Weekly Literature Review
Week 52 · December 21–December 27, 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
- Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?
- Extreme value analysis dilemma for climate change impact assessment on global flood and extreme precipitation
- Flood risk influenced by the compound effect of storm surge and rainfall under climate change for low-lying coastal areas
- Assessing habitat suitability for wintering geese by using Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in a large floodplain wetland, China
- Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards
- Environmentally sustainable cooling strategies in milling of SA516: Effects on surface integrity of dry, flood and MQL machining
- First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Multi-timescale assessment of propagation thresholds from meteorological to hydrological drought
- Impacts of Climate Variability and Drought on Surface Water Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Remote Sensing: A Review
- Genome-Wide Analysis of the GRAS Gene Family and Functional Identification of GmGRAS37 in Drought and Salt Tolerance
- Seed Priming with Endophytic Bacillus subtilis Modulates Physiological Responses of Two Different Triticum aestivum L. Cultivars under Drought Stress
- Diverse responses of spring phenology to preseason drought and warming under different biomes in the North China Plain
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Addressing the effect of climate change in the framework of financial and technological development on cereal production in Pakistan
- Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?
- Remote sensing approach to simulate the land use/land cover and seasonal land surface temperature change using machine learning algorithms in a fastest-growing megacity of Bangladesh
- Co-benefits and trade-offs of climate change mitigation actions and the Sustainable Development Goals
- A machine learning approach to emulation and biophysical parameter estimation with the Community Land Model, version 5
- Human activity vs. climate change: Distinguishing dominant drivers on LAI dynamics in karst region of southwest China
- The cooling effect of floating PV in two different climate zones: A comparison of field test data from the Netherlands and Singapore
- Impact of climate change on the vulnerability of drinking water intakes in a northern region
- A historical and future impact assessment of mining activities on surface biophysical characteristics change: A remote sensing-based approach
- The other side of sea level change
- The middle to late Eocene greenhouse climate modelled using the CESM 1.0.5
- Relationship between net primary production and climate change in different vegetation zones based on EEMD detrending – A case study of Northwest China
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations
- System dynamics simulation of regional water supply and demand using a food-energy-water nexus approach: Application to Qazvin Plain, Iran
- Compatible Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in the CMIP6 Earth System Models’ Historical and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway Experiments of the Twenty-First Century
- Investigating groundwater-lake interactions in the Laurentian Great Lakes with a fully-integrated surface water-groundwater model
- Review of assimilating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into hydrological models: Advances, challenges and opportunities
- Water Management and Sustainability
- The Miocene: The Future of the Past
- Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst
- Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in Bhutan’s high altitude city of Thimphu, using cellular automata and Markov chain
- Forest Fire Probability Mapping in Eastern Serbia: Logistic Regression versus Random Forest Method
- Spatial variation impact of landscape patterns and land use on water quality across an urbanized watershed in Bentong, Malaysia
- An urban planning sustainability framework: Systems approach to blue green urban design
- Physics‐Informed Neural Networks With Monotonicity Constraints for Richardson‐Richards Equation: Estimation of Constitutive Relationships and Soil Water Flux Density From Volumetric Water Content Measurements
- Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities
- Stable isotopes of water reveal differences in plant – soil water relationships across northern environments
- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a Mediterranean coastal wetland: Impact of anthropogenic and spatial factors and environmental risk assessment
- Sedimentation and its response to management strategies of the Three Gorges Reservoir, Yangtze River, China
- A zero-carbon, reliable and affordable energy future in Australia
- Cold‐Season Arctic Amplification Driven by Arctic Ocean‐Mediated Seasonal Energy Transfer
- Virtual water output intensifies the water scarcity in Northwest China: Current situation, problem analysis and countermeasures
- Instance Segmentation for Large, Multi-Channel Remote Sensing Imagery Using Mask-RCNN and a Mosaicking Approach
- Beaver dams attenuate flow: A multi‐site study
- The occurrence and distribution of strontium in U.S. groundwater
- Effects of anthropogenic pollution and hydrological variation on macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean rivers: A case-study in the upper Tagus river basin (Spain)
- Spatial–temporal evolution patterns of soil erosion in the Yellow River Basin from 1990 to 2015: impacts of natural factors and land use change
- The Three-Cornered Hat Method for Estimating Error Variances of Three or More Atmospheric Datasets. Part I: Overview and Evaluation
- Thermal stratification responses of a monomictic reservoir under different seasons and operation schemes
- Statistics
- 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 Roebroek, Tabari et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?
