Weekly Literature Review
Week 23 · June 1–June 7, 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
- Scenario-based flood risk assessment for urbanizing deltas using future land-use simulation (FLUS): Guangzhou Metropolitan Area as a case study.
- Sen1Floods11: a georeferenced dataset to train and test deep learning flood algorithms for Sentinel-1
- A GIS-based assessment of the potential soil erosion and flood hazard zones in Ekiti State, Southwestern Nigeria using integrated RUSLE and HAND models
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests
- Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios
- Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity
- Delineation of groundwater potential zones in a drought-prone semi-arid region of east India using GIS and analytical hierarchical process techniques
- Quantifying Growth Responses of Trees to Drought—a Critique of Commonly Used Resilience Indices and Recommendations for Future Studies
- Causes and Changes of Drought in China: Research Progress and Prospects
- GRACE satellite-based drought index indicating increased impact of drought over major basins in China during 2002–2017
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety
- Global climate change and greenhouse effect
- Soil Microbiomes Under Climate Change and Implications for Carbon Cycling
- Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World
- Strong Summer Atmospheric Rivers Trigger Greenland Ice Sheet Melt through Spatially Varying Surface Energy Balance and Cloud Regimes
- Potential Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on the Water Quality of Ganga River around the Industrialized Kanpur Region
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- A survey on river water quality modelling using artificial intelligence models: 2000–2020
- Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America
- An Evaluation of the Large‐Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Its Variability in CESM2 and Other CMIP Models
- The CNRM Global Atmosphere Model ARPEGE‐Climat 6.3: Description and Evaluation
- Modelling of daily lake surface water temperature from air temperature: Extremely randomized trees (ERT) versus Air2Water, MARS, M5Tree, RF and MLPNN
- Rainfall-runoff modelling using improved machine learning methods: Harris hawks optimizer vs. particle swarm optimization
- Runoff loss of nitrogen and phosphorus from a rice paddy field in the east of China: Effects of long-term chemical N fertilizer and organic manure applications
- Position paper: Open web-distributed integrated geographic modelling and simulation to enable broader participation and applications
- Use of radar data for characterizing extreme precipitation at fine scales and short durations
- High temporal resolution rainfall–runoff modeling using long-short-term-memory (LSTM) networks
- The performance of the IMERG satellite-based product in identifying sub-daily rainfall events and their properties
- Effect of shrub-grass vegetation coverage and slope gradient on runoff and sediment yield under simulated rainfall
- Physical Interpretation of Rainfall Thresholds for Runoff‐Generated Debris Flows
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015
- Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration
- A deep learning CNN architecture applied in smart near-infrared analysis of water pollution for agricultural irrigation resources
- Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration
- WRF‐based dynamical downscaling of
ERA5 reanalysis data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a new version of the High Asia Refined analysis - Earth Observations for Monitoring Marine Coastal Hazards and Their Drivers
- Irrigation Scheduling Approaches and Applications: A Review
- Global human influence maps reveal clear opportunities in conserving Earth’s remaining intact terrestrial ecosystems
- Impact assessment of metal contamination in surface water of Sutlej River (India) on human health risks
- Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans
- Emergent constraints on future projections of the western North Pacific Subtropical High
- Irrigation Technology and Water Conservation: A Review of the Theory and Evidence
- Optimisation of cascade reservoir operation considering environmental flows for different environmental management classes
- Deep learning reservoir porosity prediction based on multilayer long short-term memory network
- Pore-scale controls on hydrological and geochemical processes in peat: Implications on interacting processes
- Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters
- Delineating groundwater potential zones of agriculture dominated landscapes using GIS based AHP techniques: a case study from Uttar Dinajpur district, West Bengal
- Spatial and temporal analyses of potential land use conflict under the constraints of water resources in the middle reaches of the Heihe River
- Karst Types and Their Karstification
- Economic and resource and environmental carrying capacity trade-off analysis in the Haihe River basin in China
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 3 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Lin, Bonafilia et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Scenario-based flood risk assessment for urbanizing deltas using future land-use simulation (FLUS): Guangzhou Metropolitan Area as a case study.
