Weekly Literature Review

Week 10 · March 2–March 8, 2020

50 relevant papers found across 5 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, 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. Sea-Level Rise Induced Multi-Mechanism Flooding and Contribution to Urban Infrastructure Failure
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation
    2. Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems
    3. Evaluating the cumulative and time-lag effects of drought on grassland vegetation: A case study in the Chinese Loess Plateau
    4. Root‐specific NF‐Y family transcription factor, PdNF‐YB21, positively regulates root growth and drought resistance by abscisic acid‐mediated indoylacetic acid transport in Populus
    5. Drought hazard transferability from meteorological to hydrological propagation
    6. Variation in the access to deep soil water pools explains tree-to-tree differences in drought-triggered dieback of Mediterranean oaks
    7. Spatial and temporal drought incidence analysis in the northeastern highlands of Ethiopia
  4. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. A systematic review of climate change education: giving children and young people a ‘voice’ and a ‘hand’ in redressing climate change
    2. Predicting climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviors in agricultural production: A comparison of the theory of planned behavior and the Value-Belief-Norm Theory
    3. Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change
    4. The Impact of Urban Renewal on Land Surface Temperature Changes: A Case Study in the Main City of Guangzhou, China
    5. Climate change and adaptation in agriculture: Evidence from US cropping patterns
    6. Comparison of Data‐Driven Techniques to Reconstruct (1992–2002) and Predict (2017–2018) GRACE‐Like Gridded Total Water Storage Changes Using Climate Inputs
    7. Investigating the impact of climate and land-use land cover changes on hydrological predictions over the Krishna river basin under present and future scenarios
    8. Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland’s pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change
    9. Sociology and the Climate Crisis
    10. CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica
    11. Environmental and biophysical controls of evapotranspiration from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (Caatinga) in the Brazilian Semiarid
  5. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. A comparative study among machine learning and numerical models for simulating groundwater dynamics in the Heihe River Basin, northwestern China
    2. Updating the neural network sediment load models using different sensitivity analysis methods: a regional application
    3. 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
    4. Using hydrological and climatic catchment clusters to explore drivers of catchment behavior
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Groundwater Hydrology
    2. Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
    3. Transition towards green banking: role of financial regulators and financial institutions
    4. Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas
    5. Spatiotemporal dynamics of the archaeal community in coastal sediments: assembly process and co-occurrence relationship
    6. Reuse and Recycling of By-Products in the Steel Sector: Recent Achievements Paving the Way to Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis in Europe
    7. Multi-criteria decision analysis for delineation of groundwater potential zones in a tropical river basin using remote sensing, GIS and analytical hierarchy process (AHP)
    8. Recent advances in understanding and measurement of mercury in the environment: Terrestrial Hg cycling
    9. Spring water quality and discharge assessment in the Basantar watershed of Jammu Himalaya using geographic information system (GIS) and water quality Index(WQI)
    10. State-of-the-art heat transfer fluids for parabolic trough collector
    11. An evaluation of global organic aerosol schemes using airborne observations
    12. Measuring Individual Tree Diameter and Height Using GatorEye High-Density UAV-Lidar in an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest System
    13. A Framework for Agricultural Pest and Disease Monitoring Based on Internet-of-Things and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    14. First direct observation of sea salt aerosol production from blowing snow above sea ice
    15. Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production
    16. Mechanical and hydrological effects of seamount subduction on megathrust stress and slip
    17. Chlorophyll-a and total suspended solids retrieval and mapping using Sentinel-2A and machine learning for inland waters
    18. Parameter-free delineation of slope units and terrain subdivision of Italy
    19. Developing an Urban Resource Cadaster for Circular Economy: A Case of Odense, Denmark
    20. Recent Advances in Atomic‐Level Engineering of Nanostructured Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
    21. Bicarbonate or Carbonate Processes for Coupling Carbon Dioxide Capture and Electrochemical Conversion
    22. Remote sensing and GIS based analysis of temporal land use/land cover and water quality changes in Harike wetland ecosystem, Punjab, India
    23. Comparative functional genomics analysis of cytochrome P450 gene superfamily in wheat and maize
    24. Critical Soil Moisture Derived From Satellite Observations Over Europe
    25. Advances and challenges in assessing urban sustainability: an advanced bibliometric review
    26. The role of northern peatlands in the global carbon cycle for the 21st century
    27. Human fecal contamination of water, soil, and surfaces in households sharing poor-quality sanitation facilities in Maputo, Mozambique
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 1 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Habel et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Sea-Level Rise Induced Multi-Mechanism Flooding and Contribution to Urban Infrastructure Failure

