Weekly Literature Review

Week 17 · April 26–May 2, 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. XGBoost-based method for flash flood risk assessment
    2. Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation
    3. Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
    4. Identification of sensitivity indicators of urban rainstorm flood disasters: A case study in China
    5. Improved flood susceptibility mapping using a best first decision tree integrated with ensemble learning techniques
    6. Fusing stacked autoencoder and long short-term memory for regional multistep-ahead flood inundation forecasts
    7. Estimating River Channel Bathymetry in Large Scale Flood Inundation Models
    8. Measuring the resilience to floods: A comparative analysis of key flood control cities in China
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran
    2. Global data assessment and analysis of drought characteristics based on CMIP6
    3. Deep Learning for Monitoring Agricultural Drought in South Asia Using Remote Sensing Data
    4. Divergent impacts of droughts on vegetation phenology and productivity in the Yungui Plateau, southwest China
    5. Plant diversity enhanced yield and mitigated drought impacts in intensively managed grassland communities
    6. Future rice farming threatened by drought in the Lower Mekong Basin
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Deep learning hybrid model with Boruta-Random forest optimiser algorithm for streamflow forecasting with climate mode indices, rainfall, and periodicity
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests
    2. Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation
    3. Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications
    4. Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions
    5. Variable 21st Century Climate Change Response for Rivers in High Mountain Asia at Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales
    6. Solar Radiation Prediction Using Different Machine Learning Algorithms and Implications for Extreme Climate Events
    7. Evaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation
    8. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change through Growing Season Adjustments: Evidence from Corn in China
    9. Climate Change Impact Studies: Should We Bias Correct Climate Model Outputs or Post‐Process Impact Model Outputs?
    10. Can reservoir regulation mitigate future climate change induced hydrological extremes in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin?
    11. Impacts of future climate change and different management scenarios on water-related ecosystem services: A case study in the Jianghuai ecological economic Zone, China
    12. Climate change vulnerability assessment of urban informal settlers in Nepal, a least developed country
    13. Evapotranspiration in the Amazon: spatial patterns, seasonality, and recent trends in observations, reanalysis, and climate models
    14. Relations between climate change and mass movement: Perspectives from the Canadian Cordillera and the European Alps
    15. The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: Implications for adaptation to a changing climate
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. G‐RUN ENSEMBLE: A Multi‐Forcing Observation‐Based Global Runoff Reanalysis
    2. Rainfall-runoff modeling using LSTM-based multi-state-vector sequence-to-sequence model
    3. Optimization model for the short-term joint operation of a grid-connected wind-photovoltaic-hydro hybrid energy system with cascade hydropower plants
    4. Impacts of land use and land cover changes on hydrological processes and sediment yield determined using the SWAT model
    5. Quantifying the effects of land use and model scale on water partitioning and water ages using tracer-aided ecohydrological models
    6. Daily runoff forecasting by deep recursive neural network
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
    2. Ecological impacts of run-of-river hydropower plants—Current status and future prospects on the brink of energy transition
    3. The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States
    4. Assessment of floating solar photovoltaics potential in existing hydropower reservoirs in Africa
    5. Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence
    6. JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon–nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1)
    7. Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales
    8. Remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques based investigation of groundwater potential zones in the Karumeniyar river basin, Tamil Nadu, southern India
    9. Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE with improved P factor and its validation: Case study on mountainous and hilly areas of Hubei Province, China
    10. Soil erosion and sediment yield assessment using RUSLE and GIS-based approach in Anjeb watershed, Northwest Ethiopia
    11. Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?
    12. Solar for all: A framework to deliver inclusive and environmentally sustainable solar irrigation for smallholder agriculture
    13. Southern Ocean anthropogenic carbon sink constrained by sea surface salinity
    14. Fengyun Meteorological Satellite Products for Earth System Science Applications
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. 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 Ma, Zheng et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

XGBoost-based method for flash flood risk assessment

Authors: Meihong Ma, Gang Zhao, Bingshun He, Qing Li, Haoyue Dong, Shenggang Wang et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126382 · Citations: 439

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation

Authors: Guoxiong Zheng, Simon Allen, Anming Bao, Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Matthias Huss, Guoqing Zhang et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01028-3 · Citations: 397

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities

Authors: Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadka, J. Sauer, N. Grimm, R. Zimmerman, Chingwen Cheng et al.

Journal: Sustainable cities and society · DOI: 10.1016/J.SCS.2021.102786 · Citations: 205

Matched topics: flood

Abstract As urban populations continue to grow through the 21st century, more people are projected to be at risk of exposure to climate change-induced extreme events. To investigate the complexity of urban floods, this study applied an interlinked social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) vulnerability framework by developing an urban flood vulnerability index for six US cities. Indicators were selected to reflect and illustrate exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to flooding fo…


Identification of sensitivity indicators of urban rainstorm flood disasters: A case study in China

Authors: Meimei Wu, Zening Wu, Wei Ge, Huiliang Wang, Yanxia Shen, Mengmeng Jiang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126393 · Citations: 124

Matched topics: flood, land surface model, surface water

Abstract not available.


Improved flood susceptibility mapping using a best first decision tree integrated with ensemble learning techniques

Authors: B. Pham, A. Jaafari, T. Phong, H. Yen, T. Tuyen, Vu V. Luong et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.003 · Citations: 112

Matched topics: flood

Abstract Improving the accuracy of flood prediction and mapping is crucial for reducing damage resulting from flood events. In this study, we proposed and validated three ensemble models based on the Best First Decision Tree (BFT) and the Bagging (Bagging-BFT), Decorate (Bagging-BFT), and Random Subspace (RSS-BFT) ensemble learning techniques for an improved prediction of flood susceptibility in a spatially-explicit manner. A total number of 126 historical flood events from the Nghe An Provin…


Fusing stacked autoencoder and long short-term memory for regional multistep-ahead flood inundation forecasts

Authors: I-Feng Kao, Jia-Yi Liou, Meng-Hsin Lee, Fi‐John Chang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126371 · Citations: 111

Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood

Abstract not available.


Estimating River Channel Bathymetry in Large Scale Flood Inundation Models

Authors: Jeffrey Neal, Laurence Hawker, James Savage, Michael Durand, Paul Bates, Christopher Sampson

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028301 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: river, flood

Abstract Flood inundation modeling across large data sparse areas has been increasing in recent years, driven by a desire to provide hazard information for a wider range of locations. The sophistication of these models has steadily advanced over the past decade due to improvements in remote sensing and modeling capability. There are now several global flood models (GFMs) that seek to simulate water surface dynamics across all rivers and floodplains regardless of data scarcity. However, flood …


Measuring the resilience to floods: A comparative analysis of key flood control cities in China

Authors: Huiming Zhang, Jiayun Yang, Lianshui Li, Danyun Shen, Guo Wei, Haroon ur Rashid Khan et al.

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102248 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 6 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Ashraf, Wang et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran

Authors: Samaneh Ashraf, Ali Nazemi, Amir AghaKouchak

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88522-y · Citations: 234

Matched topics: hydrology, water management, drought, land surface model, earth system model

during this period with highly localized and variable rates of change at basin and sub-basin scales. The impact of depletion in Iran’s groundwater reserves is already manifested by extreme overdrafts in ~ 77% of Iran’s land area, a growing soil salinity across the entire country, and increasing frequency and extent of land subsidence in Iran’s planes. While meteorological/hydrological droughts act as triggers and intensify the rate of depletion in country-wide groundwater storage, basin-scale…


Global data assessment and analysis of drought characteristics based on CMIP6

Authors: Tianyue Wang, Xinjun Tu, V. Singh, Xiaohong Chen, K. Lin

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2021.126091 · Citations: 194

Matched topics: drought

Abstract Drought is a severe and chronic natural hazard that deeply affects production and livelihoods. Its characteristics and propagation have been extensively discussed, but the effects of temperature, evapotranspiration, and runoff on drought under different carbon emission conditions are still worth considering. Combining with the release of the Sixth International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), datasets of multiple patterns were compared with observational datasets. The …


Deep Learning for Monitoring Agricultural Drought in South Asia Using Remote Sensing Data

Authors: Foyez Ahmed Prodhan, Jiahua Zhang, Fengmei Yao, Lamei Shi, Til Prasad Pangali Sharma, Da Zhang et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13091715 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: drought

Drought, a climate-related disaster impacting a variety of sectors, poses challenges for millions of people in South Asia. Accurate and complete drought information with a proper monitoring system is very important in revealing the complex nature of drought and its associated factors. In this regard, deep learning is a very promising approach for delineating the non-linear characteristics of drought factors. Therefore, this study aims to monitor drought by employing a deep learning approach w…


Divergent impacts of droughts on vegetation phenology and productivity in the Yungui Plateau, southwest China

Authors: Wenyan Ge, Jianqiao Han, Daojun Zhang, Fei Wang

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107743 · Citations: 109

Matched topics: drought

Climate change has led to an increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather events, especially droughts. Quantifying the impacts of droughts on vegetation activities is essential to study the effects of climate change on the ecosystem. Using Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), phenological metrics, and Standardized precipitation evaporation index (SPEI) with multi-timescales, we evaluated the divergent responses of vegetation activities to droughts in the Yungui Plateau from 2001 to …


Plant diversity enhanced yield and mitigated drought impacts in intensively managed grassland communities

Authors: Guylain Grange, John A. Finn, Caroline Brophy

Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13894 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: drought

Abstract There is a global requirement to improve the environmental sustainability of intensively managed grassland monocultures that rely on high rates of nitrogen fertiliser, which is associated with negative environmental impacts. Multi‐species grass–legume mixtures are a promising tool for stimulating both productivity and sustainability in intensively managed grasslands, but questions remain about the benefit of increasing the diversity of plant functional groups. We established a plot‐s…


Future rice farming threatened by drought in the Lower Mekong Basin

Authors: Hyunwoo Kang, Venkataramana Sridhar, Mohammed Mainuddin, Le Duc Trung

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88405-2 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought, hydropower

Abstract The Lower Mekong River basin (LMB) has experienced droughts in recent decades, causing detrimental economic losses and food security conundrums. This study quantified the impact of climate change on drought, and rainfed rice production in the LMB. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and AquaCrop models were used to evaluate long-term drought indices and rainfed rice yields under historical and future climate conditions (1954–2099) with four climate models and two emission scena…


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 1 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.

Deep learning hybrid model with Boruta-Random forest optimiser algorithm for streamflow forecasting with climate mode indices, rainfall, and periodicity

Authors: A. A. Masrur Ahmed, Ravinesh C. Deo, Qi Feng, Afshin Ghahramani, Nawin Raj, Zhenliang Yin et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126350 · Citations: 142

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow

Abstract not available.


Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 15 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests

Authors: S. Skendžić, M. Zovko, I. Živković, V. Lešić, D. Lemić

Journal: Insects · DOI: 10.3390/insects12050440 · Citations: 994

Matched topics: climate change

Simple Summary Climate change and extreme weather events have a major impact on crop production and agricultural pests. As generally adaptable organisms, insect pests respond differently to different causes of climate change. In this review, we address the effects of rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels, as well as changing precipitation patterns, on agricultural insect pests. Since temperature is the most important environmental factor affecting insect population dynamics, it is ex…


Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation

Authors: F. Ueckerdt, C. Bauer, A. Dirnaichner, Jordan P. Everall, R. Sacchi, Gunnar Luderer

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01032-7 · Citations: 626

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications

Authors: Geoffrey Supran, Наоми Орескес

Journal: One Earth · DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.014 · Citations: 341

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions

Authors: Benjamin Sovacool, S. Griffiths, Jinsoo Kim, M. Bazilian

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.RSER.2021.110759 · Citations: 330

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Humanity has come to depend on synthetic, factory made gases that have extremely significant global warming potential. Fluorinated greenhouse gases, or F-gases, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) have been termed “super pollutants” and “super greenhouse gases” given their severe and powerful impact on the climate. They are the most potent greenhouse gases known to modern science, with global warming po…


Variable 21st Century Climate Change Response for Rivers in High Mountain Asia at Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales

Authors: Sonu Khanal, Arthur Lutz, Philip Kraaijenbrink, Bart van den Hurk, Tianci Yao, Walter W. Immerzeel

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr029266 · Citations: 212

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, seasonal, climate change

Abstract The hydrological response to climate change in mountainous basins manifests itself at varying spatial and temporal scales, ranging from catchment to large river basin scale and from sub‐daily to decade and century scale. To robustly assess the 21st century climate change impact for hydrology in entire High Mountain Asia (HMA) at a wide range of scales, we use a high resolution cryospheric‐hydrological model covering 15 upstream HMA basins to quantify the compound effects of future ch…


Solar Radiation Prediction Using Different Machine Learning Algorithms and Implications for Extreme Climate Events

Authors: Liexing Huang, Junfeng Kang, Mengxue Wan, Lei Fang, Chunyan Zhang, Zhaoliang Zeng

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.596860 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model

Solar radiation is the Earth’s primary source of energy and has an important role in the surface radiation balance, hydrological cycles, vegetation photosynthesis, and weather and climate extremes. The accurate prediction of solar radiation is therefore very important in both the solar industry and climate research. We constructed 12 machine learning models to predict and compare daily and monthly values of solar radiation and a stacking model using the best of these algorithms were developed…


Evaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation

Authors: Charlie Wilson, Céline Guivarch, Elmar Kriegler, Bas van Ruijven, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Volker Krey et al.

Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03099-9 · Citations: 134

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Process-based integrated assessment models (IAMs) project long-term transformation pathways in energy and land-use systems under what-if assumptions. IAM evaluation is necessary to improve the models’ usefulness as scientific tools applicable in the complex and contested domain of climate change mitigation. We contribute the first comprehensive synthesis of process-based IAM evaluation research, drawing on a wide range of examples across six different evaluation methods including his…


Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change through Growing Season Adjustments: Evidence from Corn in China

Authors: Xiaomeng Cui, Wei Xie

Journal: American Journal of Agricultural Economics · DOI: 10.1111/ajae.12227 · Citations: 133

Matched topics: climate change

Recent studies have shown that climate change will impose severe challenges on agriculture with profound implications. Although some hypothetical simulations have suggested that an optimal re‐arrangement of the growing season can substantially mitigate yield losses under future climate, no causal estimate has been provided on quantifying the extent to which farmers are adapting through growing‐season adjustments. Using a novel microlevel data with detailed crop progress information in China o…


Climate Change Impact Studies: Should We Bias Correct Climate Model Outputs or Post‐Process Impact Model Outputs?

Authors: Jie Chen, Richard Arsenault, François Brissette, Shaobo Zhang

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028638 · Citations: 106

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, climate change

Abstract The inter‐variable dependence of climate variables is usually not considered in many bias correction methods, even though it has been deemed important for various impact studies. Another possible approach is to forgo the bias correction of climate model outputs, and instead, post‐process the outputs of the impact model. This has the advantage of circumventing the difficulties associated with correcting the inter‐variable dependence of climate variables. Using a hydrological impact st…


Can reservoir regulation mitigate future climate change induced hydrological extremes in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin?

Authors: Xiaobo Yun, Qiuhong Tang, Jiabo Li, Hui Lü, Lu Zhang, Deliang Chen

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147322 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, streamflow, reservoir, water management, climate change

Abstract not available.


Authors: Min Guo, Shuai Ma, Liangjie Wang, Chen Lin

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107732 · Citations: 97

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

Climate and land use/land cover (LULC) changes alter ecosystem services that directly and indirectly affect human well-being. The impacts of management scenarios and different climate scenarios on water-related ecosystem services are uncertain in the context of future LULC and climate change interactions. Therefore, here, we analyzed the impact of future climate change and land management scenarios on water-related ecosystem services by 2030 in the Jianghuai Ecological Economic Zone (JHEEZ). …


Climate change vulnerability assessment of urban informal settlers in Nepal, a least developed country

Authors: Monika Giri, Ganga Bista, Pramod K. Singh, Rajiv Pandey

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127213 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Authors: Jessica C. A. Baker, Luis Garcia‐Carreras, Manuel Gloor, John H. Marsham, Wolfgang Buermann, Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha et al.

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-2279-2021 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: runoff, seasonal

Abstract. Water recycled through transpiring forests influences the spatial distribution of precipitation in the Amazon and has been shown to play a role in the initiation of the wet season. However, due to the challenges and costs associated with measuring evapotranspiration (ET) directly and high uncertainty in remote-sensing ET retrievals, the spatial and temporal patterns in Amazon ET remain poorly understood. In this study, we estimated ET over the Amazon and 10 sub-basins using a catchm…


Relations between climate change and mass movement: Perspectives from the Canadian Cordillera and the European Alps

Authors: Marta Chiarle, Marten Geertsema, G. Mortara, John J. Clague

Journal: Global and Planetary Change · DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103499 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: Implications for adaptation to a changing climate

Authors: Camilla Soravia, Benjamin J. Ashton, Alex Thornton, Amanda R. Ridley

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · DOI: 10.1002/wcc.713 · Citations: 87

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the phenology, distribution, and demography of wild animal populations are well documented, the impact of increasing temperature on cognition in these populations has received relatively little attention. Cognition encompasses the mental mechanisms that allow individuals to process information from the surrounding…


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 6 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

G‐RUN ENSEMBLE: A Multi‐Forcing Observation‐Based Global Runoff Reanalysis

Authors: Gionata Ghiggi, Vincent Humphrey, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Lukas Gudmundsson

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028787 · Citations: 138

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

Abstract River discharge is an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) and is one of the best monitored components of the terrestrial water cycle. Nonetheless, gauging stations are distributed unevenly around the world, leaving many white spaces on global freshwater resources maps. Here, we use a machine learning algorithm and historical weather data to upscale sparse in situ river discharge measurements. We provide a global reanalysis of monthly runoff rates for periods covering decades to the past…


Rainfall-runoff modeling using LSTM-based multi-state-vector sequence-to-sequence model

Authors: Hanlin Yin, Xiuwei Zhang, Fandu Wang, Yanning Zhang, Runliang Xia, Jin Jin

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126378 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract not available.


Optimization model for the short-term joint operation of a grid-connected wind-photovoltaic-hydro hybrid energy system with cascade hydropower plants

Authors: Lu Lu, Yuan Wenlin, Chengguo Su, Peilin Wang, Chun-tian Cheng, D. Yan et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.ENCONMAN.2021.114055 · Citations: 130

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract not available.


Impacts of land use and land cover changes on hydrological processes and sediment yield determined using the SWAT model

Authors: Edivaldo Afonso de Oliveira Serrão, Madson Tavares Silva, Thomás Rocha Ferreira, Lorena Conceição Paiva de Ataíde, Cleber Assis dos Santos, Aline Maria Meiguins de Lima et al.

Journal: International Journal of Sediment Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsrc.2021.04.002 · Citations: 128

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

Abstract not available.


Quantifying the effects of land use and model scale on water partitioning and water ages using tracer-aided ecohydrological models

Authors: Aaron Smith, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Lukas Kleine, Marco Maneta, Chris Soulsby

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-2239-2021 · Citations: 104

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

Abstract. Quantifying how vegetation mediates water partitioning at different spatial and temporal scales in complex, managed catchments is fundamental for long-term sustainable land and water management. Estimations from ecohydrological models conceptualising how vegetation regulates the interrelationships between evapotranspiration losses, catchment water storage dynamics, and recharge and runoff fluxes are needed to assess water availability for a range of ecosystem services and evaluate h…


Daily runoff forecasting by deep recursive neural network

Authors: Jiangwei Zhang, Xiaohui Chen, Amirul Khan, You‐Kuan Zhang, X. Kuang, Xiuyu Liang et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2021.126067 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract In recent years, deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) has been applied to predict daily runoff, as its wonderful ability of dealing with the high nonlinear interactions among the complex hydrology factors. However, most of the existing studies focused on the model structure and the computational load, without considering the impact from the selection of multiple input variables on the model prediction. This article presents a study to evaluate this influence and provides a method of i…


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 14 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean

Authors: Lourens Meijer, Tim van Emmerik, Ruud van der Ent, Christian Schmidt, Laurent Lebreton

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803 · Citations: 1289

Matched topics: hydrology, river, runoff, land surface model, hydropower

Plastic waste increasingly accumulates in the marine environment, but data on the distribution and quantification of riverine sources required for development of effective mitigation are limited. Our model approach includes geographically distributed data on plastic waste, land use, wind, precipitation, and rivers and calculates the probability for plastic waste to reach a river and subsequently the ocean. This probabilistic approach highlights regions that are likely to emit plastic into the…


Ecological impacts of run-of-river hydropower plants—Current status and future prospects on the brink of energy transition

Authors: Alban Kuriqi, A. Pinheiro, Á. Sordo-Ward, M. Bejarano, L. Garrote

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.RSER.2021.110833 · Citations: 444

Matched topics: river, hydropower

Abstract The general perception of small run-of-river hydropower plants as renewable energy sources with little or no environmental impacts has led to a global proliferation of this hydropower technology. However, such hydropower schemes may alter the natural flow regime and impair the fluvial ecosystem at different trophic levels. This paper presents a global-scale analysis of the major ecological impacts of three main small run-of-river hydropower types: dam-toe, diversion weir, and pondage…


The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States

Authors: Md Abu Bakar Siddik, Arman Shehabi, Landon Marston

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abfba1 · Citations: 200

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract Much of the world’s data are stored, managed, and distributed by data centers. Data centers require a tremendous amount of energy to operate, accounting for around 1.8% of electricity use in the United States. Large amounts of water are also required to operate data centers, both directly for liquid cooling and indirectly to produce electricity. For the first time, we calculate spatially-detailed carbon and water footprints of data centers operating within the United States, which is…


Assessment of floating solar photovoltaics potential in existing hydropower reservoirs in Africa

Authors: R. Gonzalez Sanchez, I. Kougias, M. Moner-Girona, F. Fahl, A. Jäger-Waldau

Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/J.RENENE.2021.01.041 · Citations: 188

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract Africa is characterised by a very high solar potential, with a yearly sum of solar irradiation exceeding 2000 kWh/m2. Many African countries are heavily dependent on hydropower, however, increasingly frequent droughts have been severely affecting hydropower generation in the last few decades. The installation of floating photovoltaics (FPV) in existing hydropower reservoirs, would provide solar electricity to help compensate hydropower production during dry periods and reduce evapora…


Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence

Authors: Andrew Ciavarella, Daniel Cotterill, Peter A. Stott, Sarah Kew, Sjoukje Philip, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh et al.

Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03052-w · Citations: 167

Matched topics: earth system model

Over the first half of 2020, Siberia experienced the warmest period from January to June since records began and on the 20th of June the weather station at Verkhoyansk reported 38 °C, the highest daily maximum temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle. We present a multi-model, multi-method analysis on how anthropogenic climate change affected the probability of these events occurring using both observational datasets and a large collection of climate models, including state-of-the-art …


JULES-CN: a coupled terrestrial carbon–nitrogen scheme (JULES vn5.1)

Authors: A. Wiltshire, Eleanor Burke, Sarah Chadburn, Chris Jones, Peter M. Cox, Taraka Davies‐Barnard et al.

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-2161-2021 · Citations: 154

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. Understanding future changes in the terrestrial carbon cycle is important for reliable projections of climate change and impacts on ecosystems. It is well known that nitrogen (N) could limit plants’ response to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and it is therefore important to include a representation of the N cycle in Earth system models. Here we present the implementation of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) – the land surface sch…


Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales

Authors: S. Knox, Sheel Bansal, G. McNicol, K. Schafer, C. Sturtevant, M. Ueyama et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15661 · Citations: 150

Matched topics: seasonal

While wetlands are the largest natural source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, they represent a large source of uncertainty in the global CH4 budget due to the complex biogeochemical controls on CH4 dynamics. Here we present, to our knowledge, the first multi‐site synthesis of how predictors of CH4 fluxes (FCH4) in freshwater wetlands vary across wetland types at diel, multiday (synoptic), and seasonal time scales. We used several statistical approaches (correlation analysis, generalized a…


Remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques based investigation of groundwater potential zones in the Karumeniyar river basin, Tamil Nadu, southern India

Authors: S. Arunbose, Y. Srinivas, S. Rajkumar, Nithya C. Nair, S. Kaliraj

Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2021.100586 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE with improved P factor and its validation: Case study on mountainous and hilly areas of Hubei Province, China

Authors: Pei Tian, Zhanliang Zhu, Qimeng Yue, Yi He, Zhaoyi Zhang, Fanghua Hao et al.

Journal: International Soil and Water Conservation Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.iswcr.2021.04.007 · Citations: 117

Matched topics: runoff

The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) is widely used to estimate regional soil erosion. However, quantitative impacts of soil and water conservation (SWC) measures on conservation practice factor (P) of the RUSLE remain largely unclear, especially for the mountainous and hilly areas. In this study, we improved the RUSLE by considering quantitative impacts of different SWC measures on the P factor value. The improved RUSLE was validated against the long-term (2000–2015) soil erosion…


Soil erosion and sediment yield assessment using RUSLE and GIS-based approach in Anjeb watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

Authors: Lewoye Tsegaye, Rishikesh Bharti

Journal: SN Applied Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04564-x · Citations: 107

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract Soil erosion is a serious and continuous environmental problem in Ethiopia. Lack of land use planning, environmental protection, over-cultivation, and overgrazing are prominent causes of erosion and sedimentation. This study is conducted in Anjeb watershed located in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. In this study, the quantity and distribution of soil erosion, sediment delivery ratio (SDR), and sediment yield of the watershed were assessed by employing remote sensing, geographic …


Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?

Authors: Wouter Dorigo, Stephan Dietrich, Filipe Aires, Luca Brocca, Sarah Carter, Jean‐François Crétaux et al.

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-19-0316.1 · Citations: 103

Matched topics: hydrologic model, earth system model

ABSTRACT Life on Earth vitally depends on the availability of water. Human pressure on freshwater resources is increasing, as is human exposure to weather-related extremes (droughts, storms, floods) caused by climate change. Understanding these changes is pivotal for developing mitigation and adaptation strategies. The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) defines a suite of essential climate variables (ECVs), many related to the water cycle, required to systematically monitor Earth’s climat…


Solar for all: A framework to deliver inclusive and environmentally sustainable solar irrigation for smallholder agriculture

Authors: Nicole Lefore, Alvar Closas, Petra Schmitter

Journal: Energy Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112313 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: irrigation

Worldwide, off-grid solar photovoltaic irrigation is currently being developed with the expectation that it will help secure water access to increase food production, reduce fuel-based carbon emissions and energy costs, and increase human resilience to climate change. In developing countries across the Middle East and North Africa, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the adoption of solar technology in agriculture to lift groundwater is rapidly expanding, following decreases in pump costs…


Southern Ocean anthropogenic carbon sink constrained by sea surface salinity

Authors: Jens Terhaar, Thomas L. Frölicher, Fortunat Joos

Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd5964 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: earth system model

The ocean attenuates global warming by taking up about one quarter of global anthropogenic carbon emissions. Around 40% of this carbon sink is located in the Southern Ocean. However, Earth system models struggle to reproduce the Southern Ocean circulation and carbon fluxes. We identify a tight relationship across two multimodel ensembles between present-day sea surface salinity in the subtropical-polar frontal zone and the anthropogenic carbon sink in the Southern Ocean. Observations and mode…


Fengyun Meteorological Satellite Products for Earth System Science Applications

Authors: Di Xian, Peng Zhang, Ling Gao, Ruijing Sun, Haizhen Zhang, Xu Jia

Journal: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s00376-021-0425-3 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Following the progress of satellite data assimilation in the 1990s, the combination of meteorological satellites and numerical models has changed the way scientists understand the earth. With the evolution of numerical weather prediction models and earth system models, meteorological satellites will play a more important role in earth sciences in the future. As part of the space-based infrastructure, the Fengyun (FY) meteorological satellites have contributed to earth science sustain…


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