Weekly Literature Review
Week 15 · April 12–April 18, 2021
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
- Blue–Green Infrastructure for Flood and Water Quality Management in Southeast Asia: Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
- More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals
- Application of machine learning algorithms for flood susceptibility assessment and risk management
- Overlapping and stress‐specific transcriptomic and hormonal responses to flooding and drought in soybean
- Examining social vulnerability to flood of affordable housing communities in Nanjing, China: Building long-term disaster resilience of low-income communities
- Does high risk mean high loss: Evidence from flood disaster in southern China
- Future Runoff Variation and Flood Disaster Prediction of the Yellow River Basin Based on CA-Markov and SWAT
- The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood process chain at Lake Salkantaycocha (Cordillera Vilcabamba, Peru)
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Land‐Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave Over Northern Europe During Summer 2018
- Rapid hydraulic collapse as cause of drought-induced mortality in conifers
- Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought
- The 2019 flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and their association with large-scale climate drivers
- Trichoderma asperellum Inoculation as a Tool for Attenuating Drought Stress in Sugarcane
- Interaction of drought and frost in tree ecophysiology: rethinking the timing of risks
- IMERG-Based Meteorological Drought Analysis over Italy
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP6 models
- Future behavior of wind wave extremes due to climate change
- Global cotton production under climate change – Implications for yield and water consumption
- Progress in climate change adaptation research
- Climate change and specialty coffee potential in Ethiopia
- Sea Surface Temperature Intercomparison in the Framework of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
- Extreme climate changes over three major river basins in China as seen in CMIP5 and CMIP6
- Impacts of population growth and climate change on food production and irrigation and drainage needs: A world‐wide view*
- How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?
- Global dominance of tectonics over climate in shaping river longitudinal profiles
- Factors influencing climate change adaptation strategies in North-Western Ghana: evidence of farmers in the Black Volta Basin in Upper West region
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Pore-scale modelling and sensitivity analyses of hydrogen-brine multiphase flow in geological porous media
- Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs
- Rainfall and runoff time-series trend analysis using LSTM recurrent neural network and wavelet neural network with satellite-based meteorological data: case study of Nzoia hydrologic basin
- Modeling Approaches to Assess Soil Erosion by Water at the Field Scale with Special Emphasis on Heterogeneity of Soils and Crops
- Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019
- Spatiotemporal variations in extreme precipitation on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin (1970–2018)
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks
- Understanding trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services to support the decision-making in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region
- Uncertainties in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) emission inventory of greenhouse gases
- Modified dynamic boundary conditions (mDBC) for general-purpose smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH): application to tank sloshing, dam break and fish pass problems
- Hydrochemistry, quality and potential health risk appraisal of nitrate enriched groundwater in the Nanchong area, southwestern China
- Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration
- Rapidly declining surface and terrestrial water resources in Central Asia driven by socio-economic and climatic changes
- Mapping annual irrigation from Landsat imagery and environmental variables across the conterminous United States
- Spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity and its links with other soil properties at the regional scale
- Comparing Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods for the Assessment of Flow Release Scenarios From Small Hydropower Plants in the Alpine Area
- The river chief system and agricultural non-point source water pollution control in China
- Snow Depth and Air Temperature Seasonality on Sea Ice Derived From Snow Buoy Measurements
- Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat selection in a marine fish community
- Assessment of groundwater quality in a Brazilian semiarid basin using an integration of GIS, water quality index and multivariate statistical techniques
- An ecohydrological typology for thermal refuges in streams and rivers
- Mapping typical salt-marsh species in the Yellow River Delta wetland supported by temporal-spatial-spectral multidimensional features
- The Use of Sentinel-2 for Chlorophyll-a Spatial Dynamics Assessment: A Comparative Study on Different Lakes in Northern Germany
- Sharing hydropower flexibility in interconnected power systems: A case study for the China Southern power grid
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 8 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Hamel, Reichstein et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Blue–Green Infrastructure for Flood and Water Quality Management in Southeast Asia: Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
