Weekly Literature Review

Week 10 · March 8–March 14, 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. A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure
    2. Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions
    3. Global Changes in 20‐Year, 50‐Year, and 100‐Year River Floods
    4. An Integrative Conceptualization of Floodplain Storage
    5. Drought-flood abrupt alternation dynamics and their potential driving forces in a changing environment
    6. Flood hazard mapping of Sangu River basin in Bangladesh using multi‐criteria analysis of hydro‐geomorphological factors
    7. Geochemical reactions and their influence on petrophysical properties of ultra-low permeability oil reservoirs during water and CO2 flooding
    8. Microfluidic investigation of enhanced oil recovery: The effect of aqueous floods and network wettability
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Characterization of agricultural drought propagation over China based on bivariate probabilistic quantification
    2. Copula based analysis of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought characteristics across Indian river basins
    3. Compound and cascading drought impacts do not happen by chance: A proposal to quantify their relationships
    4. Evaluating global ecosystem water use efficiency response to drought based on multi-model analysis
    5. Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting
    6. Dissection of Drought Tolerance in Upland Cotton Through Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical Traits at Seedling Stage
    7. Support vector regression integrated with novel meta-heuristic algorithms for meteorological drought prediction
  4. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change
    2. Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change
    3. Qinghai-Tibet Plateau wetting reduces permafrost thermal responses to climate warming
    4. The Increase of Soil Organic Matter Reduces Global Warming, Myth or Reality?
    5. Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection
    6. Climate Change, Cryosphere and Impacts in the Indian Himalayan Region
    7. Climate and seasonality drive the richness and composition of tropical fungal endophytes at a landscape scale
    8. Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China
    9. Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change
    10. Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change
    11. Dams and Climate Interact to Alter River Flow Regimes Across the United States
  5. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. A downscaling approach for constructing high-resolution precipitation dataset over the Tibetan Plateau from ERA5 reanalysis
    2. Impacts of grazing on ground cover, soil physical properties and soil loss via surface erosion: A novel geospatial modelling approach
    3. Archetypes and Controls of Riverine Nutrient Export Across German Catchments
    4. Centrifuge modelling of rainfall-induced slope failure in variably saturated soil
    5. Water and sediment yield response to extreme rainfall events in a complex large river basin: A case study of the Yellow River Basin, China
    6. The Agricultural Planting Structure Adjustment based on Water Footprint and Multi-objective optimisation models in China
    7. Sediment yield over glacial cycles: A conceptual model
    8. Distinct Features of Atmospheric Rivers in the Early Versus Late East Asian Summer Monsoon and Their Impacts on Monsoon Rainfall
  6. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Large-scale compressed hydrogen storage as part of renewable electricity storage systems
    2. Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability
    3. Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations
    4. Assessment of the sustainability of Gymnocypris eckloni habitat under river damming in the source region of the Yellow River
    5. Groundwater hydrochemistry, source identification and pollution assessment in intensive industrial areas, eastern Chinese loess plateau
    6. Comparison of multi-source satellite images for classifying marsh vegetation using DeepLabV3 Plus deep learning algorithm
    7. Classification and trends in intermittent river flow regimes in Australia, northwestern Europe and USA: A global perspective
    8. Biological Treatment of Real Textile Effluent Using Aspergillus flavus and Fusarium oxysporium and Their Consortium along with the Evaluation of Their Phytotoxicity
    9. Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally
    10. Global Prediction of Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Random Forest in a Covariate‐Based GeoTransfer Function (CoGTF) Framework
    11. Large potentials for energy saving and greenhouse gas emission reductions from large-scale deployment of zero emission building technologies in a national building stock
    12. Global hydroclimatic response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last millennium
    13. Yield-compatible salinity level for growing cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under mulched drip irrigation using saline water
    14. Integrated urban water management with micro storages developed as an IoT-based solution – The smart rain barrel
    15. Application of artificial intelligence algorithms for hourly river level forecast: A case study of Muda River, Malaysia
    16. Acceleration of western Arctic sea ice loss linked to the Pacific North American pattern
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 8 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Nicholls, Zhou et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

Authors: Robert J. Nicholls, Daniël Lincke, Jochen Hinkel, Sally Brown, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Benoît Meyssignac et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-00993-z · Citations: 569

Matched topics: flood, earth system model

Abstract not available.

Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions

Authors: Zhen‐Qiang Zhou, Shang‐Ping Xie, Renhe Zhang

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2022255118 · Citations: 352

Matched topics: flood

Heavy monsoon rainfall ravaged a large swath of East Asia in summer 2020. Severe flooding of the Yangtze River displaced millions of residents in the midst of a historic public health crisis. This extreme rainy season was not anticipated from El Niño conditions. Using observations and model experiments, we show that the record strong Indian Ocean Dipole event in 2019 is an important contributor to the extreme Yangtze flooding of 2020. This Indian Ocean mode and a weak El Niño in the Pacific e…

Global Changes in 20‐Year, 50‐Year, and 100‐Year River Floods

Authors: Louise Slater, Gabriele Villarini, S. A. Archfield, Duncan Faulkner, Rob Lamb, Abdou Khouakhi et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl091824 · Citations: 167

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, flood, earth system model

Abstract Concepts like the 100‐year flood event can be misleading if they are not updated to reflect significant changes over time. Here, we model observed annual maximum daily streamflow using a nonstationary approach to provide the first global picture of changes in: (a) the magnitudes of the 20‐, 50‐, and 100‐year floods (i.e., flows of a given exceedance probability in each year ); (b) the return periods of the 20‐, 50‐, and 100‐year floods, as assessed in 1970 (i.e., flows of a fixed mag…

An Integrative Conceptualization of Floodplain Storage

Authors: Ellen Wohl

Journal: Reviews of Geophysics · DOI: 10.1029/2020rg000724 · Citations: 133

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract Floodplains perform diverse functions, including attenuation of fluxes of water, solutes, and particulate material. Critical details of floodplain storage including magnitude, duration, and spatial distribution are strongly influenced by floodplain biogeochemical processes and biotic communities. Floodplain storage of diverse materials can be conceptualized in the form of a budget that quantifies inputs, outputs, and storage within the floodplain control volume. The floodplain contro…

Drought-flood abrupt alternation dynamics and their potential driving forces in a changing environment

Authors: Wuzhi Shi, Shengzhi Huang, Dengfeng Liu, Qiang Huang, Zhiming Han, Guoyong Leng et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126179 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: water management, flood, drought

Abstract not available.

Flood hazard mapping of Sangu River basin in Bangladesh using multi‐criteria analysis of hydro‐geomorphological factors

Authors: Rashed Uz Zzaman, Sara Nowreen, Maruf Billah, A. K. M. Saiful Islam

Journal: Journal of Flood Risk Management · DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12715 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: river, flood

Abstract Flood havoc during 2019 in the Sangu River basin caused widespread damage to residents, crops, roads, and communications in parts of hills in Bangladesh. Developing flood hazard maps can play an essential step in risks management. For this purpose, this study assessed 12 hydro‐geomorphological factors, namely, topographic wetness index, elevation, slope, extreme rainfall, land‐use and land‐cover, soil type, lithology, curvature, drainage density, aspect, height above the nearest drai…

Geochemical reactions and their influence on petrophysical properties of ultra-low permeability oil reservoirs during water and CO2 flooding

Authors: Guodong Cui, Lihong Yang, Qing You, Zhichao Qiu, Yuting Wang, Shaoran Ren

Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108672 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: reservoir, flood

Abstract not available.

