Weekly Literature Review

Week 25 · June 21–June 27, 2021

50 relevant papers found across 5 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.


Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding
    2. Flooding trends and their impacts on coastal communities of Western Cape Province, South Africa
    3. Kerala floods in consecutive years - Its association with mesoscale cloudburst and structural changes in monsoon clouds over the west coast of India
    4. Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019
    5. Flood risk index in data-scarce river basins using the AHP and GIS approach
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Agricultural drought prediction in China based on drought propagation and large-scale drivers
    2. Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts
    3. Using high-throughput multiple optical phenotyping to decipher the genetic architecture of maize drought tolerance
    4. Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought
    5. H2O2 signaling regulates seed germination in ZnO nanoprimed wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds for improving plant performance under drought stress
    6. Amplified intensity and duration of heatwaves by concurrent droughts in China
    7. Combining UAV‐RGB high‐throughput field phenotyping and genome‐wide association study to reveal genetic variation of rice germplasms in dynamic response to drought stress
  4. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans
    2. Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply
    3. Inorganic carbon losses by soil acidification jeopardize global efforts on carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation
    4. Understanding human influence on climate change in China
    5. Forecasting evapotranspiration in different climates using ensembles of recurrent neural networks
    6. Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways
    7. PERSIANN-CCS-CDR, a 3-hourly 0.04° global precipitation climate data record for heavy precipitation studies
    8. Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach
    9. Impacts of climate change on rice production: evidence from 30 Chinese provinces
    10. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Measures in the Forestry Sector of Peninsular Malaysia
    11. Climate change favours large seasonal loss of Arctic ozone
    12. Prospect of Increased Disruption to the QBO in a Changing Climate
    13. Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion
    14. Impact of Climate Change on Rice Yield in Malaysia: A Panel Data Analysis
  5. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Reviewing the Impact of Land Use and Land‐Use Change on Moisture Recycling and Precipitation Patterns
    2. Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning
    3. Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models
    4. Understanding each other’s models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication
    5. Modeling groundwater potential using novel GIS-based machine-learning ensemble techniques
    6. Analysis of the Future Land Use Land Cover Changes in the Gaborone Dam Catchment Using CA-Markov Model: Implications on Water Resources
    7. An Ensemble Modeling Approach to Forecast Daily Reservoir Inflow Using Bidirectional Long- and Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD), and Energy Entropy Method
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world
    2. Identifying the impacts of natural and human factors on ecosystem service in the Yangtze and Yellow River Basins
    3. IOT Based Smart Agriculture Monitoring System
    4. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission River Database (SWORD): A Global River Network for Satellite Data Products
    5. Impact of landscape pattern changes on hydrological ecosystem services in the Beressa watershed of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia
    6. Assessment of the impact of LUCC on NPP and its influencing factors in the Yangtze River basin, China
    7. Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study
    8. Morphometric analysis of a drainage basin using geographical information system in Gilgel Abay watershed, Lake Tana Basin, upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
    9. Linking xylem network failure with leaf tissue death
    10. The role of biochar particle size and hydrophobicity in improving soil hydraulic properties
    11. Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions
    12. Foliar application of silicon boosts growth, photosynthetic leaf gas exchange, antioxidative response and resistance to limited water irrigation in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)
    13. Ridge-furrow film mulching improves water and nitrogen use efficiencies under reduced irrigation and nitrogen applications in wheat field
    14. Application of artificial intelligence methods for monsoonal river classification in Selangor river basin, Malaysia
    15. Variations, health risks, pollution status and possible sources of dissolved toxic metal(loid)s in stagnant water bodies located in an intensive agricultural region of Turkey
    16. Aerosol–Ice Formation Closure: A Southern Great Plains Field Campaign
    17. Aligned Millineedle Arrays for Solar Power Seawater Desalination with Site‐Specific Salt Formation
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

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

Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding

Authors: P. R. Thompson, Matthew J. Widlansky, B. D. Hamlington, M. A. Merrifield, John J. Marra, Gary T. Mitchum et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01077-8 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Authors: Kaitano Dube, Godwell Nhamo, David Chikodzi

Journal: GeoJournal · DOI: 10.1007/s10708-021-10460-z · Citations: 124

Matched topics: hydrology, flood

Abstract not available.


Kerala floods in consecutive years - Its association with mesoscale cloudburst and structural changes in monsoon clouds over the west coast of India

Authors: P. Vijaykumar, S. Abhilash, A.V. Sreenath, U.N. Athira, K. Mohanakumar, Brian Mapes et al.

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100339 · Citations: 108

Matched topics: flood

Kerala, located at the southwest tip of India, witnessed disastrous floods during the monsoon seasons of two consecutive years, 2018 and 2019. This paper provides a detailed analysis of these two flood events using data from multiple sources. The unusually unstable and convective nature of the 2019 event, as detectable in its higher cloud tops and evidently fuelled by anomalously warm local sea temperatures, raises concerns regarding the changing patterns of rainfall over the southern parts o…


Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019

Authors: Christian Ferrarin, Marco Bajo, Alvise Benetazzo, Luigi Cavaleri, Jacopo Chiggiato, Silvio Davison et al.

Journal: Progress In Oceanography · DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102628 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Flood risk index in data-scarce river basins using the AHP and GIS approach

Authors: Preeti Ramkar, S. M. Yadav

Journal: Natural Hazards · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-021-04871-x · Citations: 84

Matched topics: river, flood

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Zhang, Bottero et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Agricultural drought prediction in China based on drought propagation and large-scale drivers

Authors: Yu Zhang, Zengchao Hao, Sifang Feng, Xuan Zhang, Yang Xu, Fanghua Hao

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107028 · Citations: 163

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts

Authors: Alessandra Bottero, David I. Forrester, Maxime Cailleret, Ulrich Kohnle, Arthur Geßler, Dominic Michel et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15737 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: hydrology, drought

Extreme droughts are expected to increase in frequency and severity in many regions of the world, threatening multiple ecosystem services provided by forests. Effective strategies to adapt forests to such droughts require comprehensive information on the effects and importance of the factors influencing forest resistance and resilience. We used a unique combination of inventory and dendrochronological data from a long-term (>30 years) silvicultural experiment in mixed silver fir and Norway sp…


Using high-throughput multiple optical phenotyping to decipher the genetic architecture of maize drought tolerance

Authors: Xi Wu, Hui Feng, Di Wu, Shijuan Yan, Pei Zhang, Wenbin Wang et al.

Journal: Genome biology · DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02377-0 · Citations: 135

Matched topics: drought

BACKGROUND: Drought threatens the food supply of the world population. Dissecting the dynamic responses of plants to drought will be beneficial for breeding drought-tolerant crops, as the genetic controls of these responses remain largely unknown. RESULTS: Here we develop a high-throughput multiple optical phenotyping system to noninvasively phenotype 368 maize genotypes with or without drought stress over a course of 98 days, and collected multiple optical images, including color camera scan…


Comparison of statistical downscaling methods for climate change impact analysis on precipitation-driven drought

Authors: Hossein Tabari, Santiago Mendoza Paz, Daan Buekenhout, Patrick Willems

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-3493-2021 · Citations: 121

Matched topics: drought, climate change, hydropower

Abstract. General circulation models (GCMs) are the primary tools for evaluating the possible impacts of climate change; however, their results are coarse in temporal and spatial dimensions. In addition, they often show systematic biases compared to observations. Downscaling and bias correction of climate model outputs is thus required for local applications. Apart from the computationally intensive strategy of dynamical downscaling, statistical downscaling offers a relatively straightforward…


H2O2 signaling regulates seed germination in ZnO nanoprimed wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds for improving plant performance under drought stress

Authors: Prabha Rai-Kalal, Rupal Singh Tomar, Anjana Jajoo

Journal: Environmental and Experimental Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2021.104561 · Citations: 112

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Amplified intensity and duration of heatwaves by concurrent droughts in China

Authors: Zitong Shi, Gensuo Jia, Yuyu Zhou, Xiyan Xu, Ying Jiang

Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105743 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Combining UAV‐RGB high‐throughput field phenotyping and genome‐wide association study to reveal genetic variation of rice germplasms in dynamic response to drought stress

Authors: Zhao Jiang, Haifu Tu, Baowei Bai, Chenghai Yang, Biquan Zhao, Ziyue Guo et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17580 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: drought

Accurate and high-throughput phenotyping of the dynamic response of a large rice population to drought stress in the field is a bottleneck for genetic dissection and breeding of drought resistance. Here, high-efficiency and high-frequent image acquisition by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was utilized to quantify the dynamic drought response of a rice population under field conditions. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and canopy height models were applied to extract highly correla…


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 14 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

The impact of climate change on the cost of bank loans

Authors: Siamak Javadi, Abdullah Al Masum

Journal: Journal of Corporate Finance · DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102019 · Citations: 487

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply

Authors: Philip Kraaijenbrink, Emmy E. Stigter, Tandong Yao, Walter W. Immerzeel

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01074-x · Citations: 343

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Inorganic carbon losses by soil acidification jeopardize global efforts on carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation

Authors: Sajjad Raza, Kazem Zamanian, Sami Ullah, Yakov Kuzyakov, Iñigo Virto, Jianbin Zhou

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128036 · Citations: 206

Matched topics: water management, climate change

Abstract not available.


Understanding human influence on climate change in China

Authors: Ying Sun, Xuebin Zhang, Yihui Ding, Deliang Chen, Dahe Qin, Panmao Zhai

Journal: National Science Review · DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwab113 · Citations: 183

Matched topics: climate change

China’s climate has been warming since the 1950s, with surface air temperature increasing at a rate higher than the global average. Changes in climate have exerted substantial impacts on water resources, agriculture, ecosystems and human health. Attributing past changes to causes provides a scientific foundation for national and international climate policies. Here, we review recent progress in attributing the observed climate changes over past decades in China. Anthropogenic forcings, domina…


Forecasting evapotranspiration in different climates using ensembles of recurrent neural networks

Authors: Francesco Granata, Fabio Di Nunno

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107040 · Citations: 166

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Commercial afforestation can deliver effective climate change mitigation under multiple decarbonisation pathways

Authors: Eilidh Forster, John R. Healey, Caren C. Dymond, David Styles

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24084-x · Citations: 159

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

e for planting only conservation forests, depending on species composition. Even after heavy discounting of future product substitution credits based on industrial decarbonisation projections, GHG mitigation from harvested stands typically surpasses unharvested stands. Commercial afforestation can deliver effective GHG mitigation that is robust to future decarbonisation pathways and wood uses.


PERSIANN-CCS-CDR, a 3-hourly 0.04° global precipitation climate data record for heavy precipitation studies

Authors: Mojtaba Sadeghi, Phu Nguyen, Matin Rahnamay Naeini, Kuolin Hsu, Dan Braithwaite, Soroosh Sorooshian

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00940-9 · Citations: 151

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Accurate long-term global precipitation estimates, especially for heavy precipitation rates, at fine spatial and temporal resolutions is vital for a wide variety of climatological studies. Most of the available operational precipitation estimation datasets provide either high spatial resolution with short-term duration estimates or lower spatial resolution with long-term duration estimates. Furthermore, previous research has stressed that most of the available satellite-based precipitation pr…


Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach

Authors: Matthew J. Colloff, Russell Gorddard, Nick Abel, Bruno Locatelli, Carina Wyborn, James Butler et al.

Journal: Environmental Science & Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.014 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: climate change

Human actions have driven earth systems close to irreversible and profound change. The need to shift towards intentional transformative adaptation (ITA) is clear. Using case studies from the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA), we explore ITA as a way of thinking and acting that is transformative in concept and objectives, but achieved through a mix of incremental and transformative co-production processes that ultimately lead to the social-ecological system being transformed. …


Impacts of climate change on rice production: evidence from 30 Chinese provinces

Authors: Robert Becker Pickson, Ge He, Elliot Boateng

Journal: Environment Development and Sustainability · DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01594-8 · Citations: 105

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Cost–Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Measures in the Forestry Sector of Peninsular Malaysia

Authors: Asif Raihan, Mohd Nizam Mohd Said

Journal: Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s41748-021-00241-6 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change favours large seasonal loss of Arctic ozone

Authors: P. von der Gathen, R. Kivi, I. Wohltmann, R. Salawitch, M. Rex

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24089-6 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: seasonal, climate change, earth system model

Chemical loss of Arctic ozone due to anthropogenic halogens is driven by temperature, with more loss occurring during cold winters favourable for formation of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs). We show that a positive, statistically significant rise in the local maxima of PSC formation potential (PFPLM) for cold winters is apparent in meteorological data collected over the past half century. Output from numerous General Circulation Models (GCMs) also exhibits positive trends in PFPLM over 195…


Prospect of Increased Disruption to the QBO in a Changing Climate

Authors: James Anstey, Timothy P. Banyard, Neal Butchart, Lawrence Coy, Paul A. Newman, Scott Osprey et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl093058 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract The quasi‐biennial oscillation (QBO) of tropical stratospheric winds was disrupted during the 2019/20 Northern Hemisphere winter. We show that this latest disruption to the regular QBO cycling was similar in many respects to that seen in 2016, but initiated by horizontal momentum transport from the Southern Hemisphere. The predictable signal associated with the QBO’s quasi‐regular phase progression is lost during disruptions and the oscillation reemerges after a few months significan…


Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion

Authors: Peter D. Howe

Journal: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.05.005 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Impact of Climate Change on Rice Yield in Malaysia: A Panel Data Analysis

Authors: Boon Teck Tan, Pei Shan Fam, R. B. Radin Firdaus, Mou Leong Tan, Mahinda Senevi Gunaratne

Journal: Agriculture · DOI: 10.3390/agriculture11060569 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change is a global problem since many countries worldwide are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Numerous climate models in various studies project a decline in agricultural productivity that will mainly be due to excessive heat in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Southeast Asia. As a Southeast Asian country, Malaysia is no exception to this problem. Hence, the present study aimed to examine the impact of climate change on rice yields in Malaysia. A …


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

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

Reviewing the Impact of Land Use and Land‐Use Change on Moisture Recycling and Precipitation Patterns

Authors: Sofie te Wierik, Erik Cammeraat, Joyeeta Gupta, Yael Artzy‐Randrup

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr029234 · Citations: 171

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, earth system model

Abstract Green water, or plant‐available soil moisture, is a substantial subset of terrestrial fresh water. Land‐use change (LUC) alters green water dynamics through interactions on the micro‐level (i.e., between the soil and vegetation) and on the macro‐level (i.e., between the land surface and atmosphere). Ongoing global deforestation, and growing interest in reforestation projects, begs the question whether such large‐scale LUCs have major eco‐hydrological impacts via the process of terres…


Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning

Authors: Maike Sonnewald, Redouane Lguensat, Daniel C Jones, Peter D Dueben, Julien Brajard, V Balaji

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac0eb0 · Citations: 156

Matched topics: streamflow, earth system model

Abstract Progress within physical oceanography has been concurrent with the increasing sophistication of tools available for its study. The incorporation of machine learning (ML) techniques offers exciting possibilities for advancing the capacity and speed of established methods and for making substantial and serendipitous discoveries. Beyond vast amounts of complex data ubiquitous in many modern scientific fields, the study of the ocean poses a combination of unique challenges that ML can he…


Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models

Authors: Jonathan A. Weyn, Dale R. Durran, Rich Caruana, Nathaniel Cresswell‐Clay

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002502 · Citations: 147

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract We present an ensemble prediction system using a Deep Learning Weather Prediction (DLWP) model that recursively predicts six key atmospheric variables with six‐hour time resolution. This computationally efficient model uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on a cubed sphere grid to produce global forecasts. The trained model requires just three minutes on a single GPU to produce a 320‐member set of six‐week forecasts at 1.4° resolution. Ensemble spread is primarily produced by ra…


Understanding each other’s models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication

Authors: Camelia-Eliza Telteu, Hannes Müller Schmied, Wim Thiery, Guoyong Leng, Peter Burek, Xingcai Liu et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-3843-2021 · Citations: 145

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

Abstract. Global water models (GWMs) simulate the terrestrial water cycle on the global scale and are used to assess the impacts of climate change on freshwater systems. GWMs are developed within different modelling frameworks and consider different underlying hydrological processes, leading to varied model structures. Furthermore, the equations used to describe various processes take different forms and are generally accessible only from within the individual model codes. These factors have …


Modeling groundwater potential using novel GIS-based machine-learning ensemble techniques

Authors: Alireza Arabameri, Subodh Chandra Pal, Fatemeh Rezaie, Omid Asadi Nalivan, Indrajit Chowdhuri, Asish Saha et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100848 · Citations: 118

Matched topics: water management

The present study has been carried out in the Tabriz River basin (5397 km2) in north-western Iran. Elevations vary from 1274 to 3678 m above sea level, and slope angles range from 0 to 150.9 %. The average annual minimum and maximum temperatures are 2 °C and 12 °C, respectively. The average annual rainfall ranges from 243 to 641 mm, and the northern and southern parts of the basin receive the highest amounts. In this study, we mapped the groundwater potential (GWP) with a new hybrid model com…


Analysis of the Future Land Use Land Cover Changes in the Gaborone Dam Catchment Using CA-Markov Model: Implications on Water Resources

Authors: Botlhe Matlhodi, Piet K. Kenabatho, B.P. Parida, Joyce G. Maphanyane

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13132427 · Citations: 82

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

Land use/land cover (LULC) changes have been observed in the Gaborone dam catchment since the 1980s. A comprehensive analysis of future LULC changes is therefore necessary for the purposes of future land use and water resource planning and management. Recent advances in geospatial modelling techniques and the availability of remotely sensed data have become central to the monitoring and assessment of both past and future environmental changes. This study employed the cellular automata and Mar…


An Ensemble Modeling Approach to Forecast Daily Reservoir Inflow Using Bidirectional Long- and Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD), and Energy Entropy Method

Authors: Fugang Li, Guangwen Ma, Shijun Chen, Weibin Huang

Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-021-02879-3 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, reservoir, water management, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 17 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

Authors: Alice C. Hughes, Michael C. Orr, Keping Ma, Mark J. Costello, John Waller, Pieter Provoost et al.

Journal: Ecography · DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05926 · Citations: 533

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Spatial patterns of biodiversity are inextricably linked to their collection methods, yet no synthesis of bias patterns or their consequences exists. As such, views of organismal distribution and the ecosystems they make up may be incorrect, undermining countless ecological and evolutionary studies. Using 742 million records of 374 900 species, we explore the global patterns and impacts of biases related to taxonomy, accessibility, ecotype and data type across terrestrial and marine systems. …


Identifying the impacts of natural and human factors on ecosystem service in the Yangtze and Yellow River Basins

Authors: Lulu Fang, Lunche Wang, Wanxu Chen, Jia Sun, Qian Cao, Shaoqiang Wang et al.

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127995 · Citations: 420

Matched topics: river, water management

Abstract not available.


IOT Based Smart Agriculture Monitoring System

Authors: Gaurav Soni, Sonam Gour, Kshitiz Agarwal, Aakash Sharma, Chandraveer Singh Shekhawat, Braj kishore sharma

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.17762/de.vi.2240 · Citations: 248

Matched topics: irrigation

From ages agriculture is being done in every country. Agriculture is the craft and science of developing plants. Agriculture was a very important aspect in terms of development of the country. As the world is moving towards the trending technologies for the automation it become very important to introduce these trending technologies in the field of agriculture to increase the production and quality of the crops. IOT is helping in agriculture in many ways such as in irrigation, crop monitoring…


The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission River Database (SWORD): A Global River Network for Satellite Data Products

Authors: Elizabeth H. Altenau, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Michael Durand, Xiao Yang, Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson, Liam Bendezu

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr030054 · Citations: 207

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, surface water

Abstract The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, planned to launch in 2022, is the first mission to focus on measuring hydrological processes in Earth’s surface water. As such, SWOT will vastly expand observations of global rivers ≥100 m wide. SWOT will provide a variety of data products, including a global vector river product containing water surface elevation (WSE), width, slope, and estimated discharge. Practical application and consistency of the SWOT ve…


Impact of landscape pattern changes on hydrological ecosystem services in the Beressa watershed of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia

Authors: Hamere Yohannes, Teshome Soromessa, Mekuria Argaw, Ashraf Dewan

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148559 · Citations: 202

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.


Assessment of the impact of LUCC on NPP and its influencing factors in the Yangtze River basin, China

Authors: Hongfei Yang, Xuanning Zhong, Siqi Deng, Hao Xu

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.105542 · Citations: 158

Matched topics: river, water management

Abstract not available.


Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study

Authors: Anna Balenzano, Francesco Mattia, Giuseppe Satalino, Francesco Lovergine, Davide Palmisano, Jian Peng et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112554 · Citations: 138

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

Abstract not available.


Morphometric analysis of a drainage basin using geographical information system in Gilgel Abay watershed, Lake Tana Basin, upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Authors: Alemsha Bogale

Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01447-9 · Citations: 132

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract GIS and remote sensing approach is an effective tool to determine the morphological characteristics of the basin. Gilgel Abay watershed is stretched between latitude 10.56° to 11.22° N and longitude 36.44° to 37.03° E which is one major contributing river of Lake Tana which is the source of Blue Nile. The present study addressed linear and areal morphometric aspect of the watershed. The study deals with emphasis on the evolution of morphometric parameters such as stream order, stream…


Linking xylem network failure with leaf tissue death

Authors: Timothy J. Brodribb, Craig R. Brodersen, Marc Carriquí, Vanessa Tonet, Celia M. Rodríguez Domínguez, Scott A. M. McAdam

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17577 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: land surface model

Summary Global warming is expected to dramatically accelerate forest mortality as temperature and drought intensity increase. Predicting the magnitude of this impact urgently requires an understanding of the process connecting atmospheric drying to plant tissue damage. Recent episodes of forest mortality worldwide have been widely attributed to dry conditions causing acute damage to plant vascular systems. Under this scenario vascular embolisms produced by water stress are thought to cause pl…


The role of biochar particle size and hydrophobicity in improving soil hydraulic properties

Authors: Ifeoma Edeh, Ondřej Mašek

Journal: European Journal of Soil Science · DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13138 · Citations: 108

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract The physical properties of biochar have been shown to dramatically influence its performance as a soil amendment. This study assessed the role of biochar particle size and hydrophobicity in controlling soil water movement and retention. Softwood pellet biochar in five particle size ranges (>2 mm, 2–0.5 mm, 0.5–0.25 mm, 0.25–0.063 mm and <0.063 mm) was used for the experiment. These particle sizes were tested on two soil types (sandy loam and loamy sand) at four different applic…


Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions

Authors: Manuel Helbig, Tobias Gerken, Eric Beamesderfer, Dennis Baldocchi, Tirtha Banerjee, Sébastien Biraud et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108509 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Foliar application of silicon boosts growth, photosynthetic leaf gas exchange, antioxidative response and resistance to limited water irrigation in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)

Authors: Krishan K. Verma, Xiu‐Peng Song, Yuan Zeng, Dao-Jun Guo, Munna Singh, Vishnu D. Rajput et al.

Journal: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.06.032 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


Ridge-furrow film mulching improves water and nitrogen use efficiencies under reduced irrigation and nitrogen applications in wheat field

Authors: Xiaobo Gu, Huanjie Cai, Pengpeng Chen, Yu‐Peng Li, Yu‐Peng Li, Heng Fang et al.

Journal: Field Crops Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108214 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Application of artificial intelligence methods for monsoonal river classification in Selangor river basin, Malaysia

Authors: Yong Jie Wong, Yoshihisa Shimizu, Akinori Kamiya, Luksanaree Maneechot, Khagendra P. Bharambe, Chng Saun Fong et al.

Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09202-y · Citations: 82

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Variations, health risks, pollution status and possible sources of dissolved toxic metal(loid)s in stagnant water bodies located in an intensive agricultural region of Turkey

Authors: Cem Tokatlı, Memet Varol

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111571 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: runoff, surface water

Abstract not available.


Aerosol–Ice Formation Closure: A Southern Great Plains Field Campaign

Authors: Daniel Knopf, Kevin R. Barry, Thomas A. Brubaker, Lydia G. Jahl, Kevin A. Jankowski, J. Li et al.

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-20-0151.1 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract Prediction of ice formation in clouds presents one of the grand challenges in the atmospheric sciences. Immersion freezing initiated by ice-nucleating particles (INPs) is the dominant pathway of primary ice crystal formation in mixed-phase clouds, where supercooled water droplets and ice crystals coexist, with important implications for the hydrological cycle and climate. However, derivation of INP number concentrations from an ambient aerosol population in cloud-resolving and climat…


Aligned Millineedle Arrays for Solar Power Seawater Desalination with Site‐Specific Salt Formation

Authors: Zhongming Huang, Jinchao Wei, Yingpeng Wan, Peng Li, Jie Yu, Jiayi Dong et al.

Journal: Small · DOI: 10.1002/smll.202101487 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: water management

under one Sun irradiation in brine of high salinity (25 wt% NaCl), achieving energy conversion efficiency of 94.5% simultaneously. More importantly, the spontaneously site-specific salt formation on the tips of millineedles endows this solar evaporator with salt harvesting capacity. Rationally separating the clean water and salt from brine by condensation and gravity assistance, this tip-preferential crystallization solar evaporator is not affected by the salt clogging compared with conventio…


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