Authors: Weibin Lin, Yimin Sun, S. Nijhuis, Zhaoli Wang
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139899 · Citations: 252
Matched topics: flood
Preparing cities for sea-level rise is one of the critical challenges of the twenty-first century. Extreme weather events, natural hazards, and the failure of climate mitigation and adaptation are substantial risks. These risks are especially significant in fast-urbanizing deltas, such as the Pearl River Delta in China, because the conflict between urbanization and flooding caused by climate change will be more significant in the future. This paper elaborates on an approach that employs a fut…
Sen1Floods11: a georeferenced dataset to train and test deep learning flood algorithms for Sentinel-1
Authors: Derrick Bonafilia, B. Tellman, Tyler Anderson, Erica Issenberg
Journal: 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW50498.2020.00113 · Citations: 246
Matched topics: flood, surface water
Accurate flood mapping at global scale can support disaster relief and recovery efforts. Improving flood relief efforts with more accurate data is of great importance due to expected increases in the frequency and magnitude of flood events due to climate change. To assist efforts to operationalize deep learning algorithms for flood mapping at global scale, we introduce Sen1Floods11, a surface water data set including raw Sentinel-1 imagery and classified permanent water and flood water. This …
A GIS-based assessment of the potential soil erosion and flood hazard zones in Ekiti State, Southwestern Nigeria using integrated RUSLE and HAND models
Authors: Idowu Ezekiel Olorunfemi, Akinola Adesuji Komolafe, Johnson Toyin Fasinmirin, Ayorinde A. Olufayo, Samuel O. Akande
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104725 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Schuldt, Cook et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests
Authors: B. Schuldt, A. Buras, M. Arend, Y. Vitasse, C. Beierkuhnlein, A. Damm et al.
Journal: Basic and Applied Ecology · DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2020.04.003 · Citations: 773
Matched topics: drought
In 2018, Central Europe experienced one of the most severe and long-lasting summer drought and heat wave ever recorded. Before 2018, the 2003 millennial drought was often invoked as the example of a “hotter drought”, and was classified as the most severe event in Europe for the last 500 years. First insights now confirm that the 2018 drought event was climatically more extreme and had a greater impact on forest ecosystems of Austria, Germany and Switzerland than the 2003 drought. Across this …
Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios
Authors: B. Cook, J. Mankin, K. Marvel, A. P. Williams, J. Smerdon, K. Anchukaitis
Journal: Earth’s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2019EF001461 · Citations: 633
Matched topics: drought
There is strong evidence that climate change will increase drought risk and severity, but these conclusions depend on the regions, seasons, and drought metrics being considered. We analyze changes in drought across the hydrologic cycle (precipitation, soil moisture, and runoff) in projections from Phase Six of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The multimodel ensemble shows robust drying in the mean state across many regions and metrics by the end of the 21st century, even fol…
Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity
Authors: A. Bastos, P. Ciais, P. Friedlingstein, P. Friedlingstein, S. Sitch, J. Pongratz et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba2724 · Citations: 406
Matched topics: drought, seasonal
Ecosystems responded asymmetrically to the 2018 European drought. In summer 2018, central and northern Europe were stricken by extreme drought and heat (DH2018). The DH2018 differed from previous events in being preceded by extreme spring warming and brightening, but moderate rainfall deficits, yet registering the fastest transition between wet winter conditions and extreme summer drought. Using 11 vegetation models, we show that spring conditions promoted increased vegetation growth, which, …
Delineation of groundwater potential zones in a drought-prone semi-arid region of east India using GIS and analytical hierarchical process techniques
Authors: Indrani Mukherjee, Umesh Kumar Singh
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104681 · Citations: 263
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Quantifying Growth Responses of Trees to Drought—a Critique of Commonly Used Resilience Indices and Recommendations for Future Studies
Authors: Julia Schwarz, Georgios Skiadaresis, Martin Kohler, Jörg Kunz, Florian Schnabel, Valentina Vitali et al.
