Weekly Literature Review

Week 49 · November 30–December 6, 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

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies
    2. Flood Susceptibility Mapping through the GIS-AHP Technique Using the Cloud
    3. Flood risk assessment using hybrid artificial intelligence models integrated with multi-criteria decision analysis in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam
    4. Convolutional neural network approach for spatial prediction of flood hazard at national scale of Iran
    5. Flood Damage and Mortgage Credit Risk: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey
    6. Flood Risk and the U.S. Housing Market
    7. Floodplains in the Anthropocene: A Global Analysis of the Interplay Between Human Population, Built Environment, and Flood Severity
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe
    2. Drought response of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)—A review
    3. Climate risk: The price of drought
    4. Intensifying saline water intrusion and drought in the Mekong Delta: From physical evidence to policy outlooks
    5. How reliable are the evapotranspiration estimates by Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) models for catchment-scale drought assessment and irrigation planning?
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Impact assessment of climate change and human activities on streamflow signatures in the Yellow River Basin using the Budyko hypothesis and derived differential equation
    2. Assessing land use change impact on stream discharge and stream water quality in an agricultural watershed
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world’s forests to mitigate climate change
    2. Health Risks Due To Climate Change: Inequity In Causes And Consequences
    3. Impacts and implications of climate change on wastewater systems: A New Zealand perspective
    4. Assessing concurrent effects of climate change on hydropower supply, electricity demand, and greenhouse gas emissions in the Upper Yangtze River Basin of China
    5. Climate change concern, personal responsibility and actions related to climate change mitigation in EU countries: Cross-cultural analysis
    6. Projected Climate Change Impacts on Hurricane Storm Surge Inundation in the Coastal United States
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models
    2. Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES
    3. Toward catchment hydro‐biogeochemical theories
    4. High-resolution global atmospheric moisture connections from evaporation to precipitation
    5. Simulating runoff under changing climatic conditions: A comparison of the long short-term memory network with two conceptual hydrologic models
    6. Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth
    7. Correcting model biases of CO in East Asia: impact on oxidant distributions during KORUS-AQ
    8. Evaluation of precipitation in CMIP6 over the Yangtze River Basin
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon
    2. Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1
    3. An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3
    4. Organo–organic and organo–mineral interfaces in soil at the nanometer scale
    5. Hybrid floating solar photovoltaics-hydropower systems: Benefits and global assessment of technical potential
    6. Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Estimate Soil Organic Carbon Variability with Environmental Variables and Soil Nutrient Indicators in an Alluvial Soil
    7. Cover crop management and water conservation in vineyard and olive orchards
    8. Applications of Google Earth Engine in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change
    9. An investigation into the hydrochemistry, quality and risk to human health of groundwater in the central region of Shandong Province, North China
    10. Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean
    11. Vegetation degradation impacts soil nutrients and enzyme activities in wet meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
    12. A general theory of rock glacier creep based on in‐situ and remote sensing observations
    13. Recent Amplified Global Gross Primary Productivity Due to Temperature Increase Is Offset by Reduced Productivity Due to Water Constraints
    14. Spatiotemporal variations, sources, water quality and health risk assessment of trace elements in the Fen River
    15. Innovative floating bifacial photovoltaic solutions for inland water areas
    16. Soil water/salt balance and water productivity of typical irrigation schedules for cotton under film mulched drip irrigation in northern Xinjiang
    17. Water Quality Retrieval from PRISMA Hyperspectral Images: First Experience in a Turbid Lake and Comparison with Sentinel-2
    18. The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future
    19. Spatial-temporal patterns of malaria incidence in Uganda using HMIS data from 2015 to 2019
    20. Seasonal Carbon Dynamics in the Near‐Global Ocean
    21. Effects of water stress applied at various phenological stages on yield, quality, and water use efficiency of melon
    22. Impact of different restoration methods on coastal wetland loss in Louisiana: Bayesian analysis
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 7 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Ward, Swain et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

Authors: P. Ward, M. D. Ruiter, J. Mård, K. Schröter, A. V. Loon, T. Veldkamp et al.

