Weekly Literature Review

Week 24 · June 8–June 14, 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. Spatial Dependence of Floods Shaped by Spatiotemporal Variations in Meteorological and Land‐Surface Processes
    2. Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach
    3. Efficient or Fair? Operationalizing Ethical Principles in Flood Risk Management: A Case Study on the Dutch‐German Rhine
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity
    2. Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia
    3. Conditional distribution selection for SPEI-daily and its revealed meteorological drought characteristics in China from 1961 to 2017
    4. The Use of Proline in Screening for Tolerance to Drought and Salinity in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes
    5. Drought stress induces biosynthesis of flavonoids in leaves and saikosaponins in roots of Bupleurum chinense DC
    6. Combined Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Exogenous Melatonin Alleviates Drought Stress and Improves Plant Growth in Tobacco Seedlings
    7. Drought reshuffles plant phenology and reduces the foraging benefit of green‐wave surfing for a migratory ungulate
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Distributed long-term hourly streamflow predictions using deep learning – A case study for State of Iowa
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Climate change impacts on soil salinity in agricultural areas
    2. Groundwater system and climate change: Present status and future considerations
    3. Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects
    4. The impact of climate change on Brazil’s agriculture
    5. Impact of climate change mitigation policies on corporate financial performance: Evidence‐based on European publicly listed firms
    6. How collective efficacy makes a difference in responses to water shortage due to climate change in southwest Iran
    7. Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction
    8. Enriched East Asian oxygen isotope of precipitation indicates reduced summer seasonality in regional climate and westerlies
    9. Impacts of climate change on the optimum planting date of different maize cultivars in the central US Corn Belt
    10. Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly
    11. Assessing the costs of historical inaction on climate change
    12. Effects of Climate Variability on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Gojeb River Catchment, Omo-Gibe Basin, Ethiopia
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. RainNet v1.0: a convolutional neural network for radar-based precipitation nowcasting
    2. Combining statistical machine learning models with ARIMA for water level forecasting: The case of the Red river
    3. Decision support systems and models for aiding irrigation and nutrient management of vegetable crops
    4. Convection‐Permitting Models Offer Promise of More Certain Extreme Rainfall Projections
    5. Optimizing irrigation strategies to synchronously improve the yield and water productivity of winter wheat under interannual precipitation variability in the North China Plain
    6. Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Improving AI System Awareness of Geoscience Knowledge: Symbiotic Integration of Physical Approaches and Deep Learning
    2. Angular-Based Radiometric Slope Correction for Sentinel-1 on Google Earth Engine
    3. Reconstruction of daytime land surface temperatures under cloud-covered conditions using integrated MODIS/Terra land products and MSG geostationary satellite data
    4. A transition from conventional irrigation to fertigation with reclaimed wastewater: Prospects and challenges
    5. Real-time probabilistic forecasting of river water quality under data missing situation: Deep learning plus post-processing techniques
    6. Energy production and trade openness: Assessing economic growth, CO2 emissions and the applicability of the cointegration analysis
    7. What is a good level of soil organic matter? An index based on organic carbon to clay ratio
    8. Spatial relationship between land-use/land-cover change and land surface temperature in the Dongting Lake area, China
    9. The Influence of Deforestation on Land Surface Temperature—A Case Study of Perak and Kedah, Malaysia
    10. Roughness-enhanced hydrophobic graphene oxide membrane for water desalination via membrane distillation
    11. Characterizing spring phenology of temperate broadleaf forests using Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series
    12. Agricultural acceleration of soil carbonate weathering
    13. Morphometric analysis for prioritizing sub-watersheds and management planning and practices in Gidabo Basin, Southern Rift Valley of Ethiopia
    14. Behavior and Bio-Interactions of Anthropogenic Particles in Marine Environment for a More Realistic Ecological Risk Assessment
    15. Prospective evaluation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services in the Ourika watershed, Morocco
    16. Development and utilization of water resources and assessment of water security in Central Asia
    17. Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the Danube and drinking water wells: Efficiency of riverbank filtration
    18. Quantifying the Effect of the Drake Passage Opening on the Eocene Ocean
    19. Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit
    20. Stability and Behavior in Carbonate Cores for New Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Polymers at Elevated Temperatures in Hard Saline Brines
    21. Wealth, water and wildlife: Landscape aridity intensifies the urban luxury effect
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. 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 Brunner, Lindt et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Spatial Dependence of Floods Shaped by Spatiotemporal Variations in Meteorological and Land‐Surface Processes

Authors: Manuela I. Brunner, Eric Gilleland, Andrew W. Wood, Daniel L. Swain, Martyn Clark

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088000 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: flood

Abstract Floods often affect large regions and cause adverse societal impacts. Regional flood hazard and risk assessments therefore require a realistic representation of spatial flood dependencies to avoid the overestimation or underestimation of risk. However, it is not yet well understood how spatial flood dependence, that is, the degree of co‐occurrence of floods at different locations, varies in space and time and which processes influence the strength of this dependence. We identify regi…


Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Authors: John W. van de Lindt, Walter Gillis Peacock, Judith Mitrani‐Reiser, Nathanael Rosenheim, Derya Deniz, Maria Dillard et al.

Journal: Natural Hazards Review · DOI: 10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000387 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: flood

In early October 2016, Hurricane Matthew crossed North Carolina as a Category 1 storm, with some areas receiving 0.38–0.46 m (15–18 in.) of rainfall on already saturated soil. The NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning teamed with researchers from NIST’s Engineering Laboratory (Disaster and Failure Studies Program, Community Resilience Group, and the Applied Economics Office) to conduct a field study focused on the impacts of the Lumber River flooding in Lumberton, No…


Efficient or Fair? Operationalizing Ethical Principles in Flood Risk Management: A Case Study on the Dutch‐German Rhine

Authors: Alessio Ciullo, Jan Kwakkel, Karin de Bruijn, Neelke Doorn, Frans Klijn

Journal: Risk Analysis · DOI: 10.1111/risa.13527 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: flood

Flood risk management decisions in many countries are based on decision-support frameworks which rely on cost-benefit analyses. Such frameworks are seldom informative about the geographical distribution of risk, raising questions on the fairness of the proposed policies. In the present work, we propose a new decision criterion that accounts for the distribution of risk reduction and apply it to support flood risk management decisions on a transboundary stretch of the Rhine River. Three types …


Drought Analysis and Prediction

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

Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity

Authors: Ana Bastos, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Julia Pongratz, Lei Fan et al.

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba2724 · Citations: 525

Matched topics: hydrology, water management, drought, seasonal, land surface model, earth system model

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, in turn, contributed to fast soil moisture depletion, amplifying t…


Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia

Authors: Martin G. De Kauwe, Belinda E. Medlyn, Anna Ukkola, Mengyuan Mu, Manon Sabot, A. J. Pitman et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15215 · Citations: 157

Matched topics: hydrology, drought, land surface model, surface water, earth system model

South-East Australia has recently been subjected to two of the worst droughts in the historical record (Millennium Drought, 2000-2009 and Big Dry, 2017-2019). Unfortunately, a lack of forest monitoring has made it difficult to determine whether widespread tree mortality has resulted from these droughts. Anecdotal observations suggest the Big Dry may have led to more significant tree mortality than the Millennium drought. Critically, to be able to robustly project future expected climate chang…


Conditional distribution selection for SPEI-daily and its revealed meteorological drought characteristics in China from 1961 to 2017

Authors: Bin Ma, Bo Zhang, Lige Jia, Hao Huang

Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105108 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


The Use of Proline in Screening for Tolerance to Drought and Salinity in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes

Authors: Sugenith Arteaga, Lourdes Yabor, María José Díez, Jaime Prohens, Monica Boşcaiu, Óscar Vicente

Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10060817 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: drought

The selection of stress-resistant cultivars, to be used in breeding programmes aimed at enhancing the drought and salt tolerance of our major crops, is an urgent need for agriculture in a climate change scenario. In the present study, the responses to water deficit and salt stress treatments, regarding growth inhibition and leaf proline (Pro) contents, were analysed in 47 Phaseolus vulgaris genotypes of different origins. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson moment correlations and…


Drought stress induces biosynthesis of flavonoids in leaves and saikosaponins in roots of Bupleurum chinense DC

Authors: Linlin Yang, Linlin Yang, Yang Li, Yang Li, Xiao Yang, Tao Zhang et al.

