Weekly Literature Review

Week 43 · October 19–October 25, 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. Urban sprawl and green space depletion: Implications for flood incidence in Kumasi, Ghana
    2. Impact of temporal rainfall patterns on flash floods in Hue City, Vietnam
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Selenium and silica nanostructure-based recovery of strawberry plants subjected to drought stress
    2. Overexpression of GmMYB14 improves high‐density yield and drought tolerance of soybean through regulating plant architecture mediated by the brassinosteroid pathway
    3. Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought
    4. Exogenous abscisic acid and jasmonic acid restrain polyethylene glycol‐induced drought by improving the growth and antioxidative enzyme activities in pearl millet
    5. The effects of drought on plant–pollinator interactions: What to expect?
    6. Two homologous LHY pairs negatively control soybean drought tolerance by repressing the abscisic acid responses
    7. The bZIP Transcription Factor GmbZIP15 Negatively Regulates Salt- and Drought-Stress Responses in Soybean
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Regionalization of hydrological modeling for predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments: A comprehensive review
    2. Evaluating the performances of several artificial intelligence methods in forecasting daily streamflow time series for sustainable water resources management
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change
    2. Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change
    3. Climate change and international political economy: between collapse and transformation
    4. Distinguishing the impacts of land use and climate change on ecosystem services in a karst landscape in China
    5. Description and Climate Simulation Performance of CAS‐ESM Version 2
    6. Pathways for climate change adaptations in arid and semi-arid regions
    7. Geomorphic and Sedimentary Effects of Modern Climate Change: Current and Anticipated Future Conditions in the Western United States
    8. Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)
    9. Pearl millet genomic vulnerability to climate change in West Africa highlights the need for regional collaboration
    10. The urbanising force of global warming: the role of climate change in the spatial distribution of population
    11. Weather shocks, climate change and human health
    12. Understanding public concern about climate change in Europe, 2008–2017: the influence of economic factors and right-wing populism
    13. Climate changes in Northeastern Brazil from deglacial to Meghalayan periods and related environmental impacts
    14. Impacts of climate change on photovoltaic energy potential: A case study of China
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Vertical Accuracy of Freely Available Global Digital Elevation Models (ASTER, AW3D30, MERIT, TanDEM-X, SRTM, and NASADEM)
    2. Nitrogen cycling in CMIP6 land surface models: progress and limitations
    3. State-of-the-art review on the transient flow modeling and utilization for urban water supply system (UWSS) management
    4. Hydrologically Informed Machine Learning for Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: Towards Distributed Modelling
    5. African Humid Period Precipitation Sustained by Robust Vegetation, Soil, and Lake Feedbacks
    6. Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration
    7. Modelling dynamic interactions between soil structure and the storage and turnover of soil organic matter
    8. Mulching as best management practice to reduce surface runoff and erosion in steep clayey olive groves
    9. Continuous hydrologic modelling for design simulation in small and ungauged basins: A step forward and some tests for its practical use
    10. Duration and intensity of rainfall events with the same erosivity change sediment yield and runoff rates
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Making Tana Luwu the Mainstream Supporting the Economy of South Sulawesi
    2. Quantifying Progress Across Different CMIP Phases With the ESMValTool
    3. Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere
    4. Satellite‐Based Monitoring of Irrigation Water Use: Assessing Measurement Errors and Their Implications for Agricultural Water Management Policy
    5. Assessment of water quality of streams in northeast Turkey by water quality index and multiple statistical methods
    6. sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture
    7. Changes in supply and demand mediate the effects of land-use change on freshwater ecosystem services flows
    8. Irrigation risk assessment of groundwater in a non-perennial river basin of South India: implication from irrigation water quality index (IWQI) and geographical information system (GIS) approaches
    9. Sea ice and atmospheric circulation shape the high-latitude lapse rate feedback
    10. Aeolian dust transport, cycle and influences in high-elevation cryosphere of the Tibetan Plateau region: New evidences from alpine snow and ice
    11. Identification of the long-term variations of groundwater and their governing factors based on hydrochemical and isotopic data in a river basin
    12. Groundwater Withdrawal Prediction Using Integrated Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data Sets and Machine Learning
    13. Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology
    14. Poleward Shift of Atmospheric Rivers in the Southern Hemisphere in Recent Decades
    15. Constraining Remote River Discharge Estimation Using Reach‐Scale Geomorphology
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. 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 Abass, Mu et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Urban sprawl and green space depletion: Implications for flood incidence in Kumasi, Ghana

Authors: Kabila Abass, Daniel Buor, Kwadwo Afriyie, Gift Dumedah, Alex Yao Segbefi, Lawrence Guodaar et al.

