Weekly Literature Review
Week 35 · August 24–August 30, 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
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave
- Drought projections for Australia: Updated results and analysis of model simulations
- Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought
- Climate change-induced droughts and tourism: Impacts and responses of Western Cape province, South Africa
- Enhancing the Noah‐MP Ecosystem Response to Droughts With an Explicit Representation of Plant Water Storage Supplied by Dynamic Root Water Uptake
- Drought-related hot summers: A joint probability analysis in the Iberian Peninsula
- Effects of Silicon on Growth, Yield and Fruit Quality of Cantaloupe under Drought Stress
- Root metaxylem and architecture phenotypes integrate to regulate water use under drought stress
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)
- The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
- The GFDL Global Atmospheric Chemistry‐Climate Model AM4.1: Model Description and Simulation Characteristics
- The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem‐Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing
- Threats to Mental Health and Well-Being Associated with Climate Change
- Analysis of Compound Climate Extremes and Exposed Population in Africa Under Two Different Emission Scenarios
- Linking tundra vegetation, snow, soil temperature, and permafrost
- How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution
- Climate change and ageing in ectotherms
- Report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change: implications for the mental health policy of children and adolescents in Europe—a scoping review
- Innovation input, governance and climate change: Evidence from emerging countries
- The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease
- Assessing Climate Change Impact on Soil Salinity Dynamics between 1987–2017 in Arid Landscape Using Landsat TM, ETM+ and OLI Data
- Impacts of climate change on the tourism sector of a Small Island Developing State: A case study for the Bahamas
- Global Characterization of the Varying Responses of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index to Atmospheric Evaporative Demand
- Subglacial Discharge and Its Down‐Fjord Transformation in West Greenland Fjords With an Ice Mélange
- Global Characterization of Inland Water Reservoirs Using ICESat‐2 Altimetry and Climate Reanalysis
- Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards
- The global value of water in agriculture
- Hybrid floating solar photovoltaics-hydropower systems: Benefits and global assessment of technical potential
- Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal
- Water in war: Understanding the impacts of armed conflict on water resources and their management
- Characterizing soil salinity at multiple depth using electromagnetic induction and remote sensing data with random forests: A case study in Tarim River Basin of southern Xinjiang, China
- Impact of evaporation on groundwater salinity in the arid coastal aquifer, Western Saudi Arabia
- Multi-Hazard Exposure Mapping Using Machine Learning for the State of Salzburg, Austria
- Application of Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms to Assess Groundwater Potential Using Remote Sensing-Derived Data
- The natural flow regime: A master variable for maintaining river ecosystem health
- Inferring Distributed Snow Depth by Leveraging Snow Pattern Repeatability: Investigation Using 47 Lidar Observations in the Tuolumne Watershed, Sierra Nevada, California
- Selection, control and techno-economic feasibility of Pumps as Turbines in Water Distribution Networks
- Long‐Term Shifts in U.S. Nitrogen Sources and Sinks Revealed by the New TREND‐Nitrogen Data Set (1930–2017)
- Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region
- Seasonal occurrence and removal of organophosphate esters in conventional and advanced drinking water treatment plants
- Satellite-observed glacier recession in the Kashmir Himalaya, India, from 1980 to 2018
- Increasing the broad-leaved tree fraction in European forests mitigates hot temperature extremes
- Tidal Grounding‐Line Migration Modulated by Subglacial Hydrology
- The influence of hydroclimatic conditions and water quality on evaporation rates of a tropical lake
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 2 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Indaco, Qi et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses
Authors: Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, and Süleyman Taṣpınar
Journal: Journal of Economic Geography · DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbaa020 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: flood
Abstract We use administrative data containing all business establishments in New York City to analyze how businesses reacted to flooding in the context of Hurricane Sandy (October 2012). We find that flooding led to reductions in employment (of about 4%) and average wages (of about 2%) among the affected businesses. The effects were substantially larger and more persistent in some parts of the city (Brooklyn and Queens) than others (Manhattan). Heterogeneity across boroughs reflects differen…
Biochar decreases methanogenic archaea abundance and methane emissions in a flooded paddy soil
Authors: Le Qi, Zilong Ma, Scott X. Chang, Peng Zhou, Rong Huang, Yingyan Wang et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141958 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 8 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Christian, Kirono et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave
Authors: Jordan I. Christian, Jeffrey B. Basara, Eric Hunt, Jason A. Otkin, Xiangming Xiao
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9faf · Citations: 151
Matched topics: drought
Abstract The 2010 western Russian heatwave was characterized by historically high surface temperatures that led to devastating impacts on the environment, economy, and society. Recent studies have attributed a quasi-stationary upper level ridge, sensible heat advection, and land-atmosphere temperature coupling as the primary components for the development of the heatwave event. The results in this study reveal that rapid drought intensification occurred prior to the extreme atmospheric condit…
Drought projections for Australia: Updated results and analysis of model simulations
Authors: Dewi Kirono, Vanessa Round, Craig Heady, Francis H. S. Chiew, Stacey Lee Osbrough
Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2020.100280 · Citations: 133
Matched topics: drought
To meet increasing demand for information on future drought hazard to help Australia build resilience and preparedness under a changing climate, we developed new information on drought projections for Australia and four sub-regions based on the natural resources management (NRM) zones. The information reported here includes: two drought indices (the Standardised Precipitation Index, SPI, and the Standardised Soil Moisture Index, SSMI); four drought metrics (percent time spent in droughts, mea…
Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought
Authors: Alan K. Knapp, Anping Chen, Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan, Lauren E. Baur, Charles J. W. Carroll, Jesse E. Gray et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922030117 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: drought
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Climate change-induced droughts and tourism: Impacts and responses of Western Cape province, South Africa
Authors: Kaitano Dube, Godwell Nhamo, David Chikodzi
Journal: Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism · DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2020.100319 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: drought, climate change
Abstract not available.
Enhancing the Noah‐MP Ecosystem Response to Droughts With an Explicit Representation of Plant Water Storage Supplied by Dynamic Root Water Uptake
Authors: Guo‐Yue Niu, Yuanhao Fang, Li‐Ling Chang, Jiming Jin, Hua Yuan, Xubin Zeng
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002062 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought, land surface model, surface water
Abstract Plants are able to adapt to changing environments and thus survive droughts. However, most land surface models produce unrealistically low ecosystem resiliency to droughts, degrading the credibility of the model‐predicted ecohydrological responses to climate change. We aim to enhance the Noah‐MP modeled ecosystem resilience to droughts with an explicit representation of plant water storage supplied by dynamic root water uptake through hydrotropic root growth to meet the transpiration…
Drought-related hot summers: A joint probability analysis in the Iberian Peninsula
Authors: Andreia Ribeiro, Ana Russo, Célia M. Gouveia, Carlos Pires
Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2020.100279 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: drought
Droughts and hot extremes are major sources of risk to several socio-economic activities and their impacts are expected to increase under future global warming. Moreover, the simultaneous or sequential occurrence (compound events) of different climate extremes may lead to the amplification of the associated impacts. Even though the latest efforts in assessing hot and dry extremes and their interactions, the development of models describing the joint behavior of climate extremes is still a cha…
Effects of Silicon on Growth, Yield and Fruit Quality of Cantaloupe under Drought Stress
Authors: Ashraful Alam, Bambang Hariyanto, Hayat Ullah, Krishna R. Salin, Avishek Datta
Journal: Silicon · DOI: 10.1007/s12633-020-00673-1 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Root metaxylem and architecture phenotypes integrate to regulate water use under drought stress
Authors: Christopher Strock, James Burridge, Miranda Niemiec, Kathleen M. Brown, Jonathan P. Lynch
Journal: Plant Cell & Environment · DOI: 10.1111/pce.13875 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: drought
At the genus and species level, variation in root anatomy and architecture may interact to affect strategies of drought avoidance. To investigate this idea, root anatomy and architecture of the drought-sensitive common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and drought-adapted tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) were analyzed in relation to water use under terminal drought. Intraspecific variation for metaxylem anatomy and axial conductance was found in the roots of both species. Genotypes with high-condu…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 18 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)
Authors: Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson, Panos Panagos, Emanuele Lugato, Jae E. Yang, Christine Alewell et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001403117 · Citations: 1351
Matched topics: water management, land surface model, climate change, earth system model
, with current conservation agriculture (CA) practices estimated to reduce this by ∼5%. Our future scenarios suggest that socioeconomic developments impacting land use will either decrease (SSP1-RCP2.6-10%) or increase (SSP2-RCP4.5 +2%, SSP5-RCP8.5 +10%) water erosion by 2070. Climate projections, for all global dynamics scenarios, indicate a trend, moving toward a more vigorous hydrological cycle, which could increase global water erosion (+30 to +66%). Accepting some degrees of uncertainty,…
The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
Authors: Steef V. Hanssen, Vassilis Daioglou, Zoran J. N. Steinmann, Jonathan Doelman, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0885-y · Citations: 294
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
The GFDL Global Atmospheric Chemistry‐Climate Model AM4.1: Model Description and Simulation Characteristics
Authors: Larry W. Horowitz, Vaishali Naïk, Fabien Paulot, Paul Ginoux, John P. Dunne, Jingqiu Mao et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002032 · Citations: 192
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract We describe the baseline model configuration and simulation characteristics of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)’s Atmosphere Model version 4.1 (AM4.1), which builds on developments at GFDL over 2013–2018 for coupled carbon‐chemistry‐climate simulation as part of the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. In contrast with GFDL’s AM4.0 development effort, which focused on physical and aerosol interactions and which is used as the atmospheric component…
The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem‐Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing
Authors: Susannah M. Burrows, Mathew Maltrud, Xiaojuan Yang, Qing Zhu, Nicole Jeffery, Xiaoying Shi et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms001766 · Citations: 188
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract This paper documents the biogeochemistry configuration of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), E3SMv1.1‐BGC. The model simulates historical carbon cycle dynamics, including carbon losses predicted in response to land use and land cover change, and the responses of the carbon cycle to changes in climate. In addition, we introduce several innovations in the treatment of soil nutrient limitation mechanisms, including explicit dependence on phosphorus availability. The suite of…
Threats to Mental Health and Well-Being Associated with Climate Change
Authors: Marianne Hrabok, Aaron Delorme, Vincent I. O. Agyapong
Journal: Journal of Anxiety Disorders · DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102295 · Citations: 169
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Analysis of Compound Climate Extremes and Exposed Population in Africa Under Two Different Emission Scenarios
Authors: Torsten Weber, Paul K. Bowyer, Diana Rechid, Susanne Pfeifer, Francesca Raffaele, Armelle Reca Remedio et al.
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2019ef001473 · Citations: 149
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract It is well established that Africa is particularly exposed to climate extremes including heat waves, droughts, and intense rainfall events. How exposed Africa is to the co‐occurrence of these events is however virtually unknown. This study provides the first analysis of projected changes in the co‐occurrence of five such compound climate extremes in Africa, under a low (RCP2.6) and high (RCP8.5) emissions scenario. These changes are combined with population projections for a low (SSP…
Linking tundra vegetation, snow, soil temperature, and permafrost
Authors: Inge Grünberg, Evan J. Wilcox, Simon Zwieback, Philip Marsh, Julia Boike
Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-4261-2020 · Citations: 144
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract. Connections between vegetation and soil thermal dynamics are critical for estimating the vulnerability of permafrost to thaw with continued climate warming and vegetation changes. The interplay of complex biophysical processes results in a highly heterogeneous soil temperature distribution on small spatial scales. Moreover, the link between topsoil temperature and active layer thickness remains poorly constrained. Sixty-eight temperature loggers were installed at 1–3 cm depth to rec…
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution
Authors: Gregg Sparkman, Lauren Howe, Greg Walton
Journal: Behavioural Public Policy · DOI: 10.1017/bpp.2020.42 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract We argue that the behavioral challenges posed by climate change are fundamentally problems of social influence. Behaviors that perpetuate climate change are often opaque in their consequences; thus, we look to others to infer how to act. Yet unsustainable behaviors, like driving and eating meat, are often the norm; conformity to such norms is a major hurdle to a more sustainable world. Nonetheless, we argue that social norms can also be a powerful lever for positive change. Drawing o…
Climate change and ageing in ectotherms
Authors: Pablo Burraco, Germán Orizaola, Pat Monaghan, Neil B. Metcalfe
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15305 · Citations: 138
Matched topics: climate change
Human activity is changing climatic conditions at an unprecedented rate. The impact of these changes may be especially acute on ectotherms since they have limited capacities to use metabolic heat to maintain their body temperature. An increase in temperature is likely to increase the growth rate of ectothermic animals, and may also induce thermal stress via increased exposure to heat waves. Fast growth and thermal stress are metabolically demanding, and both factors can increase oxidative dam…
Report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change: implications for the mental health policy of children and adolescents in Europe—a scoping review
Authors: Vera Clemens, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Jörg M. Fegert
Journal: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · DOI: 10.1007/s00787-020-01615-3 · Citations: 134
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is a worldwide challenge. Its consequences do encompass severe threats not only for the existence and somatic health, but also for the mental health of children and adolescents. Mental health can be impaired by three types of consequences. Direct consequences of climate change, such as natural disasters and indirect consequences, such as loss of land, flight and migration, exposure to violence, change of social, ecological, economic or cultural environment. Moreover, the increa…
Innovation input, governance and climate change: Evidence from emerging countries
Authors: Godfred Adjapong Afrifa, Ishmael Tingbani, Fred A. Yamoah, Gloria Appiah
Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change · DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120256 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease
Authors: Jennifer Ellen Bender
Journal: World Complexity Science Academy Journal · DOI: 10.46473/wcsaj27240606/15-05-2020-0013//full/html · Citations: 117
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Assessing Climate Change Impact on Soil Salinity Dynamics between 1987–2017 in Arid Landscape Using Landsat TM, ETM+ and OLI Data
Authors: Abderrazak Bannari, Zahra M. Al-Ali
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12172794 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: climate change
This paper examines the climate change impact on the spatiotemporal soil salinity dynamics during the last 30 years (1987–2017) in the arid landscape. The state of Kuwait, located at the northwest Arabian Peninsula, was selected as a pilot study area. To achieve this, a Landsat- Operational Land Imager (OLI) image acquired thereabouts simultaneously to a field survey was preprocessed and processed to derive a soil salinity map using a previously developed semi-empirical predictive model (SEPM…
Impacts of climate change on the tourism sector of a Small Island Developing State: A case study for the Bahamas
Authors: Arsum Pathak, Philip E. van Beynen, Fenda A. Akiwumi, Kenyon C. Lindeman
Journal: Environmental Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100556 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Global Characterization of the Varying Responses of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index to Atmospheric Evaporative Demand
Authors: Miquel Tomàs‐Burguera, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Dhais Peña‐Angulo, Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, Iván Noguera, A. El Kenawy
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd033017 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
Abstract The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) is one of the well‐established drought metrics worldwide. It is simply computed using precipitation and atmospheric evaporative demand (AED) data. Although AED is considered a key driver of drought variability worldwide, it could have less impact on drought in specific regions and for particular times as a function of the magnitude of precipitation. Specifically, the influence of the AED might overestimate drought severit…
Subglacial Discharge and Its Down‐Fjord Transformation in West Greenland Fjords With an Ice Mélange
Authors: John Mortensen, Søren Rysgaard, Jørgen Bendtsen, Kunuk Lennert, Torsten Kanzow, Henrik Lund et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans · DOI: 10.1029/2020jc016301 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract Buoyant freshwater released at depth from under Greenland’s marine‐terminating glaciers gives rise to vigorous buoyant discharge plumes adjacent to the termini. The water mass found down fjord formed by mixing of buoyant subglacial freshwater and ambient fjord water and subsequent modification by glacial ice melt in the ice mélange is referred to as subglacial water. It substantially affects both the physical and chemical properties of the fjords’ marine environment. Despite the impo…
Global Characterization of Inland Water Reservoirs Using ICESat‐2 Altimetry and Climate Reanalysis
Authors: Jonathan C. Ryan, L. C. Smith, Sarah Cooley, L. H. Pitcher, Tamlin M. Pavelsky
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088543 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: reservoir, water management
Abstract Accurate, transparent knowledge of global reservoir levels is a prerequisite for effective management of water resources. However, no complete database exists because gauge data are not globally available and the current generation of satellite radar altimeters resolves only the world’s largest reservoirs. Here, we investigate water level changes in global reservoirs using ICESat‐2, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s new satellite laser altimetry mission. In just …
Responses of global waterbird populations to climate change vary with latitude
Authors: Tatsuya Amano, Tamás Székely, Hannah S. Wauchope, Brody Sandel, Szabolcs Nagy, Taej Mundkur et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0872-3 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 3 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
The Australian Earth System Model: ACCESS-ESM1.5
Authors: Tilo Ziehn, Matthew A. Chamberlain, R. M. Law, Andrew Lenton, Roger Bodman, Martin Dix et al.
Journal: Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science · DOI: 10.1071/es19035 · Citations: 612
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) has been extended to include land and ocean carbon cycle components to form an Earth System Model (ESM). The current version, ACCESS-ESM1.5, has been mainly developed to enable Australia to participate in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) with an ESM version. Here we describe the model components and changes to the previous version, ACCESS-ESM1. We use the 500-year pre-industrial control run to highli…
Projected changes in seasonal precipitation extremes over the United States in CMIP6 simulations
Authors: Akintomide A. Akinsanola, Gabriel J. Kooperman, Kevin A. Reed, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Walter M. Hannah
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abb397 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: seasonal
Quantifying how climate change may impact precipitation extremes is a priority for informing adaptation and policy planning. In this study, Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 global climate models are analyzed to identify robust signals of projected changes in summer and winter precipitation extremes over the United States (US). Under a projected fossil-fuel based economic (i.e. high greenhouse gas emissions) scenario, our results show consistent changes in the seasonal patterns fo…
Change Detection and Trend Analysis of Future Temperature and Rainfall over West Africa
Authors: Oluwaseun W. Ilori, Vincent O. Ajayi
Journal: Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s41748-020-00174-6 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: streamflow, hydropower, earth system model
Abstract This paper examined future trends with change detection in temperature and rainfall over three agro-climatic zones of West Africa. Historical (1961–2000) and projection (2020–2099) data of ensemble-mean of six RCMs that dynamically downscaled five GCMs that participated in CMIP5 obtained from Co-Ordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) were used. Standard normal homogeneity, Buishand’s, Pettitt’s, and Mann–Kendall test were used for change point detection and trend …
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.
Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards
Authors: Bruno Merz, Christian Kuhlicke, Michael Kunz, Massimiliano Pittore, Andrey Babeyko, David N. Bresch et al.
Journal: Reviews of Geophysics · DOI: 10.1029/2020rg000704 · Citations: 346
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, hydropower
Abstract Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties, and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude, location, and timing of potentially damaging events, these systems rarely provide impact estimates, such as the expected amount and distribution of physical damage, human consequences, disruption of services, or financial loss. Complementing early warning systems with impact forecasts has a twofold adva…
The global value of water in agriculture
Authors: Paolo D’Odorico, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Lorenzo Rosa, Alfredo Bini, David Zilberman, Maria Cristina Rulli
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005835117 · Citations: 275
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, irrigation
Major environmental functions and human needs critically depend on water. In regions of the world affected by water scarcity economic activities can be constrained by water availability, leading to competition both among sectors and between human uses and environmental needs. While the commodification of water remains a contentious political issue, the valuation of this natural resource is sometime viewed as a strategy to avoid water waste. Likewise, water markets have been invoked as a mecha…
Hybrid floating solar photovoltaics-hydropower systems: Benefits and global assessment of technical potential
Authors: Nathan Lee, Ursula Grunwald, Evan Rosenlieb, Heather Mirletz, Alexandra Aznar, Robert Spencer et al.
Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.08.080 · Citations: 228
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract not available.
Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal
Authors: Wim Carton, Adeniyi Asiyanbi, Silke Beck, Holly Jean Buck, Jens Friis Lund
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · DOI: 10.1002/wcc.671 · Citations: 216
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large‐scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive of novel opportunities, risks, and challenges in addressing climate change, but tends to build on the narrow techno‐economic framings that characterize integrated assessment modeling. While the discussion on negative emissions bears important parallels to a wider and older literature …
Water in war: Understanding the impacts of armed conflict on water resources and their management
Authors: Juliane Schillinger, Gül Özerol, Şermin Güven‐Griemert, Michiel A. Heldeweg
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1480 · Citations: 132
Matched topics: water management
Abstract Armed conflict has the potential to disrupt water systems that are crucial to environmental and human wellbeing. Yet there is no comprehensive overview of scientific evidence on the impact of armed conflicts on water resources and their management. This paper assesses the relevant scientific evidence through a systematic literature review. We discern conceptual, empirical, and methodological approaches adopted in the reviewed publications and synthesize the overarching research resul…
Characterizing soil salinity at multiple depth using electromagnetic induction and remote sensing data with random forests: A case study in Tarim River Basin of southern Xinjiang, China
Authors: Fei Wang, Shengtian Yang, Yang Wei, Qian Shi, Jianli Ding
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142030 · Citations: 126
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Impact of evaporation on groundwater salinity in the arid coastal aquifer, Western Saudi Arabia
Authors: Natarajan Rajmohan, Milad Masoud, Burhan Niyazi
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104864 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Multi-Hazard Exposure Mapping Using Machine Learning for the State of Salzburg, Austria
Authors: Thimmaiah Gudiyangada Nachappa, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Khalil Gholamnia, Thomas Blaschke
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12172757 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: hydrology
We live in a sphere that has unpredictable and multifaceted landscapes that make the risk arising from several incidences that are omnipresent. Floods and landslides are widespread and recurring hazards occurring at an alarming rate in recent years. The importance of this study is to produce multi-hazard exposure maps for flooding and landslides for the federal State of Salzburg, Austria, using the selected machine learning (ML) approach of support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF)….
Application of Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms to Assess Groundwater Potential Using Remote Sensing-Derived Data
Authors: Ehsan Kamali Maskooni, Seyed Amir Naghibi, Hossein Hashemi, Ronny Berndtsson
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12172742 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Groundwater (GW) is being uncontrollably exploited in various parts of the world resulting from huge needs for water supply as an outcome of population growth and industrialization. Bearing in mind the importance of GW potential assessment in reaching sustainability, this study seeks to use remote sensing (RS)-derived driving factors as an input of the advanced machine learning algorithms (MLAs), comprising deep boosting and logistic model trees to evaluate their efficiency. To do so, their r…
The natural flow regime: A master variable for maintaining river ecosystem health
Authors: Mohd Sharjeel Sofi, Sami Ullah Bhat, Irfan Rashid, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal
Journal: Ecohydrology · DOI: 10.1002/eco.2247 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: river
Abstract River health is sustained by time‐based variation in their flows, and the maintenance of natural flow regime is essential for keeping the rivers healthy. However, the dynamism in natural flow regime now stands altered by changing climate, and the omnipresent regulation of river flows throughout the world has severely impacted the river health. It is well documented that harnessing and altering the flow of the rivers and streams comes at a huge cost. Numerous rivers in the world have …
Inferring Distributed Snow Depth by Leveraging Snow Pattern Repeatability: Investigation Using 47 Lidar Observations in the Tuolumne Watershed, Sierra Nevada, California
Authors: Justin M. Pflug, Jessica D. Lundquist
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027243 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, land surface model, hydropower
Abstract Snow distribution is controlled by the interaction between local meteorology and static features like topography and vegetation. The resulting spatial pattern of snow in mountainous terrain is often repeatable and can be used to infer snowpack distribution at periods when observations are limited. This study uses a library of airborne lidar surveys (ALS) in California’s Tuolumne watershed to analyze snow patterns at extents (1,650 km 2 ), resolutions (25 m), and temporal scales (47 A…
Selection, control and techno-economic feasibility of Pumps as Turbines in Water Distribution Networks
Authors: Michele Stefanizzi, Tommaso Capurso, Gabriella Balacco, Mario Binetti, Sergio Mario Camporeale, Marco Torresi
Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.08.108 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: water management, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Long‐Term Shifts in U.S. Nitrogen Sources and Sinks Revealed by the New TREND‐Nitrogen Data Set (1930–2017)
Authors: D. Byrnes, K. J. Van Meter, N. B. Basu
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles · DOI: 10.1029/2020gb006626 · Citations: 84
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract Reactive nitrogen (N) fluxes have increased tenfold over the last century, driven by increases in population, shifting diets, and increased use of commercial N fertilizers. Runoff of excess N from intensively managed landscapes threatens drinking water quality and disrupts aquatic ecosystems. Excess N is also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils. While N emissions from agricultural landscapes are known to originate from not only current‐year N input but …
Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region
Authors: Fia Bengtsson, Håkan Rydin, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Luca Bragazza, Zhao‐Jun Bu, Simon J. M. Caporn et al.
Journal: Journal of Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13499 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract The relative importance of global versus local environmental factors for growth and thus carbon uptake of the bryophyte genus Sphagnum— the main peat‐former and ecosystem engineer in northern peatlands—remains unclear. We measured length growth and net primary production (NPP) of two abundant Sphagnum species across 99 Holarctic peatlands. We tested the importance of previously proposed abiotic and biotic drivers for peatland carbon uptake (climate, N deposition, water table depth an…
Seasonal occurrence and removal of organophosphate esters in conventional and advanced drinking water treatment plants
Authors: Gyojin Choo, Jeong‐Eun Oh
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116359 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: seasonal, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Satellite-observed glacier recession in the Kashmir Himalaya, India, from 1980 to 2018
Authors: Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, Midhat Fayaz, Gowhar Meraj, I. M. Bahuguna
Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-08554-1 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: streamflow
Abstract not available.
Increasing the broad-leaved tree fraction in European forests mitigates hot temperature extremes
Authors: Jonas Schwaab, Édouard L. Davin, Peter Bebi, Anke Duguay-Tetzlaff, Lars T. Waser, Matthias Haeni et al.
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71055-1 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Forests influence climate through a myriad of chemical, physical and biological processes and are an essential lever in the efforts to counter climate change. The majority of studies investigating potential climate benefits from forests have focused on forest area changes, while changes to forest management, in particular those affecting species composition, have received much less attention. Using a statistical model based on remote sensing observations over Europe, we show that broad-leaved…
Tidal Grounding‐Line Migration Modulated by Subglacial Hydrology
Authors: Katarzyna Warburton, Duncan R. Hewitt, Jerome A. Neufeld
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089088 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model
Abstract We present a mathematical model of the hydrology of grounding‐line migration on tidal timescales, in which the ice acts elastically, overlying a connected hydrological network, with the ocean tides modeled by an oscillating far‐field fluid height. The upstream grounding‐line migration is driven by a fluid pressure gradient through the grounding zone, while the downstream migration is limited by fluid drainage through the till. The two processes are described using separate travelling…
The influence of hydroclimatic conditions and water quality on evaporation rates of a tropical lake
Authors: Janine Brandão de Farias Mesquita, Iran Eduardo Lima Neto, Armin Raabe, José Carlos de Araújo
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125456 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: hydrology, water management
Abstract not available.
Statistics
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 899 |
| After deduplication | 644 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 594 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 3 |
| Remote Sensing | 3 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 2 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 2 |
| Weather and Climate Extremes | 2 |
| Nature Climate Change | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 2 |
| Journal of Economic Geography | 1 |
| Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism | 1 |
| Silicon | 1 |
| Plant Cell & Environment | 1 |
| Journal of Anxiety Disorders | 1 |
| Earth s Future | 1 |
| Biogeosciences | 1 |
| Behavioural Public Policy | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 1 |
| Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 1 |
| World Complexity Science Academy Journal | 1 |
| Environmental Development | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans | 1 |
| Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science | 1 |
| Earth Systems and Environment | 1 |
| Reviews of Geophysics | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water | 1 |
| CATENA | 1 |
| Ecohydrology | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 1 |
| Journal of Ecology | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 1 |
| Scientific Reports | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 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