Weekly Literature Review

Week 46 · November 9–November 15, 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. The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies
    2. More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change
    3. Flood susceptibility mapping using GIS and multi-criteria decision analysis: A case of Dodoma region, central Tanzania
    4. Are flood damage models converging to “reality”? Lessons learnt from a blind test
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Drought and Salinity Stress Responses and Microbe-Induced Tolerance in Plants
    2. Increasing risk of another Cape Town “Day Zero” drought in the 21st century
    3. Changes in compound drought and hot extreme events in summer over populated eastern China
    4. Spatial assessment of drought disasters, vulnerability, severity and water shortages: a potential drought disaster mitigation strategy
    5. Negative impact of long‐term exposure of salinity and drought stress on native Tetraena mandavillei L.
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. The proper care and feeding of CAMELS: How limited training data affects streamflow prediction
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence
    2. The Response of the Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks and Jet Streams to Climate Change in the CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Climate Models
    3. GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet
    4. Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate
    5. Climate change risk to global port operations
    6. Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales
    7. Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019
    8. Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming
    9. Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones
    10. Assessing mean climate change signals in the global CORDEX-CORE ensemble
    11. Future Changes in Climate over the Arabian Peninsula based on CMIP6 Multimodel Simulations
    12. Future energy-optimised buildings — Addressing the impact of climate change on buildings
    13. Social Media and Environmental Activism: Framing Climate Change on Facebook by Global NGOs
    14. Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations over the last 2 decades – an AeroCom and CMIP6 analysis
    15. Climate change: Impacts on outdoor activities in the summer and shoulder seasons
    16. Application of an artificial intelligence technique enhanced with intelligent water drops for monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation
    17. Does the use of climate information contribute to climate change adaptation? Evidence from Ghana
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Analysing the trend of rainfall in Asir region of Saudi Arabia using the family of Mann-Kendall tests, innovative trend analysis, and detrended fluctuation analysis
    2. Enhanced Meiyu‐Baiu Rainfall in Early Summer 2020: Aftermath of the 2019 Super IOD Event
    3. Modeling the combined impacts of deficit irrigation, rising temperature and compost application on wheat yield and water productivity
    4. Occurrence, predictors and hazards of elevated groundwater arsenic across India through field observations and regional-scale AI-based modeling
    5. Neural network soil moisture model for irrigation scheduling
    6. Variability of annual sediment load and runoff in the Yellow River for the last 100 years (1919–2018)
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6
    2. What Role Does Hydrological Science Play in the Age of Machine Learning?
    3. Urban water resource management for sustainable environment planning using artificial intelligence techniques
    4. Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017
    5. A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses
    6. Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A Meta-Analysis
    7. Ionization behavior of nanoporous polyamide membranes
    8. High stream flows dilute environmental DNA (eDNA) concentrations and reduce detectability
    9. Trends in flow intermittence for European rivers
    10. Towards a bio-based circular economy in organic waste management and wastewater treatment – The Polish perspective
    11. Environmental conditions influence eDNA particle size distribution in aquatic systems
    12. Automated Processing of Declassified KH-9 Hexagon Satellite Images for Global Elevation Change Analysis Since the 1970s
    13. Impact of Winds and Southern Ocean SSTs on Antarctic Sea Ice Trends and Variability
    14. Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges
    15. SoilGrids 2.0: producing quality-assessed soil information for theglobe
    16. Gully prevention and control: Techniques, failures and effectiveness
    17. Deciphering of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and potential abiotic indicators for the emergence of ARGs in an interconnected lake-river-reservoir system
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 4 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Ward, Bevacqua et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

Authors: Philip J. Ward, Marleen de Ruiter, Johanna Mård, Kai Schröter, Anne F. Van Loon, Ted Veldkamp et al.

Journal: Water Security · DOI: 10.1016/j.wasec.2020.100070 · Citations: 312

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, flood, drought, hydropower

Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures and strategies, it is important to consider interactions between these closely linked phenomena. We show examples of: (a) how flood or drought DRR measures can have (unintended) positive or negative impacts on risk of the opposite hazard; and (b) how flood or drought DRR measures ca…

More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change

Authors: Emanuele Bevacqua, Michalis Vousdoukas, Giuseppe Zappa, Kevin I. Hodges, Theodore G. Shepherd, Douglas Maraun et al.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-00044-z · Citations: 265

Matched topics: streamflow, flood, climate change, earth system model

north, compound flooding could become more than 2.5 times as frequent, in contrast to parts of the subtropics where it would weaken. Changes in extreme precipitation and meteorological tides account for most (77% and 20%, respectively) of the projected change in concurrence probability. The evolution of the dependence between precipitation and meteorological tide dominates the uncertainty in the projections. Our results indicate that not accounting for these effects in adaptation planning cou…

Flood susceptibility mapping using GIS and multi-criteria decision analysis: A case of Dodoma region, central Tanzania

Authors: Michael Msabi, Michael Makonyo

Journal: Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100445 · Citations: 110

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Are flood damage models converging to “reality”? Lessons learnt from a blind test

Authors: Daniela Molinari, Anna Rita Scorzini, Chiara Arrighi, Francesca Carisi, Fabio Castelli, Alessio Domeneghetti et al.

Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-20-2997-2020 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: flood

Abstract. Effective flood risk management requires a realistic estimation of flood losses. However, available flood damage estimates are still characterized by significant levels of uncertainty, questioning the capacity of flood damage models to depict real damages. With a joint effort of eight international research groups, the objective of this study was to compare, in a blind-validation test, the performances of different models for the assessment of the direct flood damage to the resident…

Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 5 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Ma, Pascale et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Drought and Salinity Stress Responses and Microbe-Induced Tolerance in Plants

Authors: Ying Ma, M. C. Dias, H. Freitas

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.591911 · Citations: 589

Matched topics: drought

Drought and salinity are among the most important environmental factors that hampered agricultural productivity worldwide. Both stresses can induce several morphological, physiological, biochemical, and metabolic alterations through various mechanisms, eventually influencing plant growth, development, and productivity. The responses of plants to these stress conditions are highly complex and depend on other factors, such as the species and genotype, plant age and size, the rate of progression…

Increasing risk of another Cape Town “Day Zero” drought in the 21st century

Authors: Salvatore Pascale, Sarah Kapnick, Thomas L. Delworth, William Cooke

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009144117 · Citations: 138

Matched topics: drought, climate change

Three consecutive dry winters (2015-2017) in southwestern South Africa (SSA) resulted in the Cape Town “Day Zero” drought in early 2018. The contribution of anthropogenic global warming to this prolonged rainfall deficit has previously been evaluated through observations and climate models. However, model adequacy and insufficient horizontal resolution make it difficult to precisely quantify the changing likelihood of extreme droughts, given the small regional scale. Here, we use a high-resol…

Changes in compound drought and hot extreme events in summer over populated eastern China

Authors: Rong Yu, Panmao Zhai

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2020.100295 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: drought

Compound extreme events always cause severe impacts on human society and the natural system, especially in the populated areas. However, studies on their changes depend on definitions of the related extreme events. In this study, a newly defined compound drought and hot extreme events (CDHEEs) index based on the day-night concurrent hot extreme index and daily drought monitoring index is defined to explore possible changing features in summer-time CDHEEs from 1961 to 2018 in the densely popul…

Spatial assessment of drought disasters, vulnerability, severity and water shortages: a potential drought disaster mitigation strategy

Authors: Israel R. Orimoloye, Johanes A. Belle, Adeyemi Olusola, Emmanuel Tolulope Busayo, Olusola O. Ololade

Journal: Natural Hazards · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04421-x · Citations: 114

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Negative impact of long‐term exposure of salinity and drought stress on native Tetraena mandavillei L.

Authors: Hasnain Alam, Jabar Zaman Khan Khattak, Taoufik Ksiksi, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Shah Fahad, Hamza Sohail et al.

Journal: Physiologia Plantarum · DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13273 · Citations: 112

Matched topics: drought

Abstract Tetraena mandavillei L. is a perennial shrub native to the Middle Eastern countries of Asia, which is extensively regarded as a drought‐tolerant plant. However, the plant reduces growth and biomass when grown in high concentrations of sodium chloride in the soil. We conducted a pot experiment to influence the negative impact of different levels of salinity (0, 10, and 20 dSm −1 ) and drought stress (100, 80, 60, and 40% water field capacity), to study different growth‐related paramet…

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.

The proper care and feeding of CAMELS: How limited training data affects streamflow prediction

Authors: Martin Gauch, Juliane Mai, Jimmy Lin

Journal: Environmental Modelling & Software · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104926 · Citations: 238

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract not available.

Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 17 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence

Authors: Lukas Brunner, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Flavio Lehner, Anna Merrifield, Ruth Lorenz, Reto Knutti

Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-11-995-2020 · Citations: 335

Matched topics: hydrology, climate change, earth system model

Abstract. The sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) constitutes the latest update on expected future climate change based on a new generation of climate models. To extract reliable estimates of future warming and related uncertainties from these models, the spread in their projections is often translated into probabilistic estimates such as the mean and likely range. Here, we use a model weighting approach, which accounts for the models’ historical performance based on several d…

The Response of the Northern Hemisphere Storm Tracks and Jet Streams to Climate Change in the CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Climate Models

Authors: Ben Harvey, Peter Cook, Len Shaffrey, R. Schiemann

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd032701 · Citations: 275

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract The representation of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) storm tracks and jet streams and their response to climate change have been evaluated in climate model simulations from Phases 3, 5, and 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6, respectively). The spatial patterns of the multimodel biases in CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 are similar; however, the magnitudes of the biases in the CMIP6 models are substantially lower. For instance, the multimodel mean RMSE of t…

GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet

Authors: Xavier Fettweis, Stefan Hofer, Uta Krebs‐Kanzow, Charles Amory, Teruo Aoki, Constantijn J. Berends et al.

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020 · Citations: 264

Matched topics: runoff, earth system model

Abstract. Observations and models agree that the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) surface mass balance (SMB) has decreased since the end of the 1990s due to an increase in meltwater runoff and that this trend will accelerate in the future. However, large uncertainties remain, partly due to different approaches for modelling the GrIS SMB, which have to weigh physical complexity or low computing time, different spatial and temporal resolutions, different forcing fields, and different ice sheet topogr…

Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate

Authors: Lorenzo Rosa, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Matteo Sangiorgio, Areidy Aracely Beltran-Peña, Maria Cristina Rulli, Paolo D’Odorico et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017796117 · Citations: 262

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management, climate change, irrigation, earth system model

Climate change is expected to affect crop production worldwide, particularly in rain-fed agricultural regions. It is still unknown how irrigation water needs will change in a warmer planet and where freshwater will be locally available to expand irrigation without depleting freshwater resources. Here, we identify the rain-fed cropping systems that hold the greatest potential for investment in irrigation expansion because water will likely be available to suffice irrigation water demand. Using…

Climate change risk to global port operations

Authors: Cristina Izaguirre, Íñigo J. Losada, Paula Camus, Jonathan L. Vigh, Vladimir Stenek

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-00937-z · Citations: 208

Matched topics: flood, climate change

Abstract not available.

Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales

Authors: Stefan Lange, Jan Volkholz, Tobias Geiger, Fang Zhao, Iliusi Vega del Valle, Ted Veldkamp et al.

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001616 · Citations: 187

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, flood, land surface model, climate change

Abstract The extent and impact of climate‐related extreme events depend on the underlying meteorological, hydrological, or climatological drivers as well as on human factors such as land use or population density. Here we quantify the pure effect of historical and future climate change on the exposure of land and population to extreme climate impact events using an unprecedentedly large ensemble of harmonized climate impact simulations from the Inter‐Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Proj…

Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019

Authors: Kenneth D. Mankoff, Brice Noël, Xavier Fettweis, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, William Colgan, Ken Kondo et al.

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2811-2020 · Citations: 143

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract. Greenland runoff, from ice mass loss and increasing rainfall, is increasing. That runoff, as discharge, impacts the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the adjacent fjords. However, where and when the discharge occurs is not readily available in an open database. Here we provide data sets of high-resolution Greenland hydrologic outlets, basins, and streams, as well as a daily 1958 through 2019 time series of Greenland liquid water discharge for each outlet. The data inc…

Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming

Authors: Xiaoming Lu, Eryuan Liang, Yafeng Wang, Flurin Babst, J. Julio Camarero

Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography · DOI: 10.1111/geb.13214 · Citations: 139

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract Aim To better understand how climate change drives altitudinal treeline dynamics at large spatial scales. Location Northern Hemisphere. Time period 1901–2018. Major taxa studied Tree species that constitute alpine treelines. Methods We conducted a meta‐analysis of annual treeline shift rates at 143 sites from 38 published studies. For each site, we calculated current change rates in annual or seasonal temperatures, precipitation and drought (standardized precipitation evapotranspirat…

Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones

Authors: Aradhana Yaduvanshi, Tiro Nkemelang, Ramkumar Bendapudi, Mark New

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2020.100291 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: climate change

Mean surface temperature is projected to rise by about 4.4 °C by the end of the century compared to the period between 1976 and 2005 when following the most extreme scenario of the greenhouse gas emissions pathway (Krishnan et al., 2020). With this rise in mean temperature, there is a lot of uncertainty on how weather and climate extremes would unfold, especially for various climate zones of India. It is therefore essential that the potential changes in both magnitude and direction of weather…

Assessing mean climate change signals in the global CORDEX-CORE ensemble

Authors: Claas Teichmann, Daniela Jacob, Armelle Reca Remedio, Thomas Remke, Lars Buntemeyer, Peter Hoffmann et al.

Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05494-x · Citations: 123

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

Abstract The new Coordinated Output for Regional Evaluations (CORDEX-CORE) ensemble provides high-resolution, consistent regional climate change projections for the major inhabited areas of the world. It serves as a solid scientific basis for further research related to vulnerability, impact, adaptation and climate services in addition to existing CORDEX simulations. The aim of this study is to investigate and document the climate change information provided by the CORDEX-CORE simulation ense…

Future Changes in Climate over the Arabian Peninsula based on CMIP6 Multimodel Simulations

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

Journal: Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s41748-020-00183-5 · Citations: 121

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

Abstract This paper presents the changes in projected temperature and precipitation over the Arabian Peninsula for the twenty-first century using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset. The changes are obtained by analyzing the multimodel ensemble from 31 CMIP6 models for the near (2030–2059) and far (2070–2099) future periods, with reference to the base period 1981–2010, under three future Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Observations show that the annual temp…

Future energy-optimised buildings — Addressing the impact of climate change on buildings

Authors: Keivan Bamdad, Michael E. Cholette, Sara Omrani, John Bell

Journal: Energy and Buildings · DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110610 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Social Media and Environmental Activism: Framing Climate Change on Facebook by Global NGOs

Authors: Hong Tien Vu, Matthew Blomberg, Hyunjin Seo, Yuchen Liu, Fatemeh Shayesteh, Hung Dinh Viet

Journal: Science Communication · DOI: 10.1177/1075547020971644 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: climate change

Analyzing Facebook content produced by 289 global climate nonprofits from 18 countries, this study investigates these NGOs’ framing of climate change. Of the three protest frames, diagnostic was most popular. Of the three aspects of climate change, including impact, action, and efficacy, action was used most frequently, while efficacy was the least common. Messages refer to effects at the present time. NGOs from developed countries are more likely than those from developing nations to discuss…

Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations over the last 2 decades – an AeroCom and CMIP6 analysis

Authors: Augustin Mortier, Jonas Gliß, Michael Schulz, Wenche Aas, Elisabeth Andrews, Huisheng Bian et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-13355-2020 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. This study presents a multiparameter analysis of aerosol trends over the last 2 decades at regional and global scales. Regional time series have been computed for a set of nine optical, chemical-composition and mass aerosol properties by using the observations from several ground-based networks. From these regional time series the aerosol trends have been derived for the different regions of the world. Most of the properties related to aerosol loading exhibit negative trends, both a…

Climate change: Impacts on outdoor activities in the summer and shoulder seasons

Authors: Ulrike Pröbstl‐Haider, Claudia Hödl, Kathrin Ginner, Florian Borgwardt

Journal: Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism · DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2020.100344 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: water management, climate change, irrigation

The summer tourism market in Austria builds significantly on the country’s opportunities for outdoor recreation such as mountaineering, mountain biking or water sports. This paper looks at the most important activities from a tourism perspective and considers the likelihood of impacts by climate change based on an extended literature review. It also examines current trends in tourism demand and concludes with both general and activity-specific adaptation and mitigation measures. The data coll…

Application of an artificial intelligence technique enhanced with intelligent water drops for monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation

Authors: Farshad Ahmadi, Saeid Mehdizadeh, Babak Mohammadi, Quoc Bao Pham, Thi Ngoc Canh Doan, Ngoc Duong Vo

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106622 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.

Does the use of climate information contribute to climate change adaptation? Evidence from Ghana

Authors: Victor Owusu, Wanglin Ma, Alan Renwick, Dorcas Emuah

Journal: Climate and Development · DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2020.1844612 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: climate change

This study examines how the use of climate information affects climate change adaptation measure adopted by household heads, using data collected from the Upper West region of Ghana. By estimating a recursive bivariate probit model, we show that the use of climate information has no significant impact on the adoption of a climate change adaptation measure. Household heads’ decision to adopt a climate change adaptation measure is positively and significantly affected by household size, members…

Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

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

Analysing the trend of rainfall in Asir region of Saudi Arabia using the family of Mann-Kendall tests, innovative trend analysis, and detrended fluctuation analysis

Authors: Javed Mallick, Swapan Talukdar, Majed Alsubih, Roquia Salam, Mohd. Ahmed, Nabil Ben Kahla et al.

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Climatology · DOI: 10.1007/s00704-020-03448-1 · Citations: 230

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Enhanced Meiyu‐Baiu Rainfall in Early Summer 2020: Aftermath of the 2019 Super IOD Event

Authors: Yuhei Takaya, Ichiro Ishikawa, Chiaki Kobayashi, Hirokazu Endo, Tomoaki Ose

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090671 · Citations: 220

Matched topics: flood

Abstract In early summer 2020, the Meiyu‐Baiu rainfall was markedly enhanced, triggering devastating floods in Japan and central China. We examined the underlying processes using a climate model and analysis. The enhanced Meiyu‐Baiu rainfall was reasonably predicted by the climate model initialized at the end of April. The sensitivity experiment indicated that Indian Ocean (IO) warming enhanced the Meiyu‐Baiu rainfall. Moreover, we found that the warm IO condition can be traced back to the su…

Modeling the combined impacts of deficit irrigation, rising temperature and compost application on wheat yield and water productivity

Authors: Zheli Ding, Esmat F. Ali, Ahmed Elmahdy, Khaled Ragab, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Ahmed M. S. Kheir

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106626 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Occurrence, predictors and hazards of elevated groundwater arsenic across India through field observations and regional-scale AI-based modeling

Authors: Abhijit Mukherjee, Soumyajit Sarkar, Madhumita Chakraborty, Srimanti Duttagupta, Animesh Bhattacharya, Dipankar Saha et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143511 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.

Neural network soil moisture model for irrigation scheduling

Authors: Zhe Gu, Tingting Zhu, Xiyun Jiao, Junzeng Xu, Zhiming Qi

Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105801 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Variability of annual sediment load and runoff in the Yellow River for the last 100 years (1919–2018)

Authors: Hong Wang, Fubao Sun

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143715 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: river, runoff, flood

Abstract not available.

Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 17 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

Authors: G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Ritvik Sahajpal, Steve Frolking, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Katherine Calvin et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-5425-2020 · Citations: 1077

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

Abstract. Human land use activities have resulted in large changes to the biogeochemical and biophysical properties of the Earth’s surface, with consequences for climate and other ecosystem services. In the future, land use activities are likely to expand and/or intensify further to meet growing demands for food, fiber, and energy. As part of the World Climate Research Program Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), the international community has developed the next generation of advan…

What Role Does Hydrological Science Play in the Age of Machine Learning?

Authors: Grey Nearing, Frederik Kratzert, Alden Keefe Sampson, Craig Pelissier, Daniel Klotz, Jonathan Frame et al.

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028091 · Citations: 741

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

Abstract This paper is derived from a keynote talk given at the Google’s 2020 Flood Forecasting Meets Machine Learning Workshop. Recent experiments applying deep learning to rainfall‐runoff simulation indicate that there is significantly more information in large‐scale hydrological data sets than hydrologists have been able to translate into theory or models. While there is a growing interest in machine learning in the hydrological sciences community, in many ways, our community still holds d…

Urban water resource management for sustainable environment planning using artificial intelligence techniques

Authors: Xiaojun Xiang, Qiong Li, Shahnawaz Khan, Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf

Journal: Environmental Impact Assessment Review · DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2020.106515 · Citations: 483

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.

Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017

Authors: Yi Zheng, Ruoque Shen, Yawen Wang, Xiangqian Li, Shuguang Liu, Shunlin Liang et al.

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2725-2020 · Citations: 385

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. Satellite-based models have been widely used to simulate vegetation gross primary production (GPP) at the site, regional, or global scales in recent years. However, accurately reproducing the interannual variations in GPP remains a major challenge, and the long-term changes in GPP remain highly uncertain. In this study, we generated a long-term global GPP dataset at 0.05∘ latitude by 0.05∘ longitude and 8 d interval by revising a light use efficiency model (i.e., EC-LUE model). In t…

A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses

Authors: Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Friederike E. L. Otto, Robert Vautard, Karin van der Wiel et al.

Journal: Advances in statistical climatology, meteorology and oceanography · DOI: 10.5194/ascmo-6-177-2020 · Citations: 304

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract. Over the last few years, methods have been developed to answer questions on the effect of global warming on recent extreme events. Many “event attribution” studies have now been performed, a sizeable fraction even within a few weeks of the event, to increase the usefulness of the results. In doing these analyses, it has become apparent that the attribution itself is only one step of an extended process that leads from the observation of an extreme event to a successfully communicate…

Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A Meta-Analysis

Authors: Nils Ohlendorf, Michael Jakob, Jan C. Minx, Carsten Schröder, Jan Christoph Steckel

Journal: Environmental and Resource Economics · DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00521-1 · Citations: 197

Matched topics: climate change, hydropower

Abstract Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidy reforms in different countries arrive at ambiguous results. To systematically determine the sources of variation between these outcomes, we apply an ordered probit met…

Ionization behavior of nanoporous polyamide membranes

Authors: Cody L. Ritt, Jay R. Werber, Mengyi Wang, Zhongyue Yang, Yumeng Zhao, Heather J. Kulik et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008421117 · Citations: 157

Matched topics: surface water

Escalating global water scarcity necessitates high-performance desalination membranes, for which fundamental understanding of structure-property-performance relationships is required. In this study, we comprehensively assess the ionization behavior of nanoporous polyamide selective layers in state-of-the-art nanofiltration (NF) membranes. In these films, residual carboxylic acids and amines influence permeability and selectivity by imparting hydrophilicity and ionizable moieties that can excl…

High stream flows dilute environmental DNA (eDNA) concentrations and reduce detectability

Authors: Amanda N. Curtis, Jeremy S. Tiemann, Sarah A. Douglass, Mark A. Davis, Eric R. Larson

Journal: Diversity and Distributions · DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13196 · Citations: 135

Matched topics: flood

Abstract Aim Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a rapidly emerging methodology with important applications to environmental management and conservation. However, the effects of stream flow or discharge on eDNA have been minimally investigated in lotic (stream and river) environments. In this study, we examined the role of stream flow on eDNA concentrations and detectability of an invasive clam ( Corbicula fluminea ), while also accounting for other abiotic and biotic variables. Location Illinois, Un…

Authors: Yves Tramblay, Agnieszka Rutkowska, Éric Sauquet, Catherine Sefton, Gregor Laaha, Marzena Osuch et al.

Journal: Hydrological Sciences Journal · DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2020.1849708 · Citations: 125

Matched topics: river

Intermittent rivers are prevalent in many countries across Europe, but little is known about the temporal evolution of intermittence and its relationship with climate variability. Trend analysis of the annual and seasonal number of zero-flow days, the maximum duration of dry spells and the mean date of the zero-flow events is performed on a database of 452 rivers with varying degrees of intermittence between 1970 and 2010. The relationships between flow intermittence and climate are investiga…

Towards a bio-based circular economy in organic waste management and wastewater treatment – The Polish perspective

Authors: Paweł Kaszycki, Marcin Głodniok, Przemysław Petryszak

Journal: New Biotechnology · DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2020.11.005 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: water management

Bio-based solutions are expected to ensure technological circularity in priority areas such as agriculture, biotechnology, ecology, green industry or energy. Although Poland, unlike the other EU member states, has not yet adopted a precise political strategy to promote bioeconomy, it has taken several actions to enable smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. This goal can be achieved by developing selected bioeconomy-related areas such as the biogas industry together with novel technologies …

Environmental conditions influence eDNA particle size distribution in aquatic systems

Authors: Matthew A. Barnes, W. Lindsay Chadderton, Christopher L. Jerde, Andrew R. Mahon, Cameron R. Turner, David M. Lodge

Journal: Environmental DNA · DOI: 10.1002/edn3.160 · Citations: 114

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Knowledge about the size of environmental DNA (eDNA) and eDNA‐bearing particles in aquatic environments is integral to efficient and sensitive analyses. To explore the influence of environmental factors on eDNA particle size distribution (PSD), we manipulated fish communities across nine experimental ponds, which led to differences in a suite of environmental covariates (biochemical oxygen demand, chlorophyll a concentration, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, and turbi…

Automated Processing of Declassified KH-9 Hexagon Satellite Images for Global Elevation Change Analysis Since the 1970s

Authors: Amaury Dehecq, Alex Gardner, Oleg Alexandrov, Scott McMichael, Romain Hugonnet, David Shean et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.566802 · Citations: 112

Matched topics: land surface model

Observing changes in Earth surface topography is crucial for many Earth science disciplines. Documenting these changes over several decades at regional to global scale remains a challenge due to the limited availability of suitable satellite data before the year 2000. Declassified analog satellite images from the American reconnaissance program Hexagon (KH-9), which surveyed nearly all land surfaces from 1972 to 1986 at metric resolution, provide a unique opportunity to fill the gap in observ…

Authors: Edward Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth, Lettie A. Roach, Aaron Donohoe, Qinghua Ding

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0386.1 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) has slightly increased over the satellite observational period (1979 to the present) despite global warming. Several mechanisms have been invoked to explain this trend, such as changes in winds, precipitation, or ocean stratification, yet there is no widespread consensus. Additionally, fully coupled Earth system models run under historic and anthropogenic forcing generally fail to simulate positive SIE trends over this time period. In this work, we quan…

Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

Authors: F. Nardi, C. Cudennec, T. Abrate, Candice Allouch, A. Annis, T. Assumpção et al.

Journal: Hydrological Sciences Journal · DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2020.1849707 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: hydrology, water management

ABSTRACT Widely available digital technologies are empowering citizens who are increasingly well informed and involved in numerous water, climate, and environmental challenges. Citizen science can serve many different purposes, from the “pleasure of doing science” to complementing observations, increasing scientific literacy, and supporting collaborative behaviour to solve specific water management problems. Still, procedures on how to incorporate citizens’ knowledge effectively to inform pol…

SoilGrids 2.0: producing quality-assessed soil information for theglobe

Authors: Luís Moreira de Sousa, Laura Poggio, N.H. Batjes, G.B.M. Heuvelink, Bas Kempen, Eloi Riberio et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.5194/soil-2020-65 · Citations: 101

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract. SoilGrids produces maps of soil properties for the entire globe at medium spatial resolution (250 metres cell size) using state-of-the-art machine learning methods to generate the necessary models. It takes as inputs soil observations from about 240 000 locations worldwide and over 400 global environmental covariates describing vegetation, terrain morphology, climate, geology and hydrology. The aim of this work was the production of quality-assessed global maps of soil properties, w…

Gully prevention and control: Techniques, failures and effectiveness

Authors: Amaury Frankl, Jan Nyssen, Matthias Vanmaercke, Jean Poesen

Journal: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms · DOI: 10.1002/esp.5033 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract Gully erosion is a major environmental problem, posing significant threats to sustainable development. However, insights on techniques to prevent and control gullying are scattered and incomplete, especially regarding failure rates and effectiveness. This review aims to address these issues and contribute to more successful gully prevention and control strategies by synthesizing the data from earlier studies. Preventing gully formation can be done through land use change, applying so…

Deciphering of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and potential abiotic indicators for the emergence of ARGs in an interconnected lake-river-reservoir system

Authors: Yongpeng Zhang, Genxiang Shen, Shuangqing Hu, Yiliang He, Peng Li, Bo Zhang

Journal: Journal of Hazardous Materials · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124552 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: river, reservoir

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