Weekly Literature Review

Week 27 · June 29–July 5, 2020

50 relevant papers found across 6 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.


Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges
    2. GIS-based MCDM – AHP modeling for flood susceptibility mapping of arid areas, southeastern Tunisia
    3. Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years
    4. The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh
    5. Real‐Time Flood Forecasting Based on a High‐Performance 2‐D Hydrodynamic Model and Numerical Weather Predictions
    6. Historic storms and the hidden value of coastal wetlands for nature-based flood defence
    7. Polymer flooding in high temperature, high salinity conditions: Selection of polymer type and polymer chemistry, thermal stability
    8. Improvement of Best First Decision Trees Using Bagging and Dagging Ensembles for Flood Probability Mapping
    9. Trends in Global Flood and Streamflow Timing Based on Local Water Year
    10. Future projections of flood dynamics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
    11. Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of the Green Infrastructure for urban flood management: A comparative analysis of the UK and China
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe
    2. Elucidating Diverse Drought Characteristics from Two Meteorological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI) in China
    3. Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity
    4. Exogenously applied proline enhances growth and productivity of drought stressed onion by improving photosynthetic efficiency, water use efficiency and up-regulating osmoprotectants
    5. Regulation of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis by MdMYB88 and MdMYB124 contributes to pathogen and drought resistance in apple
    6. A new framework for tracking flash drought events in space and time
    7. Unprecedented Drought Challenges for Texas Water Resources in a Changing Climate: What Do Researchers and Stakeholders Need to Know?
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Enhancing Streamflow Forecast and Extracting Insights Using Long‐Short Term Memory Networks With Data Integration at Continental Scales
    2. Streamflow forecasting using extreme gradient boosting model coupled with Gaussian mixture model
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Firm-level Climate Change Exposure
    2. Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change
    3. Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions
    4. Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa
    5. Climate change impact on short-duration extreme precipitation and intensity–duration–frequency curves over Europe
    6. Variability and decadal trends in the Isfjorden (Svalbard) ocean climate and circulation – An indicator for climate change in the European Arctic
    7. Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women’s Farming in the Global South and North
    8. Progress in plant phenology modeling under global climate change
    9. Impact of climate change on biology and management of wheat pests
    10. Impacts of land use and land cover changes on regional climate in the Lhasa River basin, Tibetan Plateau
    11. Recent observed country‐wide climate trends in Morocco
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Projected Change in Temperature and Precipitation Over Africa from CMIP6
    2. The combined global gravity field model XGM2019e
    3. Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM): Description and Evaluation
    4. Hourly and Daily Urban Water Demand Predictions Using a Long Short-Term Memory Based Model
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Increasing trends in regional heatwaves
    2. Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources
    3. Water use indicators and economic analysis for on-farm irrigation decision: A case study of a super high density olive tree orchard
    4. Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in Response to Anomalous Advection From Sub-Arctic Seas
    5. A review of remote sensing applications in agriculture for food security: Crop growth and yield, irrigation, and crop losses
    6. The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements
    7. Data-driven predictions of a multiscale Lorenz 96 chaotic system using machine-learning methods: reservoir computing, artificial neural network, and long short-term memory network
    8. Monthly estimation of the surface water extent in France at a 10-m resolution using Sentinel-2 data
    9. Water quality assessment along Tigris River (Iraq) using water quality index (WQI) and GIS software
    10. Ecological network construction of the heterogeneous agro-pastoral areas in the upper Yellow River basin
    11. A review of the effects of tunnel excavation on the hydrology, ecology, and environment in karst areas: Current status, challenges, and perspectives
    12. Efficient irrigation water allocation and its impact on agricultural sustainability and water scarcity under uncertainty
    13. Performance evaluation of MLE, RF and SVM classification algorithms for watershed scale land use/land cover mapping using sentinel 2 bands
    14. The spatial granularity effect, changing landscape patterns, and suitable landscape metrics in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, 1995–2015
    15. Further improvement of wet process treatments in GEOS-Chem v12.6.0: impact on global distributions of aerosols and aerosol precursors
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 11 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Pour, Souissi et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Authors: Sahar Hadi Pour, Ahmad Khairi Abd Wahab, Shamsuddin Shahid, Md Asaduzzaman, Ashraf Dewan

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102373 · Citations: 390

Matched topics: flood, climate change

Abstract not available.


GIS-based MCDM – AHP modeling for flood susceptibility mapping of arid areas, southeastern Tunisia

Authors: Dhekra Souissi, L. Zouhri, Salma Hammami, M. Msaddek, Adel Zghibi, Mahmoud Dlala

Journal: Geocarto International · DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1566405 · Citations: 270

Matched topics: flood

Abstract Floods are considered as a major natural disaster due to their devastating effects that lead to socio-economic losses. The present study is an attempt to prepare a flood hazard susceptibility map of the Gabes region using ‘multi-criteria decision making – analytical hierarchy process’ model in geographic information system environment. Eight factors have been used in the flood modeling: elevation, land use/land cover, lithology, rainfall intensity, drainage density, distance from the…


Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

Authors: G. Blöschl, A. Kiss, A. Viglione, M. Barriendos, O. Böhm, R. Brázdil et al.

Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2478-3 · Citations: 255

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh

Authors: Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Ashraf Dewan, Jim W. Hall

Journal: Land Use Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104868 · Citations: 201

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Real‐Time Flood Forecasting Based on a High‐Performance 2‐D Hydrodynamic Model and Numerical Weather Predictions

Authors: X. Ming, Q. Liang, X. Xia, Dingmin Li, H. Fowler

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025583 · Citations: 188

Matched topics: flood

A flood forecasting system commonly consists of at least two essential components, that is, a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model to provide rainfall forecasts and a hydrological/hydraulic model to predict the hydrological response. While being widely used for flood forecasting, hydrological models only provide a simplified representation of the physical processes of flooding due to negligence of strict momentum conservation. They cannot reliably predict the highly transient flooding pro…


Historic storms and the hidden value of coastal wetlands for nature-based flood defence

Authors: Zhenchang Zhu, Vincent Vuik, Paul J. Visser, Tim Soens, Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck, Johan van de Koppel et al.

Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0556-z · Citations: 180

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Polymer flooding in high temperature, high salinity conditions: Selection of polymer type and polymer chemistry, thermal stability

Authors: Stéphane Jouenne

Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107545 · Citations: 180

Matched topics: flood

After 50 years of research and numerous commercial field applications around the world, polymer flooding is considered as a proven EOR technique. However, until recently, its application was limited to reservoirs with temperature not exceeding 100 °C. The development of polymer withstanding harsh conditions such as those encountered in Middle East carbonate reservoirs (temperature higher than 100 °C and salinity up to 280 g/L), would unlock a lot of reserves. In this paper, thermal stability,…


Improvement of Best First Decision Trees Using Bagging and Dagging Ensembles for Flood Probability Mapping

Authors: Peyman Yariyan, Saeid Janizadeh, Tran Van Phong, Huu Duy Nguyen, Romulus Costache, Hiep Van Le et al.

Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-020-02603-7 · Citations: 167

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Authors: Conrad Wasko, Rory Nathan, Murray Peel

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027233 · Citations: 122

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, flood

Abstract Analysis of flood and streamflow timing has recently gained prominence as a tool for attribution of climatic changes to flooding. Such studies generally apply circular statistics to the day of maximum flow in a calendar year and use nonparametric linear trend tests to investigate changes in flooding on a local or regional scale. Here we investigate both the center timing of streamflow and the day of maximum flow using a local water year. For each station, the start of the water year …


Future projections of flood dynamics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Authors: Nguyen Van Khanh Triet, Nguyễn Viết Dũng, Long Phi Hoang, Nguyen Le Duy, Dung Duc Tran, Trần Tuấn Anh et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140596 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, flood, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Identifying enablers and barriers to the implementation of the Green Infrastructure for urban flood management: A comparative analysis of the UK and China

Authors: Lei Li, Alexandra Collins, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Faith Ka Shun Chan

Journal: Urban forestry & urban greening · DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126770 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: runoff, flood

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Senf, Li et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

Authors: Cornelius Senf, A. Buras, Christian S. Zang, A. Rammig, R. Seidl

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19924-1 · Citations: 454

Matched topics: drought

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


Elucidating Diverse Drought Characteristics from Two Meteorological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI) in China

Authors: Lingcheng Li, D. She, Hui Zheng, P. Lin, Zong‐Liang Yang

Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-19-0290.1 · Citations: 201

Matched topics: drought

This study elucidates drought characteristics in China during 1980–2015 using two commonly used meteorological drought indices: standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized precipitation–evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The results show that SPEI characterizes an overall increase in drought severity, area, and frequency during 1998–2015 compared with those during 1980–97, mainly due to the increasing potential evapotranspiration. By contrast, SPI does not reveal this phenomenon sin…


Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity

Authors: Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Yadvinder Malhi, Simon L. Lewis, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Kofi Affum‐Baffoe et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16973-4 · Citations: 152

Matched topics: drought

Tropical ecosystems adapted to high water availability may be highly impacted by climatic changes that increase soil and atmospheric moisture deficits. Many tropical regions are experiencing significant changes in climatic conditions, which may induce strong shifts in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of forest communities. However, it remains unclear if and to what extent tropical forests are shifting in these facets of diversity along climatic gradients in response to climate…


Exogenously applied proline enhances growth and productivity of drought stressed onion by improving photosynthetic efficiency, water use efficiency and up-regulating osmoprotectants

Authors: Wael M. Semida, Abdelsattar Abdelkhalik, Mohamed O. A. Rady, R. Marey, Taia A. Abd El–Mageed

Journal: Scientia Horticulturae · DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2020.109580 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Regulation of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis by MdMYB88 and MdMYB124 contributes to pathogen and drought resistance in apple

Authors: Dali Geng, Xiaoxia Shen, Yinpeng Xie, Yusen Yang, Ruiling Bian, Yu-Qi Gao et al.

Journal: Horticulture Research · DOI: 10.1038/s41438-020-0324-2 · Citations: 132

Matched topics: drought

overexpression plants were more tolerant to these pathogens. The cumulative results of this study provided evidence for secondary metabolite regulation by MdMYB88 and MdMYB124, further explained the molecular roles of MdMYB88 and MdMYB124 in drought resistance, and provided information concerning molecular aspects of their roles in disease resistance.


A new framework for tracking flash drought events in space and time

Authors: Jun Li, Zhaoli Wang, Xushu Wu, Jie Chen, Shenglian Guo, Zhenxing Zhang

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104763 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Unprecedented Drought Challenges for Texas Water Resources in a Changing Climate: What Do Researchers and Stakeholders Need to Know?

Authors: John W. Nielsen‐Gammon, Jay L. Banner, Benjamin I. Cook, Darrel M. Tremaine, C. I. Wong, Robert E. Mace et al.

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001552 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: drought

Abstract Long‐range water planning is complicated by factors that are rapidly changing in the 21st century, including climate, population, and water use. Here, we analyze climate factors and drought projections for Texas as an example of a diverse society straddling an aridity gradient to examine how the projections can best serve water stakeholder needs. We find that climate models are robust in projecting drying of summer‐season soil moisture and decreasing reservoir supplies for both the e…


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

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

Enhancing Streamflow Forecast and Extracting Insights Using Long‐Short Term Memory Networks With Data Integration at Continental Scales

Authors: Dapeng Feng, Kuai Fang, Chaopeng Shen

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026793 · Citations: 500

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, surface water, earth system model

Abstract Recent observations with varied schedules and types (moving average, snapshot, or regularly spaced) can help to improve streamflow forecasts, but it is challenging to integrate them effectively. Based on a long short‐term memory (LSTM) streamflow model, we tested multiple versions of a flexible procedure we call data integration (DI) to leverage recent discharge measurements to improve forecasts. DI accepts lagged inputs either directly or through a convolutional neural network unit….


Streamflow forecasting using extreme gradient boosting model coupled with Gaussian mixture model

Authors: Lingling Ni, Dong Wang, Jianfeng Wu, Yuankun Wang, Yuwei Tao, Jianyun Zhang et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124901 · Citations: 196

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract The establishment of an accurate and reliable forecasting model is important for water resource planning and management. In this study, we developed a hybrid model (namely GMM-XGBoost), coupling extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) with Gaussian mixture model (GMM), for monthly streamflow forecasting. The proposed model is based on the principle of modular model, where a complex problem is divided into several simple ones. GMM was applied to cluster streamflow into several groups, usi…


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 11 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Firm-level Climate Change Exposure

Authors: Z. Sautner, L. Lent, G. Vilkov, Ruishen Zhang

Journal: Social Science Research Network · DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3642508 · Citations: 696

Matched topics: climate change

We introduce a method that identifies climate change exposure from earnings conference calls of 10,158 firms from 34 countries. The method adapts a machine learning keyword discovery algorithm and captures exposures related to opportunity, physical, and regulatory shocks associated with climate change. The exposure measures exhibit cross-sectional and time-series variations that align with reasonable priors, and these measures are better at capturing firm-level variation than are carbon inten…


Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change

Authors: Ryan S. Padrón, Lukas Gudmundsson, Bertrand Decharme, Agnès Ducharne, David M. Lawrence, Jiafu Mao et al.

Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0594-1 · Citations: 309

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

Abstract not available.


Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions

Authors: Janni Yuval, Paul A. O’Gorman

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17142-3 · Citations: 293

Matched topics: earth system model

Global climate models represent small-scale processes such as convection using subgrid models known as parameterizations, and these parameterizations contribute substantially to uncertainty in climate projections. Machine learning of new parameterizations from high-resolution model output is a promising approach, but such parameterizations have been prone to issues of instability and climate drift, and their performance for different grid spacings has not yet been investigated. Here we use a …


Climate change and locust outbreak in East Africa

Authors: Abubakr A. M. Salih, Marta Baraibar, Kenneth Mwangi, Guleid Artan

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0835-8 · Citations: 230

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change impact on short-duration extreme precipitation and intensity–duration–frequency curves over Europe

Authors: Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei, Hossein Tabari, Patrick Willems

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125249 · Citations: 224

Matched topics: hydrology, climate change, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Authors: Ragnheid Skogseth, Léa Olivier, Frank Nilsen, Eva Falck, Neil Fraser, Vigdis Tverberg et al.

Journal: Progress In Oceanography · DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102394 · Citations: 148

Matched topics: climate change

Isfjorden, a broad Arctic fjord in western Spitsbergen, has shown significant changes in hydrography and inflow of Atlantic Water (AW) the last decades that only recently have been observed in the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard. Variability and trends in this fjord’s climate and circulation are therefore analysed from observational and reanalysis data during 1987 to 2017. Isfjorden experienced a shift in summer ocean structure in 2006, from AW generally in the bottom layer to AW (with increas…


Gender Matters: Climate Change, Gender Bias, and Women’s Farming in the Global South and North

Authors: Tricia Glazebrook, Samantha Noll, Emmanuela Opoku

Journal: Agriculture · DOI: 10.3390/agriculture10070267 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: climate change

Can investing in women’s agriculture increase productivity? This paper argues that it can. We assess climate and gender bias impacts on women’s production in the global South and North and challenge the male model of agricultural development to argue further that women’s farming approaches can be more sustainable. Level-based analysis (global, regional, local) draws on a literature review, including the authors’ published longitudinal field research in Ghana and the United States. Women farme…


Progress in plant phenology modeling under global climate change

Authors: Yongshuo H. Fu, Xinxi Li, Xuancheng Zhou, Xiaojun Geng, Yahui Guo, Yaru Zhang

Journal: Science China Earth Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s11430-019-9622-2 · Citations: 126

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Impact of climate change on biology and management of wheat pests

Authors: Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Muhammad Farooq, Abdullah M. Al‐Sadi, Ahmad Nawaz, Khawar Jabran, Kadambot H. M. Siddique

Journal: Crop Protection · DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105304 · Citations: 113

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Impacts of land use and land cover changes on regional climate in the Lhasa River basin, Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Dan Li, Peipei Tian, Hongying Luo, Tiesong Hu, Bin Dong, Yuanlai Cui et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140570 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Authors: Fatima Driouech, Hafid Stafi, Abdou Khouakhi, Sara Moutia, Wafae Badi, Khalid ElRhaz et al.

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.6734 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: drought

Abstract In this study, we evaluate trends in precipitation and temperature and their related extreme indices in Morocco based on a set of National Climate Monitoring Products defined the by the commission for climatology of the WMO. We use daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature data from 30 meteorological stations distributed throughout the country and covering the period from 1960 to 2016. Statistically significant increasing trends in warm temperature events and a tendency to…


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.

Projected Change in Temperature and Precipitation Over Africa from CMIP6

Authors: Mansour Almazroui, Fahad Saeed, Sajjad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam, Muhammad Ismail, Nana Ama Browne Klutse et al.

Journal: Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s41748-020-00161-x · Citations: 467

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract We analyze data of 27 global climate models from the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), and examine projected changes in temperature and precipitation over the African continent during the twenty-first century. The temperature and precipitation changes are computed for two future time slices, 2030–2059 (near term) and 2070–2099 (long term), relative to the present climate (1981–2010), for the entire African continent and its eight subregions. The CMIP6 …


The combined global gravity field model XGM2019e

Authors: Philipp Zingerle, Roland Pail, Thomas Gruber, Xanthi Oikonomidou

Journal: Journal of Geodesy · DOI: 10.1007/s00190-020-01398-0 · Citations: 369

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract XGM2019e is a combined global gravity field model represented by spheroidal harmonics up to degree and order (d/o) 5399, corresponding to a spatial resolution of 2′ (~ 4 km). As data sources, it includes the satellite model GOCO06s in the longer wavelength range up to d/o 300 combined with a ground gravity grid which also covers the shorter wavelengths. The ground data consist over land and ocean of gravity anomalies provided by courtesy of NGA (15′ resolution, identical to XGM2016) …


Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM): Description and Evaluation

Authors: Yanluan Lin, Xiaomeng Huang, Yishuang Liang, Yi Qin, Shiming Xu, Wenyu Huang et al.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002036 · Citations: 133

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract A team effort to develop a Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM) was initiated in China in 2012. The model was based on NCAR Community Earth System Model (Version 1.2.1) with several novel developments and modifications aimed to overcome some persistent systematic biases, such as the double Intertropical Convergence Zone problem and underestimated marine boundary layer clouds. Aerosols’ direct and indirect effects are prescribed using the MACv2‐SP approach and data sets. Th…


Hourly and Daily Urban Water Demand Predictions Using a Long Short-Term Memory Based Model

Authors: Mu Li, Feifei Zheng, Ruoling Tao, Qingzhou Zhang, Zoran Kapelan

Journal: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management · DOI: 10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001276 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: streamflow

This case study uses a long short-term memory (LSTM)–based model to predict short-term urban water demands for the Hefei City of China. The performance of the LSTM-based model is compared with the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, the support vector regression (SVR) model, and the random forests (RF) model based on data with time resolutions ranging from 15 min to 24 h. Additionally, this paper investigates the performance of the LSTM-based model in predicting multiple s…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 15 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Authors: Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Sophie C. Lewis

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16970-7 · Citations: 1745

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Heatwaves have increased in intensity, frequency and duration, with these trends projected to worsen under enhanced global warming. Understanding regional heatwave trends has critical implications for the biophysical and human systems they impact. Until now a comprehensive assessment of regional observed changes was hindered by the range of metrics employed, underpinning datasets, and time periods examined. Here, using the Berkeley Earth temperature dataset and key heatwave metrics, we system…


Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources

Authors: Robert B. Jackson, Marielle Saunois, Philippe Bousquet, Josep G. Canadell, Benjamin Poulter, Ann R. Stavert et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed2 · Citations: 594

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Human activities emitted a record 364 million metric tonnes of methane in 2017 (range 340-381), jeopardizing climate stabilization.


Water use indicators and economic analysis for on-farm irrigation decision: A case study of a super high density olive tree orchard

Authors: José E. Fernández, F. Alcon, A. Diaz-Espejo, V. Hernandez-Santana, M. V. Cuevas

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106074 · Citations: 487

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract Increasing the efficiency of on-farm water use requires wise decisions on the irrigation system, the irrigation strategy and the method to schedule irrigation, among other factors related to water management. Since the early 2000s, the water productivity approach has been widely used to address this issue. It provides useful indicators to both the biophysical water productivity and the economic performance of irrigation. Analysis of the literature, however, shows both confusion on th…


Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in Response to Anomalous Advection From Sub-Arctic Seas

Authors: Igor V. Polyakov, Matthew B. Alkire, Bodil A. Bluhm, Kristina A. Brown, Eddy C. Carmack, Melissa Chierici et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science · DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00491 · Citations: 385

Matched topics: earth system model

An important yet still not well documented aspect of recent changes in the Arctic Ocean is associated with the advection of anomalous sub-Arctic Atlantic- and Pacific-origin waters and biota into the polar basins, a process which we refer to as borealization. Using a 37-year archive of observations (1981–2017) we demonstrate dramatically contrasting regional responses to atlantification (that part of borealization related to progression of anomalies from the Atlantic sector of sub-Arctic seas…


A review of remote sensing applications in agriculture for food security: Crop growth and yield, irrigation, and crop losses

Authors: L. Karthikeyan, I. Chawla, A. Mishra

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124905 · Citations: 383

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract The global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. There is an exponential growth of food production to meet the needs of the growing population. However, the limited land and water resources, climate change, and an increase in extreme events likely to pose a significant threat for achieving the sustainable agriculture goal. Given these challenges, food security is included in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since the advent of Sputnik, followed…


The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements

Authors: Zheng Shi, Steven Allison, Yujie He, Paul A. Levine, Alison M. Hoyt, Jeffrey Beem‐Miller et al.

Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0596-z · Citations: 324

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Data-driven predictions of a multiscale Lorenz 96 chaotic system using machine-learning methods: reservoir computing, artificial neural network, and long short-term memory network

Authors: Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Devika Subramanian

Journal: Nonlinear processes in geophysics · DOI: 10.5194/npg-27-373-2020 · Citations: 159

Matched topics: reservoir, earth system model

Abstract. In this paper, the performance of three machine-learning methods for predicting short-term evolution and for reproducing the long-term statistics of a multiscale spatiotemporal Lorenz 96 system is examined. The methods are an echo state network (ESN, which is a type of reservoir computing; hereafter RC–ESN), a deep feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN), and a recurrent neural network (RNN) with long short-term memory (LSTM; hereafter RNN–LSTM). This Lorenz 96 system has three…


Monthly estimation of the surface water extent in France at a 10-m resolution using Sentinel-2 data

Authors: Xiucheng Yang, Q. Qin, H. Yésou, T. Ledauphin, M. Koehl, P. Grussenmeyer et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111803 · Citations: 156

Matched topics: surface water

Abstract The first national product of Surface Water Dynamics in France (SWDF) is generated on a monthly temporal scale and 10-m spatial scale using an automatic rule-based superpixel (RBSP) approach. The current surface water dynamic products from high resolution (HR) multispectral satellite imagery are typically analyzed to determine the annual trend and related seasonal variability. Annual and seasonal time series analyses may fail to detect the intra-annual variations of water bodies. Sen…


Water quality assessment along Tigris River (Iraq) using water quality index (WQI) and GIS software

Authors: Ali Chabuk, Qais Al-Madhlom, Ali Al-Maliki, Nadhir Al‐Ansari, Hussain Musa Hussain, Jan Laue

Journal: Arabian Journal of Geosciences · DOI: 10.1007/s12517-020-05575-5 · Citations: 154

Matched topics: river, hydropower

Abstract Most of the third world countries having rivers passing through them suffer from the water contaminant problem. This problem is considered so difficult to get the water quality within the standard allowable limits for drinking, as well as for industrial and agricultural purposes. This research aims to assess the water quality of the Tigris River using the water quality index method and GIS software. Twelve parameters (Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cl, SO 4 , HCO 3 , TH, TDS, BOD 5 , NO 3 , and EC) …


Ecological network construction of the heterogeneous agro-pastoral areas in the upper Yellow River basin

Authors: Fangning Shi, Shiliang Liu, Yongxiu Sun, Yi An, Shuang Zhao, Yixuan Liu et al.

Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2020.107069 · Citations: 143

Matched topics: river, land surface model

Abstract not available.


A review of the effects of tunnel excavation on the hydrology, ecology, and environment in karst areas: Current status, challenges, and perspectives

Authors: Yuxiang Lv, Yongjun Jiang, Wei Hu, M. Cao, Yang Mao

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124891 · Citations: 139

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract Due to a lack of awareness of environmental protection at the beginning of tunnel excavation and the unique ecological vulnerability of karst areas, tunnel excavation is beginning to have increasingly serious negative effects on the ecological environments in karst areas, leading to challenges related to regional water resources and ecological security. The groundwater drawdown caused by tunnel drainage has had far-reaching impacts on the hydrology, ecology and environment in karst a…


Efficient irrigation water allocation and its impact on agricultural sustainability and water scarcity under uncertainty

Authors: Mo Li, Yaowen Xu, Q. Fu, V. Singh, V. Singh, Dong Liu et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124888 · Citations: 128

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract Agriculture is a key economic sector in developing countries that are facing challenges of low efficiency of water resources utilization and of shrinking water supply. This study develops an optimization model for the allocation of agricultural irrigation water to improve irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE), considering uncertainties of fluctuating water supply. Then, it assesses the impact of efficient water allocation on the sustainability and water scarcity under different leve…


Performance evaluation of MLE, RF and SVM classification algorithms for watershed scale land use/land cover mapping using sentinel 2 bands

Authors: Vikas Kumar Rana, T. M. V. Suryanarayana

Journal: Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100351 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract not available.


The spatial granularity effect, changing landscape patterns, and suitable landscape metrics in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, 1995–2015

Authors: Qian Zhang, Chen Chenglong, Jinzhu Wang, Dongyang Yang, Yuee Zhang, Zifang Wang et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106259 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: reservoir

Abstract The Three Gorges Project (TGP) is a mega-water conservancy and hydropower project that have attracted worldwide attention. Under the influence of human activities, the landscape pattern has changed greatly. Using landscape metrics to analyze landscape pattern changes is the critical to understanding landscape pattern and ecological process. In this study, Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI images are used to extract indices for area edge, shape, spatial distribution, and diversity. Additionally, 19…


Further improvement of wet process treatments in GEOS-Chem v12.6.0: impact on global distributions of aerosols and aerosol precursors

Authors: Gan Luo, Fangqun Yu, Jonathan M. Moch

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-2879-2020 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. Wet processes, including aqueous-phase chemistry, wet scavenging, and wet surface uptake during dry deposition, are important for global modeling of aerosols and aerosol precursors. In this study, we improve the treatments of these wet processes in the Goddard Earth Observing System with chemistry (GEOS-Chem) v12.6.0, including pH calculations for cloud, rain, and wet surfaces, the fraction of cloud available for aqueous-phase chemistry, rainout efficiencies for various types of clo…


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