Weekly Literature Review
Week 44 · November 1–November 7, 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
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics
- Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework
- Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding
- Reservoir regulation affects droughts and floods at local and regional scales
- Factors affecting perceived effectiveness of Typhoon Vamco (Ulysses) flood disaster response among Filipinos in Luzon, Philippines: An integration of protection motivation theory and extended theory of planned behavior
- Extracting the location of flooding events in urban systems and analyzing the semantic risk using social sensing data
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence
- Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species
- Drought propagation modification after the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River Basin
- Tree mortality response to drought‐density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models
- Bias-corrected CMIP6 global dataset for dynamical downscaling of the historical and future climate (1979–2100)
- Magnitudes and patterns of large-scale permafrost ground deformation revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
- Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change
- Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts
- Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: An update after 10 years
- Climate change in the High Mountain Asia in CMIP6
- Digital sustainability, climate change, and information systems solutions: Opportunities for future research
- Impacts of land use/land cover and climate changes on soil erosion in Muga watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin (Abay), Ethiopia
- The 2021 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: seizing the window of opportunity
- Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters
- Review of the Literature on the Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation
- Bringing physical reasoning into statistical practice in climate-change science
- Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers
- Climate Change and big data analytics: Challenges and opportunities
- Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia
- Upping the ante? The effects of “emergency” and “crisis” framing in climate change news
- Investigation of future climate change over the British Isles using weather patterns
- Increased variability in Greenland Ice Sheet runoff from satellite observations
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Review of GPM IMERG performance: A global perspective
- Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints
- OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States
- Performance of machine learning methods in predicting water quality index based on irregular data set: application on Illizi region (Algerian southeast)
- Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands
- Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States
- Delineation of groundwater potential zones for sustainable development and planning using analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and MIF techniques
- Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission
- Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2
- Seasonal hydrogen storage for sustainable renewable energy integration in the electricity sector: A case study of Finland
- The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)
- BAWLD-CH 4 : a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems
- Exploration of groundwater potential zones using analytical hierarchical process (AHP) approach in the Godavari river basin of Maharashtra in India
- Optimizing irrigation and fertilization at various growth stages to improve mango yield, fruit quality and water-fertilizer use efficiency in xerothermic regions
- Sustaining United States reservoir storage capacity: Need for a new paradigm
- The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water‐limited systems
- 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 Bakkensen, Nevo et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics
Authors: Laura Bakkensen, Lint Barrage
Journal: Review of Financial Studies · DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhab122 · Citations: 208
Matched topics: flood
Abstract How do climate risk beliefs affect coastal housing markets? This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence. First, we build a dynamic housing market model and show that belief heterogeneity can reconcile prior mixed evidence on flood risk capitalization. Second, we implement a door-to-door survey in Rhode Island, finding significant flood risk underestimation and sorting based on risk perceptions and amenity values. Third, we estimate that coastal prices exceed fundamentals b…
Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework
Authors: Sella Nevo, E. Morin, A. Rosenthal, Asher Metzger, Chen Barshai, Dana Weitzner et al.
Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-2021-554 · Citations: 202
Matched topics: flood
Abstract. Google’s operational flood forecasting system was developed to provide accurate real-time flood warnings to agencies and the public, with a focus on riverine floods in large, gauged rivers. It became operational in 2018 and has since expanded geographically. This forecasting system consists of four subsystems: data validation, stage forecasting, inundation modeling, and alert distribution. Machine learning is used for two of the subsystems. Stage forecasting is modeled with the Long…
Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding
Authors: Giorgia Di Capua, Sarah Sparrow, Kai Kornhuber, Efi Rousi, Scott Osprey, David Wallom et al.
Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · DOI: 10.1038/s41612-021-00211-9 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: flood, land surface model
Abstract Summer 2010 saw two simultaneous extremes linked by an atmospheric wave train: a record-breaking heatwave in Russia and severe floods in Pakistan. Here, we study this wave event using a large ensemble climate model experiment. First, we show that the circulation in 2010 reflected a recurrent wave train connecting the heatwave and flooding events. Second, we show that the occurrence of the wave train is favored by three drivers: (1) 2010 sea surface temperature anomalies increase the …
Reservoir regulation affects droughts and floods at local and regional scales
Authors: M. Brunner
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac36f6 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: reservoir, flood, drought
Hydrological extremes can be particularly impactful in catchments with high human presence where they are modulated by human intervention such as reservoir regulation. Still, we know little about how reservoir operation affects droughts and floods, particularly at a regional scale. Here, I present a large data set of natural and regulated catchment pairs in the United States and assess how reservoir regulation affects local and regional drought and flood characteristics. My results show that …
Factors affecting perceived effectiveness of Typhoon Vamco (Ulysses) flood disaster response among Filipinos in Luzon, Philippines: An integration of protection motivation theory and extended theory of planned behavior
Authors: Yoshiki B. Kurata, Yogi Tri Prasetyo, Ardvin Kester S. Ong, Reny Nadlifatin, Thanatorn Chuenyindee
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102670 · Citations: 87
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Extracting the location of flooding events in urban systems and analyzing the semantic risk using social sensing data
Authors: Yan Zhang, Zeqiang Chen, Xiang Zheng, Nengcheng Chen, Yongqiang Wang
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127053 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 4 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Christian, Marchin et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Global distribution, trends, and drivers of flash drought occurrence
Authors: J. Christian, J. Basara, E. Hunt, J. Otkin, J. C. Furtado, V. Mishra et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26692-z · Citations: 398
Matched topics: drought, land surface model
Flash drought is characterized by a period of rapid drought intensification with impacts on agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and the human environment. Addressing these challenges requires a fundamental understanding of flash drought occurrence. This study identifies global hotspots for flash drought from 1980–2015 via anomalies in evaporative stress and the standardized evaporative stress ratio. Flash drought hotspots exist over Brazil, the Sahel, the Great Rift Valley, and India, w…
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species
Authors: Renée M. Marchin, Diana Backes, A. Ossola, M. Leishman, M. Tjoelker, D. Ellsworth
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15976 · Citations: 356
Matched topics: drought
Tree mortality during global‐change‐type drought is usually attributed to xylem dysfunction, but as climate change increases the frequency of extreme heat events, it is necessary to better understand the interactive role of heat stress. We hypothesized that some drought‐stressed plants paradoxically open stomata in heatwaves to prevent leaves from critically overheating. We experimentally imposed heat (>40°C) and drought stress onto 20 broadleaf evergreen tree/shrub species in a glasshouse st…
Drought propagation modification after the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River Basin
Authors: Shuzhe Huang, Xiang Zhang, Nengcheng Chen, Boyan Li, Hongliang Ma, Lei Xu et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127138 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, runoff, drought
Abstract not available.
Tree mortality response to drought‐density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance
Authors: John B. Bradford, Robert K. Shriver, Marcos D. Robles, Lisa A. McCauley, Travis Woolley, Caitlin M. Andrews et al.
Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14073 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: drought
Abstract The future of dry forests around the world is uncertain given predictions that rising temperatures and enhanced aridity will increase drought‐induced tree mortality. Using forest management and ecological restoration to reduce density and competition for water offers one of the few pathways that forests managers can potentially minimize drought‐induced tree mortality. Competition for water during drought leads to elevated tree mortality in dense stands, although the influence of dens…
Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 3 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.
High-quality reconstruction of China’s natural streamflow.
Authors: C. Miao, Jiaojiao Gou, B. Fu, Q. Tang, Q. Duan, Zhongsheng Chen et al.