Authors: Shellie Habel, Charles H. Fletcher, Tiffany R. Anderson, P. R. Thompson

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60762-4 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: flood, land surface model

Sea-level rise (SLR) induced flooding is often envisioned as solely originating from a direct marine source. This results in alternate sources such as groundwater inundation and storm-drain backflow being overlooked in studies that inform planning. Here a method is developed that identifies flooding extents and infrastructure vulnerabilities that are likely to result from alternate flood sources over coming decades. The method includes simulation of flood scenarios consisting of high-resoluti…


Drought Analysis and Prediction

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

Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation

Authors: A. Ukkola, M. D. De Kauwe, M. Roderick, G. Abramowitz, A. Pitman

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020GL087820 · Citations: 364

Matched topics: drought

Quantifying how climate change drives drought is a priority to inform policy and adaptation planning. We show that the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) simulations project coherent regional patterns in meteorological drought for two emissions scenarios to 2100. We find robust projected changes in seasonal drought duration and frequency (robust over >45% of the global land area), despite a lack of agreement across models in projected changes in mean precipitation (24% of th…


Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems

Authors: Isabel Meza, Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll, Jürgen Kusche, Claudia Herbert, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei et al.

Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-20-695-2020 · Citations: 259

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

Abstract. Droughts continue to affect ecosystems, communities and entire economies. Agriculture bears much of the impact, and in many countries it is the most heavily affected sector. Over the past decades, efforts have been made to assess drought risk at different spatial scales. Here, we present for the first time an integrated assessment of drought risk for both irrigated and rainfed agricultural systems at the global scale. Composite hazard indicators were calculated for irrigated and rai…


Evaluating the cumulative and time-lag effects of drought on grassland vegetation: A case study in the Chinese Loess Plateau

Authors: Anzhou Zhao, Qiuyan Yu, Lili Feng, Anbing Zhang, Tao Pei

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110214 · Citations: 210

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Root‐specific NF‐Y family transcription factor, PdNF‐YB21, positively regulates root growth and drought resistance by abscisic acid‐mediated indoylacetic acid transport in Populus

Authors: Yangyan Zhou, Yue Zhang, Xuewen Wang, Xiao Han, Yi An, Shiwei Lin et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.16524 · Citations: 192

Matched topics: drought

Root growth control plays an important role in plant adaptation to drought stress, but the underlying molecular mechanisms of this control remain largely elusive. Here, a root-specific nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) transcription factor PdNF-YB21 was isolated from Populus. The functional mechanism of PdNF-YB21 was characterised by various morphological, physiological, molecular, biochemical and spectroscopy techniques. Overexpression of PdNF-YB21 in poplar promoted root growth with highly lignified …


Drought hazard transferability from meteorological to hydrological propagation

Authors: Lei Gu, Jie Chen, Jiabo Yin, Chong-Yu Xu, Hua Chen

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124761 · Citations: 124

Matched topics: runoff, drought

Abstract not available.


Variation in the access to deep soil water pools explains tree-to-tree differences in drought-triggered dieback of Mediterranean oaks

Authors: Francesco Ripullone, J. Julio Camarero, Michele Colangelo, Jordi Voltas

Journal: Tree Physiology · DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpaa026 · Citations: 114

Matched topics: hydrology, drought, earth system model

Individual differences in the access to deep soil water pools may explain the differential damage among coexisting, conspecific trees as a consequence of drought-induced dieback. We addressed this issue by comparing the responses to a severe drought of three Mediterranean oak species with different drought tolerance, Quercus pubescens L. and Quercus frainetto Ten., mainly thriving at xeric and mesic sites, respectively, and Quercus cerris L., which dominates at intermediate sites. For each sp…


Spatial and temporal drought incidence analysis in the northeastern highlands of Ethiopia

Authors: Abebe Arega Mekonen, Arega Bazezew Berlie, Mehrete Belay Ferede

Journal: Geoenvironmental Disasters · DOI: 10.1186/s40677-020-0146-4 · Citations: 113

Matched topics: hydrology, drought, earth system model

Abstract This study investigated the space-time drought incidence in the northeastern highlands of Ethiopia using monthly rainfall data. It also aims to predict drought events for 100 years. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was used to compute the drought severity classes of rainy months and seasons at 1-, 4- and 8-months timesteps. The Mann-Kendall’s test and Sen’s slope estimator were used to analyze the trends of drought events and to determine the magnitude of change. Inverse Di…


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.