Journal: Current Forestry Reports · DOI: 10.1007/s40725-020-00119-2 · Citations: 238
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Purpose of Review Despite the rapidly increasing use of resilience indices to analyze responses of trees and forests to disturbance events, there is so far no common framework to apply and interpret these indices for different purposes. Therefore, this review aims to identify and discuss various shortcomings and pitfalls of commonly used resilience indices and to develop recommendations for a more robust and standardized procedure with a particular emphasis on drought events. Recent …
Causes and Changes of Drought in China: Research Progress and Prospects
Authors: Qiang Zhang, Yubi Yao, Yaohui Li, Jianping Huang, Zhuguo Ma, Zhilan Wang et al.
Journal: Journal of Meteorological Research · DOI: 10.1007/s13351-020-9829-8 · Citations: 114
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
GRACE satellite-based drought index indicating increased impact of drought over major basins in China during 2002–2017
Authors: Xianfeng Liu, Xiaoming Feng, Philippe Ciais, Bojie Fu, Baoyi Hu, Zhangli Sun
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108057 · Citations: 109
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.
Decomposition ensemble model based on variational mode decomposition and long short-term memory for streamflow forecasting
Authors: Ganggang Zuo, Jungang Luo, Ni Wang, Yani Lian, Xinxin He
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124776 · Citations: 191
Matched topics: streamflow
Abstract Reliable and accurate streamflow forecasting is vital for water resource management. Many streamflow prediction studies have demonstrated the excellent prediction ability of decomposition ensemble models. Several studies first extracted subsignals from a streamflow series and then split subsignals into training and validation sets to build prediction models, capturing some future information not available in practical streamflow forecasting. Alternatively, dividing a time series into…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 6 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety
Authors: S. Clayton, Bryan Karazsia
Journal: Journal of Environmental Psychology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101434 · Citations: 855
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract There is increasing attention to the negative emotional responses associated with awareness of climate change. We present three studies developing a scale of climate change anxiety. In Study 1, the scale was developed and validated in an MTurk sample of 197. Exploratory factor analysis of our item pool revealed a four-factor structure, with cognitive-emotional impairment, functional impairment, behavioral engagement, and experience emerging as unique factors. Cognitive-emotional impa…
Global climate change and greenhouse effect
Authors: A. Mikhaylov, N. Moiseev, K. Aleshin, T. Burkhardt
Journal: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues · DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2020.7.4(21) · Citations: 571
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
The climate has changed significantly under the influence of human behavior. And first of all, this is due to the change in the proportionality and concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, PFC (perfluorocarbons). This paper analyzes the dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change has many consequences on human health throughout the world, especially in African countries. The growth of greenhouse gas emissions is viewed as a cau…
Soil Microbiomes Under Climate Change and Implications for Carbon Cycling
Authors: Dan Naylor, Natalie Sadler, Arunima Bhattacharjee, Emily Graham, Christopher Anderton, Ryan McClure et al.