Journal: Water Security · DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2020.100070 · Citations: 242

Matched topics: flood, drought

Abstract Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures and strategies, it is important to consider interactions between these closely linked phenomena. We show examples of: (a) how flood or drought DRR measures can have (unintended) positive or negative impacts on risk of the opposite hazard; and (b) how flood or drought DRR me…


Flood Susceptibility Mapping through the GIS-AHP Technique Using the Cloud

Authors: Kishore Chandra Swain, Chiranjit Singha, Laxmikanta Nayak

Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · DOI: 10.3390/ijgi9120720 · Citations: 238

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, flood, land surface model, earth system model

Flood susceptibility mapping is essential for characterizing flood risk zones and for planning mitigation approaches. Using a multi-criteria decision support system, this study investigated a flood susceptible region in Bihar, India. It used a combination of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS)/remote sensing (RS) with a cloud computing API on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. Five main flood-causing criteria were broadly selected, namely hydrol…


Flood risk assessment using hybrid artificial intelligence models integrated with multi-criteria decision analysis in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

Authors: Binh Thai Pham, Chinh Luu, Tran Van Phong, Huu Duy Nguyen, Hiep Van Le, Thai Quoc Tran et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125815 · Citations: 217

Matched topics: hydrology, flood

Abstract not available.


Convolutional neural network approach for spatial prediction of flood hazard at national scale of Iran

Authors: K. Khosravi, M. Panahi, A. Golkarian, S. Keesstra, S. Keesstra, P. Saco et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2020.125552 · Citations: 166

Matched topics: flood

Abstract Iran experiences frequent destructive floods with significant socioeconomic consequences. Quantifying the accurate impacts of such natural hazards, however, is a complicated task. The present study uses a deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN) algorithm, which is among the newer and most powerful algorithms in big data sets, to develop a flood susceptibility map for Iran. A total of 2769 records were collected from flood locations across the entire country; we divided this…


Flood Damage and Mortgage Credit Risk: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey

Authors: Carolyn Kousky, Mark Palim, Ying Pan

Journal: Journal of Housing Research · DOI: 10.1080/10527001.2020.1840131 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: flood

Using a unique, loan-level database that combines post-disaster home inspection data, flood zone designations, and loan performance measures in the area impacted by Hurricane Harvey, we examine the link between property damage, flood insurance, and mortgage credit risk. We find that compared with homes with no damage, loans on moderately to severely damaged homes are more likely to become 90 days delinquent shortly after Harvey. However, longer-term loan performance depends on whether the pro…


Flood Risk and the U.S. Housing Market

Authors: Carolyn Kousky, Howard Kunreuther, Michael LaCour‐Little, Susan M. Wächter

Journal: Journal of Housing Research · DOI: 10.1080/10527001.2020.1836915 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: flood

Flooding is the most frequent and costliest natural disaster in the United States, yet most households are uninsured or underinsured against flood and may incorrectly expect that government agencies provide sufficient post-flood assistance. This paper synthesizes existing research on flood risks, flood insurance, and their impacts on the U.S. housing market. We focus on the single-family market segment, as primary residences tend to be the largest category of wealth for most households. We co…


Floodplains in the Anthropocene: A Global Analysis of the Interplay Between Human Population, Built Environment, and Flood Severity

Authors: Maurizio Mazzoleni, Johanna Mård, Maria Rusca, Vincent Odongo, Sara Lindersson, Giuliano Di Baldassarre

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027744 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: hydrology, flood

Abstract This study presents a global explanatory analysis of the interplay between the severity of flood losses and human presence in floodplain areas. In particular, we relate economic losses and fatalities caused by floods during 1990–2000, with changes in human population and built‐up areas in floodplains during 2000–2015 by exploiting global archives. We found that population and built‐up areas in floodplains increased in the period 2000–2015 for the majority of the analyzed countries, a…


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 5 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Senf, Leuschner et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

Authors: Cornelius Senf, Allan Buras, Christian Zang, Anja Rammig, Rupert Seidl

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19924-1 · Citations: 538

Matched topics: drought

Pulses of tree mortality caused by drought have been reported recently in forests around the globe, but large-scale quantitative evidence is lacking for Europe. Analyzing high-resolution annual satellite-based canopy mortality maps from 1987 to 2016 we here show that excess forest mortality (i.e., canopy mortality exceeding the long-term mortality trend) is significantly related to drought across continental Europe. The relationship between water availability and mortality showed threshold be…


