Weekly Literature Review

Week 12 · March 22–March 28, 2021

50 relevant papers found across 6 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, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.


Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. Detectable Increases in Sequential Flood‐Heatwave Events Across China During 1961–2018
    2. Evacuation under flooded conditions: Experimental investigation of the influence of water depth on walking behaviors
    3. An updated national-scale assessment of trends in UK peak river flow data: how robust are observed increases in flooding?
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Phytohormone signaling and crosstalk in regulating drought stress response in plants
    2. Determining and forecasting drought susceptibility in southwestern Iran using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) coupled with CA-Markov model
    3. Drought Resistance in Qingke Involves a Reprogramming of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway and UDP-Glucosyltransferase Regulation of Abiotic Stress Tolerance Targeting Flavonoid Biosynthesis
    4. Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity
    5. Morphological, physiological and phytochemical responses of Mexican marigold (Tagetes minuta L.) to drought stress
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Streamflow simulation in data-scarce basins using Bayesian and physics-informed machine learning models
    2. Modelling streamflow using the SWAT model and multi-site calibration utilizing SUFI-2 of SWAT-CUP model for high altitude catchments, NW Himalaya’s
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Nationalist ideology, rightwing populism, and public views about climate change in Europe
    2. Can public awareness, knowledge and engagement improve climate change adaptation policies?
    3. Grape Berry Secondary Metabolites and Their Modulation by Abiotic Factors in a Climate Change Scenario–A Review
    4. Climate change and its implications for food safety and spoilage
    5. Reuse of treated water in European agriculture: Potential to address water scarcity under climate change
    6. Farmer’s perception and factors determining the adaptation decisions to cope with climate change: An evidence from rural India
    7. Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation
    8. Herbaceous perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time
    9. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to study the impact of climate change and other factors on rice production in South Korea
    10. Climate Change Mitigation as an Obligation Under Human Rights Treaties?
    11. Opportunities and barriers for using climate information for building resilient agricultural systems in Sudan savannah agro-ecological zone of north-eastern Ghana
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Antarctic Atmospheric River Climatology and Precipitation Impacts
    2. Fill‐and‐Spill: A Process Description of Runoff Generation at the Scale of the Beholder
    3. Observed changes in air temperature and precipitation extremes over Brazil
    4. Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica
    5. Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps
    6. The Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation according to Multiple Decades of Global Satellite Observations, Three CMIP6 Models, and the ECMWF Reanalysis
    7. Spatial–temporal characterization of rainfall in Pakistan during the past half-century (1961–2020)
    8. A forecast-driven decision-making model for long-term operation of a hydro-wind-photovoltaic hybrid system
    9. Challenging and Improving the Simulation of Mid‐Level Mixed‐Phase Clouds Over the High‐Latitude Southern Ocean
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out
    2. Evaluating the economic impact of water scarcity in a changing world
    3. Coupling coordination degree of production, living and ecological spaces and its influencing factors in the Yellow River Basin
    4. Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress
    5. Transferring Hydrologic Data Across Continents – Leveraging Data‐Rich Regions to Improve Hydrologic Prediction in Data‐Sparse Regions
    6. Effect of hydrogeological conditions on groundwater nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment of nitrate in Jiaokou Irrigation District
    7. Distributed Global Debris Thickness Estimates Reveal Debris Significantly Impacts Glacier Mass Balance
    8. Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea
    9. Evaluation of multi-hazard map produced using MaxEnt machine learning technique
    10. 2010–2015 North American methane emissions, sectoral contributions, and trends: a high-resolution inversion of GOSAT observations of atmospheric methane
    11. Downscaling GRACE total water storage change using partial least squares regression
    12. Compound high-temperature and low-chlorophyll extremes in the ocean over the satellite period
    13. The tipping points and early warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
    14. Integrating new sea‐level scenarios into coastal risk and adaptation assessments: An ongoing process
    15. Spatial Heterogeneity of eDNA Transport Improves Stream Assessment of Threatened Salmon Presence, Abundance, and Location
    16. Hydrochemical and isotopic interpretation of interactions between surface water and groundwater in Delingha, Northwest China
    17. Industrial water management and sustainability: Development of SIWP tool for textile industries of Bangladesh
    18. Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States
    19. Similar importance of edaphic and climatic factors for controlling soil organic carbon stocks of the world
    20. Biochar as a tool to reduce environmental impacts of nitrogen loss in water-saving irrigation paddy field
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 3 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Chen, Dias et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Detectable Increases in Sequential Flood‐Heatwave Events Across China During 1961–2018

