Weekly Literature Review
Week 47 · November 16–November 22, 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
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Performance and relationship of four different agricultural drought indices for drought monitoring in China’s mainland using remote sensing data
- Interactive effects of salinity and drought stress on photosynthetic characteristics and physiology of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) seedlings
- Physiological and environmental control on ecosystem water use efficiency in response to drought across the northern hemisphere
- RETRACTED: Potato CYCLING DOF FACTOR 1 and its lncRNA counterpart StFLORE link tuber development and drought response
- Agricultural drought risk assessment of Northern New South Wales, Australia using geospatial techniques
- A Paeonia ostii caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase confers drought stress tolerance by promoting lignin synthesis and ROS scavenging
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets
- An Unprecedented Set of High‐Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change
- Evaluation of the Large EURO‐CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble
- Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO‐CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble
- Climate change extremes and photovoltaic power output
- Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales
- Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance
- Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models
- “Certain Uncertainty: The Role of Internal Climate Variability in Projections of Regional Climate Change and Risk Management”
- The influence of managers’ awareness of climate change, perceived climate risk exposure and risk tolerance on the adoption of corporate responses to climate change
- Understanding processes that control dust spatial distributions with global climate models and satellite observations
- The role of climate change and vegetation greening on the variation of terrestrial evapotranspiration in northwest China’s Qilian Mountains
- Predicting the invasive trend of exotic plants in China based on the ensemble model under climate change: A case for three invasive plants of Asteraceae
- Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning
- The benefits of increasing resolution in global and regional climate simulations for European climate extremes
- Endocrinology of thermoregulation in birds in a changing climate
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Ensemble Boosting and Bagging Based Machine Learning Models for Groundwater Potential Prediction
- Record‐Breaking Meiyu Rainfall Around the Yangtze River in 2020 Regulated by the Subseasonal Phase Transition of the North Atlantic Oscillation
- CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850–2014) With GISS‐E2.1
- Assessing Human Health Risks from Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS)-Impacted Vegetable Consumption: A Tiered Modeling Approach
- Deep-Learning-Based Gridded Downscaling of Surface Meteorological Variables in Complex Terrain. Part II: Daily Precipitation
- Suitability of 17 gridded rainfall and temperature datasets for large-scale hydrological modelling in West Africa
- Precipitation dominates the transpiration of both the economic forest (Malus pumila) and ecological forest (Robinia pseudoacacia) on the Loess Plateau after about 15 years of water depletion in deep soil
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Green hydrogen in Europe – A regional assessment: Substituting existing production with electrolysis powered by renewables
- Hybrid solar-driven interfacial evaporation systems: Beyond water production towards high solar energy utilization
- The systemic impact of a transition fuel: Does natural gas help or hinder the energy transition?
- A long-term (2005–2016) dataset of hourly integrated land–atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau
- Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems
- Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness
- Statistical Postprocessing for Weather Forecasts: Review, Challenges, and Avenues in a Big Data World
- Reconstruction of missing groundwater level data by using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep neural network
- Recent advances on the treatment technology of oil and gas produced water for sustainable energy industry-mechanistic aspects and process chemistry perspectives
- Deep-Learning-Based Gridded Downscaling of Surface Meteorological Variables in Complex Terrain. Part I: Daily Maximum and Minimum 2-m Temperature
- Artificial intelligence for surface water quality monitoring and assessment: a systematic literature analysis
- Effect of biochar particle size on water retention and availability in a sandy loam soil
- Groundwater Prediction Using Machine-Learning Tools
- Adsorption of pharmaceuticals from aqueous solutions using biochar derived from cotton gin waste and guayule bagasse
- The hydrogeochemical evaluation of groundwater resources and their suitability for agricultural and industrial uses in an arid area of Iran
- 16 years of topographic surveys of rip-channelled high-energy meso-macrotidal sandy beach
- Optimal sizing of the grid-connected hybrid system integrating hydropower, photovoltaic, and wind considering cascade reservoir connection and photovoltaic-wind complementarity
- Natural Resource Abundance, Renewable Energy, and Ecological Footprint Linkage in MENA Countries
- Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 2 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Gori, Anaraki et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Tropical Cyclone Compound Flood Hazard Assessment: From Investigating Drivers to Quantifying Extreme Water Levels
Authors: Avantika Gori, Ning Lin, Dazhi Xi
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001660 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: runoff, flood
Abstract Compound flooding, characterized by the co‐occurrence of multiple flood mechanisms, is a major threat to coastlines across the globe. Tropical cyclones (TCs) are responsible for many compound floods due to their storm surge and intense rainfall. Previous efforts to quantify compound flood hazard have typically adopted statistical approaches that may be unable to fully capture spatio‐temporal dynamics between rainfall‐runoff and storm surge, which ultimately impact total water levels….
Uncertainty Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Flood Frequency by Using Hybrid Machine Learning Methods
Authors: Mahdi Valikhan Anaraki, Saeed Farzin, Sayed‐Farhad Mousavi, Hojat Karami
Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-020-02719-w · Citations: 134
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood, climate change
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 6 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Javed, Örs et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Performance and relationship of four different agricultural drought indices for drought monitoring in China’s mainland using remote sensing data
Authors: Tehseen Javed, Yi Li, Sadaf Rashid, Feng Li, Qiaoyu Hu, Hao Feng et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143530 · Citations: 159
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Interactive effects of salinity and drought stress on photosynthetic characteristics and physiology of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) seedlings
Authors: Selda Örs, Melek Ekinci, Ertan Yıldırım, Üstün Şahin, Metin Turan, Atilla Dursun
Journal: South African Journal of Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2020.10.031 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: drought, irrigation
Sufficient quantity and quality of water are essential for vegetable production. Evaluating the individual and combined effects of drought and salt stress on plant establishment may help inform management of plant production in terms of stabilizing yield. This study investigates the effects of drought and salt stress on plant growth, nutrition elements, and select physiological parameters of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv. H2274) through a pot experiment under greenhouse conditions. Dr…
Physiological and environmental control on ecosystem water use efficiency in response to drought across the northern hemisphere
Authors: Jingxue Zhao, Huaize Feng, Tongren Xu, Jingfeng Xiao, Rossella Guerrieri, Shaomin Liu et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143599 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
RETRACTED: Potato CYCLING DOF FACTOR 1 and its lncRNA counterpart StFLORE link tuber development and drought response
Authors: Lorena Ramírez Gonzales, Li Shi, Sara Bergonzi, Marian Oortwijn, José M. Franco‐Zorrilla, Roberto Solano et al.
Journal: The Plant Journal · DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15093 · Citations: 111
Matched topics: drought
Plants regulate their reproductive cycles under the influence of environmental cues, such as day length, temperature and water availability. In Solanum tuberosum (potato), vegetative reproduction via tuberization is known to be regulated by photoperiod, in a very similar way to flowering. The central clock output transcription factor CYCLING DOF FACTOR 1 (StCDF1) was shown to regulate tuberization. We now show that StCDF1, together with a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) counterpart, named StFLOR…
Agricultural drought risk assessment of Northern New South Wales, Australia using geospatial techniques
Authors: Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Biswajeet Pradhan, Naser Ahmed, Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143600 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
A Paeonia ostii caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase confers drought stress tolerance by promoting lignin synthesis and ROS scavenging
Authors: Daqiu Zhao, Yuting Luan, Wenbo Shi, Xiayan Zhang, Jiasong Meng, Jun Tao
Journal: Plant Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110765 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 16 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets
Authors: Maialen Iturbide, José Manuel Gutiérrez, Lincoln Muniz Alves, Joaquín Bedia, Ruth Cerezo‐Mota, Ezequiel Cimadevilla et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2959-2020 · Citations: 650
Matched topics: hydrologic model, earth system model
Abstract. Several sets of reference regions have been used in the literature for the regional synthesis of observed and modelled climate and climate change information. A popular example is the series of reference regions used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Adaptation (SREX). The SREX regions were slightly modified for the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC and used for reporting …
An Unprecedented Set of High‐Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change
Authors: Ping Chang, Shaoqing Zhang, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Stephen Yeager, Haohuan Fu, Hong Wang et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002298 · Citations: 345
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change, earth system model
Abstract We present an unprecedented set of high‐resolution climate simulations, consisting of a 500‐year pre‐industrial control simulation and a 250‐year historical and future climate simulation from 1850 to 2100. A high‐resolution configuration of the Community Earth System Model version 1.3 (CESM1.3) is used for the simulations with a nominal horizontal resolution of 0.25° for the atmosphere and land models and 0.1° for the ocean and sea‐ice models. At these resolutions, the model permits …
Evaluation of the Large EURO‐CORDEX Regional Climate Model Ensemble
Authors: Robert Vautard, Nikolay Kadygrov, Carley Iles, Fredrik Boberg, Erasmo Buonomo, Katharina Bülow et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2019jd032344 · Citations: 308
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The use of regional climate model (RCM)‐based projections for providing regional climate information in a research and climate service contexts is currently expanding very fast. This has been possible thanks to a considerable effort in developing comprehensive ensembles of RCM projections, especially for Europe, in the EURO‐CORDEX community (Jacob et al., 2014, 2020). As of end of 2019, EURO‐CORDEX has developed a set of 55 historical and scenario projections (RCP8.5) using 8 driving…
Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO‐CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble
Authors: Erika Coppola, Rita Nogherotto, James Ciarlo, Filippo Giorgi, Erik van Meijgaard, Nikolay Kadygrov et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2019jd032356 · Citations: 296
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract This paper analyzes the ensemble of regional climate model (RCM) projections for Europe completed within the EURO‐CORDEX project. Projections are available for the two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios RCP2.6 (22 members) and RCP8.5 (55 members) at 0.11° resolution from 11 RCMs driven by eight global climate models (GCMs). The RCM ensemble results are compared with the driving CMIP5 global models but also with a subset of available last generation CMIP6 projections. Maximum warm…
Climate change extremes and photovoltaic power output
Authors: Sarah Féron, Raúl R. Cordero, Alessandro Damiani, Robert B. Jackson
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-00643-w · Citations: 222
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales
Authors: Martha C. Anderson, Yang Yang, Jie Xue, Kyle Knipper, Yun Yang, Feng Gao et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112189 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: water management, land surface model, earth system model
Land-surface temperature retrieved from thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing has proven to be a valuable constraint in surface energy balance models for estimating evapotranspiration (ET). For optimal utility in agricultural water management applications, frequent thermal imaging (<4-day revisit) at sub-field (100 m or less) spatial resolution is desired. While, the current suite of Landsat satellites (7 and 8) provides the required spatial resolution, the 8-day combined revisit can be inade…
Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance
Authors: Chi Chen, Dan Li, Yue Li, Shilong Piao, Xuhui Wang, Maoyi Huang et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb1981 · Citations: 154
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
≤ 0.1), 30% of the global vegetated area is cooled by these trends and 5% is warmed. Aerodynamic resistance is the dominant factor in controlling Earth greening’s biophysical impacts: The increase in LAI produces a decrease in aerodynamic resistance, thereby favoring increased turbulent heat transfer between the land and the atmosphere, especially latent heat flux.
Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models
Authors: Lena Boysen, Victor Brovkin, Julia Pongratz, David M. Lawrence, Peter Lawrence, Nicolas Vuichard et al.
Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-5615-2020 · Citations: 152
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Changes in forest cover have a strong effect on climate through the alteration of surface biogeophysical and biogeochemical properties that affect energy, water and carbon exchange with the atmosphere. To quantify biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects of deforestation in a consistent setup, nine Earth system models (ESMs) carried out an idealized experiment in the framework of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, phase 6 (CMIP6). Starting from their pre-industrial state, m…
“Certain Uncertainty: The Role of Internal Climate Variability in Projections of Regional Climate Change and Risk Management”
Authors: Clara Deser
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001854 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Abstract Internal climate variability co‐exists with anthropogenic climate change and places limits on the accuracy of regional climate projections due to its inherent unpredictability. This “certain” uncertainty in regional projections introduced by internal variability contrasts with uncertainty resulting from structural differences amongst climate models, which is potentially reducible as climate models improve. Initial‐condition “Large Ensembles” of simulations with individual climate mod…
The influence of managers’ awareness of climate change, perceived climate risk exposure and risk tolerance on the adoption of corporate responses to climate change
Authors: Niccolò Maria Todaro, Francesco Testa, Tiberio Daddi, Fabio Iraldo
Journal: Business Strategy and the Environment · DOI: 10.1002/bse.2681 · Citations: 126
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Uncertainties posed by climate change limit companies’ ability to understand implications of global warming on business and society at large, hampering the adoption of tangible organizational responses to climate change. Understanding climate action thus requires to investigate influential factors of decision‐making under uncertainty, which implies acknowledging managerial interpretations and perceptions about climate issues. Drawing insights from the literature on climate inaction a…
Understanding processes that control dust spatial distributions with global climate models and satellite observations
Authors: Mingxuan Wu, Xiaohong Liu, Hongbin Yu, Hailong Wang, Yang Shi, Kang Yang et al.
Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-13835-2020 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. Dust aerosol is important in modulating the climate system at local and global scales, yet its spatiotemporal distributions simulated by global climate models (GCMs) are highly uncertain. In this study, we evaluate the spatiotemporal variations of dust extinction profiles and dust optical depth (DOD) simulated by the Community Earth System Model version 1 (CESM1) and version 2 (CESM2), the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 (E3SMv1), and the Modern-Era Retrospective analys…
The role of climate change and vegetation greening on the variation of terrestrial evapotranspiration in northwest China’s Qilian Mountains
Authors: Linshan Yang, Qi Feng, Jan Adamowski, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Zhenliang Yin, Xiaohu Wen et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143532 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change
Abstract not available.
Predicting the invasive trend of exotic plants in China based on the ensemble model under climate change: A case for three invasive plants of Asteraceae
Authors: Yaqin Fang, Xuhui Zhang, Haiyan Wei, Daju Wang, Ruidun Chen, Lukun Wang et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143841 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning
Authors: Laura Mansfield, Peer Nowack, Matthew Kasoar, Richard G. Everitt, W. J. Collins, Apostolos Voulgarakis
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-00148-5 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Abstract Understanding and estimating regional climate change under different anthropogenic emission scenarios is pivotal for informing societal adaptation and mitigation measures. However, the high computational complexity of state-of-the-art climate models remains a central bottleneck in this endeavour. Here we introduce a machine learning approach, which utilises a unique dataset of existing climate model simulations to learn relationships between short-term and long-term temperature respo…
The benefits of increasing resolution in global and regional climate simulations for European climate extremes
Authors: Carley Iles, Robert Vautard, Jane Strachan, Sylvie Joussaume, Bernd R. Eggen, Chris Hewitt
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-5583-2020 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. Many climate extremes, including heatwaves and heavy precipitation events, are projected to worsen under climate change, with important impacts for society. Future projections required for adaptation are often based on climate model simulations. Given finite resources, trade-offs must be made concerning model resolution, ensemble size, and level of model complexity. Here we focus on the resolution component. A given resolution can be achieved over a region using either global climat…
Endocrinology of thermoregulation in birds in a changing climate
Authors: Suvi Ruuskanen, Bin‐Yan Hsu, Andreas Nord
