Weekly Literature Review

Week 26 · June 22–June 28, 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. Urban flood susceptibility assessment based on convolutional neural networks
    2. Identifying floods and flood-affected paddy rice fields in Bangladesh based on Sentinel-1 imagery and Google Earth Engine
    3. Rapid Flood Mapping and Evaluation with a Supervised Classifier and Change Detection in Shouguang Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical Data
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Drought Tolerance Strategies in Plants: A Mechanistic Approach
    2. Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa
    3. Future drought characteristics through a multi-model ensemble from CMIP6 over South Asia
    4. Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content
    5. Biochar Mitigates Combined Effects of Drought and Salinity Stress in Quinoa
    6. Long‐term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851–2018)
    7. Projection of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during growing seasons under climate change scenarios
    8. Biochar addition alleviate the negative effects of drought and salinity stress on soybean productivity and water use efficiency
    9. Drought stress improves the composition of secondary metabolites in safflower flower at the expense of reduction in seed yield and oil content
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. A physical process and machine learning combined hydrological model for daily streamflow simulations of large watersheds with limited observation data
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change.
    2. Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation
    3. Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices
    4. Climate impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a warming climate
    5. Time series analysis of climate variables using seasonal ARIMA approach
    6. Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom
    7. Modeling long-term dynamics of crop evapotranspiration using deep learning in a semi-arid environment
    8. Climate change impact assessment on the hydrology of a large river basin in Ethiopia using a local-scale climate modelling approach.
    9. Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment
    10. The impact of reservoir construction and changes in land use and climate on ecosystem services in a large Mediterranean catchment
    11. Impact of climate change on water and nitrogen use efficiencies of processing tomato cultivated in Italy
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Analyzing trend and forecasting of rainfall changes in India using non-parametrical and machine learning approaches
    2. Pan-tropical soil moisture mapping based on a three-layer model from CYGNSS GNSS-R data
    3. Water quality prediction using SWAT-ANN coupled approach
    4. CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 1: Model framework and site-level performance
    5. Potential of satellite and reanalysis evaporation datasets for hydrological modelling under various model calibration strategies
    6. Glacier runoff variations since 1955 in the Maipo River basin, in the semiarid Andes of central Chile
    7. IoT-based monitoring and data-driven modelling of drip irrigation system for mustard leaf cultivation experiment
    8. Extreme rainfall events alter the trophic structure in bromeliad tanks across the Neotropics
    9. Atmospheric circulation influence on temperature and precipitation individual and compound daily extreme events: Spatial variability and trends over southern South America
    10. Extreme Runoff Generation From Atmospheric River Driven Snowmelt During the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillways Incident
    11. Grey water footprint of agricultural production: An assessment based on nitrogen surplus and high-resolution leaching runoff fractions in Turkey
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century
    2. Changes of water clarity in large lakes and reservoirs across China observed from long-term MODIS
    3. Groundwater level observations in 250,000 coastal US wells reveal scope of potential seawater intrusion
    4. A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin
    5. Hydrogeochemistry and fluoride contamination in Jiaokou Irrigation District, Central China: Assessment based on multivariate statistical approach and human health risk
    6. Spatial-temporal variations in blue and green water resources, water footprints and water scarcities in a large river basin: A case for the Yellow River basin
    7. Value of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence for quantifying hydrological states and fluxes: Current status and challenges
    8. A Noise Removal Algorithm Based on OPTICS for Photon-Counting LiDAR Data
    9. Mobile genetic elements are the Major driver of High antibiotic resistance genes abundance in the Upper reaches of huaihe River Basin
    10. Evolution of the Global Overturning Circulation since the Last Glacial Maximum based on marine authigenic neodymium isotopes
    11. Understanding the interrelationships among mass balance, meteorology, discharge and surface velocity on Chhota Shigri Glacier over 2002–2019 using in situ measurements
    12. Zero Liquid Discharge of Ultrahigh-Salinity Brines with Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction
    13. Importance and strength of environmental controllers of soil organic carbon changes with scale
    14. Quantifying Water Scarcity in Northern China Within the Context of Climatic and Societal Changes and South‐to‐North Water Diversion
    15. Effect of salinity on soil structure and soil hydraulic characteristics
  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 Zhao, Singha et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Urban flood susceptibility assessment based on convolutional neural networks

Authors: Gang Zhao, Bo Pang, Zongxue Xu, Dingzhi Peng, Depeng Zuo

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125235 · Citations: 177

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Identifying floods and flood-affected paddy rice fields in Bangladesh based on Sentinel-1 imagery and Google Earth Engine

Authors: Mrinal Singha, Jinwei Dong, Sangeeta Sarmah, Nanshan You, Yan Zhou, Geli Zhang et al.

Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.06.011 · Citations: 176

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Rapid Flood Mapping and Evaluation with a Supervised Classifier and Change Detection in Shouguang Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical Data

Authors: Minmin Huang, Shuanggen Jin

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12132073 · Citations: 143

Matched topics: flood

Rapid flood mapping is crucial in hazard evaluation and forecasting, especially in the early stage of hazards. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are able to penetrate clouds and heavy rainfall, which is of special importance for flood mapping. However, change detection is a key part and the threshold selection is very complex in flood mapping with SAR. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to rapidly map flood regions and estimate the flood degree, avoiding the critical step of thre…

Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 9 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Ilyas, Haile et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Drought Tolerance Strategies in Plants: A Mechanistic Approach

Authors: M. Ilyas, M. Nisar, N. Khan, A. Hazrat, A. Khan, Kashif Hayat et al.

Journal: Journal of Plant Growth Regulation · DOI: 10.1007/s00344-020-10174-5 · Citations: 431

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa

Authors: Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, Q. Tang, Seyed‐Mohammad Hosseini‐Moghari, Xingcai Liu, Tesfay Gebretsadkan Gebremicael, G. Leng et al.

Journal: Earth’s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020EF001502 · Citations: 291

Matched topics: drought

Investigation of the pressing impacts of climate change on drought is vital for sustainable societal and ecosystem functioning. The magnitude of how much the drought will change and the way how droughts would affect society and the environment are inadequately addressed over East Africa. This study aimed at assessing future drought changes using an ensemble of five Global Climate Models (GCMs) in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) over East Africa. To this end, drought characte…

Future drought characteristics through a multi-model ensemble from CMIP6 over South Asia

Authors: J. Zhai, Sanjit Kumar Mondal, T. Fischer, Yanjun Wang, Buda Su, Jinlong Huang et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105111 · Citations: 267

Matched topics: drought

Abstract To characterize future drought events over a drought prone area like South Asia is paramount for drought risk mitigation. In this paper, a five-model ensemble mean from CMIP6 was chosen to project drought characteristics in South Asia under the latest SSPs-RCPs emission scenarios (SSP1–2.6, SSP2–4.5, and SSP5–8.5) for the period 2020–2099. Additionally, corresponding scenarios RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 of CMIP5 were used for comparison and to identify the changes and improvements of …

Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content

Authors: Dana M. Blumenthal, Kevin E. Mueller, Julie A. Kray, Troy W. Ocheltree, David J. Augustine, Kevin R. Wilcox

Journal: Journal of Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13454 · Citations: 187

Matched topics: drought, earth system model

Abstract Despite progress in trait‐based ecology, there is limited understanding of the plant traits that structure semi‐arid grasslands. In particular, it remains unclear how traits that enable plants to cope with water limitation are related to traits that influence other key functions such as herbivore defence and growth. The hypothesis that drought and herbivory exert convergent selection pressures is supported for morphological traits, but largely untested for structural, physiological a…

Biochar Mitigates Combined Effects of Drought and Salinity Stress in Quinoa

Authors: Aizheng Yang, Saqib Saleem Akhtar, Lin Li, Qiang Fu, Quanfeng Li, Muhammad Asif Naeem et al.

Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10060912 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: drought, irrigation

Abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity constantly threaten food security. Biochar as a soil amendment has the potential to ameliorate soil and alleviate drought and salinity stress. Multiple studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect of biochar in alleviating independent drought or salinity stress. However, the potential of biochar in mitigating the combined drought and salinity stress on plants has not been studied so far. Therefore, a pot experiment was conducted in the clima…

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

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.6719 · Citations: 138

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought

Abstract We analysed long‐term variability and trends in meteorological droughts across Western Europe using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). Precipitation data from 199 stations spanning the period 1851–2018 were employed, following homogenisation, to derive SPI‐3 and SPI‐12 series for each station, together with indices on drought duration and severity. Results reveal a general absence of statistically significant long‐term trends in the study domain, with the exception of signif…

Projection of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during growing seasons under climate change scenarios

Authors: Mohammed Sanusi Shiru, Shamsuddin Shahid, Ashraf Dewan, ‪Eun‐Sung Chung, Noraliani Alias, Kamal Ahmed et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67146-8 · Citations: 137

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, drought, climate change

Like many other African countries, incidence of drought is increasing in Nigeria. In this work, spatiotemporal changes in droughts under different representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios were assessed; considering their greatest impacts on life and livelihoods in Nigeria, especially when droughts coincide with the growing seasons. Three entropy-based methods, namely symmetrical uncertainty, gain ratio, and entropy gain were used in a multi-criteria decision-making framework to se…

Biochar addition alleviate the negative effects of drought and salinity stress on soybean productivity and water use efficiency

Authors: Yaojun Zhang, Jiaqi Ding, Hong Wang, Lei Su, Cancan Zhao

Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02493-2 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: water management, drought

BACKGROUND: Environmental stress is a crucial factor restricting plant growth as well as crop productivity, thus influencing the agricultural sustainability. Biochar addition is proposed as an effective management to improve crop performance. However, there were few studies focused on the effect of biochar addition on crop growth and productivity under interactive effect of abiotic stress (e.g., drought and salinity). This study was conducted with a pot experiment to investigate the interacti…

Drought stress improves the composition of secondary metabolites in safflower flower at the expense of reduction in seed yield and oil content

Authors: Khadijeh Alizadeh Yeloojeh, Ghodratollah Saeidi, Mohammad R. Sabzalian

Journal: Industrial Crops and Products · DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112496 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: drought, irrigation

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.

A physical process and machine learning combined hydrological model for daily streamflow simulations of large watersheds with limited observation data

Authors: Shuyu Yang, Dawen Yang, Jinsong Chen, Jerasorn Santisirisomboon, Weiwei Lü, Baoxu Zhao

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125206 · Citations: 254

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, water management

Abstract not available.

Climate Change and Water Resources

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

Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change.

Authors: S. Clayton

Journal: Journal of Anxiety Disorders · DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102263 · Citations: 1230

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change will affect psychological wellbeing. Substantial research has documented harmful impacts on physical health, mental health, and social relations from exposure to extreme weather events that are associated with climate change. Recently, attention has turned to the possible effects of climate change on mental health through emotional responses such as increased anxiety. This paper discusses the nature of climate anxiety and some evidence for its existence, and speculates about wa…

Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

Authors: Goutam Konapala, Ashok K. Mishra, Yoshihide Wada, Michael Mann

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16757-w · Citations: 1122

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

Both seasonal and annual mean precipitation and evaporation influence patterns of water availability impacting society and ecosystems. Existing global climate studies rarely consider such patterns from non-parametric statistical standpoint. Here, we employ a non-parametric analysis framework to analyze seasonal hydroclimatic regimes by classifying global land regions into nine regimes using late 20th century precipitation means and seasonality. These regimes are used to assess implications fo…

Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices

Authors: Yeon‐Hee Kim, Seung‐Ki Min, Xuebin Zhang, Jana Sillmann, Marit Sandstad

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2020.100269 · Citations: 531

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

This study evaluates global climate models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) for their performance in simulating the climate extreme indices defined by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI). We compare global climatology patterns of the indices simulated by the CMIP6 models with those from HadEX3 and four reanalysis datasets and the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble using root-mean-square errors for the 1981–2000 period. Regional ev…

Climate impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a warming climate

Authors: Wei Liu, Alexey V. Fedorov, Shang‐Ping Xie, Shineng Hu

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4876 · Citations: 313

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

While the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is projected to slow down under anthropogenic warming, the exact role of the AMOC in future climate change has not been fully quantified. Here, we present a method to stabilize the AMOC intensity in anthropogenic warming experiments by removing fresh water from the subpolar North Atlantic. This method enables us to isolate the AMOC climatic impacts in experiments with a full-physics climate model. Our results show that a weakened AM…

Time series analysis of climate variables using seasonal ARIMA approach

Authors: Tripti Dimri, Shamshad Ahmad, Mohammed Sharif

Journal: Journal of Earth System Science · DOI: 10.1007/s12040-020-01408-x · Citations: 230

Matched topics: water management, seasonal

Abstract not available.

Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom

Authors: Joseph R. McConnell, Michael Sigl, Gill Plunkett, Andrea Burke, Woon Mi Kim, Christoph C. Raible et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2002722117 · Citations: 178

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE triggered a power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic and, eventually, the Ptolemaic Kingdom, leading to the rise of the Roman Empire. Climate proxies and written documents indicate that this struggle occurred during a period of unusually inclement weather, famine, and disease in the Mediterranean region; historians have previously speculated that a large volcanic eruption of unknown origin was the most likely cause. Here we show usin…

Modeling long-term dynamics of crop evapotranspiration using deep learning in a semi-arid environment

Authors: Ahmed Elbeltagi, Jinsong Deng, Ke Wang, Anurag Malik, Saman Maroufpoor

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106334 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management

Abstract not available.

Climate change impact assessment on the hydrology of a large river basin in Ethiopia using a local-scale climate modelling approach.

Authors: S. Gebrechorkos, C. Bernhofer, S. Hülsmann

Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140504 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, land surface model, climate change

Local-scale climate change adaptation is receiving more attention to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. The process of developing adaptation measures at local-scale (e.g., river basins) requires high-quality climate information with higher resolution. Climate projections are available at a coarser spatial resolution from Global Climate Models (GCMs) and require spatial downscaling and bias correction to drive hydrological models. We used the hybrid multiple linear regression and st…

Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment

Authors: Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Celia McMichael, Isabel Mank, Rainer Sauerborn, Ina Danquah, Kathryn Bowen

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ece · Citations: 85

Matched topics: climate change

Background. Climate change and climate variability interact with political, economic, social, demographic, and other environmental drivers to change the scale and patterns of human migration 5 . In the context of accelerating climate change and breaches to other planetary boundaries, there is an urgent need to better understand how migrant health can be protected and promoted in the context of a changing climate to manage safe and orderly migration 6 . While research has focused on the separa…

The impact of reservoir construction and changes in land use and climate on ecosystem services in a large Mediterranean catchment

Authors: Joris Eekhout, Carolina Boix‐Fayos, Pedro Pérez‐Cutillas, Joris de Vente

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125208 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: hydrologic model, reservoir, water management, climate change

Abstract not available.

Impact of climate change on water and nitrogen use efficiencies of processing tomato cultivated in Italy

Authors: Davide Cammarano, Domenico Ronga, Ida Di Mola, Mauro Mori, Mario Parisi

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106336 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: climate change, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 11 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Analyzing trend and forecasting of rainfall changes in India using non-parametrical and machine learning approaches

Authors: Bushra Praveen, Swapan Talukdar, Shahfahad, Susanta Mahato, Jayanta Mondal, Pritee Sharma et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67228-7 · Citations: 419

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, earth system model

This study analyzes and forecasts the long-term Spatio-temporal changes in rainfall using the data from 1901 to 2015 across India at meteorological divisional level. The Pettitt test was employed to detect the abrupt change point in time frame, while the Mann-Kendall (MK) test and Sen’s Innovative trend analysis were performed to analyze the rainfall trend. The Artificial Neural Network-Multilayer Perceptron (ANN-MLP) was employed to forecast the upcoming 15 years rainfall across India. We ma…

Pan-tropical soil moisture mapping based on a three-layer model from CYGNSS GNSS-R data

Authors: Qingyun Yan, Weimin Huang, Shuanggen Jin, Yan Jia

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111944 · Citations: 188

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract not available.

Water quality prediction using SWAT-ANN coupled approach

Authors: Navideh Noori, Latif Kalin, Sabahattin Işık

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125220 · Citations: 186

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.

CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 1: Model framework and site-level performance

Authors: Joe R. Melton, Vivek K. Arora, Eduard Wisernig-Cojoc, Christian Seiler, Matthew Fortier, Ed Chan et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-2825-2020 · Citations: 161

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

Abstract. Recent reports by the Global Carbon Project highlight large uncertainties around land surface processes such as land use change, strength of CO2 fertilization, nutrient limitation and supply, and response to variability in climate. Process-based land surface models are well suited to address these complex and emerging global change problems but will require extensive development and evaluation. The coupled Canadian Land Surface Scheme and Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CLASS-…

Potential of satellite and reanalysis evaporation datasets for hydrological modelling under various model calibration strategies

Authors: Moctar Dembélé, Natalie Ceperley, Sander J. Zwart, Elga Salvadore, Grégoire Mariethoz, Bettina Schaefli

Journal: Advances in Water Resources · DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103667 · Citations: 135

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

Twelve actual evaporation datasets are evaluated for their ability to improve the performance of the fully distributed mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM). The datasets consist of satellite-based diagnostic models (MOD16A2, SSEBop, ALEXI, CMRSET, SEBS), satellite-based prognostic models (GLEAM v3.2a, GLEAM v3.3a, GLEAM v3.2b, GLEAM v3.3b), and reanalysis (ERA5, MERRA-2, JRA-55). Four distinct multivariate calibration strategies (basin-average, pixel-wise, spatial bias-accounting and spatial bias…

Glacier runoff variations since 1955 in the Maipo River basin, in the semiarid Andes of central Chile

Authors: Álvaro Ayala, David Farías-Barahona, Matthias Huss, Francesca Pellicciotti, James McPhee, Daniel Farinotti

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-2005-2020 · Citations: 108

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

Abstract. As glaciers adjust their size in response to climate variations, long-term changes in meltwater production can be expected, affecting the local availability of water resources. We investigate glacier runoff in the period 1955–2016 in the Maipo River basin (4843 km2, 33.0–34.3∘ S, 69.8–70.5∘ W), in the semiarid Andes of Chile. The basin contains more than 800 glaciers, which cover 378 km2 in total (inventoried in 2000). We model the mass balance and runoff contribution of 26 glaciers…

IoT-based monitoring and data-driven modelling of drip irrigation system for mustard leaf cultivation experiment

Authors: Abiodun Emmanuel Abioye, Mohammad Shukri Zainal Abidin, Mohd Saiful Azimi Mahmud, Salinda Buyamin, Muhammad Khairie Idham AbdRahman, Abdulrahaman Okino Otuoze et al.

Journal: Information Processing in Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/j.inpa.2020.05.004 · Citations: 108

Matched topics: irrigation

The changing dynamics, non-linearity of soil moisture content, as well as other weather and plant variables requires real-time monitoring and accurate predictive model for effective irrigation and crop management. In this paper, an improved monitoring and data-driven modelling of the dynamics of parameters affecting the irrigation of mustard leaf plant is presented. An IoT-based monitoring framework is implemented using ESPresso Lite V2.0 module interfaced with different soil moisture sensors…

Extreme rainfall events alter the trophic structure in bromeliad tanks across the Neotropics

Authors: Gustavo Q. Romero, Nicholas A. C. Marino, A Macdonald, Régis Céréghino, M. Kurtis Trzcinski, Dimaris Acosta Mercado et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17036-4 · Citations: 107

Matched topics: hydrology

Changes in global and regional precipitation regimes are among the most pervasive components of climate change. Intensification of rainfall cycles, ranging from frequent downpours to severe droughts, could cause widespread, but largely unknown, alterations to trophic structure and ecosystem function. We conducted multi-site coordinated experiments to show how variation in the quantity and evenness of rainfall modulates trophic structure in 210 natural freshwater microcosms (tank bromeliads) a…

Authors: Matías Olmo, María Laura Bettolli, Matilde Rusticucci

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2020.100267 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: hydrology

Southern South America (SSA) is an extended region where temperature and precipitation daily extreme events have several impacts on the different socio-economic activities. In this work, their individual and compound occurrence over SSA and their association with atmospheric circulation were studied during 1979–2015, using meteorological stations and the CPC gridded dataset. Results were generally in good agreement between both datasets. The occurrence of a warm night (minimum temperature exc…

Extreme Runoff Generation From Atmospheric River Driven Snowmelt During the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillways Incident

Authors: Brian Henn, K. N. Musselman, Leanne Lestak, F. Martin Ralph, N. P. Molotch

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088189 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: river, runoff

Abstract In February 2017, a 5‐day sequence of atmospheric river storms in California, USA, resulted in extreme inflows to Lake Oroville, the state’s second‐largest reservoir. Damage to the reservoir’s spillway infrastructure necessitated evacuation of 188,000 people; subsequent infrastructure repairs cost $1 billion. We assess the atmospheric conditions, snowmelt, and runoff against major historical events. The event generated exceptional runoff volumes (second largest in a 30‐yr record) par…

Grey water footprint of agricultural production: An assessment based on nitrogen surplus and high-resolution leaching runoff fractions in Turkey

Authors: Abdullah Muratoğlu

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140553 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: runoff, water management

Abstract not available.

Water Management and Sustainability

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

Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century

Authors: Christian Sommer, Philipp Malz, Thorsten Seehaus, Stefan Lippl, Michael Zemp, Matthias Braun

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16818-0 · Citations: 274

Matched topics: hydrology, water management, hydropower

(2000-2014) is estimated. Compared to previous studies, our estimated mass changes are similar for the central Alps, but less negative for the lower mountain ranges. These observations provide important information for future research on various socio-economic impacts like water resource management, risk assessments and tourism.

Changes of water clarity in large lakes and reservoirs across China observed from long-term MODIS

Authors: Shenglei Wang, Junsheng Li, Bing Zhang, Zhongping Lee, Evangelos Spyrakos, Lian Feng et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111949 · Citations: 202

Matched topics: reservoir, water management

Water clarity is a well-established first-order indicator of water quality and has been used globally by water regulators in their monitoring and management programs. Assessments of water clarity in lakes over large temporal and spatial scales, however, are rare, limiting our understanding of its variability and the driven forces. In this study, we developed and validated a robust Secchi disk depth (ZSD) algorithm for lakes across China based on two water color parameters, namely Forel-Ule In…

Groundwater level observations in 250,000 coastal US wells reveal scope of potential seawater intrusion

Authors: Scott Jasechko, Debra Perrone, Hansjörg Seybold, Ying Fan, James W. Kirchner

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17038-2 · Citations: 181

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model

Seawater intrusion into coastal aquifers can increase groundwater salinity beyond potable levels, endangering access to freshwater for millions of people. Seawater intrusion is particularly likely where water tables lie below sea level, but can also arise from groundwater pumping in some coastal aquifers with water tables above sea level. Nevertheless, no nation-wide, observation-based assessment of the scope of potential seawater intrusion exists. Here we compile and analyze ~250,000 coastal…

A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin

Authors: J. Mijin

Journal: Energy Research & Social Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101657 · Citations: 177

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.

Hydrogeochemistry and fluoride contamination in Jiaokou Irrigation District, Central China: Assessment based on multivariate statistical approach and human health risk

Authors: Qiying Zhang, Panpan Xu, Hui Qian, Faxuan Yang

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140460 · Citations: 163

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.

Spatial-temporal variations in blue and green water resources, water footprints and water scarcities in a large river basin: A case for the Yellow River basin

Authors: Pengxuan Xie, La Zhuo, Xi Yang, Hongrong Huang, Xuerui Gao, Pute Wu

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125222 · Citations: 141

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Value of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence for quantifying hydrological states and fluxes: Current status and challenges

Authors: François Jonard, Simon De Cannière, Nicolas Brüggemann, Pierre Gentine, Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Guillaume Lobet et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108088 · Citations: 128

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.

A Noise Removal Algorithm Based on OPTICS for Photon-Counting LiDAR Data

Authors: Xiaoxiao Zhu, Sheng Nie, Cheng Wang, Xiaohuan Xi, Jinsong Wang, Dong Li et al.

Journal: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters · DOI: 10.1109/lgrs.2020.3003191 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) shows great potential for forest height retrieval. However, there are abundant noise photons in the ICESat-2 data, which make the accurate extraction of global forest heights challenging. In this letter, a novel algorithm based on the clustering method of ordering points to identify the clustering structure (OPTICS) was proposed to remove noise photons. First, we modified the circular shape of the search area in the OPTICS algorithm to an …

Mobile genetic elements are the Major driver of High antibiotic resistance genes abundance in the Upper reaches of huaihe River Basin

Authors: Kai Zhang, Rui Xin, Ze Zhao, Wenpeng Li, Yanan Wang, Qian Wang et al.