Drought response of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)—A review

Authors: C. Leuschner

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2020.125576 · Citations: 247

Matched topics: drought

Abstract European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is the dominant tree species of Central Europe’s natural forests and one of the continent’s most important timber species. This highly competitive species is known to be drought-sensitive and thus may increasingly be threatened by climate change-related heat waves and drought in part of its distribution range. Tree responses and tolerance to drought are complex processes that are best understood by adopting a multi-level analysis spanning from the mol…


Climate risk: The price of drought

Authors: Thanh D. Huynh, T. Nguyen, Cameron Truong

Journal: Journal of Corporate Finance · DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101750 · Citations: 242

Matched topics: drought

Abstract We document a significant positive relation between drought risk and the cost of equity capital. Our estimation shows that the cost of equity capital is 92 basis points higher for firms affected by severe drought conditions. We provide evidence that when firms are affected by droughts, firms with higher local institutional holdings exhibit a higher cost of equity capital. This result supports the well-known local bias of institutional investors, and suggests that diversification cann…


Intensifying saline water intrusion and drought in the Mekong Delta: From physical evidence to policy outlooks

Authors: Ho Huu Loc, Đoàn Văn Bình, Edward Park, Sangam Shrestha, Tran Duc Dung, Vu Hai Son et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143919 · Citations: 146

Matched topics: drought, hydropower

Abstract not available.


How reliable are the evapotranspiration estimates by Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) models for catchment-scale drought assessment and irrigation planning?

Authors: Sonam Sandeep Dash, Bhabagrahi Sahoo, Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125838 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, drought, land surface model, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 2 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.

Impact assessment of climate change and human activities on streamflow signatures in the Yellow River Basin using the Budyko hypothesis and derived differential equation

Authors: Wei Wang, Yongyong Zhang, Q. Tang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125460 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract Streamflow has been complexly altered by climate change and human activities in major rivers worldwide. The traditional Darwinian approach for impact assessment of climate change and human activities mainly focuses on variations in annual streamflow, but ignores other critical streamflow characteristics (e.g., high- and low-flow signatures). In our study, seven streamflow metrics were adopted to characterize the main streamflow signatures including average, low and high flows, and th…


Assessing land use change impact on stream discharge and stream water quality in an agricultural watershed

Authors: Xiaojing Ni, Prem B. Parajuli, Ying Ouyang, Padmanava Dash, Courtney Siegert

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.105055 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, water management

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 6 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world’s forests to mitigate climate change

Authors: Kemen Austin, Justin S. Baker, Brent Sohngen, Christopher M. Wade, Adam Daigneault, Sara Ohrel et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19578-z · Citations: 209

Matched topics: climate change

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Health Risks Due To Climate Change: Inequity In Causes And Consequences

Authors: Kristie L. Ebi, Jeremy Hess

Journal: Health Affairs · DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01125 · Citations: 206

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change has altered global to local weather patterns and increased sea levels, and it will continue to do so. Average temperatures, precipitation amounts, and other variables such as humidity levels are all rising. In addition, weather variability is increasing, causing, for example, a greater number of heat waves, many of which are more intense and last longer, and more floods and droughts. These changes are collectively increasing the number of injuries, illnesses, and deaths from a …


Impacts and implications of climate change on wastewater systems: A New Zealand perspective

Authors: James Hughes, Katherine Cowper-Heays, Erica Olesson, Robert G. Bell, Adolf Stroombergen

Journal: Climate Risk Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2020.100262 · Citations: 155

Matched topics: climate change

Wastewater systems provide a critical service to society, and their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. places the health and sanitation of many communities at risk. The impacts of climate change on wastewater systems are numerous and can lead to wide ranging implications over changing timescales. This paper considers the significance of the impacts and implications, how they will be distributed across different groups, how they will manifest in different contexts and locations, a…


Assessing concurrent effects of climate change on hydropower supply, electricity demand, and greenhouse gas emissions in the Upper Yangtze River Basin of China

