Weekly Literature Review
Week 20 · May 17–May 23, 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
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Flash-flood susceptibility mapping based on XGBoost, random forest and boosted regression trees
- Towards better flood risk management: Assessing flood risk and investigating the potential mechanism based on machine learning models.
- Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya
- Rapid forecasting of urban flood inundation using multiple machine learning models
- Rock avalanche induced flash flood on 07 February 2021 in Uttarakhand, India—a photogeological reconstruction of the event
- Climate More Important for Chinese Flood Changes Than Reservoirs and Land Use
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Response and Defence Mechanisms of Vegetable Crops against Drought, Heat and Salinity Stress
- Grain development in wheat under combined heat and drought stress: Plant responses and management
- Response of vegetation to drought in the Tibetan Plateau: Elevation differentiation and the dominant factors
- Remote Sensing Indices for Spatial Monitoring of Agricultural Drought in South Asian Countries
- Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran
- MeRAV5 promotes drought stress resistance in cassava by modulating hydrogen peroxide and lignin accumulation
- ERAD-related E2 and E3 enzymes modulate the drought response by regulating the stability of PIP2 aquaporins
- Super absorbent polymers mitigate drought stress in corn (Zea mays L.) grown under rainfed conditions
- Differential variations in total flavonoid content and antioxidant enzymes activities in pea under different salt and drought stresses
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Critical slowing down suggests that the western Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a tipping point
- Economic damages from Hurricane Sandy attributable to sea level rise caused by anthropogenic climate change
- Vicious Circles: Violence, Vulnerability, and Climate Change
- Modeling habitat suitability of Houttuynia cordata Thunb (Ceercao) using MaxEnt under climate change in China
- Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change
- Wind power potential and intermittency issues in the context of climate change
- Genotype–Environment mismatch of kelp forests under climate change
- Snowfall and snowpack in the Western U.S. as captured by convection permitting climate simulations: current climate and pseudo global warming future climate
- Analysing the future energy performance of residential buildings in the most populated Italian climatic zone: A study of climate change impacts
- Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas
- Adapting our sea ports to the challenges of climate change: Development and validation of a Port Resilience Index
- Climate change perception and its impact on net farm income of smallholder rice farmers in South-West, Nigeria
- Assessment of climate change impacts on hydrology and water quality of large semi-arid reservoirs in Brazil
- A decadal (2008–2017) daily evapotranspiration data set of 1 km spatial resolution and spatial completeness across the North China Plain using TSEB and data fusion
- Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end-Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana
- Projected changes in temperature, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration across Indus River Basin at 1.5–3.0 °C warming levels using CMIP6-GCMs
- Soil Enzyme Activities and Their Relationships With Soil C, N, and P in Peatlands From Different Types of Permafrost Regions, Northeast China
- Livelihood vulnerability and climate change: a comparative analysis of smallholders in the Indo-Gangetic plains
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling
- Ice thickness distribution of all Swiss glaciers based on extended ground-penetrating radar data and glaciological modeling
- Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over tectonic and multimillennial timescales
- A Downscaling–Merging Scheme for Improving Daily Spatial Precipitation Estimates Based on Random Forest and Cokriging
- Modelled land use and land cover change emissions – a spatio-temporal comparison of different approaches
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery: An Application in Simulating Lake Temperature Profiles
- Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia
- Effect of hydrogeological conditions on groundwater nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment of nitrate in Jiaokou Irrigation District
- Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties
- Comparison of characteristics, water quality and health risk assessment of trace elements in surface water and groundwater in China.
- Evidence for the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to water issues in Africa
- Effects of biochar amendment and reduced irrigation on growth, physiology, water-use efficiency and nutrients uptake of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) on two different soil types.
- The role of hydropower reservoirs in deep decarbonization policy
- Practicality of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in different contexts
- Global Importance of Secondary Ice Production
- Very rare heat extremes: quantifying and understanding using ensemble re-initialization
- Urban nexus and transformative pathways towards a resilient Gauteng City-Region, South Africa
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 6 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Abedi, Chen et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Flash-flood susceptibility mapping based on XGBoost, random forest and boosted regression trees
Authors: R. Abedi, R. Costache, Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Q. Pham
Journal: Geocarto International · DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2021.1920636 · Citations: 253
Matched topics: flood
Abstract Historical exploration of flash flood events and producing flash-flood susceptibility maps are crucial steps for decision makers in disaster management. In this article, classification and regression tree (CART) methodology and its ensemble models of random forest (RF), boosted regression trees (BRT) and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) were implemented to create a flash-flood susceptibility map of the Bâsca Chiojdului River Basin, one of the areas in Romania that is constantly ex…
Towards better flood risk management: Assessing flood risk and investigating the potential mechanism based on machine learning models.
