Weekly Literature Review

Week 22 · May 25–May 31, 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. Hazard and vulnerability in urban flood risk mapping: Machine learning techniques and considering the role of urban districts
    2. Flash flood susceptibility assessment using the parameters of drainage basin morphometry in SE Bangladesh
    3. A big data-driven dynamic estimation model of relief supplies demand in urban flood disaster
    4. A robust approach for comparing conventional and sustainable flood mitigation measures in urban basins
    5. Prediction of soil water infiltration using multiple linear regression and random forest in a dry flood plain, eastern Iran
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa
    2. Elucidating Diverse Drought Characteristics from Two Meteorological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI) in China
    3. Superior haplotypes for haplotype‐based breeding for drought tolerance in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.)
    4. Regional differentiation in climate change induced drought trends in the Netherlands
    5. Lignin synthesized by CmCAD2 and CmCAD3 in oriental melon (Cucumis melo L.) seedlings contributes to drought tolerance
    6. Isotope‐aided modelling of ecohydrologic fluxes and water ages under mixed land use in Central Europe: The 2018 drought and its recovery
  4. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6
    2. CatBoost: A new approach for estimating daily reference crop evapotranspiration in arid and semi-arid regions of Northern China
    3. Tropical dry forest dynamics in the context of climate change: syntheses of drivers, gaps, and management perspectives
    4. Manifestation and consequences of warming and altered heat fluxes over the Bering and Chukchi Sea continental shelves
    5. Migratory behavior and winter geography drive differential range shifts of eastern birds in response to recent climate change
    6. Twenty first century changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean surface climate in CMIP6
    7. Future Transboundary Water Stress and Its Drivers Under Climate Change: A Global Study
    8. Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach
    9. Substantial Increases in the Water and Sediment Fluxes in the Headwater Region of the Tibetan Plateau in Response to Global Warming
    10. The economic interaction between climate change mitigation, climate migration and poverty
    11. How can drip irrigation save water and reduce evapotranspiration compared to border irrigation in arid regions in northwest China
    12. Hotspots of extreme heat under global warming
    13. Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities
  5. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Projections of Precipitation and Temperature over the South Asian Countries in CMIP6
    2. Evaluation of a Convection-Permitting Modeling of Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Influences on the Simulation of Snow-Cover Fraction
    3. Mitigation of eutrophication caused by wastewater discharge: A simulation-based approach
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Extending the Global Mass Change Data Record: GRACE Follow‐On Instrument and Science Data Performance
    2. Applying Geodetector to disentangle the contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to NDVI variations in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin
    3. Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes
    4. Geomorpho90m, empirical evaluation and accuracy assessment of global high-resolution geomorphometric layers
    5. Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America
    6. Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance
    7. Smart renewable electricity portfolios in West Africa
    8. Short communication: Landlab v2.0: a software package for Earth surface dynamics
    9. Predicting lake surface water phosphorus dynamics using process-guided machine learning
    10. Identification of artificial groundwater recharge sites in parts of Yamuna River basin India based on Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System
    11. Review: The influence of global change on Europe’s water cycle and groundwater recharge
    12. Hydrogeochemical characterization and assessment of groundwater quality in the Kwahu-Bombouaka Group of the Voltaian Supergroup, Ghana
    13. Surrogate optimization of deep neural networks for groundwater predictions
    14. Anthropogenic impacts on the decreasing sediment loads of nine major rivers in China, 1954–2015
    15. Wildfires lead to decreased carbon and increased nitrogen concentrations in upland arctic streams
    16. Reducing the aerosol forcing uncertainty using observational constraints on warm rain processes
    17. Budyko framework; towards non-steady state conditions
    18. Farmland abandonment and its determinants in the different ecological villages of the Koshi river basin, central Himalayas: Synergy of high-resolution remote sensing and social surveys
    19. Responses of soil CO2 and CH4 emissions to changing water table level in a coastal wetland
    20. A history of the concept of time of concentration
    21. On the cooling potential of irrigation to mitigate urban heat island
    22. Occurrence and risk assessment of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in reclaimed water and receiving groundwater with different replenishment pathways
    23. Ecosystem-scale nutrient cycling responses to increasing air temperatures vary with lake trophic state
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 5 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Eini, Alam et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Hazard and vulnerability in urban flood risk mapping: Machine learning techniques and considering the role of urban districts