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101915 · Citations: 123

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Impact of temporal rainfall patterns on flash floods in Hue City, Vietnam

Authors: Dengrui Mu, Pingping Luo, Jiqiang Lyu, Meimei Zhou, Aidi Huo, Weili Duan et al.

Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12668 · Citations: 114

Matched topics: water management, flood

Abstract Urban flooding is a perennial problem, especially in developing countries with relatively weak infrastructure under ever‐increasing stress due to climate change and human activities. We simulate the temporally variable flood‐water depth and inundation area under four designed rainfall patterns in the typical tropical rainforest city of Hue, Vietnam. The four rainfall types are R1 (peak at fifth hour), R2 (peak at 20th hour), R3 (peak at first hour), and R4 (peak at 13th hour). Result…


Drought Analysis and Prediction

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

Selenium and silica nanostructure-based recovery of strawberry plants subjected to drought stress

Authors: Seyed Morteza Zahedi, Faezeh Moharrami, Saadat Sarikhani, Mohsen Padervand

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74273-9 · Citations: 265

Matched topics: drought

), on the management of harmful effects of soil drought stress not only in strawberry plants, but also in other agricultural crops.


Overexpression of GmMYB14 improves high‐density yield and drought tolerance of soybean through regulating plant architecture mediated by the brassinosteroid pathway

Authors: Limiao Chen, Hongli Yang, Yisheng Fang, Wei Guo, Haifeng Chen, Xiaojuan Zhang et al.

Journal: Plant Biotechnology Journal · DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13496 · Citations: 185

Matched topics: drought

MYB transcription factors (TFs) have been reported to regulate the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, as well as to mediate plant adaption to abiotic stresses, including drought. However, the roles of MYB TFs in regulating plant architecture and yield potential remain poorly understood. Here, we studied the roles of the dehydration-inducible GmMYB14 gene in regulating plant architecture, high-density yield and drought tolerance through the brassinosteroid (BR) pathway in soybean. GmMYB14 …


Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought

Authors: Philipp Brun, Achilleas Psomas, Christian Ginzler, Wilfried Thuiller, Massimiliano Zappa, Niklaus E. Zimmermann

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15360 · Citations: 146

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, drought

, in particular in central and eastern Germany and in the Czech Republic. High temperatures and low precipitation, especially in August, mostly explained these large-scale patterns, with small- to medium-sized trees, steep slopes, and shallow soils being important regional risk factors. Early wilting revealed a lasting impact on forest productivity, with affected trees showing reduced greenness in the following spring. Our approach reliably detects early wilting at the resolution of large ind…


Exogenous abscisic acid and jasmonic acid restrain polyethylene glycol‐induced drought by improving the growth and antioxidative enzyme activities in pearl millet

Authors: Samrah Afzal Awan, Imran Khan, Muhammad Rizwan, Xinquan Zhang, Marián Brestič, Aaqil Khan et al.

Journal: Physiologia Plantarum · DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13247 · Citations: 124

Matched topics: water management, drought

and MDA content as a result of decreased activities of the antioxidative enzymes including APX, CAT, and SOD in the leaves. However, exogenous ABA and JA positively enhanced the growth profile of seedlings by improving chlorophyll and relative water content under PEG treatment. A significant improvement was observed in the plant defense system resulting from increased activities of antioxidative enzymes due to exogenous ABA and JA under PEG. Overall, the performance of JA was found better tha…


The effects of drought on plant–pollinator interactions: What to expect?

Authors: Charlotte Descamps, Muriel Quinet, Anne‐Laure Jacquemart

Journal: Environmental and Experimental Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104297 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Two homologous LHY pairs negatively control soybean drought tolerance by repressing the abscisic acid responses

Authors: Kai Wang, Tiantian Bu, Qun Cheng, Lidong Dong, Tong Su, Zimei Chen et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17019 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: drought

The circadian clock plays essential roles in diverse plant biological processes, such as flowering, phytohormone biosynthesis and abiotic stress responses. The manner in which circadian clock genes regulate drought stress responses in model plants has been well established, but comparatively little is known in crop species, such as soybean, a major global crop. This paper reports that the core clock components GmLHYs, the orthologues of CCA1/LHY in Arabidopsis, negatively control drought tole…


The bZIP Transcription Factor GmbZIP15 Negatively Regulates Salt- and Drought-Stress Responses in Soybean

Authors: Man Zhang, Yanhui Liu, Hanyang Cai, Mingliang Guo, Mengnan Chai, Zeyuan She et al.

Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences · DOI: 10.3390/ijms21207778 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: drought

expression in response to abiotic stress. Overall, these data indicate that GmbZIP15 functions as a negative regulator in response to salt and drought stresses.


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 2 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.

Regionalization of hydrological modeling for predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments: A comprehensive review

Authors: Yuhan Guo, Yongqiang Zhang, Lu Zhang, Zhonggen Wang

Journal: WIREs Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1487 · Citations: 207

Matched topics: streamflow

Runoff prediction in ungauged and scarcely gauged catchments is a key research field in surface water hydrology. There have been numerous studies before and since the launch of the predictions in ungauged basins (PUB) initiative by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences in 2003. This study critically reviews and assesses the decadal progress in the regionalization of hydrological modeling, which is the major tool for PUB, from 2000 to 2019. This paper found that the journal pu…


Evaluating the performances of several artificial intelligence methods in forecasting daily streamflow time series for sustainable water resources management

Authors: Wenjing Niu, Zhong-kai Feng

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102562 · Citations: 187

Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, water management, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 14 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change

Authors: Michaël Aklin, Matto Mildenberger

Journal: Global Environmental Politics · DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00578 · Citations: 295

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Climate change policy is generally modeled as a global collective action problem structured by free-riding concerns. Drawing on quantitative data, archival work, and elite interviews, we review empirical support for this model and find that the evidence for its claims is weak relative to the theory’s pervasive influence. We find, first, that the strongest collective action claims appear empirically unsubstantiated in many important climate politics cases. Second, collective action cl…


Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

Authors: L. Robin M. Cocks, Trond H. Torsvik

Journal: Gondwana Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2020.09.008 · Citations: 202

Matched topics: climate change

New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions and the inclusion of synthetic plate margins within the now-vanished oceanic areas. There are substantial published differences from the previous placing of some of the continents and terranes in Asia; for example, Siberia and Gondwana have previously been placed at varied distances and relative positions in relation to…


Climate change and international political economy: between collapse and transformation

Authors: Matthew Paterson

Journal: Review of International Political Economy · DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1830829 · Citations: 184

Matched topics: climate change

The dynamics of climate change politics have thrown up two fundamental, and entirely contradictory, challenges for political economy in the last 10 years. On the one hand, the new science of ‘net zero emissions’ has produced a growing recognition that a world without fossil fuels is both absolutely necessary and utterly transformative. On the other hand, civilizational collapse (absolute declines in human populations, collapse of food production systems, collapse of social institutions) is no…


Distinguishing the impacts of land use and climate change on ecosystem services in a karst landscape in China

Authors: Jian Peng, Lu Tian, Zimo Zhang, Yan Zhao, Sophie M. Green, Timothy A. Quine et al.

Journal: Ecosystem Services · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101199 · Citations: 163

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Description and Climate Simulation Performance of CAS‐ESM Version 2

Authors: He Zhang, Minghua Zhang, Jiangbo Jin, Kece Fei, Duoying Ji, Chenglai Wu et al.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002210 · Citations: 138

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract The second version of Chinese Academy of Sciences Earth System Model (CAS‐ESM 2) is described with emphasis on the development process, strength and weakness, and climate sensitivities in simulations of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) DECK experiments. CAS‐ESM 2 was built as a numerical model to simulate both the physical climate system as well as atmospheric chemistry and carbon cycle. It is a newcomer in the international modeling community to provide sufficiently…


Pathways for climate change adaptations in arid and semi-arid regions

Authors: Pramod K. Singh, Harpalsinh Chudasama

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124744 · Citations: 131

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Geomorphic and Sedimentary Effects of Modern Climate Change: Current and Anticipated Future Conditions in the Western United States

Authors: Amy E. East, Joel B. Sankey

Journal: Reviews of Geophysics · DOI: 10.1029/2019rg000692 · Citations: 131

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far. Detecting sedimentary and geomorphic signals of modern climate change presents challenges owing to short record lengths, difficulty resolving signals in stochastic natural systems, influences of land use and tectonic activity, long‐lasting effects of individual extreme events, and variable connectivity in sediment‐ro…


Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC)

Authors: Michio Kawamiya, Tomohiro Hajima, Kaoru Tachiiri, Shingo Watanabe, Tokuta Yokohata

Journal: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science · DOI: 10.1186/s40645-020-00369-5 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract The past 20 years of research using Earth system models (ESMs) is reviewed with an emphasis on results from the ESM based on MIROC (Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate) developed in Japan. Earth system models are climate models incorporating biogeochemical processes such as the carbon cycle. The development of ESM was triggered by studies of the feedback between climate change and the carbon cycle. State-of-the-art ESMs are much more realistic than the first ESMs. They no…


Pearl millet genomic vulnerability to climate change in West Africa highlights the need for regional collaboration

Authors: Bénédicte Rhoné, Dimitri Defrance, Cécile Berthouly‐Salazar, Cédric Mariac, Philippe Cubry, Marie Couderc et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19066-4 · Citations: 112

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change is already affecting agro-ecosystems and threatening food security by reducing crop productivity and increasing harvest uncertainty. Mobilizing crop diversity could be an efficient way to mitigate its impact. We test this hypothesis in pearl millet, a nutritious staple cereal cultivated in arid and low-fertility soils in sub-Saharan Africa. We analyze the genomic diversity of 173 landraces collected in West Africa together with an extensive climate dataset composed of metrics o…


The urbanising force of global warming: the role of climate change in the spatial distribution of population

Authors: David Castells‐Quintana, Melanie Krause, Thomas K. J. McDermott

Journal: Journal of Economic Geography · DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbaa030 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract We study the relationship between changes in weather patterns and the spatial distribution of population and economic activity within countries. Our unique global dataset combines climatic and census data for the period 1950–2015 with satellite data on built-up areas, and light intensity at night for the 1990–2015 periods. We establish a global non-linear effect of climate on urbanisation. In particular, we find that deteriorating climatic conditions are associated with more urbanisa…


Weather shocks, climate change and human health

Authors: Daniel Meierrieks

Journal: World Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105228 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Understanding public concern about climate change in Europe, 2008–2017: the influence of economic factors and right-wing populism

Authors: Sem Duijndam, P.J.H. van Beukering

Journal: Climate Policy · DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2020.1831431 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: climate change

European survey data shows strong temporal fluctuations in climate change concern within European countries and large differences in concern between these countries. However, there is as yet no comprehensive understanding of what drives these longitudinal and cross-sectional patterns. To fill this knowledge gap, this study analyzes data of over 155,000 survey respondents from 28 European countries over the period 2008-2017. This study is the first to apply within-between random effects models…


Authors: Giselle Utida, Francisco W. Cruz, Roberto Ventura Santos, André Oliveira Sawakuchi, Hong Wang, Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda et al.

Journal: Quaternary Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106655 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Impacts of climate change on photovoltaic energy potential: A case study of China

Authors: Xiaohu Zhao, Guohe Huang, Chen Lu, Xiong Zhou, Yongping Li

Journal: Applied Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115888 · Citations: 75

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 10 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Vertical Accuracy of Freely Available Global Digital Elevation Models (ASTER, AW3D30, MERIT, TanDEM-X, SRTM, and NASADEM)

Authors: Evelyn Uuemaa, Sander Ahi, Bruno Montibeller, Merle Muru, Alexander Kmoch

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs12213482 · Citations: 284

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

Freely available global digital elevation models (DEMs) are important inputs for many research fields and applications. During the last decade, several global DEMs have been released based on satellite data. ASTER and SRTM are the most widely used DEMs, but the more recently released, AW3D30, TanDEM-X and MERIT, are being increasingly used. Many researchers have studied the quality of these DEM products in recent years. However, there has been no comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the…


Nitrogen cycling in CMIP6 land surface models: progress and limitations

Authors: Taraka Davies‐Barnard, Johannes Meyerholt, Sönke Zaehle, Pierre Friedlingstein, Victor Brovkin, Yuanchao Fan et al.

Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-5129-2020 · Citations: 143

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. The nitrogen cycle and its effect on carbon uptake in the terrestrial biosphere is a recent progression in earth system models. As with any new component of a model, it is important to understand the behaviour, strengths, and limitations of the various process representations. Here we assess and compare five land surface models with nitrogen cycles that are used as the terrestrial components of some of the earth system models in CMIP6. The land surface models were run offline with a…


State-of-the-art review on the transient flow modeling and utilization for urban water supply system (UWSS) management

Authors: Huan‐Feng Duan, Bin Pan, Manli Wang, Lu Chen, Feifei Zheng, Ying Zhang

Journal: Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology—AQUA · DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2020.048 · Citations: 142

Matched topics: water management

Abstract In the context of smart city development and rapid urbanization worldwide, urban water supply system (UWSS) has been of vital importance to this process. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the transient flow research for UWSS management. This review consists of two aspects as follows. The first aspect is about the development and progress of current transient theory, including transient flow models, unsteady friction and turbulence models, and numerical simulation methods….


Hydrologically Informed Machine Learning for Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: Towards Distributed Modelling

Authors: H. M. Herath, Jayashree Chadalawada, V. Babovic

Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-2020-487 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract. Despite showing a great success of applications in many commercial fields, machine learning and data science models in general, show a limited use in scientific fields including hydrology. The approach is often criticized for lack of interpretability and physical consistency. This has led to the emergence of new paradigms, such as Theory Guided Data Science (TGDS) and physics informed machine learning. The motivation behind such approaches is to improve the physical meaningfulness o…


African Humid Period Precipitation Sustained by Robust Vegetation, Soil, and Lake Feedbacks

Authors: Deepak Chandan, W. R. Peltier

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl088728 · Citations: 111

Matched topics: land surface model, surface water

Abstract The African Humid Period ( ∼ 11,000–5,000 years before present) was the most recent of several precessionally paced wet intervals during which an increase in the Northern Hemisphere summer incoming solar radiation intensifies the West African Monsoon leading to dramatic changes over northern Africa. However, insolation anomaly alone is not sufficient and feedbacks are essential for further amplification of the monsoon. The most significant feedbacks derive from the land surface, aris…


Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration

Authors: Istem Fer, Anthony K. Gardella, Alexey Shiklomanov, Eleanor E. Campbell, E. Cowdery, Martin G. De Kauwe et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15409 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth’s natural systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere. Bottlenecks to informing models with observations have reduced our capacity to fully exploit the growing volume and variety of available data. Here, we take a critical look at the information infrastructure that connects ecosystem modeling and measurement efforts, and propose a roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure de…


Modelling dynamic interactions between soil structure and the storage and turnover of soil organic matter

Authors: Katharina Meurer, Claire Chenu, Elsa Coucheney, Anke M. Herrmann, Thomas Keller, Thomas Kätterer et al.

Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-5025-2020 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract. Models of soil organic carbon (SOC) storage and turnover can be useful tools to analyse the effects of soil and crop management practices and climate change on soil organic carbon stocks. The aggregated structure of soil is known to protect SOC from decomposition and, thus, influence the potential for long-term sequestration. In turn, the turnover and storage of SOC affects soil aggregation, physical and hydraulic properties and the productive capacity of soil. These two-way interac…


Mulching as best management practice to reduce surface runoff and erosion in steep clayey olive groves

Authors: Giuseppe Bombino, Pietro Denisi, José A. Gómez, Demetrio Antonio Zema

Journal: International Soil and Water Conservation Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.iswcr.2020.10.002 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, land surface model

No-tillage and soil mulching with pruning residues, applied in olive groves of the semi-arid Mediterranean environment, as erosion control practices still practice not fully studied. This study has evaluated the saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat), surface runoff (SR) and soil erosion (SL) under rainfall at plot scale throughout two years in four different management practices, total soil cover with a net (SP), mechanical tillage (MT) and mulching by vegetal residues at 3,5$10 3 and 17,5$…


Continuous hydrologic modelling for design simulation in small and ungauged basins: A step forward and some tests for its practical use

Authors: Salvatore Grimaldi, Fernando Nardi, Rodolfo Piscopia, Andrea Petroselli‬, Ciro Apollonio

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125664 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


Duration and intensity of rainfall events with the same erosivity change sediment yield and runoff rates

Authors: Wilk Sampaio de Almeida, Steffen Seitz, Luiz Fernando Coutinho de Oliveira, Daniel Fonseca de Carvalho

Journal: International Soil and Water Conservation Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.iswcr.2020.10.004 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: runoff

The effect of different rainfall patterns on surface runoff, infiltration and thus soil losses and sediment concentrations are still in the focus of current research. In most simulated rainfall experiments, precipitation is applied at a fixed intensity for a fixed time. However, the impact of rainfall patterns on soil erosion processes may be different varying the rainfall duration and intensity that produces an event with similar rainfall erosivity values. Twenty-five rainfall events were ap…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 15 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Making Tana Luwu the Mainstream Supporting the Economy of South Sulawesi

Authors: Adi Firmanzah, Sri Wahyuni Mustafa, Salju Sanuddin

Journal: International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) · DOI: 10.38124/ijisrt/ijisrt20oct215 · Citations: 733

Matched topics: water management

The purpose of this study was to determine, analyze and assess which sectors are the leading sectors in the four regions in Tana Luwu with the Location Qoutient (LQ) analysis approach. It was concluded that the economic potential of each region is different. East Luwu Regency has a base sector in mining and quarrying. North Luwu Regency has base sectors in agriculture, forestry and fisheries; electricity and gas procurement; government administration, defense and social security; and educatio…


Quantifying Progress Across Different CMIP Phases With the ESMValTool

Authors: Lisa Bock, Axel Lauer, Manuel Schlund, Marcelo Barreiro, Nicolas Bellouin, Colin Jones et al.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2019jd032321 · Citations: 251

Matched topics: surface water, earth system model

Abstract More than 40 model groups worldwide are participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), providing a new and rich source of information to better understand past, present, and future climate change. Here, we use the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) to assess the performance of the CMIP6 ensemble compared to the previous generations CMIP3 and CMIP5. While CMIP5 models did not capture the observed pause in the increase in global mean surface te…


Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

Authors: Dantong Liu, Cenlin He, Joshua P. Schwarz, Xuan Wang

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-00145-8 · Citations: 201

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via heating the atmosphere, dimming the surface, modifying the dynamics, reducing snow/ice albedo, and exerting positive radiative forcing. The lifecycle of LACs, from emission to atmospheric evolution further to deposition, is key to their overall climate impacts and uncertainties in determining their hygroscopic and …


Satellite‐Based Monitoring of Irrigation Water Use: Assessing Measurement Errors and Their Implications for Agricultural Water Management Policy

Authors: T. Foster, T. Mieno, N. Brozović

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028378 · Citations: 188

Matched topics: water management, surface water, irrigation

Reliable accounting of agricultural water use is critical for sustainable water management. However, the majority of agricultural water use is not monitored, with limited metering of irrigation despite increasing pressure on both groundwater and surface water resources in many agricultural regions worldwide. Satellite remote sensing has been proposed as a low‐cost and scalable solution to fill widespread gaps in monitoring of irrigation water use in both developed and developing countries, by…


Assessment of water quality of streams in northeast Turkey by water quality index and multiple statistical methods

Authors: Handan Aydın, Fikret Ustaoğlu, Yalçın Tepe, Elif Neyran Soylu

Journal: Environmental Forensics · DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2020.1836074 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: surface water

A year-long study from May 2018 to April 2019 investigated the spatio-temporal changes in water quality of seven major rivers in the Giresun Province in northeastern Turkey. The results of the analysis were classified according to WHO limit values for drinking water and water quality classes were determined with respect to the Turkish Surface Water Quality Regulation (TSWQR). In addition, sodium percentage (% Na), sodium absorption ratio (SAR), magnesium hazard (MH), and residual sodium carbo…


sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture

Authors: Venkanna Udutalapally, Saraju P. Mohanty, Vishal Pallagani, Vedant Khandelwal

Journal: IEEE Sensors Journal · DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2020.3032438 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: irrigation

Agriculture Cyber-Physical System (A-CPS) is becoming increasingly important in enhancing crop quality and productivity by utilizing minimum cropland. This paper introduces the innovative idea of the Internet-of-Agro-Things (IoAT) with an explanation of the automatic detection of plant disease for the development of ACPS. Majority of the crops were infected by microbial diseases in conventional agriculture. Also, the constantly mutating pathogens cannot be known to the knowledge of the farmer…


Changes in supply and demand mediate the effects of land-use change on freshwater ecosystem services flows

Authors: Jingyu Lin, Jinliang Huang, Christina Prell, Brett A. Bryan

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143012 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, water management

Abstract not available.


Irrigation risk assessment of groundwater in a non-perennial river basin of South India: implication from irrigation water quality index (IWQI) and geographical information system (GIS) approaches

Authors: P. Aravinthasamy, D. Karunanidhi, N. Subba Rao, T. Subramani, K. Srinivasamoorthy

Journal: Arabian Journal of Geosciences · DOI: 10.1007/s12517-020-06103-1 · Citations: 121

Matched topics: river, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Sea ice and atmospheric circulation shape the high-latitude lapse rate feedback

Authors: Nicole Feldl, Stephen Po–Chedley, Hansi Singh, Stephanie Hay, Paul J. Kushner

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-020-00146-7 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Arctic amplification of anthropogenic climate change is widely attributed to the sea-ice albedo feedback, with its attendant increase in absorbed solar radiation, and to the effect of the vertical structure of atmospheric warming on Earth’s outgoing longwave radiation. The latter lapse rate feedback is subject, at high latitudes, to a myriad of local and remote influences whose relative contributions remain unquantified. The distinct controls on the high-latitude lapse rate feedback …


Aeolian dust transport, cycle and influences in high-elevation cryosphere of the Tibetan Plateau region: New evidences from alpine snow and ice

Authors: Zhiwen Dong, Janice Brahney, Shichang Kang, James J. Elser, Ting Wei, Xiaoyu Jiao et al.

Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103408 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract not available.


Identification of the long-term variations of groundwater and their governing factors based on hydrochemical and isotopic data in a river basin

Authors: Ziyue Yin, Qiankun Luo, Jianfeng Wu, Jianfeng Wu, Shaohui Xu, Jichun Wu et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125604 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Groundwater Withdrawal Prediction Using Integrated Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data Sets and Machine Learning

Authors: Sayantan Majumdar, Ryan Smith, James J. Butler, V. Lakshmi

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028059 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

Key Points Groundwater withdrawals are not actively monitored in most places of the world at a scale necessary to implement sustainable solutions Various multitemporal remote sensing data are integrated into a machine learning framework to effectively predict groundwater withdrawals The results over the High Plains Aquifer, Kansas, USA, show that this approach is applicable to similar regions having sparse in situ data


Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology

Authors: Katarzyna Marcisz, Vincent E. J. Jassey, Anush Kosakyan, Valentyna Krashevska, Daniel J. G. Lahr, Enrique Lara et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.575966 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: hydrology

This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past hydrological changes in paleoecological investigations from peatland, lake sediment and soil archives. A trait-based approach to understanding testate amoebae ecology and paleoecology has gained in popularity in recent years, with research showing that morphological characteristics provide complementary informati…


Poleward Shift of Atmospheric Rivers in the Southern Hemisphere in Recent Decades

Authors: Weiming Ma, Gang Chen, Bin Guan

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089934 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: river, earth system model

Abstract The atmospheric river (AR) frequency trends over the Southern Hemisphere are investigated using three reanalyses and two Community Earth System Model (CESM) ensembles. The results show that AR frequency has been increasing over the Southern Ocean and decreasing over lower latitudes in the past four decades and that ARs have been shifting poleward. While the observed trends are mostly driven by the poleward shift of the westerly jet, fully coupled CESM experiments indicate anthropogen…


Constraining Remote River Discharge Estimation Using Reach‐Scale Geomorphology

Authors: Craig Brinkerhoff, Colin J. Gleason, Dongmei Feng, Peirong Lin

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027949 · Citations: 75

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, surface water

Abstract Recent advances in remote sensing and the upcoming launch of the joint NASA/CNES/CSA/UKSA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite point toward improved river discharge estimates in ungauged basins. Existing discharge methods rely on “prior river knowledge” to infer parameters not directly measured from space. Here, we show that discharge estimation is improved by classifying and parameterizing rivers based on their unique geomorphology and hydraulics. Using over 370,000 i…


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