Authors: Caspar T. J. Roebroek, Shaun Harrigan, Tim van Emmerik, Calum Baugh, Dirk Eilander, Christel Prudhomme et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abd5df · Citations: 184
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, flood, earth system model
Abstract Riverine plastic pollution is of global concern due to its negative impact on ecosystem health and human livelihood. Recent studies show a strong link between river discharge and plastic transport, but the role of floods is still unresolved. We combined high-resolution mismanaged plastic waste data and river flood extents with increasing return periods to estimate flood-driven plastic mobilisation, from local to global scale. We show that 10 year return period floods already tenfold …
Extreme value analysis dilemma for climate change impact assessment on global flood and extreme precipitation
Authors: Hossein Tabari
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125932 · Citations: 154
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood, climate change
Abstract not available.
Flood risk influenced by the compound effect of storm surge and rainfall under climate change for low-lying coastal areas
Authors: Shih‐Chun Hsiao, Wen-Son Chiang, Jiun‐Huei Jang, Han-Lun Wu, Wei-Shiun Lu, Wei‐Bo Chen et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144439 · Citations: 151
Matched topics: flood, climate change
Abstract not available.
Assessing habitat suitability for wintering geese by using Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in a large floodplain wetland, China
Authors: Jiakun Teng, Shaoxia Xia, Yu Liu, Xiubo Yu, Houlang Duan, Han Xiao et al.
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107260 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management
Hydrological condition is one of the most important factors affecting the abundance and distribution of waterbirds in large freshwater floodplains, as it influences their habitat and food availability. The hydrological condition is commonly indicated with site-based hydrological data such as water level. Site-based data have high temporal resolution but are less effective to represent the spatial characteristics, a requirement for ecological/habitat models. In this study, we propose a method …
Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards
Authors: W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Maria Franco Gavonel, Lucy Szaboova, Mahmudol Hassan Rocky et al.
Journal: Journal of Peace Research · DOI: 10.1177/0022343320973717 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: flood
Abstract It is widely suggested that migration is a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through migration increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet climate change also creates new forms of insecurity through distress migration, immobility and vulnerability that are prevalent in urban destination locations. Here we examine the extent and nature of human security in migration destinations and test whether insecurity is affected by length of r…
Environmentally sustainable cooling strategies in milling of SA516: Effects on surface integrity of dry, flood and MQL machining
Authors: Adam Race, Iwona Zwierzak, Jack Secker, Jonathan R. Walsh, Julia Carrell, Tom Slatter et al.
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125580 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest
Authors: Tobias Ide, Anders M. Kristensen, Henrikas Bartusevičius
Journal: Journal of Peace Research · DOI: 10.1177/0022343320966783 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: river, flood
Abstract Disasters triggered by natural hazards will increase in the future due to climate change, population growth, and more valuable assets located in vulnerable areas. The impacts of disasters on political conflict have been the subject of broad academic and public debates. Existing research has paid little attention to the links between climate change, disasters, and small-scale conflicts, such as protests or riots. Floods are particularly relevant in this context as they are the most fr…
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 5 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Wu, Bhaga et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Multi-timescale assessment of propagation thresholds from meteorological to hydrological drought
Authors: Jiefeng Wu, Xiaohong Chen, Huaxia Yao, Dejian Zhang
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144232 · Citations: 188
Matched topics: streamflow, drought
Abstract not available.
Impacts of Climate Variability and Drought on Surface Water Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Remote Sensing: A Review
Authors: Trisha Deevia Bhaga, T. Dube, M. Shekede, C. Shoko
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12244184 · Citations: 179
Matched topics: surface water
Climate variability and recurrent droughts have caused remarkable strain on water resources in most regions across the globe, with the arid and semi-arid areas being the hardest hit. The impacts have been notable on surface water resources, which are already under threat from massive abstractions due to increased demand, as well as poor conservation and unsustainable land management practices. Drought and climate variability, as well as their associated impacts on water resources, have gained…
Genome-Wide Analysis of the GRAS Gene Family and Functional Identification of GmGRAS37 in Drought and Salt Tolerance
Authors: Tingting Wang, Tai‐Fei Yu, Jin‐Dong Fu, Hong-Gang Su, Jun Chen, Yongbin Zhou et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.604690 · Citations: 114
Matched topics: drought
genes and insight into the abiotic stress response mechanism in soybean.