Journal: Annual Review of Environment and Resources · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-082720 · Citations: 329
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Communities of soil microorganisms (soil microbiomes) play a major role in biogeochemical cycles and support of plant growth. Here we focus primarily on the roles that the soil microbiome plays in cycling soil organic carbon and the impact of climate change on the soil carbon cycle. We first discuss current challenges in understanding the roles carried out by highly diverse and heterogeneous soil microbiomes and review existing knowledge gaps in understanding how climate change will impact so…
Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World
Authors: Daniel L. Swain, Deepti Singh, Danielle Touma, Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Journal: One Earth · DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.011 · Citations: 190
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change, earth system model
The emerging field of extreme-event attribution (EEA) seeks to answer the question: “Has climate change influenced the frequency, likelihood, and/or severity of individual extreme events?” Methodological advances over the past 15 years have transformed what was once an unanswerable hypothetical into a tractable scientific question—and for certain types of extreme events, the influence of anthropogenic climate change has emerged beyond a reasonable doubt. Several challenges remain, particularl…
Strong Summer Atmospheric Rivers Trigger Greenland Ice Sheet Melt through Spatially Varying Surface Energy Balance and Cloud Regimes
Authors: Kyle S. Mattingly, Thomas L. Mote, Xavier Fettweis, D. van As, Kristof Van Tricht, Stef Lhermitte et al.
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0835.1 · Citations: 121
Matched topics: river
ABSTRACT Mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has accelerated over the past two decades, coincident with rapid Arctic warming and increasing moisture transport over Greenland by atmospheric rivers (ARs). Summer ARs affecting western Greenland trigger GrIS melt events, but the physical mechanisms through which ARs induce melt are not well understood. This study elucidates the coupled surface–atmosphere processes by which ARs force GrIS melt through analysis of the surface energy balan…
Potential Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on the Water Quality of Ganga River around the Industrialized Kanpur Region
Authors: Sneha Santy, P. P. Mujumdar, Govindasamy Bala
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66171-x · Citations: 108
Matched topics: river, runoff, streamflow, hydropower
The heavily industrialised Kanpur region is the most polluted stretch of the Ganga river because of excessive pollutant discharge from the industries. Agricultural runoff along with climate change further adds to the pollution risk in this industrialised stretch of Ganga. In this paper, we analyse the potential impacts of climate change and land use change on the water quality in this stretch under hypothetical scenarios using the water quality model, QUAL2K. Water quality indicators of Disso…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 13 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
A survey on river water quality modelling using artificial intelligence models: 2000–2020
Authors: Tiyasha, Tran Minh Tung, Z. Yaseen
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124670 · Citations: 541
Matched topics: river
Abstract There has been an unsettling rise in the river contamination due to the climate change and anthropogenic activities. Last decades’ research has immensely focussed on river basin water quality (WQ) prediction, risk assessment and pollutant classification techniques to design more potent management policies and advanced early warning system. The next challenge is dealing with water-related data as they are problematic to handle owing to their nonlinearity, nonstationary feature and vag…
Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America
Authors: Megan C. Kirchmeier‐Young, Xuebin Zhang
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921628117 · Citations: 294
Matched topics: earth system model
Precipitation extremes have implications for many facets of both the human and natural systems, predominantly through flooding events. Observations have demonstrated increasing trends in extreme precipitation in North America, and models and theory consistently suggest continued increases with future warming. Here, we address the question of whether observed changes in annual maximum 1- and 5-d precipitation can be attributed to human influence on the climate. Although attribution has been de…
An Evaluation of the Large‐Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Its Variability in CESM2 and Other CMIP Models
Authors: Isla R. Simpson, Julio T. Bacmeister, Richard Neale, Cécile Hannay, Andrew Gettelman, Rolando R. García et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd032835 · Citations: 196
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Community Earth System Model 2 (CESM2) is the latest Earth System Model developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in collaboration with the university community and is significantly advanced in most components compared to its predecessor (CESM1). Here, CESM2’s representation of the large‐scale atmospheric circulation and its variability is assessed. Further context is providedthrough comparison to the CESM1 large ensemble and other models from the Coupled Model In…
The CNRM Global Atmosphere Model ARPEGE‐Climat 6.3: Description and Evaluation
Authors: Romain Roehrig, Isabelle Beau, David Saint‐Martin, Antoinette Alias, Bertrand Decharme, Jean‐François Guérémy et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002075 · Citations: 162
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract The present study describes the atmospheric component of the sixth‐generation climate models of the Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM), namely, ARPEGE‐Climat 6.3. It builds up on more than a decade of model development and tuning efforts, which led to major updates of its moist physics. The vertical resolution has also been significantly increased, both in the boundary layer and in the stratosphere. ARPEGE‐Climat 6.3 is now coupled to the new version (8.0) of the SU…
Modelling of daily lake surface water temperature from air temperature: Extremely randomized trees (ERT) versus Air2Water, MARS, M5Tree, RF and MLPNN
Authors: Salim Heddam, Mariusz Ptak, Senlin Zhu
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125130 · Citations: 148
Matched topics: hydrology, water management, surface water
Abstract not available.
