Weekly Literature Review
Week 06 · February 8–February 14, 2021
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
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Global exposure to flooding from the new CMIP6 climate model projections
- How Do Climate and Catchment Attributes Influence Flood Generating Processes? A Large‐Sample Study for 671 Catchments Across the Contiguous USA
- Detectable Increases in Sequential Flood‐Heatwave Events Across China During 1961–2018
- A comprehensive flood event specification and inventory: 1930–2020 Turkey case study
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characterization at observation stations over mainland China from 1961 to 2018
- Linking plant hydraulics and the fast-slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems.
- Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions
- Anthocyanins Are Key Regulators of Drought Stress Tolerance in Tobacco
- Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought
- Genome-wide identification of PbrbHLH family genes, and expression analysis in response to drought and cold stresses in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)
- Exogenously Used 24-Epibrassinolide Promotes Drought Tolerance in Maize Hybrids by Improving Plant and Water Productivity in an Arid Environment
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors
- Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
- The EC-Earth3 Earth System Model for the Climate Model
- Global tree intrinsic water use efficiency is enhanced by increased atmospheric CO 2 and modulated by climate and plant functional types
- High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau
- Spatial and Temporal Differences in Alpine Meadow, Alpine Steppe and All Vegetation of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Their Responses to Climate Change
- Renewable and non-renewable electricity consumption, economic growth and climate change: Evidence from a panel of selected African countries
- Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change
- Comparative analysis of kernel-based versus ANN and deep learning methods in monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation
- Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change
- Observed changes in precipitation during recent warming: The Czech Republic, 1961–2019
- Climate change and infrastructure risk: Indoor heat exposure during a concurrent heat wave and blackout event in Phoenix, Arizona
- From Climate Anxiety to Climate Action: An Existential Perspective on Climate Change Concerns Within Psychotherapy
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models
- Assessment of GCMs simulation performance for precipitation and temperature from CMIP5 to CMIP6 over the Tibetan Plateau
- Uncertainty of ENSO-amplitude projections in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models
- Forecasting standardized precipitation index using data intelligence models: regional investigation of Bangladesh
- Torrential rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment using machine learning and statistical methods of eastern Himalaya
- Modeling and predicting the electricity production in hydropower using conjunction of wavelet transform, long short-term memory and random forest models
- Comparison and assessment of spatial downscaling methods for enhancing the accuracy of satellite-based precipitation over Lake Urmia Basin
- A new combined framework for sustainable development using the DPSIR approach and numerical modeling
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
- Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse
- Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes
- An Overview of Plastic Waste Generation and Management in Food Packaging Industries
- Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon
- Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge
- Integration of Sentinel-1 and ALOS/PALSAR-2 SAR datasets for mapping active landslides along the Jinsha River corridor, China
- Heat Stress Indicators in CMIP6: Estimating Future Trends and Exceedances of Impact‐Relevant Thresholds
- Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth
- Cleaner agricultural production in drinking-water source areas for the control of non-point source pollution in China
- Carbon disclosure: a systematic literature review
- Scientists’ warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply
- Under pressure: Hydrogel swelling in a granular medium
- An Investigation into the Application of Deep Learning in the Detection and Mitigation of DDOS Attack on SDN Controllers
- NDVI Indicates Long-Term Dynamics of Vegetation and Its Driving Forces from Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors in Mongolian Plateau
- Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots
- Regional CO 2 fluxes from 2010 to 2015 inferred from GOSAT XCO 2 retrievals using a new version of the Global Carbon Assimilation System
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 4 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Hirabayashi, Stein et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Global exposure to flooding from the new CMIP6 climate model projections
Authors: Yukiko Hirabayashi, Masahiro Tanoue, Orie Sasaki, Xudong Zhou, Dai Yamazaki
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83279-w · Citations: 216
Matched topics: hydrology, flood
Estimates of future flood risk rely on projections from climate models. The relatively few climate models used to analyze future flood risk cannot easily quantify of their associated uncertainties. In this study, we demonstrated that the projected fluvial flood changes estimated by a new generation of climate models, the collectively known as Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), are similar to those estimated by CMIP5. The spatial patterns of the multi-model median signs of …
How Do Climate and Catchment Attributes Influence Flood Generating Processes? A Large‐Sample Study for 671 Catchments Across the Contiguous USA
Authors: Lina Stein, Martyn Clark, Wouter Knoben, Francesca Pianosi, Ross Woods
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028300 · Citations: 169
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, flood, seasonal, climate change
Abstract Hydrometeorological flood generating processes (excess rain, short rain, long rain, snowmelt, and rain‐on‐snow) underpin our understanding of flood behavior. Knowledge about flood generating processes improves hydrological models, flood frequency analysis, estimation of climate change impact on floods, etc. Yet, not much is known about how climate and catchment attributes influence the spatial distribution of flood generating processes. This study aims to offer a comprehensive and st…
Detectable Increases in Sequential Flood‐Heatwave Events Across China During 1961–2018
Authors: Yang Chen, Zhen Liao, Yan Shi, Yangmei Tian, Panmao Zhai
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl092549 · Citations: 124
Matched topics: flood
Abstract Traditional univariate analysis on weather and climate extremes failed to consider temporally compounding events and the resulting cascading impacts. A case in point is a sequence of flood and heatwave within a week, which slows recovery and amplifies damages. We show that across China, floods and heatwaves seldom occurred serially within seven days in the past, but after 2000 the probability is five‐to‐ten times higher in southern, northwestern and northeastern sectors. It is the si…
A comprehensive flood event specification and inventory: 1930–2020 Turkey case study
Authors: İsmail Haltaş, Enes Yıldırım, Fatih Oztas, İbrahim Demir
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102086 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: flood, seasonal
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Wang, Oliveira et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characterization at observation stations over mainland China from 1961 to 2018
Authors: Qianfeng Wang, Jingyu Zeng, Junyu Qi, Xuesong Zhang, Yue Zeng, Wei Shui et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-331-2021 · Citations: 223
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, drought
Abstract. The monthly standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) can be used to monitor and assess drought characteristics with 1-month or longer drought duration. Based on data from 1961 to 2018 at 427 meteorological stations across mainland China, we developed a daily SPEI dataset to overcome the shortcoming of the coarse temporal scale of monthly SPEI. Our dataset not only can be used to identify the start and end dates of drought events, but also can be used to investigate…
Linking plant hydraulics and the fast-slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems.
Authors: R. Oliveira, Cleiton B. Eller, F. Barros, M. Hirota, M. Brum, P.R.L. Bittencourt
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17266 · Citations: 212
Matched topics: drought
Tropical ecosystems have the highest levels of biodiversity, cycle more water and absorb more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, these ecosystems are extremely important components of Earth’s climatic system and biogeochemical cycles. Plant hydraulics is an essential discipline to understand and predict the dynamics of tropical vegetation in scenarios of changing water availability. Using published plant hydraulic data we show that the trade-off between drough…
Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions
Authors: Mahmoud Osman, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Hamada S. Badr, Jordan I. Christian, Tsegaye Tadesse, Jason A. Otkin et al.
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-565-2021 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, drought, seasonal, land surface model
Abstract. The term “flash drought” is frequently invoked to describe droughts that develop rapidly over a relatively short timescale. Despite extensive and growing research on flash drought processes, predictability, and trends, there is still no standard quantitative definition that encompasses all flash drought characteristics and pathways. Instead, diverse definitions have been proposed, supporting wide-ranging studies of flash drought but creating the potential for confusion as to what th…
Anthocyanins Are Key Regulators of Drought Stress Tolerance in Tobacco
Authors: Valerio Cirillo, Vincenzo D’Amelia, Marco Esposito, Chiara Amitrano, Petronia Carillo, Domenico Carputo et al.
Journal: Biology · DOI: 10.3390/biology10020139 · Citations: 116
Matched topics: drought
Abiotic stresses will be one of the major challenges for worldwide food supply in the near future. Therefore, it is important to understand the physiological mechanisms that mediate plant responses to abiotic stresses. When subjected to UV, salinity or drought stress, plants accumulate specialized metabolites that are often correlated with their ability to cope with the stress. Among them, anthocyanins are the most studied intermediates of the phenylpropanoid pathway. However, their role in p…
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought
Authors: Daniel A. Kane, Mark A. Bradford, Emma Fuller, Emily E. Oldfield, Stephen A. Wood
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe492 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Higher levels of soil organic matter improve soil water retention, meaning they could mitigate agricultural yield losses from drought. Yet evidence to support such claims is mixed and incomplete. Using data from 12 376 county-years in the United States of America, we show that counties with higher soil organic matter are associated with greater yields, lower yield losses, and lower rates of crop insurance payouts under drought. Under severe drought, an increase of 1% soil organic mat…
Genome-wide identification of PbrbHLH family genes, and expression analysis in response to drought and cold stresses in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri)
Authors: Huizhen Dong, Qiming Chen, Yuqin Dai, Wenjie Hu, Shaoling Zhang, Xiaosan Huang
Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-02862-5 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: drought
BACKGROUND: The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors play important roles in many processes in plant growth, metabolism and responses to abiotic stresses. Although, the sequence of Chinese white pear genome (cv. ‘Dangshansuli’) has already been reported, there is still a lack of clarity regarding the bHLH family genes and their evolutionary history. RESULTS: . CONCLUSION: For the first time, a comprehensive analysis identified the bHLH genes in Chinese white pear and demonstrat…
Exogenously Used 24-Epibrassinolide Promotes Drought Tolerance in Maize Hybrids by Improving Plant and Water Productivity in an Arid Environment
Authors: El‐Sayed M. Desoky, Elsayed Mansour, M. Ali, M. Yasin, Mohamed I. E. Abdul-Hamid, Mostafa M. Rady et al.
Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants10020354 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: drought
for these hybrids could be an effective approach to improve plant and water productivity under reduced available water in semi-arid environments.
Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 1 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.
Assessment of climate change impacts on the streamflow for the Mun River in the Mekong Basin, Southeast Asia: Using SWAT model
Authors: Chao-Yue Li, Haiyan Fang
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.105199 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, streamflow, water management, climate change
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 13 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors
Authors: Robert B. Cialdini, Ryan P. Jacobson
Journal: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.01.005 · Citations: 306
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
Authors: William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Leonard Bielory, Patrick L. Kinney, Lewis H. Ziska
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013284118 · Citations: 273
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change, earth system model
Airborne pollen has major respiratory health impacts and anthropogenic climate change may increase pollen concentrations and extend pollen seasons. While greenhouse and field studies indicate that pollen concentrations are correlated with temperature, a formal detection and attribution of the role of anthropogenic climate change in continental pollen seasons is urgently needed. Here, we use long-term pollen data from 60 North American stations from 1990 to 2018, spanning 821 site-years of dat…
The EC-Earth3 Earth System Model for the Climate Model
Intercomparison Project 6
Authors: R. Doescher, M. Acosta, A. Alessandri, P. Anthoni, A. Arneth, T. Arsouze et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.5194/GMD-2020-446 · Citations: 254
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. The Earth System Model EC-Earth3 for contributions to CMIP6 is documented here, with its flexible coupling framework, major model configurations, a methodology for ensuring the simulations are comparable across different HPC systems, and with the physical performance of base configurations over the historical period. The variety of possible configurations and sub-models reflects the broad interests in the EC-Earth community. EC-Earth3 key performance metrics demonstrate physical beh…
Global tree intrinsic water use efficiency is enhanced by increased atmospheric CO 2 and modulated by climate and plant functional types
Authors: Justin M. Mathias, Richard B. Thomas
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2014286118 · Citations: 167
Matched topics: earth system model
as the major driver of increasing tree iWUE and will better inform Earth system models regarding the role of trees in the global carbon and water cycles.
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Meng Xu, Meng Xu, Xiaoliang Li, Thomas W. Kuyper, Ming Xu, Ming Xu et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15553 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: climate change
in the subsoil were directly related to changes in microbial diversity and community composition, which were affected by soil pH. Collectively our results provide compelling evidence that microbial biodiversity plays an important role in stabilizing SOC decomposition in the subsoil of alpine montane ecosystems. Conservation of belowground biodiversity is therefore of great importance in maintaining the stability of ecosystem processes under climate change in high-elevation regions of the Tibe…
Spatial and Temporal Differences in Alpine Meadow, Alpine Steppe and All Vegetation of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Their Responses to Climate Change
Authors: Hanchen Duan, Xian Xue, Tao Wang, Wenping Kang, Jie Liao, Shulin Liu
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13040669 · Citations: 134
Matched topics: climate change
Alpine meadow and alpine steppe are the two most widely distributed nonzonal vegetation types in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the context of global climate change, the differences in spatial-temporal variation trends and their responses to climate change are discussed. It is of great significance to reveal the response of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to global climate change and the construction of ecological security barriers. This study takes alpine meadow, alpine steppe and the overall veget…
Renewable and non-renewable electricity consumption, economic growth and climate change: Evidence from a panel of selected African countries
Authors: Riadh Brini
Journal: Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.120064 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change
Authors: Mark A. Titley, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Victoria R. Jones, Mark J. Whittingham, Stephen G. Willis
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011204118 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: climate change
emissions. Therefore, climate change impacts on species may be disproportionately significant in countries with lower capacity for effective conservation and lower greenhouse gas emissions, raising important questions of international justice. Second, we consider the redistribution of species in the context of political boundaries since the global importance of transboundary conservation under climate change is poorly understood. Under a high-emissions scenario, we find that 35% of mammals an…
Comparative analysis of kernel-based versus ANN and deep learning methods in monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation
Authors: Mohammad Taghi Sattari, Halit Apaydın, Shahab S. Band, Amir Mosavi, Ramendra Prasad
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-603-2021 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management
Abstract. Timely and accurate estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is indispensable for agricultural water management for efficient water use. This study aims to estimate the amount of ET0 with machine learning approaches by using minimum meteorological parameters in the Corum region, which has an arid and semi-arid climate and is regarded as an important agricultural centre of Turkey. In this context, monthly averages of meteorological variables, i.e. maximum and minimum temperat…
Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change
Authors: Kai Schulze
Journal: Global Environmental Politics · DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00593 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Domestic policies are the cornerstone of the new global climate governance architecture. However, what motivates vote-seeking politicians to pursue climate policies remains remarkably unclear, as the climate politics literature suggests that climate policies are usually not perceived as a vote winner. The present article revisits this issue and argues that a better understanding of the relationship between electoral competition and climate policy making requires taking into account d…
Observed changes in precipitation during recent warming: The Czech Republic, 1961–2019
Authors: Rudolf Brázdil, Pavel Zahradníček, Petr Dobrovolný, Petr Štěpánek, Miroslav Trnka
Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7048 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: seasonal
Abstract This paper presents a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of precipitation patterns over the territory of the Czech Republic for the 1961–2019 period. Monthly, seasonal and annual series of precipitation totals and numbers of precipitation days were calculated for four altitudinal groups and the entire Czech Republic, based upon the daily precipitation totals recorded by 531 rain‐gauge stations run by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. Analysis of series of monthly, seasonal …
Climate change and infrastructure risk: Indoor heat exposure during a concurrent heat wave and blackout event in Phoenix, Arizona
Authors: Brian Stone, Evan Mallen, Mayuri Rajput, Ashley M. Broadbent, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Godfried Augenbroe et al.
Journal: Urban Climate · DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100787 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
From Climate Anxiety to Climate Action: An Existential Perspective on Climate Change Concerns Within Psychotherapy
Authors: Magdalena Budziszewska, Sofia Elisabet Jonsson
Journal: Journal of Humanistic Psychology · DOI: 10.1177/0022167821993243 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: climate change
With the growing body of knowledge climate change stands out as one of the most important contemporary problems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms the urgent necessity to reduce greenhouse gases emission, as the window to address the problem is becoming narrow. Rising temperatures and bushfires, melting glaciers and droughts make the acceleration of climate change evident, and citizens around the globe are increasingly worried about the magnitude of the problem. In this a…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 8 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models
Authors: Jonathan A. Weyn, D. Durran, R. Caruana, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021MS002502 · Citations: 210
Matched topics: seasonal
We present an ensemble prediction system using a Deep Learning Weather Prediction (DLWP) model that recursively predicts six key atmospheric variables with six‐hour time resolution. This computationally efficient model uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on a cubed sphere grid to produce global forecasts. The trained model requires just three minutes on a single GPU to produce a 320‐member set of six‐week forecasts at 1.4° resolution. Ensemble spread is primarily produced by randomizing…
Assessment of GCMs simulation performance for precipitation and temperature from CMIP5 to CMIP6 over the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Yurui Lun, Liu Liu, Lei Cheng, Xiuping Li, Hao Li, Zongxue Xu
Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7055 · Citations: 191
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract General circulation models (GCMs) are indispensable for climate change adaptive study over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), which is the potential trigger and amplifier in global climate fluctuations. With the release of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), 24 GCMs from CMIP5 and CMIP6 were comparatively evaluated for precipitation and air temperature simulations based on the China Meteorological Forcing Dataset (CMFD). Rank score results showed that CMIP6 models generally…
Uncertainty of ENSO-amplitude projections in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models
Authors: Goratz Beobide‐Arsuaga, Tobias Bayr, Annika Reintges, Mojib Latif
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05673-4 · Citations: 153
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract There is a long-standing debate on how the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) amplitude may change during the twenty-first century in response to global warming. Here we identify the sources of uncertainty in the ENSO amplitude projections in models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Phase 5 (CMIP5) and Phase 6 (CMIP6), and quantify scenario uncertainty, model uncertainty and uncertainty due to internal variability. The model projections exhibit a large spread, rangi…
Forecasting standardized precipitation index using data intelligence models: regional investigation of Bangladesh
Authors: Zaher Mundher Yaseen, Mumtaz Ali, Ahmad Sharafati, Nadhir Al‐Ansari, Shamsuddin Shahid
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82977-9 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow
A noticeable increase in drought frequency and severity has been observed across the globe due to climate change, which attracted scientists in development of drought prediction models for mitigation of impacts. Droughts are usually monitored using drought indices (DIs), most of which are probabilistic and therefore, highly stochastic and non-linear. The current research investigated the capability of different versions of relatively well-explored machine learning (ML) models including random…
Torrential rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment using machine learning and statistical methods of eastern Himalaya
Authors: Indrajit Chowdhuri, Subodh Chandra Pal, Rabin Chakrabortty, Sadhan Malik, Biswajit Das, Paramita Roy
Journal: Natural Hazards · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-021-04601-3 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
Modeling and predicting the electricity production in hydropower using conjunction of wavelet transform, long short-term memory and random forest models
Authors: M. Zolfaghari, M. Golabi
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.RENENE.2021.02.017 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract Electricity is an important pillar for the economic growth and the development of societies. Surveying and predicting the electricity production (EP) is a valuable factor in the hands of electricity industry managers to make strategic decisions, especially if electricity is generated by renewable resources for environmental considerations. However, because the EP series is non-stationary and nonlinear, traditional methods are less robust to predict it. In this study, we offer a hybri…
Comparison and assessment of spatial downscaling methods for enhancing the accuracy of satellite-based precipitation over Lake Urmia Basin
Authors: Ali Karbalaye Ghorbanpour, Tim Hessels, Sanaz Moghim, Abbas Afshar
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126055 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, land surface model
Abstract not available.
A new combined framework for sustainable development using the DPSIR approach and numerical modeling
Authors: Mahsa Malmir, Saman Javadi, Ali Moridi, Aminreza Neshat, Babak Razdar
Journal: Geoscience Frontiers · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101169 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: water management
Relying on the conceptual DPSIR framework and MODFLOW analysis, this study used a mixed approach to produce groundwater resource management solutions for the Najafabad area in central Iran. According to DPSIR results, agricultural activities put the highest pressure on groundwater resources in this region. The results showed the effectiveness of reducing water withdrawal over 30 years in maintaining the aquifer in a state of equilibrium. The best scenario consisted of cutting down extraction …
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 17 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
Authors: Daniel Taliun, Daniel Harris, Michael D. Kessler, Jedidiah Carlson, Zachary A. Szpiech, Raúl Torres et al.
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03205-y · Citations: 2261
Matched topics: flood, earth system model
. In the first 53,831 TOPMed samples, we detected more than 400 million single-nucleotide and insertion or deletion variants after alignment with the reference genome. Additional previously undescribed variants were detected through assembly of unmapped reads and customized analysis in highly variable loci. Among the more than 400 million detected variants, 97% have frequencies of less than 1% and 46% are singletons that are present in only one individual (53% among unrelated individuals). Th…
Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse
Authors: Edward R. Jones, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Manzoor Qadir, Marc F. P. Bierkens
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-237-2021 · Citations: 703
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, water management, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Continually improving and affordable wastewater management provides opportunities for both pollution reduction and clean water supply augmentation, while simultaneously promoting sustainable development and supporting the transition to a circular economy. This study aims to provide the first comprehensive and consistent global outlook on the state of domestic and manufacturing wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse. We use a data-driven approach, collating, cross-exa…
Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes
Authors: Felipe Bastida, David J. Eldridge, Carlos Garcı́a, G. Kenny Png, Richard D. Bardgett, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Journal: The ISME Journal · DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00906-0 · Citations: 592
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
The relationship between biodiversity and biomass has been a long standing debate in ecology. Soil biodiversity and biomass are essential drivers of ecosystem functions. However, unlike plant communities, little is known about how the diversity and biomass of soil microbial communities are interlinked across globally distributed biomes, and how variations in this relationship influence ecosystem function. To fill this knowledge gap, we conducted a field survey across global biomes, with contr…
An Overview of Plastic Waste Generation and Management in Food Packaging Industries
Authors: Lindani Koketso Ncube, Albert Uchenna Ude, Enoch Nifise Ogunmuyiwa, Rozli Zulkifli, Isaac N. Beas
Journal: Recycling · DOI: 10.3390/recycling6010012 · Citations: 568
Matched topics: water management, land surface model
Over the years, the world was not paying strict attention to the impact of rapid growth in plastic use. This has led to unprecedented amounts of mixed types of plastic waste entering the environment unmanaged. Packaging plastics account for half of the global total plastic waste. This paper seeks to give an overview of the use, disposal, and regulation of food packaging plastics. Demand for food packaging is on the rise as a result of increasing global demand for food due to population growth…
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon
Authors: Chao Wang, Lingrui Qu, Liuming Yang, Dongwei Liu, Ember M. Morrissey, Renhui Miao et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15550 · Citations: 374
Matched topics: earth system model
Optimal methods for incorporating soil microbial mechanisms of carbon (C) cycling into Earth system models (ESMs) are still under debate. Specifically, whether soil microbial physiology parameters and residual materials are important to soil organic C (SOC) content is still unclear. Here, we explored the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on SOC content based on a survey of soils from 16 locations along a ~4000 km forest transect in eastern China, spanning a wide range of climate, soil con…
Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge
Authors: Chenlin Zhang, Yusuf Shi, Le Shi, Hongxia Li, Renyuan Li, Seung‐Hyun Hong et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21124-4 · Citations: 321
Matched topics: land surface model
per day in the outdoor field test, suggesting a great potential for practical application. The solar crystallizer design and the salt crystallization inhibition strategy proposed and confirmed in this work provide a low-cost and sustainable solution for industrial brine disposal with ZLD.
Integration of Sentinel-1 and ALOS/PALSAR-2 SAR datasets for mapping active landslides along the Jinsha River corridor, China
Authors: Xiaojie Liu, Chaoying Zhao, Qin Zhang, Zhong Lu, Zhenhong Li, Chengsheng Yang et al.
Journal: Engineering Geology · DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106033 · Citations: 192
Matched topics: river, flood, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Heat Stress Indicators in CMIP6: Estimating Future Trends and Exceedances of Impact‐Relevant Thresholds
Authors: Clemens Schwingshackl, Jana Sillmann, Ana M. Vicedo‐Cabrera, Marit Sandstad, Kristin Aunan
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001885 · Citations: 177
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract Global warming is leading to increased heat stress in many regions around the world. An extensive number of heat stress indicators (HSIs) has been developed to measure the associated impacts on human health. Here we calculate eight HSIs for global climate models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). We compare their future trends as function of global mean temperature, with particular focus on highly populated regions. All analyzed HSIs increase …
Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth
Authors: Xu Lian, S. Piao, Anping Chen, Kai Wang, Xiangyi Li, W. Buermann et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21223-2 · Citations: 151
Matched topics: seasonal, land surface model, earth system model
The state of ecosystems is influenced strongly by their past, and describing this carryover effect is important to accurately forecast their future behaviors. However, the strength and persistence of this carryover effect on ecosystem dynamics in comparison to that of simultaneous environmental drivers are still poorly understood. Here, we show that vegetation growth carryover (VGC), defined as the effect of present states of vegetation on subsequent growth, exerts strong positive impacts on …
Cleaner agricultural production in drinking-water source areas for the control of non-point source pollution in China
Authors: Rongjia Wang, Qingbing Wang, Linshui Dong, Jianfeng Zhang
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112096 · Citations: 149
Matched topics: water management, surface water
Abstract not available.
Carbon disclosure: a systematic literature review
Authors: Zahra Borghei
Journal: Accounting and Finance · DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12757 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract This systematic review identifies key research fields and emerging research trends in an attempt to address recent growth and fragmentation in the carbon disclosure literature. Firstly, it examines and assesses the fragmented conceptualisations of carbon disclosure. Secondly, this review identifies a pervasive lack of consistency among studies. Thirdly, the findings indicate that carbon disclosure should be more closely linked to climate‐related risk disclosure, as how the company im…
Scientists’ warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply
Authors: François‐Nicolas Robinne, Dennis W. Hallema, Kevin D. Bladon, Mike Flannigan, Gabrielle Boisramé, Christian Bréthaut et al.
Journal: Hydrological Processes · DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14086 · Citations: 126
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, flood, hydropower, surface water
2020 is the year of wildfire records. California experienced its three largest fires early in its fire season. The Pantanal, the largest wetland on the planet, burned over 20% of its surface. More than 18 million hectares of forest and bushland burned during the 2019-2020 fire season in Australia, killing 33 people, destroying nearly 2500 homes, and endangering many endemic species. The direct cost of damages is being counted in dozens of billion dollars, but the indirect costs on water-relat…
Under pressure: Hydrogel swelling in a granular medium
Authors: Jean-François Louf, Nancy B. Lu, Margaret G. O’Connell, H. Jeremy Cho, Sujit S. Datta
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd2711 · Citations: 126
Matched topics: irrigation
Hydrogels hold promise in agriculture as reservoirs of water in dry soil, potentially alleviating the burden of irrigation. However, confinement in soil can markedly reduce the ability of hydrogels to absorb water and swell, limiting their widespread adoption. Unfortunately, the underlying reason remains unknown. By directly visualizing the swelling of hydrogels confined in three-dimensional granular media, we demonstrate that the extent of hydrogel swelling is determined by the competition b…
An Investigation into the Application of Deep Learning in the Detection and Mitigation of DDOS Attack on SDN Controllers
Authors: James Dzisi Gadze, Akua Acheampomaa Bamfo-Asante, Justice Owusu Agyemang, Henry Nunoo‐Mensah, Kwasi Adu‐Boahen Opare
Journal: Technologies · DOI: 10.3390/technologies9010014 · Citations: 119
Matched topics: flood
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a new paradigm that revolutionizes the idea of a software-driven network through the separation of control and data planes. It addresses the problems of traditional network architecture. Nevertheless, this brilliant architecture is exposed to several security threats, e.g., the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which is hard to contain in such software-based networks. The concept of a centralized controller in SDN makes it a single point of atta…
NDVI Indicates Long-Term Dynamics of Vegetation and Its Driving Forces from Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors in Mongolian Plateau
Authors: Enliang Guo, Rui Wang, Cailin Wang, Zhongyi Sun, Yulong Bao, Naren Mandula et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13040688 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: earth system model
In recent years, global warming and intense human activity have been responsible for significantly altering vegetation dynamics on the Mongolian Plateau. Understanding the long-term vegetation dynamics in this region is important to assess the impact of these changes on the local ecosystem. Long-term (1982–2015), satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) datasets were used to analyse the spatio-temporal patterns of vegetation activities using linear regression and the br…
Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots
Authors: Jingwen Zhang, Kaiyu Guan, Bin Peng, Chongya Jiang, Wang Zhou, Yi Yang et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe436 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, land surface model, irrigation
Abstract Irrigation is critical to sustain agricultural productivity in dry or semi-dry environments, and center pivots, due to their versatility and ruggedness, are the most widely used irrigation systems. To effectively use center pivot irrigation systems, producers require tools to support their decision-making on when and how much water to irrigate. However, currently producers make these decisions primarily based on experience and/or limited information of weather. Ineffective use of irr…
Regional CO 2 fluxes from 2010 to 2015 inferred from GOSAT XCO 2 retrievals using a new version of the Global Carbon Assimilation System
Authors: Fei Jiang, Hengmao Wang, Hengmao Wang, Jing M. Chen, Weimin Ju, Xiangjun Tian et al.
Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-1963-2021 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract. Satellite retrievals of the column-averaged dry air mole fractions of CO2 (XCO2) could help to improve carbon flux estimation due to their good spatial coverage. In this study, in order to assimilate the GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) XCO2 retrievals, the Global Carbon Assimilation System (GCAS) is upgraded with new assimilation algorithms, procedures, a localization scheme, and a higher assimilation parameter resolution. This upgraded system is referred to as GCASv2. …
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| Topics searched | 16 |
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| After deduplication | 734 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 684 |
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| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 |
| Scientific Reports | 2 |
| Earth system science data | 2 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 2 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 2 |
| Unknown | 2 |
| Global Change Biology | 2 |
| Remote Sensing | 2 |
| International Journal of Climatology | 2 |
| Nature Communications | 2 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 1 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 1 |
| New Phytologist | 1 |
| Biology | 1 |
| BMC Plant Biology | 1 |
| Plants | 1 |
| CATENA | 1 |
| Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences | 1 |
| Energy | 1 |
| Global Environmental Politics | 1 |
| Urban Climate | 1 |
| Journal of Humanistic Psychology | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Natural Hazards | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| Geoscience Frontiers | 1 |
| Nature | 1 |
| The ISME Journal | 1 |
| Recycling | 1 |
| Engineering Geology | 1 |
| Earth s Future | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 1 |
| Accounting and Finance | 1 |
| Hydrological Processes | 1 |
| Science Advances | 1 |
| Technologies | 1 |
| Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 1 |
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Topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, water management, flood, drought, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, hydropower, surface water, irrigation, earth system model
Databases: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex