Weekly Literature Review
Week 07 · February 15–February 21, 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
- Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
- Understanding the effects of Digital Elevation Model resolution in urban fluvial flood modelling
- Novel ensemble machine learning models in flood susceptibility mapping
- Livelihood Vulnerability to Flood Hazard: Understanding from the Flood-prone Haor Ecosystem of Bangladesh
- The capacity of grey infrastructure in urban flood management: A comprehensive analysis of grey infrastructure and the green-grey approach
- CO2-responsive agent for restraining gas channeling during CO2 flooding in low permeability reservoirs
- BIM-GIS-DCEs enabled vulnerability assessment of interdependent infrastructures – A case of stormwater drainage-building-road transport Nexus in urban flooding
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Drought Tolerance in Rice: Focus on Recent Mechanisms and Approaches
- Global data assessment and analysis of drought characteristics based on CMIP6
- Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?
- Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin
- Characteristics of Propagation From Meteorological Drought to Hydrological Drought in the Pearl River Basin
- Making sense of flash drought: definitions, indicators, and where we go from here
- Climate change as a driver of food insecurity in the 2007 Lesotho-South Africa drought
- Amplified risk of spatially compounding droughts during co-occurrences of modes of natural ocean variability
- Evaluating the meteorological drought characteristics over Pakistan using in situ observations and reanalysis products
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Impact of climate change on wetland ecosystems: A critical review of experimental wetlands.
- Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions
- Projecting heat-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios in China
- Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research
- Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change
- Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries
- Synthesis of global actual evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2019
- Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study
- Climate control on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover
- Climate change threatens Chinook salmon throughout their life cycle
- Global potential and limits of mangrove blue carbon for climate change mitigation
- Hydroclimate of the Andes Part II: Hydroclimate Variability and Sub-Continental Patterns
- The vulnerability of lakes to climate change along an altitudinal gradient
- Spatial Variability of Rainfall Trends in Sri Lanka from 1989 to 2019 as an Indication of Climate Change
- Geoinformation Technologies in Support of Environmental Hazards Monitoring under Climate Change: An Extensive Review
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Learning earth system models from observations: machine learning or data assimilation?
- Fast physically-based model for rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment at regional scale
- Daily runoff forecasting by deep recursive neural network
- Tracing Riverine Particulate Black Carbon Sources in Xijiang River Basin: Insight from Stable Isotopic Composition and Bayesian Mixing Model
- Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites
- NASA’s surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms
- Hydrology
- Toward a better understanding of fish‐based contribution to ocean carbon flux
- Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport and Morphological Features at the Confluence Between the Yangtze River and the Poyang Lake
- Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security
- Sustainable self-cleaning evaporator for long-term solar desalination using gradient structure tailored hydrogel
- Climatic versus Anthropogenic Controls of Decadal Trends (1983–2017) in Algal Blooms in Lakes and Reservoirs across China
- Hydroclimatic trends during 1950–2018 over global land
- Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Erosion and Hydrological Responses in Ethiopia
- Influence of plants and environmental variables on the diversity of soil microbial communities in the Yellow River Delta Wetland, China
- Spatiotemporal assessment of land use/land cover change and associated carbon emissions and uptake in the Mekong River Basin
- Supraglacial Ice Cliffs Can Substantially Increase the Mass Loss of Debris‐Covered Glaciers
- Using Deep Learning for Automatic Water Stage Measurements
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 7 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Chang, Muthusamy et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
Authors: Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadka, Jason Sauer, Nancy B. Grimm, Rae Zimmerman, Chingwen Cheng et al.
Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.102786 · Citations: 248
Matched topics: flood
As urban populations continue to grow through the 21st century, more people are projected to be at risk of exposure to climate change-induced extreme events. To investigate the complexity of urban floods, this study applied an interlinked social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) vulnerability framework by developing an urban flood vulnerability index for six US cities. Indicators were selected to reflect and illustrate exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to flooding for each of…
Understanding the effects of Digital Elevation Model resolution in urban fluvial flood modelling
Authors: Manoranjan Muthusamy, Mónica Rivas Casado, David Butler, Paul Leinster
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126088 · Citations: 190
Matched topics: hydrology, flood
With the extensive use of 2D flood models, the resolution and quality of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) have come under greater focus especially in urban hydrology. One of the major research areas, in this regard, is the effect of DEM resolution on flood modelling. This study first investigates the root causes of the impact of DEM resolution on urban fluvial flood modelling outputs using DEMs with grid resolutions ranging from 1 m to 50 m. The study then investigates how DEM resolution affec…
Novel ensemble machine learning models in flood susceptibility mapping
Authors: Pankaj Prasad, Victor J. Loveson, Bappa Das, M. Kotha
Journal: Geocarto International · DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2021.1892209 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: flood
Abstract The research aims to propose the new ensemble models by combining the machine learning techniques, such as rotation forest (RF), nearest shrunken centroids (NSC), k-nearest neighbour (KNN), boosted regression tree (BRT), and logitboost (LB) with the base classifier adabag (AB) for flood susceptibility mapping (FSM). The proposed models were implemented in the central west coast of India, which is vulnerable to flood events. For flood inventory mapping, a total of 210 flood localities…
Livelihood Vulnerability to Flood Hazard: Understanding from the Flood-prone Haor Ecosystem of Bangladesh
Authors: Mohammad Shamsul Hoq, Shankar Kumar Raha, Mohammad Ismail Hossain
Journal: Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01441-6 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
The capacity of grey infrastructure in urban flood management: A comprehensive analysis of grey infrastructure and the green-grey approach
Authors: Wenjie Chen, Weiqi Wang, Guoru Huang, Zhaoli Wang, Chengguang Lai, Zhiyong Yang
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.IJDRR.2021.102045 · Citations: 116
Matched topics: flood
Abstract Urban inundation management should take various forms to deal with different flood situations, rapid population growth, and climate change. Research on the advantages and disadvantages of grey infrastructure, such as deep tunnels and pipe networks, is necessary to apply hybrid green-grey infrastructure scientifically and efficiently. A novel urban flood model was applied in a highly urbanized region to evaluate the grey infrastructure. Green-grey approaches were also compared. The re…
CO2-responsive agent for restraining gas channeling during CO2 flooding in low permeability reservoirs
Authors: Hao Shen, Zihao Yang, Xiaochen Li, Ying Peng, Meiqin Lin, Juan Zhang et al.
Journal: Fuel · DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120306 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: reservoir, flood
Abstract not available.
BIM-GIS-DCEs enabled vulnerability assessment of interdependent infrastructures – A case of stormwater drainage-building-road transport Nexus in urban flooding
Authors: Yifan Yang, S. Thomas Ng, Jicao Dao, Shenghua Zhou, Frank J. Xu, Xin Xu et al.
Journal: Automation in Construction · DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103626 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 9 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Panda, Wang et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Drought Tolerance in Rice: Focus on Recent Mechanisms and Approaches
Authors: Debabrata Panda, Swati S. Mishra, Prafulla K. Behera
Journal: Rice Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.rsci.2021.01.002 · Citations: 310
Matched topics: drought
Drought stress is a serious limiting factor to rice production, which results in huge economic losses. It is becoming a more serious issue with respect to the global climate change. Keeping in view of the current and forecasted global food demand, it has become essential to enhance the crop productivity on the drought-prone rainfed lands with priority. In order to achieve the production target from rainfed areas, there is a requirement of rice varieties with drought tolerance, and genetic imp…
Global data assessment and analysis of drought characteristics based on CMIP6
Authors: Tian Wang, Xinjun Tu, Vijay P. Singh, Xiaohong Chen, Kairong Lin
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126091 · Citations: 230
Matched topics: runoff, drought
Abstract not available.
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?
Authors: Vojtěch Moravec, Yannis Markonis, Oldřich Rakovec, Miroslav Svoboda, Miroslav Trnka, Rohini Kumar et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe828 · Citations: 164
Matched topics: hydrologic model, drought
Abstract The recent dry and warm years in Europe are often assessed as extreme in terms of socio-economic and environmental losses. However, the impact of a drought is a function of its duration. This fact needs to be considered in the evaluation of a drought. In this study, we use a hydrological model to analyze the 2018 European drought, an event that significantly affected vegetation. We show that the severity of the soil moisture drought is high in Central Europe and Mediterranean, but it…
Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin
Authors: Johannes Vogel, Eva Nora Paton, Valentin Aich, Axel Bronstert
Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100312 · Citations: 153
Matched topics: drought
The co-occurrence of warm spells and droughts can lead to detrimental socio-economic and ecological impacts, largely surpassing the impacts of either warm spells or droughts alone. We quantify changes in the number of compound warm spells and droughts from 1979 to 2018 in the Mediterranean Basin using the ERA5 data set. We analyse two types of compound events: 1) warm season compound events, which are extreme in absolute terms in the warm season from May to October and 2) year-round deseasona…
Characteristics of Propagation From Meteorological Drought to Hydrological Drought in the Pearl River Basin
Authors: Zhaoqiang Zhou, Haiyun Shi, Q. Fu, Yibo Ding, Tianxiao Li, Yao Wang et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020JD033959 · Citations: 144
Matched topics: river
Drought events occur more frequently under recent climate change. Generally, meteorological drought is the fuse of hydrological drought; thus, it is important to understand the characteristics of meteorological drought and its propagation to hydrological drought for early warning. Taking the Pearl River Basin (PRB) in China as study area, this study adopted K‐means cluster analysis method to divide the PRB into subregions with similar precipitation characteristics. Then, standardized precipit…
Making sense of flash drought: definitions, indicators, and where we go from here
Authors: NOAA/National Integrated Drought Information System, Joel Lisonbee, Molly Woloszyn, Marina Skumanich
Journal: Journal of Applied and Service Climatology · DOI: 10.46275/joasc.2021.02.001 · Citations: 114
Matched topics: drought
The topic of “Flash Drought” is rapidly gaining attention within both the research and drought management communities. This literature review aims to synthesize the research to-date and provide a basis for future research on the topic. Specifically, our review is focused on documenting the range of definitions of “flash drought” being proposed in the research community. We found that the term first appeared in the peer-reviewed literature in 2002, and by 2020 has become an area of active rese…
Climate change as a driver of food insecurity in the 2007 Lesotho-South Africa drought
Authors: Jasper Verschuur, Sihan Li, Piotr Wolski, Friederike E. L. Otto
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83375-x · Citations: 92
Matched topics: drought, climate change
Climate-induced food production shocks, like droughts, can cause food shortages and price spikes, leading to food insecurity. In 2007, a synchronous crop failure in Lesotho and South Africa-Lesotho’s sole trading partner-led to a period of severe food insecurity in Lesotho. Here, we use extreme event attribution to assess the role of climate change in exacerbating this drought, going on to evaluate sensitivity of synchronous crop failures to climate change and its implications for food securi…
Amplified risk of spatially compounding droughts during co-occurrences of modes of natural ocean variability
Authors: Jitendra Singh, Moetasim Ashfaq, Christopher B. Skinner, Weston Anderson, Deepti Singh
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-021-00161-2 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Spatially compounding droughts over multiple regions pose amplifying pressures on the global food system, the reinsurance industry, and the global economy. Using observations and climate model simulations, we analyze the influence of various natural Ocean variability modes on the likelihood, extent, and severity of compound droughts across ten regions that have similar precipitation seasonality and cover important breadbaskets and vulnerable populations. Although a majority of compou…
Evaluating the meteorological drought characteristics over Pakistan using in situ observations and reanalysis products
Authors: Irfan Ullah, Xieyao Ma, Jun Yin, Temesgen Gebremariam Asfaw, Kamran Azam, Sidra Syed et al.
Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7063 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Drought is one of the most frequent natural disasters occurring in Pakistan and has a great influence on livelihood, agriculture, and economy. The availability of long‐term high‐quality reanalysis products over Pakistan has been of great concern in recent decades. Here, we conduct drought assessment in Pakistan based on the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) at 3, 6, and 12 months timescales during 1983–2018. We u…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 15 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Impact of climate change on wetland ecosystems: A critical review of experimental wetlands.
Authors: S. Salimi, S. Almuktar, M. Scholz
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112160 · Citations: 436
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is identified as a major threat to wetlands. Altered hydrology and rising temperature can change the biogeochemistry and function of a wetland to the degree that some important services might be turned into disservices. This means that they will, for example, no longer provide a water purification service and adversely they may start to decompose and release nutrients to the surface water. Moreover, a higher rate of decomposition than primary production (photosynthesis) may lea…
Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions
Authors: Benjamin K. Sovacool, Steve Griffiths, Jinsoo Kim, Morgan Bazilian
Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.110759 · Citations: 431
Matched topics: climate change
Humanity has come to depend on synthetic, factory made gases that have extremely significant global warming potential. Fluorinated greenhouse gases, or F-gases, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) have been termed “super pollutants” and “super greenhouse gases” given their severe and powerful impact on the climate. They are the most potent greenhouse gases known to modern science, with global warming potentials …
Projecting heat-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios in China
Authors: Jun Yang, Maigeng Zhou, Zhoupeng Ren, Mengmeng Li, Boguang Wang, De Li Liu et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21305-1 · Citations: 298
Matched topics: climate change
Recent studies have reported a variety of health consequences of climate change. However, the vulnerability of individuals and cities to climate change remains to be evaluated. We project the excess cause-, age-, region-, and education-specific mortality attributable to future high temperatures in 161 Chinese districts/counties using 28 global climate models (GCMs) under two representative concentration pathways (RCPs). To assess the influence of population ageing on the projection of future …
Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research
Authors: Luca Santini, Ana Benítez‐López, Luigi Maiorano, Mirza Čengić, Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Journal: Diversity and Distributions · DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13252 · Citations: 283
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Aim Forecasting changes in species distribution under future scenarios is one of the most prolific areas of application for species distribution models (SDMs). However, no consensus yet exists on the reliability of such models for drawing conclusions on species’ distribution response to changing climate. In this study, we provide an overview of common modelling practices in the field and assess the reliability of model predictions using a virtual species approach. Location Global. Me…
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change
Authors: Brittany T. Trew, Ilya M. D. Maclean
Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography · DOI: 10.1111/geb.13272 · Citations: 258
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Motivation More than half of Earth’s species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area, but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. There is growing recognition that spatio‐temporal patterns of climate in biodiversity hotspots have shaped biological diversity over a variety of historical time‐scales, yet these patterns are rarely taken into account in assessments of the vulnerability of biodi…
Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries
Authors: Charles A. Ogunbode, Ståle Pallesen, Gisela Böhm, Rouven Doran, Navjot Bhullar, Sibele D. Aquino et al.
Journal: Current Psychology · DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4 · Citations: 241
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Climate change threatens mental health via increasing exposure to the social and economic disruptions created by extreme weather and large-scale climatic events, as well as through the anxiety associated with recognising the existential threat posed by the climate crisis. Considering the growing levels of climate change awareness across the world, negative emotions like anxiety and worry about climate-related risks are a potentially pervasive conduit for the adverse impacts of climat…
Synthesis of global actual evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2019
Authors: Abdelrazek Elnashar, Linjiang Wang, Bingfang Wu, Weiwei Zhu, Hongwei Zeng
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-447-2021 · Citations: 175
Matched topics: water management, land surface model
Abstract. As a linkage among water, energy, and carbon cycles, global actual evapotranspiration (ET) plays an essential role in agriculture, water resource management, and climate change. Although it is difficult to estimate ET over a large scale and for a long time, there are several global ET datasets available with uncertainty associated with various assumptions regarding their algorithms, parameters, and inputs. In this study, we propose a long-term synthesized ET product at a kilometer s…
Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study
Authors: Robert Reinecke, Hannes Müller Schmied, Tim Trautmann, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Peter Burek, Martina Flörke et al.
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-787-2021 · Citations: 170
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Billions of people rely on groundwater as being an accessible source of drinking water and for irrigation, especially in times of drought. Its importance will likely increase with a changing climate. It is still unclear, however, how climate change will impact groundwater systems globally and, thus, the availability of this vital resource. Groundwater recharge is an important indicator for groundwater availability, but it is a water flux that is difficult to estimate as uncertaintie…
Climate control on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover
Authors: Timothy I. Eglinton, Valier Galy, Jordon Hemingway, Xiaojuan Feng, Hongyan Bao, Thomas M. Blattmann et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011585118 · Citations: 165
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
C ages, implicating OC cycling within soils as a primary control on exported biomarker ages and revealing a broad distribution of soil OC reactivities. The ubiquitous occurrence of a long-lived soil OC pool suggests soil OC is globally vulnerable to perturbations by future temperature and precipitation increase. Scaling of riverine biospheric-carbon ages with soil OC turnover shows the former can constrain the sensitivity of carbon dynamics to environmental controls on broad spatial scales. E…
Climate change threatens Chinook salmon throughout their life cycle
Authors: Lisa G. Crozier, Brian J. Burke, Brandon E. Chasco, Daniel L. Widener, Richard W. Zabel
Journal: Communications Biology · DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01734-w · Citations: 162
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, climate change, hydropower
Widespread declines in Atlantic and Pacific salmon (Salmo salar and Oncorhynchus spp.) have tracked recent climate changes, but managers still lack quantitative projections of the viability of any individual population in response to future climate change. To address this gap, we assembled a vast database of survival and other data for eight wild populations of threatened Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha). For each population, we evaluated climate impacts at all life stages and modeled future t…
Global potential and limits of mangrove blue carbon for climate change mitigation
Authors: Yiwen Zeng, Daniel A. Friess, Tasya Vadya Sarira, Kelly Siman, Lian Pin Koh
Journal: Current Biology · DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.070 · Citations: 159
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Hydroclimate of the Andes Part II: Hydroclimate Variability and Sub-Continental Patterns
Authors: Paola A. Arias, René Garreaud, Germán Poveda, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Jorge Molina‐Carpio, Mariano Masiokas et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.505467 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
This paper provides an updated review of the most relevant scientific literature related to the hydroclimate of the Andes. The Andes, the longest cordillera in the world, faces major challenges regarding climate variability and climate change, which impose several threats to sustainable development, including water supply and the sustainability of ecosystem services. This review focuses on hydroclimate variability of the Andes at a sub-continental scale. The annual water cycle and long-term w…
The vulnerability of lakes to climate change along an altitudinal gradient
Authors: Love Råman Vinnå, Iselin Medhaug, Martin Schmid, Damien Bouffard
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00106-w · Citations: 113
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Studies of future 21 st century climate warming in lakes along altitudinal gradients have been partially obscured by local atmospheric phenomena unresolved in climate models. Here we forced the physical lake model Simstrat with locally downscaled climate models under three future scenarios to investigate the impact on 29 Swiss lakes, varying in size along an altitudinal gradient. Results from the worst-case scenario project substantial change at the end of the century in duration of …
Spatial Variability of Rainfall Trends in Sri Lanka from 1989 to 2019 as an Indication of Climate Change
Authors: Niranga Alahacoon, Mahesh Edirisinghe
Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10020084 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: streamflow, water management, climate change
Analysis of long-term rainfall trends provides a wealth of information on effective crop planning and water resource management, and a better understanding of climate variability over time. This study reveals the spatial variability of rainfall trends in Sri Lanka from 1989 to 2019 as an indication of climate change. The exclusivity of the study is the use of rainfall data that provide spatial variability instead of the traditional location-based approach. Henceforth, daily rainfall data avai…
Geoinformation Technologies in Support of Environmental Hazards Monitoring under Climate Change: An Extensive Review
Authors: Andreas Tsatsaris, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Panagiota Louka, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Demetrios E. Tsesmelis et al.
Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10020094 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change, earth system model
Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural processes and their impacts, i.e., geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic phenomena and hazards, such as drought, soil erosion, quantitative and qualitative degradation of groundwater, frost, flooding, sea level rise, etc., are intensified by anthropogenic factors. Thus, they present rapid increase in intensity, frequency of occurrence, spatial density, and significant spread of the areas o…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 5 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Learning earth system models from observations: machine learning or data assimilation?
Authors: Alan Geer
Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0089 · Citations: 233
Matched topics: earth system model
Recent progress in machine learning (ML) inspires the idea of improving (or learning) earth system models directly from the observations. Earth sciences already use data assimilation (DA), which underpins decades of progress in weather forecasting. DA and ML have many similarities: they are both inverse methods that can be united under a Bayesian (probabilistic) framework. ML could benefit from approaches used in DA, which has evolved to deal with real observations-these are uncertain, sparse…
Fast physically-based model for rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment at regional scale
Authors: Vicente Medina, Marcel Hürlimann, Zizheng Guo, A. Lloret, Jean Vaunat
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.105213 · Citations: 181
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
Daily runoff forecasting by deep recursive neural network
Authors: Jiang-Wei Zhang, Xiaohui Chen, Amirul Khan, You‐Kuan Zhang, Xingxing Kuang, Xiuyu Liang et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126067 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff
Abstract not available.
Tracing Riverine Particulate Black Carbon Sources in Xijiang River Basin: Insight from Stable Isotopic Composition and Bayesian Mixing Model
Authors: Jinke Liu, Guilin Han
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.116932 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling
Authors: Rhae Sung Kim, Sujay V. Kumar, Carrie Vuyovich, Paul R. Houser, Jessica D. Lundquist, Lawrence Mudryk et al.
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-771-2021 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, streamflow, land surface model, hydropower, surface water
Abstract. The Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP) is an effort to establish a baseline characterization of snow water equivalent (SWE) uncertainty across North America with the goal of informing global snow observational needs. An ensemble-based modeling approach, encompassing a suite of current operational models is used to assess the uncertainty in SWE and total snow storage (SWS) estimation over North America during the 2009–2017 period. The highest modeled SWE uncertainty is observed…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 14 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites
Authors: Housen Chu, Xiangzhong Luo, Zutao Ouyang, Stephen Chan, Sigrid Dengel, Sébastien Biraud et al.
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108350 · Citations: 496
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Large datasets of greenhouse gas and energy surface-atmosphere fluxes measured with the eddy-covariance technique (e.g., FLUXNET2015, AmeriFlux BASE) are widely used to benchmark models and remote-sensing products. This study addresses one of the major challenges facing model-data integration: To what spatial extent do flux measurements taken at individual eddy-covariance sites reflect model- or satellite-based grid cells? We evaluate flux footprints—the temporally dynamic source areas that c…
NASA’s surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms
Authors: Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Philip A. Townsend, David Schimel, A. Assiri, P. L. Blake, Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112349 · Citations: 317
Matched topics: hydrology, surface water, earth system model
The 2017–2027 National Academies’ Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted Observable” (DO). The SBG DO is based on the need for capabilities to acquire global, high spatial resolution, visible to shortwave infrared (VSWIR; 380–2500 nm; ~30 m pixel resolution) hyperspectral (imaging spectroscopy) and multispectral midwave and thermal infrared (MWIR: 3–5 μm; TIR: 8–12 μm; ~60 m pixel resolution) measurements with s…
Hydrology
Authors: Aline Grard, Jean-François Deli è ge
Journal: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology · DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1ffjjwx.7 · Citations: 235
Matched topics: hydrology
: Adsorption and desorption processes occurring on suspended and bed sediments were studied in two datasets from western Europe watersheds (Meuse and Mosel). Copper and zinc dissolved and total concentrations, total suspended sediment concentrations, mass concentrations, and grain sizes were analyzed. Four classes of mineral particle size were determined. Grain size distribution had to be considered in order to assess the trace metal particulate phase in the water column. The partitioning coe…
Toward a better understanding of fish‐based contribution to ocean carbon flux
Authors: Grace Saba, Adrian Burd, John P. Dunne, Santiago Hernández‐León, Angela Helen Martin, Kenneth A. Rose et al.
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography · DOI: 10.1002/lno.11709 · Citations: 213
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Fishes are the dominant vertebrates in the ocean, yet we know little of their contribution to carbon export flux at regional to global scales. We synthesize the existing information on fish‐based carbon flux in coastal and pelagic waters, identify gaps and challenges in measuring this flux and approaches to address them, and recommend research priorities. Based on our synthesis of passive (fecal pellet sinking) and active (migratory) flux of fishes, we estimated that fishes contribut…
Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport and Morphological Features at the Confluence Between the Yangtze River and the Poyang Lake
Authors: Saiyu Yuan, Hongwu Tang, Kun Li, Lei Xu, Yang Xiao, Carlo Gualtieri et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028284 · Citations: 159
Matched topics: hydrology, river
Abstract Confluences act as critical nodes in a river network as they affect flow, sediment transport, water quality, and ecological patterns. A complete knowledge about hydro‐morpho‐sedimentary processes at river confluences is still incompleted and it has been usually accepted that secondary flows are weak because of the significant role of form roughness in large rivers. In this study, two field surveys were conducted on the flow structure, suspended sediment transport and morphology of th…
Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security
Authors: Alan MacDonald, R. M. Lark, Richard G. Taylor, Tamiru Abiye, Helen Fallas, Guillaume Favreau et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abd661 · Citations: 152
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract Groundwater forms the basis of water supplies across much of Africa and its development is rising as demand for secure water increases. Recharge rates are a key component for assessing groundwater development potential, but have not been mapped across Africa, other than from global models. Here we quantify long-term average (LTA) distributed groundwater recharge rates across Africa for the period 1970–2019 from 134 ground-based estimates and upscaled statistically. Natural diffuse an…
Sustainable self-cleaning evaporator for long-term solar desalination using gradient structure tailored hydrogel
Authors: Ting Xu, Yuxia Xu, Jiaying Wang, Huijie Lü, Weiping Liu, Juan Wang
Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal · DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.128893 · Citations: 132
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Climatic versus Anthropogenic Controls of Decadal Trends (1983–2017) in Algal Blooms in Lakes and Reservoirs across China
Authors: Kaishan Song, Chong Fang, Pierre-André Jacinthe, Zhidan Wen, Ge Liu, Xiaofeng Xu et al.
Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06480 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: reservoir, water management
) across China (1983-2017). Results showed significant changes in the temporal slope of the sum of normalized area (0.26), frequency (2.28), duration (6.14), and early outbreak (-3.48) of AB events in L&Rs across China. Specifically, AB-impacted water bodies expanded longitudinally, and the time range of AB observation has expanded starting in the 2000s. Spearman correlation and random forest regression analyses further indicated that, among climatic factors, wind speed and temperature contri…
Hydroclimatic trends during 1950–2018 over global land
Authors: Aiguo Dai
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05684-1 · Citations: 124
Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Erosion and Hydrological Responses in Ethiopia
Authors: Ajanaw Negese
Journal: Applied and Environmental Soil Science · DOI: 10.1155/2021/6669438 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff
Land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics, in general, and the conversion of the natural vegetation cover into cultivated land, in particular, are major human-induced problems in Ethiopia, which have played a significant role in increasing the rate of soil erosion and altering the hydrological balance in the country. The main aim of this review was to view previous studies in Ethiopia that quantify the change in the rate of soil erosion and hydrological responses as a result of the change in la…
Influence of plants and environmental variables on the diversity of soil microbial communities in the Yellow River Delta Wetland, China
Authors: Jinye Li, Qingfeng Chen, Qing Li, Changsheng Zhao, You Feng
Journal: Chemosphere · DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129967 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Spatiotemporal assessment of land use/land cover change and associated carbon emissions and uptake in the Mekong River Basin
Authors: Xiaojing Tang, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson, Lucy R. Hutyra
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112336 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Supraglacial Ice Cliffs Can Substantially Increase the Mass Loss of Debris‐Covered Glaciers
Authors: Pascal Buri, Evan Miles, Jakob Steiner, Silvan Ragettli, Francesca Pellicciotti
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl092150 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
Abstract The thinning patterns of debris‐covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia are not well understood. Here we calculate the effect of supraglacial ice cliffs on the mass balance of all glaciers in a Himalayan catchment, using a process‐based ice cliff melt model. We show that ice cliffs are responsible for higher than expected thinning rates of debris‐covered glacier tongues, leading to an underestimation of their ice mass loss of 17% ± 4% in the catchment if not considered. We also show t…
Using Deep Learning for Automatic Water Stage Measurements
Authors: Anette Eltner, Patrik Olã Bressan, Thales Akiyama, Wesley Nunes Gonçalves, José Marcato
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027608 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
Abstract Image‐based gauging stations can allow for significant densification of monitoring networks of river water stages. However, thus far, most camera gauges do not provide the robustness of accurate measurements due to the varying appearance of water in the stream throughout the year. We introduce an approach that allows for automatic and reliable water stage measurement combining deep learning and photogrammetric techniques. First, a convolutional neural network (CNN), a class of deep l…
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| Environmental Research Letters | 2 |
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| Water Resources Research | 2 |
| Sustainable Cities and Society | 1 |
| Geocarto International | 1 |
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| Unknown | 1 |
| Fuel | 1 |
| Automation in Construction | 1 |
| Rice Science | 1 |
| Weather and Climate Extremes | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | 1 |
| Journal of Applied and Service Climatology | 1 |
| Scientific Reports | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
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| Frontiers in Earth Science | 1 |
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| Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology | 1 |
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| Environmental Science & Technology | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Applied and Environmental Soil Science | 1 |
| Chemosphere | 1 |
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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