Weekly Literature Review

Week 47 · November 22–November 28, 2021

50 relevant papers found across 6 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.

Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
    1. Assessing population exposure to coastal flooding due to sea level rise
    2. Flood Hazard Mapping Using Fuzzy Logic, Analytical Hierarchy Process, and Multi-Source Geospatial Datasets
    3. Short-term flood probability density forecasting using a conceptual hydrological model with machine learning techniques
    4. Accounting for uncertainties in compound flood hazard assessment: The value of data assimilation
    5. Flood susceptibility mapping using extremely randomized trees for Assam 2020 floods
    6. Deep learning models to predict flood events in fast-flowing watersheds
    7. Numerical simulations of compound flooding caused by storm surge and heavy rain with the presence of urban drainage system, coastal dam and tide gates: A case study of Xiangshan, China
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Artificial neural networks in drought prediction in the 21st century–A scientometric analysis
    2. A framework for assessing compound drought events from a drought propagation perspective
    3. Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and its impact on vegetation in the vegetation region of Northwest China
    4. Influence of Glycine Betaine (Natural and Synthetic) on Growth, Metabolism and Yield Production of Drought-Stressed Maize (Zea mays L.) Plants
    5. Assemblage of indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and green waste compost enhance drought stress tolerance in carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) trees
    6. The impact of drought and heat stress at flowering on maize kernel filling: Insights from the field and laboratory
    7. Effects of single and combined exogenous application of abscisic acid and melatonin on cotton carbohydrate metabolism and yield under drought stress
    8. Insights into hydrological drought characteristics using GNSS-inferred large-scale terrestrial water storage deficits
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. High-quality reconstruction of China’s natural streamflow
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action
    2. Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being
    3. Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change
    4. Climate change impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections
    5. Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers
    6. Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary
    7. Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action
    8. Climate Change and Vulnerability: The Case of MENA Countries
    9. Mitigation co-benefits of climate change adaptation: A case-study analysis of eight cities
    10. Vertebrate population trends are influenced by interactions between land use, climatic position, habitat loss and climate change
    11. Perceptions of workplace heat exposure and adaption behaviors among Chinese construction workers in the context of climate change
    12. Bridging the energy performance gap of social housing stock in south-eastern Mediterranean Europe: Climate change and mitigation
    13. Mapping integrated vulnerability of coastal agricultural livelihood to climate change in Bangladesh: Implications for spatial adaptation planning
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Characterization of groundwater potential zones in water-scarce hardrock regions using data driven model
    2. Daily flow duration curve model for ungauged intermittent subbasins of gauged rivers
    3. Quantile-based Bayesian Model Averaging approach towards merging of precipitation products
    4. Modeling of stage-discharge using back propagation ANN-, ANFIS-, and WANN-based computing techniques
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Mean Squared Error, Deconstructed
    2. Recent changes to Arctic river discharge
    3. Phosphorus for Sustainable Development Goal target of doubling smallholder productivity
    4. Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene
    5. Effect of saline land reclamation by constructing the “Raised Field -Shallow Trench” pattern on agroecosystems in Yellow River Delta
    6. Global quantification of the bidirectional dependency between soil moisture and vegetation productivity
    7. Seasonality of the particle number concentration and size distribution: a global analysis retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories
    8. Active Layer Thickness Variation on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau: Historical and Projected Trends
    9. Mapping burn severity in the western Italian Alps through phenologically coherent reflectance composites derived from Sentinel-2 imagery
    10. Elevated Fe and Mn Concentrations in Groundwater in the Songnen Plain, Northeast China, and the Factors and Mechanisms Involved
    11. Soil Amendment Using Biochar and Application of K-Humate Enhance the Growth, Productivity, and Nutritional Value of Onion (Allium cepa L.) under Deficit Irrigation Conditions
    12. Supervised classification of slush and ponded water on Antarctic ice shelves using Landsat 8 imagery
    13. Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal snow water equivalent in High Mountain Asia from an 18-year Landsat–MODIS era snow reanalysis dataset
    14. Reconstruction of All-Weather Daytime and Nighttime MODIS Aqua-Terra Land Surface Temperature Products Using an XGBoost Approach
    15. River and lake nutrient targets that support ecological status: European scale gap analysis and strategies for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive
    16. Trade of economically and physically scarce virtual water in the global food network
    17. Monitoring global reservoirs using ICESat-2: Assessment on spatial coverage and application potential
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 7 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Hauer, Parsian et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Assessing population exposure to coastal flooding due to sea level rise