Authors: Yang Chen, Z. Liao, Yan Shi, Ya Tian, P. Zhai

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021GL092549 · Citations: 103

Matched topics: flood

Traditional univariate analysis on weather and climate extremes failed to consider temporally compounding events and the resulting cascading impacts. A case in point is a sequence of flood and heatwave within a week, which slows recovery and amplifies damages. We show that across China, floods and heatwaves seldom occurred serially within seven days in the past, but after 2000 the probability is five‐to‐ten times higher in southern, northwestern and northeastern sectors. It is the significant…


Evacuation under flooded conditions: Experimental investigation of the influence of water depth on walking behaviors

Authors: Charitha Dias, Noorhazlinda Abd Rahman, Ali Zaiter

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102192 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Authors: Jamie Hannaford, Nikolaos Mastrantonas, Gianni Vesuviano, Stephen Turner

Journal: Hydrology research · DOI: 10.2166/nh.2021.156 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: hydrology, river, streamflow, flood

Abstract A cluster of recent floods in the UK has prompted significant interest in the question of whether floods are becoming more frequent or severe over time. Many trend assessments have addressed this in recent decades, typically concluding that there is evidence for positive trends in flood magnitude at the national scale. However, trend testing is a contentious area, and the resilience of such conclusions must be tested rigorously. Here, we provide a comprehensive assessment of flood ma…


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 5 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Salvi, Mokarram et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Phytohormone signaling and crosstalk in regulating drought stress response in plants

Authors: Prafull Salvi, M. Manna, H. Kaur, Tanika Thakur, Nishu Gandass, Deepesh Bhatt et al.

Journal: Plant Cell Reports · DOI: 10.1007/s00299-021-02683-8 · Citations: 219

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Determining and forecasting drought susceptibility in southwestern Iran using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) coupled with CA-Markov model

Authors: Marzieh Mokarram, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Ming Hu, Huichun Zhang

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146703 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Drought Resistance in Qingke Involves a Reprogramming of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway and UDP-Glucosyltransferase Regulation of Abiotic Stress Tolerance Targeting Flavonoid Biosynthesis

Authors: Congping Xu, Lingling Wei, Sishu Huang, Chunbao Yang, Yulin Wang, Hongjun Yuan et al.

Journal: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c07810 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: drought

11410 exhibited the activity of wide-spectrum glucosyltransferase and mediated flavonoid glycosylation to enhance drought stress resistance. Overall, the findings provide insights into the regulatory mechanism underlying drought stress tolerance associated with metabolic reprogramming. Furthermore, the flavonoid-enriched qingke is more tolerant to drought stress and can be used as a functional food to benefit human health.


Unprecedented drought in South India and recent water scarcity

Authors: Vimal Mishra, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Sahil Jain, Saran Aadhar

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abf289 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: drought, seasonal

Abstract Peninsular Indian agriculture and drinking water availability are critically reliant on seasonal winter rainfall occurring from October to December, associated with the northeastern monsoon (NEM). Over 2016–2018, moderate-to-exceptionally low NEM rainfall gave rise to severe drought conditions over much of southern India and exacerbated water scarcity. The magnitude and dynamics of this drought remain unexplored. Here, we quantify the severity of this event and explore causal mechani…


Morphological, physiological and phytochemical responses of Mexican marigold (Tagetes minuta L.) to drought stress

Authors: Khyrollah Babaei, Mohammad Moghaddam, Nasrin Farhadi, Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti

Journal: Scientia Horticulturae · DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2021.110116 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 2 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.

Streamflow simulation in data-scarce basins using Bayesian and physics-informed machine learning models

Authors: Dan Lu, Goutam Konapala, Scott Painter, Shih‐Chieh Kao, Sudershan Gangrade

Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-20-0082.1 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow

Abstract Hydrologic predictions at rural watersheds are important but also challenging due to data shortage. Long Short-TermMemory (LSTM) networks are a promising machine learning approach and have demonstrated good performance in streamflow predictions. However, due to its data-hungry nature, most of LSTM applications focused on well-monitored catchments with abundant and high quality observations. In this work, we investigate predictive capabilities of LSTM in poorly monitored watersheds wi…


Modelling streamflow using the SWAT model and multi-site calibration utilizing SUFI-2 of SWAT-CUP model for high altitude catchments, NW Himalaya’s

Authors: Mohd Ayoub Malik, Abdul Qayoom Dar, Manoj Jain

Journal: Modeling Earth Systems and Environment · DOI: 10.1007/s40808-021-01145-0 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow

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.

Nationalist ideology, rightwing populism, and public views about climate change in Europe

Authors: Joakim Kulin, Ingemar Johansson Sevä, Riley E. Dunlap

Journal: Environmental Politics · DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1898879 · Citations: 234

Matched topics: climate change

Rising rightwing populism (RWP) potentially constitutes an obstacle to climate change mitigation, as European RWP parties and politicians often espouse climate change skepticism and oppose climate policies. Meanwhile, their party positions and issue stances have also become increasingly characterized by nationalism. Using European Social Survey data from 2016, we show that public attitudes consistent with nationalist ideology are clearly linked to voting for RWP parties and that people who ho…


Can public awareness, knowledge and engagement improve climate change adaptation policies?

Authors: Farzaneh Shaikh Khatibi, Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes, Michael Howes, Elnaz Torabi

Journal: Discover Sustainability · DOI: 10.1007/s43621-021-00024-z · Citations: 228

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change need to adapt to increase their resilience. Effective government policies and plans are a key component of this transition, but they are not sufficient in themselves. The community needs to be made aware of the risks, acquire knowledge about the options that are available for a response, and be empowered to take their own actions. Effective public engagement is therefore key to success in planning for climate change. Th…


Grape Berry Secondary Metabolites and Their Modulation by Abiotic Factors in a Climate Change Scenario–A Review

Authors: Markus Rienth, Nicolas Vigneron, Philippe Darriet, Crystal Sweetman, Crista A. Burbidge, Claudio Bonghi et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.643258 · Citations: 219

Matched topics: climate change

concentration, on berry secondary metabolism. At the end of the paper, we raise some critical questions regarding intracluster berry heterogeneity and dilution effects and how the sampling strategy can impact the outcome of studies on the grapevine berry response to abiotic factors.


Climate change and its implications for food safety and spoilage

Authors: Ourania Misiou, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis

Journal: Trends in Food Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2021.03.031 · Citations: 153

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Reuse of treated water in European agriculture: Potential to address water scarcity under climate change

Authors: Jordan Hristov, Jesús Barreiro‐Hurlé, Guna Salputra, María Blanco, Peter Witzke

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106872 · Citations: 140

Matched topics: climate change

The use of reclaimed or treated water from urban wastewater treatment plants for irrigation has been proposed as an alternative water source to address water scarcity issues in Europe. In this paper using agro-economic modelling, we analyse if treated water available for agriculture has the potential to reduce freshwater abstraction and, consequently, water stress. Implementing exogenous treated water quantities as an additional water supply at NUTS 2 level in the CAPRI model, we found that t…


Farmer’s perception and factors determining the adaptation decisions to cope with climate change: An evidence from rural India

Authors: Chandan Kumar Jha, Vijaya Gupta

Journal: Environmental and Sustainability Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.indic.2021.100112 · Citations: 135

Matched topics: climate change

The farmer’s adaptation decision to cope with climate change has drawn considerable attention and recognition of the local and global scale’s human-environmental approach. In this paper, we tried to understand the human dimension of adaptation decision of farmers in rural India. We analyse the farmer’s perception of climate change and socio-economic determinants of farm household which influence adaption decisions and adaptation strategies choices. We conducted a micro-level assessment of 700…


Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation

Authors: Monika Egerer, Dagmar Haase, Timon McPhearson, Niki Frantzeskaki, Erik Andersson, Harini Nagendra et al.

Journal: npj Urban Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00024-y · Citations: 124

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Urban social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) are dynamic and respond to climate pressures. Change involves alterations to land and resource management, social organization, infrastructure, and design. Research often focuses on how climate change impacts urban SETS or on the characteristics of urban SETS that promote climate resilience. Yet passive approaches to urban climate change adaptation may disregard active SETS change by urban residents, planners, and policymakers that…


Herbaceous perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time

Authors: Aldo Compagnoni, Sam Levin, Dylan Z. Childs, W. Stanley Harpole, Maria Paniw, Gesa Römer et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21977-9 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: land surface model

There is an urgent need to synthesize the state of our knowledge on plant responses to climate. The availability of open-access data provide opportunities to examine quantitative generalizations regarding which biomes and species are most responsive to climate drivers. Here, we synthesize time series of structured population models from 162 populations of 62 plants, mostly herbaceous species from temperate biomes, to link plant population growth rates (λ) to precipitation and temperature driv…


Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to study the impact of climate change and other factors on rice production in South Korea

Authors: Muhammad Nasrullah, Muhammad Rizwanullah, Xiuyuan Yu, Hyeonsoo Jo, Muhammad Tayyab Sohail, Lizhi Liang

Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2021.030 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract This study aims to explore the impact of climate change, technology, and agricultural policy on rice production in South Korea. In the presence of a long-run relationship among variables, the results show that an increase in CO2 emissions increases rice production by 0.15%. The mean temperature raises rice production by 1.16%. The rainfall has an adverse impact on rice production which shows improper irrigation systems and weather forecasting reports. Similarly, for technical factors…


Climate Change Mitigation as an Obligation Under Human Rights Treaties?

Authors: Benoît Mayer

Journal: American Journal of International Law · DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2021.9 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Judges and scholars have interpreted human rights treaties as obligating states to mitigate climate change by limiting their greenhouse gas emissions, an argument instrumental to the development of climate litigation. This Article questions the validity of this interpretation. A state’s treaty obligation to protect human rights implies an obligation to cooperate on the mitigation of climate change, the Article argues, only if and inasmuch as climate change mitigation effectively prot…


Opportunities and barriers for using climate information for building resilient agricultural systems in Sudan savannah agro-ecological zone of north-eastern Ghana

Authors: Philip Antwi‐Agyei, Andrew J. Dougill, Robert Clement Abaidoo

Journal: Climate Services · DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100226 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: seasonal

Empirical evidence on the opportunities and barriers to the uptake of climate services by smallholder farmers for resilient agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. This paper addresses this important gap by evaluating the opportunities and barriers to the uptake of climate information (from short-term weather forecasts, through seasonal forecasts to longer-term climate change information on decadal timescales) by smallholder farmers in the Sudan savannah agro-ecological zone of…


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 9 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Antarctic Atmospheric River Climatology and Precipitation Impacts

Authors: J. Wille, V. Favier, I. Gorodetskaya, Cécile Agosta, C. Kittel, Jai Chowdhry Beeman et al.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020JD033788 · Citations: 232

Matched topics: river, land surface model

The Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is sensitive to short‐term extreme meteorological events that can leave long‐term impacts on the continent’s surface mass balance (SMB). We investigate the impacts of atmospheric rivers (ARs) on the AIS precipitation budget using an AR detection algorithm and a regional climate model (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional) from 1980 to 2018. While ARs and their associated extreme vapor transport are relatively rare events over Antarctic coastal regions (∼3 days per year)…


Fill‐and‐Spill: A Process Description of Runoff Generation at the Scale of the Beholder

Authors: Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Christopher Spence, Daniel J. Karran, Ilja van Meerveld, C. J. Harman

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr027514 · Citations: 159

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

Abstract Descriptions of runoff generation processes continue to grow, helping to reveal complexities and hydrologic behavior across a wide range of environments and scales. But to date, there has been little grouping of these process facts. Here, we discuss how the “fill‐and‐spill” concept can provide a framework to group event‐based runoff generation processes. The fill‐and‐spill concept describes where vertical and lateral additions of water to a landscape unit are placed into storage (the…


Observed changes in air temperature and precipitation extremes over Brazil

Authors: Pedro Regoto, Claudine Pereira Dereczynski, Sin Chan Chou, Anna Carolina Bazzanela

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7119 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract We analyse seasonal and annual trends of extreme indices of air temperature and precipitation over Brazil during the period 1961–2018. The main goal is to investigate whether the climate is changing and if so, to explore if there is any marked seasonality in such changes. The daily observed datasets of maximum and minimum temperatures, and precipitation, are provided by the Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology and National Water Agency. We use the Sen Curvature and Mann‐Kendal…


Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica

Authors: Étienne Vignon, Marie-Laure Roussel, Irina Gorodetskaya, Christophe Genthon, Alexis Berne

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl092281 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract While most precipitation in Antarctica falls as snow, little is known about liquid precipitation, although it can have ecological and climatic impacts. This study combines meteorological reports at 10 stations with the ERA5 reanalysis to provide a climatological characterization of rainfall occurrence over Antarctica. Along the East Antarctic coast, liquid precipitation occurs 22 days per year at most and coincides with maritime intrusions and blocking anticyclones. Over the north‐we…


Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps

Authors: Christoph Spötl, Gabriella Koltai, Alexander H. Jarosch, Hai Cheng

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22090-7 · Citations: 100

Matched topics: seasonal

The culmination of the glaciers in the European Alps during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is one of the most intensively studied paleoglaciological events, but its trigger and forcing remain incompletely understood. Here, we provide evidence that the timing of this glacier maximum coincided within age uncertainties with a 3100 yr-long interval of subsurface warming (26.6 to 23.5 ka BP) as recorded by an archive preserved in caves, cryogenic carbonates. This interval of sustained permafrost d…


The Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation according to Multiple Decades of Global Satellite Observations, Three CMIP6 Models, and the ECMWF Reanalysis

Authors: Daniel Watters, Alessandro Battaglia, Richard P. Allan

Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0966.1 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission observations are used to evaluate the diurnal cycle of precipitation from three CMIP6 models (NCAR-CESM2, CNRM-CM6.1, CNRM-ESM2.1) and the ERA5 reanalysis. NASA’s global-gridded IMERG product, which combines spaceborne microwave radiometer, infrared sensor, and ground-based gauge measurements, provides high-spatiotemporal-resolution (0.1° and half-hourly) estimates that are suitable for evaluating the diurnal cycle in models, as determined again…


Spatial–temporal characterization of rainfall in Pakistan during the past half-century (1961–2020)

Authors: Ghaffar Ali, Muhammad Sajjad, Shamsa Kanwal, Tingyin Xiao, Shoaib Khalid, Fariha Shoaib et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86412-x · Citations: 81

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management

Spatial-temporal rainfall assessments are integral to climate/hydrological modeling, agricultural studies, and water resource planning and management. Herein, we evaluate spatial-temporal rainfall trends and patterns in Pakistan for 1961-2020 using nationwide data from 82 rainfall stations. To assess optimal spatial distribution and rainfall characterization, twenty-seven interpolation techniques from geo-statistical and deterministic categories were systematically compared, revealing that th…


A forecast-driven decision-making model for long-term operation of a hydro-wind-photovoltaic hybrid system

Authors: Ziyu Ding, Xin Wen, Qiaofeng Tan, Tiantian Yang, Guohua Fang, Xiaohui Lei et al.

Journal: Applied Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116820 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, hydropower

Abstract not available.


Challenging and Improving the Simulation of Mid‐Level Mixed‐Phase Clouds Over the High‐Latitude Southern Ocean

Authors: Étienne Vignon, Simon P. Alexander, Paul J. DeMott, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Franziska Gerber, Thomas C. J. Hill et al.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd033490 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Climate models exhibit major radiative biases over the Southern Ocean owing to a poor representation of mixed‐phase clouds. This study uses the remote‐sensing dataset from the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) campaign to assess the ability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to reproduce frontal clouds off Antarctica. It focuses on the modeling of thin mid‐level supercooled liquid water layers which precipitate ice. The s…


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.

An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out

Authors: Christopher R. Scotese

Journal: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-081320-064052 · Citations: 610

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Paleogeography is the study of the changing surface of Earth through time. Driven by plate tectonics, the configuration of the continents and ocean basins has been in constant flux. Plate tectonics pushes the land surface upward or pulls it apart, causing its collapse. All the while, the unrelenting forces of climate and weather slowly reduce mountains to sand and mud and redistribute these sediments to the sea. This article reviews the changing paleogeography of the past 750 million years. I…


Evaluating the economic impact of water scarcity in a changing world

Authors: Flannery Dolan, Jonathan Lamontagne, Robert Link, Mohamad Hejazi, Patrick M. Reed, Jae Edmonds

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22194-0 · Citations: 531

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model, hydropower, earth system model

Water scarcity is dynamic and complex, emerging from the combined influences of climate change, basin-level water resources, and managed systems’ adaptive capacities. Beyond geophysical stressors and responses, it is critical to also consider how multi-sector, multi-scale economic teleconnections mitigate or exacerbate water shortages. Here, we contribute a global-to-basin-scale exploratory analysis of potential water scarcity impacts by linking a global human-Earth system model, a global hyd…


Coupling coordination degree of production, living and ecological spaces and its influencing factors in the Yellow River Basin

Authors: Jiangsu Li, Wei Sun, Mingyue Li, Linlin Meng

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2021.126803 · Citations: 346

Matched topics: river

Abstract With rapid economic development in China, the competition for spaces of production, living and ecology is getting fierce. The Yellow River Basin, a principal agricultural and manufacturing region, has been affected significantly by urbanization and industrialization, as well as national development policies. Consequently, the ecology has become particularly vulnerable. In this complex region, scientifically measuring the coordinated development state of the recurrent pattern of produ…


Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

Authors: Saleh Abdalla, Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi, Michäel Ablain, Susheel Adusumilli, Suchandra Aich Bhowmick, Eva Alou‐Font et al.

Journal: Advances in Space Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022 · Citations: 294

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, land surface model, hydropower, earth system model

In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences. Many symbolic major events have celebrated these developments, e.g., in Venice, Italy, the 15th (2006) and 20th (2012) years of progress and more recently, in 2018, in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry. On this latter occasion it was decided to collect contri…


Transferring Hydrologic Data Across Continents – Leveraging Data‐Rich Regions to Improve Hydrologic Prediction in Data‐Sparse Regions

Authors: Kai Ma, Dapeng Feng, Kathryn Lawson, Wen‐Ping Tsai, Chuan Liang, Xiaorong Huang et al.

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028600 · Citations: 229

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract There is a drastic geographic imbalance in available global streamflow gauge and catchment property data, with additional large variations in data characteristics. As a result, models calibrated in one region cannot normally be migrated to another without significant modifications. Currently in these regions, non‐transferable machine learning models are habitually trained over small local data sets. Here we show that transfer learning (TL), in the senses of weight initialization and …


Effect of hydrogeological conditions on groundwater nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment of nitrate in Jiaokou Irrigation District

Authors: Qiying Zhang, Hui Qian, Panpan Xu, Weiqing Li, Wenwen Feng, Rui Liu

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126783 · Citations: 177

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Distributed Global Debris Thickness Estimates Reveal Debris Significantly Impacts Glacier Mass Balance

Authors: David R. Rounce, Regine Hock, Robert McNabb, Romain Millan, Christian Sommer, Matthias Braun et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2020gl091311 · Citations: 177

Matched topics: land surface model

. We also find recent observations of similar thinning rates over debris-covered and clean ice glacier tongues is primarily due to differences in ice dynamics. Our results demonstrate the importance of accounting for debris in glacier modeling efforts.


Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea

Authors: Christopher T. Hayes, Kassandra M Costa, Robert F. Anderson, Eva Calvo, Zanna Chase, Ludmila L. Demina et al.

Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles · DOI: 10.1029/2020gb006769 · Citations: 138

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Quantitative knowledge about the burial of sedimentary components at the seafloor has wide‐ranging implications in ocean science, from global climate to continental weathering. The use of 230 Th‐normalized fluxes reduces uncertainties that many prior studies faced by accounting for the effects of sediment redistribution by bottom currents and minimizing the impact of age model uncertainty. Here we employ a recently compiled global data set of 230 Th‐normalized fluxes with an updated …


Evaluation of multi-hazard map produced using MaxEnt machine learning technique

Authors: Narges Javidan, Ataollah Kavian, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Christian Conoscenti, Zeinab Jafarian, Jesús Rodrigo‐Comino

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85862-7 · Citations: 133

Matched topics: runoff, land surface model

Natural hazards are diverse and uneven in time and space, therefore, understanding its complexity is key to save human lives and conserve natural ecosystems. Reducing the outputs obtained after each modelling analysis is key to present the results for stakeholders, land managers and policymakers. So, the main goal of this survey was to present a method to synthesize three natural hazards in one multi-hazard map and its evaluation for hazard management and land use planning. To test this metho…


Authors: Joannes D. Maasakkers, Daniel J. Jacob, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Tia R. Scarpelli, Hannah Nesser, Jian‐Xiong Sheng et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-4339-2021 · Citations: 125

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract. We use 2010–2015 Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) observations of atmospheric methane columns over North America in a high-resolution inversion of methane emissions, including contributions from different sectors and their trends over the period. The inversion involves an analytical solution to the Bayesian optimization problem for a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) of the emission field with up to 0.5∘×0.625∘ resolution in concentrated source regions. The analytical solutio…


Downscaling GRACE total water storage change using partial least squares regression

Authors: Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma, Jinwei Zhang, Nico Sneeuw

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00862-6 · Citations: 122

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

. This limits their usability in regional hydrological applications. In this study, we implement a statistical downscaling approach that assimilates 0.5° × 0.5° water storage fields from the WaterGAP hydrology model (WGHM), precipitation fields from 3 models, evapotranspiration and runoff from 2 models, with GRACE data to obtain TWSC at a 0.5° × 0.5° grid. The downscaled product exploits dominant common statistical modes between all the hydrological datasets to improve the spatial resolution …


Compound high-temperature and low-chlorophyll extremes in the ocean over the satellite period

Authors: Natacha Le Grix, Jakob Zscheischler, Charlotte Laufkötter, Cécile S. Rousseaux, Thomas L. Frölicher

Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-2119-2021 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract. Extreme events in the ocean severely impact marine organisms and ecosystems. Of particular concern are compound events, i.e., when conditions are extreme for multiple potential ocean ecosystem stressors such as temperature and chlorophyll. Yet, little is known about the occurrence, intensity, and duration of such compound high-temperature (a.k.a. marine heatwaves – MHWs) and low-chlorophyll (LChl) extreme events, whether their distributions have changed in the past decades, and what…


The tipping points and early warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

Authors: Sebastian Rosier, Ronja Reese, Jonathan F. Donges, Jan De Rydt, G. Hilmar Gudmundsson, Ricarda Winkelmann

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-1501-2021 · Citations: 114

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract. Mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is the main source of uncertainty in projections of future sea-level rise, with important implications for coastal regions worldwide. Central to ongoing and future changes is the marine ice sheet instability: once a critical threshold, or tipping point, is crossed, ice internal dynamics can drive a self-sustaining retreat committing a glacier to irreversible, rapid and substantial ice loss. This process might have already been triggered in the …


Integrating new sea‐level scenarios into coastal risk and adaptation assessments: An ongoing process

Authors: Robert J. Nicholls, Susan Hanson, Jason Lowe, Aimée B. A. Slangen, Thomas Wahl, Jochen Hinkel et al.

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · DOI: 10.1002/wcc.706 · Citations: 107

Matched topics: land surface model

Abstract The release of new and updated sea‐level rise (SLR) information, such as from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports, needs to be better anticipated in coastal risk and adaptation assessments. This requires risk and adaptation assessments to be regularly reviewed and updated as needed, reflecting the new information but retaining useful information from earlier assessments. In this paper, updated guidance on the types of SLR information available is p…


Spatial Heterogeneity of eDNA Transport Improves Stream Assessment of Threatened Salmon Presence, Abundance, and Location

Authors: Zachary T. Wood, Anaïs Lacoursière‐Roussel, Francis LeBlanc, Marc Trudel, Michael T. Kinnison, Colton Garry McBrine et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.650717 · Citations: 99

Matched topics: hydropower

The integration of environmental DNA (eDNA) within management strategies for lotic organisms requires translating eDNA detection and quantification data into inferences of the locations and abundances of target species. Understanding how eDNA is distributed in space and time within the complex environments of rivers and streams is a major factor in achieving this translation. Here we study bidimensional eDNA signals in streams to predict the position and abundance of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo s…


Hydrochemical and isotopic interpretation of interactions between surface water and groundwater in Delingha, Northwest China

Authors: Nuan Yang, Pengpeng Zhou, Guangcai Wang, Biao Zhang, Zheming Shi, Fu Liao et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126243 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management, surface water

Abstract Understanding the interactions between surface water and groundwater is of considerable significance for managing water resources and protecting ecosystems in arid and semi-arid areas. This study investigated the hydrochemistry, stable isotopes (D–18O) and radioisotopes (222Rn) to identify the interactions between surface water and groundwater in Delingha, a typical arid area in Northwest China. In this area, the surface water mainly consists of the Bayin River, which flows from the …


Industrial water management and sustainability: Development of SIWP tool for textile industries of Bangladesh

Authors: Md. Sazzadul Haque, Nazmun Nahar, Sayed Md. Sayem

Journal: Water Resources and Industry · DOI: 10.1016/j.wri.2021.100145 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: water management

In the industrial sector of Bangladesh there is a lack of standardized mechanism to account for water incorporating both efficiency and sustainability. With the growing number of textile industries that rely heavily on groundwater, there is a desperate need for efficient water management at the process level as well as groundwater conservation for safe manufacturing operation. This current study particularly emphasizes on the groundwater withdrawal and use in different units of the wet proces…


Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States

Authors: Jennifer M. Jacobs, Adam G. Hunsaker, Franklin B. Sullivan, Michael Palace, Elizabeth A. Burakowski, C Herrick et al.

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-1485-2021 · Citations: 84

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract. Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning and structure from motion techniques have emerged as viable methods to map snow depths. While these systems have advanced snow hydrology, these techniques have noted limitations in either horizontal or vertical resolution. Lidar on an unpiloted aerial vehicle (UAV) is another potential method to observe field- and slope-scale variations at the vertical resolutions needed to resolve local variations in snowpack depth and to quantify snow depth …


Similar importance of edaphic and climatic factors for controlling soil organic carbon stocks of the world

Authors: Zhongkui Luo, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Tian Wei Qian

Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-2063-2021 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. Soil organic carbon (SOC) accounts for two-thirds of terrestrial carbon. Yet, the role of soil physicochemical properties in regulating SOC stocks is unclear, inhibiting reliable SOC predictions under land use and climatic changes. Using legacy observations from 141 584 soil profiles worldwide, we disentangle the effects of biotic, climatic and edaphic factors (a total of 31 variables) on the global spatial distribution of SOC stocks in four sequential soil layers down to 2 m. The r…


Biochar as a tool to reduce environmental impacts of nitrogen loss in water-saving irrigation paddy field

Authors: Xi Chen, Shihong Yang, Ze-Wei Jiang, Jieping Ding, X. Sun

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125811 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract Nitrogen (N) loss caused by excessive and incorrect application of N fertilizer in traditional rice-growing agriculture contributed to rural non-point source pollution and greenhouse gas emission, reduced crop N utilization efficiency. The objective of this study is to explore the response of N loss (leaching, NH3 volatilization and N2O emission) to different biochar applications (0,20,40 t/hm2) and irrigation patterns (controlled irrigation, flooding irrigation) in paddy fields of t…


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Plant Cell Reports 1
The Science of The Total Environment 1
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Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 1
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change 1
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