Weekly Literature Review

Week 23 · June 7–June 13, 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, Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning, Climate Change and Water Resources, and Water Management and Sustainability.


Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. Rapid and large-scale mapping of flood inundation via integrating spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery with unsupervised deep learning
    2. LISFLOOD-FP 8.0: the new discontinuous Galerkin shallow-water solver for multi-core CPUs and GPUs
    3. A rapid flood inundation modelling framework using deep learning with spatial reduction and reconstruction
    4. Source, transport and fate of terrestrial organic carbon from Yangtze River during a large flood event: Insights from multiple-isotopes (δ13C, δ15N, Δ14C) and geochemical tracers
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China
    2. Exogenous melatonin induces drought stress tolerance by promoting plant growth and antioxidant defence system of soybean plants
    3. Silicon-induced mitigation of drought stress in peanut genotypes (Arachis hypogaea L.) through ion homeostasis, modulations of antioxidative defense system, and metabolic regulations
    4. To what extent can rising [CO2] ameliorate plant drought stress?
    5. Premature leaf discoloration of European deciduous trees is caused by drought and heat in late spring and cold spells in early fall
    6. Impact of Biochar in Mitigating the Negative Effect of Drought Stress on Cabbage Seedlings
    7. Soil textures rather than root hairs dominate water uptake and soil–plant hydraulics under drought
    8. The 2018/2019 drought in the UK: a hydrological appraisal
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. A novel attention-based LSTM cell post-processor coupled with bayesian optimization for streamflow prediction
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Positive emotions and climate change
    2. Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa: an evidence-based review
    3. The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions
    4. A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change
    5. Enhancing climate change resilience of ecological restoration — A framework for action
    6. Climate change impacts and relevance of smallholder farmers’ response in arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya
    7. The role of climate adaptation readiness in economic growth and climate change relationship: An analysis of the output/income and productivity/institution channels
    8. Water, energy and climate benefits of urban greening throughout Europe under different climatic scenarios
    9. Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change
    10. A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet
    11. A modelling platform for climate change impact on local and regional crop water requirements
    12. Evaluation of climate change resilience for Boston’s rail rapid transit network
    13. Spatiotemporal change of aboveground biomass and its response to climate change in marshes of the Tibetan Plateau
    14. River runoff in Switzerland in a changing climate – runoff regime changes and their time of emergence
    15. Performance of MAR (v3.11) in simulating the drifting-snow climate and surface mass balance of Adélie Land, East Antarctica
    16. Implications of Climate Change: How Does Increased Water Temperature Influence Biofilm and Water Quality of Chlorinated Drinking Water Distribution Systems?
    17. Optimization algorithms as training approaches for prediction of reference evapotranspiration using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services
    2. Why trees grow at night
    3. Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data
    4. Weather constraints on global drone flyability
    5. The role of hydropower energy in the level of CO2 emissions: An application of continuous wavelet transform
    6. The impacts of land-use and land-cover change on wetland ecosystem service values in peri-urban and urban area of Bahir Dar City, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Northwestern Ethiopia
    7. An integrated framework for the comprehensive evaluation of low impact development strategies
    8. Living up to the Hype of Hyperspectral Aquatic Remote Sensing: Science, Resources and Outlook
    9. Estimation of daily mean land surface temperature at global scale using pairs of daytime and nighttime MODIS instantaneous observations
    10. The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications
    11. A comparative study of machine learning and Fuzzy-AHP technique to groundwater potential mapping in the data-scarce region
    12. Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations
    13. A multi-data assessment of land use and land cover emissions from Brazil during 2000–2019
    14. Optimal irrigation amount and nitrogen rate improved seed cotton yield while maintaining fiber quality of drip-fertigated cotton in northwest China
    15. Processing and Extraction of Seasonal Tree Physiological Parameters from Stem Radius Time Series
    16. Compound Hot and Dry Events in Europe: Variability and Large-Scale Drivers
    17. Rapid 3D Printing of Bioinspired Hybrid Structures for High-Efficiency Fog Collection and Water Transportation
    18. Revisiting Global Vegetation Controls Using Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture
    19. Estimating Ocean Surface Currents With Machine Learning
    20. Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones Using GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques: A Case Study Upper Coruh River Basin (NE Turkey)
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. 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 Jiang, Shaw et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Rapid and large-scale mapping of flood inundation via integrating spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery with unsupervised deep learning

Authors: Xin Jiang, Shijing Liang, Xinyue He, Alan D. Ziegler, Peirong Lin, Ming Pan et al.

Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.05.019 · Citations: 103

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


LISFLOOD-FP 8.0: the new discontinuous Galerkin shallow-water solver for multi-core CPUs and GPUs

Authors: James E. Shaw, Georges Kesserwani, Jeffrey Neal, Paul Bates, Mohammad Kazem Sharifian

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-3577-2021 · Citations: 101

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, flood

Abstract. LISFLOOD-FP 8.0 includes second-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG2) and first-order finite-volume (FV1) solvers of the two-dimensional shallow-water equations for modelling a wide range of flows, including rapidly propagating, supercritical flows, shock waves or flows over very smooth surfaces. The solvers are parallelised on multi-core CPU and Nvidia GPU architectures and run existing LISFLOOD-FP modelling scenarios without modification. These new, fully two-dimensional solvers are …


A rapid flood inundation modelling framework using deep learning with spatial reduction and reconstruction

Authors: Yuerong Zhou, Wenyan Wu, Rory Nathan, Quan J. Wang

Journal: Environmental Modelling & Software · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105112 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Source, transport and fate of terrestrial organic carbon from Yangtze River during a large flood event: Insights from multiple-isotopes (δ13C, δ15N, Δ14C) and geochemical tracers

Authors: Xueshi Sun, Dejiang Fan, Peng Cheng, Limin Hu, Xiang Sun, Zhigang Guo et al.

Journal: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.06.004 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: river, flood

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 8 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Ding, Imran et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China

Authors: Yibo Ding, Xinglong Gong, Zhenxiang Xing, Huanjie Cai, Zhaoqiang Zhou, Doudou Zhang et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106996 · Citations: 280

Matched topics: runoff, drought

Abstract not available.


Exogenous melatonin induces drought stress tolerance by promoting plant growth and antioxidant defence system of soybean plants

Authors: M. Imran, Abdul Latif Khan, R. Shahzad, Muhammad Aaqil Khan, Saqib Bilal, Adil Khan et al.

Journal: AoB Plants · DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plab026 · Citations: 229

Matched topics: drought

Abstract Melatonin is an indolamine bioactive molecule that regulates a wide range of physiological processes during plant growth and enhances abiotic stress tolerance. Here we examined the putative role of exogenous melatonin application (foliar or root zone) in improving drought stress tolerance in soybean seedlings. Pre-treatment of soybean seedlings with melatonin (50 and 100 µM) was found to significantly mitigate the negative effects of drought stress on plant growth-related parameters …


Silicon-induced mitigation of drought stress in peanut genotypes (Arachis hypogaea L.) through ion homeostasis, modulations of antioxidative defense system, and metabolic regulations

Authors: Monika Patel, Dhara Fatnani, Asish Kumar Parida

Journal: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.06.003 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


To what extent can rising [CO2] ameliorate plant drought stress?

Authors: Martin G. De Kauwe, Belinda E. Medlyn, David T. Tissue

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17540 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: drought

× drought interactions are essential to better constrain model theory that governs future climate model projections of land-atmosphere interactions during periods of water stress.


Premature leaf discoloration of European deciduous trees is caused by drought and heat in late spring and cold spells in early fall

Authors: Christof Bigler, Yann Vitasse

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108492 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: drought, land surface model

While leaf discoloration of many temperate and boreal tree species has been delayed in response to global warming, climatic stress such as severe drought can cause premature leaf discoloration. We investigated whether leaf discoloration is synchronized within and across tree species and under which climatic conditions premature leaf discoloration occurs (i.e. exceptionally early dates of leaf discoloration within the lower 5 % percentile). We analyzed 16’865 observations of leaf discoloration…


Impact of Biochar in Mitigating the Negative Effect of Drought Stress on Cabbage Seedlings

Authors: Ertan Yıldırım, Melek Ekinci, Metin Turan

Journal: Journal of soil science and plant nutrition · DOI: 10.1007/s42729-021-00522-z · Citations: 84

Matched topics: drought, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Soil textures rather than root hairs dominate water uptake and soil–plant hydraulics under drought

Authors: Gaochao Cai, Andrea Carminati, Mohanned Abdalla, Mutez Ali Ahmed

Journal: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab271 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: drought

Although the role of root hairs (RHs) in nutrient uptake is well documented, their role in water uptake and drought tolerance remains controversial. Maize (Zea mays) wild-type and its hair-defective mutant (Mut; roothairless 3) were grown in two contrasting soil textures (sand and loam). We used a root pressure chamber to measure the relation between transpiration rate (E) and leaf xylem water potential (ψleaf_x) during soil drying. Our hypotheses were: (1) RHs extend root-soil contact and re…


The 2018/2019 drought in the UK: a hydrological appraisal

Authors: Stephen Turner, Lucy Barker, Jamie Hannaford, Katie Muchan, Simon Parry, Catherine Sefton

Journal: Weather · DOI: 10.1002/wea.4003 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, drought

Between 2016 and 2019, the UK was in a period of prolonged dry conditions with varying spatial and temporal foci. We look at the rainfall, river flows, soil moisture and drought impacts leading up to and including the heatwave of 2018, and the following year, placing the events into historical context. Using incident data from the UK regulators, we also explore drought impacts for this period.


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.

A novel attention-based LSTM cell post-processor coupled with bayesian optimization for streamflow prediction

Authors: Babak Alizadeh, Alireza Ghaderi Bafti, Hamid Kamangir, Yu Zhang, Daniel B. Wright, Kristie J. Franz

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126526 · Citations: 171

Matched topics: streamflow, flood

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 17 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Positive emotions and climate change

Authors: Claudia R. Schneider, Lisa Zaval, Ezra M. Markowitz

Journal: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.04.009 · Citations: 188

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa: an evidence-based review

Authors: Portia Adade Williams, Nicholas P. Simpson, Edmond Totin, Michelle A. North, Christopher H. Trisos

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac092d · Citations: 178

Matched topics: water management, climate change

Abstract Considering the feasibility and effectiveness of adaptation options is essential for guiding responses to climate change that reduce risk. Here, we assessed the feasibility of adaptation options for the African context. Using the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative, a stocktake of adaptation-related responses to climate change from the peer-reviewed literature in 2013–2020, we found 827 records of adaptation actions in Africa. We categorised and evaluated 24 adaptation options and f…


The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

Authors: Ulf Büntgen, Kathy Allen, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Dominique Arseneault, Étienne Boucher, Achim Bräuning et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23627-6 · Citations: 157

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Tree-ring chronologies underpin the majority of annually-resolved reconstructions of Common Era climate. However, they are derived using different datasets and techniques, the ramifications of which have hitherto been little explored. Here, we report the results of a double-blind experiment that yielded 15 Northern Hemisphere summer temperature reconstructions from a common network of regional tree-ring width datasets. Taken together as an ensemble, the Common Era reconstruction mean correlat…


A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change

Authors: Timothy R. Carter, Magnus Benzie, Emanuele Campiglio, Henrik Carlsen, Stefan Fronzek, Mikael Hildén et al.

Journal: Global Environmental Change · DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102307 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: flood, climate change, hydropower

Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability studies tend to confine their attention to impacts and responses within the same geographical region. However, this approach ignores cross-border climate change impacts that occur remotely from the location of their initial impact and that may severely disrupt societies and livelihoods. We propose a conceptual framework and accompanying nomenclature for describing and analysing such cross-border impacts. The conceptual framework distinguish…


Enhancing climate change resilience of ecological restoration — A framework for action

Authors: William D. Simonson, Ellen Miller, Alastair H. Jones, Shaenandhoa García-Rangel, Hazel Thornton, Chris McOwen

Journal: Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation · DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2021.05.002 · Citations: 124

Matched topics: climate change

Ecological restoration is a tool for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and yet its outcomes are susceptible themselves to climate change impacts. Drawing on the literature documenting this in theory and practice, we present a comprehensive overview of climate change risks and considerations across the whole life cycle of a restoration initiative. The resulting framework identified seven areas of restoration design and implementation in which climate change is important to address: set…


Climate change impacts and relevance of smallholder farmers’ response in arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya

Authors: Dorcas Kalele, William Ogara, Christopher Oludhe, Joshua Orungo Onono

Journal: Scientific African · DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00814 · Citations: 99

Matched topics: water management, flood, climate change

In the recent decades, extreme weather events have increased in frequency, intensity and magnitude threatening and increasing the vulnerability of rural livelihoods particularly in the arid and semi-arid lands. This study explored climate change events, the extent of their impacts on farmers’ livelihoods, farmers’ adaptation strategies and the extent of the strategies on improving farmers’ ability to manage the climate change impacts in the Yatta region, Kenya. The study adopted a multi-metho…


The role of climate adaptation readiness in economic growth and climate change relationship: An analysis of the output/income and productivity/institution channels

Authors: Philip Kofi Adom, Solomon Amoani

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112923 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Water, energy and climate benefits of urban greening throughout Europe under different climatic scenarios

Authors: Emanuele Quaranta, Chiara Dorati, Alberto Pistocchi

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88141-7 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model

per European urban resident. The additional benefits of urban greening related to biodiversity, water quality, health, wellbeing and other aspects, although not monetized in this study, might be worth such extra cost. When this is the case, urban greening represents a multifunctional, no-regret, cost-effective solution.


Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change

Authors: Sergey Rosbakh, Florian Härtig, Д. В. Санданов, Evgenya V. Bukharova, Tara K. Miller, Richard B. Primack

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15744 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: climate change

Siberia has undergone dramatic climatic changes due to global warming in recent decades. Yet, the ecological responses to these climatic changes are still poorly understood due to a lack of data. Here, we use a unique data set from the Russian ‘Chronicles of Nature’ network to analyse the long-term (1976-2018) phenological shifts in leaf out, flowering, fruiting and senescence of 67 common Siberian plant species. We find that Siberian boreal forest plants advanced their early season (leaf out…


A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet

Authors: Nanna B. Karlsson, Anne Solgaard, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Fabien Gillet‐Chaulet, Joseph A. MacGregor, Jason E. Box et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23739-z · Citations: 81

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, land surface model

The Greenland ice sheet has been one of the largest sources of sea-level rise since the early 2000s. However, basal melt has not been included explicitly in assessments of ice-sheet mass loss so far. Here, we present the first estimate of the total and regional basal melt produced by the ice sheet and the recent change in basal melt through time. We find that the ice sheet’s present basal melt production is 21.4 +4.4/-4.0 Gt per year, and that melt generated by basal friction is responsible f…


A modelling platform for climate change impact on local and regional crop water requirements

Authors: Sara Masia, Antonio Trabucco, Donatella Spano, Richard L. Snyder, Janez Sušnik, Serena Marras

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107005 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, climate change

Abstract not available.


Evaluation of climate change resilience for Boston’s rail rapid transit network

Authors: Michael V. Martello, Andrew J. Whittle, Jesse M. Keenan, Frederick Salvucci

Journal: Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2021.102908 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: flood, climate change

Abstract not available.


Spatiotemporal change of aboveground biomass and its response to climate change in marshes of the Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Yanji Wang, Xiangjin Shen, Ming Jiang, Shouzheng Tong, Xianguo Lü

Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102385 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: climate change

The Tibetan Plateau has a large area of marshes which play a crucial part in the global carbon cycle. The vegetation aboveground biomass (AGB) is a critical indicator of carbon storage of marsh ecosystems. Due to the limitations of field investigation, the spatiotemporal variation of AGB and its influencing factors of the Tibetan Plateau marshes remain unclear. By using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), climate and measured AGB data, this study investigated the temporal and s…


River runoff in Switzerland in a changing climate – runoff regime changes and their time of emergence

Authors: Regula Muelchi, Ole Rößler, Jan Schwanbeck, Rolf Weingartner, Olivia Martius

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-3071-2021 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, hydropower

Abstract. Assessments of climate change impacts on runoff regimes are essential to climate change adaptation and mitigation planning. Changing runoff regimes and thus changing seasonal patterns of water availability strongly influence various economic sectors such as agriculture, energy production, and fishery and also affect river ecology. In this study, we use new transient hydrological scenarios driven by the most up-to-date local climate projections for Switzerland, the Swiss Climate Chan…


Performance of MAR (v3.11) in simulating the drifting-snow climate and surface mass balance of Adélie Land, East Antarctica

Authors: Charles Amory, Christoph Kittel, Louis Le Toumelin, Cécile Agosta, Alison Delhasse, Vincent Favier et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-3487-2021 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: runoff, land surface model

Abstract. Drifting snow, or the wind-driven transport of snow particles originating from clouds and the surface below and above 2 m above ground and their concurrent sublimation, is a poorly documented process on the Antarctic ice sheet, which is inherently lacking in most climate models. Since drifting snow mostly results from erosion of surface particles, a comprehensive evaluation of this process in climate models requires a concurrent assessment of simulated drifting-snow transport and th…


Implications of Climate Change: How Does Increased Water Temperature Influence Biofilm and Water Quality of Chlorinated Drinking Water Distribution Systems?

Authors: Carolina Calero Preciado, Joby Boxall, Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, Soledad Martínez, Isabel Douterelo

Journal: Frontiers in Microbiology · DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.658927 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: climate change

complex throughout the growth phase within the biofilms at higher temperatures. The temperature impacts were not only microbial, with physical mobilisation showing higher discolouration response and metals release due to the increased temperature. While material accumulation was accelerated by temperature, it was not preferentially to either stronger or weaker biofilm layers, as turbidity results during the flushing steps showed. This research yields new understanding on microbial challenges …


Optimization algorithms as training approaches for prediction of reference evapotranspiration using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system

Authors: Dilip Kumar Roy, Alvin Lal, Khokan Kumer Sarker, Kowshik Kumar Saha, Bithin Datta

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107003 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 20 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Authors: Damien Beillouin, Tamara Ben‐Ari, Éric Malézieux, Verena Seufert, David Makowski

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15747 · Citations: 512

Matched topics: water management

Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop species or varieties in agroecosystems are still under scrutiny. The available empirical evidence is scattered in scope, agronomic and geographic contexts, and impacts on ecosystem services may depend on the type of diversification strategy used. To robustly assess the effects of crop diversification in agroec…


Why trees grow at night

Authors: Roman Zweifel, Frank J. Sterck, Sabine Braun, Nina Buchmann, Werner Eugster, Arthur Geßler et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17552 · Citations: 240

Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model

The timing of diel stem growth of mature forest trees is still largely unknown, as empirical data with high temporal resolution have not been available so far. Consequently, the effects of day-night conditions on tree growth remained uncertain. Here we present the first comprehensive field study of hourly-resolved radial stem growth of seven temperate tree species, based on 57 million underlying data points over a period of up to 8 yr. We show that trees grow mainly at night, with a peak afte…


Authors: Mateusz Taszarek, John T. Allen, Mattia Marchio, Harold E. Brooks

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-021-00190-x · Citations: 179

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract Globally, thunderstorms are responsible for a significant fraction of rainfall, and in the mid-latitudes often produce extreme weather, including large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds. Despite this importance, how the global frequency of thunderstorms and their accompanying hazards has changed over the past 4 decades remains unclear. Large-scale diagnostics applied to global climate models have suggested that the frequency of thunderstorms and their intensity is likely to increase…


Weather constraints on global drone flyability

Authors: Mozhou Gao, Chris H. Hugenholtz, T. A. Fox, Maja Kucharczyk, Thomas E. Barchyn, Paul R. Nesbit

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91325-w · Citations: 126

Matched topics: land surface model

Small aerial drones are used in a growing number of commercial applications. However, drones cannot fly in all weather, which impacts their reliability for time-sensitive operations. The magnitude and global variability of weather impact is poorly understood. We explore weather-limited drone flyability (the proportion of time drones can fly safely) by comparing historical wind speed, temperature, and precipitation data to manufacturer-reported thresholds of common commercial and weather-resis…


The role of hydropower energy in the level of CO2 emissions: An application of continuous wavelet transform

Authors: Faik Bilgili, Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente, Sevda Kuşkaya, Fatma Ünlü, Pelin Gençoğlu, Pali Rosha

Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.06.015 · Citations: 125

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract not available.


The impacts of land-use and land-cover change on wetland ecosystem service values in peri-urban and urban area of Bahir Dar City, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Northwestern Ethiopia

Authors: Workiyie Worie Assefa, Belachew Getnet Eneyew, Ayalew Wondie

Journal: Ecological Processes · DOI: 10.1186/s13717-021-00310-8 · Citations: 123

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, water management, land surface model

Abstract Background Even though wetlands are essential in enhancing water quality and providing recreation and entertainment opportunities in urban areas, their values are overlooked by the decision-makers. Underestimation of the economic value of wetland ecosystem services contributes to their continuing deterioration and inevitable loss. Investigating the changes in ecosystem service values (ESV) can provide crucial information for decision-making. This study, therefore, analyzes the tempor…


An integrated framework for the comprehensive evaluation of low impact development strategies

Authors: Kerim Koç, Ömer Ekmekcioğlu, Mehmet Özger

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113023 · Citations: 111

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, flood

Abstract not available.


Living up to the Hype of Hyperspectral Aquatic Remote Sensing: Science, Resources and Outlook

Authors: Heidi M. Dierssen, Steven G. Ackleson, Karen E. Joyce, Erin L. Hestir, Alexandre Castagna, Samantha Lavender et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science · DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.649528 · Citations: 108

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, land surface model

Intensifying pressure on global aquatic resources and services due to population growth and climate change is inspiring new surveying technologies to provide science-based information in support of management and policy strategies. One area of rapid development is hyperspectral remote sensing: imaging across the full spectrum of visible and infrared light. Hyperspectral imagery contains more environmentally meaningful information than panchromatic or multispectral imagery and is poised to pro…


Estimation of daily mean land surface temperature at global scale using pairs of daytime and nighttime MODIS instantaneous observations

Authors: Zefeng Xing, Zhao-Liang Li, Si‐Bo Duan, Xiangyang Liu, Xiaopo Zheng, Pei Leng et al.

Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.05.017 · Citations: 108

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

Abstract not available.


The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications

Authors: Edward Park, Ho Huu Loc, Đoàn Văn Bình, Sameh A. Kantoush

Journal: AMBIO · DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01577-z · Citations: 106

Matched topics: water management, hydropower

Abstract not available.


A comparative study of machine learning and Fuzzy-AHP technique to groundwater potential mapping in the data-scarce region

Authors: Ranveer Kumar, Shyam Bihari Dwivedi, Shishir Gaur

Journal: Computers & Geosciences · DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104855 · Citations: 101

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations

Authors: John C. Priscu, Jonas Kalin, John R. Winans, Timothy D. Campbell, Matthew R. Siegfried, Mark Skidmore et al.

Journal: Annals of Glaciology · DOI: 10.1017/aog.2021.10 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, reservoir

Abstract The Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) Project accessed Mercer Subglacial Lake using environmentally clean hot-water drilling to examine interactions among ice, water, sediment, rock, microbes and carbon reservoirs within the lake water column and underlying sediments. A ~0.4 m diameter borehole was melted through 1087 m of ice and maintained over ~10 days, allowing observation of ice properties and collection of water and sediment with various tools. Over this peri…


A multi-data assessment of land use and land cover emissions from Brazil during 2000–2019

Authors: Thais M. Rosan, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Raphael Ganzenmüller, Michael O’Sullivan, Julia Pongratz, Lina M. Mercado et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac08c3 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Brazil is currently the largest contributor of land use and land cover change (LULCC) carbon dioxide net emissions worldwide, representing 17%–29% of the global total. There is, however, a lack of agreement among different methodologies on the magnitude and trends in LULCC emissions and their geographic distribution. Here we perform an evaluation of LULCC datasets for Brazil, including those used in the annual global carbon budget (GCB), and national Brazilian assessments over the pe…


Optimal irrigation amount and nitrogen rate improved seed cotton yield while maintaining fiber quality of drip-fertigated cotton in northwest China

Authors: Xianghao Hou, Junliang Fan, Wenhui Hu, Fucang Zhang, Fulai Yan, Chao Xiao et al.

Journal: Industrial Crops and Products · DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.113710 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


Processing and Extraction of Seasonal Tree Physiological Parameters from Stem Radius Time Series

Authors: Simon Knüsel, Richard L. Peters, Matthias Haeni, Micah Wilhelm, Roman Zweifel

Journal: Forests · DOI: 10.3390/f12060765 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: seasonal

Radial stem size changes, measured with automated dendrometers at intra-daily resolution, offer great potential to link environmental conditions with tree physiology at the seasonal scale. Such measurements need to be time-aligned, cleaned of outliers and shifts, gap-filled and analysed for reversible (water-related) and irreversible (growth-related) fractions to obtain physiologically meaningful data. Therefore, comprehensive tools are needed for reproducible data processing and analytics of…


Compound Hot and Dry Events in Europe: Variability and Large-Scale Drivers

Authors: Monica Ioniță, Diana E. Caldarescu, Viorica Nagavciuc

Journal: Frontiers in Climate · DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2021.688991 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

An important aspect of inevitable surprises, for the climate system, is the potential of occurrence of compound extreme events. These can be events that occur at the same time over the same geographic location or at multiple locations within a given country or around the world. In this study, we investigate the spatio-temporal variability of summer compound hot and dry (CHD) events at European level and we quantify the relationship between the occurrence of CHDs and the large-scale atmospheri…


Rapid 3D Printing of Bioinspired Hybrid Structures for High-Efficiency Fog Collection and Water Transportation

Authors: Luyang Liu, Siying Liu, Michael Schelp, Xiangfan Chen

Journal: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c05745 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: reservoir

. Characterization results show that the printed spines with four longitudinal ridges manifest the maximum fog-collection rate, and the bottom channel with C-IAPGs can efficiently transport the water droplets into the reservoir. This work is believed to be beneficial for developing next-generation fog-collection, water-transportation, and desalination devices.


Revisiting Global Vegetation Controls Using Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture

Authors: Wantong Li, Mirco Migliavacca, Matthias Forkel, Sophia Walther, Markus Reichstein, René Orth

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl092856 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model

Abstract The productivity of terrestrial vegetation is determined by multiple land surface and atmospheric drivers. Water availability is critical for vegetation productivity, but the role of vertical variability of soil moisture (SM) is largely unknown. Here, we analyze dominant controls of global vegetation productivity represented by sun‐induced fluorescence and spectral vegetation indices at the half‐monthly time scale. We apply random forests to predict vegetation productivity from sever…


Estimating Ocean Surface Currents With Machine Learning

Authors: Anirban Sinha, Ryan Abernathey

Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science · DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.672477 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Global surface currents are usually inferred from directly observed quantities like sea-surface height, wind stress by applying diagnostic balance relations (like geostrophy and Ekman flow), which provide a good approximation of the dynamics of slow, large-scale currents at large scales and low Rossby numbers. However, newer generation satellite altimeters (like the upcoming SWOT mission) will capture more of the high wavenumber variability associated with the unbalanced components, but the l…


Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones Using GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques: A Case Study Upper Coruh River Basin (NE Turkey)

Authors: Ümit Yıldırım

Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10060396 · Citations: 72

Matched topics: river

In this study, geographic information system (GIS)-based, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) techniques were used to identify groundwater potential zones to provide insight to decisionmakers and local authorities for present and future planning. Ten different geo-environmental factors, such as slope, topographic wetness index, geomorphology, drainage density, lithology, lineament density, rainfall, soil type, soil thickness, and land-use classes were selected as the decision criteria, and relat…


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