A systematic review of climate change education: giving children and young people a ‘voice’ and a ‘hand’ in redressing climate change

Authors: David Rousell, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles

Journal: Children’s Geographies · DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2019.1614532 · Citations: 435

Matched topics: climate change

ABSTRACT The reality of anthropogenic climate change has been established ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ by leading scientists worldwide. Applying a systematic literature review process, we analysed existing literature from 1993 to 2014 regarding climate change education for children and young people, with the aim of identifying key areas for further research. While a number of studies have indicated that young people’s understandings of climate change are generally limited, erroneous and highly i…


Predicting climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviors in agricultural production: A comparison of the theory of planned behavior and the Value-Belief-Norm Theory

Authors: Lu Zhang, Jorge Ruiz‐Menjivar, Biliang Luo, Zhihui Liang, Mickie E. Swisher

Journal: Journal of Environmental Psychology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101408 · Citations: 270

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change

Authors: Stephen C. Maberly, Ruth O’Donnell, R. Iestyn Woolway, Mark Cutler, Mengyi Gong, Ian D. Jones et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15108-z · Citations: 199

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

century climate projections, we found that 12%, 27% and 66% of lakes will change to a lower latitude thermal region by 2080-2099 for low, medium and high greenhouse gas concentration trajectories (Representative Concentration Pathways 2.6, 6.0 and 8.5) respectively. Under the worst-case scenario, a 79% reduction in the number of lakes in the northernmost thermal region is projected. This thermal region framework can facilitate the global scaling of lake-research.


The Impact of Urban Renewal on Land Surface Temperature Changes: A Case Study in the Main City of Guangzhou, China

Authors: Zhi Qiao, Luo Liu, Yuanwei Qin, Xinliang Xu, Wang Binwu, Zhenjie Liu

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12050794 · Citations: 152

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

To improve land use efficiency, urban renewal must also consider urban microclimates and heat islands. Existing research has depended on manual interpretation of high-resolution optical satellite imagery to resolve land surface temperature (LST) changes caused by urban renewal; however, the acquired ground time series data tend to be uneven and unique to specific frameworks. The objective of this study was to establish a more general framework to study LST changes caused by urban renewal usin…


Climate change and adaptation in agriculture: Evidence from US cropping patterns

Authors: Xiaomeng Cui

Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102306 · Citations: 148

Matched topics: climate change, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Comparison of Data‐Driven Techniques to Reconstruct (1992–2002) and Predict (2017–2018) GRACE‐Like Gridded Total Water Storage Changes Using Climate Inputs

Authors: Fupeng Li, Jürgen Kusche, Roelof Rietbroek, Zhengtao Wang, Ehsan Forootan, Kerstin Schulze et al.

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2019wr026551 · Citations: 147

Matched topics: hydrologic model, climate change

Abstract The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission ended its operation in October 2017, and the GRACE Follow‐On mission was launched only in May 2018, leading to approximately 1 year of data gap. Given that GRACE‐type observations are exclusively providing direct estimates of total water storage change (TWSC), it would be very important to bridge the gap between these two missions. Furthermore, for many climate‐related applications, it is also desirable to reconstruct TWSC p…


Investigating the impact of climate and land-use land cover changes on hydrological predictions over the Krishna river basin under present and future scenarios

Authors: Tirupathi Chanapathi, Shashidhar Thatikonda

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137736 · Citations: 139

Matched topics: river, runoff, streamflow, climate change

Abstract not available.


Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland’s pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change

Authors: Piotr Żuk, Kacper Szulecki

Journal: Energy Research & Social Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101485 · Citations: 133

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Sociology and the Climate Crisis

Authors: Éric Klinenberg, Malcolm Araos, Liz Koslov

Journal: Annual Review of Sociology · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054750 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: climate change

What would it mean for sociology to make climate change a core disciplinary concern? This article reviews research on a selection of trends brought on by the climate crisis: ( a) compounding and cumulative disasters, infrastructure breakdown, and adaptation; ( b) intensifying migration and shifting patterns of settlement; and ( c) transformations in consumption, labor, and energy. While climate change’s far-reaching implications remain peripheral to the discipline at large, sociologists study…


CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica

Authors: Alice Barthel, Cécile Agosta, Christopher M. Little, Tore Hattermann, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Heiko Goelzer et al.

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-855-2020 · Citations: 122

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. The ice sheet model intercomparison project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) effort brings together the ice sheet and climate modeling communities to gain understanding of the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise. ISMIP6 conducts stand-alone ice sheet experiments that use space- and time-varying forcing derived from atmosphere–ocean coupled global climate models (AOGCMs) to reflect plausible trajectories for climate projections. The goal of this study is to recommend a subset of CMIP5 AOGCMs …


Environmental and biophysical controls of evapotranspiration from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (Caatinga) in the Brazilian Semiarid

Authors: Thiago V. Marques, Keila Rêgo Mendes, Pedro R. Mutti, Salomão de Sousa Medeiros, Lindenberg Lucena da Silva, Aldrin Martin Pérez-Marin et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107957 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract not available.


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 4 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

A comparative study among machine learning and numerical models for simulating groundwater dynamics in the Heihe River Basin, northwestern China

Authors: Chong Chen, Wei He, Han Zhou, Yaru Xue, Mingda Zhu

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60698-9 · Citations: 203

Matched topics: hydrology, river, runoff, streamflow, land surface model

were used to evaluate the accuracy of the simulation/training and verification results. The results showed that the accuracy of machine learning models was significantly better than that of numerical model in both stages. The SVM and RBF performed the best in training and verification stages, respectively. However, it should be noted that the generalization ability of numerical model is superior to the machine learning models because of the inclusion of physical mechanism. This study provides…


Updating the neural network sediment load models using different sensitivity analysis methods: a regional application

Authors: Reza Asheghi, Seyed Abbas Hosseini, Mojtaba Saneie, Abbas Abbaszadeh Shahri

Journal: Journal of Hydroinformatics · DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2020.098 · Citations: 179

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

Abstract The amount of transported sediment load by streams is a vital but high nonlinear dynamic process in water resources management. In the current paper, two optimum predictive models subjected to artificial neural network (ANN) were developed. The employed inputs were then prioritized using diverse sensitivity analysis (SA) methods to address new updated but more efficient ANN structures. The models were found through the 263 processed datasets of three rivers in Idaho, USA using nine d…


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, Min Cai, Xu Zhang, Ahmed A. Abdelhafez, Li Zhou, Huifeng Sun et al.

Journal: Global Ecology and Conservation · DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01011 · Citations: 156

Matched topics: runoff, surface water

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 management practi…


Using hydrological and climatic catchment clusters to explore drivers of catchment behavior

Authors: Florian Ulrich Jehn, Konrad Bestian, Lutz Breuer, Philipp Kraft, Tobias Houska

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-1081-2020 · Citations: 116

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

Abstract. The behavior of every catchment is unique. Still, we seek for ways to classify them as this helps to improve hydrological theories. In this study, we use hydrological signatures that were recently identified as those with the highest spatial predictability to cluster 643 catchments from the CAMELS dataset. We describe the resulting clusters concerning their behavior, location and attributes. We then analyze the connections between the resulting clusters and the catchment attributes …


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 27 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Groundwater Hydrology

Authors: M. Karamouz, A. Ahmadi, M. Akhbari

Journal: Groundwater Hydrology · DOI: 10.1036/1097-8542.301300 · Citations: 979

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract not available.


Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

Authors: Wannes Hubau, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Kofi Affum‐Baffoe, Hans Beeckman, Aida Cuní‐Sanchez et al.

Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0 · Citations: 915

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Transition towards green banking: role of financial regulators and financial institutions

Authors: Hyoungkun Park, Jong Dae Kim

Journal: Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility · DOI: 10.1186/s41180-020-00034-3 · Citations: 343

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract This paper provides an overview of green banking as an emerging area of creating competitive advantages and new business opportunities for private sector banks and expanding the mandate of central banks and supervisors to protect the financial system and manage risks of individual financial institutions. Climate change is expected to accelerate and is no longer considered only as an environmental threat because it affects all economic sectors. Furthermore, climate-related risks are c…


Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas

Authors: Jose A. Rehbein, James Watson, Joe Lane, Laura J. Sonter, Oscar Venter, Scott Atkinson et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15067 · Citations: 293

Matched topics: climate change, hydropower

Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy is fundamental for halting anthropogenic climate change. However, renewable energy facilities can be land-use intensive and impact conservation areas, and little attention has been given to whether the aggregated effect of energy transitions poses a substantial threat to global biodiversity. Here, we assess the extent of current and likely future renewable energy infrastructure associated with onshore wind, hydropower and solar photovoltaic …


Spatiotemporal dynamics of the archaeal community in coastal sediments: assembly process and co-occurrence relationship

Authors: Jiwen Liu, Shangqing Zhu, Xiaoyue Liu, Peng Yao, Tiantian Ge, Xiao‐Hua Zhang

Journal: The ISME Journal · DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0621-7 · Citations: 275

Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model

Abstract Studies of marine benthic archaeal communities are updating our view of their taxonomic composition and metabolic versatility. However, large knowledge gaps remain with regard to community assembly processes and inter taxa associations. Here, using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and qPCR, we investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics, assembly processes, and co-occurrence relationships of the archaeal community in 58 surface sediment samples collected in both summer and winter from …


Reuse and Recycling of By-Products in the Steel Sector: Recent Achievements Paving the Way to Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis in Europe

Authors: Teresa Annunziata Branca, Valentina Colla, David Algermissen, Hanna Granbom, Umberto Martini, Agnieszka Morillon et al.

Journal: Metals · DOI: 10.3390/met10030345 · Citations: 224

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Over the last few decades, the European steel industry has focused its efforts on the improvement of by-product recovery and quality, based not only on existing technologies, but also on the development of innovative sustainable solutions. These activities have led the steel industry to save natural resources and to reduce its environmental impact, resulting in being closer to its “zero-waste” goal. In addition, the concept of Circular Economy has been recently strongly emphasised at a Europe…


Multi-criteria decision analysis for delineation of groundwater potential zones in a tropical river basin using remote sensing, GIS and analytical hierarchy process (AHP)

Authors: A. L. Achu, Jobin Thomas, Rajesh Reghunath

Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100365 · Citations: 208

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Recent advances in understanding and measurement of mercury in the environment: Terrestrial Hg cycling

Authors: Kevin Bishop, James B. Shanley, Ami L. Riscassi, Heleen A. de Wit, Karin Eklöf, Bo Meng et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137647 · Citations: 201

Matched topics: runoff, climate change, surface water

This review documents recent advances in terrestrial mercury cycling. Terrestrial mercury (Hg) research has matured in some areas, and is developing rapidly in others. We summarize the state of the science circa 2010 as a starting point, and then present the advances during the last decade in three areas: land use, sulfate deposition, and climate change. The advances are presented in the framework of three Hg “gateways” to the terrestrial environment: inputs from the atmosphere, uptake in foo…


Spring water quality and discharge assessment in the Basantar watershed of Jammu Himalaya using geographic information system (GIS) and water quality Index(WQI)

Authors: Ajay Kumar Taloor, Rayees Ahmad Pir, Narsimha Adimalla, Sajid Ali, Drinder Singh Manhas, Sagarika Roy et al.

Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100364 · Citations: 196

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

Abstract not available.


State-of-the-art heat transfer fluids for parabolic trough collector

Authors: Yathin Krishna, Mohammed Faizal, R. Saidur, K.C. Ng, Navid Aslfattahi

Journal: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119541 · Citations: 194

Matched topics: land surface model, hydropower

Abstract not available.


An evaluation of global organic aerosol schemes using airborne observations

Authors: Sidhant J. Pai, Colette L. Heald, Jeffrey R. Pierce, S. C. Farina, Eloïse A. Marais, J. L. Jiménez et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-2637-2020 · Citations: 193

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. Chemical transport models have historically struggled to accurately simulate the magnitude and variability of observed organic aerosol (OA), with previous studies demonstrating that models significantly underestimate observed concentrations in the troposphere. In this study, we explore two different model OA schemes within the standard GEOS-Chem chemical transport model and evaluate the simulations against a suite of 15 globally distributed airborne campaigns from 2008 to 2017, prim…