Authors: Jialei Chen, Guoru Huang, Wenjie Chen
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112810 · Citations: 207
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya
Authors: Ashim Sattar, Ajanta Goswami, Anil V. Kulkarni, Adam Emmer, Umesh K. Haritashya, Simon Allen et al.
Journal: Geomorphology · DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107783 · Citations: 114
Matched topics: hydrology, flood, hydropower
The Teesta basin in Sikkim Himalaya hosts numerous glacial lakes in the high altitude glacierized region, including one of the largest and the fastest-growing South Lhonak Lake. While these lakes are mainly located in remote and unsettled mountain valleys, far-reaching glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) may claim lives and damage assets up to tens of kilometers downstream. Therefore, evaluating GLOF hazard associated with current and potential future glacier-retreat-driven changes is of hig…
Rapid forecasting of urban flood inundation using multiple machine learning models
Authors: Jingming Hou, Nie Zhou, Guangzhao Chen, Miansong Huang, Guangbi Bai
Journal: Natural Hazards · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-021-04782-x · Citations: 112
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Rock avalanche induced flash flood on 07 February 2021 in Uttarakhand, India—a photogeological reconstruction of the event
Authors: Tapas R. Martha, Priyom Roy, Nirmala Jain, K. Vinod Kumar, P. Sashivardhan Reddy, J. Nalini et al.
Journal: Landslides · DOI: 10.1007/s10346-021-01691-9 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Climate More Important for Chinese Flood Changes Than Reservoirs and Land Use
Authors: Long Yang, Yixin Yang, Gabriele Villarini, Xiang Li, Hongchang Hu, Lachun Wang et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl093061 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: reservoir, flood
Abstract River regulations and changing land management practices are generally perceived to be the dominant drivers of river flood changes in countries with rapid economic growth, such as China. Here, we demonstrate based on the most comprehensive flood database to date, that climate variations dominate the spatial pattern of changes in annual flood peak discharge in China, despite intense human alterations of the river and land systems over the past four decades. Regional flood increases ar…
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 9 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Giordano, Zahra et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Response and Defence Mechanisms of Vegetable Crops against Drought, Heat and Salinity Stress
Authors: Maria Giordano, S. Petropoulos, Y. Rouphael
Journal: Agriculture · DOI: 10.3390/AGRICULTURE11050463 · Citations: 244
Matched topics: drought
Environmental pollution, increasing CO2 atmospheric levels and the greenhouse effect are closely associated with the ongoing climate change and the extreme climatic events we are witnessing all over the Earth. Drought, high temperature and salinity are among the main environmental stresses that negatively affect the yield of numerous crops, challenging the world food safety. These effects are more profound in vegetable crops which are generally more susceptible to climate change than field or…
Grain development in wheat under combined heat and drought stress: Plant responses and management
Authors: Noreen Zahra, Abdul Wahid, Muhammad Bilal Hafeez, Aman Ullah, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Muhammad Farooq
Journal: Environmental and Experimental Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2021.104517 · Citations: 160
Matched topics: water management, drought
Abstract not available.
Response of vegetation to drought in the Tibetan Plateau: Elevation differentiation and the dominant factors
Authors: Yijia Wang, Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Yan Li, Xiaoming Feng, Shuai Wang
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108468 · Citations: 117
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Remote Sensing Indices for Spatial Monitoring of Agricultural Drought in South Asian Countries
Authors: Muhammad Shahzaman, Weijun Zhu, Muhammad Bilal, Birhanu Asmerom Habtemicheal, Farhan Mustafa, Muhammad Arshad et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13112059 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: drought, land surface model
Drought is an intricate atmospheric phenomenon with the greatest impacts on food security and agriculture in South Asia. Timely and appropriate forecasting of drought is vital in reducing its negative impacts. This study intended to explore the performance of the evaporative stress index (ESI), vegetation health index (VHI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI), and standardized anomaly index (SAI) based on satellite remote sensing data from 2002–2019 for agricultural drought assessment in Afghani…
Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran
Authors: Fatemeh Nasrnia, Niloofar Ashktorab
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107817 · Citations: 104
Matched topics: drought
Todays, climate change, along with its impact on people’s livelihood, is considered as one of the most important challenges facing human societies. Regarded as one of the most important and costly climatic phenomena, drought has severely and catastrophically affected housholds’ livelihood through economic and social damages mostly in arid environment. Accordingly, drought management is deemed as one of the most important priorities policymakers in agriculture worldwide. The present study soug…
MeRAV5 promotes drought stress resistance in cassava by modulating hydrogen peroxide and lignin accumulation
Authors: Yan Yu, Peng Wang, Yi Lu, Yujing Bai, Yunxie Wei, Guoyin Liu et al.
Journal: The Plant Journal · DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15350 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: drought
and lignin by MeRAV5 is essential for drought stress resistance in cassava.
ERAD-related E2 and E3 enzymes modulate the drought response by regulating the stability of PIP2 aquaporins
Authors: Qian Chen, Ruijun Liu, Yaorong Wu, Shaowei Wei, Qian Wang, Yunna Zheng et al.
Journal: The Plant Cell · DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koab141 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: drought
Endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) is known to regulate plant responses to diverse stresses, yet its underlying molecular mechanisms and links to various stress signaling pathways are poorly understood. Here, we show that the ERAD component ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBC32 positively regulates drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana by targeting the aquaporins PIP2;1 and PIP2;2 for degradation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the RING-type ligase Rma1 acts together with …
Super absorbent polymers mitigate drought stress in corn (Zea mays L.) grown under rainfed conditions
Authors: Ahmed M. Abdallah, Alsayed M. Mashaheet, Kent O. Burkey
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106946 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Differential variations in total flavonoid content and antioxidant enzymes activities in pea under different salt and drought stresses
Authors: Muhammad Farooq, Rafiq Ahmad, Muhammad Shahzad, Yasar Sajjad, Amjad Hassan, Mohammad Maroof Shah et al.
Journal: Scientia Horticulturae · DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2021.110258 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 18 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Critical slowing down suggests that the western Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a tipping point
Authors: Niklas Boers, Martin Rypdal
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024192118 · Citations: 211
Matched topics: runoff, earth system model
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is a potentially unstable component of the Earth system and may exhibit a critical transition under ongoing global warming. Mass reductions of the GrIS have substantial impacts on global sea level and the speed of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, due to the additional freshwater caused by increased meltwater runoff into the northern Atlantic. The stability of the GrIS depends crucially on the positive melt-elevation feedback (MEF), by which melt …
Economic damages from Hurricane Sandy attributable to sea level rise caused by anthropogenic climate change
Authors: Benjamin Strauss, Philip Orton, Klaus Bittermann, Maya K. Buchanan, Daniel M. Gilford, Robert E. Kopp et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22838-1 · Citations: 204
Matched topics: flood, climate change
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the United States, creating widespread coastal flooding and over $60 billion in reported economic damage. The potential influence of climate change on the storm itself has been debated, but sea level rise driven by anthropogenic climate change more clearly contributed to damages. To quantify this effect, here we simulate water levels and damage both as they occurred and as they would have occurred across a range of lower sea levels corresponding …
Vicious Circles: Violence, Vulnerability, and Climate Change
Authors: Halvard Buhaug, Nina von Uexkull
Journal: Annual Review of Environment and Resources · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-014708 · Citations: 165
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change threatens core dimensions of human security, including economic prosperity, food availability, and societal stability. In recent years, war-torn regions such as Afghanistan and Yemen have harbored severe humanitarian crises, compounded by climate-related hazards. These cases epitomize the powerful but presently incompletely appreciated links between vulnerability, conflict, and climate-related impacts. In this article, we develop a unified conceptual model of these phenomena by…
Modeling habitat suitability of Houttuynia cordata Thunb (Ceercao) using MaxEnt under climate change in China
Authors: Lei Liu, Lingliang Guan, Haoxiang Zhao, Yi Huang, Qiuyu Mou, Ke Liu et al.
Journal: Ecological Informatics · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101324 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change
Authors: Cheryl A. Logan, John P. Dunne, James S. Ryan, Marissa L. Baskett, Simon D. Donner
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01037-2 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Wind power potential and intermittency issues in the context of climate change
Authors: Yiling Cai, François‐Marie Bréon
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114276 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: climate change
Wind power is developing rapidly because of its potential to provide renewable electricity and the large reduction in installation costs during the past decade. However, the high temporal variability of the wind power source is an obstacle to a high penetration in the electricity mix as it makes difficult to balance electricity supply and demand. There is therefore a need to quantify the variability of wind power and also to analyze how this variability decreases through spatial aggregation. …
Genotype–Environment mismatch of kelp forests under climate change
Authors: Sofie Vranken, Thomas Wernberg, Armin Scheben, Anita A. Severn‐Ellis, Jacqueline Batley, Philipp E. Bayer et al.
Journal: Molecular Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/mec.15993 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is increasingly impacting ecosystems globally. Understanding adaptive genetic diversity and whether it will keep pace with projected climatic change is necessary to assess species’ vulnerability and design efficient mitigation strategies such as assisted adaptation. Kelp forests are the foundations of temperate reefs globally but are declining in many regions due to climate stress. A lack of knowledge of kelp’s adaptive genetic diversity hinders assessment of vulnerability unde…
Snowfall and snowpack in the Western U.S. as captured by convection permitting climate simulations: current climate and pseudo global warming future climate
Authors: Kyoko Ikeda, Roy Rasmussen, Changhai Liu, Andrew J. Newman, Fei Chen, Mike Barlage et al.
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05805-w · Citations: 89
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model
Abstract This study examines current and future western U.S. snowfall and snowpack through current and future climate simulations with a 4-km horizontal grid spacing cloud permitting regional climate model over the entire CONtinental U.S. for a 13-year period between 2001 and 2013. At this horizontal resolution, the spatiotemporal distribution of the orographic snowfall and snowpack is well captured partly due to the ability of the model to realistically simulate mesoscale and microphysical f…
Analysing the future energy performance of residential buildings in the most populated Italian climatic zone: A study of climate change impacts
Authors: Mamak P. Tootkaboni, Ilaria Ballarini, Vincenzo Corrado
Journal: Energy Reports · DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2021.04.012 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: climate change
There is growing concern that global warming will change the building’s performance pattern in the future. This paper investigates the effects of climate changes on the heating and cooling energy demand, the overall energy performance and the overheating risk of typical residential buildings (existing and refurbished) in the biggest city of the most populated Italian climatic zone, Milan. The widely used morphing methodology was adapted for creating future weather data for different scenarios…
Don’t forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas
Authors: David Sánchez‐Fernández, Diana M. P. Galassi, J. Judson Wynne, Pedro Cardoso, Stefano Mammola
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01057-y · Citations: 85
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Adapting our sea ports to the challenges of climate change: Development and validation of a Port Resilience Index
Authors: Fernando León-Mateos, António Sartal, Lucas López‐Manuel, María de los Ángeles Quintás Corredoira
Journal: Marine Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104573 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Climate change perception and its impact on net farm income of smallholder rice farmers in South-West, Nigeria
Authors: Temitope O. Ojo, Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127373 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Assessment of climate change impacts on hydrology and water quality of large semi-arid reservoirs in Brazil
Authors: João B. S. Raulino, Cleiton da Silva Silveira, Iran Eduardo Lima Neto
Journal: Hydrological Sciences Journal · DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2021.1933491 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, reservoir, climate change, hydropower
This paper investigates climate change impacts on the hydrology and water quality of Brazilian semi-arid reservoirs. An integrated approach coupling climate, hydrological and water quality models was proposed. Five general circulation models (GCMs) and two future scenarios (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5) were used for the projections. The simulations showed that uncertainty in climate forecast significantly impacted hydrological and water quality outputs. Some scenarios revealed a strong decrease in …
A decadal (2008–2017) daily evapotranspiration data set of 1 km spatial resolution and spatial completeness across the North China Plain using TSEB and data fusion
Authors: Caijin Zhang, Di Long, Yucui Zhang, Martha C. Anderson, William P. Kustas, Yang Yang
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112519 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: water management, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end-Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana
Authors: Tracy D. Frank, C. R. Fielding, A. Winguth, Katarina Savatic, Allen P. Tevyaw, C. Winguth et al.
Journal: Geology · DOI: 10.1130/g48795.1 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Rapid climate change was a major contributor to the end-Permian extinction (EPE). Although well constrained for the marine realm, relatively few records document the pace, nature, and magnitude of climate change across the EPE in terrestrial environments. We generated proxy records for chemical weathering and land surface temperature from continental margin deposits of the high-latitude southeastern margin of Gondwana. Regional climate simulations provide additional context. Results …
Projected changes in temperature, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration across Indus River Basin at 1.5–3.0 °C warming levels using CMIP6-GCMs
Authors: Sanjit Kumar Mondal, Hui Tao, Jinlong Huang, Yanjun Wang, Buda Su, Jianqing Zhai et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147867 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, water management
Abstract not available.
Soil Enzyme Activities and Their Relationships With Soil C, N, and P in Peatlands From Different Types of Permafrost Regions, Northeast China
Authors: Chao Liu, Yanyu Song, Xingfeng Dong, Xianwei Wang, Xiuyan Ma, Guangying Zhao et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science · DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.670769 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: hydrology
Peatland is a key component of terrestrial ecosystems in permafrost regions and have important effects on climate warming. Soil enzymes are involved in biogeochemical cycle of soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), which can be used as early sensitive indicators of soil nutrient changes caused by climate change. To predict the possible effects of permafrost degradation on soil enzymes in peatlands, ten peatlands from three types of permafrost regions along the permafrost degradatio…
Livelihood vulnerability and climate change: a comparative analysis of smallholders in the Indo-Gangetic plains
Authors: Terese E. Venus, Stephanie Bilgram, Johannes Sauer, Arun Khatri-Chettri
Journal: Environment Development and Sustainability · DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01516-8 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract In the Indo-Gangetic Plains, one of India’s most productive agricultural regions, smallholder livelihood vulnerability can inhibit sustainable development. As there are significant differences in economic development, natural resources and agricultural productivity within the region, we estimate the Livelihood Vulnerability Index in two districts (Vaishali, Bihar and Karnal, Haryana) to determine suitable adaptation strategies under diverse conditions. To reflect different aspects of…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 5 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling
Authors: Frederik Kratzert, Daniel Klotz, Sepp Hochreiter, Grey Nearing
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-2685-2021 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow
Abstract. A deep learning rainfall–runoff model can take multiple meteorological forcing products as input and learn to combine them in spatially and temporally dynamic ways. This is demonstrated with Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs) trained over basins in the continental US, using the Catchment Attributes and Meteorological data set for Large Sample Studies (CAMELS). Using meteorological input from different data products (North American Land Data Assimilation System, NLDAS, Maurer, a…
Ice thickness distribution of all Swiss glaciers based on extended ground-penetrating radar data and glaciological modeling
Authors: Melchior Grab, Enrico Mattea, Andreas Bauder, Matthias Huss, Lasse Rabenstein, Elias Hodel et al.
Journal: Journal of Glaciology · DOI: 10.1017/jog.2021.55 · Citations: 119
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, hydropower
Abstract Accurate knowledge of the ice thickness distribution and glacier bed topography is essential for predicting dynamic glacier changes and the future developments of downstream hydrology, which are impacting the energy sector, tourism industry and natural hazard management. Using AIR-ETH, a new helicopter-borne ground-penetrating radar (GPR) platform, we measured the ice thickness of all large and most medium-sized glaciers in the Swiss Alps during the years 2016–20. Most of these had e…
Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over tectonic and multimillennial timescales
Authors: Peter D. Clift, Tara N. Jonell
Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103682 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
A Downscaling–Merging Scheme for Improving Daily Spatial Precipitation Estimates Based on Random Forest and Cokriging
Authors: Xin Yan, Hua Chen, Bingru Tian, Sheng Sheng, Jinxing Wang, Jong‐Suk Kim
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13112040 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model
High-spatial-resolution precipitation data are of great significance in many applications, such as ecology, hydrology, and meteorology. Acquiring high-precision and high-resolution precipitation data in a large area is still a great challenge. In this study, a downscaling–merging scheme based on random forest and cokriging is presented to solve this problem. First, the enhanced decision tree model, which is based on random forest from machine learning algorithms, is used to reduce the spatial…
Modelled land use and land cover change emissions – a spatio-temporal comparison of different approaches
Authors: Wolfgang A. Obermeier, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Tammas Loughran, Kerstin Hartung, Ana Bastos, Felix Havermann et al.
Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-12-635-2021 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract. Quantifying the net carbon flux from land use and land cover changes (fLULCC) is critical for understanding the global carbon cycle and, hence, to support climate change mitigation. However, large-scale fLULCC is not directly measurable and has to be inferred from models instead, such as semi-empirical bookkeeping models and process-based dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs). By definition, fLULCC estimates are not directly comparable between these two different model types. As …
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 12 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery: An Application in Simulating Lake Temperature Profiles
Authors: Xiaowei Jia, Jared Willard, Anuj Karpatne, Jordan S. Read, Jacob A. Zwart, Michael Steinbach et al.
Journal: ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science · DOI: 10.1145/3447814 · Citations: 281
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, water management
Physics-based models are often used to study engineering and environmental systems. The ability to model these systems is the key to achieving our future environmental sustainability and improving the quality of human life. This article focuses on simulating lake water temperature, which is critical for understanding the impact of changing climate on aquatic ecosystems and assisting in aquatic resource management decisions. General Lake Model (GLM) is a state-of-the-art physics-based model us…
Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia
Authors: Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Amaury Dehecq, Marin Kneib, Stefan Fugger, Francesca Pellicciotti
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23073-4 · Citations: 263
Matched topics: hydrology
century warming, 21% ± 1% of ice volume will be lost by 2100 due to current climatic-geometric imbalance, representing a reduction in glacier ablation into rivers of 28% ± 1%. The ablation of glaciers in the Himalayas and Tien Shan was mostly unsustainable and ice volume in these regions will reduce by at least 30% by 2100. The most important and vulnerable glacier-fed river basins (Amu Darya, Indus, Syr Darya, Tarim Interior) were supplied with >50% sustainable glacier ablation but will see …
Effect of hydrogeological conditions on groundwater nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment of nitrate in Jiaokou Irrigation District
Authors: Qiying Zhang, H. Qian, Panpan Xu, Weiqing Li, Wenwen Feng, R. Liu
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2021.126783 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract Nitrate pollution in groundwater and related human health risk assessment are crucial to ensure groundwater quality safety. In this study, the grey water footprint (GWF), DRASTIC model, and human health risk assessment (HHRA) model were used to investigate the status of nitrate pollution, analyze the effect of hydrogeological conditions on groundwater nitrate pollution, and evaluate the human health risk of nitrate in the Jiaokou Irrigation District, China. The results show that the …
Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties
Authors: Florian Zabel, Christoph Müller, Joshua Elliott, Sara Minoli, Jonas Jägermeyr, Julia M. Schneider et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15649 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Climate change affects global agricultural production and threatens food security. Faster phenological development of crops due to climate warming is one of the main drivers for potential future yield reductions. To counter the effect of faster maturity, adapted varieties would require more heat units to regain the previous growing period length. In this study, we investigate the effects of variety adaptation on global caloric production under four different future climate change scenarios fo…
Comparison of characteristics, water quality and health risk assessment of trace elements in surface water and groundwater in China.
Authors: Shuangmei Tong, Hairong Li, Muyesaier Tudi, Xing Yuan, Linsheng Yang
Journal: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112283 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: surface water
Water quality is closely associated with human health and socio-economic sustainable development. With the increasingly intensive anthropogenic activities, pollutants especially trace elements, enter water aquatic system and cause harm to humans. This study conducted the first systematic comparison on the pollution status of surface water and groundwater in China. Water quality and health risk assessment of 12 trace elements were evaluated according to the water quality index (WQI), hazard qu…
Evidence for the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to water issues in Africa
Authors: Mike Acreman, Alison Smith, L Charters, David Tickner, Jeffrey J. Opperman, Samuel Acreman et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac0210 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
Abstract There is increasing global interest in employing nature-based solutions, such as reforestation and wetland restoration, to help reduce water risks to economies and society, including water pollution, floods, droughts and water scarcity, that are likely to become worse under future climates. Africa is exposed to many such water risks. Nature-based solutions for adaptation should be designed to benefit biodiversity and can also provide multiple co-benefits, such as carbon sequestration…
Effects of biochar amendment and reduced irrigation on growth, physiology, water-use efficiency and nutrients uptake of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) on two different soil types.
Authors: Xuezhi Liu, Zhenhua Wei, Yingying Ma, Jie Liu, Fulai Liu
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144769 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: irrigation
Biochar has shown beneficial effects in agricultural production, yet the combined effects of biochar and reduced irrigation on crop growth and water-use efficiency (WUE) in diverse soil types have not been fully explored. A split-root pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of addition of 2% softwood (SWB) and wheat straw biochar (WSB) on growth, physiology, WUE and nutrients uptake of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) plants grown in a Ferrosol and an Anthrosol, respectively, un…
The role of hydropower reservoirs in deep decarbonization policy
Authors: Emil Dimanchev, Joshua L. Hodge, John E. Parsons
Journal: Energy Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112369 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: reservoir, hydropower
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Practicality of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in different contexts
Authors: Kenji Nagata, Izumi Shoji, Tomohiro Arima, Takahiro Otsuka, Kumiko Kato, Miho Matsubayashi et al.
Journal: International Journal of Water Resources Development · DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2021.1921709 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: water management
The significance of integrated water resources management (IWRM) is broadly recognized, but practical implementation methods are little known. This paper proposes a Practical IWRM approach that has the potential to accelerate consensus-building and problem-solving relating to water resources based on the formation of an aligned perception of natural and human-made water resource systems among stakeholders, and the establishment of a properly functioning multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP). Th…
Global Importance of Secondary Ice Production
Authors: Xi Zhao, Xiaohong Liu
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl092581 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Measured ice crystal number concentrations are often orders of magnitude higher than the number concentrations of ice nucleating particles, indicating the existence of secondary ice production (SIP) in clouds. Here, we present the first study to examine the global importance of SIP through the droplet shattering during freezing of rain, ice‐ice collision fragmentation, and rime splintering, using a global climate model. Our results show that SIP happens quite uniformly in the two hem…
Very rare heat extremes: quantifying and understanding using ensemble re-initialization
Authors: Claudia Gessner, Erich Fischer, Urs Beyerle, Reto Knutti
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0916.1 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Heat waves such as the one in Europe 2003 have severe consequences for the economy, society, and ecosystems. It is unclear whether temperatures could have exceeded these anomalies even without further climate change. Developing storylines and quantifying highest possible temperature levels is challenging given the lack of long homogeneous time series and methodological framework to assess them. Here, we address this challenge by analysing summer temperatures in a nearly 5000-year pre…
Urban nexus and transformative pathways towards a resilient Gauteng City-Region, South Africa
Authors: Luxon Nhamo, Lameck Rwizi, Sylvester Mpandeli, Joel O. Botai, James Magidi, Henerica Tazvinga et al.
Journal: Cities · DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103266 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: water management
Challenges emanating from rapid urbanisation require innovative strategies to transform cities into global climate action and adaptation centres. We provide an analysis of the impacts of rapid urbanisation in the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa, highlighting major challenges related to (i) land use management, (ii) service delivery (water, energy, food, and waste and sanitation), and (iii) social cohesion. Geospatial techniques were used to assess spatio-temporal changes in the urban landsc…
Statistics
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 1010 |
| After deduplication | 695 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 645 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| Remote Sensing | 2 |
| Nature Communications | 2 |
| Nature Climate Change | 2 |
| Geocarto International | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 1 |
| Geomorphology | 1 |
| Natural Hazards | 1 |
| Landslides | 1 |
| Agriculture | 1 |
| Environmental and Experimental Botany | 1 |
| Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 1 |
| Ecological Indicators | 1 |
| The Plant Journal | 1 |
| The Plant Cell | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| Scientia Horticulturae | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 |
| Ecological Informatics | 1 |
| Energy Conversion and Management | 1 |
| Molecular Ecology | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Energy Reports | 1 |
| Marine Policy | 1 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| Hydrological Sciences Journal | 1 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 |
| Geology | 1 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 1 |
| Frontiers in Environmental Science | 1 |
| Environment Development and Sustainability | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Journal of Glaciology | 1 |
| Earth-Science Reviews | 1 |
| Earth System Dynamics | 1 |
| ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science | 1 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Science of the Total Environment | 1 |
| Energy Policy | 1 |
| International Journal of Water Resources Development | 1 |
| Journal of Climate | 1 |
| Cities | 1 |
Filtering Criteria
Topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, water management, flood, drought, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, hydropower, surface water, irrigation, earth system model
Databases: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex