Weekly Literature Review
Week 28 · July 6–July 12, 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
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Quantifying the Central European Droughts in 2018 and 2019 With GRACE Follow‐On
- Copula-based Joint Drought Index using SPI and EDDI and its application to climate change
- Screening diverse soybean genotypes for drought tolerance by membership function value based on multiple traits and drought-tolerant coefficient of yield
- Expansin gene TaEXPA2 positively regulates drought tolerance in transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
- Melatonin improves the germination rate of cotton seeds under drought stress by opening pores in the seed coat
- Maize (Zea mays L.) physiological responses to drought and rewatering, and the associations with water stress degree
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections
- Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms
- The virtual field trip: Investigating how to optimize immersive virtual learning in climate change education
- Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling
- A Framework to Quantify the Uncertainty Contribution of GCMs Over Multiple Sources in Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change
- Unraveling the relative impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland productivity in Central Asia over last three decades
- On the climate sensitivity and historical warming evolution in recent coupled model ensembles
- Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map
- The impacts of urbanization and climate change on urban vegetation dynamics in China
- The impact of climate changes on the water footprint of wheat and maize production in the Nile Delta, Egypt
- The effect of climate change on the richness distribution pattern of oaks (Quercus L.) in China
- Predicted trends of soil erosion and sediment yield from future land use and climate change scenarios in the Lancang–Mekong River by using the modified RUSLE model
- Increased Climate Response and Earth System Sensitivity From CCSM4 to CESM2 in Mid‐Pliocene Simulations
- Potential of RT, bagging and RS ensemble learning algorithms for reference evapotranspiration prediction using climatic data-limited humid region in Bangladesh
- The impact of climate change and human activities on the Aral Sea Basin over the past 50 years
- Evaluating satellite-based evapotranspiration estimates for hydrological applications in data-scarce regions: A case in Ethiopia
- Impacts and uncertainties of climate change projections on Eucalyptus plantations productivity across Brazil
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- A Brief Analysis of Conceptual Model Structure Uncertainty Using 36 Models and 559 Catchments
- Aerosol‐Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations
- Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity
- AIMERG: a new Asian precipitation dataset (0.1°/half-hourly, 2000–2015) by calibrating the GPM-era IMERG at a daily scale using APHRODITE
- Identification of critical areas and evaluation of best management practices using SWAT for sustainable watershed management
- Ordinary least squares modelling of urban heat island intensity based on landscape composition and configuration: A comparative study among three megacities along the Yangtze River
- Relationship of surface urban heat island with air temperature and precipitation in global large cities
- Water Management and Sustainability
- The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
- Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
- Carbonate reservoir characterization: an integrated approach
- Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources
- The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0
- Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe
- Fifty Years of Research on the Madden‐Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives
- Gainers and losers of surface and terrestrial water resources in China during 1989–2016
- Predicting and Mapping of Soil Organic Carbon Using Machine Learning Algorithms in Northern Iran
- Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century
- ERA5-based global meteorological wildfire danger maps
- Uncertainty analysis of water quality index (WQI) for groundwater quality evaluation: Application of Monte-Carlo method for weight allocation
- Effects of irrigation quantity and biochar on soil physical properties, growth characteristics, yield and quality of greenhouse tomato
- Impact of ocean resolution and mean state on the rate of AMOC weakening
- The Grass Is Not Always Greener on the Other Side: Seasonal Reversal of Vegetation Greenness in Aspect‐Driven Semiarid Ecosystems
- Interannual flow dynamics driven by frontal retreat of a lake-terminating glacier in the Chinese Central Himalaya
- Towards harmonisation of image velocimetry techniques for river surface velocity observations
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 2 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Nachappa, Roy et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Flood susceptibility mapping with machine learning, multi-criteria decision analysis and ensemble using Dempster Shafer Theory
Authors: Thimmaiah Gudiyangada Nachappa, Sepideh Tavakkoli Piralilou, Khalil Gholamnia, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Omid Rahmati, Thomas Blaschke
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125275 · Citations: 384
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Threats of climate and land use change on future flood susceptibility
Authors: Paramita Roy, Subodh Chandra Pal, Rabin Chakrabortty, Indrajit Chowdhuri, Sadhan Malik, Biswajit Das
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122757 · Citations: 198
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 6 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Boergens, Won et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Quantifying the Central European Droughts in 2018 and 2019 With GRACE Follow‐On
Authors: Eva Boergens, Andreas Güntner, Henryk Dobslaw, Christoph Dahle
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087285 · Citations: 211
Matched topics: drought
Abstract The GRACE‐FO satellites launched in May 2018 are able to quantify the water mass deficit in Central Europe during the two consecutive summer droughts of 2018 and 2019. Relative to the long‐term climatology, the water mass deficits were − 112 ± 10.5 Gt in 2018 and − 145 ± 12 Gt in 2019. These deficits are 73% and 94% of the mean amplitude of seasonal water storage variations, which is so severe that a recovery cannot be expected within 1 year. The water deficits in 2018 and 2019 are t…
Copula-based Joint Drought Index using SPI and EDDI and its application to climate change
Authors: Jeongeun Won, Jeonghyeon Choi, Okjeong Lee, Sangdan Kim
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140701 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: drought, climate change
Abstract not available.
Screening diverse soybean genotypes for drought tolerance by membership function value based on multiple traits and drought-tolerant coefficient of yield
Authors: Chunjuan Yan, Song Shu-hong, Wenbin Wang, Changling Wang, Haibo Li, Feng Wang et al.
Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02519-9 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: drought
BACKGROUND: Drought is a major limiting factor seriously influencing worldwide soybean production and its impact on yield, morphological and physiological traits depend on the timing it occurs and the intensity of water shortage. Only limited research has however been conducted on identifying the drought-tolerant genotypes at different growth stages (vegetative growth phase, reproductive growth phase and the whole growth phase) as well as evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of multiple…
Expansin gene TaEXPA2 positively regulates drought tolerance in transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Authors: Junjiao Yang, Guangqiang Zhang, Jie An, Qinxue Li, Yanhui Chen, Xiaoyu Zhao et al.
Journal: Plant Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110596 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Melatonin improves the germination rate of cotton seeds under drought stress by opening pores in the seed coat
Authors: Yandan Bai, Shuang Xiao, Zichen Zhang, Yongjiang Zhang, Hongchun Sun, Ke Zhang et al.
Journal: PeerJ · DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9450 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: drought
contents. Our findings show that MT plays a positive role in protecting cotton seeds from drought stress.
Maize (Zea mays L.) physiological responses to drought and rewatering, and the associations with water stress degree
Authors: Fu Cai, Yushu Zhang, Na Mi, Huiqing Ming, Shujie Zhang, Hui Zhang et al.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106379 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 1 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.
Super ensemble learning for daily streamflow forecasting: large-scale demonstration and comparison with multiple machine learning algorithms
Authors: Hristos Tyralis, Georgia A. Papacharalampous, A. Langousis
Journal: Neural computing & applications (Print) · DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-05172-3 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: streamflow
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 17 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections
Authors: Lester Kwiatkowski, Olivier Torres, Laurent Bopp, Olivier Aumont, Matthew A. Chamberlain, James R. Christian et al.
Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-3439-2020 · Citations: 846
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. Anthropogenic climate change is projected to lead to ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, reductions in near-surface nutrients, and changes to primary production, all of which are expected to affect marine ecosystems. Here we assess projections of these drivers of environmental change over the twenty-first century from Earth system models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) that were forced under the CMIP6 Shared Socioeconomic Pa…
Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms
Authors: Guoqing Zhang, Tandong Yao, Hongjie Xie, Kun Yang, Liping Zhu, C. K. Shum et al.
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103269 · Citations: 601
Matched topics: water management, climate change
Abstract not available.
The virtual field trip: Investigating how to optimize immersive virtual learning in climate change education
Authors: Gustav Bøg Petersen, Sara Klingenberg, Richard E. Mayer, Guido Makransky
Journal: British Journal of Educational Technology · DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12991 · Citations: 238
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Abstract Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) is being used for educational virtual field trips (VFTs) involving scenarios that may be too difficult, dangerous or expensive to experience in real life. We implemented an immersive VFT within the investigation phase of an inquiry‐based learning (IBL) climate change intervention. Students investigated the consequences of climate change by virtually traveling to Greenland and exploring albedo and greenhouse effects first hand. A total of 102 seventh an…
Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling
Authors: Andrew J. Heymsfield, Carl Schmitt, Chih‐Chieh Chen, Aaron Bansemer, Andrew Gettelman, Paul R. Field et al.
Journal: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-19-0352.1 · Citations: 161
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract This study is the first to reach a global view of the precipitation process partitioning, using a combination of satellite and global climate modeling data. The pathways investigated are 1) precipitating ice (ice/snow/graupel) that forms above the freezing level and melts to produce rain (S) followed by additional condensation and collection as the melted precipitating ice falls to the surface (R); 2) growth completely through condensation and collection (coalescence), warm rain (W);…
A Framework to Quantify the Uncertainty Contribution of GCMs Over Multiple Sources in Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change
Authors: Huimin Wang, Jie Chen, Chong‐Yu Xu, Jianke Zhang, Hua Chen
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001602 · Citations: 157
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, climate change, earth system model
Abstract The quantification of climate change impacts on hydrology is subjected to multiple uncertainty sources. Large ensembles of hydrological simulations based on multimodel ensembles (MMEs) have been commonly applied to represent overall uncertainty of hydrological impacts. However, as increasing numbers of global climate models (GCMs) are being developed, how many GCMs in MMEs are sufficient to characterize overall uncertainty is not clear. Therefore, this study investigates the influenc…
Unraveling the relative impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland productivity in Central Asia over last three decades
Authors: Tao Chen, Guoping Tang, Ye Yuan, Hao Guo, Zhenwu Xu, Guo Jiang et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140649 · Citations: 154
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
On the climate sensitivity and historical warming evolution in recent coupled model ensembles
Authors: Clare M. Flynn, Thorsten Mauritsen
Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-7829-2020 · Citations: 153
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. The Earth’s equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) to a doubling of atmospheric CO2, along with the transient climate response (TCR) and greenhouse gas emissions pathways, determines the amount of future warming. Coupled climate models have in the past been important tools to estimate and understand ECS. ECS estimated from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models lies between 2.0 and 4.7 K (mean of 3.2 K), whereas in the latest CMIP6 the spread has increased to 1….
Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map
Authors: Nicholas Badullovich, Will Grant, Rebecca Colvin
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba4c7 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Climate change emerged as an issue of science, but its broad ranging impacts and potential mitigation strategies mean it is of significance to all people across sectors, interests, and nations. As a result, the traditional fact-centred way of communicating information about climate change is not necessarily the best strategy for engaging the full breadth of publics. In communication practice and scholarship, framing is an approach that emphasises certain attributes of an issue over o…
The impacts of urbanization and climate change on urban vegetation dynamics in China
Authors: Delong Li, Shuyao Wu, Ze Liang, Shuangcheng Li
Journal: Urban forestry & urban greening · DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126764 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
The impact of climate changes on the water footprint of wheat and maize production in the Nile Delta, Egypt
Authors: Ahmed Elbeltagi, Muhammad Rizwan Aslam, Anurag Malik, Behrouz Mehdinejadiani, Ankur Srivastava, Amandeep Singh Bhatia et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140770 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
The effect of climate change on the richness distribution pattern of oaks (Quercus L.) in China
Authors: Shuxia Sun, Yang Zhang, Dizhou Huang, Hui Wang, Qian Cao, Peixian Fan et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140786 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Predicted trends of soil erosion and sediment yield from future land use and climate change scenarios in the Lancang–Mekong River by using the modified RUSLE model
Authors: Pavisorn Chuenchum, Mengzhen Xu, Wenzhe Tang
Journal: International Soil and Water Conservation Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.iswcr.2020.06.006 · Citations: 126
Matched topics: river, climate change
Soil erosion and sediments in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin as a result of climate change and changes in land use pose a threat to the existence of the riparian people, biodiversity and ecosystems. This study seeks to assess the annual soil erosion in terms of spatial distribution and the trends of sediment yield with the climate and land changes in future scenarios in 2030 and 2040 through the modified RUSLE model. Future lands were simulated by using the MLP artificial neural network and t…
Increased Climate Response and Earth System Sensitivity From CCSM4 to CESM2 in Mid‐Pliocene Simulations
Authors: Ran Feng, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Esther C. Brady, Nan Rosenbloom
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002033 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Three new equilibrium mid‐Pliocene (MP) simulations are implemented with the Community Climate System Model version 4 (CCSM4) and Community Earth System Model versions 1.2 (CESM1.2) and 2 (CESM2). All simulations are carried out with the same boundary and forcing conditions following the protocol of Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2). These simulations reveal amplified MP climate change relative to the preindustrial going from CCSM4 to CESM2, seen in global and…
Potential of RT, bagging and RS ensemble learning algorithms for reference evapotranspiration prediction using climatic data-limited humid region in Bangladesh
Authors: Roquia Salam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125241 · Citations: 119
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
The impact of climate change and human activities on the Aral Sea Basin over the past 50 years
Authors: Xuanxuan Wang, Yaning Chen, Zhi Li, Gonghuan Fang, Fei Wang, Haijun Liu
Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105125 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: runoff, water management, climate change
Abstract not available.
Evaluating satellite-based evapotranspiration estimates for hydrological applications in data-scarce regions: A case in Ethiopia
Authors: Yihun T. Dile, Essayas K. Ayana, Abeyou W. Worqlul, Hua Xie, Raghavan Srinivasan, Nicole Lefore et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140702 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, water management
Water resource development opens up opportunities for improving smallholder farmer livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa; however, implementation of water resource interventions to ensure sustainability hinges on the availability of sufficient quantity and quality data for monitoring, analysis and planning. Such data is often acquired through instrumentation of water resources (e.g. stream flow monitoring) or the use of hydrological models. In sub-Saharan Africa, data scarcity has limited the abi…
Impacts and uncertainties of climate change projections on Eucalyptus plantations productivity across Brazil
Authors: Elvis Felipe Elli, Paulo César Sentelhas, Fabiani Denise Bender
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118365 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 7 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
A Brief Analysis of Conceptual Model Structure Uncertainty Using 36 Models and 559 Catchments
Authors: Wouter Knoben, Jim Freer, Murray Peel, Keirnan Fowler, Ross Woods
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr025975 · Citations: 199
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract The choice of hydrological model structure, that is, a model’s selection of states and fluxes and the equations used to describe them, strongly controls model performance and realism. This work investigates differences in performance of 36 lumped conceptual model structures calibrated to and evaluated on daily streamflow data in 559 catchments across the United States. Model performance is compared against a benchmark that accounts for the seasonality of flows in each catchment. We f…
Aerosol‐Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations
Authors: Matthew Menary, Jon Robson, Richard P. Allan, Ben Booth, Christophe Cassou, Guillaume Gastineau et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088166 · Citations: 193
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has been, and will continue to be, a key factor in the modulation of climate change both locally and globally. However, there remains considerable uncertainty in recent AMOC evolution. Here, we show that the multimodel mean AMOC strengthened by approximately 10% from 1850–1985 in new simulations from the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), a larger change than was seen in CMIP5. Across the models, the strength of t…
Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity
Authors: C. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips, Susan Zimmerman
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0821-1 · Citations: 144
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract not available.
AIMERG: a new Asian precipitation dataset (0.1°/half-hourly, 2000–2015) by calibrating the GPM-era IMERG at a daily scale using APHRODITE
Authors: Ziqiang Ma, Jintao Xu, Siyu Zhu, Jun Yang, Guoqiang Tang, Yuanjian Yang et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-1525-2020 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract. Precipitation estimates with fine quality and spatio-temporal resolutions play significant roles in understanding the global and regional cycles of water, carbon, and energy. Satellite-based precipitation products are capable of detecting spatial patterns and temporal variations of precipitation at fine resolutions, which is particularly useful over poorly gauged regions. However, satellite-based precipitation products are the indirect estimates of precipitation, inherently containi…
Identification of critical areas and evaluation of best management practices using SWAT for sustainable watershed management
Authors: Bhumika Uniyal, Madan K. Jha, Arvind Verma, Prajna Kasargodu Anebagilu
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140737 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: runoff, water management, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Ordinary least squares modelling of urban heat island intensity based on landscape composition and configuration: A comparative study among three megacities along the Yangtze River
Authors: Luoyang Wang, Hao Hou, Jiaxuan Weng
Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102381 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: river, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Relationship of surface urban heat island with air temperature and precipitation in global large cities
Authors: Long Li, Yong Zha, Ren Wang
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106683 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: land surface model
In the context of climate change, a systematic research of the relationship between the urban heat island (UHI) and climatic factors is needed. In this study, the relationships between surface UHI intensity (SUHII) and climate factors were investigated across 145 global large cities for the period 2003–2013, based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer land surface temperature, normalized difference vegetation index, land cover, digital elevation model and meteorological observation…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 17 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
Authors: Gilberto Pastorello, Carlo Trotta, Eleonora Canfora, Housen Chu, Danielle Christianson, You-Wei Cheah et al.
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0534-3 · Citations: 1719
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
, water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their data to create global datasets. Data were quality controlled and processed using uniform methods, to improve consistency and intercomparability across sites. The dataset is already being used in a number of…
Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands
Authors: David J. Beerling, Euripides P. Kantzas, Mark R. Lomas, Peter Wade, Rafael M. Eufrasio, Phil Renforth et al.
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2448-9 · Citations: 631
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Carbonate reservoir characterization: an integrated approach
Authors: Unknown
Journal: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology · DOI: 10.1007/s13202-020-00946-w · Citations: 450
Matched topics: reservoir
Estimation of fluid and rock properties of a hydrocarbon reservoir is always a challenging matter; especially, it is true for heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs. Petrophysical logs and laboratory activities are common methods for characterizing a hydrocarbon reservoir. This method in conjunction with geostatistical methods is applied to relatively homogeneous sandstone reservoirs or matrix media of dual-porosity heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs. To estimate properties of fracture system of …
Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources
Authors: Daniel Viviroli, Matti Kummu, Michel Meybeck, Marko Kallio, Yoshihide Wada
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0559-9 · Citations: 384
Matched topics: runoff, water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0
Authors: Martin Jakobsson, Larry A. Mayer, Caroline Bringensparr, Carlos F. Castro, Rezwan Mohammad, Paul Johnson et al.
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0520-9 · Citations: 307
Matched topics: earth system model
Bathymetry (seafloor depth), is a critical parameter providing the geospatial context for a multitude of marine scientific studies. Since 1997, the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) has been the authoritative source of bathymetry for the Arctic Ocean. IBCAO has merged its efforts with the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO-Seabed 2030 Project, with the goal of mapping all of the oceans by 2030. Here we present the latest version (IBCAO Ver. 4.0), with more than twice the resolu…
Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe
Authors: Robert Vautard, Maarten van Aalst, Oliviér Boucher, Agathe Drouin, Karsten Haustein, Frank Kreienkamp et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba3d4 · Citations: 266
Matched topics: earth system model
Two extreme heatwaves hit Western Europe in the summer of 2019, with historical records broken by more than a degree in many locations, and significant societal impacts, including excess mortality of several thousand people. The extent to which human influence has played a role in the occurrence of these events has been of large interest to scientists, media and decision makers. However, the outstanding nature of these events poses challenges for physical and statistical modeling. Using an un…
Fifty Years of Research on the Madden‐Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives
Authors: Xianan Jiang, Ángel F. Adames, Daehyun Kim, Eric D. Maloney, Hai Lin, Hyemi Kim et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2019jd030911 · Citations: 264
Matched topics: hydrologic model, earth system model
Abstract Since its discovery in the early 1970s, the crucial role of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the global hydrological cycle and its tremendous influence on high‐impact climate and weather extremes have been well recognized. The MJO also serves as a primary source of predictability for global Earth system variability on subseasonal time scales. The MJO remains poorly represented in our state‐of‐the‐art climate and weather forecasting models, however. Moreover, despite the advance…
Gainers and losers of surface and terrestrial water resources in China during 1989–2016
Authors: Xinxin Wang, Xiangming Xiao, Zhenhua Zou, Jinwei Dong, Yuanwei Qin, Russell Doughty et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17103-w · Citations: 247
Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, surface water, earth system model
Data and knowledge of the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water area (SWA) and terrestrial water storage (TWS) in China are critical for sustainable management of water resources but remain very limited. Here we report annual maps of surface water bodies in China during 1989-2016 at 30m spatial resolution. We find that SWA decreases in water-poor northern China but increases in water-rich southern China during 1989-2016. Our results also reveal the spatial-temporal divergence and consist…
Predicting and Mapping of Soil Organic Carbon Using Machine Learning Algorithms in Northern Iran
Authors: Mostafa Emadi, Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ali Cherati, Majid Danesh, Amir Mosavi, Thomas Scholten
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12142234 · Citations: 246
Matched topics: land surface model
Estimation of the soil organic carbon (SOC) content is of utmost importance in understanding the chemical, physical, and biological functions of the soil. This study proposes machine learning algorithms of support vector machines (SVM), artificial neural networks (ANN), regression tree, random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and conventional deep neural network (DNN) for advancing prediction models of SOC. Models are trained with 1879 composite surface soil samples, and 105 …
Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century
Authors: Mariano S. Morales, Edward R. Cook, Jonathan Barichivich, Duncan A. Christie, Ricardo Villalba, Carlos LeQuesne et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2002411117 · Citations: 223
Matched topics: earth system model
South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of the global processes driving climatic variability in the region. The number and quality of SA climate-sensitive tree ring chronologies have significantly increased in recent decades, now providing a robust network of 286 records for characterizing hydroclimate variability since 1400 CE. We combine this network with a self-calibrated Palm…
ERA5-based global meteorological wildfire danger maps
Authors: Claudia Vitolo, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Christopher Barnard, Ruth Coughlan, Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz, Liberta’ Giorgio et al.
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0554-z · Citations: 210
Matched topics: earth system model
Forest fires are an integral part of the natural Earth system dynamics, however they are becoming more devastating and less predictable as anthropogenic climate change exacerbates their impacts. In order to advance fire science, fire danger reanalysis products can be used as proxy for fire weather observations with the advantage of being homogeneously distributed both in space and time. This manuscript describes a reanalysis dataset of fire danger indices based on the Canadian Fire Weather In…
Uncertainty analysis of water quality index (WQI) for groundwater quality evaluation: Application of Monte-Carlo method for weight allocation
Authors: Akram Seifi, Majid Dehghani, Vijay P. Singh
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106653 · Citations: 150
Matched topics: water management
Water Quality Index (WQI) have been recently used for evaluating water resources quality. This index is developed to assist the water resources management and their allocation for different purposes. The confidence in WQI evaluation is required for decision making. Developing WQI involves various steps that some of them have associated with the uncertainties. Uncertainties sources such as water quality sampling, measuring variability, operator biases are previously studied, whereas uncertaint…
Effects of irrigation quantity and biochar on soil physical properties, growth characteristics, yield and quality of greenhouse tomato
Authors: Chuan Zhang, Xinyu Li, Haofang Yan, Ikram Ullah, Zhiyu Zuo, Lanlan Li et al.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106263 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Impact of ocean resolution and mean state on the rate of AMOC weakening
Authors: Laura Jackson, Malcolm Roberts, Helene T. Hewitt, Doroteaciro Iovino, Torben Koenigk, Virna Meccia et al.
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05345-9 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract We examine the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in response to increasing CO \(_2\) 2 at different horizontal resolutions in a state-of-the-art climate model and in a small ensemble of models with differing resolutions. There is a strong influence of the ocean mean state on the AMOC weakening: models with a more saline western subpolar gyre have a greater formation of deep water there. This makes the AMOC more susceptible to weakening from an i…
The Grass Is Not Always Greener on the Other Side: Seasonal Reversal of Vegetation Greenness in Aspect‐Driven Semiarid Ecosystems
Authors: Nikul Kumari, Patricia Saco, José F. Rodríguez, Samuel A. Johnstone, Ankur Srivastava, Kwok Pan Chun et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088918 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: seasonal, earth system model
Abstract Our current understanding of semiarid ecosystems is that they tend to display higher vegetation greenness on polar‐facing slopes (PFS) than on equatorial‐facing slopes (EFS). However, recent studies have argued that higher vegetation greenness can occur on EFS during part of the year. To assess whether this seasonal reversal of aspect‐driven vegetation is a common occurrence, we conducted a global‐scale analysis of vegetation greenness on a monthly time scale over an 18‐year period (…
Interannual flow dynamics driven by frontal retreat of a lake-terminating glacier in the Chinese Central Himalaya
Authors: Qiao Liu, Christoph Mayer, Xin Wang, Yong Nie, Kunpeng Wu, Junfeng Wei et al.
Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters · DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116450 · Citations: 87
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract not available.
Towards harmonisation of image velocimetry techniques for river surface velocity observations
Authors: Matthew Perks, Silvano Fortunato Dal Sasso, Alexandre Hauet, E. C. Jamieson, Jérôme Le Coz, Sophie Pearce et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-1545-2020 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: river, streamflow, hydropower
Abstract. Since the turn of the 21st century, image-based velocimetry techniques have become an increasingly popular approach for determining open-channel flow in a range of hydrological settings across Europe and beyond. Simultaneously, a range of large-scale image velocimetry algorithms have been developed that are equipped with differing image pre-processing and analytical capabilities. Yet in operational hydrometry, these techniques are utilised by few competent authorities. Therefore, im…
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Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| The Science of The Total Environment | 6 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 3 |
| Scientific Data | 3 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 2 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 2 |
| Earth system science data | 2 |
| Ecological Indicators | 2 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| BMC Plant Biology | 1 |
| Plant Science | 1 |
| PeerJ | 1 |
| Neural computing & applications (Print) | 1 |
| Biogeosciences | 1 |
| Earth-Science Reviews | 1 |
| British Journal of Educational Technology | 1 |
| Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | 1 |
| Earth s Future | 1 |
| Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 1 |
| Urban forestry & urban greening | 1 |
| International Soil and Water Conservation Research | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Atmospheric Research | 1 |
| Forest Ecology and Management | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Nature Climate Change | 1 |
| Sustainable Cities and Society | 1 |
| Nature | 1 |
| Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology | 1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 1 |
| Nature Communications | 1 |
| Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1 |
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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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