Authors: P. Hamel, L. Tan
Journal: Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01467-w · Citations: 140
Matched topics: flood
In Southeast Asia, projections of rapid urban growth coupled with high water-related risks call for large investments in infrastructure—including in blue–green infrastructure (BGI) such as forests, parks, or vegetated engineered systems. However, most of the knowledge on BGI is produced in the global North, overlooking the diversity of urban contexts globally. Here, we review the literature on BGI for flood risk mitigation and water quality improvement in Southeast Asian cities to understand …
More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals
Authors: Markus Reichstein, Felix Riede, Dorothea Frank
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/d41586-021-00927-x · Citations: 107
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Application of machine learning algorithms for flood susceptibility assessment and risk management
Authors: R. Madhuri, Saiteja Sistla, K. Srinivasa Raju
Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2021.051 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, flood
Abstract Assessing floods and their likely impact in climate change scenarios will enable the facilitation of sustainable management strategies. In this study, five machine learning (ML) algorithms, namely (i) Logistic Regression, (ii) Support Vector Machine, (iii) K-nearest neighbor, (iv) Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) and (v) Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), were tested for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), India, to evaluate their clustering abilities to classify locations …
Overlapping and stress‐specific transcriptomic and hormonal responses to flooding and drought in soybean
Authors: Bishal G. Tamang, Song Li, Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, Suman Lamichhane, Takeshi Fukao
Journal: The Plant Journal · DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15276 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: flood, drought
Flooding and drought are serious constraints that reduce crop productivity worldwide. Previous studies identified genes conferring tolerance to both water extremes in various plants. However, overlapping responses to flooding and drought at the genome-scale remain obscure. Here, we defined overlapping and stress-specific transcriptomic and hormonal responses to submergence, drought and recovery from these stresses in soybean (Glycine max). We performed comparative RNA-sequencing and hormone p…
Examining social vulnerability to flood of affordable housing communities in Nanjing, China: Building long-term disaster resilience of low-income communities
Authors: Yi Chen, Tao Liu, Ge Yi, Song Xia, Yuan Yu, Wanrong Li et al.
Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.102939 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Does high risk mean high loss: Evidence from flood disaster in southern China
Authors: Yangyang Chen, Jimei Li, An Chen
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147127 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Future Runoff Variation and Flood Disaster Prediction of the Yellow River Basin Based on CA-Markov and SWAT
Authors: Guangxing Ji, Zhizhu Lai, Haibin Xia, Hao Liu, Zheng Wang
Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land10040421 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: hydrology, river, runoff, streamflow, flood, hydropower
The purpose of this paper is to simulate the future runoff change of the Yellow River Basin under the combined effect of land use and climate change based on Cellular automata (CA)-Markov and Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The changes in the average runoff, high extreme runoff and intra-annual runoff distribution in the middle of the 21st century are analyzed. The following conclusions are obtained: (1) Compared with the base period (1970–1990), the average runoff of Tangnaihai, Tou…
The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood process chain at Lake Salkantaycocha (Cordillera Vilcabamba, Peru)
Authors: Oscar Vilca, Martin Mergili, Adam Emmer, Holger Frey, Christian Huggel
Journal: Landslides · DOI: 10.1007/s10346-021-01670-0 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Dirmeyer, Arend et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Land‐Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave Over Northern Europe During Summer 2018
Authors: Paul A. Dirmeyer, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Eleanor Blyth, Ross Morrison, Hollie Cooper
Journal: AGU Advances · DOI: 10.1029/2020av000283 · Citations: 255
Matched topics: hydrology, drought, land surface model, surface water
Abstract The 2018 drought and heatwave over northern Europe were exceptional, with unprecedented forest fires in Sweden, searing heat in Germany and water restrictions in England. Monthly, daily, and hourly data from ERA5, verified with in situ soil water content and surface flux measurements, are examined to investigate the subseasonal‐to‐seasonal progression of the event and the diurnal evolution of tropospheric profiles over Britain to quantify the anomalous land surface contribution to he…
Rapid hydraulic collapse as cause of drought-induced mortality in conifers
Authors: Matthias Arend, Roman M. Link, Rachel Patthey, Günter Hoch, Bernhard Schuldt, Ansgar Kahmen
