Weekly Literature Review

Week 42 · October 12–October 18, 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. Urbanization and climate change impacts on future flood risk in the Pearl River Delta under shared socioeconomic pathways
    2. Can deep learning algorithms outperform benchmark machine learning algorithms in flood susceptibility modeling?
    3. Flood susceptibility assessment using extreme gradient boosting (EGB), Iran
    4. Modeling Spatial Flood using Novel Ensemble Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Northern Iran
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest
    2. Monitoring of agricultural drought in semi-arid ecosystem of Peninsular India through indices derived from time-series CHIRPS and MODIS datasets
    3. The other side of droughts: wet extremes and topography as buffers of negative drought effects in an Amazonian forest
    4. CmLOX10 positively regulates drought tolerance through jasmonic acid -mediated stomatal closure in oriental melon (Cucumis melo var. makuwa Makino)
    5. The SlWRKY81 transcription factor inhibits stomatal closure by attenuating nitric oxide accumulation in the guard cells of tomato under drought
    6. Physiological and transcription analyses reveal the regulatory mechanism of melatonin in inducing drought resistance in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) seedlings
    7. Tracking seasonal and monthly drought with GRACE-based terrestrial water storage assessments over major river basins in South India
    8. Drought priming improved water status, photosynthesis and water productivity of cowpea during post-anthesis drought stress
    9. Asymmetric impact of groundwater use on groundwater droughts
  4. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Bias-corrected climate projections for South Asia from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project-6
    2. Waste Polypropylene Plastic Recycling toward Climate Change Mitigation and Circular Economy: Energy, Environmental, and Technoeconomic Perspectives
    3. On the Use of the Term “Evapotranspiration”
    4. Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change
    5. Impacts of climate change and human activities on runoff change in a typical arid watershed, NW China
    6. Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency show seasonal responses in a multifactorial climate change experiment
    7. Double trouble: the implications of climate change for biological invasions
    8. Vegetation forcing modulates global land monsoon and water resources in a CO2-enriched climate
    9. Evaluating the Performance of Climate Models Based on Wasserstein Distance
    10. Evolution characteristics of groundwater and its response to climate and land-cover changes in the oasis of dried-up river in Tarim Basin
    11. Soil Evaporation Stress Determines Soil Moisture‐Evapotranspiration Coupling Strength in Land Surface Modeling
    12. How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change
  5. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. River water quality index prediction and uncertainty analysis: A comparative study of machine learning models
    2. CAMELS-GB: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain
    3. Rainfall-Runoff Prediction at Multiple Timescales with a Single Long Short-Term Memory Network
    4. PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared–Rain Rate (PDIR-Now): A Near-Real-Time, Quasi-Global Satellite Precipitation Dataset
    5. Organic fertilizer reduced carbon and nitrogen in runoff and buffered soil acidification in tea plantations: Evidence in nutrient contents and isotope fractionations.
    6. What is wrong with post‐fire soil erosion modelling? A meta‐analysis on current approaches, research gaps, and future directions
    7. Sensitivity of Atmospheric River Vapor Transport and Precipitation to Uniform Sea Surface Temperature Increases
    8. Which rainfall score is more informative about the performance in river discharge simulation? A comprehensive assessment on 1318 basins over Europe
    9. On the importance of predictor choice, modelling technique, and number of pseudo‐absences for bioclimatic envelope model performance
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities
    2. Understanding and managing new risks on the Nile with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
    3. CA-Markov Chain Analysis of Seasonal Land Surface Temperature and Land Use Land Cover Change Using Optical Multi-Temporal Satellite Data of Faisalabad, Pakistan
    4. Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience
    5. Evaluation of drinking and irrigation suitability of groundwater with special emphasizing the health risk posed by nitrate contamination using nitrate pollution index (NPI) and human health risk assessment (HHRA)
    6. Water infiltration in a cracked soil considering effect of drying-wetting cycles
    7. Long-term alterations of flow regimes of the Mekong River and adaptation strategies for the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
    8. Weak tradeoff between xylem hydraulic efficiency and safety: climatic seasonality matters
    9. Improving the accuracy of electricity carbon footprint: Estimation of hydroelectric reservoir greenhouse gas emissions
    10. Spatiotemporal water quality variations and their relationship with hydrological conditions in Dongting Lake after the operation of the Three Gorges Dam, China
    11. Enzyme Recovery from Biological Wastewater Treatment
    12. Digital mapping of soil texture classes using Random Forest classification algorithm
    13. Best Practices for Evaluating New Materials as Adsorbents for Water Treatment
    14. Impact of a New Sea Ice Thermodynamic Formulation in the CESM2 Sea Ice Component
    15. A coupled human-natural system analysis of water yield in the Yellow River basin, China
    16. Assessing glacier retreat and its impact on water resources in a headwater of Yangtze River based on CMIP6 projections
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. 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 Chen, Pham et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Urbanization and climate change impacts on future flood risk in the Pearl River Delta under shared socioeconomic pathways

Authors: Xiaoli Chen, Han Zhang, Wenjie Chen, Guoru Huang

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143144 · Citations: 178

Matched topics: river, flood, climate change

Climate change and urbanization are converging to challenge the flood control in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) due to their adverse impacts on precipitation extremes and the urban areas environment. Previous studies have investigated temporal changes in flood risk with various single factor, few have considered the joint effects of climate change, urbanization and socio-economic development. Here, based on the representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios, we conducted a comprehensive as…


Can deep learning algorithms outperform benchmark machine learning algorithms in flood susceptibility modeling?

Authors: Binh Thai Pham, Chinh Luu, Tran Van Phong, Phan Trọng Trịnh, Ataollah Shirzadi, Somayeh Renoud et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125615 · Citations: 145

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Flood susceptibility assessment using extreme gradient boosting (EGB), Iran

Authors: Sajjad Mirzaei, Mehdi Vafakhah, Biswajeet Pradhan, Seyed Jalil Alavi

Journal: Earth Science Informatics · DOI: 10.1007/s12145-020-00530-0 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Modeling Spatial Flood using Novel Ensemble Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Northern Iran

Authors: Alireza Arabameri, Sunil Saha, Kaustuv Mukherjee, Thomas Blaschke, Wei Chen, Phuong Thao Thi Ngo et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12203423 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood

The uncertainty of flash flood makes them highly difficult to predict through conventional models. The physical hydrologic models of flash flood prediction of any large area is very difficult to compute as it requires lot of data and time. Therefore remote sensing data based models (from statistical to machine learning) have become highly popular due to open data access and lesser prediction times. There is a continuous effort to improve the prediction accuracy of these models through introdu…


Drought Analysis and Prediction

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

Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest

Authors: Ian R. McGregor, Ryan Helcoski, Norbert Kunert, Alan J. Tepley, Erika Gonzalez‐Akre, Valentine Herrmann et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.16996 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: drought

As climate change drives increased drought in many forested regions, mechanistic understanding of the factors conferring drought tolerance in trees is increasingly important. The dendrochronological record provides a window through which we can understand how tree size and traits shape growth responses to droughts. We analyzed tree-ring records for 12 species in a broadleaf deciduous forest in Virginia (USA) to test hypotheses for how tree height, microenvironment characteristics, and species…


Monitoring of agricultural drought in semi-arid ecosystem of Peninsular India through indices derived from time-series CHIRPS and MODIS datasets

Authors: P. Sandeep, G. P. Obi Reddy, R. Jegankumar, Karikkathil C. Arun Kumar

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107033 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: drought, surface water

The reliable and consistent remote sensing-based drought indices along with Geographic Information System (GIS) play a significant role in the mapping, and monitoring of agricultural drought. The core objective of the present study is to monitor agricultural drought dynamics over the semi-arid Rayalaseema region of Peninsular India during the year 2000 to 2018 by using the Normalized Vegetation Supply Water Index (NVSWI) derived from time-series remote sensing data products. NVSWI is the norm…


The other side of droughts: wet extremes and topography as buffers of negative drought effects in an Amazonian forest

Authors: Erick J. L. Esteban, Carolina V. Castilho, Karina Melgaço, Flávia R. C. Costa

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17005 · Citations: 91

Matched topics: drought

There is a consensus about negative impacts of droughts in Amazonia. Yet, extreme wet episodes, which are becoming as severe and frequent as droughts, are overlooked and their impacts remain poorly understood. Moreover, drought reports are mostly based on forests over a deep water table (DWT), which may be particularly sensitive to dry conditions. Based on demographic responses of 30 abundant tree species over the past two decades, in this study we analyzed the impacts of severe droughts but …


CmLOX10 positively regulates drought tolerance through jasmonic acid -mediated stomatal closure in oriental melon (Cucumis melo var. makuwa Makino)

Authors: Qiaojuan Xing, Jingjing Liao, Songxiao Cao, Meng Li, Tinghui Lv, Hongyan Qi

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74550-7 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: drought

Drought stress severely impairs plant growth and production. Lipoxygenase (LOX), a master regulator for lipid peroxidation, is critical for direct or indirect response to abiotic stresses. Here, we found that drought stress induced the transcription of CmLOX10 in leaves of oriental melon seedlings. Reverse genetic approaches and physiological analyses revealed that silencing CmLOX10 increased drought susceptibility and stomatal aperture in oriental melon seedlings, and that ectopic overexpres…


The SlWRKY81 transcription factor inhibits stomatal closure by attenuating nitric oxide accumulation in the guard cells of tomato under drought

Authors: Golam Jalal Ahammed, Xin Li, Qi Mao, Hongjian Wan, Guozhi Zhou, Yuan Cheng

Journal: Physiologia Plantarum · DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13243 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: drought

The WRKY transcription factors (TFs) play multifaceted roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. Previously, we found that SlWRKY81 negatively regulates tomato tolerance to drought; however, the mechanisms of stomatal regulation in response to drought remain largely unclear. Here, we showed that drought-induced upregulation in the SlWRKY81 transcripts induced photoinhibition and reduced the net photosynthetic rate in tomato leaves. However, silencing SlWRKY81 alleviated those i…


Physiological and transcription analyses reveal the regulatory mechanism of melatonin in inducing drought resistance in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) seedlings

Authors: Dan Wang, Qiyang Chen, Weiwei Chen, Qigao Guo, Yan Xia, Shuming Wang et al.

Journal: Environmental and Experimental Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104291 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Tracking seasonal and monthly drought with GRACE-based terrestrial water storage assessments over major river basins in South India

Authors: K. Satish Kumar, E. Venkata Rathnam, Venkataramana Sridhar

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142994 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, streamflow, drought, seasonal, land surface model

Abstract not available.


Drought priming improved water status, photosynthesis and water productivity of cowpea during post-anthesis drought stress

Authors: Moussa Tankari, Chao Wang, Haiyang Ma, Xiangnan Li, Li Li, Rajesh Kumar Soothar et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106565 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Asymmetric impact of groundwater use on groundwater droughts

Authors: Doris E. Wendt, Anne F. Van Loon, John P. Bloomfield, David M. Hannah

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-4853-2020 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: streamflow, water management, drought

Abstract. Groundwater use affects groundwater storage continuously as the removal of water changes both short-term and long-term groundwater level variation. This has implications for groundwater droughts, i.e. a below-normal groundwater level. The impact of groundwater use on groundwater droughts, however, remains unknown. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the impact of groundwater use on groundwater droughts in the absence of actual abstraction data. We present a methodological…


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 12 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Bias-corrected climate projections for South Asia from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project-6

Authors: Vimal Mishra, Udit Bhatia, Amar Deep Tiwari

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00681-1 · Citations: 397

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

century. The bias-corrected projections from CMIP6-GCMs can be used for climate change impact assessment in South Asia and hydrologic impact assessment in the sub-continental river basins.


Waste Polypropylene Plastic Recycling toward Climate Change Mitigation and Circular Economy: Energy, Environmental, and Technoeconomic Perspectives

Authors: Raaj R. Bora, Ralph C. Wang, Fengqi You

Journal: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c06311 · Citations: 202

Matched topics: climate change

Chemical recycling has the potential to reduce the environmental impacts from waste plastics, mitigate climate change, and contribute to circular economy. This study compares the environmental and economic performance of two such technologies, fast pyrolysis and gasification, with conventional disposal methods for treating polypropylene (PP) waste. High-fidelity process simulations for each technology are conducted to obtain the necessary mass, energy, and economic data for subsequent analyse…


On the Use of the Term “Evapotranspiration”

Authors: Diego G. Miralles, Wilfried Brutsaert, A. J. Dolman, J. H. C. Gash

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028055 · Citations: 161

Matched topics: hydrology

Evaporation is the phenomenon by which a substance is converted from its liquid into its vapor phase, independently of where it lies in nature. However, language is alive, and just like regular speech, scientific terminology changes. Frequently, those changes are grounded on a solid rationale, but sometimes these semantic transitions have a fragile foundation. That is the case with “evapotranspiration.” A growing generation of scientists have been educated on using this terminology and are un…


Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change

Authors: Nathalie Butt, Aliénor L. M. Chauvenet, Vanessa M. Adams, Maria Beger, Rachael V. Gallagher, Danielle F. Shanahan et al.

Journal: Conservation Biology · DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13643 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: climate change

Species that cannot adapt or keep pace with a changing climate are likely to need human intervention to shift to more suitable climates. While hundreds of articles mention using translocation as a climate-change adaptation tool, in practice, assisted migration as a conservation action remains rare, especially for animals. This is likely due to concern over introducing species to places where they may become invasive. However, there are other barriers to consider, such as time-frame mismatch, …


Impacts of climate change and human activities on runoff change in a typical arid watershed, NW China

Authors: Dongxiang Xue, Junju Zhou, Xi Zhao, Chunfang Liu, Wei Wei, Xuemei Yang et al.

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107013 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: runoff, climate change

The Shiyang River Basin is a typical arid watershed in Northwest China. Scientific understanding of the driving mechanism of runoff change is the basis of scientific utilization of water resources and regional sustainable development. In this study, runoff changes at different time scales were analyzed for the period 1960–2018, and the impacts of climate variability and human activities on runoff were investigated in the middle and lower reaches of the Shiyang River Basin (SRB). A combination…


Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency show seasonal responses in a multifactorial climate change experiment

Authors: Eva Simon, Alberto Canarini, Victoria Martin, Joana Séneca, Theresa Böckle, David Reinthaler et al.

Journal: Communications Biology · DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01317-1 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: seasonal, climate change

, and a summer drought. Here we show that climate change-driven effects on soil microbial physiology are interactive and season-specific, while the coupled response of growth and respiration lead to stable microbial CUE (average CUE = 0.39). These results suggest that future research should focus on microbial growth across different seasons to understand and predict effects of global changes on soil carbon dynamics.


Double trouble: the implications of climate change for biological invasions

Authors: Tamara B. Robinson, Nicole Martin, Tainã Gonçalves Loureiro, Phikolomzi Matikinca, Mark P. Robertson

Journal: NeoBiota · DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.62.55729 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: climate change

The implications of climate change for biological invasions are multifaceted and vary along the invasion process. Changes in vectors and pathways are likely to manifest in changes in transport routes and destinations, together with altered transit times and traffic volume. Ultimately, changes in the nature of why, how, and where biota are transported and introduced will pose biosecurity challenges. These challenges will require increased human and institutional capacity, as well as proactive …


Vegetation forcing modulates global land monsoon and water resources in a CO2-enriched climate

Authors: Jiangpeng Cui, Shilong Piao, Chris Huntingford, Xuhui Wang, Xu Lian, Amulya Chevuturi et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18992-7 · Citations: 71

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

-enriched climate, radiative forcing changes drive annual precipitation increases for most monsoon regions. Further, vegetation feedbacks substantially affect annual precipitation in North and South America and Australia monsoon regions. In the dry season, runoff increases over most monsoon regions, due to stomatal closure-driven evapotranspiration reductions and associated atmospheric circulation change. Our results imply that flood risks may amplify in the wet season. However, the lengtheni…


Evaluating the Performance of Climate Models Based on Wasserstein Distance

Authors: Gabriele Vissio, Valerio Lembo, Valerio Lucarini, Michael Ghil

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089385 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract We propose a methodology for intercomparing climate models and evaluating their performance against benchmarks based on the use of the Wasserstein distance (WD). This distance provides a rigorous way to measure quantitatively the difference between two probability distributions. The proposed approach is flexible and can be applied in any number of dimensions; it allows one to rank climate models taking into account all the moments of the distributions. By selecting the combination of…


Evolution characteristics of groundwater and its response to climate and land-cover changes in the oasis of dried-up river in Tarim Basin

Authors: Wanrui Wang, Yaning Chen, Weihua Wang, Junxin Jiang, Ming Cai, Yongjun Xu

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125644 · Citations: 70

Matched topics: river, water management

Abstract not available.


Soil Evaporation Stress Determines Soil Moisture‐Evapotranspiration Coupling Strength in Land Surface Modeling

Authors: Jianzhi Dong, Paul A. Dirmeyer, Fangni Lei, Martha C. Anderson, Thomas Holmes, Christopher Hain et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090391 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Model‐based estimates of soil moisture (SM)‐evapotranspiration (ET) coupling strength ( ρ ) vary widely and are prone to bias. Here we apply numerical modeling and remote sensing to identify the process‐level source of modeled ρ bias with the goal of improving the fidelity of current Earth system models. Results illustrate that modeled ρ is most strongly determined by soil evaporation ( E ) stress, and (generally positive) ρ modeling bias is attributable to the oversimplification of …


How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change

Authors: Valentina Krysanova, Jamal Zaherpour, Iulii Didovets, Simon N. Gosling, Dieter Gerten, Naota Hanasaki et al.

Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-020-02840-0 · Citations: 64

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

Abstract Importance of evaluation of global hydrological models (gHMs) before doing climate impact assessment was underlined in several studies. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of six gHMs in simulating observed discharge for a set of 57 large catchments applying common metrics with thresholds for the monthly and seasonal dynamics and summarize them estimating an aggregated index of model performance for each model in each basin. One model showed a good perform…


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 9 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

River water quality index prediction and uncertainty analysis: A comparative study of machine learning models

Authors: S. Asadollah, A. Sharafati, D. Motta, Z. Yaseen

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2020.104599 · Citations: 356

Matched topics: river, surface water

Abstract The Water Quality Index (WQI) is the most common indicator to characterize surface water quality. This study introduces a new ensemble machine learning model called Extra Tree Regression (ETR) for predicting monthly WQI values at the Lam Tsuen River in Hong Kong. The ETR model performance is compared with that of the classic standalone models, Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Decision Tree Regression (DTR). The monthly input water quality data including Biochemical Oxygen Demand (…


CAMELS-GB: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain

Authors: Gemma Coxon, Nans Addor, John P. Bloomfield, Jim Freer, Matthew Fry, Jamie Hannaford et al.

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2459-2020 · Citations: 272

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

Abstract. We present the first large-sample catchment hydrology dataset for Great Britain, CAMELS-GB (Catchment Attributes and MEteorology for Large-sample Studies). CAMELS-GB collates river flows, catchment attributes and catchment boundaries from the UK National River Flow Archive together with a suite of new meteorological time series and catchment attributes. These data are provided for 671 catchments that cover a wide range of climatic, hydrological, landscape, and human management chara…


Rainfall-Runoff Prediction at Multiple Timescales with a Single Long Short-Term Memory Network

Authors: M. Gauch, Frederik Kratzert, D. Klotz, G. Nearing, Jimmy Lin, Sepp Hochreiter

Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-2020-540 · Citations: 257

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks have been applied to daily discharge prediction with remarkable success. Many practical applications, however, require predictions at more granular timescales. For instance, accurate prediction of short but extreme flood peaks can make a lifesaving difference, yet such peaks may escape the coarse temporal resolution of daily predictions. Naively training an LSTM on hourly data, however, entails very long input sequences that make learning diffi…


PERSIANN Dynamic Infrared–Rain Rate (PDIR-Now): A Near-Real-Time, Quasi-Global Satellite Precipitation Dataset

Authors: Phu Nguyen, Mohammed Ombadi, Vesta Afzali Gorooh, E. J. Shearer, Mojtaba Sadeghi, Soroosh Sorooshian et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-20-0177.1 · Citations: 131

