Weekly Literature Review
Week 39 · September 27–October 3, 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
- Evidence of shorter more extreme rainfalls and increased flood variability under climate change
- Evaluating urban flood risk using hybrid method of TOPSIS and machine learning
- Urban flood modeling using deep-learning approaches in Seoul, South Korea
- Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?
- Amplified Drought and Flood Risk Under Future Socioeconomic and Climatic Change
- Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Compound Flooding in Coastal River Areas
- Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real‐Time Urban Flood Forecasting
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis
- Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates
- Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries
- Estimating the global risk of anthropogenic climate change
- Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda
- Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon
- Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes
- Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity
- Monitoring of Land Use–Land Cover Change and Potential Causal Factors of Climate Change in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan, through GIS and Multi-Temporal Satellite Data
- Coupling the U.K. Earth System Model to Dynamic Models of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
- Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later
- Evapotranspiration Using a Satellite-Based Surface Energy Balance with Standardized Ground Control
- Central banking challenges posed by uncertain climate change and natural disasters
- Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change
- Climate Change and the Historic Environment
- Changing opinions on a changing climate: the effects of natural disasters on public perceptions of climate change
- Climate change impacts on wind energy resources in North America based on the CMIP6 projections
- Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?
- Increasing Risk of Ecological Change to Major Rivers of the World With Global Warming
- The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar
- Physics-guided deep learning for rainfall-runoff modeling by considering extreme events and monotonic relationships
- A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models
- Effectiveness of vegetation cover pattern on regulating soil erosion and runoff generation in red soil environment, southern China
- Shallow landslides and vegetation at the catchment scale: A perspective
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Seasonal Contrast: Unsupervised Pre-Training from Uncurated Remote Sensing Data
- Revisiting the Global Seasonal Snow Classification: An Updated Dataset for Earth System Applications
- Nitrogen cycling processes and the role of multi-trophic microbiota in dam-induced river-reservoir systems.
- Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda
- Occurrence and distribution of antibiotics in groundwater, surface water, and sediment in Xiong’an New Area, China, and their relationship with antibiotic resistance genes.
- Solar-driven desalination and resource recovery of shale gas wastewater by on-site interfacial evaporation
- Volcanically driven lacustrine ecosystem changes during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic)
- An interplay of soil salinization and groundwater degradation threatening coexistence of oasis-desert ecosystems
- Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet
- Sand mining far outpaces natural supply in a large alluvial river
- Next Generation Gravity Mission Elements of the Mass Change and Geoscience International Constellation: From Orbit Selection to Instrument and Mission Design
- Occurrence and risk assessment of antibiotics in the surface water of Chaohu Lake and its tributaries in China.
- Spatial and Temporal Variability in Concentration‐Discharge Relationships at the Event Scale
- Reactivation characteristics and hydrological inducing factors of a massive ancient landslide in the three Gorges Reservoir, China
- Statistics
- 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 Wasko, Rafiei-Sardooi et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Evidence of shorter more extreme rainfalls and increased flood variability under climate change
Authors: Conrad Wasko, Rory Nathan, Lina Stein, Declan O’Shea
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126994 · Citations: 349
Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, flood, climate change
Abstract not available.
Evaluating urban flood risk using hybrid method of TOPSIS and machine learning
Authors: Elham Rafiei-Sardooi, Ali Azareh, Bahram Choubin, Amir Mosavi, John J. Clague
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102614 · Citations: 279
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
With the growth of cities, urban flooding has increasingly become an issue for regional and national governments. The destructive effects of floods are magnified in cities. Accurate models of urban flood susceptibility are required to mitigate this hazard mitigation and build resilience in cities. In this paper, we evaluate flood riskin Jiroft city, Iran, using a combination of machine learning and decision-making methods. Flood hazard maps were created using three state-of-the-art machine le…
Urban flood modeling using deep-learning approaches in Seoul, South Korea
Authors: Xinxiang Lei, Wei Chen, M. Panahi, F. Falah, Omid Rahmati, E. Uuemaa et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2021.126684 · Citations: 165
Matched topics: flood
Abstract Identification of flood-prone sites in urban environments is necessary, but there is insufficient hydraulic information and time series data on surface runoff. To date, several attempts have been made to apply deep-learning models for flood hazard mapping in urban areas. This study evaluated the capability of convolutional neural network (NNETC) and recurrent neural network (NNETR) models for flood hazard mapping. A flood-inundation inventory (including 295 flooded sites) was used as…
Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?