Measuring Individual Tree Diameter and Height Using GatorEye High-Density UAV-Lidar in an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest System

Authors: Ana Paula Dalla Côrte, Franciel Eduardo Rex, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, Carlos Roberto Sanquetta, Carlos Alberto Silva, Marks Melo Moura et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12050863 · Citations: 178

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Accurate forest parameters are essential for forest inventory. Traditionally, parameters such as diameter at breast height (DBH) and total height are measured in the field by level gauges and hypsometers. However, field inventories are usually based on sample plots, which, despite providing valuable and necessary information, are laborious, expensive, and spatially limited. Most of the work developed for remote measurement of DBH has used terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), which has high densi…


A Framework for Agricultural Pest and Disease Monitoring Based on Internet-of-Things and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Authors: Demin Gao, Quan Sun, Bin Hu, Shuo Zhang

Journal: Sensors · DOI: 10.3390/s20051487 · Citations: 178

Matched topics: land surface model

With the development of information technology, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and low-altitude remote-sensing technology represented by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in environmental monitoring fields. In agricultural modernization, IoT and UAV can monitor the incidence of crop diseases and pests from the ground micro and air macro perspectives, respectively. IoT technology can collect real-time weather parameters of the crop growth by means of numerous inexpensive sensor nodes. …


First direct observation of sea salt aerosol production from blowing snow above sea ice

Authors: M. M. Frey, S. J. Norris, Ian M. Brooks, P. S. Anderson, Kouichi Nishimura, Xin Yang et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-2549-2020 · Citations: 155

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract. Two consecutive cruises in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, in winter 2013 provided the first direct observations of sea salt aerosol (SSA) production from blowing snow above sea ice, thereby validating a model hypothesis to account for winter time SSA maxima in the Antarctic. Blowing or drifting snow often leads to increases in SSA during and after storms. For the first time it is shown that snow on sea ice is depleted in sulfate relative to sodium with respect to seawater. Similar dep…


Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production

Authors: Brian D. Richter, Dominique Bartak, Peter V. Caldwell, Kyle Frankel Davis, Peter Debaere, Arjen Y. Hoekstra et al.

Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0483-z · Citations: 154

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

Abstract not available.


Mechanical and hydrological effects of seamount subduction on megathrust stress and slip

Authors: Tianhaozhe Sun, D. M. Saffer, Susan Ellis

Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0542-0 · Citations: 148

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


Chlorophyll-a and total suspended solids retrieval and mapping using Sentinel-2A and machine learning for inland waters

Authors: Mohammadmehdi Saberioon, Jakub Brom, Václav Nedbal, Pavel Souc̆ek, Petr Císař

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106236 · Citations: 146

Matched topics: water management

• Various spectral band and spectral indices were used to model Chl-a and TSS. • Sentinel-2 coupled with machine learning is a promising tool for fast and cheap monitoring of inland waters. • Data-driven methods for predicting water quality parameters improves the overall predictive accuracy for complex spectral relationships and interactions. Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) are both key indicators of the biophysical status of inland waters, and their continued monitori…


Parameter-free delineation of slope units and terrain subdivision of Italy

Authors: Massimiliano Alvioli, Fausto Guzzetti, Ivan Marchesini

Journal: Geomorphology · DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107124 · Citations: 145

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Quantitative geomorphological and environmental analysis requires the adoption of well–defined spatial domains as basic mapping units. They provide local boundaries to aggregate environmental and morphometric variables and to perform calculations, thus they identify the spatial scale of the analysis. Grid cells, typically aligned with a digital elevation model, are the standard mapping unit choice. A wiser choice is represented by slope units, irregular terrain partitions delimited by drainag…


Developing an Urban Resource Cadaster for Circular Economy: A Case of Odense, Denmark

Authors: Maud Lanau, Gang Liu

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b07749 · Citations: 141

Matched topics: water management

The significant amount of secondary materials stocked in products, buildings, and infrastructures has directed increasing attention to urban mining and circular economy. Circular economy strategies and activities in the construction industry are, however, often hindered by a lack of detailed knowledge on the type, amount, and distribution of secondary materials in the urban built environment. In this study, we developed such an urban resource cadaster through an integration of the geo-localiz…


Recent Advances in Atomic‐Level Engineering of Nanostructured Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Authors: Huiling Liu, Yating Zhu, Jianmin Ma, Zhicheng Zhang, Wenping Hu

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials · DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201910534 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Electrochemical reduction of CO 2 into value‐added chemicals provides a promising approach to mitigate climate change caused by CO 2 from excess consumption of fossil fuels. As the CO 2 molecule is chemically inert and the reaction kinetics is sluggish, efficient electrocatalysts are thus highly required for promoting the conversion of CO 2 . With great efforts devoted to improving the catalytic performance, the development of electrocatalysts for CO 2 reduction has gone from bulk me…


Bicarbonate or Carbonate Processes for Coupling Carbon Dioxide Capture and Electrochemical Conversion

Authors: Alex J. Welch, Emily Dunn, Joseph S. DuChene, Harry A. Atwater

Journal: ACS Energy Letters · DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00234 · Citations: 132

Matched topics: climate change

Designing a scalable system to capture CO₂ from the air and convert it into valuable chemicals, fuels, and materials could be transformational for mitigating climate change. Climate models predict that negative greenhouse gas emissions will be required by the year 2050 in order to stay below a 2 °C change in global temperature. The processes of CO₂ capture, CO₂ conversion, and finally product separation all require significant energy inputs; devising a system that simultaneously minimizes the…


Remote sensing and GIS based analysis of temporal land use/land cover and water quality changes in Harike wetland ecosystem, Punjab, India

Authors: Sukhdeep Singh, Anil Bhardwaj, V. K. Verma

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110355 · Citations: 128

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


Comparative functional genomics analysis of cytochrome P450 gene superfamily in wheat and maize

Authors: Yixuan Li, Kaifa Wei

Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-2288-7 · Citations: 118

Matched topics: land surface model

BACKGROUND: The cytochrome P450s (CYP450s) as the largest enzyme family of plant metabolism participate in various physiological processes, whereas no study has demonstrated interest in comprehensive comparison of the genes in wheat and maize. Genome-wide survey, characterization and comparison of wheat and maize CYP450 gene superfamily are useful for genetic manipulation of the Gramineae crops. RESULTS: In total, 1285 and 263 full-length CYP450s were identified in wheat and maize, respective…


Critical Soil Moisture Derived From Satellite Observations Over Europe

Authors: Jasper Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Markus Reichstein, René Orth

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2019jd031672 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract Evapotranspiration (ET) is a crucial quantity through which land surface conditions can impact near‐surface weather and vice versa. ET can be limited by energy or water availability. The transition between water‐ and energy‐limited regimes is marked by the critical soil moisture (CSM), which is traditionally derived from small‐sample laboratory analyses. Here, we aim to determine the CSM at a larger spatial scale relevant for climate modeling, using state‐of‐the‐art gridded data sets…


Advances and challenges in assessing urban sustainability: an advanced bibliometric review

Authors: Antonino Marvuglia, Lisanne Havinga, Oliver Heidrich, Jimeno A. Fonseca, Niki Gaitani, Diana Reckien

Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.109788 · Citations: 114

Matched topics: land surface model, hydropower

Abstract not available.


The role of northern peatlands in the global carbon cycle for the 21st century

Authors: Chunjing Qiu, Dan Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Bertrand Guenet, Shushi Peng

Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography · DOI: 10.1111/geb.13081 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract Aim Persistent sinks of atmospheric CO 2 in undisturbed peatlands are not included in future projections of the global carbon budget. We aimed to explore possible responses of northern peatlands to future climate change and to quantify the role of northern peatlands in the carbon balance of the Northern Hemisphere. Location The terrestrial Northern Hemisphere (>30° N). Time period 1861–2099. Major taxa studied Not a specific plant species, but a plant functional type is used by th…


Human fecal contamination of water, soil, and surfaces in households sharing poor-quality sanitation facilities in Maputo, Mozambique

Authors: David Holcomb, Jackie Knee, Trent Sumner, Zaida Adriano, Ellen de Bruijn, Rassul Nalá et al.

Journal: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113496 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: land surface model, surface water

Identifying the origin of fecal contamination can support more effective interventions to interrupt enteric pathogen transmission. Microbial source tracking (MST) assays may help to identify environmental routes of pathogen transmission although these assays have performed poorly in highly contaminated domestic settings, highlighting the importance of both diagnostic validation and understanding the context-specific ecological, physical, and sociodemographic factors driving the spread of feca…


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