Seed Priming with Endophytic Bacillus subtilis Modulates Physiological Responses of Two Different Triticum aestivum L. Cultivars under Drought Stress
Authors: Oksana Lastochkina, Darya Garshina, С. П. Иванов, Ruslan Yuldashev, R.R. Khafizova, Chulpan Allagulova et al.
Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants9121810 · Citations: 70
Matched topics: drought
10-4 under drought conditions.
Diverse responses of spring phenology to preseason drought and warming under different biomes in the North China Plain
Authors: Shuping Ji, Shilong Ren, Yanran Li, Junyu Dong, Lifei Wang, Quan Quan et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144437 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 12 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Addressing the effect of climate change in the framework of financial and technological development on cereal production in Pakistan
Authors: Abbas Ali Chandio, Yuansheng Jiang, Waqar Akram, Sultan Adeel, Muhammad Irfan, Inayatullah Jan
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125637 · Citations: 171
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?
Authors: Manuel Schlund, Axel Lauer, Pierre Gentine, Steven C. Sherwood, Veronika Eyring
Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-11-1233-2020 · Citations: 161
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. An important metric for temperature projections is the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), which is defined as the global mean surface air temperature change caused by a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration. The range for ECS assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report is between 1.5 and 4.5 K and has not decreased over the last decades. Among other methods, emergent constraints are potentially promising approaches to reduce t…
Remote sensing approach to simulate the land use/land cover and seasonal land surface temperature change using machine learning algorithms in a fastest-growing megacity of Bangladesh
Authors: Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy, Abdullah-Al- Faisal, Ragib Mahmood Shuvo, Md. Nazmul Huda Naim, Md. Soumik Sikdar, Radwan Rahman Chowdhury et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100463 · Citations: 138
Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Co-benefits and trade-offs of climate change mitigation actions and the Sustainable Development Goals
Authors: Brett Cohen, Annette Cowie, Mustafa Babiker, Adrian Leip, Pete Smith
Journal: Sustainable Production and Consumption · DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2020.12.034 · Citations: 133
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
A machine learning approach to emulation and biophysical parameter estimation with the Community Land Model, version 5
Authors: Katherine Dagon, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Rosie A. Fisher, David M. Lawrence
Journal: Advances in statistical climatology, meteorology and oceanography · DOI: 10.5194/ascmo-6-223-2020 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract. Land models are essential tools for understanding and predicting terrestrial processes and climate–carbon feedbacks in the Earth system, but uncertainties in their future projections are poorly understood. Improvements in physical process realism and the representation of human influence arguably make models more comparable to reality but also increase the degrees of freedom in model configuration, leading to increased parametric uncertainty in projections. In this work we design an…
Human activity vs. climate change: Distinguishing dominant drivers on LAI dynamics in karst region of southwest China
Authors: Jian Peng, Hong Jiang, Qinghua Liu, Sophie M. Green, Timothy A. Quine, Hongyan Liu et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144297 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
The cooling effect of floating PV in two different climate zones: A comparison of field test data from the Netherlands and Singapore
Authors: Maarten Dörenkämper, Arifeen Wahed, Abhishek Kumar, Minne de Jong, Jan Kroon, Thomas Reindl
Journal: Solar Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2020.11.029 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water
Abstract not available.
Impact of climate change on the vulnerability of drinking water intakes in a northern region
Authors: Baptiste Leveque, Jean‐Baptiste Burnet, S. Dorner, Françoise Bichai
Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102656 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, climate change, surface water
Abstract not available.
A historical and future impact assessment of mining activities on surface biophysical characteristics change: A remote sensing-based approach
Authors: Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei, Amir Sedighi, Hamzeh Karimi Firozjaei, Majid Kiavarz, Mehdi Homaee, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani et al.
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107264 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Mining activities and associated actions cause land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes across the world. The objective of this study were to evaluate the historical impacts of mining activities on surface biophysical characteristics, and for the first time, to predict the future changes in pattern of vegetation cover and land surface temperature (LST). In terms of the utilized data, satellite images of Landsat, and meteorological data of Sungun mine in Iran, Athabasca oil sands in Canada, Singraul…
The other side of sea level change
Authors: Matthias Prange, Thomas Wilke, Frank P. Wesselingh
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-00075-6 · Citations: 84
Matched topics: earth system model
Water levels in inland seas and lakes globally will drop, often dramatically, over the 21st century in response to climate change. Based on the case of the Caspian Sea, we argue for a concerted campaign to raise awareness of threats to people, biodiversity and geopolitical stability.
The middle to late Eocene greenhouse climate modelled using the CESM 1.0.5
Authors: Michiel Baatsen, Anna S. von der Heydt, Matthew Huber, Michael Kliphuis, Peter K. Bijl, Appy Sluijs et al.
Journal: Climate of the past · DOI: 10.5194/cp-16-2573-2020 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. The early and late Eocene have both been the subject of many modelling studies, but few have focused on the middle Eocene. The latter still holds many challenges for climate modellers but is also key to understanding the events leading towards the conditions needed for Antarctic glaciation at the Eocene–Oligocene transition. Here, we present the results of CMIP5-like coupled climate simulations using the Community Earth System Model (CESM) version 1. Using a new detailed 38 Ma geogr…
Relationship between net primary production and climate change in different vegetation zones based on EEMD detrending – A case study of Northwest China
Authors: Huiyu Liu, Junhe Jia, Zhenshan Lin, Zhaoyue Wang, Haibo Gong
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107276 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: climate change
• Trend reversal of NPP accounted for 36.02% of the whole area. • EEMD-detrending performed better than linear detrending. • Interannual NPP variations related more to precipitation than long-term trend. • Correlation of NPP to bioclimatic variables varied in different vegetation zones. The relationship between vegetation Net primary production (NPP) and climate change is critical for understanding the driving forces of vegetation changes, while less were studied based on detrending analysis …
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 5 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations
Authors: Jane P. Mulcahy, Colin Johnson, Colin Jones, Adam C. Povey, Catherine E. Scott, Alistair Sellar et al.
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-6383-2020 · Citations: 229
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. We document and evaluate the aerosol schemes as implemented in the physical and Earth system models, the Global Coupled 3.1 configuration of the Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 3 (HadGEM3-GC3.1) and the United Kingdom Earth System Model (UKESM1), which are contributing to the sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The simulation of aerosols in the present-day period of the historical ensemble of these models is evaluated against a range of observations. …
System dynamics simulation of regional water supply and demand using a food-energy-water nexus approach: Application to Qazvin Plain, Iran
Authors: Mohammad Mahdi Naderi, Ali Mirchi, Ali Reza Massah Bavani, Erfan Goharian, Kaveh Madani
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111843 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: water management, surface water, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Compatible Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in the CMIP6 Earth System Models’ Historical and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway Experiments of the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Spencer Liddicoat, Andy Wiltshire, Chris Jones, Vivek K. Arora, Victor Brovkin, Patricia Cadule et al.
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0991.1 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract We present the compatible CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel (FF) burning and industry, calculated from the historical and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) experiments of nine Earth system models (ESMs) participating in phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The multimodel mean FF emissions match the historical record well and are close to the data-based estimate of cumulative emissions (394 ± 59 GtC vs 400 ± 20 GtC, respectively). Only two models fall inside th…
Investigating groundwater-lake interactions in the Laurentian Great Lakes with a fully-integrated surface water-groundwater model
Authors: Shu Xu, Steven K. Frey, Andre R. Erler, Omar Khader, Steven J. Berg, Hyoun‐Tae Hwang et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125911 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: hydrologic model, surface water
Abstract not available.
Review of assimilating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into hydrological models: Advances, challenges and opportunities
Authors: Samira Sadat Soltani, Behzad Ataie‐Ashtiani, Craig T. Simmons
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103487 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
Abstract not available.
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 21 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
The Miocene: The Future of the Past
Authors: Margret Steinthorsdottir, Helen K. Coxall, Agatha M. de Boer, Matthew Huber, Natasha Barbolini, Catherine P. Bradshaw et al.
Journal: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology · DOI: 10.1029/2020pa004037 · Citations: 483
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern conditions, and many flora and fauna evolved into the same taxa that exist today. Miocene climate was dynamic: long periods of early and late glaciation bracketed a ∼2 Myr greenhouse interval—the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO). Floras, faunas, ice sheets, precipitation, p CO 2 , and ocean and atmospheric circulation m…
Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst
Authors: Benzhen Yao, Tiancun Xiao, Ofentse A. Makgae, Xiangyu Jie, Sergio González-Cortés, Shaoliang Guan et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20214-z · Citations: 330
Matched topics: earth system model
With mounting concerns over climate change, the utilisation or conversion of carbon dioxide into sustainable, synthetic hydrocarbons fuels, most notably for transportation purposes, continues to attract worldwide interest. This is particularly true in the search for sustainable or renewable aviation fuels. These offer considerable potential since, instead of consuming fossil crude oil, the fuels are produced from carbon dioxide using sustainable renewable hydrogen and energy. We report here a…
Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in Bhutan’s high altitude city of Thimphu, using cellular automata and Markov chain
Authors: Sonam Wangyel Wang, Lamchin Munkhnasan, Woo-Kyun Lee
Journal: Environmental Challenges · DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2020.100017 · Citations: 225
Matched topics: runoff, flood, surface water
Rapid urbanization is changing landscapes often resulting in the degradation of ecosystem services and quality of urban life. Remote sensing and GIS tools can provide valuable information to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of these changes to better plan and build sustainable cities for the future. Using remote sensing data, socio-economic data, and field observations, we simulated spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover changes in the city of Thimphu. Simulation results r…
Forest Fire Probability Mapping in Eastern Serbia: Logistic Regression versus Random Forest Method
Authors: Slobodan Milanović, Slobodan Milanović, Nenad Marković, Dragan Pamučar, Ljubomir Gigović, Pavle Kostić et al.
Journal: Forests · DOI: 10.3390/f12010005 · Citations: 161
Matched topics: earth system model
Forest fire risk has increased globally during the previous decades. The Mediterranean region is traditionally the most at risk in Europe, but continental countries like Serbia have experienced significant economic and ecological losses due to forest fires. To prevent damage to forests and infrastructure, alongside other societal losses, it is necessary to create an effective protection system against fire, which minimizes the harmful effects. Forest fire probability mapping, as one of the ba…
Spatial variation impact of landscape patterns and land use on water quality across an urbanized watershed in Bentong, Malaysia
Authors: Zakariya Nafi Shehab, Nor Rohaizah Jamil, Ahmad Zaharin Aris, Nur Syuhadah Shafie
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107254 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: water management
Landscape patterns and land cover changes critically impact the hydrological cycling of pollutants and affect receiving water quality significantly. Understanding spatial distribution and allocating water pollution sources are vital elements in implementing effective water resource management practices. This research aimed to quantify and illustrate the effects of land use and landscape configuration on water quality in Bentong River, Malaysia. The study sampled 22 sites during the normal and…
An urban planning sustainability framework: Systems approach to blue green urban design
Authors: Pepe Puchol‐Salort, Jimmy O’Keeffe, Maarten van Reeuwijk, Ana Mijić
Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102677 · Citations: 131
Matched topics: water management, flood
Abstract not available.
Physics‐Informed Neural Networks With Monotonicity Constraints for Richardson‐Richards Equation: Estimation of Constitutive Relationships and Soil Water Flux Density From Volumetric Water Content Measurements
Authors: Toshiyuki Bandai, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027642 · Citations: 126
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Water retention curves (WRCs) and hydraulic conductivity functions (HCFs) are critical soil‐specific characteristics necessary for modeling the movement of water in soils using the Richardson‐Richards equation (RRE). Well‐established laboratory measurement methods of WRCs and HCFs are not usually suitable for simulating field‐scale soil moisture dynamics because of the scale mismatch. Hence, the inverse solution of the RRE must be used to estimate WRCs and HCFs from field measured da…
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities
Authors: Julian Gutt, Enrique Isla, José C. Xavier, Byron J. Adams, In-Young Ahn, C.‐H. Christina Cheng et al.
Journal: Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · DOI: 10.1111/brv.12679 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: streamflow, earth system model
Important findings from the second decade of the 21st century on the impact of environmental change on biological processes in the Antarctic were synthesised by 26 international experts. Ten key messages emerged that have stakeholder-relevance and/or a high impact for the scientific community. They address (i) altered biogeochemical cycles, (ii) ocean acidification, (iii) climate change hotspots, (iv) unexpected dynamism in seabed-dwelling populations, (v) spatial range shifts, (vi) adaptatio…
Stable isotopes of water reveal differences in plant – soil water relationships across northern environments
Authors: Doerthe Tetzlaff, J. M. Buttle, Sean K. Carey, Matthew J. Kohn, Hjalmar Laudon, J. P. McNamara et al.
Journal: Hydrological Processes · DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14023 · Citations: 118
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract We compared stable isotopes of water in plant stem (xylem) water and soil collected over a complete growing season from five well‐known long‐term study sites in northern/cold regions. These spanned a decreasing temperature gradient from Bruntland Burn (Scotland), Dorset (Canadian Shield), Dry Creek (USA), Krycklan (Sweden), to Wolf Creek (northern Canada). Xylem water was isotopically depleted compared to soil waters, most notably for deuterium. The degree to which potential soil wat…
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a Mediterranean coastal wetland: Impact of anthropogenic and spatial factors and environmental risk assessment
Authors: Daniele Sadutto, V. Andreu, Timo Ilo, Jarkko Akkanen, Yolanda Picó
Journal: Environmental Pollution · DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116353 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Sedimentation and its response to management strategies of the Three Gorges Reservoir, Yangtze River, China
Authors: Shi Ren, Bangwen Zhang, Weijie Wang, Yuan Yuan, Chao Guo
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.105096 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: river, reservoir, water management, flood, hydropower
The Three Gorges Dam (TGD), on the upper valley of the Yangtze River, China, is the largest water conservancy and power generation project in the world. Problematic sedimentation in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) is related to the reservoir lifetime, hydropower generation, riverbed erosion, and sustainable development of ecosystems. In this study, measures to holistically and systematically address sedimentation in the TGR are -discussed and demonstrated, including upstream sediment trappin…
A zero-carbon, reliable and affordable energy future in Australia
Authors: Bin Lü, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Cheng Cheng, Anna Nadolny
Journal: Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.119678 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: hydrology, hydropower
Australia has one of the highest per capita consumption of energy and emissions of greenhouse gases in the world. It is also the global leader in rapid per capita annual deployment of new solar and wind energy, which is causing the country’s emissions to decline. Australia is located at low-moderate latitudes along with three quarters of the world’s population. These factors make the Australian experience globally significant. In this study, a fully decarbonised electricity system is modelled…
Cold‐Season Arctic Amplification Driven by Arctic Ocean‐Mediated Seasonal Energy Transfer
Authors: Eui‐Seok Chung, Kyung‐Ja Ha, Axel Timmermann, Malte F. Stuecker, Tamás Bódai, Sang‐Ki Lee
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001898 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: seasonal
Abstract The Arctic warming response to greenhouse gas forcing is substantially greater than the rest of the globe. It has been suggested that this phenomenon, commonly referred to as Arctic amplification, and its peak in boreal fall and winter result primarily from the lapse‐rate feedback, which is associated with the vertical structure of tropospheric warming, rather than from the sea‐ice albedo feedback, which operates mainly in summer. However, future climate model projections show consis…
Virtual water output intensifies the water scarcity in Northwest China: Current situation, problem analysis and countermeasures
Authors: Xinxueqi Han, Yong Zhao, Xuerui Gao, Shan Jiang, Lixing Lin, Tingli An
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144276 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Instance Segmentation for Large, Multi-Channel Remote Sensing Imagery Using Mask-RCNN and a Mosaicking Approach
Authors: Osmar Luiz Ferreira de Carvalho, Osmar Luiz Ferreira de Carvalho, Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Júnior, Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Júnior, Anesmar Olino de Albuquerque, Pablo Pozzobon de et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13010039 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: irrigation, earth system model
Instance segmentation is the state-of-the-art in object detection, and there are numerous applications in remote sensing data where these algorithms can produce significant results. Nevertheless, one of the main problems is that most algorithms use Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) images, whereas Satellite images often present more channels that can be crucial to improve performance. Therefore, the present work brings three contributions: (a) conversion system from ground truth polygon data into th…
Beaver dams attenuate flow: A multi‐site study
Authors: Alan Puttock, Hugh A. Graham, Josie Ashe, David J. Luscombe, Richard E. Brazier
Journal: Hydrological Processes · DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14017 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: flood
across sites. Analysis showed spatial and temporal variability in the hydrological response to beaver between sites, depending on the level of impact and seasonality. Critically, the effect of beavers in reducing peak flows persists for the largest storms monitored, showing that even in wet conditions, beaver dams can attenuate average flood flows by up to ca. 60%. This research indicates that beavers could play a role in delivering natural flood management.