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025251118 · Citations: 185
Matched topics: drought
L.) during the progression of the record-breaking 2018 Central European drought. In trees on the trajectory to drought-induced mortality, we observed rapid, nonlinear declines of xylem pressure that commenced at the early onset of xylem cavitation and caused a complete loss of xylem hydraulic conductance within a very short time. We also observed severe depletions of nonstructural carbohydrates, though carbon starvation could be ruled out as the cause of the observed tree death, as both dying…
Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought
Authors: Jennifer M. R. Peters, Rosana López, Markus Nolf, Lindsay B. Hutley, Tim Wardlaw, Lucas A. Cernusak et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15641 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: drought
Globally, forests are facing an increasing risk of mass tree mortality events associated with extreme droughts and higher temperatures. Hydraulic dysfunction is considered a key mechanism of drought-triggered dieback. By leveraging the climate breadth of the Australian landscape and a national network of research sites (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network), we conducted a continental-scale study of physiological and hydraulic traits of 33 native tree species from contrasting environments t…
The 2019 flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and their association with large-scale climate drivers
Authors: Hanh Nguyen, Matthew C. Wheeler, Harry H. Hendon, Eun‐Pa Lim, Jason A. Otkin
Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100321 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: drought
During 2017–2019, drought existed in many parts of Australia with varying degrees of severity and varied timing of development and intensification. In a broad sense, the surface climate conditions went from anomalously wet in 2016 to an official government-declared drought from the end of 2017. The drought subsequently intensified further to become most severe in mid to late 2019. Here we explore the more detailed evolution of the 2019 conditions over subtropical eastern Australia and infer i…
Trichoderma asperellum Inoculation as a Tool for Attenuating Drought Stress in Sugarcane
Authors: Daniele Scudeletti, Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol, João William Bossolani, Luiz Gustavo Moretti, Letusa Momesso, Brenda Tubaña et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.645542 · Citations: 87
Matched topics: drought
should be reapplied to the sugarcane ratoons.
Interaction of drought and frost in tree ecophysiology: rethinking the timing of risks
Authors: Guillaume Charrier, Nicolas Martin‐StPaul, Claire Damesin, Nicolas Delpierre, Heikki Hänninen, José Manuel Torres Ruiz et al.
Journal: Annals of Forest Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13595-021-01052-5 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: drought
Abstract • Key message The increase in climate variability is likely to generate an increased occurrence of both frost-induced and drought-induced damages on perennial plants. We examined how these stress factors can potentially interact and would subsequently affect the vulnerability to each other. Furthermore, we discussed how this vulnerability could be modulated by shifts in the annual phenological cycle. Context The edges of plant distribution are strongly affected by abiotic constraints…
IMERG-Based Meteorological Drought Analysis over Italy
Authors: Tommaso Caloiero, Giulio Nils Caroletti, Roberto Coscarelli
Journal: Climate · DOI: 10.3390/cli9040065 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: drought
The Mediterranean region is an area particularly susceptible to water scarcity and drought. In this work, drought has been analyzed in Italy using multiple timescales of the standardized precipitation index (SPI) evaluated from the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement product from 2000 to 2020. In particular, drought characteristics (severity, duration, and intensity) have been estimated by means of the run theory applied to the SPI values calculated in 3…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 11 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP6 models
Authors: Anja Katzenberger, Jacob Schewe, Julia Pongratz, Anders Levermann
Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-12-367-2021 · Citations: 255
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract. The Indian summer monsoon is an integral part of the global climate system. As its seasonal rainfall plays a crucial role in India’s agriculture and shapes many other aspects of life, it affects the livelihood of a fifth of the world’s population. It is therefore highly relevant to assess its change under potential future climate change. Global climate models within the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) indicated a consistent increase in monsoon rainfall and its …
Future behavior of wind wave extremes due to climate change
Authors: Héctor Lobeto, Melisa Menéndez, Íñigo J. Losada
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86524-4 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: climate change
is found in the SE Indian, NW Atlantic and NE Pacific. Therefore, an extrapolation of the expected change in mean wave conditions to extremes in regions presenting such divergences should be adopted with caution, since it may lead to misinterpretation when used for the design of marine structures or in the evaluation of coastal flooding and erosion.