Authors: P. Qin, Hongmei Xu, Min Liu, C. Xiao, K. Forrest, S. Samuelsen et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.APENERGY.2020.115694 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract Hydropower importantly provides flexible low-carbon electricity, however, climate change will affect the hydropower system through altering hydrologic regimes while also affecting electricity demands for heating and cooling that hydropower resources serve. This study assesses the effect of climate change on hydropower and electricity demand in the Upper Yangtze River Basin (UYRB) in China on the regional net electric load and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is accomplished by us…


Authors: Miglė Jakučionytė-Skodienė, Genovaitė Liobikienė

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125189 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Projected Climate Change Impacts on Hurricane Storm Surge Inundation in the Coastal United States

Authors: Jeane Camelo, Talea Mayo, E. D. Gutmann

Journal: Frontiers in Built Environment · DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2020.588049 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: climate change

The properties of hurricanes directly influence storm surges; however, the implications of projected changes to the climate are unclear. Here, we simulate the storm surges of historical storms under present day and end of century climate scenarios to assess the impact of climate change on storm surge inundation. We simulate 21 storms that impacted the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts of the continental U.S. from 2000 to 2013. We find that the volume of inundation increases for 14 storms and…


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 8 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models

Authors: Chao Li, Francis W. Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Guilong Li, Ying Sun, Michael Wehner

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-1013.1 · Citations: 342

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract This study presents an analysis of daily temperature and precipitation extremes with return periods ranging from 2 to 50 years in phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) multimodel ensemble of simulations. Judged by similarity with reanalyses, the new-generation models simulate the present-day temperature and precipitation extremes reasonably well. In line with previous CMIP simulations, the new simulations continue to project a large-scale picture of more freque…


Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES

Authors: Greg M. McFarquhar, Christopher S. Bretherton, Roger Marchand, Alain Protat, Paul J. DeMott, Simon P. Alexander et al.

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-20-0132.1 · Citations: 311

Matched topics: surface water, earth system model

Abstract Weather and climate models are challenged by uncertainties and biases in simulating Southern Ocean (SO) radiative fluxes that trace to a poor understanding of cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative processes, and their interactions. Projects between 2016 and 2018 used in situ probes, radar, lidar, and other instruments to make comprehensive measurements of thermodynamics, surface radiation, cloud, precipitation, aerosol, cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and ice nucleating parti…


Toward catchment hydro‐biogeochemical theories

Authors: Li Li, Pamela Sullivan, Paolo Benettin, Olaf A. Cirpka, Kevin Bishop, Susan L. Brantley et al.

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1495 · Citations: 175

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, earth system model

Abstract Headwater catchments are the fundamental units that connect the land to the ocean. Hydrological flow and biogeochemical processes are intricately coupled, yet their respective sciences have progressed without much integration. Reaction kinetic theories that prescribe rate dependence on environmental variables (e.g., temperature and water content) have advanced substantially, mostly in well‐mixed reactors, columns, and warming experiments without considering the characteristics of hyd…


High-resolution global atmospheric moisture connections from evaporation to precipitation

Authors: Obbe A. Tuinenburg, Jolanda Theeuwen, Arie Staal

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-3177-2020 · Citations: 150

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

Abstract. A key Earth system process is the circulation of evaporated moisture through the atmosphere. Spatial connections between evaporation and precipitation affect the global and regional climates by redistributing water and latent heat. Through this atmospheric moisture recycling, land cover changes influence regional precipitation patterns, with potentially far-reaching effects on human livelihoods and biome distributions across the globe. However, a globally complete dataset of atmosph…


Simulating runoff under changing climatic conditions: A comparison of the long short-term memory network with two conceptual hydrologic models

Authors: Peng Bai, Xiaomang Liu, Jiaxin Xie

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125779 · Citations: 127

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract not available.


Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth

Authors: J. Kuttippurath, Surajit Murasingh, Peter A. Stott, Beena Balan Sarojini, Madan K. Jha, Pradyuman Kumar et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abcf78 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: runoff, water management

Abstract Changes in rainfall affect drinking water, river and surface runoff, soil moisture, groundwater reserve, electricity generation, agriculture production and ultimately the economy of a country. Trends in rainfall, therefore, are important for examining the impact of climate change on water resources for its planning and management. Here, as analysed from 119 years of rainfall measurements at 16 different rain gauge stations across northeast India, a significant change in the rainfall …


Correcting model biases of CO in East Asia: impact on oxidant distributions during KORUS-AQ

Authors: Benjamin Gaubert, L. K. Emmons, Kevin Raeder, Simone Tilmes, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Avelino F. Arellano et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-14617-2020 · Citations: 118

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

controls, can improve ozone pollution over East Asia.


Evaluation of precipitation in CMIP6 over the Yangtze River Basin

Authors: Ying Li, Denghua Yan, Hui Peng, Shangbin Xiao

Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105406 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 22 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon

Authors: Zhenyu Tian, Haoqi Nina Zhao, Katherine T. Peter, Melissa Gonzalez, Jill Wetzel, Christopher L. Wu et al.

Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6951 · Citations: 1396

Matched topics: runoff

‘-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD), a globally ubiquitous tire rubber antioxidant. Retrospective analysis of representative roadway runoff and stormwater-affected creeks of the U.S. West Coast indicated widespread occurrence of 6PPD-quinone (<0.3 to 19 micrograms per liter) at toxic concentrations (median lethal concentration of 0.8 ± 0.16 micrograms per liter). These results reveal unanticipated risks of 6PPD antioxidants to an aquatic species and imply toxicological relevance for dissipated…


Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1

Authors: Boyin Huang, Chun‐Ying Liu, Viva F. Banzon, Eric Freeman, Garrett Graham, B. Hankins et al.

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0166.1 · Citations: 1095

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract The NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (SST), version 2.0, dataset (DOISST v2.0) is a blend of in situ ship and buoy SSTs with satellite SSTs derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). DOISST v2.0 exhibited a cold bias in the Indian, South Pacific, and South Atlantic Oceans that is due to a lack of ingested drifting-buoy SSTs in the system, which resulted from a gradual data format change from the traditional alphanumeric code…


An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3

Authors: Laura Slivinski, Gilbert P. Compo, Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, Chesley McColl, Rob Allan et al.

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0505.1 · Citations: 258

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract The performance of a new historical reanalysis, the NOAA–CIRES–DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis version 3 (20CRv3), is evaluated via comparisons with other reanalyses and independent observations. This dataset provides global, 3-hourly estimates of the atmosphere from 1806 to 2015 by assimilating only surface pressure observations and prescribing sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, and radiative forcings. Comparisons with independent observations, other reanalyses, and sa…


Organo–organic and organo–mineral interfaces in soil at the nanometer scale

Authors: Angela R. Possinger, Michael J. Zachman, Akio Enders, Barnaby D.A. Levin, David A. Muller, Lena F. Kourkoutis et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19792-9 · Citations: 228

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

The capacity of soil as a carbon (C) sink is mediated by interactions between organic matter and mineral phases. However, previously proposed layered accumulation of organic matter within aggregate organo-mineral microstructures has not yet been confirmed by direct visualization at the necessary nanometer-scale spatial resolution. Here, we identify disordered micrometer-size organic phases rather than previously reported ordered gradients in C functional groups. Using cryo-electron microscopy…


Hybrid floating solar photovoltaics-hydropower systems: Benefits and global assessment of technical potential

Authors: N. Lee, Úrsula Grunwald, Evan Rosenlieb, Heather M. Mirletz, Alexandra Aznar, R. Spencer et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.08.080 · Citations: 208

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract Floating solar photovoltaics (FPV) is an emerging, and increasingly viable, application of photovoltaics (PV) in which systems are sited directly on waterbodies. Despite growing market interest, FPV system deployment is nascent, and potential adopters remain concerned about the technology, the benefits it offers, the advantages to pairing it in hybrid systems (such as with hydropower), and how to analyze technical potential. To support decision making, we provide a review of associat…


Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Estimate Soil Organic Carbon Variability with Environmental Variables and Soil Nutrient Indicators in an Alluvial Soil

Authors: Kingsley John, Isong Abraham Isong, Ndiye Michael Kebonye, Esther Okon Ayito, Prince Chapman Agyeman, Sunday Marcus Afu

Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land9120487 · Citations: 182

Matched topics: land surface model

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important indicator of soil quality and directly determines soil fertility. Hence, understanding its spatial distribution and controlling factors is necessary for efficient and sustainable soil nutrient management. In this study, machine learning algorithms including artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), cubist regression, random forests (RF), and multiple linear regression (MLR) were chosen for advancing the prediction of SOC. A total …


Cover crop management and water conservation in vineyard and olive orchards

Authors: Agata Novara, Artemi Cerdà, Ettore Barone, Luciano Gristina

Journal: Soil and Tillage Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2020.104896 · Citations: 181

Matched topics: runoff, water management

Abstract not available.