Authors: Mohammad Reza Eini, Hesam Seyed Kaboli, Mohsen Rashidian, Hossein Hedayat

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101687 · Citations: 208

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Flash flood susceptibility assessment using the parameters of drainage basin morphometry in SE Bangladesh

Authors: Akhtar Alam, Bayes Ahmed, Peter Sammonds

Journal: Quaternary International · DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.047 · Citations: 150

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, flood

Abstract not available.


A big data-driven dynamic estimation model of relief supplies demand in urban flood disaster

Authors: Anqi Lin, Hao Wu, Guanghua Liang, Abraham Cárdenas Tristán, Xia Wu, Chong Zhao et al.

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101682 · Citations: 99

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


A robust approach for comparing conventional and sustainable flood mitigation measures in urban basins

Authors: Ioannis M. Kourtis, Vassiliοs A. Tsihrintzis, Evangelos Baltas

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110822 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood

Abstract not available.


Prediction of soil water infiltration using multiple linear regression and random forest in a dry flood plain, eastern Iran

Authors: Mohammad Reza Pahlavan-Rad, Khodadad Dahmardeh, Mojtaba Hadizadeh, Gholamali Keykha, Nader Mohammadnia, Mojtaba Gangali et al.

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104715 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: flood, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 6 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Haile, Li et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa

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

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001502 · Citations: 379

Matched topics: drought, climate change

Abstract 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…


Elucidating Diverse Drought Characteristics from Two Meteorological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI) in China

Authors: Lingcheng Li, Dunxian She, Hui Zheng, Peirong Lin, Zong-Liang Yang

Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-19-0290.1 · Citations: 291

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought, land surface model

Abstract This study elucidates drought characteristics in China during 1980–2015 using two commonly used meteorological drought indices: standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized precipitation–evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The results show that SPEI characterizes an overall increase in drought severity, area, and frequency during 1998–2015 compared with those during 1980–97, mainly due to the increasing potential evapotranspiration. By contrast, SPI does not reveal this pheno…


Superior haplotypes for haplotype‐based breeding for drought tolerance in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.)

Authors: Pallavi Sinha, Vikas Kumar Singh, Rachit K. Saxena, Aamir W. Khan, Ragavendran Abbai, Annapurna Chitikineni et al.

Journal: Plant Biotechnology Journal · DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13422 · Citations: 121

Matched topics: drought

Haplotype-based breeding, a recent promising breeding approach to develop tailor-made crop varieties, deals with identification of superior haplotypes and their deployment in breeding programmes. In this context, whole genome re-sequencing data of 292 genotypes from pigeonpea reference set were mined to identify the superior haplotypes for 10 drought-responsive candidate genes. A total of 83, 132 and 60 haplotypes were identified in breeding lines, landraces and wild species, respectively. Ca…


Authors: Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Karin van der Wiel, Niko Wanders, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab97ca · Citations: 117

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, drought, climate change, earth system model

Abstract The summer of 2018 was characterized by high temperatures and low precipitation values in the Netherlands. The drought negatively impacted different sectors, resulting in an estimated damage of 450 to 2080 million Euros. Strong regional differences were observed in the precipitation shortfall across the country, with highest deficits in the southern and eastern regions. This raised two questions: (i) have increasing global temperatures contributed to changes in meteorological and agr…


Lignin synthesized by CmCAD2 and CmCAD3 in oriental melon (Cucumis melo L.) seedlings contributes to drought tolerance

Authors: Wei Liu, Yun Jiang, Chenghui Wang, Lili Zhao, Yazhong Jin, Qiaojuan Xing et al.