The occurrence and distribution of strontium in U.S. groundwater
Authors: MaryLynn Musgrove
Journal: Applied Geochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104867 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: irrigation
Groundwater samples from 32 principal aquifers across the United States (U.S.) provide a broad spatial scope of the occurrence and distribution of strontium (Sr) and are used to assess environments and factors that influence Sr concentration. Strontium is a common trace element in soils, rocks, and water and is ubiquitous in groundwater with detectable concentrations in 99.8% of samples (n = 4,824; median = 225 μg/L). Concentrations in 2.3% of samples exceeded the 4,000 μg/L health-based scre…
Effects of anthropogenic pollution and hydrological variation on macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean rivers: A case-study in the upper Tagus river basin (Spain)
Authors: Alba Arenas‐Sánchez, Sylvain Dolédec, Marco Vighi, Andreu Rico
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144044 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Spatial–temporal evolution patterns of soil erosion in the Yellow River Basin from 1990 to 2015: impacts of natural factors and land use change
Authors: Xiao, Yang Yang, Bing Guo, Yuefeng Lu, Rui Zhang, Dafu Zhang et al.
Journal: Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk · DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2020.1861112 · Citations: 70
Matched topics: river
This study optimized the slope and slope length factor (LS) and crop management factor (P) of the RUSLE model and then introduced the gravity centre model to analyze the spatial–temporal variation patterns of soil erosion in Yellow River Basin from a new perspective. Results showed that: (1) The improved model of RUSLE with optimized factors of LS and P had better applicability in Yellow River Basin; (2) The average erosion intensity was 2777.5 t/a, which belonged to moderate erosion. The soi…
The Three-Cornered Hat Method for Estimating Error Variances of Three or More Atmospheric Datasets. Part I: Overview and Evaluation
Authors: Jeremiah Sjoberg, Richard A. Anthes, Therese Rieckh
Journal: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology · DOI: 10.1175/jtech-d-19-0217.1 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
Abstract The three-cornered hat (3CH) method, which was originally developed to assess the random errors of atomic clocks, is a means for estimating the error variances of three different datasets. Here we give an overview of the historical development of the 3CH and select other methods for estimating error variances that use either two or three datasets. We discuss similarities and differences between these methods and the 3CH method. This study assesses the sensitivity of the 3CH method to…
Thermal stratification responses of a monomictic reservoir under different seasons and operation schemes
Authors: Maurice A. Duka, Tetsuya SHINTANI, Katsuhide YOKOYAMA
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144423 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: reservoir, water management
Abstract not available.
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| Topics searched | 16 |
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| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 716 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| The Science of The Total Environment | 7 |
| Ecological Indicators | 4 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Journal of Peace Research | 2 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 2 |
| Remote Sensing | 2 |
| Sustainable Cities and Society | 2 |
| Hydrological Processes | 2 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Frontiers in Plant Science | 1 |
| Plants | 1 |
| Earth System Dynamics | 1 |
| Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment | 1 |
| Sustainable Production and Consumption | 1 |
| Advances in statistical climatology, meteorology and oceanography | 1 |
| Solar Energy | 1 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 1 |
| Climate of the past | 1 |
| Geoscientific model development | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Earth-Science Reviews | 1 |
| Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology | 1 |
| Nature Communications | 1 |
| Environmental Challenges | 1 |
| Forests | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 1 |
| Environmental Pollution | 1 |
| CATENA | 1 |
| Energy | 1 |
| Earth s Future | 1 |
| Applied Geochemistry | 1 |
| Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk | 1 |
| Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | 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