Weekly Literature Review
Week 50 · December 7–December 13, 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
- Data‐driven flood emulation: Speeding up urban flood predictions by deep convolutional neural networks
- Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic
- Improved flood susceptibility mapping using a best first decision tree integrated with ensemble learning techniques
- Compounding factors for extreme flooding around Galveston Bay during Hurricane Harvey
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Increase in Compound Drought and Heatwaves in a Warming World
- Germination and Seedling Growth Responses of Zygophyllum fabago, Salsola kali L. and Atriplex canescens to PEG-Induced Drought Stress
- Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought
- Effects of drought and rainfall events on soil autotrophic respiration and heterotrophic respiration
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change
- Changes in precipitation extremes in the Yangtze River Basin during 1960–2019 and the association with global warming, ENSO, and local effects
- Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Yield and Debris‐Flow Activity in an Alpine Catchment
- Impact of climate change on maize yield in China from 1979 to 2016
- Permafrost Promotes Shallow Groundwater Flow and Warmer Headwater Streams
- Climate change impacts on peak river flows: Combining national-scale hydrological modelling and probabilistic projections
- Beyond good intentions, to urgent action: Former UNFCCC leaders take stock of thirty years of international climate change negotiations
- Safe spaces or a pedagogy of discomfort? Senior high-school teachers’ meta-emotion philosophies and climate change education
- Impacts of Large‐Scale Sahara Solar Farms on Global Climate and Vegetation Cover
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Modeling soil erosion using RUSLE and GIS at watershed level in the upper beles, Ethiopia
- On the curious case of the recent decade, mid-spring precipitation deficit in central Europe
- Sustainable development pathways of hydropower in China: Interdisciplinary qualitative analysis and scenario-based system dynamics quantitative modeling
- Assimilation of SMAP and ASCAT soil moisture retrievals into the JULES land surface model using the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis
- Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity
- Hydrogen Wettability of Sandstone Reservoirs: Implications for Hydrogen Geo‐Storage
- Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018
- Root zone soil moisture estimation with Random Forest
- The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot
- Global trends in nature’s contributions to people
- Fusing simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR data for regional aboveground biomass mapping
- Environmental Factors Affecting the Mineralization of Crop Residues
- Hyperspectral Image Denoising and Anomaly Detection Based on Low-Rank and Sparse Representations
- Regional hydrological frequency analysis at ungauged sites with random forest regression
- A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical “Shangri-La” ecosystem in central Tibet
- Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis
- A Suite of Tools for Continuous Land Change Monitoring in Google Earth Engine
- Automatic water detection from multidimensional hierarchical clustering for Sentinel-2 images and a comparison with Level 2A processors
- Blue water footprint linked to national consumption and international trade is unsustainable
- Landscape changes and their hydrologic effects: Interactions and feedbacks across scales
- Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas
- Analysis of Water Pollution Using Different Physicochemical Parameters: A Study of Yamuna River
- Techno-economic assessment of minimal liquid discharge (MLD) treatment systems for saline wastewater (brine) management and treatment
- The Color of Rivers
- Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Surface Water, Groundwater, and Wastewater Across Land-Use Gradients and Potential Effects
- ICESat‐2 Meltwater Depth Estimates: Application to Surface Melt on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
- Understanding trends in hydrologic extremes across Australia
- A global long-term (1981–2000) land surface temperature product for NOAA AVHRR
- Short term soil moisture forecasts for potato crop farming: A machine learning approach
- Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe
- Combined Sentinel-1A With Sentinel-2A to Estimate Soil Moisture in Farmland
- Biogeographic mechanisms involved in the colonization of Madagascar by African vertebrates: Rifting, rafting and runways
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 4 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Guo, Kocsis et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Data‐driven flood emulation: Speeding up urban flood predictions by deep convolutional neural networks
Authors: Zifeng Guo, João P. Leitão, Nuno Simões, Vahid Moosavi
Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12684 · Citations: 207
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, flood, land surface model
Abstract Computational complexity has been the bottleneck for applying physically based simulations in large urban areas with high spatial resolution for efficient and systematic flooding analyses and risk assessment. To overcome the issue of long computational time and accelerate the prediction process, this paper proposes that the prediction of maximum water depth can be considered an image‐to‐image translation problem in which water depth rasters are generated using the information learned…
Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic
Authors: Ádám T. Kocsis, Christopher R. Scotese
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103463 · Citations: 135
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Improved flood susceptibility mapping using a best first decision tree integrated with ensemble learning techniques
Authors: Binh Thai Pham, Abolfazl Jaafari, Tran Van Phong, Hoang Phan Hải Yen, Tran Thi Tuyen, Vu Van Luong et al.
Journal: Geoscience Frontiers · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.003 · Citations: 121
Matched topics: flood
Improving the accuracy of flood prediction and mapping is crucial for reducing damage resulting from flood events. In this study, we proposed and validated three ensemble models based on the Best First Decision Tree (BFT) and the Bagging (Bagging-BFT), Decorate (Bagging-BFT), and Random Subspace (RSS-BFT) ensemble learning techniques for an improved prediction of flood susceptibility in a spatially-explicit manner. A total number of 126 historical flood events from the Nghe An Province (Vietn…
Compounding factors for extreme flooding around Galveston Bay during Hurricane Harvey
Authors: Wei Huang, Fei Ye, Yinglong Zhang, Kyeong Park, Jiabi Du, Saeed Moghimi et al.
Journal: Ocean Modelling · DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101735 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, flood, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 4 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Mukherjee, Yousefi et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Increase in Compound Drought and Heatwaves in a Warming World
Authors: S. Mukherjee, A. Mishra
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020GL090617 · Citations: 398
Matched topics: drought
Compound drought and heatwaves can cause significant damage to the environment, economy, and society. In this study, we quantify the spatio‐temporal changes in compound drought and heatwave (CDHW) events by integrating weekly self‐calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (sc_PDSI) and daily maximum temperatures during the period 1983 to 2016. Multiple data products are used to examine the robustness of sc_PDSI in the compound event analysis. The results consistently suggest significant increa…
Germination and Seedling Growth Responses of Zygophyllum fabago, Salsola kali L. and Atriplex canescens to PEG-Induced Drought Stress
Authors: Ali Reza Yousefi, Sakineh Rashidi, Parviz Moradi, Andrea Mastinu
Journal: Environments · DOI: 10.3390/environments7120107 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: drought
In arid and semi-arid regions, planting drought-tolerant species is the most useful strategy in the reclamation of degraded soils. In the present study, we evaluated the effect of simulated drought by polyethylene glycol (PEG-6000) on seed germination and seedling growth of three desert plants such as Atriplex canescens, Salsola kali and Zygophyllum fabago. Seeds were subjected to water stress to drought stress by PEG at five stress levels (0, −1, −4, −8, −12, −14 bars). Germination of Z. fab…
Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought
Authors: Manuela I. Brunner, Daniel L. Swain, Eric Gilleland, Andrew W. Wood
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abd2f0 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: streamflow, water management, drought
Abstract Widespread streamflow droughts can pose substantially greater societal challenges than spatially less extensive events because of the complex realities of trans-regional water management. In a warming climate, drought spatial extent may change along with changes in underlying hydro-meteorological contributors. Here, we assess changes in streamflow drought spatial extent over the period 1981–2018 across the conterminous United States, and how the importance of potential hydro-meteorol…
Effects of drought and rainfall events on soil autotrophic respiration and heterotrophic respiration
Authors: Pengfei Zheng, Dandan Wang, Xinxiao Yu, Guodong Jia, Ziqiang Liu, Yusong Wang et al.
Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2020.107267 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 9 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change
Authors: Faming Wang, Christian J. Sanders, Isaac R. Santos, Jianwu Tang, Mark Schuerch, Matthew L. Kirwan et al.
Journal: National Science Review · DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa296 · Citations: 374
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change, earth system model
, which is ∼30% of the organic C buried on the ocean floor. Modeling based on current climatic drivers and under projected emissions scenarios revealed a net increase in the global C accumulation by 2100. This rapid increase is driven by sea level rise in tidal marshes, and higher temperature and precipitation in mangroves. Countries with large areas of coastal wetlands, like Indonesia and Mexico, are more susceptible to tidal wetland C losses under climate change, while regions such as Austr…
Changes in precipitation extremes in the Yangtze River Basin during 1960–2019 and the association with global warming, ENSO, and local effects
Authors: Xin Li, Ke Zhang, Pengrui Gu, Haotian Feng, Yifan Yin, Wang Chen et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144244 · Citations: 236
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Yield and Debris‐Flow Activity in an Alpine Catchment
Authors: Jacob Hirschberg, Simone Fatichi, Georgina L. Bennett, Brian W. McArdell, Nadav Peleg, Stuart N. Lane et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · DOI: 10.1029/2020jf005739 · Citations: 143
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model, climate change, earth system model
Abstract Climate change impacts on sediment production and transfer processes on hillslopes and through channels are governed by possible changes in precipitation, runoff, and air temperature. These hydrological and geomorphological impacts are difficult to predict in temperature‐sensitive Alpine environments. In this study, we combined a stochastic weather generator model with the most current climate change projections to feed a hillslope‐channel sediment cascade model for a major debris‐fl…
Impact of climate change on maize yield in China from 1979 to 2016
Authors: Jianzhai Wu, Jing Zhang, Zhangming Ge, Liwei Xing, Shuqing Han, Chen Shen et al.
Journal: Journal of Integrative Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/s2095-3119(20)63244-0 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change severely impacts agricultural production, which jeopardizes food security. China is the second largest maize producer in the world and also the largest consumer of maize. Analyzing the impact of climate change on maize yields can provide effective guidance to national and international economics and politics. Panel models are unable to determine the group-wise heteroscedasticity, cross-sectional correlation and autocorrelation of datasets, therefore we adopted the feasible gene…
Permafrost Promotes Shallow Groundwater Flow and Warmer Headwater Streams
Authors: Ylva Sjöberg, Ahmad Jan, Scott Painter, Ethan T. Coon, Michael P. Carey, Jonathan A. O’Donnell et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027463 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: hydrology, seasonal, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract The presence of permafrost influences the flow paths of water through Arctic landscapes and thereby has the potential to impact stream discharge and thermal regimes. Observations from 11 headwater streams in Alaska showed that July water temperatures were higher in catchments with more near‐surface permafrost. We apply a fully coupled cryohydrology model to investigate if the impact of permafrost on flow path depth could cause the same pattern in temperatures of groundwater dischargi…
Climate change impacts on peak river flows: Combining national-scale hydrological modelling and probabilistic projections
Authors: Alison L. Kay, Alison C. Rudd, Matthew Fry, Gemma Nash, Stuart Allen
Journal: Climate Risk Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2020.100263 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, flood, climate change
Potential future increases in flooding due to climate change need to be taken into consideration when designing flood defences or planning new infrastructure or housing developments. Existing guidance on climate change allowances in Great Britain was based on research that developed a sensitivity-based approach to estimating the impacts of climate change on flood peaks, which was applied with catchment-based hydrological models. Here, the sensitivity-based approach is applied with a national-…
Beyond good intentions, to urgent action: Former UNFCCC leaders take stock of thirty years of international climate change negotiations
Authors: Richard Kinley, Michael Zammit Cutajar, Yvo de Boer, Christiana Figueres
Journal: Climate Policy · DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2020.1860567 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: climate change
The authors, who have all held senior positions in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, take critical stock of what has been achieved since the negotiations were launched 30 years ago in December 1990. The assessment is made against seven functions or roles of multilateral processes (e.g. developing international law, setting goals, and supporting developing countries), and based on clear-eyed expectations of what multilateralism can and cannot do in…
Safe spaces or a pedagogy of discomfort? Senior high-school teachers’ meta-emotion philosophies and climate change education
Authors: Maria Ojala
Journal: The Journal of Environmental Education · DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2020.1845589 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: climate change
The aim of this study is to explore senior high-school teachers’ beliefs about the role of emotions in climate change education and their perception of how they deal with emotional reactions in the classroom. The theoretical framework consists of meta-emotion philosophies, teachers’ beliefs, and critical emotion theories. Sixteen Swedish teachers were interviewed. Four overarching emotion beliefs were identified: a disapproving view, a danger-oriented view, a partial acceptance view, and a co…
Impacts of Large‐Scale Sahara Solar Farms on Global Climate and Vegetation Cover
Authors: Zhengyao Lu, Qiong Zhang, Paul Miller, Q. Zhang, Ellen Berntell, Benjamin Smith
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090789 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Large‐scale photovoltaic solar farms envisioned over the Sahara desert can meet the world’s energy demand while increasing regional rainfall and vegetation cover. However, adverse remote effects resulting from atmospheric teleconnections could offset such regional benefits. We use state‐of‐the‐art Earth‐system model simulations to evaluate the global impacts of Sahara solar farms. Our results indicate a redistribution of precipitation causing Amazon droughts and forest degradation, a…
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.
Modeling soil erosion using RUSLE and GIS at watershed level in the upper beles, Ethiopia
Authors: Yadeta S. Kebede, Nega Tamene Endalamaw, Berhanu G. Sinshaw, Haimanot B. Atinkut
Journal: Environmental Challenges · DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2020.100009 · Citations: 174
Matched topics: water management
Soil erosion by water often described as the most worst form of land degradation with serious environmental and socioeconomic ramification, which accelerated by human-induced activities and impacts agricultural productivity, water resources sustainability, and ecological conservations. Despite, the significant amount of research on the topic, location-specific soil erosion studies are still limited in Ethiopia, particularly in the study region. Therefore, this study investigates the spatial p…
On the curious case of the recent decade, mid-spring precipitation deficit in central Europe
Authors: Monica Ioniță, Viorica Nagavciuc, Rohini Kumar, Oldřich Rakovec
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-00153-8 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow
Abstract Central Europe has experienced a severe drought almost every April for the last 14 years consecutively, driven by record high temperatures, low flows, high evapotranspiration, and high soil moisture deficit. The dynamic of this recent and recurrent mid-spring dryness is not yet understood. Here we show that the period 2007–2020 was characterized by a reduction of ~50% of the usual April rainfall amount over large areas in central Europe. The precipitation deficit and the record high …
Sustainable development pathways of hydropower in China: Interdisciplinary qualitative analysis and scenario-based system dynamics quantitative modeling
Authors: Lijie Sun, Dongxiao Niu, Keke Wang, Xiaomin Xu
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125528 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: hydrology, hydropower
Abstract As a low-cost, low-carbon, and clean renewable energy, hydropower is crucial to carbon emissions reduction and climate change mitigation. Compared with non-steady and highly volatile renewable energy, flexible hydropower can help secure the reliable operation of the grid. However, development cost increase, resettlement and environmental issues have recently hindered China’s hydropower development. This paper first reviews the history and current status of hydropower development in C…
Assimilation of SMAP and ASCAT soil moisture retrievals into the JULES land surface model using the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
Authors: Eunkyo Seo, Myong‐In Lee, Rolf H. Reichle
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112222 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: land surface model
A land data assimilation system is developed to merge satellite soil moisture retrievals into the Joint U.K. Land Environment Simulator (JULES) land surface model (LSM) using the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF). The system assimilates microwave soil moisture retrievals from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer and the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) after bias correction based on cumulative distribution function fitting. The soil moisture assimilation estimates are…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 29 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis
Authors: Songhan Wang, Yongguang Zhang, Weimin Ju, Jing M. Chen, Philippe Ciais, Alessandro Cescatti et al.
Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.abb7772 · Citations: 653
Matched topics: hydrologic model, earth system model
implies a weakening negative feedback on the climatic system and increased societal dependence on future strategies to mitigate climate warming.
Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity
Authors: Hedley S. Grantham, A. J. Duncan, Tom Evans, Kendall R. Jones, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Richard Schuster et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3 · Citations: 430
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
of forest (40.5%) has high landscape-level integrity (mostly found in Canada, Russia, the Amazon, Central Africa, and New Guinea) and only 27% of this area is found in nationally designated protected areas. Of the forest inside protected areas, only 56% has high landscape-level integrity. Ambitious policies that prioritize the retention of forest integrity, especially in the most intact areas, are now urgently needed alongside current efforts aimed at halting deforestation and restoring the i…
Hydrogen Wettability of Sandstone Reservoirs: Implications for Hydrogen Geo‐Storage
Authors: Stefan Iglauer, Muhammad Ali, Alireza Keshavarz
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090814 · Citations: 347
Matched topics: reservoir, land surface model, surface water
Abstract Hydrogen is currently assessed as a future clean fuel in a hydrogen economy. However, one key problem with implementing a full‐scale hydrogen economy is hydrogen storage (as hydrogen is highly compressible and volatile). One solution for this problem is hydrogen geo‐storage, where compressed hydrogen is injected into geological formations, and the hydrogen can be withdrawn again at any time. However, there is a serious lack of data for realistic geologic conditions, including for hyd…
Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018
Authors: Daoping Wang, Dabo Guan, Shupeng Zhu, Michael Mac Kinnon, Guannan Geng, Qiang Zhang et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-00646-7 · Citations: 331
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change
Abstract not available.
Root zone soil moisture estimation with Random Forest
Authors: Coleen Carranza, Corjan Nolet, Michiel Pezij, Martine van der Ploeg
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125840 · Citations: 242
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Accurate estimates of root zone soil moisture (RZSM) at relevant spatio-temporal scales are essential for many agricultural and hydrological applications. Applications of machine learning (ML) techniques to estimate root zone soil moisture are limited compared to commonly used process-based models based on flow and transport equations in the vadose zone. However, data-driven ML techniques present unique opportunities to develop quantitative models without having assumptions on the processes o…
The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot
Authors: Renato A. Ferreira de Lima, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Gregory R. Pitta, André Luís de Gasper, Alexander Christian Vibrans, Jérôme Chave et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20217-w · Citations: 241
Matched topics: climate change
of forests or US$2.3-2.6 billion in carbon credits. These figures have direct implications on mechanisms of climate change mitigation.
Global trends in nature’s contributions to people
Authors: Kate A. Brauman, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Stephen Polasky, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Fabrice DeClerck et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010473117 · Citations: 228
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
Declining biodiversity and ecosystem functions put many of nature’s contributions to people at risk. We review and synthesize the scientific literature to assess 50-y global trends across a broad range of nature’s contributions. We distinguish among trends in potential and realized contributions of nature, as well as environmental conditions and the impacts of changes in nature on human quality of life. We find declining trends in the potential for nature to contribute in the majority of mate…
Fusing simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR data for regional aboveground biomass mapping
Authors: Carlos Alberto Silva, Laura Duncanson, Steven Hancock, Amy Neuenschwander, Nathan Thomas, M. A. Hofton et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112234 · Citations: 219
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Accurate mapping of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is critical for better understanding the role of forests in the global carbon cycle. NASA’s current GEDI and ICESat-2 missions as well as the upcoming NISAR mission will collect synergistic data with different coverage and sensitivity to AGB. In this study, we present a multi-sensor data fusion approach leveraging the strength of each mission to produce wall-to-wall AGB maps that are more accurate and spatially comprehensive than what is ac…
Environmental Factors Affecting the Mineralization of Crop Residues
Authors: Aleksandra Grzyb, Agnieszka Wolna-Maruwka, Alicja Niewiadomska
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10121951 · Citations: 201
Matched topics: water management, surface water
The aim of this article is to present the issues related to the significance of microorganisms in the mineralization of crop residues and the influence of environmental factors on the rate of this process. Crop residues play a very important role in agriculture because they can be used both as an environment-friendly waste management strategy and as a means of improving soil organic matter. The inclusion of crop residues in the soil requires appropriate management strategies that support crop…
Hyperspectral Image Denoising and Anomaly Detection Based on Low-Rank and Sparse Representations
Authors: Lina Zhuang, Lianru Gao, Bing Zhang, Xiyou Fu, Jose M. Bioucas-Dias
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.3040221 · Citations: 199
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Hyperspectral imaging measures the amount of electromagnetic energy across the instantaneous field of view at a very high resolution in hundreds or thousands of spectral channels. This enables objects to be detected and the identification of materials that have subtle differences between them. However, the increase in spectral resolution often means that there is a decrease in the number of photons received in each channel, which means that the noise linked to the image formation process is g…
Regional hydrological frequency analysis at ungauged sites with random forest regression
Authors: Shitanshu Desai, Taha B. M. J. Ouarda
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125861 · Citations: 194
Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, flood
Abstract not available.
A Middle Eocene lowland humid subtropical “Shangri-La” ecosystem in central Tibet
Authors: Tao Su, Robert A. Spicer, Feixiang Wu, Alexander Farnsworth, Jian Huang, Cédric Del Rio et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2012647117 · Citations: 168
Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model, earth system model
Tibet’s ancient topography and its role in climatic and biotic evolution remain speculative due to a paucity of quantitative surface-height measurements through time and space, and sparse fossil records. However, newly discovered fossils from a present elevation of ∼4,850 m in central Tibet improve substantially our knowledge of the ancient Tibetan environment. The 70 plant fossil taxa so far recovered include the first occurrences of several modern Asian lineages and represent a Middle Eocen…
Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis
Authors: Rota Wagai, Masako Kajiura, Maki Asano
Journal: SOIL · DOI: 10.5194/soil-6-597-2020 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract. Global significance of iron (Fe) and aluminum (Al) for the storage of organic matter (OM) in soils and surface sediments is increasingly recognized. Yet specific metal phases involved or the mechanism behind metal–OM correlations frequently shown across soils remain unclear. We identified the allocation of major metal phases and OM to density fractions using 23 soil samples from five climate zones and five soil orders (Andisols, Spodosols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Ultisols) from Asia…
A Suite of Tools for Continuous Land Change Monitoring in Google Earth Engine
Authors: Paulo Arévalo, Eric L. Bullock, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson
Journal: Frontiers in Climate · DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2020.576740 · Citations: 140
Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model, earth system model
Land cover has been designated by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) as an Essential Climate Variable due to its integral role in many climate and environmental processes. Land cover and change affect regional precipitation patterns, surface energy balance, the carbon cycle and biodiversity. Accurate information on land cover and change is essential for climate change mitigation programs such as UN-REDD+. Still, uncertainties related to land change are large, in part due to the use of…
Automatic water detection from multidimensional hierarchical clustering for Sentinel-2 images and a comparison with Level 2A processors
Authors: Maurício C. R. Cordeiro, Jean‐Michel Martinez, Santiago Peña Luque
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112209 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: water management, land surface model, hydropower, surface water
Abstract not available.
Blue water footprint linked to national consumption and international trade is unsustainable
Authors: Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Journal: Nature Food · DOI: 10.1038/s43016-020-00198-1 · Citations: 124
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
Landscape changes and their hydrologic effects: Interactions and feedbacks across scales
Authors: Clare Stephens, Upmanu Lall, Fiona Johnson, Lucy Marshall
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103466 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, hydropower, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas
Authors: Brice R. Rea, Ramón Pellitero, Matteo Spagnolo, Philip D. Hughes, Susan Ivy‐Ochs, H. Renssen et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba4844 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: seasonal
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period of rapid climate cooling that occurred at the end of the last glaciation. Here, we present the first palaeoglacier-derived reconstruction of YD precipitation across Europe, determined from 122 reconstructed glaciers and proxy atmospheric temperatures. Positive precipitation anomalies (YD versus modern) are found along much of the western seaboard of Europe and across the Mediterranean. Negative precipitation anomalies occur over the Fennoscandian ice sheet,…
Analysis of Water Pollution Using Different Physicochemical Parameters: A Study of Yamuna River
Authors: Rohit Sharma, Raghvendra Kumar, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Nadhir Al‐Ansari, Krishna Kant Singh, Rajendra Prasad Mahapatra et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science · DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.581591 · Citations: 116
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, water management, land surface model
The Yamuna river has become one of the most polluted rivers in India as well as in the world because of the high-density population growth and speedy industrialization. The Yamuna river is severely polluted and needs urgent revival. The Yamuna river in Dehradun is polluted due to exceptional tourist activity, poor sewage facilities, and insufficient wastewater management amenities. The measurement of the quality can be done by water quality assessment. In this study, the water quality index h…
Techno-economic assessment of minimal liquid discharge (MLD) treatment systems for saline wastewater (brine) management and treatment
Authors: Argyris Panagopoulos
Journal: Process Safety and Environmental Protection · DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2020.12.007 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
The Color of Rivers
Authors: John Gardner, Xiao Yang, Simon Topp, Matthew Ross, Elizabeth H. Altenau, Tamlin M. Pavelsky
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088946 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: river, seasonal
Abstract Rivers are among the most imperiled ecosystems globally, yet we do not have broad‐scale understanding of their changing ecology because most are rarely sampled. Water color, as perceived by the human eye, is an integrative measure of water quality directly observed by satellites. We examined patterns in river color between 1984 and 2018 by building a remote sensing database of surface reflectance, RiverSR, extracted from 234,727 Landsat images covering 108,000 kilometers of rivers &g…
Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Surface Water, Groundwater, and Wastewater Across Land-Use Gradients and Potential Effects
Authors: Matthew Berens, Paul D. Capel, William A. Arnold
Journal: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry · DOI: 10.1002/etc.4959 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: streamflow, surface water
Neonicotinoid insecticides cause adverse effects on nontarget organisms, but more information about their occurrence in surface and groundwater is needed across a range of land uses. Sixty-five sites in Minnesota, USA, representing rivers, streams, lakes, groundwater, and treated wastewater, were monitored via collection of 157 water samples to determine variability in spatiotemporal neonicotinoid concentrations. The data were used to assess relations to land use, hydrogeologic condition, and…
ICESat‐2 Meltwater Depth Estimates: Application to Surface Melt on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
Authors: H. A. Fricker, Philipp Arndt, Kelly M. Brunt, Rajashree Tri Datta, Zachary Fair, Michael F. Jasinski et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090550 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, surface water
Abstract Surface melting occurs during summer on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, but the volume of stored surface meltwater has been difficult to quantify due to a lack of accurate depth estimates. NASA’s ICESat‐2 laser altimeter brings a new capability: photons penetrate water and are reflected from both the water and the underlying ice; the difference provides a depth estimate. ICESat‐2 sampled Amery Ice Shelf on January 2, 2019 and showed double returns from surface depressions, in…
Understanding trends in hydrologic extremes across Australia
Authors: C. Wasko, Yawen Shao, E. Vogel, L. Wilson, Quan J. Wang, A. Frost et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125877 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, flood
Abstract Changes in the hydrologic cycle have far reaching impacts on agricultural productivity, water resources availability, riverine ecosystems, and our ability to manage environmental assets, bushfire risk, and flood hazard. For example, declining rainfall in the southeast of Australia has led to a prolonged period of drought, with serious impacts on agriculture, the environment, and water supply to urban and rural towns. Here, using the continental wide Australian Water Resources Assessm…
A global long-term (1981–2000) land surface temperature product for NOAA AVHRR
Authors: Jin Ma, Ji Zhou, Frank-Michael Göttsche, Shunlin Liang, Shaofei Wang, Mingsong Li
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-3247-2020 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
Abstract. Land surface temperature (LST) plays an important role in the research of climate change and various land surface processes. Before 2000, global LST products with relatively high temporal and spatial resolutions are scarce, despite a variety of operational satellite LST products. In this study, a global 0.05∘×0.05∘ historical LST product is generated from NOAA advanced very-high-resolution radiometer (AVHRR) data (1981–2000), which includes three data layers: (1) instantaneous LST, …
Short term soil moisture forecasts for potato crop farming: A machine learning approach
Authors: Amaury Dubois, Fabien Teytaud, Sebástien Vérel
Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105902 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe
Authors: Rohini Kumar, Falk Heße, P. Suresh C. Rao, Andréas Musolff, James W. Jawitz, Fanny Sarrazin et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19955-8 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, earth system model
Subsurface contamination due to excessive nutrient surpluses is a persistent and widespread problem in agricultural areas across Europe. The vulnerability of a particular location to pollution from reactive solutes, such as nitrate, is determined by the interplay between hydrologic transport and biogeochemical transformations. Current studies on the controls of subsurface vulnerability do not consider the transient behaviour of transport dynamics in the root zone. Here, using state-of-the-art…
Combined Sentinel-1A With Sentinel-2A to Estimate Soil Moisture in Farmland
Authors: Ying Liu, Jiaxin Qian, Hui Yue
Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2020.3043628 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: land surface model
In this article, seven filter algorithms were compared. The Lee sigma method was more suitable for estimating soil moisture (SM) than the other filtering methods under different land cover types. First, we used a combination of roughness and the dual-polarized Sentinel-1A backscattering coefficients (VV and VH) to estimate SM in bare soil areas. Second, we employed water cloud model (WCM) to remove the influence of vegetation signals on the land surface backscattering and estimate SM in veget…
Biogeographic mechanisms involved in the colonization of Madagascar by African vertebrates: Rifting, rafting and runways
Authors: Judith C. Masters, Fabien Génin, Yurui Zhang, Romain Pellen, Thierry Huck, Paul Mazza et al.
Journal: Journal of Biogeography · DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14032 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Aim For 80 years, popular opinion has held that most of Madagascar’s terrestrial vertebrates arrived from Africa by transoceanic dispersal (i.e. rafting or swimming). We reviewed this proposition, focussing on three ad hoc hypotheses proposed to render this unlikely scenario more feasible: (a) Could hibernation have helped mammals to reach Madagascar? (b) Could the aquatic abilities of hippopotamuses have enabled them to swim the Mozambique Channel? (c) How valid is the Ali‐Huber mod…
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 1254 |
| After deduplication | 825 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 775 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Geophysical Research Letters | 5 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 3 |
| Nature Communications | 3 |
| Earth-Science Reviews | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 |
| Journal of Flood Risk Management | 1 |
| Geoscience Frontiers | 1 |
| Ocean Modelling | 1 |
| Environments | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | 1 |
| National Science Review | 1 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface | 1 |
| Journal of Integrative Agriculture | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Climate Risk Management | 1 |
| Climate Policy | 1 |
| The Journal of Environmental Education | 1 |
| Environmental Challenges | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| Science | 1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Agronomy | 1 |
| IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| SOIL | 1 |
| Frontiers in Climate | 1 |
| Nature Food | 1 |
| Science Advances | 1 |
| Frontiers in Environmental Science | 1 |
| Process Safety and Environmental Protection | 1 |
| Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 1 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Earth system science data | 1 |
| Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 1 |
| IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Journal of Biogeography | 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