Global cotton production under climate change – Implications for yield and water consumption
Authors: Yvonne Jans, Werner von Bloh, Sibyll Schaphoff, Christoph Müller
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-2027-2021 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, climate change, irrigation, earth system model
Abstract. Being an extensively produced natural fiber on earth, cotton is of importance for economies. Although the plant is broadly adapted to varying environments, the growth of and irrigation water demand on cotton may be challenged by future climate change. To study the impacts of climate change on cotton productivity in different regions across the world and the irrigation water requirements related to it, we use the process-based, spatially detailed biosphere and hydrology model LPJmL (…
Progress in climate change adaptation research
Authors: Anne J. Sietsma, James D. Ford, Max Callaghan, Jan C. Minx
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf7f3 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract The scientific literature on climate change adaptation has become too large to assess manually. Beyond standard scientometrics, questions about if and how the field is progressing thus remain largely unanswered. Here we provide a novel, inquisitive, computer-assisted evidence mapping methodology that combines expert interviews ( n = 26) and structural topic modelling to evaluate open-ended research questions on progress in the field. We apply this to 62 191 adaptation-relevant scient…
Climate change and specialty coffee potential in Ethiopia
Authors: Abel Chemura, Bester Tawona Mudereri, Amsalu Woldie Yalew, Christoph Gornott
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87647-4 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: climate change
Current climate change impact studies on coffee have not considered impact on coffee typicities that depend on local microclimatic, topographic and soil characteristics. Thus, this study aims to provide a quantitative risk assessment of the impact of climate change on suitability of five premium specialty coffees in Ethiopia. We implement an ensemble model of three machine learning algorithms to predict current and future (2030s, 2050s, 2070s, and 2090s) suitability for each specialty coffee …
Sea Surface Temperature Intercomparison in the Framework of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
Authors: Chunxue Yang, Francesca Elisa Leonelli, Salvatore Marullo, Vincenzo Artale, Helen Beggs, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli et al.
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0793.1 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract A joint effort between the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) has been dedicated to an intercomparison study of eight global gap-free sea surface temperature (SST) products to assess their accurate representation of the SST relevant to climate analysis. In general, all SST products show consistent spatial patterns and temporal variability during the overlapping time period (2003–18). The main differences between …
Extreme climate changes over three major river basins in China as seen in CMIP5 and CMIP6
Authors: Xian Zhu, Shao-Yi Lee, Xiaohang Wen, Zhenming Ji, Lei Lin, Zhigang Wei et al.
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05767-z · Citations: 81
Matched topics: river, climate change
Abstract not available.
Impacts of population growth and climate change on food production and irrigation and drainage needs: A world‐wide view*
Authors: Daniele De Wrachien, Bart Schultz, Mudlagiri B. Goli
Journal: Irrigation and Drainage · DOI: 10.1002/ird.2597 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: water management, climate change, irrigation
Abstract The world population is expected to grow from 7.8 billion at present to 9.7 billion by 2050 and 10.9 billion by the end of the century. The growth is especially expected in urban areas of the countries with a low, medium, and high human development index (HDI) in Africa and Asia. Especially because of the on‐going increase in farm sizes in the rural areas of the countries with a medium, high, and very high HDI, a reduction in population in these areas may be expected. In the countrie…
How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?