Authors: Mathew Hauer, Dean Hardy, Scott Kulp, Valerie Mueller, David Wrathall, Peter U. Clark

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27260-1 · Citations: 150

Matched topics: flood

The exposure of populations to sea-level rise (SLR) is a leading indicator assessing the impact of future climate change on coastal regions. SLR exposes coastal populations to a spectrum of impacts with broad spatial and temporal heterogeneity, but exposure assessments often narrowly define the spatial zone of flooding. Here we show how choice of zone results in differential exposure estimates across space and time. Further, we apply a spatio-temporal flood-modeling approach that integrates a…

Flood Hazard Mapping Using Fuzzy Logic, Analytical Hierarchy Process, and Multi-Source Geospatial Datasets

Authors: Saeid Parsian, Meisam Amani, Armin Moghimi, Arsalan Ghorbanian, Sahel Mahdavi

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13234761 · Citations: 107

Matched topics: hydrology, flood

Iran is among the driest countries in the world, where many natural hazards, such as floods, frequently occur. This study introduces a straightforward flood hazard assessment approach using remote sensing datasets and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment in an area located in the western part of Iran. Multiple GIS and remote sensing datasets, including Digital Elevation Model (DEM), slope, rainfall, distance from the main rivers, Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), Land Use/Land Cove…

Short-term flood probability density forecasting using a conceptual hydrological model with machine learning techniques

Authors: Yanlai Zhou, Zhen Cui, Kangling Lin, Sheng Sheng, Hua Chen, Shenglian Guo et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127255 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, flood

Abstract not available.

Accounting for uncertainties in compound flood hazard assessment: The value of data assimilation

Authors: David F. Muñoz, Peyman Abbaszadeh, Hamed Moftakhari, Hamid Moradkhani

Journal: Coastal Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.104057 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood

Abstract not available.

Flood susceptibility mapping using extremely randomized trees for Assam 2020 floods

Authors: Shruti Sachdeva, Bijendra Kumar

Journal: Ecological Informatics · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101498 · Citations: 83

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Deep learning models to predict flood events in fast-flowing watersheds

Authors: Marco Luppichini, Michele Barsanti, Roberto Giannecchini, Mónica Bini

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151885 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Numerical simulations of compound flooding caused by storm surge and heavy rain with the presence of urban drainage system, coastal dam and tide gates: A case study of Xiangshan, China

Authors: Shaoyu Shi, Bo Yang, Wensheng Jiang

Journal: Coastal Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.104064 · Citations: 53

Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood

Abstract not available.

Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 8 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Dikshit, Wu et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Artificial neural networks in drought prediction in the 21st century–A scientometric analysis

Authors: Abhirup Dikshit, Biswajeet Pradhan, M. Santosh

Journal: Applied Soft Computing · DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2021.108080 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

A framework for assessing compound drought events from a drought propagation perspective

Authors: Jiefeng Wu, Huaxia Yao, Xiaohong Chen, Gaoxu Wang, Xiaoyan Bai, Dejian Zhang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127228 · Citations: 107

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, drought

Abstract not available.

Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and its impact on vegetation in the vegetation region of Northwest China

Authors: Shengpeng Cao, Yi He, Lifeng Zhang, Yi Chen, Yang Wang, Sheng Yao et al.

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108420 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: drought

As one of the extreme climate events, the frequency and intensity of drought’s change significantly affect the growth of regional vegetation. Drought events have occurred frequently in the Vegetation Region of Northwest China (VRNWC) in the past 20 years, but the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought lack discussion in VRNWC. Additionally, the response mechanism of vegetation activities to drought is unclear. In this study, the Theil-Sen median trend and Mann-Kendall test correlation anal…

Influence of Glycine Betaine (Natural and Synthetic) on Growth, Metabolism and Yield Production of Drought-Stressed Maize (Zea mays L.) Plants

Authors: Sidra Shafiq, Nudrat Aisha Akram, Muhammad Ashraf, Pedro García‐Caparrós, Omar M. Ali, Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef

Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants10112540 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: drought

A study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of sugar beet extract (SBE) and glycine betaine (GB) in mitigating the adverse effects of drought stress on two maize cultivars. Seeds (caryopses) of two maize cultivars, Sadaf (drought-tolerant) and Sultan (drought-sensitive) were sown in plastic pots. Plants were subjected to different (100%, 75% and 60% field capacity (FC)) water regimes. Then, different levels of SBE (3% and 4%) and GB (3.65 and 3.84 g/L) were applied as a foliar spray…

Assemblage of indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and green waste compost enhance drought stress tolerance in carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) trees

Authors: Abderrahim Boutasknit, Marouane Baslam, Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Mohamed Anli, Raja Ben-Laouane, Youssef Ait-Rahou et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02018-3 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: drought

and MDA content to a greater degree and increased MS. In contrast, enzyme activities (superoxide dismutase, catalase, peroxidase, and polyphenoloxidase) significantly increased in C + AMF plants under DS. Overall, our findings suggest that the pairing of C + AMF can mediate superior drought tolerance in young carob trees by increasing leaf stomatal conductance, cellular water content, higher solute concentration, and defense response against oxidative damage during the prolonged period of DS.

The impact of drought and heat stress at flowering on maize kernel filling: Insights from the field and laboratory

Authors: Xiwei Liu, Yonghong Yu, Shoubing Huang, Chenchen Xu, Xingya Wang, Jia Gao et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108733 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Effects of single and combined exogenous application of abscisic acid and melatonin on cotton carbohydrate metabolism and yield under drought stress

Authors: Wei Hu, Jipeng Zhang, Ziqing Wu, Dimitra A. Loka, Wenqing Zhao, Binling Chen et al.

Journal: Industrial Crops and Products · DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.114302 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Insights into hydrological drought characteristics using GNSS-inferred large-scale terrestrial water storage deficits

Authors: Zhongshan Jiang, Ya‐Ju Hsu, Linguo Yuan, Shuai Cheng, Wei Feng, Miao Tang et al.

Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters · DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117294 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

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.

High-quality reconstruction of China’s natural streamflow

Authors: Chiyuan Miao, Jiaojiao Gou, Bojie Fu, Qiuhong Tang, Qingyun Duan, Zhongsheng Chen et al.

Journal: Science Bulletin · DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.09.022 · Citations: 184

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

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…

Climate Change and Water Resources

Climate-water interactions are explored in 13 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.

Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action

Authors: Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Purva Grover, Roba Abbas et al.

Journal: International Journal of Information Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456 · Citations: 703

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

The UN COP26 2021 conference on climate change offers the chance for world leaders to take action and make urgent and meaningful commitments to reducing emissions and limit global temperatures to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. Whilst the political aspects and subsequent ramifications of these fundamental and critical decisions cannot be underestimated, there exists a technical perspective where digital and IS technology has a role to play in the monitoring of potential solutions,…

Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being

Authors: Felix Creutzig, Leila Niamir, Xuemei Bai, Max Callaghan, Jonathan M. Cullen, Julio Díaz‐José et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01219-y · Citations: 475

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we systematically assess the mitigation potential of demand-side options categorized into avoid, shift and improve, and their human well-being links. We show that these options, bridging socio-behavioural, infrastructural and technological domains, can reduce counterfactual sectoral emissions by 40–80% in end-use sect…

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

Authors: Josep G. Canadell, C. P. Meyer, Garry D. Cook, Andrew Dowdy, Peter Briggs, Jürgen Knauer et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27225-4 · Citations: 470

Matched topics: land surface model, climate change, earth system model

Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential to alter fire dynamics. Here we compile satellite (19 and 32 years) and ground-based (90 years) burned area datasets, climate and weather observations, and simulated fuel loads for Australian forests. Burned area in Australia’s forests shows a linear positive annual trend but an exponential increase during autumn …

Climate change impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections

Authors: Adriana Patrícia

Journal: Biologia · DOI: 10.1007/s11756-021-00927-2 · Citations: 140

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Evidence climate change is impacting ticks and tick-borne infections is generally lacking. This is primarily because, in most parts of the world, there are no long-term and replicated data on the distribution and abundance of tick populations, and the prevalence and incidence of tick-borne infections. Notable exceptions exist, as in Canada where the northeastern advance of Ixodes scapularis and Lyme borreliosis in the USA prompted the establishment of tick and associated disease surv…

Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers

Authors: Bridget R. Scanlon, Ashraf Rateb, Assaf Anyamba, Seifu Kebede, Alan MacDonald, Mohammad Shamsudduha et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac3bfc · Citations: 94

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Water resources management is a critical issue in Africa where many regions are subjected to sequential droughts and floods. The objective of our work was to assess spatiotemporal variability in water storage and related controls (climate, human intervention) in major African aquifers and consider approaches toward more sustainable development. Different approaches were used to track water storage, including GRACE/GRACE Follow On satellites for Total Water Storage (TWS); satellite al…

Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary

Authors: Hong Ao, Eelco J. Rohling, Ran Zhang, Andrew P. Roberts, Ann Holbourn, Jean‐Baptiste Ladant et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27054-5 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: earth system model

-induced MPB warming both increased summer monsoon moisture transport over East Asia, and enhanced aridification over large parts of Central Asia by increasing evaporation, based on integration of our ~1-2-thousand-year (kyr) resolution summer monsoon records from the Chinese Loess Plateau aeolian red clay with existing terrestrial records, land-sea correlations, and climate model simulations. Our results offer palaeoclimate-based support for ‘wet-gets-wetter and dry-gets-drier’ projections o…

Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action

Authors: Carlie D. Trott

Journal: Environmental Education Research · DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2021.2007223 · Citations: 75

Matched topics: climate change

In response to growing recognition for the mental health impacts of climate change, understanding the full range of children’s psychological experiences in climate change education (CCE) contexts is critical to developing approaches that support children’s constructive engagement and overall well-being. Through surveys and focus groups conducted with fifty-five children (ages 10–12), this mixed-methods study examined the affective and attitudinal impacts of a multi-site CCE program that encou…

Climate Change and Vulnerability: The Case of MENA Countries

Authors: Razieh Namdar, Ezatollah Karami, Marzieh Keshavarz

Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10110794 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: climate change

Climate is changing and mitigation of the corresponding impacts requires assessment of vulnerability and adaptation building. This issue is particularly important in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which is recognized as one of the most water scarce regions of the world and vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, the objective of this study was an assessment of the different sectors’ vulnerability as well as the overall vulnerability of the MENA countries to climate change. The Notre Da…

Mitigation co-benefits of climate change adaptation: A case-study analysis of eight cities

Authors: Danielle Boyd, Minal Pathak, Renée van Diemen, Jim Skea

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103563 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: climate change

This research explores the approaches eight cities – Durban, Cape Town, London, Manchester, Surat, Indore, Montreal, and Vancouver – are taking to plan for mitigation co-benefits of adaptation strategies. The approaches set out in city adaptation plans are analysed and compared to provide insight into the uptake of mitigation co-benefits in terms of the extent to which they are strategically planned for and the types of measures utilised. The research also identifies common barriers cities fa…

Authors: Jessica J. Williams, Robin Freeman, Fiona Spooner, Tim Newbold

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15978 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: climate change

Rapid human-driven environmental changes are impacting animal populations around the world. Currently, land-use and climate change are two of the biggest pressures facing biodiversity. However, studies investigating the impacts of these pressures on population trends often do not consider potential interactions between climate and land-use change. Further, a population’s climatic position (how close the ambient temperature and precipitation conditions are to the species’ climatic tolerance li…

Perceptions of workplace heat exposure and adaption behaviors among Chinese construction workers in the context of climate change

Authors: Shurong Han, Mingru Wei, Zhifeng Wu, Shanshan Duan, Xiangzhe Chen, Jiayuan Yang et al.

Journal: BMC Public Health · DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-12231-4 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: climate change

BACKGROUND: Workplace heat exposure can cause a series of heat-related illnesses and injuries. Protecting workers especially those undertake work outdoors from the risk of heat strain is a great challenge for many workplaces in China under the context of climate change. The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions and adaptation behaviors of heat exposure among construction workers and to provide evidence for the development of targeted heat adaptation strategies nationally and int…

Bridging the energy performance gap of social housing stock in south-eastern Mediterranean Europe: Climate change and mitigation

Authors: Bertug Ozarisoy, Haşim Altan

Journal: Energy and Buildings · DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111687 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Mapping integrated vulnerability of coastal agricultural livelihood to climate change in Bangladesh: Implications for spatial adaptation planning

Authors: Muhammad Ziaul Hoque, Md. Enamul Haque, Md. Shariful Islam

Journal: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C · DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2021.103080 · Citations: 51

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 4 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Characterization of groundwater potential zones in water-scarce hardrock regions using data driven model

Authors: Dipankar Ruidas, Subodh Chandra Pal, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Asish Saha

Journal: Environmental Earth Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s12665-021-10116-8 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: water management

Abstract not available.

Daily flow duration curve model for ungauged intermittent subbasins of gauged rivers

Authors: Halil İbrahim Burgan, Hafzullah Aksoy

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127249 · Citations: 72

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, streamflow

Abstract not available.

Quantile-based Bayesian Model Averaging approach towards merging of precipitation products

Authors: Karisma Yumnam, Ravi Kumar Guntu, Maheswaran Rathinasamy, Ankit Agarwal

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127206 · Citations: 72

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management

Abstract not available.

Modeling of stage-discharge using back propagation ANN-, ANFIS-, and WANN-based computing techniques

Authors: Ravi Shukla, Pravendra Kumar, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma, Rawshan Ali, Rohitashw Kumar, Alban Kuriqi

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Climatology · DOI: 10.1007/s00704-021-03863-y · Citations: 54

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract not available.

Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 17 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Mean Squared Error, Deconstructed

Authors: Timothy Hodson, Thomas M. Over, Sydney S. Foks

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002681 · Citations: 248

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract As science becomes increasingly cross‐disciplinary and scientific models become increasingly cross‐coupled, standardized practices of model evaluation are more important than ever. For normally distributed data, mean squared error (MSE) is ideal as an objective measure of model performance, but it gives little insight into what aspects of model performance are “good” or “bad.” This apparent weakness has led to a myriad of specialized error metrics, which are sometimes aggregated to f…

Recent changes to Arctic river discharge

Authors: Dongmei Feng, Colin J. Gleason, Peirong Lin, Xiao Yang, Ming Pan, Yuta Ishitsuka

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27228-1 · Citations: 221

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

Arctic rivers drain ~15% of the global land surface and significantly influence local communities and economies, freshwater and marine ecosystems, and global climate. However, trusted and public knowledge of pan-Arctic rivers is inadequate, especially for small rivers and across Eurasia, inhibiting understanding of the Arctic response to climate change. Here, we calculate daily streamflow in 486,493 pan-Arctic river reaches from 1984-2018 by assimilating 9.18 million river discharge estimates…

Phosphorus for Sustainable Development Goal target of doubling smallholder productivity

Authors: Christoph Langhans, Arthur Beusen, José M. Mogollón, Lex Bouwman

Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00794-4 · Citations: 140

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for life. In many tropical countries, P-fixing soils and very low historical P input limit uptake of P in crops and thus yields. This presents a serious obstacle for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 2.3 of doubling productivity in smallholder farms. We calculated the geographic distribution of P limitation (1 – actual/potential P uptake) and the P input required to achieve this SDG target by 2030 in comparison to the Shar…

Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene

Authors: Pamela Sullivan, Sharon Billings, Daniel R. Hirmas, L. Li, Xi Zhang, Susan E. Ziegler et al.

Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103873 · Citations: 129

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

Abstract not available.

Effect of saline land reclamation by constructing the “Raised Field -Shallow Trench” pattern on agroecosystems in Yellow River Delta

Authors: Qiuli Hu, Ying Zhao, Xinlong Hu, Ji Qi, Lizhu Suo, Yinghua Pan et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107345 · Citations: 116

Matched topics: river, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Global quantification of the bidirectional dependency between soil moisture and vegetation productivity

Authors: Wenmin Zhang, Fangli Wei, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Matthias Forkel, Martin Brandt

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108735 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: water management

Changes in soil moisture strongly affect vegetation growth, which may in turn feed back on soil moisture by directly affecting evapotranspiration and indirectly regulating precipitation. Previous studies often focused on the unidirectional effects of soil moisture on temporal vegetation dynamics, yet bidirectional dependencies have rarely been studied. Here we analyzed the bidirectional dependency between soil moisture and vegetation productivity during 2001–2020 at a global scale using the G…

Seasonality of the particle number concentration and size distribution: a global analysis retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories

Authors: Clémence Rose, Martine Collaud Coen, Elisabeth Andrews, Yong Lin, Isaline Bossert, Cathrine Lund Myhre et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-17185-2021 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract. Aerosol particles are a complex component of the atmospheric system which influence climate directly by interacting with solar radiation, and indirectly by contributing to cloud formation. The variety of their sources, as well as the multiple transformations they may undergo during their transport (including wet and dry deposition), result in significant spatial and temporal variability of their properties. Documenting this variability is essential to provide a proper representation…

Authors: Xiaoming Xu, Qingbai Wu

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2021jd034841 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Abstract As the buffer layer between the atmosphere and permafrost, the active layer is vulnerable to climate change. The variation in the active layer thickness (ALT) has important effects on surface energy balance, ecosystem, hydrological cycle, vegetation cover, and engineering construction in permafrost regions. The goal of this study is to discuss the active layer variation under different shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) for specific warming levels and to reveal the potential intera…

Mapping burn severity in the western Italian Alps through phenologically coherent reflectance composites derived from Sentinel-2 imagery

Authors: Donato Morresi, Raffaella Marzano, Emanuele Lingua, Renzo Motta, Matteo Garbarino

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112800 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: land surface model

Deriving burn severity from multispectral satellite data is a widely adopted approach to infer the degree of environmental change caused by fire. Burn severity maps obtained by thresholding bi-temporal indices based on pre- and post-fire Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) can vary substantially depending on temporal constraints such as matched acquisition and optimal seasonal timing. Satisfying temporal requirements is crucial to effectively disentangle fire and non-fire induced spectral changes and…

Elevated Fe and Mn Concentrations in Groundwater in the Songnen Plain, Northeast China, and the Factors and Mechanisms Involved

Authors: Yuanzheng Zhai, Xinyi Cao, Xuelian Xia, Bin Wang, Yanguo Teng, Xiao Li

Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11122392 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: water management

Groundwater is an essential source of drinking and irrigation water. However, elevated Fe and Mn concentrations in groundwater have been found in recent decades, which can adversely affect human health and decrease crop quality and yields. The roles of hydrogeochemical changes and groundwater pollution (exogenous reductive material inputs) in this have not been studied adequately. We determined the distribution of Fe and Mn concentrations in groundwater in the Songnen Plain, northeast China, …

Soil Amendment Using Biochar and Application of K-Humate Enhance the Growth, Productivity, and Nutritional Value of Onion (Allium cepa L.) under Deficit Irrigation Conditions

Authors: Khaled Abdelrasheed, Yasser S. A. Mazrou, Alaa El-Dein Omara, Hany S. Osman, Yasser Nehela, Emad M. Hafez et al.

Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants10122598 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: irrigation

L.) under deficient irrigation conditions in two separate field trials during the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 seasons. Our findings showed that deficit irrigation negatively affected onion resilience to drought stress. However, these harmful effects were diminished after soil amendment using biochar, K-humate foliar application, or their combination. Briefly, integrated biochar and K-humate application increased onion growth, boosted the content of the photosynthetic pigments, enhanced the water …

Supervised classification of slush and ponded water on Antarctic ice shelves using Landsat 8 imagery

Authors: Rebecca Dell, Alison F. Banwell, Ian Willis, Neil Arnold, Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, Thomas R. Chudley et al.

Journal: Journal of Glaciology · DOI: 10.1017/jog.2021.114 · Citations: 60

Matched topics: hydrology, surface water

Abstract Surface meltwater is becoming increasingly widespread on Antarctic ice shelves. It is stored within surface ponds and streams, or within firn pore spaces, which may saturate to form slush. Slush can reduce firn air content, increasing an ice-shelf’s vulnerability to break-up. To date, no study has mapped the changing extent of slush across ice shelves. Here, we use Google Earth Engine and Landsat 8 images from six ice shelves to generate training classes using a k -means clustering a…

Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal snow water equivalent in High Mountain Asia from an 18-year Landsat–MODIS era snow reanalysis dataset

Authors: Yufei Liu, Yiwen Fang, S. A. Margulis

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-5261-2021 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract. Seasonal snowpack is an essential component in the hydrological cycle and plays a significant role in supplying water resources to downstream users. Yet the snow water equivalent (SWE) in seasonal snowpacks, and its space–time variation, remains highly uncertain, especially over mountainous areas with complex terrain and sparse observations, such as in High Mountain Asia (HMA). In this work, we assessed the spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal SWE, obtained from a new 18-year HMA…

Reconstruction of All-Weather Daytime and Nighttime MODIS Aqua-Terra Land Surface Temperature Products Using an XGBoost Approach

Authors: Weiwei Tan, Chunzhu Wei, Yang Lu, Desheng Xue

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13224723 · Citations: 52

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

Generating spatiotemporally continuous land surface temperature (LST) data is in great demand for hydrology, meteorology, ecology, environmental studies, etc. However, the thermal infrared (TIR)-based LST measurements are prone to cloud contamination with missing pixels. To repair the missing pixels, a new XGBoost-based linking approach for reconstructing daytime and nighttime Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST measurements was introduced. The instantaneous solar radiat…

River and lake nutrient targets that support ecological status: European scale gap analysis and strategies for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive

Authors: Νikolaos P. Nikolaidis, Geoff Phillips, Sandra Poikāne, Gábor Várbíró, F. Bouraoui, Anna Malagò et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151898 · Citations: 51

Matched topics: river, water management, surface water

Eutrophication caused by an excessive presence of nutrients is affecting large portions of European waters with more than 60% of the surface water bodies failing to achieve the primary ambition of water management in Europe, that of good ecological status (GES) with diffuse emission from agriculture being the second most important pressure affecting surface waters. We developed EU wide and regional nutrient targets that define the boundary concentrations between good and moderate status for r…

Trade of economically and physically scarce virtual water in the global food network

Authors: Elena Vallino, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01514-w · Citations: 51

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract The virtual water (VW) trade associated to food is composed by the quantity of water utilized for the production of the crops exchanged on the global market. In assessing a country’s water abundance or scarcity when entering the international VW trade, scholars consider only physical water availability, neglecting economic water scarcity, which indicates situations in which socio-economic obstacles impede the productive use of water. We weight the global VW trade associated to primar…

Monitoring global reservoirs using ICESat-2: Assessment on spatial coverage and application potential

Authors: Tan Chen, Chunqiao Song, Shuangxiao Luo, Linghong Ke, Kai Liu, Jingying Zhu

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127257 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: reservoir, surface water

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1
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