Journal: Plant Molecular Biology · DOI: 10.1007/s11103-020-01018-7 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Isotope‐aided modelling of ecohydrologic fluxes and water ages under mixed land use in Central Europe: The 2018 drought and its recovery

Authors: Aaron Smith, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Lukas Kleine, Marco Maneta, Chris Soulsby

Journal: Hydrological Processes · DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13838 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, drought

Abstract Understanding the interactions of vegetation and soil water under varying hydrological conditions is crucial to aid quantitative assessment of land‐use sustainability for maintaining water supply for humans and plants. Isolating and estimating the volume and ages of water stored within different compartments of the critical zone, and the associated fluxes of evaporation, transpiration, and groundwater recharge, facilitates quantification of these soil–plant‐water interactions and the…


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 13 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

Authors: Flavio Lehner, Clara Deser, Nicola Maher, Jochem Marotzke, Erich Fischer, Lukas Brunner et al.

Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-11-491-2020 · Citations: 605

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. Partitioning uncertainty in projections of future climate change into contributions from internal variability, model response uncertainty and emissions scenarios has historically relied on making assumptions about forced changes in the mean and variability. With the advent of multiple single-model initial-condition large ensembles (SMILEs), these assumptions can be scrutinized, as they allow a more robust separation between sources of uncertainty. Here, the framework from Hawkins an…


CatBoost: A new approach for estimating daily reference crop evapotranspiration in arid and semi-arid regions of Northern China

Authors: Yixiao Zhang, Zhongguo Zhao, Jianghua Zheng

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125087 · Citations: 229

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


Tropical dry forest dynamics in the context of climate change: syntheses of drivers, gaps, and management perspectives

Authors: Zenebe Girmay Siyum

Journal: Ecological Processes · DOI: 10.1186/s13717-020-00229-6 · Citations: 189

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract This review attempts to synthesize the available literature on tropical dry forests and their dynamics in the context of climate change and thereby identifies possible gaps and priority areas for further research and management endeavors. Tropical dry forests (TDFs) occur in dryland environments, which are characterized by prolonged periods of dry months. They experience distinct seasonality and high inter-annual variability in climatic variables, particularly rainfall. Despite the e…


Manifestation and consequences of warming and altered heat fluxes over the Bering and Chukchi Sea continental shelves

Authors: Seth L. Danielson, O. Ahkinga, Carin J. Ashjian, Eugeny O. Basyuk, Lee W. Cooper, Lisa B. Eisner et al.

Journal: Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography · DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104781 · Citations: 177

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow

Abstract not available.


Migratory behavior and winter geography drive differential range shifts of eastern birds in response to recent climate change

Authors: Clark S. Rushing, J. Andrew Royle, David J. Ziolkowski, Keith L. Pardieck

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000299117 · Citations: 159

Matched topics: climate change

Over the past half century, migratory birds in North America have shown divergent population trends relative to resident species, with the former declining rapidly and the latter increasing. The role that climate change has played in these observed trends is not well understood, despite significant warming over this period. We used 43 y of monitoring data to fit dynamic species distribution models and quantify the rate of latitudinal range shifts in 32 species of birds native to eastern North…


Twenty first century changes in Antarctic and Southern Ocean surface climate in CMIP6

Authors: Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Gerhard Krinner, M. Tonelli, F. Alexander Haumann, Kaitlin A. Naughten, Thomas Rackow et al.

Journal: Atmospheric Science Letters · DOI: 10.1002/asl.984 · Citations: 137

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Two decades into the 21st century there is growing evidence for global impacts of Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate change. Reliable estimates of how the Antarctic climate system would behave under a range of scenarios of future external climate forcing are thus a high priority. Output from new model simulations coordinated as part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) provides an opportunity for a comprehensive analysis of the latest generation of state‐of‐…


Future Transboundary Water Stress and Its Drivers Under Climate Change: A Global Study

Authors: Hafsa Ahmed Munia, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Yoshihide Wada, Ted Veldkamp, Vili Virkki, Matti Kummu

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2019ef001321 · Citations: 122

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

Various transboundary river basins are facing increased pressure on water resources in near future. However, little is known ab out the future drivers globally, namely, changes in natural local runoff and natural inflows from upstream parts of a basin, as well as local and upstream water consumption. Here we use an ensemble of four global hydrological models forced by five global climate models and the latest greenhouse-gas concentration (RCP) and socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenarios to asse…


Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

Authors: Suzanne E. Tank, Jorien E. Vonk, Michelle A. Walvoord, J. W. McClelland, Isabelle Laurion, Benjamin W. Abbott

Journal: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes · DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2057 · Citations: 121

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract Permafrost thaw has been widely observed to alter the biogeochemistry of recipient aquatic ecosystems. However, research from various regions has shown considerable variation in effect. In this paper, we propose a state factor approach to predict the release and transport of materials from permafrost through aquatic networks. Inspired by Hans Jenny’s seminal description of soil‐forming factors, and based on the growing body of research on the subject, we propose that a series of stat…


Substantial Increases in the Water and Sediment Fluxes in the Headwater Region of the Tibetan Plateau in Response to Global Warming

Authors: Dongfeng Li, Zhiwei Li, Yinjun Zhou, Xixi Lu

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl087745 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: runoff, reservoir

Abstract The long‐term effects of increased temperatures on sediment fluxes in cold regions remain poorly investigated. Here, we examined the multidecadal changes in runoff and sediment fluxes in the Tuotuohe River, a headwater river of the Yangtze River on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The sediment fluxes and runoff increased at rates of 0.03 ± 0.01 Mt/yr (5.9 ± 1.9%/yr) and 0.025 ± 0.007 × km 3 /yr (3.5 ± 1.0%/yr) from 1985 to 2016, with net increases of 135% and 78% from 1985–1997 to 1998–2016…


The economic interaction between climate change mitigation, climate migration and poverty

Authors: Jochem Marotzke, Dirk Semmann, Manfred Milinski

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0783-3 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


How can drip irrigation save water and reduce evapotranspiration compared to border irrigation in arid regions in northwest China

Authors: Yahui Wang, Sien Li, Shujing Qin, Hui Guo, Danni Yang, Hon‐Ming Lam

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106256 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


Hotspots of extreme heat under global warming

Authors: Laura Suárez‐Gutiérrez, Wolfgang A. Müller, Chao Li, Jochem Marotzke

Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05263-w · Citations: 82

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract We evaluate how hotspots of different types of extreme summertime heat change under global warming increase of up to \(4\,^\circ \hbox {C}\) 4 ∘ C ; and which level of global warming allows us to avert the risk of these hotspots considering the irreducible range of possibilities defined by well-sampled internal variability. We use large samples of low-probability extremes simulated by the 100-member Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble (MPI-GE) for five metrics of extreme heat:…


Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities

Authors: Sara Hughes

Journal: Environmental Science & Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.05.007 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 3 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Projections of Precipitation and Temperature over the South Asian Countries in CMIP6

Authors: Mansour Almazroui, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam, Muhammad Ismail

Journal: Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s41748-020-00157-7 · Citations: 477

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset was analyzed to examine the projected changes in temperature and precipitation over six South Asian countries during the twenty-first century. The CMIP6 model simulations reveal biases in annual mean temperature and precipitation over South Asia in the present climate. In the historical period, the median of the CMIP6 model ensemble systematically underestimates the annual mean temperature for all the South Asia…


Evaluation of a Convection-Permitting Modeling of Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Influences on the Simulation of Snow-Cover Fraction

Authors: Yanhong Gao, Fei Chen, Yingsha Jiang

Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-19-0277.1 · Citations: 118

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

Abstract Precipitation is a critical input to land surface and hydrology modeling and prediction. Dynamical downscale modeling has added value to representing precipitation, when compared with the performance of coarse-resolution reanalysis and global climate models, over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Convection-permitting modeling (CPM) may even outperform dynamical downscale models (DDMs). In this study, 4-km CPM results were compared to 28-km DDM results for a snow season (1 October 2013–31 Ma…


Mitigation of eutrophication caused by wastewater discharge: A simulation-based approach

Authors: Michał Preisner, Elena Neverova-Dziopak, Zbigniew Kowalewski

Journal: AMBIO · DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01346-4 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: hydrology, surface water

Mitigation of eutrophication, intensified by excessive nutrient load discharge in wastewaters regulated by restrictive legal requirements, remains one of today’s most important global problems. Despite implementation of the Water Framework Directive, the Urban Wastewater Directive and the HELCOM recommendations, the actual condition of surface water is still not satisfactory. In response to the above, the study presents an alternative approach for surface water protection against eutrophicati…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 23 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Extending the Global Mass Change Data Record: GRACE Follow‐On Instrument and Science Data Performance

Authors: Felix W. Landerer, Frank Flechtner, Himanshu Save, F. Webb, Tamara Bandikova, Willy Bertiger et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088306 · Citations: 726

Matched topics: drought, earth system model

Abstract Since June, 2018, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow‐On (GRACE‐FO) is extending the 15‐year monthly mass change record of the GRACE mission, which ended in June 2017. The GRACE‐FO instrument and flight system performance has improved over GRACE. Better attitude solutions and enhanced pointing performance result in reduced fuel consumption and gravity range rate post‐fit residuals. One accelerometer requires additional calibrations due to unexpected measurement noise. …


Applying Geodetector to disentangle the contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to NDVI variations in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin

Authors: Lijun Zhu, Lijun Zhu, Jijun Meng, Likai Zhu, Likai Zhu

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106545 · Citations: 351

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes

Authors: Jean‐Philippe Jenny, Orlane Anneville, Fabien Arnaud, Yoann Baulaz, Damien Bouffard, Isabelle Domaizon et al.

Journal: Journal of Great Lakes Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2020.05.006 · Citations: 276

Matched topics: water management, hydropower

Large lakes of the world are habitats for diverse species, including endemic taxa, and are valuable resources that provide humanity with many ecosystem services. They are also sentinels of global and local change, and recent studies in limnology and paleolimnology have demonstrated disturbing evidence of their collective degradation in terms of depletion of resources (water and food), rapid warming and loss of ice, destruction of habitats and ecosystems, loss of species, and accelerating poll…


Geomorpho90m, empirical evaluation and accuracy assessment of global high-resolution geomorphometric layers

Authors: Giuseppe Amatulli, Daniel McInerney, Tushar Sethi, Peter Strobl, Sami Domisch

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0479-6 · Citations: 240

Matched topics: hydrology

Topographical relief comprises the vertical and horizontal variations of the Earth’s terrain and drives processes in geomorphology, biogeography, climatology, hydrology and ecology. Its characterisation and assessment, through geomorphometry and feature extraction, is fundamental to numerous environmental modelling and simulation analyses. We, therefore, developed the Geomorpho90m global dataset comprising of different geomorphometric features derived from the MERIT-Digital Elevation Model (D…


Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America

Authors: Zhihui Wang, Adam Chlus, Ryan Geygan, Zhiwei Ye, Ting Zheng, Aditya Singh et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.16711 · Citations: 206

Matched topics: earth system model

Foliar functional traits are widely used to characterize leaf and canopy properties that drive ecosystem processes and to infer physiological processes in Earth system models. Imaging spectroscopy provides great potential to map foliar traits to characterize continuous functional variation and diversity, but few studies have demonstrated consistent methods for mapping multiple traits across biomes. With airborne imaging spectroscopy data and field data from 19 sites, we developed trait models…


Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance

Authors: Thomas V. Schuler, Jack Kohler, Nelly Elagina, Jon Ove M. Hagen, Andy Hodson, Jacek Jania et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00156 · Citations: 183

Matched topics: hydrology

Since the first estimates of Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early 2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modelling of mass balance, existing field records have been extended, field records at new locations have been added, and there has been considerable environmental change. There is a wide spread in the available estimates of both total mass balance and climatic mass balance, but there is overall agreement that the glaciers on Svalbard have been losi…


Smart renewable electricity portfolios in West Africa

Authors: Sebastian Sterl, Inne Vanderkelen, Celray James Chawanda, Daniel Russo, Robert J. Brecha, Ann van Griensven et al.

Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0539-0 · Citations: 142

Matched topics: water management, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Short communication: Landlab v2.0: a software package for Earth surface dynamics

Authors: Katherine R. Barnhart, Eric Hutton, Gregory E. Tucker, N. M. Gasparini, Erkan İstanbulluoğlu, Daniel E. J. Hobley et al.

Journal: Earth Surface Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esurf-8-379-2020 · Citations: 141

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model

Abstract. Numerical simulation of the form and characteristics of Earth’s surface provides insight into its evolution. Landlab is an open-source Python package that contains modularized elements of numerical models for Earth’s surface, thus reducing time required for researchers to create new or reimplement existing models. Landlab contains a gridding engine which represents the model domain as a dual graph of structured quadrilaterals (e.g., raster) or irregular Voronoi polygon–Delaunay tria…


Predicting lake surface water phosphorus dynamics using process-guided machine learning

Authors: Paul C. Hanson, Aviah B. Stillman, Xiaowei Jia, Anuj Karpatne, Hilary A. Dugan, Cayelan C. Carey et al.

Journal: Ecological Modelling · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109136 · Citations: 128

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, surface water

Phosphorus (P) loading to lakes is degrading the quality and usability of water globally. Accurate predictions of lake P dynamics are needed to understand whole-ecosystem P budgets, as well as the consequences of changing lake P concentrations for water quality. However, complex biophysical processes within lakes, along with limited observational data, challenge our capacity to reproduce short-term lake dynamics needed for water quality predictions, as well as long-term dynamics needed to und…


Identification of artificial groundwater recharge sites in parts of Yamuna River basin India based on Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System

Authors: Armugha Khan, Himanshu Govil, Ajay Kumar Taloor, Gaurav Kumar

Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100415 · Citations: 125

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Review: The influence of global change on Europe’s water cycle and groundwater recharge

Authors: Thomas Riedel, Tobias K. D. Weber

Journal: Hydrogeology Journal · DOI: 10.1007/s10040-020-02165-3 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Hydrogeochemical characterization and assessment of groundwater quality in the Kwahu-Bombouaka Group of the Voltaian Supergroup, Ghana

Authors: Emmanuel Daanoba Sunkari, Mahamuda Abu, Musah Saeed Zango, Alex Modi Lomoro Wani

Journal: Journal of African Earth Sciences · DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103899 · Citations: 113

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


Surrogate optimization of deep neural networks for groundwater predictions

Authors: Juliane Müller, Jangho Park, Reetik Kumar Sahu, Charuleka Varadharajan, Bhavna Arora, Boris Faybishenko et al.

Journal: Journal of Global Optimization · DOI: 10.1007/s10898-020-00912-0 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract not available.


Anthropogenic impacts on the decreasing sediment loads of nine major rivers in China, 1954–2015

Authors: Ziyin Wu, Dineng Zhao, James P. M. Syvitski, Yoshiki Saito, Jieqiong Zhou, Mingwei Wang

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139653 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: river, reservoir

Abstract not available.


Wildfires lead to decreased carbon and increased nitrogen concentrations in upland arctic streams

Authors: B. Rodriguez-Cardona, Ashley A. Coble, Adam S. Wymore, Roman Kolosov, David C. Podgorski, Phoebe Zito et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65520-0 · Citations: 92

Matched topics: hydrology

The Central Siberian Plateau is undergoing rapid climate change that has resulted in increased frequency of forest fires and subsequent alteration of watershed carbon and nutrient dynamics. Across a watershed chronosequence (3 to >100 years since wildfire) we quantified the effects of fire on quantity and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM), stream water nutrient concentrations, as well as in-stream nutrient uptake. Wildfires increased concentrations of nitrate for a decade, while d…


Reducing the aerosol forcing uncertainty using observational constraints on warm rain processes

Authors: Johannes Mülmenstädt, Christine Nam, Marc Salzmann, Jan Kretzschmar, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Ulrike Lohmann et al.

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz6433 · Citations: 92

Matched topics: earth system model

Global climate models (GCMs) disagree with other lines of evidence on the rapid adjustments of cloud cover and liquid water path to anthropogenic aerosols. Attempts to use observations to constrain the parameterizations of cloud processes in GCMs have failed to reduce the disagreement. We propose using observations sensitive to the relevant cloud processes rather than only to the atmospheric state and focusing on process realism in the absence of aerosol perturbations in addition to the proce…


Budyko framework; towards non-steady state conditions

Authors: Ameneh Mianabadi, Kamran Davary, Mohsen Pourreza‐Bilondi, Miriam Coenders‐Gerrits

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125089 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract not available.


Farmland abandonment and its determinants in the different ecological villages of the Koshi river basin, central Himalayas: Synergy of high-resolution remote sensing and social surveys

Authors: Basanta Paudel, Xue Wu, Yili Zhang, Raju Rai, Linshan Liu, Binghua Zhang et al.

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109711 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: river, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Responses of soil CO2 and CH4 emissions to changing water table level in a coastal wetland

Authors: Mingliang Zhao, Guangxuan Han, Juanyong Li, Weimin Song, Wendi Qu, Franziska Eller et al.

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122316 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract not available.


A history of the concept of time of concentration

Authors: Keith Beven

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-2655-2020 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract. The concept of time of concentration in the analysis of catchment responses dates back over 150 years to the introduction of the rational method. Since then it has been used in a variety of ways in the formulation of both unit hydrograph and distributed catchment models. It is normally discussed in terms of the velocity of flow of a water particle from the furthest part of a catchment to the outlet. This is also the basis for the definition in the International Glossary of Hydrology…


On the cooling potential of irrigation to mitigate urban heat island

Authors: Kai Gao, M. Santamouris, Jie Feng

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139754 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: land surface model, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Occurrence and risk assessment of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in reclaimed water and receiving groundwater with different replenishment pathways

Authors: Guoyu Ding, Guoli Chen, Yuedong Liu, Miao Li, Xiang Liu

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139802 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: surface water

Abstract not available.


Ecosystem-scale nutrient cycling responses to increasing air temperatures vary with lake trophic state

Authors: Kaitlin J. Farrell, Nicole K. Ward, Arianna I. Krinos, Paul C. Hanson, Vahid Daneshmand, Renato Figueiredo et al.

Journal: Ecological Modelling · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109134 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: land surface model, surface water

Abstract not available.


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Databases searched 2
Topics searched 16
Total papers fetched 1074
After deduplication 744
After LLM relevance filtering 50
Rejected (not relevant) 694

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The Science of The Total Environment 3
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2
Earth s Future 2
Journal of Hydrometeorology 2
Journal of Hydrology 2
Geophysical Research Letters 2
Ecological Modelling 2
Quaternary International 1
Journal of Environmental Management 1
CATENA 1
Plant Biotechnology Journal 1
Environmental Research Letters 1
Plant Molecular Biology 1
Hydrological Processes 1
Earth System Dynamics 1
Ecological Processes 1
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography 1
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1
Atmospheric Science Letters 1
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 1
Nature Climate Change 1
Agricultural Water Management 1
Climate Dynamics 1
Environmental Science & Policy 1
Earth Systems and Environment 1
AMBIO 1
Ecological Indicators 1
Journal of Great Lakes Research 1
Scientific Data 1
New Phytologist 1
Frontiers in Earth Science 1
Nature Sustainability 1
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Groundwater for Sustainable Development 1
Hydrogeology Journal 1
Journal of African Earth Sciences 1
Journal of Global Optimization 1
Scientific Reports 1
Science Advances 1
Environmental Research 1
Journal of Cleaner Production 1
Hydrology and earth system sciences 1

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Topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, water management, flood, drought, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, hydropower, surface water, irrigation, earth system model

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