Journal: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology · DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.111088 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: climate change
The ability to maintain a (relatively) stable body temperature in a wide range of thermal environments by use of endogenous heat production is a unique feature of endotherms such as birds. Endothermy is acquired and regulated via various endocrine and molecular pathways, and ultimately allows wide aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial distribution in variable environments. However, due to our changing climate, birds are faced with potential new challenges for thermoregulation, such as more frequen…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 7 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Ensemble Boosting and Bagging Based Machine Learning Models for Groundwater Potential Prediction
Authors: Amirhosein Mosavi, Farzaneh Sajedi Hosseini, Bahram Choubin, Massoud Goodarzi, Adrienn Dineva, Elham Rafiei Sardooi
Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-020-02704-3 · Citations: 257
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Record‐Breaking Meiyu Rainfall Around the Yangtze River in 2020 Regulated by the Subseasonal Phase Transition of the North Atlantic Oscillation
Authors: Boqi Liu, Yuhan Yan, Congwen Zhu, Shuangmei Ma, Jianying Li
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090342 · Citations: 237
Matched topics: river
Abstract In 2020, the Yangtze River (YR) suffered a long‐persisting Meiyu season. The accumulated rainfall broke its record since 1961 and caused severe flooding and death in China. Our results show the sequential warm and cold Meiyu front regulated by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) was responsible for this unexpected extreme Meiyu event. From 11 to 25 June with the positive NAO, the interaction between the South Asian High (SAH) and the western Pacific subtropical high maintained a war…
CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850–2014) With GISS‐E2.1
Authors: R. L. Miller, Gavin A. Schmidt, Larissa Nazarenko, Susanne E. Bauer, Maxwell Kelley, Reto Rüedy et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002034 · Citations: 176
Matched topics: irrigation, earth system model
Abstract Simulations of the CMIP6 historical period 1850–2014, characterized by the emergence of anthropogenic climate drivers like greenhouse gases, are presented for different configurations of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Earth System ModelE2.1. The GISS‐E2.1 ensembles are more sensitive to greenhouse gas forcing than their CMIP5 predecessors (GISS‐E2) but warm less during recent decades due to a forcing reduction that is attributed to greater longwave opacity in the…
Assessing Human Health Risks from Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS)-Impacted Vegetable Consumption: A Tiered Modeling Approach
Authors: Juliane B. Brown, Jason Conder, Jennifer Arblaster, Christopher P. Higgins
Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03411 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: irrigation
Irrigation water or soil contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) raises concerns among regulators tasked with protecting human health from potential PFAS-contaminated food crops, with several studies identifying crop uptake as an important exposure pathway. We estimated daily dietary exposure intake of individual PFASs in vegetables for children and adults using Monte Carlo simulation in a tiered stochastic modeling approach: exposures were the highest for young children…
Deep-Learning-Based Gridded Downscaling of Surface Meteorological Variables in Complex Terrain. Part II: Daily Precipitation
Authors: Yingkai Sha, David John Gagne, Gregory West, Roland B. Stull
Journal: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-20-0058.1 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: hydrologic model, earth system model
Abstract Statistical downscaling (SD) derives localized information from larger-scale numerical models. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have learning and generalization abilities that can enhance the downscaling of gridded data (Part I of this study experimented with 2-m temperature). In this research, we adapt a semantic-segmentation CNN, called UNet, to the downscaling of daily precipitation in western North America, from the low resolution (LR) of 0.25° to the high resolution (HR) of …
Suitability of 17 gridded rainfall and temperature datasets for large-scale hydrological modelling in West Africa
Authors: Moctar Dembélé, Bettina Schaefli, Nick van de Giesen, Grégoire Mariethoz
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-5379-2020 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract. This study evaluates the ability of different gridded rainfall datasets to plausibly represent the spatio-temporal patterns of multiple hydrological processes (i.e. streamflow, actual evaporation, soil moisture and terrestrial water storage) for large-scale hydrological modelling in the predominantly semi-arid Volta River basin (VRB) in West Africa. Seventeen precipitation products based essentially on gauge-corrected satellite data (TAMSAT, CHIRPS, ARC, RFE, MSWEP, GSMaP, PERSIANN-…
Precipitation dominates the transpiration of both the economic forest (Malus pumila) and ecological forest (Robinia pseudoacacia) on the Loess Plateau after about 15 years of water depletion in deep soil
Authors: Wenjie Wu, Huijie Li, Hao Feng, Bingcheng Si, Guangjie Chen, Tingfang Meng et al.
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108244 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 19 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Green hydrogen in Europe – A regional assessment: Substituting existing production with electrolysis powered by renewables
Authors: Georgia Kakoulaki, Ioannis Kougias, N. Taylor, Francesco Dolci, José Moya, Arnulf Jäger‐Waldau
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113649 · Citations: 560
Matched topics: hydropower
The increasing ambition of climate targets creates a major role for hydrogen especially in achieving carbon-neutrality in sectors presently difficult to decarbonise. This work examines to what extent the currently carbon-intensive hydrogen production in Europe could be replaced by water electrolysis using electricity from renewable energy resources (RES) such as solar photovoltaic, onshore/offshore wind and hydropower (green hydrogen). The study assesses the technical potential of RES at regi…
Hybrid solar-driven interfacial evaporation systems: Beyond water production towards high solar energy utilization
Authors: Tianpeng Ding, Yi Zhou, Wei Li Ong, Ghim Wei Ho
Journal: Materials Today · DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2020.10.022 · Citations: 504
Matched topics: water management, surface water
Abstract not available.
The systemic impact of a transition fuel: Does natural gas help or hinder the energy transition?
Authors: C. Gürsan, Vincent de Gooyert
Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.110552 · Citations: 335
Matched topics: hydropower
In the Paris Agreement, many nations set ambitious global goals to stabilize and reduce carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. A large share of these emissions is caused by electricity production. Scientists have been debating the viability of using natural gas as a transition fuel while renewable energies mature technologically and economically. Although natural gas might help the energy transition by reducing emissions compared to coal, there are other long-term implications of invest…
A long-term (2005–2016) dataset of hourly integrated land–atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Zhipeng Xie, Weiqiang Ma, Binbin Wang, Xuelong Chen et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2937-2020 · Citations: 244
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a critical role in influencing regional and global climate, via both thermal and dynamical mechanisms. Meanwhile, as the largest high-elevation part of the cryosphere outside the polar regions, with vast areas of mountain glaciers, permafrost and seasonally frozen ground, the TP is characterized as an area sensitive to global climate change. However, meteorological stations are biased and sparsely distributed over the TP, owing to the harsh environment…
Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems
Authors: Zhenci Xu, Xiuzhi Chen, Jianguo Liu, Yu Zhang, Sophia N. Chau, Nishan Bhattarai et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19520-3 · Citations: 244
Matched topics: hydropower, irrigation, earth system model
nexus in other parts of the world to achieve global sustainability.
Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness
Authors: Julia K. Green, Joseph A. Berry, Philippe Ciais, Yao Zhang, Pierre Gentine
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb7232 · Citations: 237
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
These results can be largely explained by changes in canopy properties, specifically, new leaves flushed during the dry season have higher photosynthetic capacity than the leaves they replace, compensating for the negative stomatal response to increased dryness. As atmospheric dryness will increase with climate change, our study highlights the importance of reframing how we represent the response of ecosystem photosynthesis to atmospheric dryness in very wet regions, to accurately quantify th…
Statistical Postprocessing for Weather Forecasts: Review, Challenges, and Avenues in a Big Data World
Authors: Stéphane Vannitsem, John Bjørnar Bremnes, Jonathan Demaeyer, Gavin R. Evans, Jonathan Flowerdew, Stephan Hemri et al.
Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-19-0308.1 · Citations: 180
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, earth system model
Abstract Statistical postprocessing techniques are nowadays key components of the forecasting suites in many national meteorological services (NMS), with, for most of them, the objective of correcting the impact of different types of errors on the forecasts. The final aim is to provide optimal, automated, seamless forecasts for end users. Many techniques are now flourishing in the statistical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological, and engineering communities. The methods range in comp…
Reconstruction of missing groundwater level data by using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep neural network
Authors: M.T. Vu, Abderrahim Jardani, Nicolas Masséi, Matthieu Fournier
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125776 · Citations: 170
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Recent advances on the treatment technology of oil and gas produced water for sustainable energy industry-mechanistic aspects and process chemistry perspectives
Authors: Abass A. Olajire
Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal Advances · DOI: 10.1016/j.ceja.2020.100049 · Citations: 158
Matched topics: water management, surface water
Produced water (PW) is the largest volume of wastewater generated during oil and gas recovery operations. It is a complex mixture of dissolved and particulate inorganic and organic matters ranging from near freshwater quality to concentrated saline brine. The management of PW has been the main focus of oil and gas industry in view of the stringent legislations on the discharge of oil and gas PW into the environment and the potential of PW as a source of fresh water, which hitherto comes from …
Deep-Learning-Based Gridded Downscaling of Surface Meteorological Variables in Complex Terrain. Part I: Daily Maximum and Minimum 2-m Temperature
Authors: Yingkai Sha, David John Gagne, Gregory West, Roland B. Stull
Journal: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-20-0057.1 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model
Abstract Many statistical downscaling methods require observational inputs and expert knowledge and thus cannot be generalized well across different regions. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are deep-learning models that have generalization abilities for various applications. In this research, we modify UNet, a semantic-segmentation CNN, and apply it to the downscaling of daily maximum/minimum 2-m temperature (TMAX/TMIN) over the western continental United States from 0.25° to 4-km grid s…
Artificial intelligence for surface water quality monitoring and assessment: a systematic literature analysis
Authors: Joshua O. Ighalo, A. Adeniyi, Gonçalo Marques
Journal: Modeling Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s40808-020-01041-z · Citations: 118
Matched topics: surface water
Abstract not available.
Effect of biochar particle size on water retention and availability in a sandy loam soil
Authors: Abdulaziz G. Alghamdi, Arafat Alkhasha, Hesham M. Ibrahim
Journal: Journal of Saudi Chemical Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.jscs.2020.11.003 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: irrigation
The ability of biochar to enhance the physical and hydrological properties of light textured soils is highly dependent on the characteristics of biochar including its particle size. To investigate the effect of biochar particle size on water characteristics and soil structure of a sandy loam soil, date palm biochar prepared at a pyrolysis temperature of 450–500 °C was fractioned by dry sieving into four sizes: 2–1, 1–0.5, 0.5–0.1, and <0.1 mm, and mixed in soil pots with a sandy loam soil at …
Groundwater Prediction Using Machine-Learning Tools
Authors: Eslam A. Hussein, Christopher Thron, Mehrdad Ghaziasgar, Antoine Bagula, M. Vaccari
Journal: Algorithms · DOI: 10.3390/a13110300 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
Predicting groundwater availability is important to water sustainability and drought mitigation. Machine-learning tools have the potential to improve groundwater prediction, thus enabling resource planners to: (1) anticipate water quality in unsampled areas or depth zones; (2) design targeted monitoring programs; (3) inform groundwater protection strategies; and (4) evaluate the sustainability of groundwater sources of drinking water. This paper proposes a machine-learning approach to groundw…
Adsorption of pharmaceuticals from aqueous solutions using biochar derived from cotton gin waste and guayule bagasse
Authors: Marlene C. Ndoun, Herschel A. Elliott, Heather E. Preisendanz, Clinton F. Williams, Allan Knopf, John E. Watson
Journal: Biochar · DOI: 10.1007/s42773-020-00070-2 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract Biochars produced from cotton gin waste (CG) and guayule bagasse (GB) were characterized and explored as potential adsorbents for the removal of pharmaceuticals (sulfapyridine-SPY, docusate-DCT and erythromycin-ETM) from aqueous solution. An increase in biochar pyrolysis temperature from 350 ο C to 700 ο C led to an increase in pH, specific surface area, and surface hydrophobicity. The electronegative surface of all tested biochars indicated that non-Coulombic mechanisms were involve…
The hydrogeochemical evaluation of groundwater resources and their suitability for agricultural and industrial uses in an arid area of Iran
Authors: Vahab Amiri, Prosun Bhattacharya, Mohammad Nakhaei
Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100527 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
16 years of topographic surveys of rip-channelled high-energy meso-macrotidal sandy beach
Authors: Bruno Castelle, Stéphane Bujan, Vincent Marieu, Sophie Ferreira
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00750-5 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
individual sand level measurements at the high-energy meso-macrotidal rip-channelled Truc Vert beach, southwest France. Monthly to bimonthly topographic surveys, which coverage progressively extended from 300 m to over 2000 m to describe the alongshore-variable changes, are completed by daily topographic surveys acquired during a 5-week field campaign. The dataset captures daily beach response at the scale of a storm to three large cycles of interannual variability, through the impact of the …
Optimal sizing of the grid-connected hybrid system integrating hydropower, photovoltaic, and wind considering cascade reservoir connection and photovoltaic-wind complementarity
Authors: Yusheng Zhang, J. Lian, Chao Ma, Yang Yang, Xiulan Pang, Lu Wang
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123100 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract Determining the optimal capacity is an urgent problem in the planning and construction stages of hybrid systems. This study focused on exploring a universal method for determining the capacity configuration for the grid-connected integrated system incorporating cascade hydropower, solar/photovoltaic (PV), and wind considering cascade reservoir connection and PV-wind complementarity. First, the wind and solar energy complementarity considering the resources characteristics, and the me…
Natural Resource Abundance, Renewable Energy, and Ecological Footprint Linkage in MENA Countries
Authors: Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Bosede Ngozi Adeleye, Festus Fatai Adedoyin
Journal: Studies of Applied Economics · DOI: 10.25115/eea.v39i2.3927 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: hydropower
Apart from being vulnerable to the menace created by climate change, the MENA countries consume more of non-renewable energy despite their resource endowments and great renewable energy potentials. Energy consumption, natural resource exploration and urbanization may add to environmental degradation since ecological distortions emanate from human activities. This study investigates the effects of the aforementioned variables on the ecological footprint in MENA countries. The findings confirm …
Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
Authors: Jennifer F. Arthur, Chris R. Stokes, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, J. Rachel Carr, Amber Leeson
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-4103-2020 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: hydrology, seasonal
Abstract. Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) enhance surface melting and can flex and fracture ice shelves when they grow and subsequently drain, potentially leading to ice shelf disintegration. However, the seasonal evolution of SGLs and their influence on ice shelf stability in East Antarctica remains poorly understood, despite some potentially vulnerable ice shelves having high densities of SGLs. Using optical satellite imagery, air temperature data from climate reanalysis products and surface melt…
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| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 2 |
| Science Advances | 2 |
| Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 2 |
| South African Journal of Botany | 1 |
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| Plant Science | 1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| Biogeosciences | 1 |
| Business Strategy and the Environment | 1 |
| Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
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| Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology | 1 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 1 |
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| Energy Conversion and Management | 1 |
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| Nature Communications | 1 |
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| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| Chemical Engineering Journal Advances | 1 |
| Modeling Earth Systems and Environment | 1 |
| Journal of Saudi Chemical Society | 1 |
| Algorithms | 1 |
| Biochar | 1 |
| Groundwater for Sustainable Development | 1 |
| Scientific Data | 1 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Studies of Applied Economics | 1 |
| The cryosphere | 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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