Matched topics: hydrology

This study presents the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks-Dynamic Infrared Rain Rate (PDIR-Now) near-real-time precipitation dataset. This dataset provides hourly, quasi-global, infrared-based precipitation estimates at 0.04° × 0.04° spatial resolution with a short latency (15-60 min). It is intended to supersede the PERSIANN-Cloud Classification System (PERSIANN-CCS) dataset previously produced as the near-real-time product of the PERS…


Organic fertilizer reduced carbon and nitrogen in runoff and buffered soil acidification in tea plantations: Evidence in nutrient contents and isotope fractionations.

Authors: Shaowen Xie, Fen Yang, H. Feng, Zhenzhen Yu, Chengshuai Liu, Chaoyang Wei et al.

Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143059 · Citations: 122

Matched topics: runoff

Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) inputs to farmland via fertilizer application are potential sources of C and N that influence soil acidification and water eutrophication. A pilot study was conducted to compare the effects of compound fertilizer and rapeseed cake organic fertilizer on C and N preservation in the soils and runoff of a tea plantation as well as the C and N isotopic fractionation in soils over the three annual cycles of fertilization and tea-leaf harvest. Overall, rapeseed cake organ…


What is wrong with post‐fire soil erosion modelling? A meta‐analysis on current approaches, research gaps, and future directions

Authors: Ana Lopes, Antonio Girona‐García, Sofia Corticeiro, Ricardo Martins, Jan Jacob Keizer, Diana Vieira

Journal: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms · DOI: 10.1002/esp.5020 · Citations: 75

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract In the near future, a higher occurrence of wildfires is expected due to climate change, carrying social, environmental, and economic implications. Such impacts are often associated with an increase of post‐fire hydrological and erosive responses, which are difficult to predict. Soil erosion models have been proven to be a valuable tool in the decision‐making process, from emergency response to long‐term planning, however, they were not designed for post‐fire conditions, so need to be…


Sensitivity of Atmospheric River Vapor Transport and Precipitation to Uniform Sea Surface Temperature Increases

Authors: Elizabeth McClenny, Paul Ullrich, Richard Grotjahn

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd033421 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: river

Filaments of intense vapor transport called atmospheric rivers (ARs) are responsible for the majority of poleward vapor transport in the midlatitudes. Despite their importance to the hydrologic cycle, there remain many unanswered questions about changes to ARs in a warming climate. In this study we perform a series of escalating uniform SST increases (+2, +4, and +6K, respectively) in the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 in an aquaplanet configuration to evaluate the thermodynamic and dyn…


Which rainfall score is more informative about the performance in river discharge simulation? A comprehensive assessment on 1318 basins over Europe

Authors: Stefania Camici, Christian Massari, Luca Ciabatta, Ivan Marchesini, Luca Brocca

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-4869-2020 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river

Abstract. The global availability of satellite rainfall products (SRPs) at an increasingly high temporal and spatial resolution has made their exploitation in hydrological applications possible, especially in data-scarce regions. In this context, understanding how uncertainties transfer from SRPs to river discharge simulations, through the hydrological model, is a main research question. SRPs’ accuracy is normally characterized by comparing them with ground observations via the calculation of…


On the importance of predictor choice, modelling technique, and number of pseudo‐absences for bioclimatic envelope model performance

Authors: Mirza Čengić, Jasmijn Rost, Daniela Remenska, Jan H. Janse, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Aafke M. Schipper

Journal: Ecology and Evolution · DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6859 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: streamflow

Bioclimatic envelope models are commonly used to assess the influence of climate change on species’ distributions and biodiversity patterns. Understanding how methodological choices influence these models is critical for a comprehensive evaluation of the estimated impacts. Here we systematically assess the performance of bioclimatic envelope models in relation to the selection of predictors, modeling technique, and pseudo-absences. We considered (a) five different predictor sets, (b) seven co…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 16 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities

Authors: David W. Walker, Magdalena Śmigaj, Masakazu Tani

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1488 · Citations: 193

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract Citizen science is proliferating in the water sciences with increasing public involvement in monitoring water resources, climate variables, water quality, and in mapping and modeling exercises. In addition to the well‐reported scientific benefits of such projects, in particular solving data scarcity issues, it is common to extol the benefits for participants, for example, increased knowledge and empowerment. We reviewed 549 publications concerning citizen science applications in the …


Understanding and managing new risks on the Nile with the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Authors: Kevin Wheeler, Marc Jeuland, Jim W. Hall, Edith Zagona, Dale Whittington

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19089-x · Citations: 184

Matched topics: hydrology, water management, hydropower

Abstract When construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is completed, the Nile will have two of the world’s largest dams—the High Aswan Dam (HAD) and the GERD—in two different countries (Egypt and Ethiopia). There is not yet agreement on how these dams will operate to manage scarce water resources. We elucidate the potential risks and opportunities to Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia by simulating the filling period of the reservoir; a new normal period after the reservoir fills; an…


CA-Markov Chain Analysis of Seasonal Land Surface Temperature and Land Use Land Cover Change Using Optical Multi-Temporal Satellite Data of Faisalabad, Pakistan

Authors: A. Tariq, Hong Shu

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12203402 · Citations: 184

Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model

Cellular Automata models are used for simulating spatial distributions and Markov Chain models are used for simulating temporal changes. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect of urban growth on Faisalabad. This research is aimed at predicting seasonal Land-Surface-Temperature (LST) as well as Land-Use and Land-cover (LULC) with a CellularAutomata-Markov-Chain (CA-Markov-Chain). Landsat 5, 7 and 8 data were used for mapping seasonal LULC and LST distributions during the month…


Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience

Authors: Charles B. van Rees, Kerry A. Waylen, Astrid Schmidt‐Kloiber, Stephen J. Thackeray, Gregor Kalinkat, Koen Martens et al.

Journal: Conservation Letters · DOI: 10.1111/conl.12771 · Citations: 175

Matched topics: hydrology, water management, hydropower

Abstract Plans are currently being drafted for the next decade of action on biodiversity—both the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Biodiversity Strategy of the European Union (EU). Freshwater biodiversity is disproportionately threatened and underprioritized relative to the marine and terrestrial biota, despite supporting a richness of species and ecosystems with their own intrinsic value and providing multiple essential ecosystem ser…


Evaluation of drinking and irrigation suitability of groundwater with special emphasizing the health risk posed by nitrate contamination using nitrate pollution index (NPI) and human health risk assessment (HHRA)

Authors: Balamurugan Panneerselvam, S. Karuppannan, Kirubakaran Muniraj

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2020.1833300 · Citations: 168

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract Groundwater is widely recognized as an essential source of water for drinking and irrigation uses in the South India. It is essential to evaluate the characterization of groundwater for drinking and irrigation uses. A total of 67 samples were collected in different locations of study area from tube wells for physio-chemical analysis. Water quality index (WQI), nitrate pollution index (NPI), human health risk assessment (HHRA), and irrigation water quality index (IWQI) efficient tools…


Water infiltration in a cracked soil considering effect of drying-wetting cycles

Authors: Qing Cheng, Chao‐Sheng Tang, Dan Xu, Hao Zeng, Bin Shi

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125640 · Citations: 143

Matched topics: hydrology, surface water

Abstract not available.


Long-term alterations of flow regimes of the Mekong River and adaptation strategies for the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Authors: Đoàn Văn Bình, Sameh A. Kantoush, Mohamed Saber, Nguyễn Thu Phương, Shreedhar Maskey, Dang Tuan Phong et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100742 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: river

The Mekong basin, where climate change and anthropogenic interventions (e.g., dams, sand mining, and sluice gates) have intensified in the recent decades affecting the pristine flow regime and salinity intrusion. This paper aims at quantifying the flow regime alterations in the entire Mekong from 1980 to 2015 and linking with the controlling drivers of alterations. In this regard, various indicators, analytical methods, and a semi two-dimensional hydrodynamic and advection-dispersion model we…


Weak tradeoff between xylem hydraulic efficiency and safety: climatic seasonality matters

Authors: Hui Liu, Qing Ye, Sean M. Gleason, Pengcheng He, Deyi Yin

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.16940 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: seasonal

A classic theory proposes that plant xylem cannot be both highly efficient in water transport and resistant to embolism, and therefore a hydraulic efficiency-safety trade-off should exist. However, the trade-off is weak, and many species exhibit both low efficiency and low safety, falling outside of the expected trade-off space. It remains unclear under what climatic conditions these species could maintain competitive fitness. We compiled hydraulic efficiency and safety traits for 682 observa…


Improving the accuracy of electricity carbon footprint: Estimation of hydroelectric reservoir greenhouse gas emissions

Authors: Annie Levasseur, Sara Mercier‐Blais, Yves T. Prairie, A. Tremblay, Christian Turpin

Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.110433 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: reservoir, hydropower

Hydropower is usually considered as a low-carbon electricity source, as it does not lead to direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, unlike producing electricity from fossil fuels. However, the flooding of lands following the construction of the dam generally leads to an increase in biogenic GHG emissions due to the degradation of biomass found in the newly created reservoir. The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is widely used to calculate and compare the carbon footprint of different el…


Spatiotemporal water quality variations and their relationship with hydrological conditions in Dongting Lake after the operation of the Three Gorges Dam, China

Authors: Mingming Geng, Kelin Wang, Nan Yang, Feng Li, Yeai Zou, Xinsheng Chen et al.

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124644 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


Enzyme Recovery from Biological Wastewater Treatment

Authors: Ziyi Liu, Stephen R. Smith

Journal: Waste and Biomass Valorization · DOI: 10.1007/s12649-020-01251-7 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Enzymes are high value industrial bio-catalysts with extensive applications in a wide range of manufacturing and processing sectors, including the agricultural, food and household care industries. The catalytic efficiency of enzymes can be several orders higher compared to inorganic chemical catalysts under mild conditions. However, the nutrient medium necessary for biomass culture represents a significant cost to industrial enzyme production. Activated sludge (AS) is a waste product…


Digital mapping of soil texture classes using Random Forest classification algorithm

Authors: S. Dharumarajan, Rajendra Hegde

Journal: Soil Use and Management · DOI: 10.1111/sum.12668 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management

Abstract Soil texture is the most important soil physical property that determines water holding capacity, nutrient availability and crop growth. Spatial distribution of soil texture at a higher spatial resolution at regional and national level is essential for crop planning and management. In the present study, we mapped the soil textural classes over 16.2 M ha area of Andhra Pradesh state, India, at 250 m spatial resolution up to 2 m depth using the digital soil mapping approach. A total of…


Best Practices for Evaluating New Materials as Adsorbents for Water Treatment

Authors: Mohamed Ateia, Damian E. Helbling, William R. Dichtel

Journal: ACS Materials Letters · DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00414 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: surface water

Water pollution is becoming a major concern, because of the increasing numbers and concentrations of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic anthropogenic pollutants in fresh water resources. Many recent studies have considered new adsorbents to remove these emerging contaminants from water resources, including metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic polymers (POPs), porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs), porous cyclodextrin-based polymers, and many othe…


Impact of a New Sea Ice Thermodynamic Formulation in the CESM2 Sea Ice Component

Authors: David A. Bailey, Marika M. Holland, Alice K. DuVivier, Elizabeth Hunke, Adrian K. Turner

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002154 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract The sea ice component of the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) contains new “mushy‐layer” physics that simulates prognostic salinity in the sea ice, with consequent modifications to sea ice thermodynamics and the treatment of melt ponds. The changes to the sea ice model and their influence on coupled model simulations are described here. Two simulations were performed to assess the changes in the vertical thermodynamics formulation with prognostic salinity compared to a …


A coupled human-natural system analysis of water yield in the Yellow River basin, China

Authors: Lichang Yin, Xiaoming Feng, Bojie Fu, Shuai Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Yongzhe Chen et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143141 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: river, water management

Abstract not available.


Assessing glacier retreat and its impact on water resources in a headwater of Yangtze River based on CMIP6 projections

Authors: Hongkai Gao, Zijing Feng, Tong Zhang, Yuzhe Wang, Xiaobo He, Hong Li et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142774 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: river, runoff

Abstract not available.


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