I. Brunner, Lieke Melsen, Andrew J. Newman, Andrew W. Wood, Martyn Clark
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-3951-2020 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management
Abstract. Streamflow regimes are changing and expected to further change under the influence of climate change, with potential impacts on flow variability and the seasonality of extremes. However, not all types of regimes are going to change in the same way. Climate change impact assessments can therefore benefit from identifying classes of catchments with similar streamflow regimes. Traditional catchment classification approaches have focused on specific meteorological and/or streamflow indi…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 15 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw
Authors: Gustaf Hugelius, Julie Loisel, Sarah Chadburn, Robert B. Jackson, Miriam C. Jones, Glen M. MacDonald et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916387117 · Citations: 768
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
-C losses reverse after ∼200 y, as warming strengthens peatland C-sinks. We project substantial, but highly uncertain, additional losses of peat into fluvial systems of 10 to 30 Pg C and 0.4 to 0.9 Pg N. The combined gaseous and fluvial peatland C loss estimated here adds 30 to 50% onto previous estimates of permafrost-thaw C losses, with southern permafrost regions being the most vulnerable.
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat
Authors: Michalea D. King, Ian M. Howat, S. G. Candela, Myoung J. Noh, Seongsu Jeong, Brice Noël et al.
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-0001-2 · Citations: 387
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at accelerated rates in the 21st century, making it the largest single contributor to rising sea levels. Faster flow of outlet glaciers has substantially contributed to this loss, with the cause of speedup, and potential for future change, uncertain. Here we combine more than three decades of remotely sensed observational products of outlet glacier velocity, elevation, and front position changes over the full ice sheet. We compare decadal variab…
Urban Climates and Climate Change
Authors: Valéry Masson, Aude Lemonsu, Julia Hidalgo, James Voogt
Journal: Annual Review of Environment and Resources · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-083623 · Citations: 341
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, climate change, earth system model
Cities are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather episodes, which are expected to increase with climate change. Cities also influence their own local climate, for example, through the relative warming known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This review discusses urban climate features (even in complex terrain) and processes. We then present state-of-the-art methodologies on the generalization of a common urban neighborhood classification for UHI studies, as well as recent development…
Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest
Authors: Andrew T. Nottingham, Patrick Meir, Esther Velasquez, Benjamin L. Turner
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2566-4 · Citations: 285
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change
Authors: Michele L. Barnes, Peng Wang, Joshua E. Cinner, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Angela M. Guerrero, Lorien Jasny et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0871-4 · Citations: 251
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Extreme rainfall in East Africa, October 2019–January 2020 and context under future climate change
Authors: Caroline M. Wainwright, D Finney, Mary Kilavi, Emily Black, John H. Marsham
Journal: Weather · DOI: 10.1002/wea.3824 · Citations: 215
Matched topics: climate change
The 2019 October–December rains over East Africa were one of the wettest seasons on record, with many locations receiving more than double the climatological rainfall, leading to floods and landslides. The wet conditions were associated with the positive Indian Ocean Dipole event, with warm sea surface temperatures in the western Indian Ocean. Seasonal forecasts correctly predicted above average rainfall during the season. Climate model projections suggest that such events may become more fre…
Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation
Authors: Florian Humpenöder, Kristine Karstens, Hermann Lotze‐Campen, Jens Leifeld, Lorenzo Menichetti, Alexandra Barthelmes et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abae2a · Citations: 196
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Peatlands cover only about 3% the global land area, but store about twice as much carbon as global forest biomass. If intact peatlands are drained for agriculture or other human uses, peat oxidation can result in considerable CO 2 emissions and other greenhouse gases (GHG) for decades or even centuries. Despite their importance, emissions from degraded peatlands have so far not been included explicitly in mitigation pathways compatible with the Paris Agreement. Such pathways include …
Climate change mitigation potential of wetlands and the cost-effectiveness of their restoration
Authors: Pierre Taillardat, Benjamin S. Thompson, Michelle Garneau, Karelle Trottier, Daniel A. Friess
Journal: Interface Focus · DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2019.0129 · Citations: 188
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change
). We advise that for inland wetlands, priority should be given to conservation rather than restoration; while for coastal wetlands, both conservation and restoration may be effective techniques for climate change mitigation.
The ERA5-Land soil temperature bias in permafrost regions
Authors: Bin Cao, Stephan Gruber, Donghai Zheng, Xin Li
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-2581-2020 · Citations: 172
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. ERA5-Land (ERA5L) is a reanalysis product derived by running the land component of ERA5 at increased resolution. This study evaluates ERA5L soil temperature in permafrost regions based on observations and published permafrost products. We find that ERA5L overestimates soil temperature in northern Canada and Alaska but underestimates it in mid–low latitudes, leading to an average bias of −0.08 ∘C. The warm bias of ERA5L soil is stronger in winter than in other seasons. As calculated …
The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future
Authors: Taryn L. Noble, Eelco J. Rohling, Alan Aitken, Helen Bostock, Zanna Chase, Natalya Gomez et al.
Journal: Reviews of Geophysics · DOI: 10.1029/2019rg000663 · Citations: 171
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change, earth system model
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) is out of equilibrium with the current anthropogenic‐enhanced climate forcing. Paleoenvironmental records and ice sheet models reveal that the AIS has been tightly coupled to the climate system during the past and indicate the potential for accelerated and sustained Antarctic ice mass loss into the future. Modern observations by contrast suggest that the AIS has only just started to respond to climate change in recent decades. The maximum projected sea l…
Homogenization of Structural Breaks in the Global ESA CCI Soil Moisture Multisatellite Climate Data Record
Authors: Wolfgang Preimesberger, Tracy Scanlon, Chun‐Hsu Su, Alexander Gruber, Wouter Dorigo
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.3012896 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
The European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) Soil Moisture (SM) COMBINED product is a more than 40-year-long data record on global SM for climate studies and applications. It merges SM observations derived from multiple active and passive satellite remote sensing instruments in the microwave domain. Differences in sensor characteristics (such as frequency or polarization) can cause structural breaks in the product, which are not completely removed during the merging process…
Personal Stories Can Shift Climate Change Beliefs and Risk Perceptions: The Mediating Role of Emotion
Authors: Abel Gustafson, Matthew T. Ballew, Matthew H. Goldberg, Matthew Cutler, Seth A. Rosenthal, Anthony Leiserowitz
Journal: Communication Reports · DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2020.1799049 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: climate change
Sharing personal stories of how climate change is already harming people is a promising communication strategy to engage diverse and even skeptical audiences. Using two experiments, we test the effects of a radio story on the climate change beliefs and risk perceptions of political moderates and conservatives. The radio story, which aired on hundreds of stations across the U.S., is a North Carolina sportsman’s personal account of how climate change has already affected the places he loves. Bo…
Relevance of Plant Growth Promoting Microorganisms and Their Derived Compounds, in the Face of Climate Change
Authors: Judith Naamala, Donald L. Smith
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10081179 · Citations: 116
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change has already affected food security in many parts of the world, and this situation will worsen if nothing is done to combat it. Unfortunately, agriculture is a meaningful driver of climate change, through greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogen-based fertilizer, methane from animals and animal manure, as well as deforestation to obtain more land for agriculture. Therefore, the global agricultural sector should minimize greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow climate change. The…
The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes
Authors: Guido A. Herrera‐R, Thierry Oberdorff, Elizabeth P. Anderson, Sébastien Brosse, Fernando M. Carvajal‐Vallejos, Renata G. Frederico et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15285 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: river, climate change
Upstream range shifts of freshwater fishes have been documented in recent years due to ongoing climate change. River fragmentation by dams, presenting physical barriers, can limit the climatically induced spatial redistribution of fishes. Andean freshwater ecosystems in the Neotropical region are expected to be highly affected by these future disturbances. However, proper evaluations are still missing. Combining species distribution models and functional traits of Andean Amazon fishes, couple…
Global Socioeconomic Risk of Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change
Authors: Yujie Liu, Yujie Liu, Jie Chen, Tao Pan, Yanhua Liu, Yanhua Liu et al.
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2019ef001331 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: climate change
purchasing power parity $-days. Socioeconomic effects are the primary contributor to the exposure changes at the global and continental scales. Population and GDP effects account for 64-77% and 78-91% of the total exposure change, respectively. The inequality of exposure indicates that more attention should be given to Asia and Africa due to their rapid increases in population and GDP. However, due to their dense populations and high GDPs, European countries, that is, Luxembourg, Belgium, and…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 4 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL‐ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics
Authors: John P. Dunne, Larry W. Horowitz, Alistair Adcroft, Paul Ginoux, Isaac M. Held, Jasmin G. John et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002015 · Citations: 981
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract We describe the baseline coupled model configuration and simulation characteristics of GFDL’s Earth System Model Version 4.1 (ESM4.1), which builds on component and coupled model developments at GFDL over 2013–2018 for coupled carbon‐chemistry‐climate simulation contributing to the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. In contrast with GFDL’s CM4.0 development effort that focuses on ocean resolution for physical climate, ESM4.1 focuses on comprehensiveness of Eart…
Heavy Precipitation over Italy from the Mediterranean Storm “Vaia” in October 2018: Assessing the Role of an Atmospheric River
Authors: Silvio Davolio, Stefano Della Fera, Sante Laviola, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Vincenzo Levizzani
Journal: Monthly Weather Review · DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-20-0021.1 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: river
Abstract The Mediterranean storm “Vaia” developed within a typical autumn synoptic circulation, generally associated with heavy rain conditions over the western Mediterranean Sea basin. Intense precipitation was responsible for floods over Italy between 27 and 30 October 2018, and the storm was accompanied by explosive cyclogenesis, storm surge, and extremely intense wind gusts that caused casualties and extensive damage, especially to the Alpine forests. This study investigates the contribut…
Quantifying the impact of vegetation changes on global terrestrial runoff using the Budyko framework
Authors: Yuyan Luo, Yuting Yang, Dawen Yang, Shulei Zhang
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125389 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, water management
Abstract not available.
Splash erosion affected by initial soil moisture and surface conditions under simulated rainfall
Authors: Nives Zambon, Lisbeth Lolk Johannsen, Peter Strauß, Tomáš Dostál, David Zumr, Thomas A. Cochrane et al.
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104827 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: surface water
Soil erosion by water is one of the most severe soil degradation processes. Splash erosion is the initial stage of soil erosion by water, resulting from the destructive force of rain drops acting on soil surface aggregates. Apart from rainfall properties, constant soil physical properties (texture and soil organic matter) are crucial in understanding the splash erosion. However, there is lack of information about the effect of variable soil properties such as soil initial water content and su…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 18 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500
Authors: Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, Jared Lewis, Matthew Gidden, Elisabeth Vogel, Mandy Freund et al.
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-3571-2020 · Citations: 1668
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Anthropogenic increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are the main driver of current and future climate change. The integrated assessment community has quantified anthropogenic emissions for the shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) scenarios, each of which represents a different future socio-economic projection and political environment. Here, we provide the greenhouse gas concentrations for these SSP scenarios – using the reduced-complexity climate–carbon-cycle model …
Increased likelihood of heat-induced large wildfires in the Mediterranean Basin
Authors: Julien Ruffault, Thomas Curt, Vincent Moron, Ricardo M. Trigo, Florent Mouillot, Nikos Koutsias et al.
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70069-z · Citations: 328
Matched topics: drought, land surface model
Wildfire activity is expected to increase across the Mediterranean Basin because of climate change. However, the effects of future climate change on the combinations of atmospheric conditions that promote wildfire activity remain largely unknown. Using a fire-weather based classification of wildfires, we show that future climate scenarios point to an increase in the frequency of two heat-induced fire-weather types that have been related to the largest wildfires in recent years. Heat-induced f…
Historical CO 2 emissions from land use and land cover change and their uncertainty
Authors: Thomas Gasser, Léa Crepin, Yann Quilcaille, R. A. Houghton, Philippe Ciais, Michael Obersteiner
Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-4075-2020 · Citations: 276
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Emissions from land use and land cover change are a key component of the global carbon cycle. However, models are required to disentangle these emissions from the land carbon sink, as only the sum of both can be physically observed. Their assessment within the yearly community-wide effort known as the “Global Carbon Budget” remains a major difficulty, because it combines two lines of evidence that are inherently inconsistent: bookkeeping models and dynamic global vegetation models. …
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water and sediments from two urban watersheds in Nevada, USA.
Authors: Xuelian Bai, Y. Son
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141622 · Citations: 275
Matched topics: surface water
This study measured 17 perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water and sediments collected from six locations along the Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead and eight locations along the Truckee River, Lake Tahoe, and Pyramid Lake in Nevada, United States. Of the 17 PFAS analyzed, 12 were detected in the surface water (n = 18) and 14 were detected in the sediments (n = 21) of the two watersheds. The total concentration of PFAS in the Truckee River water was 441.7 ng/L and the PFAS detected in t…
Testing the EKC hypothesis for the top six hydropower energy-consuming countries: Evidence from Fourier Bootstrap ARDL procedure
Authors: U. Pata, Mucahit Aydin
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121699 · Citations: 261
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract Environmental degradation is an important threat to sustainable development. Economic growth and fossil fuel-based energy consumption are main factors causing environmental pollution. The use of renewable energy as an alternative for fossil fuels can help to reduce environmental pollution, and thus, sustainable development can be achieved. From this point of view, hydropower is the most widely used renewable energy source in several countries. However, the effects of hydropower energ…
Evaluation of ecological city and analysis of obstacle factors under the background of high-quality development: Taking cities in the Yellow River Basin as examples
Authors: Yu Chen, Mengke Zhu, Junlin Lu, Qian Zhou, Wenbo Ma
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106771 · Citations: 254
Matched topics: river
Taking the cities along the Yellow River Basin (YRB) as research objects, the entropy-TOPSIS model is used to evaluate urban ecological level; and the main obstacle factors that restrict the improvement of urban ecological level are analyzed through the obstacle diagnosis model. The results show that ecological level of the cities along the YRB has been steadily increasing, and there is a significant correlation with the city size and watershed location, and the gap between cities has decline…
Isolating the Evolving Contributions of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Greenhouse Gases: A New CESM1 Large Ensemble Community Resource
Authors: Clara Deser, Adam S. Phillips, Isla R. Simpson, Nan Rosenbloom, Dani Coleman, Flavio Lehner et al.
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0123.1 · Citations: 184
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The evolving roles of anthropogenic aerosols (AER) and greenhouse gases (GHG) in driving large-scale patterns of precipitation and SST trends during 1920–2080 are studied using a new set of “all-but-one-forcing” initial-condition large ensembles (LEs) with the Community Earth System Model version 1 (CESM1), which complement the original “all-forcing” CESM1 LE (ALL). The large number of ensemble members (15–20) in each of the new LEs enables regional impacts of AER and GHG to be isola…
An Analytical Review of Different Approaches to Wastewater Discharge Standards with Particular Emphasis on Nutrients
Authors: Michał Preisner, Elena Neverova-Dziopak, Zbigniew Kowalewski
Journal: Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1007/s00267-020-01344-y · Citations: 180
Matched topics: surface water
Despite the implementation of strict legal standards concerning nutrient loads within wastewater discharges in all European Union (EU) Member States it was not possible to achieve good ecological and chemical water status by 2015 in all EU countries. The main reasons for this situation are the imperfections of the legislation tools regarding the standardization of wastewater quality and the methodology of determining the conditions for wastewater introduction into receivers. The study aims to…
Landslides after wildfire: initiation, magnitude, and mobility
Authors: Francis K. Rengers, Luke A. McGuire, Nina S. Oakley, Jason W. Kean, Dennis M. Staley, Hui Tang
Journal: Landslides · DOI: 10.1007/s10346-020-01506-3 · Citations: 173
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff
Abstract In the semiarid Southwestern USA, wildfires are commonly followed by runoff-generated debris flows because wildfires remove vegetation and ground cover, which reduces soil infiltration capacity and increases soil erodibility. At a study site in Southern California, we initially observed runoff-generated debris flows in the first year following fire. However, at the same site three years after the fire, the mass-wasting response to a long-duration rainstorm with high rainfall intensit…
Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss
Authors: Maria Vittoria Guarino, Louise C. Sime, David Schröeder, Irene Malmierca‐Vallet, Erica Rosenblum, Mark A. Ringer et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0865-2 · Citations: 149
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Groundwater level prediction in Apulia region (Southern Italy) using NARX neural network
Authors: Fabio Di Nunno, Francesco Granata
Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110062 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Impact of biochar on greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in corn grown under drip irrigation with mulching.
Authors: Wei Yang, G. Feng, D. Miles, Lihua Gao, Yonglin Jia, Changjiang Li et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138752 · Citations: 140
Matched topics: irrigation
Biochar is widely used as a soil amendment to challenge climate change through restraining greenhouse gas production and increasing soil C sink in cropland soils, yet its effect was not studied well under drip irrigation with mulch. A two-year field experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of corn residue-derived biochar amendments on greenhouse gases (GHG), soil organic carbon (SOC), and global warming potential (GWP) on sandy loam soil in Inner Mongolia, China. Biochar application…
FORUM: Unique Far-Infrared Satellite Observations to Better Understand How Earth Radiates Energy to Space
Authors: Luca Palchetti, Helen Brindley, Richard Bantges, Stefan A. Buehler, C. Camy‐Peyret, B. Carli et al.
Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-19-0322.1 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) emitted to space is a fundamental component of the Earth’s energy budget. There are numerous, entangled physical processes that contribute to OLR and that are responsible for driving, and responding to, climate change. Spectrally resolved observations can disentangle these processes, but technical limitations have precluded accurate space-based spectral measurements covering the far infrared (FIR) from 100 to 667 cm −1 (wavelengths between 15 and…
The Value of Initial Condition Large Ensembles to Robust Adaptation Decision‐Making
Authors: Justin Mankin, Flavio Lehner, Sloan Coats, Karen A. McKinnon
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001610 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The origins of uncertainty in climate projections have major consequences for the scientific and policy decisions made in response to climate change. Internal climate variability, for example, is an inherent uncertainty in the climate system that is undersampled by the multimodel ensembles used in most climate impacts research. Because of this, decision makers are left with the question of whether the range of climate projections across models is due to structural model choices, thus…
The rise of the democracy – authoritarianism cleavage and opposition coordination in Turkey (2014–2019)
Authors: Orçun Selçuk, Dilara Hekimci
Journal: Democratization · DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2020.1803841 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: runoff
This article examines the coordination of opposition parties in Turkey between the 2014 presidential and the 2019 local elections. To explain opposition coordination from secular, Turkish nationalist, pro-Kurdish, and Islamist parties, the article points out a rising democracy-authoritarianism cleavage. As Turkey became one of the most pronounced cases of democratic backsliding worldwide, this political cleavage gradually overshadowed historically rooted social cleavages and incentivized the …
Exploiting High-Resolution Remote Sensing Soil Moisture to Estimate Irrigation Water Amounts over a Mediterranean Region
Authors: Jacopo Dari, Luca Brocca, Pere Quintana‐Seguí, Maria‐José Escorihuela, Vivien Stefan, Renato Morbidelli
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12162593 · Citations: 124
Matched topics: irrigation
Despite irrigation being one of the main sources of anthropogenic water consumption, detailed information about water amounts destined for this purpose are often lacking worldwide. In this study, a methodology which can be used to estimate irrigation amounts over a pilot area in Spain by exploiting remotely sensed soil moisture is proposed. Two high-resolution DISPATCH (DISaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale CHange) downscaled soil moisture products have been used: SMAP (Soil …
Global and Arctic effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic gases and aerosols in MRI-ESM2.0
Authors: Naga Oshima, Seiji Yukimoto, Makoto Deushi, Tsuyoshi Koshiro, Hideaki Kawai, Taichu Y. Tanaka et al.
Journal: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science · DOI: 10.1186/s40645-020-00348-w · Citations: 109
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The effective radiative forcing (ERF) of anthropogenic gases and aerosols under present-day conditions relative to preindustrial conditions is estimated using the Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0 (MRI-ESM2.0) as part of the Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project (RFMIP) and Aerosol and Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project (AerChemMIP), endorsed by the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The global mean total an…
Water quality assessment using NSFWQI, OIP and multivariate techniques of Ganga River system, Uttarakhand, India
Authors: Gagan Matta, Anjali Nayak, Avinash Kumar, Pawan Kumar
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-020-01288-y · Citations: 106
Matched topics: river, runoff, water management, hydropower, surface water
Abstract Ganga River water is very much stressed with the rapidly increasing population, climate change and water pollution that increase domestic, agricultural and industrial needs. This study assesses the surface water quality of the River Ganga in India, using NSFWQI, OIP and multivariate techniques. During the current study, water samples from Ganga River were collected for the assessment of 19 physico-chemical determinants from 20 sampling locations. Water quality indices (WQIs) is used …
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| Topics searched | 16 |
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| Rejected (not relevant) | 532 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Science of the Total Environment | 3 |
| Scientific Reports | 2 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 2 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 2 |
| Nature Climate Change | 2 |
| Earth s Future | 2 |
| Cities | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 1 |
| Natural hazards and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Modeling Earth Systems and Environment | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Planta | 1 |
| New Phytologist | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 1 |
| Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 |
| Nature | 1 |
| Weather | 1 |
| Interface Focus | 1 |
| The cryosphere | 1 |
| Reviews of Geophysics | 1 |
| IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Communication Reports | 1 |
| Agronomy | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Monthly Weather Review | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| CATENA | 1 |
| Geoscientific model development | 1 |
| Biogeosciences | 1 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Ecological Indicators | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Environmental Management | 1 |
| Landslides | 1 |
| Environmental Research | 1 |
| Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 1 |
| Democratization | 1 |
| Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Progress in Earth and Planetary Science | 1 |
| Applied Water Science | 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