Authors: Katrina McGuigan, Ary A. Hoffmann, Carla M. Sgrò
Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0119 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: climate change
Transgenerational effects that are interpreted in terms of epigenetics have become an important research focus at a time when rapid environmental changes are occurring. These effects are usually interpreted as enhancing fitness extremely rapidly, without depending on the slower process of natural selection changing DNA-encoded (fixed) genetic variants in populations. Supporting evidence comes from a variety of sources, including environmental associations with epialleles, cross-generation res…
Global dominance of tectonics over climate in shaping river longitudinal profiles
Authors: Hansjörg Seybold, Wouter R. Berghuijs, J. Prancevic, James W. Kirchner
Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00720-5 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river
Abstract not available.
Factors influencing climate change adaptation strategies in North-Western Ghana: evidence of farmers in the Black Volta Basin in Upper West region
Authors: Francis X. K. Mwinkom, Lawrence Damnyag, Simon Abugre, Suhiyini I. Alhassan
Journal: SN Applied Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04503-w · Citations: 68
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract The erratic rainfall patterns and decline in crop production are due to the threat of climate change. The responses of farm households to climate change play a very essential role in addressing the risk of climate change. This study investigated factors influencing adaptation strategies to climate change in the Black Volta Basin of Ghana. Survey questions were administered to 450 households sampled from eight districts using a multistage sampling technique. Out of the six adaptation …
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 6 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Pore-scale modelling and sensitivity analyses of hydrogen-brine multiphase flow in geological porous media
Authors: Leila Hashemi, Martin J. Blunt, Hadi Hajibeygi
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87490-7 · Citations: 263
Matched topics: reservoir
Underground hydrogen storage (UHS) in initially brine-saturated deep porous rocks is a promising large-scale energy storage technology, due to hydrogen’s high specific energy capacity and the high volumetric capacity of aquifers. Appropriate selection of a feasible and safe storage site vitally depends on understanding hydrogen transport characteristics in the subsurface. Unfortunately there exist no robust experimental analyses in the literature to properly characterise this complex process….
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs
Authors: Kai Yue, Pieter De Frenne, Dario Fornara, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Wang Li, Xin Peng et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15644 · Citations: 164
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model
Spatiotemporal redistribution of incident rainfall in vegetated ecosystems results from the partitioning by plants into intercepted, stemflow, and throughfall fractions. However, variation in patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning across global biomes remains poorly understood, which limited the ability of climate models to improve the predictions of biome hydrological cycle under global climate change scenario. Here, we synthesized and analyzed the partitioning of incident rainfall in…
Rainfall and runoff time-series trend analysis using LSTM recurrent neural network and wavelet neural network with satellite-based meteorological data: case study of Nzoia hydrologic basin
Authors: Yashon O. Ouma, Rodrick Cheruyot, Alice N. Wachera
Journal: Complex & Intelligent Systems · DOI: 10.1007/s40747-021-00365-2 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow
Abstract This study compares LSTM neural network and wavelet neural network (WNN) for spatio-temporal prediction of rainfall and runoff time-series trends in scarcely gauged hydrologic basins. Using long-term in situ observed data for 30 years (1980–2009) from ten rain gauge stations and three discharge measurement stations, the rainfall and runoff trends in the Nzoia River basin are predicted through satellite-based meteorological data comprising of: precipitation, mean temperature, relative…
Modeling Approaches to Assess Soil Erosion by Water at the Field Scale with Special Emphasis on Heterogeneity of Soils and Crops
Authors: Ahsan Raza, Hella Ellen Ahrends, Muhammad Habib ur Rahman, Thomas Gaiser
Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land10040422 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: hydrology, water management
Information on soil erosion and related sedimentation processes are very important for natural resource management and sustainable farming. Plenty of models are available for studying soil erosion but only a few are suitable for dynamic soil erosion assessments at the field-scale. To date, there are no field-scale dynamic models available considering complex agricultural systems for the simulation of soil erosion. We conducted a review of 51 different models evaluated based on their represent…
Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019
Authors: Livia Jakob, Noël Gourmelen, Martin Ewart, Stephen Plummer
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-1845-2021 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: streamflow
Abstract. Glaciers are currently the largest contributor to sea level rise after ocean thermal expansion, contributing ∼ 30 % to the sea level budget. Global monitoring of these regions remains a challenging task since global estimates rely on a variety of observations and models to achieve the required spatial and temporal coverage, and significant differences remain between current estimates. Here we report the first application of a novel approach to retrieve spatially resolved elevation a…
Spatiotemporal variations in extreme precipitation on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin (1970–2018)
Authors: Shuqi Wu, Zhuowei Hu, Zhiheng Wang, Shisong Cao, Yang Yang, Xinyuan Qu et al.
Journal: Quaternary International · DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.010 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 18 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks
Authors: Sujay S. Kaushal, Gene E. Likens, Michael L. Pace, Jenna E. Reimer, C. Maas, Joseph G. Galella et al.
Journal: Biogeochemistry · DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00784-w · Citations: 262
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, water management
Abstract Freshwater salinization is an emerging global problem impacting safe drinking water, ecosystem health and biodiversity, infrastructure corrosion, and food production. Freshwater salinization originates from diverse anthropogenic and geologic sources including road salts, human-accelerated weathering, sewage, urban construction, fertilizer, mine drainage, resource extraction, water softeners, saltwater intrusion, and evaporative concentration of ions due to hydrologic alterations and …
Understanding trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services to support the decision-making in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region
Authors: Zhe Feng, Xueru Jin, Tianqian Chen, Jiansheng Wu
Journal: Land Use Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105446 · Citations: 240
Matched topics: water management
Understanding ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies is the foundation to achieve the efficient management of the ecosystem and improve human well-being. However, the current research involving the driving mechanism of ecosystem service relationship formation is still limited. In this paper, a semi-quantitative model named Bayesian belief networks is introduced to simulate ecological processes, which links the potential influencing factors with the ecosystem service supply. The purpose of…
Uncertainties in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) emission inventory of greenhouse gases
Authors: Efisio Solazzo, Monica Crippa, Diego Guizzardi, Marilena Muntean, Margarita Choulga, Greet Janssens‐Maenhout
Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-5655-2021 · Citations: 229
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) estimates the human-induced emission rates on Earth. EDGAR collaborates with atmospheric modelling activities and aids policy in the design of mitigation strategies and in evaluating their effectiveness. In these applications, the uncertainty estimate is an essential component, as it quantifies the accuracy and qualifies the level of confidence in the emission. This study complements the EDGAR emissions inventory by prov…
Modified dynamic boundary conditions (mDBC) for general-purpose smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH): application to tank sloshing, dam break and fish pass problems
Authors: Aaron English, José M. Domínguez, Renato Vacondio, Alejandro Crespo, Peter Stansby, Steven Lind et al.
Journal: Computational Particle Mechanics · DOI: 10.1007/s40571-021-00403-3 · Citations: 205
Matched topics: surface water
Dynamic boundary conditions (DBC) for solid surfaces are standard in the weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code DualSPHysics. A stationary solid is simply represented by fixed particles with pressure from the equation of state. Boundaries are easy to set up and computations are relatively stable and efficient, providing robust numerical simulation for complex geometries. However, a small unphysical gap between the fluid and solid boundaries can form, decreasing the acc…
Hydrochemistry, quality and potential health risk appraisal of nitrate enriched groundwater in the Nanchong area, southwestern China
Authors: Yunhui Zhang, Yongsheng Dai, Ying Wang, Xun Huang, Yong Xiao, Qiuming Pei
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147186 · Citations: 196
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration
Authors: André Izidoro, Bertram Bitsch, Sean N. Raymond, Anders Johansen, Alessandro Morbidelli, Michiel Lambrechts et al.
Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics · DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935336 · Citations: 175
Matched topics: reservoir, earth system model
At least 30% of main sequence stars host planets with sizes of between 1 and 4 Earth radii and orbital periods of less than 100 days. We use N -body simulations including a model for gas-assisted pebble accretion and disk–planet tidal interaction to study the formation of super-Earth systems. We show that the integrated pebble mass reservoir creates a bifurcation between hot super-Earths or hot-Neptunes (≲15 M ⊕ ) and super-massive planetary cores potentially able to become gas giant planets …
Rapidly declining surface and terrestrial water resources in Central Asia driven by socio-economic and climatic changes
Authors: Wenjing Huang, Weili Duan, Yaning Chen
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147193 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: reservoir, surface water
Abstract not available.
Mapping annual irrigation from Landsat imagery and environmental variables across the conterminous United States
Authors: Yanhua Xie, Tyler J. Lark
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112445 · Citations: 116
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity and its links with other soil properties at the regional scale
Authors: B. Usowicz, Jerzy Lipiec
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86862-3 · Citations: 87
Matched topics: water management
in the northern sandier (sand content > 74%) and less silty (silt content < 22%) part and, with lower K in the southern part of the study region. Generally, the spatial distribution of the K values in the study region depended on the share of individual intrinsic textural fractions. On the other hand, the ranges of the spatial relationship between K and the intrinsic and relatively stable soil properties were much larger (from ~ 15 to 81 km) than between K and the temporally variable soil pro…
Comparing Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods for the Assessment of Flow Release Scenarios From Small Hydropower Plants in the Alpine Area
Authors: Erica Vassoney, Andrea Mammoliti Mochet, Erika Desiderio, Giovanni Negro, Maria Gabriella Pilloni, Claudio Comoglio
Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science · DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.635100 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: water management, hydropower
Growing energy demand and targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are driving a significant hydropower (HP) generation expansion in the Alpine area. However, despite its advantages, HP implementation causes several impacts on the ecological status of river systems and the preservation of characteristic landscapes. The use of decision-making tools, like multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, can provide helpful support to achieve more sustainable solutions for complex water manag…
The river chief system and agricultural non-point source water pollution control in China
Authors: Li Zhou, Lingzhi Li, Jikun Huang
Journal: Journal of Integrative Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/s2095-3119(20)63370-6 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: river, surface water
As part of their efforts to control water pollution, local governments in China introduced the river chief system, whereby a named individual undertakes responsibility for protecting a specified waterway. As one of the most prominent sources of water pollution, agricultural non-point-source (NPS) pollution is becoming increasingly serious. Determining whether the river chief system, an institutional reform in China’s decentralized environmental regulation regime, is effective in alleviating N…
Snow Depth and Air Temperature Seasonality on Sea Ice Derived From Snow Buoy Measurements
Authors: Marcel Nicolaus, Mario Hoppmann, Stefanie Arndt, Stefan Hendricks, Christian Katlein, Anja Nicolaus et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science · DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.655446 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: seasonal
Snow depth on sea ice is an essential state variable of the polar climate system and yet one of the least known and most difficult to characterize parameters of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice systems. Here, we present a new type of autonomous platform to measure snow depth, air temperature, and barometric pressure on drifting Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. “Snow Buoys” are designed to withstand the harshest environmental conditions and to deliver high and consistent data quality with minimal…
Sea temperature effects on depth use and habitat selection in a marine fish community
Authors: Carla Freitas, David Villegas‐Ríos, Even Moland, Esben Moland Olsen
Journal: Journal of Animal Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13497 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: water management
Understanding the responses of aquatic animals to temperature variability is essential to predict impacts of future climate change and to inform conservation and management. Most ectotherms such as fish are expected to adjust their behaviour to avoid extreme temperatures and minimize acute changes in body temperature. In coastal Skagerrak, Norway, sea surface temperature (SST) ranges seasonally from 0 to over 20°C, representing a challenge to the fish community which includes cold-, cool- and…
Assessment of groundwater quality in a Brazilian semiarid basin using an integration of GIS, water quality index and multivariate statistical techniques
Authors: M.I. Silva, A. Manuela Gonçalves, Wângeska Alves Vieira Lopes, Mirelle Tainá Vieira Lima, Celme Torres Ferreira da Costa, Marta Paris et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126346 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
An ecohydrological typology for thermal refuges in streams and rivers
Authors: Christopher J. Sullivan, Jason C. Vokoun, Ashley M. Helton, Martin A. Briggs, Barret L. Kurylyk
Journal: Ecohydrology · DOI: 10.1002/eco.2295 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: river
Abstract Thermal refuges are thermally distinct riverscape features used by aquatic organisms during unfavourable thermal events, facilitating resilience in marginal environments. However, the thermal refuge concept is nebulous, and the often interchangeable use of the term ‘thermal refugia’ creates additional ambiguity. We argue that lexical differences resulting from divergent scholarly trainings hinder holistic understanding of thermal refuges; thus, existing studies would benefit from a s…
Mapping typical salt-marsh species in the Yellow River Delta wetland supported by temporal-spatial-spectral multidimensional features
Authors: Cheng Zhang, Zhaoning Gong, Huachang Qiu, Yuan Zhang, Demin Zhou
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147061 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
The Use of Sentinel-2 for Chlorophyll-a Spatial Dynamics Assessment: A Comparative Study on Different Lakes in Northern Germany
Authors: Igor Ogashawara, Christine Kiel, Andreas Jechow, Katrin Kohnert, Thomas Ruhtz, Hans‐Peter Grossart et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13081542 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: water management
Eutrophication of inland waters is an environmental issue that is becoming more common with climatic variability. Monitoring of this aquatic problem is commonly based on the chlorophyll-a concentration monitored by routine sampling with limited temporal and spatial coverage. Remote sensing data can be used to improve monitoring, especially after the launch of the MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) on Sentinel-2. In this study, we compared the estimation of chlorophyll-a (chl-a) from different bio…
Sharing hydropower flexibility in interconnected power systems: A case study for the China Southern power grid
Authors: Juntao Zhang, Chun-tian Cheng, Shen Yu, Hui-jun Wu, Mengping Gao
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.APENERGY.2021.116645 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract In 2020, China pledged to become carbon neutral before 2060, which implies the acceleration of China’s low-carbon energy transition and development of new energy (wind and solar). As a result, the demand for flexibility in China’s power system has never been so urgent. Because China has the greatest installed hydropower capacity in the world, sharing hydropower flexibility in its interconnected power systems is of great practical significance to China. This paper reports the necessit…
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| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 1006 |
| After deduplication | 697 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 647 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| The Science of The Total Environment | 4 |
| Scientific Reports | 4 |
| Land | 2 |
| Global Change Biology | 2 |
| Environmental Management | 1 |
| Nature | 1 |
| Journal of Water and Climate Change | 1 |
| The Plant Journal | 1 |
| Sustainable Cities and Society | 1 |
| Landslides | 1 |
| AGU Advances | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Weather and Climate Extremes | 1 |
| Frontiers in Plant Science | 1 |
| Annals of Forest Science | 1 |
| Climate | 1 |
| Earth System Dynamics | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Irrigation and Drainage | 1 |
| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 1 |
| Nature Geoscience | 1 |
| SN Applied Sciences | 1 |
| Complex & Intelligent Systems | 1 |
| The cryosphere | 1 |
| Quaternary International | 1 |
| Biogeochemistry | 1 |
| Land Use Policy | 1 |
| Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 1 |
| Computational Particle Mechanics | 1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| Frontiers in Environmental Science | 1 |
| Journal of Integrative Agriculture | 1 |
| Frontiers in Marine Science | 1 |
| Journal of Animal Ecology | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| Ecohydrology | 1 |
| Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Unknown | 1 |
Filtering Criteria
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
Databases: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex