Weekly Literature Review

Week 31 · August 2–August 8, 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

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods
    2. A method for the direct assessment of ship collision damage and flooding risk in real conditions
    3. Understanding the relationship between rainfall and flood probabilities through combined intensity-duration-frequency analysis
    4. Improving urban flood susceptibility mapping using transfer learning
    5. Future projections of flooding characteristics in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin under climate change
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades
    2. Drought risk for agricultural systems in South Africa: Drivers, spatial patterns, and implications for drought risk management
    3. Cereal Yield Forecasting with Satellite Drought-Based Indices, Weather Data and Regional Climate Indices Using Machine Learning in Morocco
    4. Drought-resistance rice variety with water-saving management reduces greenhouse gas emissions from paddies while maintaining rice yields
  4. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Climate change regulated abiotic stress mechanisms in plants: a comprehensive review
    2. Climate Change and Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves: Overview of Science and Guidelines for Adaptation
    3. Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management
    4. Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data
    5. Calibration‐Free Complementary Relationship Estimates Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Globally
    6. Threshold effect of ecosystem services in response to climate change and vegetation coverage change in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ecological shelter
    7. The importance of species interactions in eco-evolutionary community dynamics under climate change
    8. Determinants of climate change disclosure practices of global hotel companies: Application of institutional and stakeholder theories
    9. The Convective‐To‐Total Precipitation Ratio and the “Drizzling” Bias in Climate Models
    10. Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to a JPS Forum
    11. Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain
    12. Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change
    13. Remote Sensing of Global Daily Evapotranspiration based on a Surface Energy Balance Method and Reanalysis Data
    14. Recent degradation of interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne lidar
    15. Predicting the potential global distribution of Ageratina adenophora under current and future climate change scenarios
    16. Effects of future climate change on birch abundance and their pollen load
    17. Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches
    18. Seasonal climate forecast can inform the European agricultural sector well in advance of harvesting
    19. Worldwide dynamic predictive analysis of building performance under long-term climate change conditions
  5. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling
    2. CAMELS-AUS: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 222 catchments in Australia
    3. Spatiotemporal profiling of antibiotics and resistance genes in a river catchment: Human population as the main driver of antibiotic and antibiotic resistance gene presence in the environment
    4. Estimation and evaluation of high-resolution soil moisture from merged model and Earth observation data in the Great Britain
    5. Deep Learning for Prediction of Water Quality Index Classification: Tropical Catchment Environmental Assessment
    6. Assessment of regional-scale water resources carrying capacity based on fuzzy multiple attribute decision-making and scenario simulation
    7. A robust water-food-land nexus optimization model for sustainable agricultural development in the Yangtze River Basin
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions
    2. Event Detection in Twitter
    3. Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
    4. Highly Salt‐Resistant 3D Hydrogel Evaporator for Continuous Solar Desalination via Localized Crystallization
    5. The Tire Wear Compounds 6PPD-Quinone and 1,3-Diphenylguanidine in an Urban Watershed
    6. Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis
    7. Hydrogeochemical evidence for fluoride behavior in groundwater and the associated risk to human health for a large irrigation plain in the Yellow River Basin
    8. Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin
    9. Phytohormone Production Profiles in Trichoderma Species and Their Relationship to Wheat Plant Responses to Water Stress
    10. Cleaner seas: reducing marine pollution
    11. A meta-analysis on effects of root development on soil hydraulic properties
    12. Spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of the water conservation function and its driving factors in regional lake wetlands—Two types of homogeneous lakes as examples
    13. The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water
    14. A Contribution to Soil Fertility Assessment for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
    15. Groundwater antibiotic pollution and its relationship with dissolved organic matter: Identification and environmental implications
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 5 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Tellman, Zhang et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods

Authors: Beth Tellman, Jonathan A. Sullivan, C Kuhn, Albert J. Kettner, Colin Doyle, G. Robert Brakenridge et al.

Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03695-w · Citations: 1276

Matched topics: flood, climate change

Abstract not available.


A method for the direct assessment of ship collision damage and flooding risk in real conditions

Authors: Mingyang Zhang, Fabien Conti, Hervé Le Sourne, Dracos Vassalos, Pentti Kujala, Daniel Lindroth et al.

Journal: Ocean Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109605 · Citations: 125

Matched topics: flood

Collision accidents may lead to significant asset damage and human casualties. This paper introduces a direct analysis methodology that makes use of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to estimate collision probability and generate scenarios for use in ship damage stability assessment. Potential collision scenarios are detected from AIS data by an avoidance behaviour-based collision detection model (ABCD-M) and the probability of collision is estimated in various routes pertaining to a…


Understanding the relationship between rainfall and flood probabilities through combined intensity-duration-frequency analysis

Authors: Korbinian Breinl, David Lun, Hannes Müller‐Thomy, Günter Blöschl

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126759 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, flood

The aim of this paper is to explore how rainfall mechanisms and catchment characteristics shape the relationship between rainfall and flood probabilities. We propose a new approach of comparing intensity-duration-frequency statistics of maximum annual rainfall with those of maximum annual streamflow in order to infer the catchment behavior for runoff extremes. We calibrate parsimonious intensity-duration-frequency scaling models to data from 314 rain gauges and 428 stream gauges in Austria, a…


Improving urban flood susceptibility mapping using transfer learning

Authors: Gang Zhao, Bo Pang, Zongxue Xu, Lizhuang Cui, Jingjing Wang, Depeng Zuo et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126777 · Citations: 99

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Future projections of flooding characteristics in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin under climate change

Authors: Shuxia Wang, Liping Zhang, Dunxian She, Gangsheng Wang, Qin Zhang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126778 · Citations: 92

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, runoff, flood, climate change

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 4 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Gampe, Meza et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

Authors: David Gampe, Jakob Zscheischler, Markus Reichstein, Michael O’Sullivan, William K. Smith, Stephen Sitch et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01112-8 · Citations: 449

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Drought risk for agricultural systems in South Africa: Drivers, spatial patterns, and implications for drought risk management

Authors: Isabel Meza, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Stefan Siebert, Gohar Ghazaryan, Hamideh Nouri, Olena Dubovyk et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149505 · Citations: 146

Matched topics: drought, irrigation

The regular drought episodes in South Africa highlight the need to reduce drought risk by both policy and local community actions. Environmental and socioeconomic factors in South Africa’s agricultural system have been affected by drought in the past, creating cascading pressures on the nation’s agro-economic and water supply systems. Therefore, understanding the key drivers of all risk components through a comprehensive risk assessment must be undertaken in order to inform proactive drought …


Cereal Yield Forecasting with Satellite Drought-Based Indices, Weather Data and Regional Climate Indices Using Machine Learning in Morocco

Authors: El Houssaine Bouras, Lionel Jarlan, Salah Er‐Raki, Riad Balaghi, Abdelhakim Amazirh, Bastien Richard et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13163101 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought

Accurate seasonal forecasting of cereal yields is an important decision support tool for countries, such as Morocco, that are not self-sufficient in order to predict, as early as possible, importation needs. This study aims to develop an early forecasting model of cereal yields (soft wheat, barley and durum wheat) at the scale of the agricultural province considering the 15 most productive over 2000–2017 (i.e., 15 × 18 = 270 yields values). To this objective, we built on previous works that s…


Drought-resistance rice variety with water-saving management reduces greenhouse gas emissions from paddies while maintaining rice yields

Authors: Xianxian Zhang, Sheng Zhou, Junguo Bi, Huifeng Sun, Cong Wang, Jining Zhang

Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2021.107592 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: water management, drought

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 19 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Climate change regulated abiotic stress mechanisms in plants: a comprehensive review

Authors: S. Chaudhry, G. Sidhu

Journal: Plant Cell Reports · DOI: 10.1007/s00299-021-02759-5 · Citations: 443

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves: Overview of Science and Guidelines for Adaptation

Authors: Jean‐Luc Martel, François Brissette, Philippe Lucas‐Picher, Magali Troin, Richard Arsenault

Journal: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering · DOI: 10.1061/(asce)he.1943-5584.0002122 · Citations: 216

Matched topics: runoff, climate change

One of the most important impacts of a future warmer climate is the projected increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme \nrainfall events. This increasing trend in extreme rainfall is seen in both the observational record and climate model projections. However, a \nthorough review of the recent scientific literature paints a complex picture in which the intensification of rainfall extremes depends on a \nmultitude of factors. While some projected rainfall indices follow t…


Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

Authors: Paul F. Hessburg, Susan J. Prichard, R. Keala Hagmann, Nicholas A. Povak, Frank K. Lake

Journal: Ecological Applications · DOI: 10.1002/eap.2432 · Citations: 215

Matched topics: climate change

Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over the last four decades. Resulting interactions between historical increases in forested area and density and recent rapid warming, increasing insect mortality, and wildfire burned areas, are now leading to substantial abrupt landscape alterations. These outcomes are forcing forest planners and managers to identify strategie…


Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data

Authors: Robert S. Fausto, D. van As, Kenneth D. Mankoff, B. Vandecrux, M. Citterio, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm et al.

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021 · Citations: 209

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. The Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) has been measuring climate and ice sheet properties since 2007. Currently, the PROMICE automatic weather station network includes 25 instrumented sites in Greenland. Accurate measurements of the surface and near-surface atmospheric conditions in a changing climate are important for reliable present and future assessment of changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Here, we present the PROMICE vision, methodology, and each l…


Calibration‐Free Complementary Relationship Estimates Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Globally

Authors: Ning Ma, József Szilágyi, Yongqiang Zhang

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr029691 · Citations: 193

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract While large‐scale terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) information is essential for our understanding of the Earth’s water and energy cycles, substantial differences exist in current global ET products due partly to uncertainties in soil‐ and vegetation‐related parameters and/or precipitation forcing. Here a calibration‐free complementary relationship (CR) model, driven purely by routine meteorological forcing (air and dew‐point temperature, wind speed, and net radiation), mainly from…


Threshold effect of ecosystem services in response to climate change and vegetation coverage change in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ecological shelter

Authors: Shuai Ma, Liangjie Wang, Jiang Jiang, Lei Chu, Jinchi Zhang

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128592 · Citations: 181

Matched topics: water management, climate change

Abstract not available.


The importance of species interactions in eco-evolutionary community dynamics under climate change

Authors: Anna Åkesson, Alva Curtsdotter, Anna Eklöf, Bo Ebenman, Jon Norberg, György Barabás

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24977-x · Citations: 135

Matched topics: climate change

Eco-evolutionary dynamics are essential in shaping the biological response of communities to ongoing climate change. Here we develop a spatially explicit eco-evolutionary framework which features more detailed species interactions, integrating evolution and dispersal. We include species interactions within and between trophic levels, and additionally, we incorporate the feature that species’ interspecific competition might change due to increasing temperatures and affect the impact of climate…


Determinants of climate change disclosure practices of global hotel companies: Application of institutional and stakeholder theories

Authors: Danuta de Grosbois, David A. Fennell

Journal: Tourism Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104404 · Citations: 131

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


The Convective‐To‐Total Precipitation Ratio and the “Drizzling” Bias in Climate Models

Authors: Di Chen, Aiguo Dai, Alex Hall

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd034198 · Citations: 127

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Overestimation of precipitation frequency and duration while underestimating intensity, that is, the “drizzling” bias, has been a long‐standing problem of global climate models. Here we explore this issue from the perspective of precipitation partitioning. We found that most models in the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) have high convective‐to‐total precipitation (PC/PR) ratios in low latitudes. Convective precipitation has higher frequency and longer duration b…


Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to a JPS Forum

Authors: Saturnino M. Borras, Ian Scoones, Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso, Wendy Wolford

Journal: The Journal of Peasant Studies · DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1956473 · Citations: 121

Matched topics: climate change, hydropower, earth system model

This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum on ‘climate change and critical agrarian studies’. Climate change is inextricably entwined with contemporary capitalism, but how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world requires deeper analysis. In particular, the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change is a vital focus for both thinking and action. In this essay, we make the co…


Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain

Authors: Elliott White, Emily A. Ury, Emily S. Bernhardt, Xi Yang

Journal: Ecosystems · DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00686-w · Citations: 87

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change

Authors: Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Karl Aberer

Journal: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v9i1.14626 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: climate change

Social media is becoming more and more integrated in the distribution and consumption of news. How is news in social media different from mainstream news? This paper presents a comparative analysis covering a span of 17 months and hundreds of news events, using a method that combines automatic and manual annotations. We focus on climate change, a topic that is frequently present in the news through a number of arguments, from current practices and causes (e.g. fracking, CO2 emissions) to cons…


Remote Sensing of Global Daily Evapotranspiration based on a Surface Energy Balance Method and Reanalysis Data

Authors: Xuelong Chen, Zhongbo Su, Yaoming Ma, Isabel F. Trigo, Pierre Gentine

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd032873 · Citations: 77

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

Abstract Currently available evapotranspiration (ET) products have not provided us with an accurate estimation for global irrigated land area. Thermal energy balance (EB) model has the potential to solve this problem. The accurate estimation of aerodynamic resistances is a major complication in most remote sensing ET models. An EB model using a column canopy‐air turbulent heat diffusion method was developed to more realistically depict dynamic changes in aerodynamic resistance. In order to es…


Recent degradation of interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne lidar

Authors: Thomas A. Douglas, C. A. Hiemstra, John E. Anderson, Robyn A. Barbato, Kevin Bjella, E. J. Deeb et al.

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-3555-2021 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

Abstract. Permafrost underlies one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere but is at increasing risk of thaw from climate warming. Recent studies across the Arctic have identified areas of rapid permafrost degradation from both top-down and lateral thaw. Of particular concern is thawing syngenetic “yedoma” permafrost which is ice-rich and has a high carbon content. This type of permafrost is common in the region around Fairbanks, Alaska, and across central Alaska expanding westward to the Seward P…


Predicting the potential global distribution of Ageratina adenophora under current and future climate change scenarios

Authors: Changjun Gu, Yanli Tu, Linshan Liu, Bo Wei, Zhang Yili, Haibin Yu et al.

Journal: Ecology and Evolution · DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7974 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: climate change

AIM: . LOCATION: Global. TAXA: R.M.King & H.Rob. Commonly known as Crofton weed. METHODS: occurrence data and climate data, we predicted its suitable areas of this weed under current and future (four RCPs in 2050 and 2070) by MaxEnt model. We used ArcGIS 10.4 to explore the potential suitable area distribution characteristics of this weed and the “ecospat” package in R to analyze its altitudinal distribution changes. RESULTS: under climate change would expand in regions with higher elevation …


Effects of future climate change on birch abundance and their pollen load

Authors: Jesús Rojo, José Oteros, Antonio Picornell, José María Maya‐Manzano, Athanasios Damialis, Katrin Zink et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15824 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change impacts on the structure and function of ecosystems will worsen public health issues like allergic diseases. Birch trees (Betula spp.) are important sources of aeroallergens in Central and Northern Europe. Birches are vulnerable to climate change as these trees are sensitive to increased temperatures and summer droughts. This study aims to examine the effect of climate change on airborne birch pollen concentrations in Central Europe using Bavaria in Southern Germany as a case s…


Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches

Authors: Sarah Kehler, S. Jeff Birchall

Journal: Environmental Science & Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.07.025 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Seasonal climate forecast can inform the European agricultural sector well in advance of harvesting

Authors: Andrej Ceglar, Andrea Toreti

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-021-00198-3 · Citations: 66

Matched topics: seasonal, earth system model

Abstract Seasonal climate forecasts are a key component of sectoral climate services. Skill and reliability in predicting agro-climate indicators, co-designed with and for European wheat farmers, are here assessed. The main findings show how seasonal climate forecast provides useful information for decision-making processes in the European winter wheat-producing sector. Flowering time can be reliably predicted already at the beginning of the growing season in central and eastern Europe, thus …


Worldwide dynamic predictive analysis of building performance under long-term climate change conditions

Authors: Paolo Maria Congedo, Cristina Baglivo, Aslıhan Kurnuç Seyhan, Raffaele Marchetti

Journal: Journal of Building Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103057 · Citations: 66

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 7 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Authors: M. Clark, R. Vogel, J. Lamontagne, N. Mizukami, W. Knoben, G. Tang et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1029/2020WR029001 · Citations: 286

Matched topics: hydrologic model

The goal of this commentary is to critically evaluate the use of popular performance metrics in hydrologic modeling. We focus on the Nash‐Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) and the Kling‐Gupta Efficiency (KGE) metrics, which are both widely used in hydrologic research and practice around the world. Our specific objectives are: (a) to provide tools that quantify the sampling uncertainty in popular performance metrics; (b) to quantify sampling uncertainty in popular performance metrics across a large s…


CAMELS-AUS: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 222 catchments in Australia

Authors: Keirnan Fowler, Suwash Chandra Acharya, Nans Addor, Chihchung Chou, Murray Peel

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-3847-2021 · Citations: 124

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, earth system model

Abstract. This paper presents the Australian edition of the Catchment Attributes and Meteorology for Large-sample Studies (CAMELS) series of datasets. CAMELS-AUS (Australia) comprises data for 222 unregulated catchments, combining hydrometeorological time series (streamflow and 18 climatic variables) with 134 attributes related to geology, soil, topography, land cover, anthropogenic influence and hydroclimatology. The CAMELS-AUS catchments have been monitored for decades (more than 85 % have …


Spatiotemporal profiling of antibiotics and resistance genes in a river catchment: Human population as the main driver of antibiotic and antibiotic resistance gene presence in the environment

Authors: Felicity Elder, Kathryn Proctor, Ruth Barden, William H. Gaze, Jason Snape, Edward J. Feil et al.

Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117533 · Citations: 120

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Estimation and evaluation of high-resolution soil moisture from merged model and Earth observation data in the Great Britain

Authors: Jian Peng, Maliko Tanguy, E. L. Robinson, Ewan Pinnington, Jonathan Evans, Rich Ellis et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112610 · Citations: 82

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

Soil moisture is an important component of the Earth system and plays a key role in land-atmosphere interactions. Remote sensing of soil moisture is of great scientific interest and the scientific community has made significant progress in soil moisture estimation using Earth observations. Currently, several satellite-based coarse spatial resolution soil moisture datasets have been produced and widely used for various applications in climate science, hydrology, ecosystem research and agricult…


Deep Learning for Prediction of Water Quality Index Classification: Tropical Catchment Environmental Assessment

Authors: Tiyasha Tiyasha, Tran Minh Tung, Zaher Mundher Yaseen‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Journal: Natural Resources Research · DOI: 10.1007/s11053-021-09922-5 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


Assessment of regional-scale water resources carrying capacity based on fuzzy multiple attribute decision-making and scenario simulation

Authors: Qiting Zuo, Jiahang Guo, Junxia Ma, Guotao Cui, Rongxue Yang, Lei Yu

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108034 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: water management

This study associates the fuzzy multi-attribute decision making (FMADM) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to assess the water resources carrying capacity and to tackle uncertain problems of multiple subsystems during its evaluation. For this purpose, the water resources carrying capacity evaluation index system is proposed, and the AHP-FMADM is used to evaluate the water resources carrying capacity of 15 areas in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from 2004 to 2017. Several scenarios wit…


A robust water-food-land nexus optimization model for sustainable agricultural development in the Yangtze River Basin

Authors: Liming Yao, Yalan Li, Xudong Chen

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107103 · Citations: 66

Matched topics: river, water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


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.

Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions

Authors: Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu, Xinhao Pan, Zihang Fang, Jingwei Li et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25026-3 · Citations: 1656

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model, climate change, irrigation, earth system model

Urbanization and climate change are together exacerbating water scarcity-where water demand exceeds availability-for the world’s cities. We quantify global urban water scarcity in 2016 and 2050 under four socioeconomic and climate change scenarios, and explored potential solutions. Here we show the global urban population facing water scarcity is projected to increase from 933 million (one third of global urban population) in 2016 to 1.693-2.373 billion people (one third to nearly half of glo…


Event Detection in Twitter

Authors: Jianshu Weng, Bu‐Sung Lee

Journal: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14102 · Citations: 716

Matched topics: flood

Twitter, as a form of social media, is fast emerging in recent years. Users are using Twitter to report real-life events. This paper focuses on detecting those events by analyzing the text stream in Twitter. Although event detection has long been a research topic, the characteristics of Twitter make it a non-trivial task. Tweets reporting such events are usually overwhelmed by high flood of meaningless “babbles”. Moreover, event detection algorithm needs to be scalable given the sheer amount …


Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

Authors: R. Keala Hagmann, Paul F. Hessburg, Susan J. Prichard, Nicholas A. Povak, Peter M. Brown, Peter Z. Fulé et al.

Journal: Ecological Applications · DOI: 10.1002/eap.2431 · Citations: 375

Matched topics: drought, seasonal

Implementation of wildfire- and climate-adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more than a century of resource and land use change, some question the need for proactive management, particularly given novel social, ecological, and climatic conditions. To address this question, we first provide a framework for assessing changes in landscape conditions and fire regimes. Using this framework, we then eva…


Highly Salt‐Resistant 3D Hydrogel Evaporator for Continuous Solar Desalination via Localized Crystallization

Authors: Lin Li, Nan He, Bo Jiang, Kewei Yu, Qian Zhang, Haotian Zhang et al.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials · DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202104380 · Citations: 335

Matched topics: water management, surface water

Abstract The emerging solar desalination by interfacial evaporation shows great potential for alleviating the global freshwater crisis. However, salt deposition on the whole evaporation surface during steam generation leads to a deterioration in the evaporation rate and long‐term stability. Herein, it is demonstrated that a hydrogel‐based 3D structure can serve as an efficient and stable solar evaporator by salt localized crystallization for high‐salinity brine desalination. Under the functio…


The Tire Wear Compounds 6PPD-Quinone and 1,3-Diphenylguanidine in an Urban Watershed

Authors: Cassandra Johannessen, Paul A. Helm, Brent Lashuk, Viviane Yargeau, Chris D. Metcalfe

Journal: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology · DOI: 10.1007/s00244-021-00878-4 · Citations: 271

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract not available.


Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis

Authors: Yalong Liu, Tida Ge, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Yuanhe Yang, Ping Wang, Kun Cheng et al.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00229-0 · Citations: 243

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Rice paddies account for ~9% or the world’s cropland area and are characterized by environmental conditions promoting soil organic carbon storage, methane emissions and to a lesser extent nitrous oxide emissions. Here, we synthesize data from 612 sites across 51 countries to estimate global carbon stocks in paddy soils and determine the main factors affecting paddy soil carbon storage. Paddy soils (0–100 cm) contain 18 Pg carbon worldwide. Paddy soil carbon stocks decrease with incre…


Hydrogeochemical evidence for fluoride behavior in groundwater and the associated risk to human health for a large irrigation plain in the Yellow River Basin

Authors: Jie Chen, Yanyan Gao, Hui Qian, Wenhao Ren, Wengang Qu

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149428 · Citations: 119

Matched topics: river, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin

Authors: Fernando Mayer Pelicice, Ângelo Antônio Agostinho, Alberto Akama, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Valter M. Azevedo‐Santos, Marcus Vinícius Moreira Barbosa et al.

Journal: Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01513-7 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: hydrology, river, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Phytohormone Production Profiles in Trichoderma Species and Their Relationship to Wheat Plant Responses to Water Stress

Authors: María Illescas, Alberto Pedrero-Méndez, Marcieli Pitorini-Bovolini, Rosa Hermosa, Enrique Monte

Journal: Pathogens · DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10080991 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: irrigation

production, resulted in smaller plants regardless of fungal growth medium and irrigation regime.


Cleaner seas: reducing marine pollution

Authors: Kathryn Willis, Catarina Serra-Gonçalves, Kelsey Richardson, Qamar Schuyler, Halfdan Pedersen, Kelli Anderson et al.

Journal: Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries · DOI: 10.1007/s11160-021-09674-8 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: runoff

In the age of the Anthropocene, the ocean has typically been viewed as a sink for pollution. Pollution is varied, ranging from human-made plastics and pharmaceutical compounds, to human-altered abiotic factors, such as sediment and nutrient runoff. As global population, wealth and resource consumption continue to grow, so too does the amount of potential pollution produced. This presents us with a grand challenge which requires interdisciplinary knowledge to solve. There is sufficient data on…


A meta-analysis on effects of root development on soil hydraulic properties

Authors: Xiaoqing Shi, Tianling Qin, Denghua Yan, Fuqiang Tian, Hao Wang

Journal: Geoderma · DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115363 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract not available.


Spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of the water conservation function and its driving factors in regional lake wetlands—Two types of homogeneous lakes as examples

Authors: Wenmin Hu, Guo Li, Ze-Nian Li

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108069 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: water management

Water conservation is the core wetland ecological function. The pattern of water conservation in geography often exhibits local spatial heterogeneity. In this paper, the Dongting Lake (DT) and Poyang Lake (PY) wetlands were taken as research objects, and the water yield (WY) module of the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) model was used to spatially quantify water conservation, with the aim of revealing the differences in water conservation in homogeneous wetl…


The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water

Authors: Saskia Keesstra, Srikanta Sannigrahi, Manuel López‐Vicente, Manuel Pulido Fernández, Agata Novara, Saskia Visser et al.

Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0175 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, earth system model

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims for clean water and sanitation for all by 2030, through eight subgoals dealing with four themes: (i) water quantity and availability, (ii) water quality, (iii) finding sustainable solutions and (iv) policy and governance. In this opinion paper, we assess how soils and associated land and water management can help achieve this goal, considering soils at two scales: local soil health and healthy landscapes. The merging of these two viewpoin…


A Contribution to Soil Fertility Assessment for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

Authors: Hussam Hag Husein, Bernhard Lücke, Rupert Bäumler, Wahib Sahwan

Journal: Soil Systems · DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems5030042 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: irrigation

Soil fertility must be viewed as a dynamic concept that involves the constant cycling of nutrients between organic and inorganic forms. In this context, it refers also to supply adequate amounts of water and aeration for plant growth. Soil fertility under arid and semi-arid lands is constrained not only by limited water availability but also by small organic matter contents. Most fertility assessment systems are based on organic matter contents as the main parameter. However, crop experiments…


Groundwater antibiotic pollution and its relationship with dissolved organic matter: Identification and environmental implications

Authors: Meritxell Gros, Núria Catalán, Josep Mas‐Pla, Mira Čelić, Mira Petrović, María José Farré

Journal: Environmental Pollution · DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117927 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: surface water

in one location. DOM analysis revealed that most molecular formulas were CHO compounds (49 %-68 %), with a remarkable percentage containing nitrogen and sulphur (16 %-23 % and 11 %-24 %, respectively). Major DOM components were phenolic and highly unsaturated compounds (~90 %), typical for soil-derived organic matter, while approximately 11 % were unsaturated aliphatic, suggesting that springs may be susceptible to anthropogenic contamination sources. Comparing the DOM fingerprint among sites…


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