Rainfall-runoff modelling using improved machine learning methods: Harris hawks optimizer vs. particle swarm optimization
Authors: Yazid Tikhamarine, Doudja Souag-Gamane, Ali Najah Ahmed, Saad Sh. Sammen, Özgür Kişi, Yuk Feng Huang et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125133 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff
Abstract not available.
Runoff loss of nitrogen and phosphorus from a rice paddy field in the east of China: Effects of long-term chemical N fertilizer and organic manure applications
Authors: Naxin Cui, C. Min, Xu Zhang, A. Abdelhafez, Li Zhou, Huifeng Sun et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01011 · Citations: 138
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract Agrochemicals, e.g., nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizers are being used extensively to increase the agricultural production; however, considerable losses of these fertilizers find their way to the surrounding surface water bodies causing severe pollution and eutrophication. Such non-point source of pollution seemed to be more pronounced in the rice fields. Accordingly, a two-year (2018–2019) field study was conducted at a rice paddy field under long-term N fertilizer manageme…
Position paper: Open web-distributed integrated geographic modelling and simulation to enable broader participation and applications
Authors: Min Chen, Alexey Voinov, Daniel P. Ames, Albert J. Kettner, Jonathan L. Goodall, Anthony J. Jakeman et al.
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103223 · Citations: 135
Matched topics: hydrologic model, earth system model
Integrated geographic modelling and simulation is a computational means to improve understanding of the environment. With the development of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web technologies, it is possible to conduct open, extensible integrated geographic modelling across a network in which resources can be accessed and integrated, and further distributed geographic simulations can be performed. This open web-distributed modelling and simulation approach is likely to enhance the use o…
Use of radar data for characterizing extreme precipitation at fine scales and short durations
Authors: Katharina Lengfeld, Pierre‐Emmanuel Kirstetter, Hayley J. Fowler, Jingjing Yu, Andreas Becker, Zachary L. Flamig et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab98b4 · Citations: 131
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow
Abstract Extreme precipitation is one of the most devastating forms of atmospheric phenomenon, causing severe damage worldwide, and is likely to intensify in strength and occurrence in a warming climate. This contribution gives an overview of the potential and challenges associated with using weather radar data to investigate extreme precipitation. We illustrate this by presenting radar data sets for Germany, the U.S. and the UK that resolve small-scale heavy rainfall events of just a few km …
High temporal resolution rainfall–runoff modeling using long-short-term-memory (LSTM) networks
Authors: Wei Li, Amin Kiaghadi, Clint Dawson
Journal: Neural Computing and Applications · DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-05010-6 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff
Abstract not available.