Journal: Science Bulletin · DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.09.022 · Citations: 151
Matched topics: streamflow
Reconstruction of natural streamflow is fundamental to the sustainable management of water resources. In China, previous reconstructions from sparse and poor-quality gauge measurements have led to large biases in simulation of the interannual and seasonal variability of natural flows. Here we use a well-trained and tested land surface model coupled to a routing model with flow direction correction to reconstruct the first high-quality gauge-based natural streamflow dataset for China, covering…
Monthly Streamflow Forecasting Using Convolutional Neural Network
Authors: Xingsheng Shu, Wei Ding, Yong Peng, Ziru Wang, Jian Wu, Min Li
Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-021-02961-w · Citations: 87
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Random forest and extreme gradient boosting algorithms for streamflow modeling using vessel features and tree-rings
Authors: Hossein Sahour, Vahid Gholami, Javad Torkaman, Mehdi Vazifedan, Sirwe Saeedi
Journal: Environmental Earth Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s12665-021-10054-5 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: streamflow
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 19 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models
Authors: Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, Alex C. Ruane, Joshua Elliott, Juraj Balkovič, Óscar Castillo et al.
Journal: Nature Food · DOI: 10.1038/s43016-021-00400-y · Citations: 907
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Bias-corrected CMIP6 global dataset for dynamical downscaling of the historical and future climate (1979–2100)
Authors: Zhongfeng Xu, Ying Han, Chi‐Yung Tam, Zong‐Liang Yang, Congbin Fu
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01079-3 · Citations: 285
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Dynamical downscaling is an important approach to obtaining fine-scale weather and climate information. However, dynamical downscaling simulations are often degraded by biases in the large-scale forcing itself. We constructed a bias-corrected global dataset based on 18 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis 5 (ERA5) dataset. The bias-corrected data have an ERA5-based mean climate and interannu…
Magnitudes and patterns of large-scale permafrost ground deformation revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Authors: Jie Chen, Tonghua Wu, Defu Zou, Lin Liu, Xiaodong Wu, Wenyu Gong et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112778 · Citations: 143
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change
Authors: Emiel De Lombaerde, Pieter Vangansbeke, Jonathan Lenoir, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151338 · Citations: 134
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change
Abstract not available.
Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts
Authors: Ruoya Ma, Kai Yu, Shuqi Xiao, Shuwei Liu, Philippe Ciais, Jianwen Zou
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15975 · Citations: 132
Matched topics: climate change
and NO emissions. Our established regional and crop-specific EFs for gaseous Nr forms provide a new benchmark for constraining the IPCC Tier 1 default EF values. The spatio-temporal insight into soil Nr emission data from N fertilizer application in our estimate is expected to advance our efforts towards more accurate global or regional cropland Nr emission inventories and effective mitigation strategies.
Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: An update after 10 years
Authors: Étienne Piguet
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · DOI: 10.1002/wcc.746 · Citations: 128
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract In WIREs Climate Change , Issue 1(4), 2010, I suggested a typology of the data and methods used to assess links between climate change, environmental degradation and migration (Piguet, 2010). My review of the literature included publications up to 2009. Since then, the number of empirically based scientific publications on this topic has risen substantially to average 40 articles per year and the scope of methods, stock of results and diversity of questions has widened. Based on the …
Climate change in the High Mountain Asia in CMIP6
Authors: Mickaël Lalande, Martin Ménégoz, Gerhard Krinner, Kathrin Naegeli, Stefan Wunderle
Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-12-1061-2021 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract. Climate change over High Mountain Asia (HMA, including the Tibetan Plateau) is investigated over the period 1979–2014 and in future projections following the four Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5. The skill of 26 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) models is estimated for near-surface air temperature, snow cover extent and total precipitation, and 10 of them are used to describe their projections until 2100. Similarly to prev…
Digital sustainability, climate change, and information systems solutions: Opportunities for future research
Authors: Shan L. Pan, Lemuria Carter, Yenni Tim, M S Sandeep
Journal: International Journal of Information Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102444 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Impacts of land use/land cover and climate changes on soil erosion in Muga watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin (Abay), Ethiopia
Authors: Tatek Belay, Daniel Ayalew Mengistu
Journal: Ecological Processes · DOI: 10.1186/s13717-021-00339-9 · Citations: 111
Matched topics: land surface model, climate change
Abstract Background Soil erosion is one of the major threats in the Ethiopian highlands. In this study, soil erosion in the Muga watershed of the Upper Blue Nile Basin (Abay) under historical and future climate and land use/land cover (LULC) change was assessed. Future LULC was predicted based on LULC map of 1985, 2002, and 2017. LULC maps of the historical periods were delineated from Landsat images, and future LULC was predicted using the CA–Markov chain model. Precipitation for the future …
The 2021 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: seizing the window of opportunity
Authors: Wenjia Cai, Chi Zhang, Shihui Zhang, Siqi Ai, Yuqi Bai, Junzhe Bao et al.
Journal: The Lancet Public Health · DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(21)00209-7 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: climate change
campaigns that link the response to climate change with health benefits for people today, and protect future generations, will be crucial for building confidence and support in mitigation and adaptation actions.
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters
Authors: Anders Svensson, Mattias Wahlström
Journal: Social movement studies · DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2021.1988913 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: climate change
Since August 2018, Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future have captured the attention of the world by mobilizing millions of young students as well as adults to join their climate strikes. The movement has stressed the urgency of global warming and urged politicians to listen to science and take action. The collective action framing has thus been broad and inclusive, but correspondingly vague in terms of its demands. It is therefore pertinent to explore what climate strikers believe should be …
Review of the Literature on the Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation
Authors: Campbell, Alison, Valerie Kapos, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Philip Bubb, Anna M. Chenery, Lauren Coad et al.
Journal: World Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) · DOI: 10.34892/7dhr-9437 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: climate change
UNEP-WCMC has been providing technical support to the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on biodiversity and climate change. UNEP-WCMC carried out three reviews of the recent scientific literature and these fed into the deliberations of the CBD’s Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Biodiversity and Climate Change. These reviews, entitled, ‘Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation’, have now been published as No. 42 of the…
Bringing physical reasoning into statistical practice in climate-change science
Authors: Theodore G. Shepherd
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03226-6 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract The treatment of uncertainty in climate-change science is dominated by the far-reaching influence of the ‘frequentist’ tradition in statistics, which interprets uncertainty in terms of sampling statistics and emphasizes p -values and statistical significance. This is the normative standard in the journals where most climate-change science is published. Yet a sampling distribution is not always meaningful (there is only one planet Earth). Moreover, scientific statements about climate …
Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers
Authors: Johan Nordensvärd, Markus Ketola
Journal: Environmental Politics · DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1996818 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: climate change
We propose that populism is a storytelling performance that involves a charismatic ‘truth-teller’ and a populist narrative frame. Populist narratives are sensemaking devices that guide people in areas of contestation, uncertainty and complexity where decisions cannot solely rely on rational and formal processes. Populist ‘truth-tellers’ apply a particular narrative frame that pits ‘people’ against the ‘elite’ when interpreting complex problems such as climate change. The aim of this article i…
Climate Change and big data analytics: Challenges and opportunities
Authors: Θάνος Παπαδόπουλος, Maria Balta
Journal: International Journal of Information Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102448 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia
Authors: Naomi Joy Godden, Brad Farrant, Jaime Yallup Farrant, Emma Heyink, Eva Carot Collins, Bella Burgemeister et al.
Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health · DOI: 10.1111/jpc.15649 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: climate change
The climate crisis has detrimental impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Psychological effects include feelings of fear, overwhelm, worry, distress, hopelessness and anger; PTSD; depression; anxiety; phobias; panic disorder; sleep disturbances; attachment disorders; learning difficulties; substance abuse; shock and trauma symptoms; adjustment problems; behavioural problems; and, suicidal thinking. First Nations’ children and young people are particularly at …
Upping the ante? The effects of “emergency” and “crisis” framing in climate change news
Authors: Lauren Feldman, P. Sol Hart
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03219-5 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Investigation of future climate change over the British Isles using weather patterns
Authors: James O. Pope, Kate Brown, Fai Fung, Helen M. Hanlon, Robert A. Neal, Erika J. Palin et al.
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-06031-0 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract For those involved in planning for regional and local scale changes in future climate, there is a requirement for climate information to be available in a context more usually associated with meteorological timescales. Here we combine a tool used in numerical weather prediction, the 30 weather patterns produced by the Met Office, which are already applied operationally to numerical weather prediction models, to assess changes in the UK Climate Projections (UKCP) Global ensemble. Thro…
Increased variability in Greenland Ice Sheet runoff from satellite observations
Authors: T. Slater, A. Shepherd, M. McMillan, A. Leeson, Lin Gilbert, A. Muir et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26229-4 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: runoff
Runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased over recent decades affecting global sea level, regional ocean circulation, and coastal marine ecosystems, and it now accounts for most of the contemporary mass imbalance. Estimates of runoff are typically derived from regional climate models because satellite records have been limited to assessments of melting extent. Here, we use CryoSat-2 satellite altimetry to produce direct measurements of Greenland’s runoff variability, based on seasonal…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 2 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Easy-to-use spatial random-forest-based downscaling-calibration method for producing precipitation data with high resolution and high accuracy
Authors: Chuanfa Chen, Baojian Hu, Yanyan Li
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-5667-2021 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract. Precipitation data with high resolution and high accuracy are significantly important in numerous hydrological applications. To enhance the spatial resolution and accuracy of satellite-based precipitation products, an easy-to-use downscaling-calibration method based on a spatial random forest (SRF-DC) is proposed in this study, where the spatial autocorrelation of precipitation measurements between neighboring locations is considered. SRF-DC consists of two main stages. First, the s…
High‐Resolution Nudged Isotope Modeling With ECHAM6‐Wiso: Impacts of Updated Model Physics and ERA5 Reanalysis Data
Authors: Alexandre Cauquoin, Martin Werner
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002532 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: surface water
Abstract We present here results of new isotope‐enabled simulations with an enhanced ECHAM6‐wiso model version nudged to the ERA5 reanalyses, at two different spatial resolutions, for the period 1979–2018. The isotopic content of snow on sea ice is considered, yielding surface water vapor with lower isotope ratios over sea ice covered areas, and the kinetic fractionation factors for oceanic evaporation are assumed as independent of wind speed. Also, the supersaturation equation was slightly r…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 16 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Review of GPM IMERG performance: A global perspective
Authors: Rajani Kumar Pradhan, Yannis Markonis, Mijael Rodrigo Vargas Godoy, Anahí Villalba‐Pradas, Konstantinos M. Andreadis, Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112754 · Citations: 365
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, water management
Abstract not available.
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints
Authors: John T. Abatzoglou, David S. Battisti, Park Williams, Winslow D. Hansen, Brian J. Harvey, Crystal A. Kolden
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00299-0 · Citations: 288
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
Abstract Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories. As fires remove fuels for subsequent fires, feedbacks may impose constraints on the otherwise climate-driven trend of increasing forest-fire area. Here, we test how fire-fuel feedbacks moderate near-term (2021–2050) climate-driven increases in forest-fire area across the western US. Assuming constant fuels, climate–fire…
OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States
Authors: Forrest Melton, Justin Huntington, R. Grimm, Jamie Herring, Maurice Hall, Dana E. Rollison et al.
Journal: JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association · DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12956 · Citations: 279
Matched topics: hydrology, water management, land surface model
Abstract The lack of consistent, accurate information on evapotranspiration (ET) and consumptive use of water by irrigated agriculture is one of the most important data gaps for water managers in the western United States (U.S.) and other arid agricultural regions globally. The ability to easily access information on ET is central to improving water budgets across the West, advancing the use of data‐driven irrigation management strategies, and expanding incentive‐driven conservation programs….
Performance of machine learning methods in predicting water quality index based on irregular data set: application on Illizi region (Algerian southeast)
Authors: Saber Kouadri, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Samir Kateb
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01528-9 · Citations: 275
Matched topics: water management, land surface model
Abstract Groundwater quality appraisal is one of the most crucial tasks to ensure safe drinking water sources. Concurrently, a water quality index (WQI) requires some water quality parameters. Conventionally, WQI computation consumes time and is often found with various errors during subindex calculation. To this end, 8 artificial intelligence algorithms, e.g., multilinear regression (MLR), random forest (RF), M5P tree (M5P), random subspace (RSS), additive regression (AR), artificial neural …
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands
Authors: Mei He, Kai Fang, Leiyi Chen, Xuehui Feng, Shuqi Qin, Dan Kou et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15969 · Citations: 218
Matched topics: earth system model
Microbial necromass carbon (C) has been considered an important contributor to persistent soil C pool. However, there still lacks large-scale systematic observations on microbial necromass C in different soil layers, particularly for alpine ecosystems. Besides, it is still unclear whether the relative importance of biotic and abiotic variables such as plant C input and mineral properties in regulating microbial necromass C would change with soil depth. Based on the combination of large-scale …
Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States
Authors: Yizhou Zhuang, Rong Fu, Benjamin D. Santer, Robert E. Dickinson, Alex Hall
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111875118 · Citations: 206
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Previous studies have identified a recent increase in wildfire activity in the western United States (WUS). However, the extent to which this trend is due to weather pattern changes dominated by natural variability versus anthropogenic warming has been unclear. Using an ensemble constructed flow analogue approach, we have employed observations to estimate vapor pressure deficit (VPD), the leading meteorological variable that controls wildfires, associated with different atmospheric circulatio…
Delineation of groundwater potential zones for sustainable development and planning using analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and MIF techniques
Authors: Chaitanya B. Pande, Kanak N. Moharir, Balamurugan Panneerselvam, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Quoc Bao Pham et al.
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01522-1 · Citations: 174
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, land surface model
Abstract Groundwater plays a vital role in the sustainable development of agriculture, society and economy, and it’s demand is increasing due to low rainfall, especially in arid and semiarid regions. In this context, delineation of groundwater potential zones is essential for meeting the demand of different sectors. In this research, the integrated approach consisting of analytical hierarchy process (AHP), multiple influence factors (MIF) and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) was appli…
Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission
Authors: Andreas Colliander, Rolf H. Reichle, Wade T. Crow, Michael H. Cosh, Fan Chen, S. Chan et al.
Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2021.3124743 · Citations: 172
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, land surface model
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has been validating its soil moisture (SM) products since the start of data production on March 31, 2015. Prior to launch, the mission defined a set of criteria for core validation sites (CVS) that enable the testing of the key mission SM accuracy requirement (unbiased root-mean-square error <0.04 m3/m3). The validation approach also includes other (“sparse network”) in situ S…
Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2
Authors: Rose Abramoff, Bertrand Guenet, Haicheng Zhang, Katerina Georgiou, Xiaofeng Xu, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel et al.
Journal: Soil Biology and Biochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108466 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: earth system model
Soil carbon (C) models are used to predict C sequestration responses to climate and land use change. Yet, the soil models embedded in Earth system models typically do not represent processes that reflect our current understanding of soil C cycling, such as microbial decomposition, mineral association, and aggregation. Rather, they rely on conceptual pools with turnover times that are fit to bulk C stocks and/or fluxes. As measurements of soil fractions become increasingly available, it is nec…
Seasonal hydrogen storage for sustainable renewable energy integration in the electricity sector: A case study of Finland
Authors: Ahmed M. Elberry, Jagruti Thakur, Jason Veysey
Journal: Journal of Energy Storage · DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2021.103474 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: seasonal
Wind power is rapidly growing in the Finnish grid, and Finland’s electricity consumption is low in the summer compared to the winter. Hence, there is a need for storage that can absorb a large amount of energy during summer and discharge it during winter. This study examines one such storage technology, geological hydrogen storage, which has the potential to store energy on a GWh scale and also over longer periods of time. Finland’s electricity generation system was modelled with and without …
The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)
Authors: David Olefeldt, Mikael Hovemyr, McKenzie A. Kuhn, David Bastviken, T. J. Bohn, John Connolly et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-5127-2021 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: land surface model, surface water
Abstract. Methane emissions from boreal and arctic wetlands, lakes, and rivers are expected to increase in response to warming and associated permafrost thaw. However, the lack of appropriate land cover datasets for scaling field-measured methane emissions to circumpolar scales has contributed to a large uncertainty for our understanding of present-day and future methane emissions. Here we present the Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), a land cover dataset based on an expert asse…
BAWLD-CH 4 : a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems
Authors: McKenzie A. Kuhn, R. K. Varner, David Bastviken, Patrick Crill, Sally MacIntyre, Merritt R. Turetsky et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-5151-2021 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
Abstract. Methane (CH4) emissions from the boreal and arctic region are globally significant and highly sensitive to climate change. There is currently a wide range in estimates of high-latitude annual CH4 fluxes, where estimates based on land cover inventories and empirical CH4 flux data or process models (bottom-up approaches) generally are greater than atmospheric inversions (top-down approaches). A limitation of bottom-up approaches has been the lack of harmonization between inventories o…
Exploration of groundwater potential zones using analytical hierarchical process (AHP) approach in the Godavari river basin of Maharashtra in India
Authors: J. Rajesh, Chaitanya B. Pande, S. A. Kadam, S. D. Gorantiwar, Mukund G. Shinde
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01518-x · Citations: 79
Matched topics: river, runoff, land surface model
Abstract Total natural and groundwater resources play the most crucial role in developing ecological, biological and socioeconomic doings. Various parameters like land use, geology, elevation, slope, lineament, lineament density, drainage density and geomorphology affect the groundwater development of recharge and its accessibility. In this research, geographical information system (GIS), remote sensing, weighted overlay analysis and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methods have been used f…
Optimizing irrigation and fertilization at various growth stages to improve mango yield, fruit quality and water-fertilizer use efficiency in xerothermic regions
Authors: Guangzhao Sun, Tiantian Hu, Xiaogang Liu, Youliang Peng, Xianxian Leng, Yilin Li et al.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107296 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Sustaining United States reservoir storage capacity: Need for a new paradigm
Authors: T. Randle, G. Morris, D. Tullos, F. Weirich, G. Kondolf, D. Moriasi et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2021.126686 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water‐limited systems
Authors: Sean M. Wineland, Hakan Başağaoğlu, Jeri Fleming, Jack R. Friedman, Laura E. Garza-Díaz, Wayne Kellogg et al.
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1565 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: streamflow, water management
Abstract Environmental flows (e‐flows) are powerful tools for sustaining freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services, but their widespread implementation faces numerous social, political, and economic barriers. These barriers are amplified in water‐limited systems where strong trade‐offs exist between human water needs and freshwater ecosystem protection. We synthesize the complex, multidisciplinary challenges that exist in these systems to help identify targeted solutions to accelerate th…
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| Global Change Biology | 3 |
| Applied Water Science | 3 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Nature Communications | 2 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 2 |
| International Journal of Information Management | 2 |
| Climatic Change | 2 |
| Earth system science data | 2 |
| Review of Financial Studies | 1 |
| Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 1 |
| npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 1 |
| Journal of Applied Ecology | 1 |
| Science Bulletin | 1 |
| Water Resources Management | 1 |
| Environmental Earth Sciences | 1 |
| Nature Food | 1 |
| Scientific Data | 1 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change | 1 |
| Earth System Dynamics | 1 |
| Ecological Processes | 1 |
| The Lancet Public Health | 1 |
| Social movement studies | 1 |
| World Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC) | 1 |
| Environmental Politics | 1 |
| Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 1 |
| JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1 |
| Journal of Energy Storage | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water | 1 |
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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