Weekly Literature Review
Week 08 · February 22–February 28, 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
- Flood risk assessment using deep learning integrated with multi-criteria decision analysis
- A mixed approach for urban flood prediction using Machine Learning and GIS
- Data-based flooding fault diagnosis of proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems using LSTM networks
- Operational and emerging capabilities for surface water flood forecasting
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Extreme Drought in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019–2020: Characterization, Causes, and Impacts
- Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought
- Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity
- PdGNC confers drought tolerance by mediating stomatal closure resulting from NO and H2O2 production via the direct regulation of PdHXK1 expression in Populus
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks
- Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests
- A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years
- The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities
- Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance
- Seasonality, Intensity, and Duration of Rainfall Extremes Change in a Warmer Climate
- Muslims and climate change: How Islam, Muslim organizations, and religious leaders influence climate change perceptions and mitigation activities
- Benchmarking cooling and heating energy demands considering climate change, population growth and cooling device uptake
- Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt
- Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate
- Crop evapotranspiration prediction by considering dynamic change of crop coefficient and the precipitation effect in back-propagation neural network model
- Carbon prospecting in tropical forests for climate change mitigation
- Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Economic Output
- Are Economists Getting Climate Dynamics Right and Does It Matter?
- The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation
- Evaluation of water conservation function of Danjiang River Basin in Qinling Mountains, China based on InVEST model
- Using NDVI for the assessment of canopy cover in agricultural crops within modelling research
- Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship
- An inter-comparison of the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice in CMIP6 models
- Improved model simulation of soil carbon cycling by representing the microbially derived organic carbon pool
- Detecting and mapping irrigated areas in a Mediterranean environment by using remote sensing soil moisture and a land surface model
- Analysis of the Current and Future Prediction of Land Use/Land Cover Change Using Remote Sensing and the CA-Markov Model in Majang Forest Biosphere Reserves of Gambella, Southwestern Ethiopia
- Water Management and Sustainability
- X-ray computed tomography
- A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere
- Potassium Control of Plant Functions: Ecological and Agricultural Implications
- African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data
- Groundwater depletion will reduce cropping intensity in India
- Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
- Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss
- Rice–wheat system in the northwest Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia: issues and technological interventions for increasing productivity and sustainability
- Grand Challenges in Satellite Remote Sensing
- The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points
- Risk of tipping the overturning circulation due to increasing rates of ice melt
- Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm
- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping and Assessment Using Geospatial Platforms and Weights of Evidence (WoE) Method in the Indian Himalayan Region: Recent Developments, Gaps, and Future Directions
- Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability
- Multi-objective optimization for allocation of surface water and groundwater resources
- The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
- Complex anthropogenic interaction on vegetation greening in the Chinese Loess Plateau
- Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s
- Natural depolymerization of waste poly(ethylene terephthalate) by neutral hydrolysis in marine water
- 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 Pham, Motta et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Flood risk assessment using deep learning integrated with multi-criteria decision analysis
Authors: B. Pham, Chinh Luu, D. Dao, T. Phong, D. H. Nguyen, H. V. Le et al.
Journal: Knowledge-Based Systems · DOI: 10.1016/J.KNOSYS.2021.106899 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: flood
Abstract In this paper, we proposed a novel approach for flood risk assessment, which is a combination of a deep learning algorithm and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The framework of the flood risk assessment involves three main elements: hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. For this purpose, one of the flood-prone areas of Vietnam, namely Quang Nam province was selected as the study area. Data of 847 past flood locations of this area was analyzed to generate training and testing d…
A mixed approach for urban flood prediction using Machine Learning and GIS
Authors: Marcel Motta, Miguel de Castro Neto, Pedro Sarmento
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102154 · Citations: 143
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Data-based flooding fault diagnosis of proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems using LSTM networks
Authors: Xin Gu, Zhongjun Hou, Jun Cai
Journal: Energy and AI · DOI: 10.1016/j.egyai.2021.100056 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: water management, flood
Flooding fault diagnosis is critical to the stable and efficient operation of fuel cells, while the on-board embedded controller has limited computing power and sensors, making it difficult to incorporate the complex gas-liquid two-phase flow models. Then in fuel cell system for cars, the neural network modeling is usually regarded as an appropriate tool for the on-line diagnosis of water status. Traditional neural network classifiers are not good at processing time series data, so in this pa…
Operational and emerging capabilities for surface water flood forecasting
Authors: Linda Speight, Michael Cranston, Christopher J. White, Laura Kelly
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1517 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, flood, surface water, earth system model
Abstract Surface water (or pluvial) flooding is caused by intense rainfall before it enters rivers or drainage systems. As the climate changes and urban populations grow, the number of people around the world at risk of surface water flooding is increasing. Although it may not be possible to prevent such flooding, reliable and timely flood forecasts can help improve preparedness and recovery. Unlike riverine and coastal flooding where forecasting methods are well established, surface water fl…
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 4 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Marengo, Nolan et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Extreme Drought in the Brazilian Pantanal in 2019–2020: Characterization, Causes, and Impacts
Authors: José A. Marengo, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Luz Adriana Cuartas, Karinne Reis Deusdará Leal, Elisângela Broedel, Marcelo E. Seluchi et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Water · DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.639204 · Citations: 351
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought, land surface model, earth system model
The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world’s largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal has suffered a prolonged drought that has spelled disaster for the region, and subsequent fires have engulfed hundreds of thousands of hectares. The lack of rainfall during the summers of 2019 and 2020 was caused by reduced transport of warm and humid summer air from Amazonia into the Pantanal. Instead, a predominance of warmer and drier air masses from subtropical latitudes contributed to a …
Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought
Authors: Rachael H. Nolan, Alice Gauthey, Adriano Losso, Belinda E. Medlyn, Rhiannon Smith, Shubham S. Chhajed et al.
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17298 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: drought
was significantly more negative in trees exhibiting partial canopy die-back (-2.7 to -6.3 MPa), compared with relatively healthy trees (-2.1 to -4.5 MPa). In two of the species the majority of individuals showing complete canopy die-back were in the small size classes. Our results indicate that hydraulic failure is strongly associated with canopy die-back during drought in eucalypt forests. Our study provides valuable field data to help constrain models predicting mortality risk.
Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity
Authors: Qiwen Xu, Hao Fu, Bo Zhu, Hafiz Athar Hussain, Kangping Zhang, Xiaoqing Tian et al.
Journal: Metabolites · DOI: 10.3390/metabo11030131 · Citations: 121
Matched topics: drought
Potassium (K) reduces the deleterious effects of drought stress on plants. However, this mitigation has been studied mainly in the aboveground plant pathways, while the effect of K on root-soil interactions in the underground part is still underexplored. Here, we conducted the experiments to investigate how K enhances plant resistance and tolerance to drought by controlling rhizosphere processes. Three culture methods (sand, water, and soil) evaluated two rapeseed cultivars’ root morphology, …
PdGNC confers drought tolerance by mediating stomatal closure resulting from NO and H2O2 production via the direct regulation of PdHXK1 expression in Populus
Authors: Chao Shen, Yue Zhang, Qing Li, Shujing Liu, Fang He, Yi An et al.
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17301 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: drought
Summary Drought is one of the primary abiotic stresses, seriously implicating plant growth and productivity. Stomata play a crucial role in regulating drought tolerance. However, the molecular mechanism on stomatal movement‐mediated drought tolerance remains unclear. Using genetic, molecular and biochemical techniques, we identified that the PdGNC directly activating the promoter of PdHXK1 by binding the GATC element, a hexokinase (HXK) synthesis key gene. Here, PdGNC , a member of the GATA t…
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.
Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks
Authors: Umakant Mishra, Gustaf Hugelius, Eitan Shelef, Yuanhe Yang, Jens Strauß, A. V. Lupachev et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5236 · Citations: 377
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Large stocks of soil organic carbon (SOC) have accumulated in the Northern Hemisphere permafrost region, but their current amounts and future fate remain uncertain. By analyzing dataset combining >2700 soil profiles with environmental variables in a geospatial framework, we generated spatially explicit estimates of permafrost-region SOC stocks, quantified spatial heterogeneity, and identified key environmental predictors. We estimated that Pg C are stored in the top 3 m of permafrost region s…
Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests
Authors: Giovanni Forzieri, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, Jonathan Spinoni, Luc Feyen, Henrik Hartmann et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21399-7 · Citations: 349
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Forest disturbance regimes are expected to intensify as Earth’s climate changes. Quantifying forest vulnerability to disturbances and understanding the underlying mechanisms is crucial to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies. However, observational evidence is largely missing at regional to continental scales. Here, we quantify the vulnerability of European forests to fires, windthrows and insect outbreaks during the period 1979-2018 by integrating machine learning with disturbance da…
A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years
Authors: Evan J. Gowan, Xu Zhang, Sara Khosravi, Alessio Rovere, Paolo Stocchi, Anna L.C. Hughes et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21469-w · Citations: 300
Matched topics: earth system model
O and sea level may be more complex than assumed.
The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities
Authors: Christian Brand, Evi Dons, Esther Anaya-Boig, Ione Ávila-Palència, Anna Clark, Audrey de Nazelle et al.
Journal: Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2021.102764 · Citations: 266
Matched topics: climate change
Active travel (walking or cycling for transport) is considered the most sustainable form of personal transport. Yet its net effects on mobility-related CO2 emissions are complex and under-researched. Here we collected travel activity data in seven European cities and derived life cycle CO2 emissions across modes and purposes. Daily mobility-related life cycle CO2 emissions were 3.2 kgCO2 per person, with car travel contributing 70% and cycling 1%. Cyclists had 84% lower life cycle CO2 emissio…
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance
Authors: John Thøgersen
Journal: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.02.008 · Citations: 167
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
The mounting research on consumer behavior and climate change is gradually improving our understanding of effective ways to mobilize consumers to mitigate climate change. The relationship between consumer behavior and climate change is complex and most consumers are not capable of determining which behavior changes are worth doing. Research has come a long way identifying the most impactful behavior changes, but more research is needed to refine and situate these insights. The most important …
Seasonality, Intensity, and Duration of Rainfall Extremes Change in a Warmer Climate
Authors: Yiannis Moustakis, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Christian Onof, Athanasios Paschalis
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001824 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: seasonal, climate change
Abstract Precipitation extremes are expected to intensify under climate change with consequent impacts in flooding and ecosystem functioning. Here we use station data and high‐resolution simulations from the WRF convection permitting climate model (∼4 km, 1 h) over the US to assess future changes in hourly precipitation extremes. It is demonstrated that hourly precipitation extremes and storm depths are expected to intensify under climate change and what is now a 20‐year rainfall will become …
Muslims and climate change: How Islam, Muslim organizations, and religious leaders influence climate change perceptions and mitigation activities
Authors: Jens Koehrsen
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · DOI: 10.1002/wcc.702 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract A growing body of research stresses the importance of religion in understanding and addressing climate change. However, so far, little is known about the relationship between Muslim communities and climate change. Globally, Muslims constitute the second largest faith group, and there is a strong concentration of Muslims in regions that are particularly affected by global warming. This review synthesizes existing research about climate change and Muslim communities. It addresses (a) I…
Benchmarking cooling and heating energy demands considering climate change, population growth and cooling device uptake
Authors: Robin Mutschler, Martin Rüdisüli, Philipp Heer, Sven Eggimann
Journal: Applied Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116636 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: climate change
The planning of future energy policies and energy systems requires an understanding of the intricate relationships between climate change, technology uptake, population growth and building energy demand. Building cooling demand is expected to increase considerably in many parts of the world as the climate warms on average. In temperate climates, this increase is expected to be particularly large due to the increase in the number of days when cooling is required to maintain a comfortable indoo…
Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt
Authors: Arthur A. D. Broadbent, Helen S. K. Snell, Antonios Michas, William J. Pritchard, Lindsay K. Newbold, Irene Cordero et al.
Journal: The ISME Journal · DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00922-0 · Citations: 122
Matched topics: climate change
Soil microbial communities regulate global biogeochemical cycles and respond rapidly to changing environmental conditions. However, understanding how soil microbial communities respond to climate change, and how this influences biogeochemical cycles, remains a major challenge. This is especially pertinent in alpine regions where climate change is taking place at double the rate of the global average, with large reductions in snow cover and earlier spring snowmelt expected as a consequence. He…
Defining El Niño indices in a warming climate
Authors: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Harry H. Hendon, Tim Stockdale, Michelle L’Heureux, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Roop Singh et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe9ed · Citations: 115
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract Extreme weather and climate events associated with El Niño and La Niña cause massive societal impacts. Therefore, observations and forecasts are used around the world to prepare for such events. However, global warming has caused warm El Niño events to seem bigger than they are, while cold La Niña events seem smaller, in the commonly used Niño3.4 index (sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies over 5 ∘ S–5 ∘ N, 120–170 ∘ W). We propose a simple and elegant adjustment, defining a relat…
Crop evapotranspiration prediction by considering dynamic change of crop coefficient and the precipitation effect in back-propagation neural network model
Authors: Xin Han, Zheng Wei, Baozhong Zhang, Yinong Li, Taisheng Du, He Chen
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126104 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Carbon prospecting in tropical forests for climate change mitigation
Authors: Lian Pin Koh, Yiwen Zeng, Tasya Vadya Sarira, Kelly Siman
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21560-2 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: climate change
). However, we also find that ~80% (1.24 billion ha) of forest carbon sites would be financially unviable for failing to break even over the project lifetime. From a conservation perspective, unless carbon prices increase in the future, it is imperative to implement other conservation interventions, in addition to carbon finance, to safeguard carbon stocks and biodiversity in vulnerable forests.
Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Economic Output
Authors: Steve J. Miller, Kenn Chua, Jay S. Coggins, Hamid Mohtadi
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association · DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvab009 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Climate change is likely to affect economies not only through warming, but also via an increase in prolonged extreme events like heat waves. However, the impacts of heat waves on economic output are not well captured by standard empirical approaches that ignore when hot days occur. Using a global dataset spanning 1979–2016, we show agricultural losses from past heat waves are up to an order of magnitude larger than suggested by standard approaches. Combining these estimates with a su…
Are Economists Getting Climate Dynamics Right and Does It Matter?
Authors: Simon Dietz, Frederick van der Ploeg, Armon Rezai, Frank Venmans
Journal: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists · DOI: 10.1086/713977 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: earth system model
We show that economic models of climate change produce climate dynamics inconsistent with current climate science models: (i) the delay between CO2 emissions and warming is much too long and (ii) positive carbon cycle feedbacks are mostly absent. These inconsistencies lead to biased economic policy advice. Controlling for how the economy is represented, different climate models result in significantly different optimal CO2 emissions. A long delay between emissions and warming leads to optimal…
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture
Authors: Vanesse Labeyrie, Delphine Renard, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, Petra Benyei, Sophie Caillon, Laura Calvet‐Mir et al.
Journal: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.01.006 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
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.
The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation
Authors: Hannes Müller Schmied, Denise Cáceres, Stephanie Eisner, Martina Flörke, Claudia Herbert, Christoph Niemann et al.
Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021 · Citations: 464
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, land surface model, surface water, earth system model
Abstract. WaterGAP is a global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and surface water as well as water flows and water storage and thus water resources on all land areas of the Earth. Since 1996, it has served to assess water resources and water stress both historically and in the future, in particular under climate change. It has improved our understanding of continental water storage variations, with a focus on overexploitation and depletion of water resources. In thi…
Evaluation of water conservation function of Danjiang River Basin in Qinling Mountains, China based on InVEST model
Authors: Mingyue Li, Dong Liang, Jun Xia, Jinxi Song, Dandong Cheng, Jintao Wu et al.
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112212 · Citations: 337
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, water management
With the shortage of water resources becoming a global concern, the water conservation function has become one of the most important service functions and the key factor in the sustainable development of watershed ecosystem. The Danjiang River Basin as an important source of water for the middle route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project, its water conservation function has attracted extensive public attention under global climate change. In this study, InVEST water yield model b…
Using NDVI for the assessment of canopy cover in agricultural crops within modelling research
Authors: Tomás R. Tenreiro, Margarita García‐Vila, José A. Gómez, José A. Jiménez-Berni, Elías Fereres
Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2021.106038 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: hydrologic model
The fraction of green canopy cover (CC) is an important feature commonly used to characterize crop growth and for calibration of crop and hydrological models. It is well accepted that there is a relation between CC and NDVI through linear or quadratic models, however a straight-forward empirical approach, to derive CC from NDVI observations, is still lacking. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of the NDVI-CC relationships with data collected from 19 different studies (N = 1397). Gene…
Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship
Authors: Kyung‐Sook Yun, June‐Yi Lee, Axel Timmermann, Karl Stein, Malte F. Stuecker, John C. Fyfe et al.
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00108-8 · Citations: 124
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract Intensification of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-rainfall variability in response to global warming is a robust feature across Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) iterations, regardless of a lack of robust projected changes in ENSO-sea-surface temperature (SST) variability. Previous studies attributed this intensification to an increase in mean SST and moisture convergence over the central-to-eastern Pacific, without explicitly considering underlying nonlinear SST–rain…
An inter-comparison of the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice in CMIP6 models
Authors: Ann Keen, Ed Blockley, David A. Bailey, Jens Boldingh Debernard, Mitchell Bushuk, Steve Delhaye et al.
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-951-2021 · Citations: 119
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. We compare the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice for 15 models submitted to the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), using new diagnostics that have not been available for previous model inter-comparisons. These diagnostics allow us to look beyond the standard metrics of ice cover and thickness to compare the processes of sea ice growth and loss in climate models in a more detailed way than has previously been possible. For the 1960–1989 multi-model mean, the domina…
Improved model simulation of soil carbon cycling by representing the microbially derived organic carbon pool
Authors: Xianlei Fan, Decai Gao, Chunhong Zhao, Chao Wang, Ying Qu, Jing Zhang et al.
Journal: The ISME Journal · DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00914-0 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
C-labeled necromass. Our models showed better performance than existing models and the Michaelis-Menten model was better than the first-order kinetic model. Microbial necromass C was estimated to be 10-27% of total SOC in the study soils by our models and therefore should not be ignored. This study provides a novel modification to process-based models for better simulation of soil organic C under the context of global changes.
Detecting and mapping irrigated areas in a Mediterranean environment by using remote sensing soil moisture and a land surface model
Authors: Jacopo Dari, Pere Quintana‐Seguí, Maria‐José Escorihuela, Vivien Stefan, Luca Brocca, Renato Morbidelli
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126129 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model, irrigation
Abstract Although irrigation practices affect food production and water resource management, with ever more impacting effects under climate change and population increasing scenarios, detailed knowledge of irrigation is still lacking. In fact, explicit information on the spatial occurrence of irrigation and on the amounts of water used for this purpose is often not available, thus making irrigation the missing variable to comprehensively understand the hydrological cycle dynamics over agricul…
Analysis of the Current and Future Prediction of Land Use/Land Cover Change Using Remote Sensing and the CA-Markov Model in Majang Forest Biosphere Reserves of Gambella, Southwestern Ethiopia
Authors: Semegnew Tadese, Teshome Soromessa, Tesefaye Bekele
Journal: The Scientific World JOURNAL · DOI: 10.1155/2021/6685045 · Citations: 111
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
This study aimed to evaluate land use/land cover changes (1987-2017), prediction (2032-2047), and identify the drivers of Majang Forest Biosphere Reserves. Landsat image (TM, ETM+, and OLI-TIRS) and socioeconomy data were used for the LU/LC analysis and its drivers of change. The supervised classification was also employed to classify LU/LC. The CA-Markov model was used to predict future LU/LC change using IDRISI software. Data were collected from 240 households from eight kebeles in two dist…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 19 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
X-ray computed tomography
Authors: Philip J. Withers, Charles A. Bouman, Simone Carmignato, Veerle Cnudde, David A. Grimaldi, Charlotte K. Hagen et al.
Journal: Nature Reviews Methods Primers · DOI: 10.1038/s43586-021-00015-4 · Citations: 958
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
X-ray computed tomography (CT) can reveal the internal details of objects in three dimensions non-destructively. In this Primer, we outline the basic principles of CT and describe the ways in which a CT scan can be acquired using X-ray tubes and synchrotron sources, including the different possible contrast modes that can be exploited. We explain the process of computationally reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) images from 2D radiographs and how to segment the 3D images for subsequent visu…
A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere
Authors: Gustau Camps‐Valls, Manuel Campos‐Taberner, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, Sophia Walther, Grégory Duveiller, Alessandro Cescatti et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc7447 · Citations: 699
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
and mitigating global climate change.
Potassium Control of Plant Functions: Ecological and Agricultural Implications
Authors: Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas
Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants10020419 · Citations: 541
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
should be considered at least at a level similar to N and P in terrestrial ecological studies.
African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data
Authors: Rubén Ramo, Ekhi Roteta, Ioannis Bistinas, Dave van Wees, Aitor Bastarrika, Emilio Chuvieco et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011160118 · Citations: 363
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
BA in that fire-size class. This increase in BA subsequently resulted in increased estimates of fire emissions; we computed 31 to 101% more fire carbon emissions than current estimates based on MODIS products. We conclude that small fires are a critical driver of BA in sub-Saharan Africa and that including those small fires in emission estimates raises the contribution of biomass burning to global burdens of (greenhouse) gases and aerosols.
Groundwater depletion will reduce cropping intensity in India
Authors: Meha Jain, Ram Fishman, Pinki Mondal, Gillian L. Galford, Nishan Bhattarai, Shahid Naeem et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd2849 · Citations: 236
Matched topics: irrigation
Groundwater depletion is becoming a global threat to food security, yet the ultimate impacts of depletion on agricultural production and the efficacy of available adaptation strategies remain poorly quantified. We use high-resolution satellite and census data from India, the world’s largest consumer of groundwater, to quantify the impacts of groundwater depletion on cropping intensity, a crucial driver of agricultural production. Our results suggest that, given current depletion trends, cropp…
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
Authors: Timon McPhearson, Christopher M. Raymond, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, Christian Albert, Neil Coles, Nora Fagerholm et al.
Journal: npj Urban Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00017-x · Citations: 229
Matched topics: land surface model, hydropower, earth system model
Abstract The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures from the status quo to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve sustainability. The steering arms of society including embedded financial, legal, political, and governance systems must be radically realigned and recognize the connectivity among social, ecological, and technological domains of urban systems to deliver more just, equitable, sustainable, and resilient futures. We present five…
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss
Authors: María Fernanda Adame, Rod M. Connolly, Mischa P. Turschwell, Catherine E. Lovelock, Temilola Fatoyinbo, David Lagomasino et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15571 · Citations: 228
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
future emissions. Mangrove loss has been slowing, and global emissions could be more than halved if reduced loss rates remain in the future. Notably, the location of global emission hotspots was consistent with every dataset used to calculate deforestation rates or with alternative assumptions about carbon storage and emissions. Our results indicate the regions in need of policy actions to address emissions arising from mangrove loss and the drivers that could be managed to prevent them.
Rice–wheat system in the northwest Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia: issues and technological interventions for increasing productivity and sustainability
Authors: Rajan Bhatt, Pritpal Singh, Akbar Hossain, Jagadish Timsina
Journal: Paddy and Water Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s10333-021-00846-7 · Citations: 189
Matched topics: water management, land surface model, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Grand Challenges in Satellite Remote Sensing
Authors: Оleg Dubovik, Gregory L. Schuster, Feng Xu, Yongxiang Hu, Hartmut Bösch, Jochen Landgraf et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3389/frsen.2021.619818 · Citations: 187
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
International audience
The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points
Authors: Christoph Heinze, Thorsten Blenckner, Helena Martins, Dagmara Rusiecka, Ralf Döscher, Marion Gehlen et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008478118 · Citations: 176
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Anthropogenic climate change profoundly alters the ocean’s environmental conditions, which, in turn, impact marine ecosystems. Some of these changes are happening fast and may be difficult to reverse. The identification and monitoring of such changes, which also includes tipping points, is an ongoing and emerging research effort. Prevention of negative impacts requires mitigation efforts based on feasible research-based pathways. Climate-induced tipping points are traditionally associated wit…
Risk of tipping the overturning circulation due to increasing rates of ice melt
Authors: Johannes Lohmann, Peter Ditlevsen
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017989118 · Citations: 165
Matched topics: earth system model
Central elements of the climate system are at risk for crossing critical thresholds (so-called tipping points) due to future greenhouse gas emissions, leading to an abrupt transition to a qualitatively different climate with potentially catastrophic consequences. Tipping points are often associated with bifurcations, where a previously stable system state loses stability when a system parameter is increased above a well-defined critical value. However, in some cases such transitions can occur…
Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm
Authors: Tianjie Zhao, Jiancheng Shi, Dara Entekhabi, Thomas J. Jackson, Lu Hu, Zhiqing Peng et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112321 · Citations: 149
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Due to the success of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) missions, new satellite missions are on the horizon. The current and future missions can benefit from investigations that seek to improve retrieval algorithms that quantitatively map global soil moisture and vegetation optical depth (tau) from Earth’s microwave emissions. In this study, we explore multi-angular and multi-frequency approaches for the retrieval of soil moisture and vegetati…
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping and Assessment Using Geospatial Platforms and Weights of Evidence (WoE) Method in the Indian Himalayan Region: Recent Developments, Gaps, and Future Directions
Authors: Amit Kumar Batar, Teiji Watanabe
Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10030114 · Citations: 149
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
The Himalayan region and hilly areas face severe challenges due to landslide occurrences during the rainy seasons in India, and the study area, i.e., the Rudraprayag district, is no exception. However, the landslide related database and research are still inadequate in these landslide-prone areas. The main purpose of this study is: (1) to prepare the multi-temporal landslide inventory map using geospatial platforms in the data-scarce environment; (2) to evaluate the landslide susceptibility m…
Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability
Authors: Zezheng Liu, Sergio Fagherazzi, Baoshan Cui
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00117-7 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Shorelines and their ecosystems are endangered by sea-level rise. Nature-based coastal protection is becoming a global strategy to enhance coastal resilience through the cost-effective creation, restoration and sustainable use of coastal wetlands. However, the resilience to sea-level rise of coastal wetlands created under Nature-based Solution has been assessed largely on a regional scale. Here we assess, using a meta-analysis, the difference in accretion, elevation, and sediment dep…
Multi-objective optimization for allocation of surface water and groundwater resources
Authors: Saeid Naghdi, Omid Bozorg‐Haddad, Mostafa Khorsandi, Xuefeng Chu
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146026 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: water management, surface water
Abstract Many developing countries face water deficit due to various reasons such as population growth, limited surface water resources, uneven spatial and temporal distributions of precipitation, industrialization, climate change, and lack of efficient management. This fact has led to a significant reduction in water resources, which has further caused water conflicts amongst the stakeholders. Hence, developing comprehensive water allocation policies to account for social standards, economic…
The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
Authors: Alison F. Banwell, Rajashree Tri Datta, Rebecca Dell, M. S. Moussavi, Ludovic Brucker, Ghislain Picard et al.
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-909-2021 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
Abstract. In the 2019/2020 austral summer, the surface melt duration and extent on the northern George VI Ice Shelf (GVIIS) was exceptional compared to the 31 previous summers of distinctly lower melt. This finding is based on analysis of near-continuous 41-year satellite microwave radiometer and scatterometer data, which are sensitive to meltwater on the ice shelf surface and in the near-surface snow. Using optical satellite imagery from Landsat 8 (2013 to 2020) and Sentinel-2 (2017 to 2020)…
Complex anthropogenic interaction on vegetation greening in the Chinese Loess Plateau
Authors: Pinglang Kou, Qiang Xu, Zhao Jin, Ali P. Yunus, Xiaobo Luo, Minghao Liu
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146065 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: runoff, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s
Authors: Andreas Kääb, Tazio Strozzi, Tobias Bolch, Rafael Caduff, Håkon Trefall, Markus Stoffel et al.
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-927-2021 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Spatio-temporal patterns related to the viscous creep in perennially frozen sediments of rock glaciers in cold mountains have rarely been studied outside the densely populated European Alps. This study investigates the spatial and temporal variability of rock glacier movement in the Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too mountain ranges, northern Tien Shan, a region with particularly large and fast rock glaciers. Over the study region of more than 3000 km2, an inventory of slope movements wa…
Natural depolymerization of waste poly(ethylene terephthalate) by neutral hydrolysis in marine water
Authors: Dorin Stanica-Ezeanu, Dănuţa Matei
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83659-2 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: land surface model
were obtained. Considering that the global ocean is a huge batch reactor operating under isothermal conditions, the solution of the mathematical model shows that in tropical regions only 72 years is needed for total and only 4.5 years for 50% PET conversion.
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| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 1010 |
| After deduplication | 680 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 630 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Science Advances | 3 |
| Nature Communications | 3 |
| The cryosphere | 3 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 |
| New Phytologist | 2 |
| The ISME Journal | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 2 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 2 |
| Knowledge-Based Systems | 1 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 1 |
| Energy and AI | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water | 1 |
| Frontiers in Water | 1 |
| Metabolites | 1 |
| Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment | 1 |
| Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences | 1 |
| Earth s Future | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change | 1 |
| Applied Energy | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Journal of the European Economic Association | 1 |
| Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | 1 |
| Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 1 |
| Geoscientific model development | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 1 |
| Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 1 |
| The Scientific World JOURNAL | 1 |
| Nature Reviews Methods Primers | 1 |
| Plants | 1 |
| npj Urban Sustainability | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Paddy and Water Environment | 1 |
| Frontiers in Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 1 |
| Scientific Reports | 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
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