Journal: Phytochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2020.112434 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Combined Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Exogenous Melatonin Alleviates Drought Stress and Improves Plant Growth in Tobacco Seedlings

Authors: Ling Liu, Dong Li, Yilin Ma, Hongtao Shen, Shimin Zhao, Yanfang Wang

Journal: Journal of Plant Growth Regulation · DOI: 10.1007/s00344-020-10165-6 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Drought reshuffles plant phenology and reduces the foraging benefit of green‐wave surfing for a migratory ungulate

Authors: Ellen O. Aikens, Kevin L. Monteith, Jerod A. Merkle, Samantha P. H. Dwinnell, Gary L. Fralick, Matthew J. Kauffman

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15169 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: drought

To increase resource gain, many herbivores pace their migration with the flush of nutritious plant green-up that progresses across the landscape (termed “green-wave surfing”). Despite concerns about the effects of climate change on migratory species and the critical role of plant phenology in mediating the ability of ungulates to surf, little is known about how drought shapes the green wave and influences the foraging benefits of migration. With a 19 year dataset on drought and plant phenolog…


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.

Distributed long-term hourly streamflow predictions using deep learning – A case study for State of Iowa

Authors: Zhongrun Xiang, İbrahim Demir

Journal: Environmental Modelling & Software · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104761 · Citations: 123

Matched topics: runoff, streamflow

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 12 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Climate change impacts on soil salinity in agricultural areas

Authors: Dennis L. Corwin

Journal: European Journal of Soil Science · DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13010 · Citations: 724

Matched topics: water management, climate change, irrigation

Abstract Changes in climate patterns are dramatically influencing some agricultural areas. Arid, semi‐arid and coastal agricultural areas are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts on soil salinity. Inventorying and monitoring climate change impacts on salinity are crucial to evaluate the extent of the problem, to recognize trends and to formulate irrigation and crop management strategies that will maintain the agricultural productivity of these areas. Over the past three decades, Co…


Groundwater system and climate change: Present status and future considerations

Authors: Amobichukwu C. Amanambu, Omon A. Obarein, Joann Mossa, Lanhai Li, Shamusideen S. Ayeni, Olalekan Balogun et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125163 · Citations: 313

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, climate change, surface water, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects

Authors: Rakoen Maertens, Frederik Anseel, Sander van der Linden

Journal: Journal of Environmental Psychology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101455 · Citations: 171

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


The impact of climate change on Brazil’s agriculture

Authors: Marcia Zilli, Marluce Scarabello, Aline C. Soterroni, Hugo Valin, Aline Mosnier, David Leclère et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139384 · Citations: 138

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Impact of climate change mitigation policies on corporate financial performance: Evidence‐based on European publicly listed firms

Authors: Silvana Secinaro, Valerio Brescia, Davide Calandra, Buerhan Saiti

Journal: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1002/csr.1971 · Citations: 131

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract This study examines the relationship between climate change and firm performance in the context of European publicly listed companies. We conduct a multivariate regression analysis using Corporate Environmental Performance and Corporate Financial Performance as independent and dependent variables, respectively. A financial statement analysis of European publicly traded firms with high environmental performance shows that they register high corporate financial performance. Environment…


How collective efficacy makes a difference in responses to water shortage due to climate change in southwest Iran

Authors: Sedighe Pakmehr, Masoud Yazdanpanah, Masoud Baradaran

Journal: Land Use Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104798 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction

Authors: Lisa A. Levin, Chih‐Lin Wei, Daniel C. Dunn, Diva J. Amon, Oliver S. Ashford, William W. L. Cheung et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15223 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: water management, climate change, earth system model

Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food supply), is projected to affect most deep-ocean ecosystems concomitantly with increasing direct human disturbance. Climate drivers will alter deep-sea biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, and may interact with disturbance from resource extraction activities or even climate geoengineering. We suggest that to ensur…


Enriched East Asian oxygen isotope of precipitation indicates reduced summer seasonality in regional climate and westerlies

Authors: John C. H. Chiang, Michael J. Herman, Kei Yoshimura, Inez Fung

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922602117 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: seasonal

O-depleted years. Reduced summer seasonality is also expressed in the low-level monsoonal southerlies and upper-level westerlies; for the latter, the northward migration across the Tibetan Plateau in the summer is less pronounced. Our result thus implicates the westerlies across the plateau as the proximate cause of East Asian paleomonsoon changes, manifested as a modulation of its summer peak.


Impacts of climate change on the optimum planting date of different maize cultivars in the central US Corn Belt

Authors: Mitchell Baum, Mark A. Licht, Isaiah Huber, Sotirios V. Archontoulis

Journal: European Journal of Agronomy · DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2020.126101 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly

Authors: Lala Muradova, Hayley Walker, Francesca Colli

Journal: Climate Policy · DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2020.1777928 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: climate change

Citizens are being increasingly called upon to participate in climate change policymaking. Citizen assemblies have been proposed as a viable and effective way of boosting public support for ambitious climate policies. This study examines the varying effects of climate change communication on citizen support for the speaker’s policy proposals, in the framework of the most consequential citizen-centred experimentation in environmental policymaking to date – the Irish Citizens’ Assembly. Drawing…


Assessing the costs of historical inaction on climate change

Authors: Benjamin M. Sanderson, Brian C. O’Neill

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66275-4 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: climate change

We consider alternative history scenarios in which explicit climate mitigation begins before the present day, estimating the total costs to date of delayed action. Considering a 2(1.5) degree Celsius stabilization target, peak costs are greater and reached sooner with a later start to mitigation, reaching 15(17)% of global GDP in 2085(2070) for a 1990 start and 18(35)% in 2080(2035) for a 2020 start. Further mitigation delay costs a best estimate of an additional 0.5(5) trillion dollars per y…


Effects of Climate Variability on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Gojeb River Catchment, Omo-Gibe Basin, Ethiopia

Authors: Melku Dagnachew, Asfaw Kebede, Awdenegest Moges, Adane Abebe

Journal: Advances in Meteorology · DOI: 10.1155/2020/8263246 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: hydrology, river, streamflow

Vegetation dynamics have been visibly influenced by climate variability. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been the most commonly used index in vegetation dynamics. The study was conducted to examine the effects of climatic variability (rainfall) on NDVI for the periods 1982–2015 in the Gojeb River Catchment (GRC), Omo-Gibe Basin, Ethiopia. The spatiotemporal trend in NDVI and rainfall time series was assessed using a Theil–Sen (Sen) slope and Mann–Kendall (MK) statistical…


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 6 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

RainNet v1.0: a convolutional neural network for radar-based precipitation nowcasting

Authors: Georgy Ayzel, Tobias Scheffer, Maik Heistermann

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-2631-2020 · Citations: 303

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. In this study, we present RainNet, a deep convolutional neural network for radar-based precipitation nowcasting. Its design was inspired by the U-Net and SegNet families of deep learning models, which were originally designed for binary segmentation tasks. RainNet was trained to predict continuous precipitation intensities at a lead time of 5 min, using several years of quality-controlled weather radar composites provided by the German Weather Service (DWD). That data set covers Ger…


Combining statistical machine learning models with ARIMA for water level forecasting: The case of the Red river

Authors: Thi-Thu-Hong Phan, Xuan Hoai Nguyen

Journal: Advances in Water Resources · DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103656 · Citations: 163

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, flood

Abstract not available.


Decision support systems and models for aiding irrigation and nutrient management of vegetable crops

Authors: M. Gallardo, A. Elia, R.B. Thompson

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106209 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Convection‐Permitting Models Offer Promise of More Certain Extreme Rainfall Projections

Authors: Giorgia Fosser, Elizabeth Kendon, David B. Stephenson, Simon Tucker

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088151 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: flood

Abstract The future increase in extreme precipitation is likely to have a severe impact on society due to flooding. Previous research has shown the improved representation of precipitation in convection‐permitting models (CPMs), but until now it has not been possible to quantify uncertainties in future changes at convective (<5 km) scales. Here we analyze the first‐ever ensemble of convection‐permitting climate projections run within the UK Climate Projections project. We find that the CPM…


Optimizing irrigation strategies to synchronously improve the yield and water productivity of winter wheat under interannual precipitation variability in the North China Plain

Authors: Jie Zhao, Tong Han, Chong Wang, Hao Jia, Abeyou W. Worqlul, Nicole Norelli et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106298 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


Long-term precipitation in Southwestern Europe reveals no clear trend attributable to anthropogenic forcing

Authors: Dhais Peña‐Angulo, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Fernando Domínguez‐Castro, Conor Murphy, Fergus Reig, Yves Tramblay et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9c4f · Citations: 85

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract We present a long-term assessment of precipitation trends in Southwestern Europe (1850–2018) using data from multiple sources, including observations, gridded datasets and global climate model experiments. Contrary to previous investigations based on shorter records, we demonstrate, using new long-term, quality controlled precipitation series, the lack of statistically significant long-term decreasing trends in precipitation for the region. Rather, significant trends were mostly foun…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 21 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Improving AI System Awareness of Geoscience Knowledge: Symbiotic Integration of Physical Approaches and Deep Learning

Authors: Shijie Jiang, Yi Zheng, Dimitri Solomatine

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088229 · Citations: 362

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, earth system model

Abstract Modeling dynamic geophysical phenomena is at the core of Earth and environmental studies. The geoscientific community relying mainly on physical representations may want to consider much deeper adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) instruments in the context of AI’s global success and emergence of big Earth data. A new perspective of using hybrid physics‐AI approaches is a grand vision, but actualizing such approaches remains an open question in geoscience. This study develops a g…


Angular-Based Radiometric Slope Correction for Sentinel-1 on Google Earth Engine

Authors: Andreas Vollrath, Adugna Mullissa, Johannes Reiche

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12111867 · Citations: 209

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

This article provides an angular-based radiometric slope correction routine for Sentinel-1 SAR imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform. Two established physical reference models are implemented. The first model is optimised for vegetation applications by assuming volume scattering on the ground. The second model is optimised for surface scattering, and therefore targeted at urban environments or analysis of soil characteristics. The framework of both models is extended to simultaneously g…


Reconstruction of daytime land surface temperatures under cloud-covered conditions using integrated MODIS/Terra land products and MSG geostationary satellite data

Authors: Wei Zhao, Si‐Bo Duan

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111931 · Citations: 185

Matched topics: land surface model, surface water

Abstract not available.


A transition from conventional irrigation to fertigation with reclaimed wastewater: Prospects and challenges

Authors: Katarzyna Chojnacka, Anna Witek‐Krowiak, Κωνσταντίνος Μουστάκας, Dawid Skrzypczak, Katarzyna Mikula, Maria Loizidou

Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.109959 · Citations: 175

Matched topics: irrigation

The aim of this review was to discuss the transition from traditional irrigation to fertigation using reclaimed wastewater in countries with moderate climate. In most European countries there are no regulations on waste water reuse and on the other hand there are countries where regulations are very strict. An important aspect is to standardize the restrictions, which would minimize uncontrolled use of wastewater for fertigation. Wastewater is a source of plant nutrients and organic matter, b…


Real-time probabilistic forecasting of river water quality under data missing situation: Deep learning plus post-processing techniques

Authors: Yanlai Zhou

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125164 · Citations: 172

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow

Abstract not available.


Energy production and trade openness: Assessing economic growth, CO2 emissions and the applicability of the cointegration analysis

Authors: Hélde A.D. Hdom, José Alberto Fuinhas

Journal: Energy Strategy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2020.100488 · Citations: 165

Matched topics: hydropower

The relationship between economic activities such as energy production, trade, and economic growth affects all areas of human life in terms of well-being, as well as a country’s economic activities. In this study, we investigate these relationships using cointegration regression methods (FMOLS - fully modified ordinary least square and DOLS - dynamic ordinary least squares), we use the electricity production (hydro, natural gas and renewables), trade opening, GDP, and CO2 emissions to establi…


What is a good level of soil organic matter? An index based on organic carbon to clay ratio

Authors: Jonah Prout, Keith Shepherd, S. P. McGrath, G. J. D. Kirk, Stephan M. Haefele

Journal: European Journal of Soil Science · DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13012 · Citations: 158

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

Abstract Simple measures of appropriate levels of soil organic matter are needed for soil evaluation, management and monitoring, based on readily measurable soil properties. We test an index of soil organic matter based on the soil organic carbon (SOC) to clay ratio, defined by thresholds of SOC/clay ratio for specified levels of soil structural quality. The thresholds were originally delineated for a small number of Swiss soils. We assess the index using data from the initial sampling (1978–…


Spatial relationship between land-use/land-cover change and land surface temperature in the Dongting Lake area, China

Authors: Jie Tan, De Yu, Qiang Li, Xuelan Tan, Weijun Zhou

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66168-6 · Citations: 158

Matched topics: surface water, earth system model

The Dongting Lake area (China) is a climate change-sensitive and ecologically fragile area and plays a crucial role in the regulation of the regional climate. In recent decades, rapid social and economic development has led to increased land use/land cover (LULC) changes in the Dongting Lake area, which affect the surface energy balance and hydrological processes. Its contemporary variability under climate change remains highly uncertain. Therefore, we retrieved the Land surface temperature (…


The Influence of Deforestation on Land Surface Temperature—A Case Study of Perak and Kedah, Malaysia

Authors: Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud, Aisyah Marliza Muhmad Kamarulzaman, Asif Raihan, Syarina Md Sah, Azizah Ahmad et al.

Journal: Forests · DOI: 10.3390/f11060670 · Citations: 148

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

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid change in forest and land cover, especially in tropical forests due to massive deforestation. The major factor responsible for the changes is to fulfill the growing demand of increasing population through agricultural intensification, rural settlements, and urbanization. Monitoring forest cover and vegetation are essential for detecting regional and global environmental changes. The present study evaluates the influence of deforestation on lan…


Roughness-enhanced hydrophobic graphene oxide membrane for water desalination via membrane distillation

Authors: Yangyang Mao, Qingbo Huang, Baochun Meng, Kai Zhou, Gongping Liu, Annarosa Gugliuzza et al.

Journal: Journal of Membrane Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2020.118364 · Citations: 135

Matched topics: surface water

Abstract not available.


Characterizing spring phenology of temperate broadleaf forests using Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series

Authors: Katja Kowalski, Cornelius Senf, Patrick Hostert, Dirk Pflugmacher

Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2020.102172 · Citations: 111

Matched topics: land surface model

Vegetation phenology has a great impact on land-atmosphere interactions like carbon cycling, albedo, and water and energy exchanges. To understand and predict these critical land-atmosphere feedbacks, it is crucial to measure and quantify phenological responses to climate variability, and ultimately climate change. Coarse-resolution sensors such as MODIS and AVHRR have been useful to study vegetation phenology from regional to global scales. These sensors are, however, not capable of discerni…


Agricultural acceleration of soil carbonate weathering

Authors: John H. Kim, Estéban G. Jobbágy, Daniel D. Richter, Susan Trumbore, Robert B. Jackson

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15207 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: hydrology

C composition that was closer to crop inputs than under native vegetation, suggesting that cultivation has led to faster turnover and incorporation of recent crop carbon into the SIC pool (p < .0001). The losses occurred just 30-100 years after land-use changes, indicating SIC stocks that were stable for millennia can rapidly adjust to increased soil water flows. Large SIC losses (194-242 Mg C/ha) also occurred below 4.9 m deep under irrigated croplands, with SIC losses lagging behind the dow…


Morphometric analysis for prioritizing sub-watersheds and management planning and practices in Gidabo Basin, Southern Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Authors: Gadisa Chimdesa Abdeta, Azene Bekele Tesemma, Abiyot Legesse Tura, Getahun Haile Atlabachew

Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-020-01239-7 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, water management

Abstract Characterization and prioritization of watersheds has gained importance for proper planning and management of natural resources in sustainable development. Implementation of management practices over a larger area at the same time is inaccessible and uneconomical. So, it has required applying a viable technique for prioritization of critical sub-watersheds. Thus, the present study was aimed to prioritizing erosion-prone sub-watersheds using morphometric analysis. Advanced space-borne…


Behavior and Bio-Interactions of Anthropogenic Particles in Marine Environment for a More Realistic Ecological Risk Assessment

Authors: Ilaria Corsi, Elisa Bergami, Giacomo Grassi

Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science · DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00060 · Citations: 101

Matched topics: surface water

Due to production, usage and disposal of nano-enabled products as well as fragmentation of bulk materials, anthropogenic nanoscale particles (NPs) can enter the natural environment and through different compartments (air, soil and water) end up into the sea. With the continuous increase of production and associated emissions and discharges, they can reach concentrations able to exceed toxicity-thresholds for living species inhabiting marine coastal areas. Behavior and fate of NPs in marine wa…


Prospective evaluation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services in the Ourika watershed, Morocco

Authors: Kwadwo Kyenkyehene Kusi, Abdellatif Khattabi, Nadia Mhammdi, Saïd Lahssini

Journal: Land Use Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104796 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


Development and utilization of water resources and assessment of water security in Central Asia

Authors: Xuanxuan Wang, Yaning Chen, Zhi Li, Gonghuan Fang, Yi Wang

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106297 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the Danube and drinking water wells: Efficiency of riverbank filtration

Authors: Attila Csaba Kondor, Gergely Jakab, Anna Vancsik, Tibor Filep, József Szeberényi, Lili Szabó et al.

Journal: Environmental Pollution · DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114893 · Citations: 92

Matched topics: hydrology, surface water

Surface waters are becoming increasingly contaminated by pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), which is a potential risk factor for drinking water quality owing to incomplete riverbank filtration. This study examined the efficiency of riverbank filtration with regard to 111 PhACs in a highly urbanized section of the river Danube. One hundred seven samples from the Danube were compared to 90 water samples from relevant drinking water abstraction wells (DWAW) during five sampling periods. …


Quantifying the Effect of the Drake Passage Opening on the Eocene Ocean

Authors: Agathe Toumoulin, Yannick Donnadieu, Jean‐Baptiste Ladant, Sietske J. Batenburg, Fernando Poblete, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet

Journal: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology · DOI: 10.1029/2020pa003889 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract The opening of the Drake Passage (DP) during the Cenozoic is a tectonic event of paramount importance for the development of modern ocean characteristics. Notably, it has been suggested that it exerts a primary role in the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) formation, in the cooling of high‐latitude South Atlantic waters and in the initiation of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation. Several model studies have aimed to assess the impacts of DP opening on climate, b…


Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit

Authors: Martin Turbet, Émeline Bolmont, D. Ehrenreich, P. Gratier, Jérémy Leconte, Franck Selsis et al.

Journal: Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) · DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937151/pdf · Citations: 81

Matched topics: earth system model

Mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets are usually calculated assuming most water is present in condensed (either liquid or solid) form. Planet density estimates are then compared to these mass-radius relationships, even when these planets are more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse irradiation limit (around 1.1 times the insolation at Earth for planets orbiting a Sun-like star), for which water has been shown to be unstable in condensed form and would instead form a thick…


Stability and Behavior in Carbonate Cores for New Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Polymers at Elevated Temperatures in Hard Saline Brines

Authors: R. S. Seright, Kathryn Wavrik, Guoyin Zhang, Abdulkareem M. AlSofi

Journal: SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering · DOI: 10.2118/200324-pa · Citations: 80

Matched topics: flood

Summary The goal of this work was to identify viable polymers for use in the polymer flooding of high-temperature carbonate reservoirs with hard, saline brines. This study extensively examined recent enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) polymers for stability, including new 2-acrylamido-tertbutylsulfonic acid (ATBS) polymers with a high degree of polymerization, scleroglucan, n-vinylpyrrolidone (NVP)-based polymers, and hydrophobic associative polymers. For each polymer, stability experiments were per…


Wealth, water and wildlife: Landscape aridity intensifies the urban luxury effect

Authors: Dan Chamberlain, Chevonne Reynolds, Arjun Amar, Dominic A. W. Henry, Enrico Caprio, Péter Batáry

Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography · DOI: 10.1111/geb.13122 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Aim Urban biodiversity, and its associated ecosystem services, is an important component of the quality of life of urban residents. The “luxury effect” posits a positive association between biodiversity and socioeconomic status in urban areas, and is thus reflective of environmental injustice, as the benefits associated with biodiversity are not equitably shared across society. We aimed to determine the generality of the luxury effect, and to identify the factors causing its variatio…


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