Authors: Daniel Green, Emily O’Donnell, Matthew F. Johnson, Louise Slater, Colin R. Thorne, Shan Zheng et al.
Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1560 · Citations: 151
Matched topics: runoff, water management, flood
Abstract Urban flooding is a key global challenge which is expected to become exacerbated under global change due to more intense rainfall and flashier runoff regimes over increasingly urban landscapes. Consequently, many cities are rethinking their approach to flood risk management by using green infrastructure (GI) solutions to reverse the legacy of hard engineering flood management approaches. The aim of GI is to attenuate, restore, and recreate a more natural flood response, bringing hydr…
Amplified Drought and Flood Risk Under Future Socioeconomic and Climatic Change
Authors: Hossein Tabari, Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei, Wim Thiery, Patrick Willems
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2021ef002295 · Citations: 147
Matched topics: hydrology, flood, drought
Abstract The economic stress and damage from natural hazards are escalating at an alarming rate, calling for anticipatory risk management. Yet few studies have projected flood and drought risk, owing to large uncertainties, strong non‐linearities, and complex spatial‐temporal dynamics. Here, we develop an integrative global risk analysis framework encapsulating future changes in flood and drought hazards as well as associated exposure and vulnerability dimensions. Flood characteristics are qu…
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Compound Flooding in Coastal River Areas
Authors: María Bermúdez, Juan F. Farfán, Patrick Willems, Luís Cea
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr029321 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, flood, climate change, earth system model
Abstract Flood assessment in coastal river areas is subject to complex dependencies and interactions between flood drivers. In addition, coastal areas are especially vulnerable to climate change, and thus its effects should be considered in the evaluation of future flood hazard. In the present study, we propose a methodology for a robust evaluation of historical and future flooding in coastal river areas. It follows a continuous simulation approach in which a hydrologic‐hydraulic modeling cas…
Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real‐Time Urban Flood Forecasting
Authors: V. Y. Ivanov, Donghui Xu, M. C. Dwelle, Khachik Sargsyan, Daniel B. Wright, Nikolaos D. Katopodes et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl093585 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: flood
Abstract Flooding impacts are on the rise globally, and concentrated in urban areas. Currently, there are no operational systems to forecast flooding at spatial resolutions that can facilitate emergency preparedness and response actions mitigating flood impacts. We present a framework for real‐time flood modeling and uncertainty quantification that combines the physics of fluid motion with advances in probabilistic methods. The framework overcomes the prohibitive computational demands of high…
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 3 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Senf, Li et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Persistent impacts of the 2018 drought on forest disturbance regimes in Europe
Authors: Cornelius Senf, Rupert Seidl
Journal: Biogeosciences · DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-5223-2021 · Citations: 170
Matched topics: drought
Abstract. Europe was affected by an extreme drought in 2018, compounding with an extensive heat wave in the same and subsequent years. Here we provide a first assessment of the impacts this compounding event had on forest disturbance regimes in Europe. We find that the 2018 drought caused unprecedented levels of forest disturbance across large parts of Europe, persisting up to 2 years post-drought. The 2018 drought pushed forest disturbance regimes in Europe to the edge of their past range of…
Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios
Authors: Hongwei Li, Zhi Li, Yaning Chen, Yanyun Xiang, Yongchang Liu, Patient Mindje Kayumba et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac2bce · Citations: 103
Matched topics: drought
In an increasingly globalized and warming world, drought can have devastating impacts on regional agriculture, water resources, and the ecological environment. Reliable prediction of future drought changes is especially important within the context of rapid warming. However, the extent and future trends of drought changes are variable and incomplete in the CMIP6 forcing scenarios. Based on the CMIP6 data, we chose the standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index to predict future globa…
Drought modelling by standard precipitation index (SPI) in a semi-arid climate using deep learning method: long short-term memory
Authors: Alireza Docheshmeh Gorgij, Meysam Alizamir, Özgür Kişi, Ahmed El‐Shafie
Journal: Neural Computing and Applications · DOI: 10.1007/s00521-021-06505-6 · Citations: 83
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.
A hybrid deep learning algorithm and its application to streamflow prediction
Authors: Yongen Lin, Dagang Wang, Guiling Wang, Jianxiu Qiu, Kaihao Long, Yingyi Du et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2021.126636 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: streamflow
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 20 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis
Authors: Unknown
Journal: Chemistry International · DOI: 10.1515/ci-2021-0407 · Citations: 2267
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body responsible for assessing the science related to climate change. The Sixth Report from IPCC Working Group 1 published in August 2021 paints a very sombre picture for the future. This report was commented on in a news item by the International Science Council (ISC) on behalf of its members, of which IUPAC is a founding member.
Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates
Authors: Marlis Wullenkord, Josephine Tröger, Karen Hamann, Laura S. Loy, Gerhard Reese
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03234-6 · Citations: 276
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract The climate crisis is an unprecedented existential threat that causes disturbing emotions, such as anxiety. Recently, Clayton and Karazsia measured climate anxiety as “a more clinically significant ‘anxious’ response to climate change” (2020, p. 9). To gain a more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon from an empirical psychological perspective, we translated the core of the Climate Anxiety Scale into German and assessed potential correlates in a large German-speaking quota sample …
Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries
Authors: William W. L. Cheung, Thomas L. Frölicher, Vicky W. Y. Lam, Muhammed A. Oyinlola, Gabriel Reygondeau, U. Rashid Sumaila et al.
Journal: Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh0895 · Citations: 218
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Extreme temperature events have occurred in all ocean basins in the past two decades with detrimental impacts on marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. However, global impacts of temperature extremes on fish stocks, fisheries, and dependent people have not been quantified. Using an integrated climate-biodiversity-fisheries-economic impact model, we project that, on average, when an annual high temperature extreme occurs in an exclusive economic zone, 77% of exploited fishes a…
Estimating the global risk of anthropogenic climate change
Authors: Alexandre Magnan, Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Virginie Duvat, Matthias Garschagen, Valeria A. Guinder, Zinta Zommers et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01156-w · Citations: 198
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda
Authors: Emily Boyd, Brian C. Chaffin, Kelly Dorkenoo, Guy Jackson, Luke J. Harrington, Alicia N’Guetta et al.
Journal: One Earth · DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.015 · Citations: 148
Matched topics: climate change
The effects of climate change, whether they be via slow- or rapid-onset events such as extreme events, are inflicting devastating losses and damage on communities around the world, with the most vulnerable affected the most. Although the negative impacts of climate change and the concept of loss and damage are included in international conventions, such as the United Nations Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage and Article 8 of the Paris Agreement, these stop short of providing …
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon
Authors: Beatriz Fátima Alves de Oliveira, Marcus Jorge Bottino, Paulo Nobre, Carlos A. Nobre
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00275-8 · Citations: 146
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Abstract Land use change and deforestation can influence local temperature and climate. Here we use a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to assess the impact of savannization of the Amazon Basin on the wet-bulb globe temperature heat stress index under two climate change scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). We find that heat stress exposure due to deforestation was comparable to the effect of climate change under RCP8.5. Our findings suggest that heat stress index could exceed the human adaptation limi…
Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes
Authors: Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Drew Lyons, Clark Hollenberg, Carlos Carroll, Sean A. Parks et al.
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00270-z · Citations: 137
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Expanding the global protected area network is critical for addressing biodiversity declines and the climate crisis. However, how climate change will affect ecosystem representation within the protected area network remains unclear. Here we use spatial climate analogs to examine potential climate-driven shifts in terrestrial ecoregions and biomes under a +2 °C warming scenario and associated implications for achieving 30% area-based protection targets. We find that roughly half of la…
Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity
Authors: E. Lisa F. Schipper, Navroz K. Dubash, Yacob Mulugetta
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03237-3 · Citations: 130
Matched topics: climate change
Growing political pressure to find solutions to climate change is leading to increasing calls for multiple disciplines, in particular those that are not traditionally part of climate change research, to contribute new knowledge systems that can offer deeper and broader insights to address the problem. Recognition of the complexity of climate change compels researchers to draw on interdisciplinary knowledge that marries natural sciences with social sciences and humanities. Yet most interdiscip…
Monitoring of Land Use–Land Cover Change and Potential Causal Factors of Climate Change in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan, through GIS and Multi-Temporal Satellite Data
Authors: Muhammad Majeed, Aqil Tariq, Muhammad Mushahid Anwar, Arshad Mahmood Khan, Fahim Arshad, Faisal Mumtaz et al.
Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land10101026 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: climate change
Land use–land cover (LULC) alteration is primarily associated with land degradation, especially in recent decades, and has resulted in various harmful changes in the landscape. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) has the prospective capacity to classify the vegetative characteristics of many ecological areas and has proven itself useful as a remote sensing (RS) tool in recording vegetative phenological aspects. Likewise, the normalized difference built-up index (NDBI) is used fo…
Coupling the U.K. Earth System Model to Dynamic Models of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
Authors: Robin S. Smith, Pierre Mathiot, Antony Siahaan, Victoria Lee, Stephen Cornford, Jonathan M. Gregory et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002520 · Citations: 120
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract The physical interactions between ice sheets and the atmosphere and ocean around them are major factors in determining the state of the climate system, yet many current Earth System models omit them entirely or treat them very simply. In this work we describe how models of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been incorporated into the global U.K. Earth System model (UKESM1) via substantial technical developments with a two‐way coupling that passes fluxes of energy and water, …
Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later
Authors: Krista F. Myers, Peter T. Doran, John Cook, John Kotcher, Teresa Myers
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac2774 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change
The scientific consensus on human-caused global warming has been a topic of intense interest in recent decades. This is in part due to the important role of public perception of expert consensus, which has downstream impacts on public opinion and support for mitigation policies. Numerous studies, using diverse methodologies and measures of climate expertise, have quantified the scientific consensus, finding between 90% and 100% agreement on human-caused global warming with multiple studies co…
Evapotranspiration Using a Satellite-Based Surface Energy Balance with Standardized Ground Control
Authors: Ricardo Trezza
Journal: Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) · DOI: 10.26076/675a-b84b · Citations: 109
Matched topics: land surface model
This study evaluated the potential of using the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) as a means for estimating evapotranspiration (ET) for local and regional scales in Southern Idaho. The original SEBAL model was refined during this study to provide better estimation of ET in agricultural areas and to make more reliable estimates of ET from other surfaces as well, including mountainous terrain. The modified version of SEBAL used in this study, termed as SEBALID (lD stands for Ida…
Central banking challenges posed by uncertain climate change and natural disasters
Authors: Lars Peter Hansen
Journal: Journal of Monetary Economics · DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2021.09.010 · Citations: 108
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change poses an important policy challenge for governments around the world. The challenge is made all that much more difficult because of the multitude of potential policymakers involved in setting the policy worldwide. What then should be the role of central banks? How are climate change concerns similar to or distinct from those of other natural disasters? Clarity of ambition and execution will help to ensure that central banks maintain credibility. By adhering to their mandated ro…
Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change
Authors: Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos
Journal: Political Geography · DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102512 · Citations: 102
Matched topics: climate change
In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change. Critically engaging with Foucault’s ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a conceptual perspective for analysing how such a “technology of government” operates. We review diverse literatures from geography, political ecology, critical adaptation studies and the environmental humanities dealing with discursive constructions of the other in three exemplary areas of intervention—mitigation (particular…
Climate Change and the Historic Environment
Authors: Hannah Fluck, Mike Dawson
Journal: The Historic Environment Policy & Practice · DOI: 10.1080/17567505.2021.1990492 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Changing opinions on a changing climate: the effects of natural disasters on public perceptions of climate change
Authors: Matthew R. Sloggy, Jordan F. Suter, Mani Rouhi Rad, Dale T. Manning, Christopher Goemans
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03242-6 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: climate change
The frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods are predicted to change as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. These disasters may represent sources of information for individuals as they update their beliefs related to climate change. Using a dataset that includes climate beliefs of respondents, we examine the effect of natural disasters on climate change beliefs and find that hurricanes significantly increase the probability that survey respond…
Climate change impacts on wind energy resources in North America based on the CMIP6 projections
Authors: A. Martinez, Gregório Iglesias
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150580 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: climate change
The mid- and long-term evolution of wind energy resources in North America is investigated by means of a multi-model ensemble selected from 18 global climate models. The most recent scenarios of greenhouse gases emissions and land use, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), are considered - more specifically, the SSP5-8.5 (intensive emissions) and SSP2-4.5 (moderate emissions). In both scenarios, onshore wind power density in the US and Canada is predicted to drop. Under SSP5-8.5, the redu…
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?
Authors: Massimo Cattino, Diana Reckien
Journal: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.08.004 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: climate change
The scientific literature is inconclusive with regard to whether public participation leads to more ambitious and transformative local climate governance. We review the scientific literature and, for climate adaptation, interpret whether the level of participation is associated with transformative potential of adaptation. For mitigation, we analyze whether public participation in local climate plans is significantly related to local greenhouse gas reduction targets. We find that public partic…
Increasing Risk of Ecological Change to Major Rivers of the World With Global Warming
Authors: Julian R. Thompson, Simon N. Gosling, Jamal Zaherpour, Cédric Laizé
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2021ef002048 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river
Abstract The hydrological characteristics of a river, including the magnitude and timing of high and low flows, are important determinants of its ecological functioning. Climate change will alter these characteristics, triggering ecological changes in river ecosystems. This study assesses risks of ecological change in 321 major river basins across the globe due to global warming relative to pre‐industrial conditions of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0°C. Risks associated with climate‐driven changes to h…
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors
Authors: Matthew R. Sisco
Journal: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.09.001 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
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.
Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar
Authors: Suman Ravuri, Karel Lenc, Matthew Willson, Dmitry Kangin, Rémi Lam, Piotr Mirowski et al.
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03854-z · Citations: 889
Matched topics: earth system model
. While they accurately predict low-intensity rainfall, their operational utility is limited because their lack of constraints produces blurry nowcasts at longer lead times, yielding poor performance on rarer medium-to-heavy rain events. Here we present a deep generative model for the probabilistic nowcasting of precipitation from radar that addresses these challenges. Using statistical, economic and cognitive measures, we show that our method provides improved forecast quality, forecast cons…
Physics-guided deep learning for rainfall-runoff modeling by considering extreme events and monotonic relationships
Authors: Kang Xie, Pan Liu, Jianyun Zhang, Dongyang Han, Guoqing Wang, Chaopeng Shen
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127043 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models
Authors: Dirk Eilander, Willem van Verseveld, Dai Yamazaki, Albrecht Weerts, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-5287-2021 · Citations: 103
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, land surface model, earth system model
Abstract. Distributed hydrological models rely on hydrography data such as flow direction, river length, slope and width. For large-scale applications, many of these models still rely on a few flow direction datasets, which are often manually derived. We propose the Iterative Hydrography Upscaling (IHU) method to upscale high-resolution flow direction data to the typically coarser resolutions of distributed hydrological models. The IHU aims to preserve the upstream–downstream relationship of …
Effectiveness of vegetation cover pattern on regulating soil erosion and runoff generation in red soil environment, southern China
Authors: Chongjun Tang, Yu Liu, Zhongwu Li, Liping Guo, Aizhen Xu, Jiading Zhao
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLIND.2021.107956 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract Coupling vegetation cover pattern with soil erosion and runoff generation positions a multi-discipline hotspot. Due to the widely occurred patchy vegetation cover and water-limited environment, regulation of vegetation cover pattern on runoff and soil erosion in arid and semiarid environment was addressed widely. In tropical and subtropical environment, patchy vegetation cover pattern also widely occurred in human-dominated landscapes. However, the effect of vegetation cover pattern …
Shallow landslides and vegetation at the catchment scale: A perspective
Authors: Chris Phillips, Tristram C. Hales, Hugh G. Smith, Les Basher
Journal: Ecological Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106436 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract not available.
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 14 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Seasonal Contrast: Unsupervised Pre-Training from Uncurated Remote Sensing Data
Authors: Oscar Mañas, Alexandre Lacoste, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto, David Vázquez, Pau Rodríguez
Journal: 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · DOI: 10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00928 · Citations: 300
Matched topics: seasonal
Remote sensing and automatic earth monitoring are key to solve global-scale challenges such as disaster prevention, land use monitoring, or tackling climate change. Although there exist vast amounts of remote sensing data, most of it remains unlabeled and thus inaccessible for supervised learning algorithms. Transfer learning approaches can reduce the data requirements of deep learning algorithms. However, most of these methods are pre-trained on ImageNet and their generalization to remote se…
Revisiting the Global Seasonal Snow Classification: An Updated Dataset for Earth System Applications
Authors: Matthew Sturm, Glen E. Liston
Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology · DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-21-0070.1 · Citations: 144
Matched topics: seasonal
Abstract Twenty-five years ago, we published a global seasonal snow classification now widely used in snow research, physical geography, and as a mission planning tool for remote sensing snow studies. Performing the classification requires global datasets of air temperature, precipitation, and land-cover. When introduced in 1995, the finest resolution global datasets of these variables were on a 0.5° × 0.5° latitude-longitude grid (approximately 50 km). Here we revisit the snow classification…
Nitrogen cycling processes and the role of multi-trophic microbiota in dam-induced river-reservoir systems.
Authors: Nan Yang, Chi Zhang, Linqiong Wang, Yi Li, Wenlong Zhang, Lihua Niu et al.
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117730 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: river, reservoir
The nitrogen (N) cycle is one of the most important nutrient cycles in river systems, and it plays an important role in maintaining biogeochemical balance and global climate stability. One of the main ways that humans have altered riverine ecosystems is through the construction of hydropower dams, which have major effects on biogeochemical cycles. Most previous studies examining the effects of damming on N cycling have focused on the whole budget or flux along rivers, and the role of river as…
Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda
Authors: Robert B. Jackson, Sam Abernethy, Josep G. Canadell, Matteo Cargnello, Steven J. Davis, Sarah Féron et al.
Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0454 · Citations: 123
Matched topics: earth system model
methane oxidation to carbon dioxide) may be needed to offset continued methane release and limit the global warming contribution of this potent greenhouse gas. Because mitigating most anthropogenic emissions of methane is uncertain this century, and sudden methane releases from the Arctic or elsewhere cannot be excluded, technologies for methane removal or oxidation may be required. Carbon dioxide removal has an increasingly well-established research agenda and technological foundation. No si…
Occurrence and distribution of antibiotics in groundwater, surface water, and sediment in Xiong’an New Area, China, and their relationship with antibiotic resistance genes.
Authors: Caixia Fu, Bentuo Xu, He Chen, Xue Zhao, Guanrong Li, Yan Zheng et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151011 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: surface water
The emergence and pollution of antibiotics in surface water in various regions have drawn widespread concern because of the harm to aquatic ecosystems and human health. In this study, we aim to first investigate contamination and ecological risks of 39 antibiotics in Xiong’an New Area (XANA), China, and then illuminate relative abundances of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and their correlations with antibiotics. The sum of antibiotic concentrations in the water circulation system, includi…
Solar-driven desalination and resource recovery of shale gas wastewater by on-site interfacial evaporation
Authors: Wancen Xie, Peng Tang, Qidong Wu, Chen Chen, Zhaoyang Song, Tong Li et al.
Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal · DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.132624 · Citations: 102
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Volcanically driven lacustrine ecosystem changes during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic)
Authors: Jing Lu, Peixin Zhang, Jacopo Dal Corso, Minfang Yang, Paul B. Wignall, Sarah E. Greene et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109895118 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: earth system model
The Late Triassic Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) saw a dramatic increase in global humidity and temperature that has been linked to the large-scale volcanism of the Wrangellia large igneous province. The climatic changes coincide with a major biological turnover on land that included the ascent of the dinosaurs and the origin of modern conifers. However, linking the disparate cause and effects of the CPE has yet to be achieved because of the lack of a detailed terrestrial record of these event…
An interplay of soil salinization and groundwater degradation threatening coexistence of oasis-desert ecosystems
Authors: Xinwei Yin, Qi Feng, Yan Li, Ravinesh C. Deo, Wei Liu, Meng Zhu et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150599 · Citations: 85
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, water management
Abstract not available.
Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet
Authors: E. Quaranta, G. Aggidis, R. Boes, C. Comoglio, Carlo De Michele, Epari Ritesh Patro et al.
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114655 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract About 50% of all hydropower plants (HPPs) worldwide were originally commissioned more than 40 years ago, so that the advanced age of the fleet is a major concern across all continents, and especially in Europe. The modernization of HPPs can generate several benefits in terms of generation, flexibility, safety, operation, and may have neutral or even positive implications for the environment. In this work, we appraise several options for the modernization of existing plants, with the …
Sand mining far outpaces natural supply in a large alluvial river
Authors: Christopher Hackney, Grigorios Vasilopoulos, Sokchhay Heng, Vasudha Darbari, Samuel Walker, Daniel R. Parsons
Journal: Earth Surface Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esurf-9-1323-2021 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: river, hydropower
Abstract. The world’s large rivers are facing reduced sediment loads due to anthropogenic activities such as hydropower development and sediment extraction. Globally, estimates of sand extraction from large river systems are lacking, in part due to the pervasive and distributed nature of extraction processes. For the Mekong River, the widely assumed estimate of basin-wide sand extraction is 50 Mt per year. This figure is based on 2013 estimates and is likely to be outdated. Here, we demonstra…
Next Generation Gravity Mission Elements of the Mass Change and Geoscience International Constellation: From Orbit Selection to Instrument and Mission Design
Authors: Luca Massotti, Christian Siemes, Günther March, Roger Haagmans, Pierluigi Silvestrin
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13193935 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM) is a candidate Mission of Opportunity for ESA–NASA cooperation in the frame of the Mass Change and Geosciences International Constellation (MAGIC). The mission aims at enabling long-term monitoring of the temporal variations of Earth’s gravity field at relatively high temporal (down to 3 days) and increased spatial resolutions (up to 100 km) at longer time intervals. This implies also that time series of GRACE and GRACE-FO can be extended towards a…
Occurrence and risk assessment of antibiotics in the surface water of Chaohu Lake and its tributaries in China.
Authors: Qiqi Zhou, Guijian Liu, Muhammad Arif, Xiaodan Shi, Sizhuang Wang
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151040 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: surface water
The extensive use of antibiotics for treating humans, animals, and plants has resulted in the contamination of aquatic environments, posing a potential threat to public health and aquatic life; hence, this topic is of great concern worldwide. Lakes are considered to be antibiotic-rich reservoirs because many of the antibiotics discharged from rivers enter lakes. Chaohu Lake is one of the top five freshwater lakes in China. This study aims to provide a current evaluation of the antibiotics pre…
Spatial and Temporal Variability in Concentration‐Discharge Relationships at the Event Scale
Authors: Andréas Musolff, Qing Zhan, Rémi Dupas, Camille Minaudo, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Michael Rode et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr029442 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract The analysis of concentration‐discharge (C‐Q) relationships from low‐frequency observations is commonly used to assess solute sources, mobilization, and reactive transport processes at the catchment scale. High‐frequency concentration measurements are increasingly available and offer additional insights into event‐scale export dynamics. However, only few studies have integrated inter‐annual and event‐scale C‐Q relationships. Here, we analyze high‐frequency measurements of specific co…
Reactivation characteristics and hydrological inducing factors of a massive ancient landslide in the three Gorges Reservoir, China
Authors: Chenyang Zhang, Yue-ping Yin, Hui Yan, Huaxi Li, Zhenwei Dai, N. Zhang
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.ENGGEO.2021.106273 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
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| Communications Earth & Environment | 2 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 2 |
| Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2 |
| Science of the Total Environment | 2 |
| International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 1 |
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| Energy Conversion and Management | 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
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