Applications of Google Earth Engine in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change

Authors: Richard Boothroyd, Richard Williams, Trevor Hoey, Brian Barrett, Octria Adi Prasojo

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1496 · Citations: 156

Matched topics: river, water management, earth system model

Abstract Cloud‐based computing, access to big geospatial data, and virtualization, whereby users are freed from computational hardware and data management logistics, could revolutionize remote sensing applications in fluvial geomorphology. Analysis of multitemporal, multispectral satellite imagery has provided fundamental geomorphic insight into the planimetric form and dynamics of large river systems, but information derived from these applications has largely been used to test existing conc…


An investigation into the hydrochemistry, quality and risk to human health of groundwater in the central region of Shandong Province, North China

Authors: Jiutan Liu, Yuming Peng, Changsuo Li, Zongjun Gao, Shaojie Chen

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125416 · Citations: 151

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean

Authors: Tim Rixen, Greg Cowie, Birgit Gaye, Joaquim I. Goés, Helga do Rosário Gomes, Raleigh R. Hood et al.

Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-6051-2020 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. Decreasing concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the ocean are considered one of the main threats to marine ecosystems as they jeopardize the growth of higher organisms. They also alter the marine nitrogen cycle, which is strongly bound to the carbon cycle and climate. While higher organisms in general start to suffer from oxygen concentrations < ∼ 63 µM (hypoxia), the marine nitrogen cycle responds to oxygen concentration below a threshold of about 20 µM (microbial hypoxia), whe…


Vegetation degradation impacts soil nutrients and enzyme activities in wet meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Authors: Jiangqi Wu, Haiyan Wang, Guang Li, W. F. Mader, Jianghua Wu, Yu Gong et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78182-9 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: hydrology

Vegetation degradation, due to climate change and human activities, changes the biomass, vegetation species composition, and soil nutrient input sources and thus affects soil nutrient cycling and enzyme activities. However, few studies have focused on the responses of soil nutrients and enzymes to vegetation degradation in high-altitude wet meadows. In this study, we examined the effects of vegetation degradation on soil nutrients (soil organic carbon, SOC; total nitrogen, TN; total phosphoru…


A general theory of rock glacier creep based on in‐situ and remote sensing observations

Authors: Alessandro Cicoira, Marco Marcer, Isabelle Gärtner‐Roer, Xavier Bodín, Lukas U. Arenson, Andreas Vieli

Journal: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes · DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2090 · Citations: 127

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract The ongoing acceleration in rock glacier velocities concurrent with increasing air temperatures, and the widespread onset of rock glacier destabilization have reinforced the interest in rock glacier dynamics and in its coupling to the climate system. Despite the increasing number of studies investigating this phenomenon, our knowledge of both the fundamental mechanisms controlling rock glacier dynamics, and their long‐term behaviour at the regional scale remain limited. We present a …


Recent Amplified Global Gross Primary Productivity Due to Temperature Increase Is Offset by Reduced Productivity Due to Water Constraints

Authors: Nima Madani, Nicholas C. Parazoo, John S. Kimball, Ashley P. Ballantyne, Rolf H. Reichle, Marco Maneta et al.

Journal: AGU Advances · DOI: 10.1029/2020av000180 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Satellite remote sensing observations show an increased greenness trend over land in recent decades. While greenness observations can indicate increased productivity, estimation of total annual productivity is highly dependent on vegetation response to climate and environmental conditions. Models have been struggling to determine how much carbon is taken up by plants as a result of increased atmospheric CO 2 fertilization. Current remote sensing light use efficiency (LUE) models cont…


Spatiotemporal variations, sources, water quality and health risk assessment of trace elements in the Fen River

Authors: Ningpan Chai, Xiu Yi, Jun Xiao, Ting Liu, Yujie Liu, Li Deng et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143882 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Innovative floating bifacial photovoltaic solutions for inland water areas

Authors: Hesan Ziar, Bjorn Prudon, Fen‐Yu Lin, B. Roeffen, Dennis Heijkoop, Tim Stark et al.