Microfluidic investigation of enhanced oil recovery: The effect of aqueous floods and network wettability

Authors: Marzieh Saadat, Junyi Yang, Marcin Dudek, Gisle Øye, Peichun Amy Tsai

Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108647 · Citations: 70

Matched topics: flood

Rock wettability significantly influences underground oil extraction efficiency during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. We experimentally examine the effect of wettability on oil recovery at pore-scale using microfluidics. Glass micromodels are used to mimic the quartz surfaces of hydrophilic porous rocks (such as sandstone), and their wettability is altered chemically with a hydrophobic coating to simulate oil-adsorbed hydrophobic surfaces. Comprehensive and systematic investigations a…

Drought Analysis and Prediction

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

Characterization of agricultural drought propagation over China based on bivariate probabilistic quantification

Authors: Yang Xu, Xuan Zhang, Zengchao Hao, Vijay P. Singh, Fanghua Hao

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126194 · Citations: 164

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Copula based analysis of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought characteristics across Indian river basins

Authors: Vikas Poonia, Srinidhi Jha, Manish Kumar Goyal

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7091 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: river, water management, drought

Abstract Duration and severity are the two most important parameters used for drought characterization. In this study, we used a bivariate copula‐based approach to understand the joint dependence of drought duration and severity of three different drought types. Three types of bivariate copulas (Gumbel, Frank and Plackett) are estimated for modelling and the best fit copula is selected over 1,162 grid points (at a resolution of 0.5° × 0.5°) of India. Further, the joint dependence of drought d…

Compound and cascading drought impacts do not happen by chance: A proposal to quantify their relationships

Authors: Mariana Madruga de Brito

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146236 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: drought

The understanding of compounding and cascading impacts is becoming increasingly central to the risk reduction debate as hazard consequences are strongly coupled. Still, studies on their quantification and visualization are limited. This restricts the establishment of impact-based early warning systems. Here, a novel method for quantifying drought compound impacts and their cascading paths is presented by integrating network analysis and data mining tools. The 2018/19 drought in Germany is use…

Evaluating global ecosystem water use efficiency response to drought based on multi-model analysis

Authors: Shanshan Yang, Jiahua Zhang, Jiaqi Han, Jingwen Wang, Sha Zhang, Yun Bai et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146356 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Seasonal to multi-year soil moisture drought forecasting

Authors: Musa Eşit, Sanjiv Kumar, Ashutosh Pandey, David M. Lawrence, Imtiaz Rangwala, Stephen Yeager

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-021-00172-z · Citations: 82

Matched topics: hydrology, drought, seasonal, land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Soil moisture predictability on seasonal to decadal (S2D) continuum timescales over North America is examined from the Community Earth System Modeling (CESM) experiments. The effects of ocean and land initializations are disentangled using two large ensemble datasets—initialized and uninitialized experiments from the CESM. We find that soil moisture has significant predictability on S2D timescales despite limited predictability in precipitation. On sub-seasonal to seasonal timescales…

Dissection of Drought Tolerance in Upland Cotton Through Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical Traits at Seedling Stage

Authors: Zobia Zahid, Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan, Amjad Hameed, Muhammad Akhtar, Allah Ditta, Hafiz Mumtaz Hassan et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.627107 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: drought

Cotton is an important fiber and cash crop. Extreme water scarceness affects the growth, quality, and productivity of cotton. Water shortage has threatened the future scenario for cotton growers, so it is imperative to devise a solution to this problem. In this research, we have tried to machinate a solution for it. 23 genotypes have been screened out against drought tolerance at the seedling stage by evaluating the morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in a triplicate complete…

Support vector regression integrated with novel meta-heuristic algorithms for meteorological drought prediction

Authors: Anurag Malik, Yazid Tikhamarine, Doudja Souag-Gamane, Priya Rai, Saad Sh. Sammen, Özgür Kişi

Journal: Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics · DOI: 10.1007/s00703-021-00787-0 · Citations: 70

Matched topics: hydrology, drought

Abstract not available.

Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 11 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Authors: L. Gudmundsson, J. Boulange, Hong Xuan Do, S. Gosling, M. Grillakis, A. Koutroulis et al.

Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.aba3996 · Citations: 591

Matched topics: river, water management, climate change

Change of flow Anthropogenic influence on climate has changed temperatures, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, and many other related physical processes, but has it changed river flow as well? Gudmundsson et al. analyzed thousands of time series of river flows and hydrological extremes across the globe and compared them with model simulations of the terrestrial water cycle (see the Perspective by Hall and Perdigão). They found that the observed trends can only be explained if the effects…

Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

Authors: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Folmer Krikken, Sophie C. Lewis, Nicholas Leach, Flavio Lehner, Kate Saunders et al.

Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-21-941-2021 · Citations: 416

Matched topics: drought, climate change, earth system model

Abstract. Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia, raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. To answer the question for southeastern Australia, where fires were particularly severe, affecting people and ecosystems, we use a physically based index of fire weather, the Fire Weather Index; long-term observations of heat and drought; and 11 large ensembles of state-of-the-art climate…

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau wetting reduces permafrost thermal responses to climate warming

Authors: Guofei Zhang, Zhuotong Nan, Lin Zhao, Yijia Liang, Guodong Cheng

Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters · DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116858 · Citations: 126

Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model

Permafrost, as one of the cryospheric indicators, is extremely sensitive to climatic changes. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has experienced remarkable warming and wetting since the mid-1990s. Its recent wetting alters thermal and hydrological properties in permafrost regions and inevitably affects permafrost thermal dynamics. While previous studies mostly focused on the effects of warming on permafrost, little attention has been paid to the effects of concomitant wetting. Here, a land surface mod…

The Increase of Soil Organic Matter Reduces Global Warming, Myth or Reality?

Authors: José Navarro-Pedreño, María Belén Almendro Candel, Antonis A. Zorpas

Journal: Sci · DOI: 10.3390/sci3010018 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

The soil has lost organic matter in the past centuries. Adding organic matter to soils is one of the management practices applied to recover the levels of soil carbon of the past and to improve soil properties. Is it a good practice to reduce global warming? In fact, one of the practices promoted to combat climate change is increasing soil organic matter. However, the addition of organic residues to the soil could facilitate the liberation of CO2 and wastes could also have no positive effects…

Anthropogenic warming of Tibetan Plateau and constrained future projection

Authors: Tianjun Zhou, Wenxia Zhang

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abede8 · Citations: 110

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract Serving as ‘the water tower of Asia’, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) supplies water resources to more than 1.4 billion people. It is warming more rapidly than the global average over the past decades, affecting regional hydrological cycle and ecosystem services. However, the anthropogenic (ANT) influence remains unknown. Here we assessed the human contribution to the observed TP warming based on coupled climate simulations and an optimal fingerprinting detection and attribution analysis. W…

Climate Change, Cryosphere and Impacts in the Indian Himalayan Region

Authors: A. P. Dimri, Stuart Allen, Christian Huggel, Suraj Mal, Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Mario Rohrer et al.

Journal: Current Science · DOI: 10.18520/cs/v120/i5/774-790 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, climate change, hydropower, earth system model

Climate change and related impacts over the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) remains poorly quantified. The present study reviews observed and modelled changes in the climate, cryosphere and impacts related to hazards, agriculture and ecosystems. An increasing temperature trend over the IHR is reported, which over a few locations is found to be higher than the global average. For precipitation, a complex and inconsistent response with considerable variation in the sign and magnitude of change is…

Climate and seasonality drive the richness and composition of tropical fungal endophytes at a landscape scale

Authors: Shuzo Oita, Alicia Ibáñez, François Lutzoni, Jolanta Miądlikowska, József Geml, Louise A. Lewis et al.

Journal: Communications Biology · DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01826-7 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: seasonal

Understanding how species-rich communities persist is a foundational question in ecology. In tropical forests, tree diversity is structured by edaphic factors, climate, and biotic interactions, with seasonality playing an essential role at landscape scales: wetter and less seasonal forests typically harbor higher tree diversity than more seasonal forests. We posited that the abiotic factors shaping tree diversity extend to hyperdiverse symbionts in leaves-fungal endophytes-that influence plan…

Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

Authors: Weijun Wang, Xueyan Zhao, Hua Li, Qin Zhang

Journal: Journal of Rural Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.02.006 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change

Authors: Fabian Stenzel, Peter Greve, Wolfgang Lucht, Sylvia Tramberend, Yoshihide Wada, Dieter Gerten

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21640-3 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: water management, climate change, irrigation, earth system model

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is considered an important negative emissions (NEs) technology, but might involve substantial irrigation on biomass plantations. Potential water stress resulting from the additional withdrawals warrants evaluation against the avoided climate change impact. Here we quantitatively assess potential side effects of BECCS with respect to water stress by disentangling the associated drivers (irrigated biomass plantations, climate, land use patterns)…

Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change

Authors: Yoan Fourcade, Michiel F. WallisDeVries, Mikko Kuussaari, Chris van Swaay, Janne Heliölä, Erik Öckinger

Journal: Ecology Letters · DOI: 10.1111/ele.13691 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: climate change

Habitat fragmentation may present a major impediment to species range shifts caused by climate change, but how it affects local community dynamics in a changing climate has so far not been adequately investigated empirically. Using long-term monitoring data of butterfly assemblages, we tested the effects of the amount and distribution of semi-natural habitat (SNH), moderated by species traits, on climate-driven species turnover. We found that spatially dispersed SNH favoured the colonisation …

Dams and Climate Interact to Alter River Flow Regimes Across the United States

Authors: Dol Raj Chalise, A. Sankarasubramanian, Albert Ruhí

Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001816 · Citations: 75

Matched topics: river, streamflow

Abstract Storing and managing river flows through reservoirs could dampen or increase climate‐induced fluctuations in streamflow, but interactions between the effects of dams and climate are poorly understood. Here, we examined how dam properties control different facets of flow alteration across the coterminous United States (CONUS), and compared alteration trends between dam‐affected and reference stream gages. We quantified departures from the natural flow regime using 730 stations with lo…

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.

A downscaling approach for constructing high-resolution precipitation dataset over the Tibetan Plateau from ERA5 reanalysis

Authors: Yaozhi Jiang, Kun Yang, Changkun Shao, Xu Zhou, Long Zhao, Yingying Chen et al.

Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105574 · Citations: 148

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.

Impacts of grazing on ground cover, soil physical properties and soil loss via surface erosion: A novel geospatial modelling approach

Authors: Mitchell Donovan, R. M. Monaghan

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112206 · Citations: 110

Matched topics: runoff

) arose from significant degradation of soil physical properties and exposing soils directly to rainfall and runoff. We conclude that proactive decisions to reduce treading damage and avoid high-density grazing will far exceed reactive practices seeking to trap sediments lost from grazed lands.

Archetypes and Controls of Riverine Nutrient Export Across German Catchments

Authors: Pia Ebeling, Rohini Kumar, Michael Weber, Lukas Knoll, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Andréas Musolff

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028134 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Elevated nutrient inputs challenge the health and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. To improve riverine water quality management, it is necessary to understand the underlying biogeochemical and physical processes, anthropogenic drivers and their interactions at catchment scale. We hypothesize that the spatial heterogeneity of nutrient sources dominantly controls the variability of in‐stream concentration dynamics among catchments. We investigated controls of mean nitrate (NO 3 − ), …

Centrifuge modelling of rainfall-induced slope failure in variably saturated soil

Authors: Shun Wang, Gregor Idinger, Wei Wu

Journal: Acta Geotechnica · DOI: 10.1007/s11440-021-01169-x · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract This paper presents the results of centrifuge tests on rainfall-induced instabilities in variably saturated slopes. The roles of rainfall intensity and initial conditions, such as slope angle, porosity and degree of saturation of the soil, in the failure initiation and postfailure kinematics are considered. The failure patterns, infiltration profile and deformation at prefailure and postfailure stages are characterized. The results indicate that rainfall-induced slope failures usuall…

Water and sediment yield response to extreme rainfall events in a complex large river basin: A case study of the Yellow River Basin, China

Authors: Zan Xu, Shanghong Zhang, Xiyan Yang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126183 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, runoff, water management

Abstract not available.

The Agricultural Planting Structure Adjustment based on Water Footprint and Multi-objective optimisation models in China

Authors: Hui Yu, Keli Liu, Yongyan Bai, Yong Luo, Tao Wang, Jia Zhong et al.

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126646 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.

Sediment yield over glacial cycles: A conceptual model

Authors: Gilles Antoniazza, Stuart N. Lane

Journal: Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment · DOI: 10.1177/0309133321997292 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

The temporal variability in sediment export yield from glaciers over a timescale of multiple glacial cycles (e.g. 1 × 10 2 − 1 × 10 6 years) is of interest for a wide range of applications in glaciology, sedimentology, geomorphology, climatology and environmental engineering. However, the time required for the products of glacial erosion to be transferred through glaciated catchments and the extent to which glacially-conditioned sediment can be transiently stored within them are still poorly …

Distinct Features of Atmospheric Rivers in the Early Versus Late East Asian Summer Monsoon and Their Impacts on Monsoon Rainfall

Authors: Chanil Park, Seok‐Woo Son, Hyemi Kim

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd033537 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: river

Abstract Atmospheric river (AR) and its impact on monsoon rainfall in East Asia are investigated by considering their month‐to‐month variations during the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM). The AR in the EASM, defined as an anomalously enhanced plume‐like water vapor transport, frequently forms over eastern China, Korea and western Japan. However, its characteristics vary from the early (June‐July) to the late (August‐September) period of the EASM. In the early EASM, AR is typically characteri…

Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 16 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Large-scale compressed hydrogen storage as part of renewable electricity storage systems

Authors: Ahmed M. Elberry, Jagruti Thakur, Annukka Santasalo-Aarnio, Martti Larmi

Journal: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.02.080 · Citations: 477

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

Storing energy in the form of hydrogen is a promising green alternative. Thus, there is a high interest to analyze the status quo of the different storage options. This paper focuses on the large-scale compressed hydrogen storage options with respect to three categories: storage vessels, geological storage, and other underground storage alternatives. In this study, we investigated a wide variety of compressed hydrogen storage technologies, discussing in fair detail their theory of operation, …

Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability

Authors: Lucas Gloege, Galen A. McKinley, Peter Landschützer, Amanda R. Fay, Thomas L. Frölicher, John C. Fyfe et al.

Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles · DOI: 10.1029/2020gb006788 · Citations: 216

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Reducing uncertainty in the global carbon budget requires better quantification of ocean CO 2 uptake and its temporal variability. Several methodologies for reconstructing air‐sea CO 2 exchange from pCO 2 observations indicate larger decadal variability than estimated using ocean models. We develop a new application of multiple Large Ensemble Earth system models to assess these reconstructions’ ability to estimate spatiotemporal variability. With our Large Ensemble Testbed, pCO 2 fie…

Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations

Authors: Yuzhong Zhang, Daniel J. Jacob, Xiao Lu, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Tia R. Scarpelli, Jian‐Xiong Sheng et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-3643-2021 · Citations: 175

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. We conduct a global inverse analysis of 2010–2018 GOSAT observations to better understand the factors controlling atmospheric methane and its accelerating increase over the 2010–2018 period. The inversion optimizes anthropogenic methane emissions and their 2010–2018 trends on a 4∘×5∘ grid, monthly regional wetland emissions, and annual hemispheric concentrations of tropospheric OH (the main sink of methane). We use an analytical solution to the Bayesian optimization problem that pro…

Assessment of the sustainability of Gymnocypris eckloni habitat under river damming in the source region of the Yellow River

Authors: Quan Quan, Shaoze Gao, Yanwu Shang, Boxing Wang

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146312 · Citations: 161

Matched topics: hydrology, river, hydropower

The growth of indigenous fish resources in the source region of a river is dependent upon the protection and sustainable development of suitable habitats, and the dual effects of climate change and hydropower generation have a major impact on hydrodynamic conditions and living conditions in these habitats. Against a background of climate warming, an agent-based model was established using MIKE3 software and was applied to the source region of the Yellow River. Within the study area, water dep…

Groundwater hydrochemistry, source identification and pollution assessment in intensive industrial areas, eastern Chinese loess plateau

Authors: Jun Xiao, Lingqing Wang, Ningpan Chai, Ting Liu, Zhangdong Jin, Jörg Rinklebe

Journal: Environmental Pollution · DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116930 · Citations: 139

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.

Comparison of multi-source satellite images for classifying marsh vegetation using DeepLabV3 Plus deep learning algorithm

Authors: Man Liu, Bolin Fu, Shuyu Xie, Hongchang He, Feiwu Lan, Yuyang Li et al.

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107562 · Citations: 118

Matched topics: water management

The accurate classification of wetland vegetation is essential for rapid assessment and management. The Honghe National Nature Reserve (HNNR), located in Northeast China, was studied. The multi-scale remote sensing data of a new generation of Chinese high-spatial-resolution earth observation satellites Gaofen-1 (GF-1), Gaofen-2 (GF-2), Ziyuan-3 (ZY-3), and international earth observation satellites Sentinel-2A and Landsat 8 OLI were selected as sources. Based on the DeepLabV3 Plus deep learni…

Authors: Éric Sauquet, Margaret Shanafield, John C. Hammond, Catherine Sefton, Catherine Leigh, Thibault Datry

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126170 · Citations: 108

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, earth system model

This study examines the spatial and temporal variability of flow intermittence over the period 1970–2018 across four countries (Australia, France, UK and the conterminous USA). Intermittence (no-flow periods) in 471 unregulated non-perennial rivers were analyzed using flow data collected from 1356 gauging stations distributed across the four countries. Climate data were also analyzed to place findings within a climate-change context. Intermittence of streamflow demonstrated high seasonality a…

Biological Treatment of Real Textile Effluent Using Aspergillus flavus and Fusarium oxysporium and Their Consortium along with the Evaluation of Their Phytotoxicity

Authors: Mohamed T. Selim, Salem S. Salem, Asem A. Mohamed, Mamdouh S. El-Gamal, Mohamed F. Awad, Amr Fouda

Journal: Journal of Fungi · DOI: 10.3390/jof7030193 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: irrigation

was decreased as compared with the control. The shoot length after irrigation with effluents treated by the fungal consortium was 15.12 ± 1.01 cm as compared with that treated by tap-water, which was 17.8 ± 0.7 cm. Finally, we recommended the decrease of excessive uses of synthetic dyes and utilized biological approaches for the treatment of real textile effluents to reuse in irrigation of uneaten plants especially with water scarcity worldwide.

Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally

Authors: Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Valentine Herrmann, Rebecca Banbury Morgan, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Abigail Ferson et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abed01 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

Abstract Forests are major components of the global carbon (C) cycle and thereby strongly influence atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and climate. However, efforts to incorporate forests into climate models and CO 2 accounting frameworks have been constrained by a lack of accessible, global-scale synthesis on how C cycling varies across forest types and stand ages. Here, we draw from the Global Forest Carbon Database, ForC, to provide a macroscopic overview of C cycling in the world’s forest…

Global Prediction of Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Random Forest in a Covariate‐Based GeoTransfer Function (CoGTF) Framework

Authors: Surya Gupta, Peter Lehmann, Sara Bonetti, Andreas Papritz, Dani Or

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002242 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) is a key soil hydraulic parameter for representing infiltration and drainage in land surface models. For large scale applications, Ksat is often estimated from pedotransfer functions (PTFs) based on easy‐to‐measure soil properties like soil texture and bulk density. The reliance of PTFs on data from uniform arable lands and the omission of soil structure limits the applicability of texture‐based predictions of Ksat in vegetated lands. To includ…

Large potentials for energy saving and greenhouse gas emission reductions from large-scale deployment of zero emission building technologies in a national building stock

Authors: Nina Holck Sandberg, Jan Sandstad Næss, Helge Brattebø, Inger Andresen, Arild Gustavsen

Journal: Energy Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.112114 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: hydropower

High energy and material demand in the building sector causes large greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This sector needs large-scale technological improvements in the transition to a future low-emission society. Extensive research is carried out on highly energy-efficient and zero emission buildings (ZEB), but the new technologies slowly penetrate the market. Until now, no bottom-up studies have applied a dynamic building stock energy model at the national level to quantify effects of a large-sc…

Global hydroclimatic response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last millennium

Authors: Ernesto Tejedor, Nathan Steiger, Jason E. Smerdon, Roberto Serrano‐Notivoli, Mathias Vuille

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2019145118 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: earth system model

Large tropical volcanic eruptions can affect the climate of many regions on Earth, yet it is uncertain how the largest eruptions over the past millennium may have altered Earth’s hydroclimate. Here, we analyze the global hydroclimatic response to all the tropical volcanic eruptions over the past millennium that were larger than the Mount Pinatubo eruption of 1991. Using the Paleo Hydrodynamics Data Assimilation product (PHYDA), we find that these large volcanic eruptions tended to produce dry…

Yield-compatible salinity level for growing cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under mulched drip irrigation using saline water

Authors: Futian Ren, Guang Yang, Wanjing Li, Xinlin He, Yongli Gao, Lijun Tian et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106859 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.

Integrated urban water management with micro storages developed as an IoT-based solution – The smart rain barrel

Authors: Martin Oberascher, Carolina Kinzel, Ulrich Kastlunger, Manfred Kleidorfer, Christoph Zingerle, Wolfgang Rauch et al.

Journal: Environmental Modelling & Software · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105028 · Citations: 72

Matched topics: water management

Low cost sensors are emerging alongside innovative data transfer technologies, allowing the integration of smart solutions for the decentralisation of water infrastructure. In this work, the smart rain barrel (SRB) concept is introduced as an IoT-based solution for advanced rainwater harvesting. The SRB consists of a rain barrel extended by a discharge valve, which is centrally controlled. This concept offers (1) individual control of each implemented SRB with its incorporation into the integ…

Application of artificial intelligence algorithms for hourly river level forecast: A case study of Muda River, Malaysia

Authors: Muhamad Nur Adli Zakaria, Marlinda Abdul Malek, Maslina Zolkepli, Ali Najah Ahmed

Journal: Alexandria Engineering Journal · DOI: 10.1016/j.aej.2021.02.046 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: river

A reliable river water level model to forecast the changes in different lead times is vital for flood warning systems, especially in countries like Malaysia, where flood is considered the most devastating natural disaster. In the current study, the ability of two artificial intelligence (AI) based data-driven approaches: Multi-layer Perceptron Neural Networks (MLP-NN) and An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), as reliable models in forecasting the river level based on an hourly bas…

Acceleration of western Arctic sea ice loss linked to the Pacific North American pattern

Authors: Zhongfang Liu, Camille Risi, Francis Codron, Xiaogang He, Christopher J. Poulsen, Zhongwang Wei et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21830-z · Citations: 71

Matched topics: earth system model

Recent rapid Arctic sea-ice reduction has been well documented in observations, reconstructions and model simulations. However, the rate of sea ice loss is highly variable in both time and space. The western Arctic has seen the fastest sea-ice decline, with substantial interannual and decadal variability, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here we demonstrate, through both observations and model simulations, that the Pacific North American (PNA) pattern is an important driver of we…

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