The performance of the IMERG satellite-based product in identifying sub-daily rainfall events and their properties
Authors: Emerson da Silva Freitas, Victor Coelho, Yunqing Xuan, Davi de Carvalho Diniz Melo, André Nóbrega Gadêlha, Elias A. Santos et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125128 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
Effect of shrub-grass vegetation coverage and slope gradient on runoff and sediment yield under simulated rainfall
Authors: Dandan Han, Jingcheng Deng, Chaojun Gu, Xingmin Mu, Peng Gao, Jianjian Gao
Journal: International Journal of Sediment Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsrc.2020.05.004 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
Physical Interpretation of Rainfall Thresholds for Runoff‐Generated Debris Flows
Authors: Matteo Berti, Martino Bernard, Carlo Gregoretti, Alessandro Simoni
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · DOI: 10.1029/2019jf005513 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow
Abstract Rainfall thresholds for the occurrence of debris flows are commonly defined by Intensity‐Duration curves ( ID thresholds). Interestingly, many empirical ID thresholds show up as straight lines in a log‐log plot and therefore can be expressed by power‐law functions of the form I = α ⋅ D β , where α is the scaling coefficient and β is the exponent of the power function. The different values of α and β reflect the variability of geological and hydrological conditions in the different ar…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 20 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015
Authors: Han Liu, Peng Gong, Jie Wang, Nicholas Clinton, Yuqi Bai, Shunlin Liang
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-1217-2020 · Citations: 398
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the Earth. As the cause and result of global environmental change, land cover change (LCC) influences the global energy balance and biogeochemical cycles. Continuous and dynamic monitoring of global LC is urgently needed. Effective monitoring and comprehensive analysis of LCC at the global scale are rare. With the latest version of GLASS (Global Land Surface Satellite) CDRs (climate data records) from 1982 to 2015, we built the f…
Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration
Authors: Chao Ning, Tianjiao Li, Ke Wang, Fan Zhang, Tao Li, Xiyan Wu et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16557-2 · Citations: 336
Matched topics: earth system model
Northern China harbored the world’s earliest complex societies based on millet farming, in two major centers in the Yellow (YR) and West Liao (WLR) River basins. Until now, their genetic histories have remained largely unknown. Here we present 55 ancient genomes dating to 7500-1700 BP from the YR, WLR, and Amur River (AR) regions. Contrary to the genetic stability in the AR, the YR and WLR genetic profiles substantially changed over time. The YR populations show a monotonic increase over time…
A deep learning CNN architecture applied in smart near-infrared analysis of water pollution for agricultural irrigation resources
Authors: Huazhou Chen, An Chen, Lili Xu, Hai Xie, Hanli Qiao, Qinyong Lin et al.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106303 · Citations: 328
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Plant hydraulics accentuates the effect of atmospheric moisture stress on transpiration
Authors: Yanlan Liu, Mukesh Kumar, Gabriel G. Katul, Xue Feng, Alexandra G. Konings
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0781-5 · Citations: 264
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract not available.
WRF‐based dynamical downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a new version of the High Asia Refined analysis
Authors: Xun Wang, Vanessa Tolksdorf, Marco Otto, Dieter Scherer
Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.6686 · Citations: 236
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract The High Asia Refined analysis (HAR) is a regional atmospheric data set generated by dynamical downscaling of the Final operational global analysis (FNL) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. It has been successfully and widely utilized. A new version (HAR v2) with longer temporal coverage and extended domains is currently under development. ERA5 reanalysis data is used as forcing data. This study aims to find the optimal set‐up for the production of the HAR v2 to p…
Earth Observations for Monitoring Marine Coastal Hazards and Their Drivers
Authors: Angélique Melet, Pietro Teatini, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Cédric Jamet, Alessandra Conversi, Jérôme Benveniste et al.
Journal: Surveys in Geophysics · DOI: 10.1007/s10712-020-09594-5 · Citations: 209
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Coastal zones have large social, economic and environmental values. They are more densely populated than the hinterland and concentrate large economic assets, critical infrastructures and human activities such as tourism, fisheries, navigation. Furthermore, coastal oceans are home to a wealth of living marine resources and very productive ecosystems. Yet, coastal zones are exposed to various natural and anthropogenic hazards. To reduce the risks associated with marine hazards, sustai…
Irrigation Scheduling Approaches and Applications: A Review
Authors: Zhe Gu, Z. Qi, Rasika Burghate, S. Yuan, Xiyun Jiao, Junzeng Xu
Journal: Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering · DOI: 10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0001464 · Citations: 169
Matched topics: irrigation
AbstractIn an effort to improve plant growth and to achieve high yield and/or quality, irrigation scheduling (IS) seeks to provide plants with appropriate quantities of water at appropriate times. …
Global human influence maps reveal clear opportunities in conserving Earth’s remaining intact terrestrial ecosystems
Authors: Jason Riggio, Jonathan Baillie, Steven P. Brumby, Erle C. Ellis, Christina M. Kennedy, James R. Oakleaf et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15109 · Citations: 166
Matched topics: earth system model
Leading up to the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15, there is momentum around setting bold conservation targets. Yet, it remains unclear how much of Earth’s land area remains without significant human influence and where this land is located. We compare four recent global maps of human influences across Earth’s land, Anthromes, Global Human Modification, Human Footprint and Low Impact Areas, to answer these questions. Despite using various methodologies and data,…
Impact assessment of metal contamination in surface water of Sutlej River (India) on human health risks
Authors: Raj Setia, S. S. Dhaliwal, Vinod Kumar, Randhir Singh, S. S. Kukal, Brijendra Pateriya
Journal: Environmental Pollution · DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114907 · Citations: 160
Matched topics: river, runoff, surface water
Abstract not available.
Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans
Authors: Matthew W. Jones, Alysha I. Coppola, Cristina Santín, Thorsten Dittmar, Rudolf Jaffé, Stefan H. Doerr et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16576-z · Citations: 154
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
(12 ± 5% of the OC flux). While rivers export ~1% of the OC sequestered by terrestrial vegetation, our estimates suggest that 34 ± 26% of the BC produced by landscape fires has an oceanic fate. Biogeochemical models require modification to account for the unique dynamics of BC and to predict the response of recalcitrant OC export to changing environmental conditions.
Emergent constraints on future projections of the western North Pacific Subtropical High
Authors: Xiaolong Chen, Tianjun Zhou, Peili Wu, Zhun Guo, Minghuai Wang
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16631-9 · Citations: 151
Matched topics: land surface model
The western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH) is a key circulation system controlling the summer monsoon and typhoon activities over the western Pacific, but future projections of its changes remain hugely uncertain. Here we find two leading modes that account for nearly 80% intermodel spread in its future projection under a high emission scenario. They are linked to a cold-tongue-like bias in the central-eastern tropical Pacific and a warm bias beneath the marine stratocumulus, respecti…
Irrigation Technology and Water Conservation: A Review of the Theory and Evidence
Authors: C. Pérez-Blanco, Arthur Hrast-Essenfelder, C. Perry
Journal: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · DOI: 10.1093/reep/reaa004 · Citations: 146
Matched topics: irrigation
Farming accounts for approximately 70 percent of freshwater withdrawals worldwide, and it often constitutes the lowest value use of freshwater. Where water is scarce, advanced irrigation technologies such as drip and piped delivery systems have been promoted as “water conservation technologies” (WCTs) that reduce agricultural water consumption, thus releasing water to alternative uses (e.g., the environment). This article examines whether this is true, discussing how WCTs contribute, in theor…
Optimisation of cascade reservoir operation considering environmental flows for different environmental management classes
Authors: Naresh Suwal, Xianfeng Huang, Alban Kuriqi, Yingqin Chen, Kamal Prasad Pandey, Khem Prasad Bhattarai
Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.05.161 · Citations: 143
Matched topics: reservoir, water management, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Deep learning reservoir porosity prediction based on multilayer long short-term memory network
Authors: Wei Chen, Liuqing Yang, Bei Zha, Mi Zhang, Yangkang Chen
Journal: Geophysics · DOI: 10.1190/geo2019-0261.1 · Citations: 140
Matched topics: reservoir
The cost of obtaining a complete porosity value using traditional coring methods is relatively high, and as the drilling depth increases, the difficulty of obtaining the porosity value also increases. Nowadays, the prediction of fine reservoir parameters for oil and gas exploration is becoming more and more important. Therefore, high-efficiency and low-cost prediction of porosity based on logging data is necessary. We have developed a machine-learning method based on the traditional long shor…
Pore-scale controls on hydrological and geochemical processes in peat: Implications on interacting processes
Authors: Colin P. R. McCarter, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, William L. Quinton, Behrad Gharedaghloo, Bernd Lennartz, Jonathan S. Price et al.