Journal: Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications · DOI: 10.1002/pip.3367 · Citations: 112

Matched topics: land surface model, surface water

Abstract Photovoltaic (PV) technology has the potential to be integrated on many surfaces in various environments, even on water. Modeling, design, and realization of a floating PV system have more challenges than conventional rooftop or freestanding PV system. In this work, we introduce two innovative concepts for floating bifacial PV systems, describing their modeling, design, and performance monitoring. The developed concepts are retractable and enable maximum energy production through tra…


Soil water/salt balance and water productivity of typical irrigation schedules for cotton under film mulched drip irrigation in northern Xinjiang

Authors: Songrui Ning, Beibei Zhou, Jianchu Shi, Quanjiu Wang

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106651 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Water Quality Retrieval from PRISMA Hyperspectral Images: First Experience in a Turbid Lake and Comparison with Sentinel-2

Authors: Milad Niroumand-Jadidi, Francesca Bovolo, Lorenzo Bruzzone

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12233984 · Citations: 103

Matched topics: water management

A new era of spaceborne hyperspectral imaging has just begun with the recent availability of data from PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) launched by the Italian space agency (ASI). There has been pre-launch optimism that the wealth of spectral information offered by PRISMA can contribute to a variety of aquatic science and management applications. Here, we examine the potential of PRISMA level 2D images in retrieving standard water quality parameters, including tota…


The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future

Authors: Ingmar Nitze, Sarah Cooley, Claude Duguay, Benjamin Jones, Guido Grosse

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-4279-2020 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract. Northwestern Alaska has been highly affected by changing climatic patterns with new temperature and precipitation maxima over the recent years. In particular, the Baldwin and northern Seward peninsulas are characterized by an abundance of thermokarst lakes that are highly dynamic and prone to lake drainage like many other regions at the southern margins of continuous permafrost. We used Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and Planet CubeSat optical remote sensing data to analy…


Spatial-temporal patterns of malaria incidence in Uganda using HMIS data from 2015 to 2019

Authors: Simon P. Kigozi, Ruth Kigozi, Catherine M Sebuguzi, Jorge Cano, Damian Rutazaana, Jimmy Opigo et al.

Journal: BMC Public Health · DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-10007-w · Citations: 92

Matched topics: land surface model

BACKGROUND: As global progress to reduce malaria transmission continues, it is increasingly important to track changes in malaria incidence rather than prevalence. Risk estimates for Africa have largely underutilized available health management information systems (HMIS) data to monitor trends. This study uses national HMIS data, together with environmental and geographical data, to assess spatial-temporal patterns of malaria incidence at facility catchment level in Uganda, over a recent 5-ye…


Seasonal Carbon Dynamics in the Near‐Global Ocean

Authors: Lydia Keppler, Peter Landschützer, Nicolas Gruber, Siv K. Lauvset, Irene Stemmler

Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles · DOI: 10.1029/2020gb006571 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: seasonal, earth system model

The seasonal cycle represents one of the largest signals of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the ocean, yet these seasonal variations are not well established at a global scale. Here, we present the Mapped Observation‐Based Oceanic DIC (MOBO‐DIC) product, a monthly DIC climatology developed based on the DIC measurements from GLODAPv2.2019 and a two‐step neural network method to interpolate and map the measurements. MOBO‐DIC extends from the surface down to 2,000 m and from 65°N to 65°S. We…


Effects of water stress applied at various phenological stages on yield, quality, and water use efficiency of melon

Authors: Duran Yavuz, Musa Seymen, Nurcan Yavuz, Hacer Çoklar, Muhammet Ercan

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106673 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Impact of different restoration methods on coastal wetland loss in Louisiana: Bayesian analysis

Authors: Tyler Hardy, Wei Wu

Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-08746-9 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


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After deduplication 894
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Agricultural Water Management 2
Water Security 1
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