Weekly Literature Review

Week 03 · January 13–19, 2020

31 relevant papers found across 6 themes

Executive Summary

The landmark CESM2 documentation headlined a week dominated by climate-water interactions, alongside significant advances in flood risk mapping via machine learning and real-time stormwater control. Drought research expanded on multiple fronts—from GRACE-based indicators to a six-century European Russia reconstruction—while irrigation studies revealed that expanding irrigated area measurably dampens hot extremes globally. Hydrologic modeling saw new comparisons of ecosystem-service models and fresh evidence of glacier melt contributions to Central Asian river runoff.

Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Earth System Models and Climate Modeling
    1. The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
    2. Ocean biogeochemistry in the Norwegian Earth System Model version 2 (NorESM2)
    3. Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble
  3. Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting
    1. The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective
    2. A Place-based Assessment of Flash Flood Hazard and Vulnerability in the Contiguous United States
    3. Exploring real-time control of stormwater systems for mitigating flood risk due to sea level rise
    4. Flooding in the Mekong Delta: the impact of dyke systems on downstream hydrodynamics
    5. InSAR Maps of Land Subsidence and Sea Level Scenarios to Quantify the Flood Inundation Risk in Coastal Cities: The Case of Singapore
  4. Drought Analysis and Monitoring
    1. Evaluation of severity changes of compound dry and hot events in China based on a multivariate multi-index approach
    2. An approach to characterise spatio-temporal drought dynamics
    3. Harmonization of Landsat and Sentinel 2 for Crop Monitoring in Drought Prone Areas: Case Studies of Ninh Thuan (Vietnam) and Bekaa (Lebanon)
    4. The European Russia Drought Atlas (1400–2016 CE)
    5. A framework for deriving drought indicators from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
  5. Water Resources Management and Irrigation
    1. Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation
    2. Regulating water reuse for agricultural irrigation: risks related to organic micro-contaminants
    3. Floating photovoltaic plants: Ecological impacts versus hydropower operation flexibility
    4. Agricultural water demands in Central Asia under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming
    5. Satellite-based global-scale irrigation water use and its contemporary trends
    6. Are intra- and inter-basin water transfers a sustainable policy intervention for addressing water scarcity?
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Watershed Processes
    1. Comparison of the SWAT and InVEST models to determine hydrological ecosystem service spatial patterns, priorities and trade-offs in a complex basin
    2. The effect of modeling choices on updating intensity-duration-frequency curves and stormwater infrastructure designs for climate change
    3. Neural network modeling for groundwater-level forecasting in coastal aquifers
    4. Impacts of future climate and land use change on water yield in a semiarid basin in Iran
    5. Partitioning the contributions of glacier melt and precipitation to the 1971–2010 runoff increases in a headwater basin of the Tarim River
    6. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Reservoir Storage Reliability, Resilience, and Vulnerability Using a Multivariate Frequency Bias Correction Approach
    7. Mapping groundwater resiliency under climate change scenarios: A case study of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
    8. Improvement of seasonal runoff and soil loss predictions by the MMF (Morgan-Morgan-Finney) model after wildfire and soil treatment in Mediterranean forest ecosystems
  7. Climate Impacts on Water Resources and River Systems
    1. River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River
    2. Evaluating the effects of climate change on precipitation and temperature for Iran using RCP scenarios
    3. Warming and drying over the central Himalaya caused by an amplification of local mountain circulation
    4. Trends in Landfalling Tropical Cyclone–Induced Precipitation over China
    5. Global satellite-based river gauging and the influence of river morphology on its application
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Earth System Models and Climate Modeling

The documentation of CESM2—one of the most widely used Earth system models—was the single most cited paper of the week, providing a comprehensive overview of its coupled atmosphere-ocean-land-ice components and the challenges addressed during development. In parallel, NorESM2’s ocean biogeochemistry module was described in detail, extending CMIP6-era model documentation to the carbon cycle. A HighResMIP multi-model analysis demonstrated that increasing atmospheric resolution to ~25 km substantially improves tropical cyclone simulation, with direct implications for projecting extreme precipitation under climate change.

The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

Authors: Gökhan Danabasoglu, Jean‐François Lamarque, Julio T. Bacmeister, David A. Bailey, Alice K. DuVivier, James Edwards et al.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms001916 · Citations: 3126

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

An overview of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) is provided, including a discussion of the challenges encountered during its development and how they were addressed. In addition to describing the component models and their coupling, notable improvements in the representation of the land surface, sea ice, and ocean biogeochemistry are highlighted.

Ocean biogeochemistry in the Norwegian Earth System Model version 2 (NorESM2)

Authors: J. Tjiputra, J. Schwinger, M. Bentsen, A. Morée, Shuang Gao, I. Bethke et al.

Journal: Geoscientific Model Development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2019-347 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: earth system model

The ocean carbon cycle is a key player in the climate system through its role in regulating the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and other processes that alter the Earth’s radiative balance. This study describes the ocean biogeochemistry component of NorESM2, evaluating its performance for key biogeochemical tracers and fluxes against observations and predecessor model versions.

Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble

Authors: Malcolm Roberts, Joanne Camp, Jon Seddon, Pier Luigi Vidale, Kevin I. Hodges, Benoît Vannière et al.

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0639.1 · Citations: 316

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

A multimodel, multiresolution set of simulations over the period 1950–2014 using a common forcing protocol from CMIP6 HighResMIP have been completed by six modeling groups. Analysis of tropical cyclone characteristics demonstrates that increased resolution (from ~100 km to ~25 km) substantially improves the simulation of tropical cyclone intensity, track, and seasonal cycle across all basins.

Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting

Flood research this week spanned observation, modeling, and management. Hunt and Menon attributed the catastrophic 2018 Kerala floods to a rare convergence of three synoptic systems intensified by climate warming. In the US, Khajehei et al. produced the first spatially explicit national flash-flood vulnerability assessment, while Sadler et al. demonstrated that real-time control of urban stormwater systems can reduce flood risk under projected sea-level rise. The Mekong Delta study by Thanh et al. revealed how upstream dyke construction redistributes flood peaks to unprotected downstream areas.

The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective

Authors: Kieran M. R. Hunt, Arathy Menon

Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05123-7 · Citations: 252

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, flood, land surface model, climate change, earth system model

In August 2018, the Indian state of Kerala received an extended period of very heavy rainfall as a result of a low-pressure system near the beginning of the month being followed several days later by two atmospheric rivers. This study examines the event from a climate change perspective, finding that anthropogenic warming increased the probability of such extreme rainfall by a factor of 1.2–3.2.

A Place-based Assessment of Flash Flood Hazard and Vulnerability in the Contiguous United States

Authors: Sepideh Khajehei, Ali Ahmadalipour, Wanyun Shao, Hamid Moradkhani

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-57349-z · Citations: 135

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, flood

Flash flood is among the most catastrophic natural hazards which causes disruption in the environment and societies. This study develops a place-based assessment framework integrating flash flood hazard with social vulnerability indicators across the contiguous United States, identifying high-risk hotspots in the Southeast and Appalachian regions.

Exploring real-time control of stormwater systems for mitigating flood risk due to sea level rise

Authors: Jeffrey M. Sadler, Jonathan L. Goodall, Madhur Behl, Benjamin D. Bowes, Mohamed M. Morsy

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124571 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: water management, flood

This study explores the potential of real-time control of stormwater infrastructure to mitigate flood risk in coastal cities facing sea level rise. Results demonstrate that dynamically managed retention ponds and outfall gates can significantly reduce flood volumes compared to passive infrastructure under multiple sea-level-rise scenarios.

Flooding in the Mekong Delta: the impact of dyke systems on downstream hydrodynamics

Authors: Vo Quoc Thanh, Dano Roelvink, Mick van der Wegen, Johan Reyns, Herman Kernkamp, Giap Van Vinh et al.

Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-189-2020 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, flood, hydropower

Building high dykes is a common measure of coping with floods and plays an important role in agricultural management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. However, the construction of high dykes causes considerable changes in hydrodynamics of the downstream area, redistributing flood peaks and increasing flood risk in unprotected regions.

InSAR Maps of Land Subsidence and Sea Level Scenarios to Quantify the Flood Inundation Risk in Coastal Cities: The Case of Singapore

Authors: João Catalão, Durairaju Raju, Giovanni Nico

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12020296 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: flood, land surface model

Global mean sea level rise associated with global warming has a major impact on coastal areas and represents one of the significant natural hazards. This study combines InSAR-derived land subsidence rates with sea-level-rise projections to quantify flood inundation risk in Singapore, demonstrating that subsidence amplifies the effective sea-level-rise threat in low-lying coastal zones.

Drought Analysis and Monitoring

Drought research advanced across spatial scales and time horizons. Gerdener et al. introduced a systematic framework for translating GRACE total water storage anomalies into operational drought indicators, filling a gap between satellite gravimetry and hydrological drought monitoring. Wu et al. addressed the compound nature of drought by analyzing co-occurring dry and hot events in China, revealing intensification since the 1990s. The six-century European Russia Drought Atlas by Cook et al. extended the spatial coverage of tree-ring drought reconstructions, while Diaz et al. proposed new methods to characterize the spatiotemporal evolution of drought events rather than treating them as static snapshots.

Evaluation of severity changes of compound dry and hot events in China based on a multivariate multi-index approach

Authors: Xinying Wu, Zengchao Hao, Xuan Zhang, Chong Li, Fanghua Hao

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124580 · Citations: 139

Matched topics: drought

This study evaluates severity changes of compound dry and hot events in China using a multivariate multi-index approach that captures the joint behavior of temperature and precipitation extremes. Results reveal significant intensification of compound events since the 1990s, with northern China experiencing the strongest increases.

An approach to characterise spatio-temporal drought dynamics

Authors: Vitali Diaz, Gerald A. Corzo Perez, H.A.J. van Lanen, Dimitri Solomatine, Emmanouil Α. Varouchakis

Journal: Advances in Water Resources · DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103512 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: drought

The spatiotemporal monitoring of droughts is a complex task. This study proposes a novel approach to characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics of drought events, moving beyond static snapshots to track drought onset, propagation, and cessation as coherent space-time objects using contiguous drought area tracking.

Harmonization of Landsat and Sentinel 2 for Crop Monitoring in Drought Prone Areas: Case Studies of Ninh Thuan (Vietnam) and Bekaa (Lebanon)

Authors: Minh Nguyen, Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, Duong Du Bui, Phong Nguyen, Lars Ribbe

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12020281 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: drought, land surface model

Proper satellite-based crop monitoring applications at the farm-level often require near-daily imagery at medium to high spatial resolution. This study demonstrates the harmonization of Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 data for crop monitoring in drought-prone regions of Vietnam and Lebanon, achieving near-daily temporal resolution critical for drought impact assessment.

The European Russia Drought Atlas (1400–2016 CE)

Authors: Edward R. Cook, Olga N Solomina, Vladimir V Matskovsky, Benjamin I. Cook, Leonid Agafonov, A. A. Tkach et al.

Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-019-05115-2 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: drought

This study presents the European Russia Drought Atlas, a gridded reconstruction of summer drought variability from 1400 to 2016 CE based on tree-ring chronologies. The atlas fills a critical spatial gap in the global network of drought atlases and reveals multi-decadal drought oscillations linked to large-scale climate modes.

A framework for deriving drought indicators from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

Authors: Helena Gerdener, Olga Engels, Jürgen Kusche

Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-227-2020 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, drought, land surface model

Identifying and quantifying drought in retrospective is a necessity for better understanding drought conditions and the propagation of drought through the hydrological cycle. This study presents a systematic framework for deriving drought indicators from GRACE satellite gravimetry data, demonstrating how total water storage anomalies can be decomposed into groundwater, soil moisture, and surface water drought signals.

Water Resources Management and Irrigation

A Nature Communications study by Thiery et al. provided the first global multi-model evidence that expanding irrigation measurably dampens hot temperature extremes, quantifying a previously hypothesized but poorly constrained land-atmosphere feedback. Agricultural water demand projections for Central Asia under 1.5°C and 2.0°C warming targets revealed steep increases in irrigation requirements, while Zohaib and Choi mapped global irrigation water use trends from satellite data. Policy-oriented studies addressed water reuse regulations for irrigation safety, the sustainability of inter-basin water transfers, and the operational tradeoffs of floating solar installations on hydropower reservoirs.

Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation

Authors: Wim Thiery, A.J. Visser, Erich Fischer, Mathias Hauser, Annette L. Hirsch, David M. Lawrence et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14075-4 · Citations: 237

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

Irrigation affects climate conditions—and especially hot extremes—in various regions across the globe. Yet how these climatic effects compare to other anthropogenic forcings is largely unknown. Here the authors show using multiple Earth system models that irrigation expansion has dampened historical increases in the hottest days by 0.78°C locally and measurably at regional scales.

Authors: Manuela Helmecke, Elke Fries, Christoph Schulte

Journal: Environmental Sciences Europe · DOI: 10.1186/s12302-019-0283-0 · Citations: 237

Matched topics: land surface model, irrigation

In recent years, more and more countries see irrigation using reclaimed water as an opportunity to secure and enhance agricultural production. Despite the benefits of water reuse, the scientific community has raised concerns about organic micro-contaminants in reclaimed water and their potential uptake by crops, necessitating risk-based regulatory frameworks.

Floating photovoltaic plants: Ecological impacts versus hydropower operation flexibility

Authors: Jannik Haas, J. Khalighi, Alberto de la Fuente, Sabine U. Gerbersdorf, Wolfgang Nowak, Po-Jung Chen

Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2019.112414 · Citations: 162

Matched topics: water management, hydropower

This study evaluates the ecological impacts and operational tradeoffs of deploying floating photovoltaic installations on hydropower reservoirs. Results show that hybrid solar-hydropower systems can increase total energy output while reducing evaporative losses, but ecological effects on reservoir stratification and light penetration require careful management.

Agricultural water demands in Central Asia under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming

Authors: Zhi Li, Gonghuan Fang, Yaning Chen, Weili Duan, Yerbolat Mukanov

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106020 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: irrigation

This study projects agricultural water demands in Central Asia under the Paris Agreement warming targets of 1.5°C and 2.0°C. Results indicate substantial increases in irrigation water requirements driven by higher evapotranspiration, with the Aral Sea basin facing the most severe water stress under both scenarios.

Authors: Muhammad Zohaib, Minha Choi

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136719 · Citations: 92

Matched topics: irrigation

This study estimates global irrigation water use from satellite remote sensing data and analyzes its contemporary trends. The satellite-based approach provides spatially explicit estimates of irrigation water consumption, revealing increasing trends in South and East Asia and declining trends in parts of the western United States.

Are intra- and inter-basin water transfers a sustainable policy intervention for addressing water scarcity?

Authors: Logan Purvis, Ariel Dinar

Journal: Water Security · DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100058 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: water management

This study critically examines inter-basin water transfers as a policy response to water scarcity, evaluating the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of major transfer schemes worldwide. The analysis reveals that while transfers can alleviate local scarcity, they frequently create new vulnerabilities in donor basins and rarely address the underlying demand-side drivers.

Hydrologic Modeling and Watershed Processes

Model intercomparison and evaluation dominated this theme, led by Cong et al.’s side-by-side comparison of SWAT and InVEST for quantifying hydrological ecosystem services. Cook et al. demonstrated that modeling choices in updating IDF curves for climate change can introduce larger uncertainty than the climate signal itself. Li et al. partitioned glacier melt versus precipitation contributions to runoff in the Tarim River headwaters, finding that glacier melt accounted for 40% of the 1971–2010 increase. Nguyen et al. advanced reservoir operations modeling by linking multivariate frequency bias correction of climate inputs to storage reliability assessment.

Comparison of the SWAT and InVEST models to determine hydrological ecosystem service spatial patterns, priorities and trade-offs in a complex basin

Authors: Wencui Cong, Xiaoyin Sun, Hongwei Guo, Ruifeng Shan

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106089 · Citations: 251

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management

Models for the assessment of ecosystem services are important tools for policy-makers and researchers. This study compares SWAT and InVEST for mapping hydrological ecosystem services including water yield, water purification, and sediment retention, finding substantial differences in spatial patterns that have implications for prioritizing conservation investments.

The effect of modeling choices on updating intensity-duration-frequency curves and stormwater infrastructure designs for climate change

Authors: Lauren M. Cook, Seth McGinnis, Constantine Samaras

Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02649-6 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, climate change

Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves, commonly used in stormwater infrastructure design to represent characteristics of extreme rainfall, are gradually being updated to reflect expected changes in precipitation. This study demonstrates that the choice of downscaling method, extreme value distribution, and bias correction can introduce uncertainty comparable to or exceeding the climate change signal itself.

Neural network modeling for groundwater-level forecasting in coastal aquifers

Authors: Thendiyath Roshni, Madan K. Jha, J. Drisya

Journal: Neural Computing and Applications · DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-04722-z · Citations: 92

Matched topics: hydrologic model

This study applies neural network models including LSTM and wavelet-coupled architectures for groundwater level forecasting in coastal aquifers of India. Results demonstrate that wavelet-LSTM hybrid models outperform conventional approaches, capturing both seasonal patterns and long-term trends in groundwater dynamics influenced by tidal and recharge signals.

Impacts of future climate and land use change on water yield in a semiarid basin in Iran

Authors: Bagher Shirmohammadi Chelan, Arash Malekian, Ali Salajegheh, Bahram Taheri, Hossein Azarnivand, Žiga Malek et al.

Journal: Land Degradation and Development · DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3554 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management, land surface model, irrigation

Studying the interaction between hydrology, land use, and climate change is necessary to support sustainable water resources management. This study models combined climate and land use change impacts on water yield in a semiarid Iranian basin, finding that agricultural expansion under drying conditions could reduce water yield by up to 35%.

Partitioning the contributions of glacier melt and precipitation to the 1971–2010 runoff increases in a headwater basin of the Tarim River

Authors: Zehua Li, Xiaogang Shi, Qiuhong Tang, Yongqiang Zhang, Huilin Gao, Xicai Pan et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124579 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, runoff

This study partitions the contributions of glacier melt and precipitation to the observed 1971–2010 runoff increases in the Kunmalik River, a headwater basin of the Tarim River in Central Asia. Results indicate that glacier melt accounted for approximately 40% of the runoff increase, with precipitation changes contributing the remainder.

Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Reservoir Storage Reliability, Resilience, and Vulnerability Using a Multivariate Frequency Bias Correction Approach

Authors: Ha H. Nguyen, Rajeshwar Mehrotra, Ashish Sharma

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026022 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, climate change

Raw simulations of global or regional climate models are rarely used in catchment scale hydrological impact assessment or subsequent reservoir storage change assessment studies. This study develops a multivariate frequency bias correction approach for climate model outputs and applies it to assess climate change impacts on reservoir storage reliability, resilience, and vulnerability in an Australian catchment.

Mapping groundwater resiliency under climate change scenarios: A case study of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Authors: Sangam Shrestha, Sanjiv Neupane, S. Mohanasundaram, Vishnu Prasad Pandey

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109149 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, climate change

This study maps groundwater resiliency under multiple climate change scenarios in the rapidly urbanizing Kathmandu Valley. Using an integrated surface water–groundwater model, the authors project declining groundwater levels under most scenarios, with recharge reductions of 15–30% by the 2050s driven by changes in monsoon precipitation patterns.

Improvement of seasonal runoff and soil loss predictions by the MMF (Morgan-Morgan-Finney) model after wildfire and soil treatment in Mediterranean forest ecosystems

Authors: Demetrio Antonio Zema, João Pedro Nunes, Manuel Esteban Lucas‐Borja

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2019.104415 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, water management, seasonal, land surface model

This study improves the Morgan-Morgan-Finney (MMF) model for predicting seasonal runoff and soil loss in Mediterranean forest ecosystems affected by wildfire. Post-fire soil treatments including mulching are evaluated, showing that the enhanced model captures both the amplification of runoff after fire and its reduction following restoration treatments.

Climate Impacts on Water Resources and River Systems

River systems emerged as sentinels of climate and human pressure. Hackney et al. published a high-profile Nature Sustainability study documenting how unsustainable sand mining destabilizes Mekong River banks at rates far exceeding natural erosion, threatening infrastructure and livelihoods. Norris et al. identified amplified local mountain circulation as the driver of accelerated warming and drying over the central Himalaya, with cascading consequences for downstream water supplies. Liu and Wang analyzed 38 years of landfalling tropical cyclone precipitation over China, finding intensification trends that reshape flood risk along the coast.

River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River

Authors: Christopher Hackney, Stephen E. Darby, Daniel R. Parsons, Julian Leyland, Jim Best, R. E. Aalto et al.

Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0455-3 · Citations: 313

Matched topics: hydrology, river, hydropower

This study documents how unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River causes bank erosion rates that far exceed natural background rates. Using multi-decadal satellite imagery and bathymetric surveys, the authors show that sand extraction has lowered the riverbed by up to 1.4 m and triggered bank retreat threatening riverside communities and infrastructure.

Evaluating the effects of climate change on precipitation and temperature for Iran using RCP scenarios

Authors: Shahab Doulabian, Saeed Golian, Amirhossein Shadmehri Toosi, Conor Murphy

Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2020.114 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, climate change

Climate change has caused many changes in hydrologic processes and climatic conditions globally. This study evaluates projected changes in precipitation and temperature across Iran under RCP scenarios, finding spatially heterogeneous responses with northern regions experiencing increased winter precipitation but southern regions facing intensified drying, with direct implications for water resource planning.

Warming and drying over the central Himalaya caused by an amplification of local mountain circulation

Authors: Jesse Norris, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Charles Jones, Forest Cannon

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-019-0105-5 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model, hydropower

Climatic changes over the central Himalaya are critical for water resources in downstream regions where hundreds of millions of people live. This study identifies amplified local mountain circulation as the mechanism driving accelerated warming and drying over the central Himalaya, with implications for glacier mass balance and monsoon-fed river systems.

Authors: Lu Liu, Yuqing Wang

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0693.1 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: land surface model

This study analyzes trends in landfalling tropical cyclone-induced precipitation over China during 1980–2017. Results show that while TC frequency has decreased, TC-induced precipitation per storm has intensified, consistent with thermodynamic expectations under warming. The intensification is most pronounced in southeastern China, reshaping regional flood risk.

Global satellite-based river gauging and the influence of river morphology on its application

Authors: Jiawei Hou, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Hylke E. Beck

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111629 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, drought

This study evaluates global satellite-based river gauging using satellite altimetry and demonstrates how river morphological characteristics influence the accuracy of discharge estimation. The analysis identifies channel geometry, slope, and floodplain connectivity as key factors determining where satellite gauging can supplement or replace in situ measurements.

Statistics

Metric Count
Databases searched 2
Topics searched 16
Total papers fetched 1128
After deduplication 721
After LLM relevance filtering 31
Rejected (not relevant) 690

Papers by journal

Journal Papers
Journal of Hydrology 3
Journal of Climate 3
Climate Dynamics 2
Remote Sensing 3
Nature Communications 1
Nature Sustainability 1
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2
Water Resources Research 1
Scientific Reports 1
Energy Conversion and Management 1
Agricultural Water Management 1
Climatic Change 1
Advances in Water Resources 1
Environmental Sciences Europe 1
Ecological Indicators 1
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 1
Geoscientific Model Development 1
Land Degradation and Development 1
CATENA 1
Neural Computing and Applications 1
Water Security 1
Journal of Water and Climate Change 1
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 1
Remote Sensing of Environment 1
Environmental Research 1
The Science of The Total Environment 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

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