Journal: Journal of Hazardous Materials · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123271 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.

Evolution of the Global Overturning Circulation since the Last Glacial Maximum based on marine authigenic neodymium isotopes

Authors: Jianghui Du, Brian A. Haley, Alan C Mix

Journal: Quaternary Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106396 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: earth system model

The Global Overturning Circulation is linked to climate change on glacial-interglacial and multi-millennial timescales. The understanding of past climate-circulation links remains hindered by apparent conflicts among proxy measures of circulation. Here we reconstruct circulation changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) based on a global synthesis of authigenic neodymium isotope records (εNd). We propose the bottom-up framework of interpreting seawater and authigenic εNd considering not on…

Understanding the interrelationships among mass balance, meteorology, discharge and surface velocity on Chhota Shigri Glacier over 2002–2019 using in situ measurements

Authors: Arindan Mandal, AL. Ramanathan, Mohd Farooq Azam, Thupstan Angchuk, Mohd Soheb, Naveen Kumar et al.

Journal: Journal of Glaciology · DOI: 10.1017/jog.2020.42 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract The Himalayan glaciers contribute significantly to regional water resources. However, limited field observations restrict our understanding of glacier dynamics and behaviour. Here, we investigated the long-term in situ mass balance, meteorology, ice velocity and discharge of the Chhota Shigri Glacier. The mean annual glacier-wide mass balance was negative, −0.46 ± 0.40 m w.e. a −1 for the period 2002–2019 corresponding to a cumulative wastage of −7.87 m w.e. Winter mass balance was 1…

Zero Liquid Discharge of Ultrahigh-Salinity Brines with Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction

Authors: Chanhee Boo, Ian H. Billinge, Xi Chen, Kinnari M. Shah, Ngai Yin Yip

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c02555 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: irrigation

Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) of hypersaline brines is technically and energetically challenging. This study demonstrates ZLD of ultrahigh-salinity brines using temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE), a membrane-less and nonevaporative desalination technology. TSSE utilizes a low-polarity solvent to extract water from brine and then releases the water as a product with the application of low-temperature heat. Complete extraction of water from a hypersaline feed, simulated by 5.0 M NaCl sol…

Importance and strength of environmental controllers of soil organic carbon changes with scale

Authors: Kabindra Adhikari, Umakant Mishra, Phillip Owens, Zamir Libohova, Skye Wills, W. J. Riley et al.

Journal: Geoderma · DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114472 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Spatial heterogeneity in environmental factors on the land surface moderates exchanges of water, energy, and greenhouse gases between the land and the atmosphere. However, appropriately representing this heterogeneity in earth system models remains a critical scientific challenge. We used a large dataset of environmental factors (n = 31) representing soil-forming factors, field observations of soil organic carbon (SOC) (n = 6213), and a machine-learning algorithm (Cubist) to analyze the scali…

Quantifying Water Scarcity in Northern China Within the Context of Climatic and Societal Changes and South‐to‐North Water Diversion

Authors: Yuanyuan Yin, Lei Wang, Zhongjing Wang, Qiuhong Tang, Shilong Piao, Deliang Chen et al.

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001492 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow

Abstract With the increasing pressure from population growth and economic development, northern China (NC) faces a grand challenge of water scarcity, which can be further exacerbated by climatic and societal changes. The South‐to‐North Water Diversion (SNWD) project is designed to mitigate the water scarcity in NC. However, few studies have quantified the impact of the SNWD on water scarcity within the context of climatic and societal changes and its potential effects on economic and agricult…

Effect of salinity on soil structure and soil hydraulic characteristics

Authors: Shengqiang Tang, Dongli She, Hongde Wang

Journal: Canadian Journal of Soil Science · DOI: 10.1139/cjss-2020-0018 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: hydrology, irrigation

Revealing the influences of soil salinity on soil structure and hydraulic properties contributes to understanding the mechanism of salinity restraining rehabilitation of saline sodic soil in coastal area. After being passed through a 1 mm sieve, silt loam and silty clay were irrigated with saline water to achieve different soil salinities to highlight the effect of irrigation salinity on aggregate formation from primary particles. Three irrigation events with different saline water were condu…

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