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103227 · Citations: 131
Matched topics: hydrology
Peatlands are wetlands that provide important ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and water storage that respond to hydrological, biological, and biogeochemical processes. These processes are strongly influenced by the complex pore structure of peat soils. We explore the literature on peat pore structure and the implications for hydrological, biogeochemical, and microbial processes in peat, highlighting the gaps in our current knowledge and a path to move forward. Peat is an ela…
Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters
Authors: Inne Vanderkelen, Nicole Van Lipzig, David M. Lawrence, Bram Droppers, Małgorzata Gołub, Simon N. Gosling et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087867 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Heat uptake is a key variable for understanding the Earth system response to greenhouse gas forcing. Despite the importance of this heat budget, heat uptake by inland waters has so far not been quantified. Here we use a unique combination of global‐scale lake models, global hydrological models and Earth system models to quantify global heat uptake by natural lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. The total net heat uptake by inland waters amounts to 2.6 ± 3.2 ×10 20 J over the period 1900–20…
Delineating groundwater potential zones of agriculture dominated landscapes using GIS based AHP techniques: a case study from Uttar Dinajpur district, West Bengal
Authors: Swagata Biswas, Bhabani Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Amit Bera
Journal: Environmental Earth Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s12665-020-09053-9 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Spatial and temporal analyses of potential land use conflict under the constraints of water resources in the middle reaches of the Heihe River
Authors: Song Jiang, Jijun Meng, Likai Zhu
Journal: Land Use Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104773 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: river, water management
Abstract not available.
Karst Types and Their Karstification
Authors: Márton Veress
Journal: Journal of Earth Science · DOI: 10.1007/s12583-020-1306-x · Citations: 107
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract Eighty-one karst types and their main characteristics are described in this study, including the conditions of their development, the main characteristics of their karstification and their characteristic features. The classification includes the karst types of the Earth, a concise description of each karst type and the possibilities of belonging to several types of various karst areas. The classification of types is hierarchical in terms of groups, subgroups, types and subtypes. Kars…
Economic and resource and environmental carrying capacity trade-off analysis in the Haihe River basin in China
Authors: Jiayi Fu, Chuanfu Zang, Junmao Zhang
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122271 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
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| Metric | Count |
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 1064 |
| After deduplication | 822 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 772 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 3 |
| Nature Communications | 3 |
| CATENA | 2 |
| Earth-Science Reviews | 2 |
| Science of the Total Environment | 1 |
| 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) | 1 |
| Basic and Applied Ecology | 1 |
| Earth’s Future | 1 |
| Science Advances | 1 |
| Current Forestry Reports | 1 |
| Journal of Meteorological Research | 1 |
| Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Psychology | 1 |
| Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues | 1 |
| Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 |
| One Earth | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Scientific Reports | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Neural Computing and Applications | 1 |
| International Journal of Sediment Research | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface | 1 |
| Earth system science data | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| Nature Climate Change | 1 |
| International Journal of Climatology | 1 |
| Surveys in Geophysics | 1 |
| Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Environmental Pollution | 1 |
| Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | 1 |
| Renewable Energy | 1 |
| Geophysics | 1 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 1 |
| Environmental Earth Sciences | 1 |
| Land Use Policy | 1 |
| Journal of Earth Science | 1 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
Filtering Criteria
Topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, water management, flood, drought, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, hydropower, surface water, irrigation, earth system model
Databases: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex