Weekly Literature Review

Week 42 · October 18–October 24, 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. Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest
    2. Hybrid XGboost model with various Bayesian hyperparameter optimization algorithms for flood hazard susceptibility modeling
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Prediction and Utilization of Malondialdehyde in Exotic Pine Under Drought Stress Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
    2. A new approach to quantify propagation time from meteorological to hydrological drought
    3. Foliar carbon dot amendment modulates carbohydrate metabolism, rhizospheric properties and drought tolerance in maize seedling
    4. Drought vulnerability assessment: Solution for risk alleviation and drought management among Iranian farmers
    5. A novel comprehensive agricultural drought index reflecting time lag of soil moisture to meteorology: A case study in the Yangtze River basin, China
    6. Multifarious effect of ACC deaminase and EPS producing Pseudomonas sp. and Serratia marcescens to augment drought stress tolerance and nutrient status of wheat
    7. Grapevines under drought do not express esca leaf symptoms
    8. Temporal trends in canopy temperature and greenness are potential indicators of late-season drought avoidance and functional stay-green in wheat
    9. Silica fertilization improved wheat performance and increased phosphorus concentrations during drought at the field scale
    10. Seasonal and aridity influences on the relationships between drought indices and hydrological variables over China
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. Development of new machine learning model for streamflow prediction: case studies in Pakistan
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations
    2. Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature
    3. Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change: A cross-country analysis
    4. Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems
    5. Affective adaptation = effective transformation? Shifting the politics of climate change adaptation and transformation from the status quo
    6. Climate change benefits negated by extreme heat
    7. Soil organic carbon dynamics from agricultural management practices under climate change
    8. Recent Advances in Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration
    9. Framework for probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment considering the effects of sea-level rise due to climate change
    10. Governance issues related to the management and conservation of mangrove ecosystems to support climate change mitigation actions in Indonesia
    11. Changes of Precipitation‐Runoff Relationship Induced by Climate Variation in a Large Glaciated Basin of the Tibetan Plateau
    12. Loess Plateau evapotranspiration intensified by land surface radiative forcing associated with ecological restoration
    13. Forecasting daily evapotranspiration using artificial neural networks for sustainable irrigation scheduling
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models
    2. A review on the applications of machine learning for runoff modeling
    3. Vanishing Glaciers at Southeast Tibetan Plateau Have Not Offset the Declining Runoff at Yarlung Zangbo
    4. A parameterization of sub-grid topographical effects on solar radiation in the E3SM Land Model (version 1.0): implementation and evaluation over the Tibetan Plateau
    5. Impacts of rainfall spatial and temporal variabilities on runoff quality and quantity at the watershed scale
    6. Early warm-season mesoscale convective systems dominate soil moisture–precipitation feedback for summer rainfall in central United States
    7. Recent variability of sub‐seasonal monsoon precipitation and its potential drivers in Myanmar using in‐situ observation during 1981–2020
    8. Evaluation of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) precipitation forecast from the North American Multi-Model ensemble phase II (NMME-2) over the contiguous U.S.
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Soil salinity: A global threat to sustainable development
    2. Energy systems in scenarios at net-zero CO2 emissions
    3. Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing
    4. Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services
    5. The New Swiss Glacier Inventory SGI2016: From a Topographical to a Glaciological Dataset
    6. Impact of short-term organic amendments incorporation on soil structure and hydrology in semiarid agricultural lands
    7. Optimizing the sizes of wind and photovoltaic plants complementarily operating with cascade hydropower stations: Balancing risk and benefit
    8. Cross-regional integrated transmission of wind power and pumped-storage hydropower considering the peak shaving demands of multiple power grids
    9. A Direct Mass Spectrometry Method for the Rapid Analysis of Ubiquitous Tire-Derived Toxin N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine Quinone (6-PPDQ)
    10. Mowing event detection in permanent grasslands: Systematic evaluation of input features from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 time series
    11. Landscape dynamics facilitated non-point source pollution control and regional water security of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China
    12. Effects of drip irrigation nitrogen coupling on dry matter accumulation and yield of Summer Maize in arid areas of China
    13. The Dominant Control of Relief on Soil Water Content Distribution During Wet‐Dry Transitions in Headwaters
    14. Impact of controlled drainage on subsurface drain flow and nitrate load: A synthesis of studies across the U.S. Midwest and Southeast
    15. Automatic mapping of national surface water with OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 MSI data using deep learning
    16. Soil salinity variations and cotton growth under long-term mulched drip irrigation in saline-alkali land of arid oasis
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 2 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Shirzaei, Janizadeh et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest

Authors: Manoochehr Shirzaei, M. Khoshmanesh, Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, Hannah Kerner, Grace Carlson et al.

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100392 · Citations: 53

Matched topics: flood

Climate extremes threaten global food security, and compound events, such as late spring heavy and warmer rainfall over snow and subsequent flooding, exacerbate this vulnerability. Despite frequent occurrences in recent years, a quantitative understanding of the compound weather events’ impacts remains elusive. Here, we use Synthetic Aperture Radar data from Sentinel-1 and normalized difference vegetation index data from MODIS satellites to map the spring 2019 U.S. Midwest flood extent and ev…


Hybrid XGboost model with various Bayesian hyperparameter optimization algorithms for flood hazard susceptibility modeling

Authors: Saeid Janizadeh, Mehdi Vafakhah, Zoran Kapelan, Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan

Journal: Geocarto International · DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2021.1996641 · Citations: 51

Matched topics: flood

The purpose of this investigation is to develop an optimal model to flood susceptibility mapping in the Kan watershed, Tehran, Iran. Therefore, in this study, three Bayesian optimization hyper-parameter algorithms including Upper confidence bound (UCB), Probability of improvement (PI) and Expected improvement (EI) in order to Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) machine learning model optimization and Extreme randomize tree (ERT) model for modeling flood hazard were used. In order to perform flood…


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 10 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Zhang, Ho et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Prediction and Utilization of Malondialdehyde in Exotic Pine Under Drought Stress Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Authors: Yini Zhang, Qifu Luan, Jingmin Jiang, Yanjie Li

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.735275 · Citations: 155

Matched topics: drought

) of 0.66, a root mean square error (RMSE) of 2.28%, and a residual prediction deviation (RPD) of 1.51, and it was successfully implemented in drought stress experiments as a reliable and non-destructive method to detect the MDA content in real time.


A new approach to quantify propagation time from meteorological to hydrological drought

Authors: Sarah Ho, Lu Tian, Markus Disse, Ye Tuo

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127056 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: runoff, drought

Of particular importance in a world of increasing water scarcity is the temporal and spatial relationship between a shortage in rainfall—meteorological drought—and a shortage in available water, or hydrological drought. Propagation time from meteorological to hydrological drought should be calculated at a higher (sub-monthly) temporal resolution with considerations for spatial expansion. A new framework for propagation time calculation from one index to another is established that uses the ru…


Foliar carbon dot amendment modulates carbohydrate metabolism, rhizospheric properties and drought tolerance in maize seedling

Authors: Hanyue Yang, Chuanxi Wang, Feiran Chen, Le Yue, Xuesong Cao, Jing Li et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151105 · Citations: 103

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Drought vulnerability assessment: Solution for risk alleviation and drought management among Iranian farmers

Authors: Moslem Savari, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102654 · Citations: 96

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


A novel comprehensive agricultural drought index reflecting time lag of soil moisture to meteorology: A case study in the Yangtze River basin, China

Authors: Qing Tian, Jianzhong Lu, Xiaoling Chen

Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.105804 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: river, drought

Abstract not available.


Multifarious effect of ACC deaminase and EPS producing Pseudomonas sp. and Serratia marcescens to augment drought stress tolerance and nutrient status of wheat

Authors: Amir Khan, Ajay Veer Singh

Journal: World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology · DOI: 10.1007/s11274-021-03166-4 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


Grapevines under drought do not express esca leaf symptoms

Authors: Giovanni Bortolami, Gregory A. Gambetta, Cédric Cassan, Silvina Dayer, Elena Farolfi, Nathalie Ferrer et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112825118 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: drought

assimilation, chlorophyll, and nonstructural carbohydrates). Our results highlight the distinct physiology behind these two stress responses, indicating that esca (and subsequent stomatal conductance decline) does not result from decreases in water potential and generates different gas exchange and nonstructural carbohydrate seasonal dynamics compared to drought.


Authors: Jonas Anderegg, Helge Aasen, Gregor Perich, Lukas Roth, Achim Walter, Andreas Hund

Journal: Field Crops Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108311 · Citations: 51

Matched topics: drought

The ability to avoid dehydration is a drought resistance mechanism becoming increasingly more important even in temperate regions. In wheat, dehydration avoidance can be associated with a maintained canopy cooling during dry periods. However, in an average year under temperate conditions, drought periods are rather short which makes it difficult to routinely screen for drought avoidance using canopy temperature (CT). Furthermore, confounding factors such as differences in height, shoot biomas…


Silica fertilization improved wheat performance and increased phosphorus concentrations during drought at the field scale

Authors: Jörg Schaller, Eric Scherwietes, Lukas A. Gerber, Shrijana Vaidya, Danuta Kaczorek, Johanna Pausch et al.

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00464-7 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: drought

Drought and the availability of mineable phosphorus minerals used for fertilization are two of the important issues agriculture is facing in the future. High phosphorus availability in soils is necessary to maintain high agricultural yields. Drought is one of the major threats for terrestrial ecosystem performance and crop production in future. Among the measures proposed to cope with the upcoming challenges of intensifying drought stress and to decrease the need for phosphorus fertilizer app…


Seasonal and aridity influences on the relationships between drought indices and hydrological variables over China

Authors: Hao‐jie Xu, Xin‐ping Wang, Chuanyan Zhao, Shu-yao Shan, Jinyun Guo

Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100393 · Citations: 47

Matched topics: hydrologic model, drought, seasonal

In recent decades multiple drought indices have been developed to quantify drought characteristics and to examine drought effects. However, little is known about regional applicability of drought indices for monitoring seasonal droughts over China. Here we investigated the capacity of three commonly used drought indices (SPI, SPEI and scPDSI) for showing water deficit as compared to independent precipitation, root zone soil moisture (SM) and terrestrial water storage (TWS) estimates collected…


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.

Development of new machine learning model for streamflow prediction: case studies in Pakistan

Authors: R. Adnan, Reham R. Mostafa, A. Elbeltagi, Z. Yaseen, Shamsuddin Shahid, O. Kisi

Journal: Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment (Print) · DOI: 10.1007/s00477-021-02111-z · Citations: 76

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract not available.


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.

The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations

Authors: Josh Cowls, Andreas Tsamados, M. Taddeo, L. Floridi

Journal: Ai & Society · DOI: 10.1007/s00146-021-01294-x · Citations: 408

Matched topics: climate change

In this article, we analyse the role that artificial intelligence (AI) could play, and is playing, to combat global climate change. We identify two crucial opportunities that AI offers in this domain: it can help improve and expand current understanding of climate change, and it can contribute to combatting the climate crisis effectively. However, the development of AI also raises two sets of problems when considering climate change: the possible exacerbation of social and ethical challenges …


Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature

Authors: Mark Lynas, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Simon Perry

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966 · Citations: 376

Matched topics: climate change

While controls over the Earth’s climate system have undergone rigorous hypothesis-testing since the 1800s, questions over the scientific consensus of the role of human activities in modern climate change continue to arise in public settings. We update previous efforts to quantify the scientific consensus on climate change by searching the recent literature for papers sceptical of anthropogenic-caused global warming. From a dataset of 88125 climate-related papers published since 2012, when thi…


Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change: A cross-country analysis

Authors: Matthew E. Kahn, Kamiar Mohaddes, Ryan N. C. Ng, M. Hashem Pesaran, Mehdi Raissi, Jui‐Chung Yang

Journal: Energy Economics · DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105624 · Citations: 364

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems

Authors: Derek P. Tittensor, Camilla Novaglio, Cheryl S. Harrison, Ryan Heneghan, Nicolas Barrier, Daniele Bianchi et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01173-9 · Citations: 284

Matched topics: earth system model

Projections of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems have revealed long-term declines in global marine animal biomass and unevenly distributed impacts on fisheries. Here we apply an enhanced suite of global marine ecosystem models from the Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (Fish-MIP), forced by new-generation Earth system model outputs from Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), to provide insights into how projected climate change will …


Affective adaptation = effective transformation? Shifting the politics of climate change adaptation and transformation from the status quo

Authors: Andrea J. Nightingale, Noémi Gonda, Siri Eriksen

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · DOI: 10.1002/wcc.740 · Citations: 115

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Alarming rates of environmental change have catalyzed scholars to call for fundamental transformations in social‐political and economic relations. Yet cautionary tales about how power and politics are constitutive of these efforts fill the literature. We show how a relational framing of adaptation and transformation demands a political, cross‐scalar, and socionatural analysis to probe the affects and effects of climate change and better grasp how transformative change unfolds. We bri…


Climate change benefits negated by extreme heat

Authors: Matthew Tom Harrison

Journal: Nature Food · DOI: 10.1038/s43016-021-00387-6 · Citations: 77

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Soil organic carbon dynamics from agricultural management practices under climate change

Authors: Tobias Herzfeld, Jens Heinke, Susanne Rolinski, Christoph Müller

Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-12-1037-2021 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract. Sequestration of soil organic carbon (SOC) on cropland has been proposed as a climate change mitigation strategy to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere, which in particular is needed to achieve the targets proposed in the Paris Agreement to limit the increase in atmospheric temperature to well below 2 ∘C. We analyze the historical evolution and future development of cropland SOC using the global process-based biophysical model LPJmL, which was recentl…


Recent Advances in Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration

Authors: Nishan Bhattarai, Pradeep Wagle

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13214260 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: water management

Evapotranspiration (ET) plays an important role in coupling the global energy, water, and biogeochemical cycles and explains ecosystem responses to global environmental change. However, quantifying and mapping the spatiotemporal distribution of ET across a large area is still a challenge, which limits our understanding of how a given ecosystem functions under a changing climate. This also poses a challenge to water managers, farmers, and ranchers who often rely on accurate estimates of ET to …


Framework for probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment considering the effects of sea-level rise due to climate change

Authors: Abdul Kadir Alhamid, Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, Hiroki Ishibashi, Koki Aoki, Shunichi Koshimura, Dan M. Frangopol

Journal: Structural Safety · DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2021.102152 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Authors: Harsanto Mursyid, Muhammad Haidar Daulay, Andita Aulia Pratama, Dwi Laraswati, Nisa Novita, Anjelita Malik et al.

Journal: Forest Policy and Economics · DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102622 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


Changes of Precipitation‐Runoff Relationship Induced by Climate Variation in a Large Glaciated Basin of the Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Jiarong Wang, Xi Chen, Jintao Liu, Qi Hu

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2020jd034367 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract Climate warming on the cryosphere could change catchment precipitation‐runoff relation by additional water from glacier melting and more energy absorbed at the ground surface. These changes further alter the physical properties of the catchment. The combined effects of these changes on runoff are analyzed from upstream to downstream of the Yarlung‐Zangpo River (YR) basin in southeastern Tibetan Plateau using statistical methods and a modified Budyko equation with consideration of gla…


Loess Plateau evapotranspiration intensified by land surface radiative forcing associated with ecological restoration

Authors: Fuxiao Jiang, Xianhong Xie, Shunlin Liang, Yibing Wang, Bowen Zhu, Xiaotong Zhang et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108669 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model

Abstract not available.


Forecasting daily evapotranspiration using artificial neural networks for sustainable irrigation scheduling

Authors: Aitazaz A. Farooque, Hassan Afzaal, Farhat Abbas, Melanie Bos, Junaid Maqsood, Xander Wang et al.

Journal: Irrigation Science · DOI: 10.1007/s00271-021-00751-1 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 8 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models

Authors: Thomas Lees, Marcus Buechel, Bailey Anderson, Louise Slater, Steven Reece, Gemma Coxon et al.

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-5517-2021 · Citations: 233

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow

Abstract. Long short-term memory (LSTM) models are recurrent neural networks from the field of deep learning (DL) which have shown promise for time series modelling, especially in conditions when data are abundant. Previous studies have demonstrated the applicability of LSTM-based models for rainfall–runoff modelling; however, LSTMs have not been tested on catchments in Great Britain (GB). Moreover, opportunities exist to use spatial and seasonal patterns in model performances to improve our …


A review on the applications of machine learning for runoff modeling

Authors: B. Mohammadi

Journal: Sustainable Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s40899-021-00584-y · Citations: 104

Matched topics: runoff

The growing menace of global warming and restrictions on access to water in each region is a huge threat to global hydrological sustainability. Hence, the perspective at which hydrological studies are currently being carried out across the world to quantify and understand the water cycle modeling requires a further boost. In the past few decades, the theoretical understanding of machine learning (ML) algorithms for solving engineering issues, and the application of this method to practical pr…


Vanishing Glaciers at Southeast Tibetan Plateau Have Not Offset the Declining Runoff at Yarlung Zangbo

Authors: Yuanwei Wang, Lei Wang, Jing Zhou, Tandong Yao, Wei Yang, Xiaoyang Zhong et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl094651 · Citations: 98

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff

Abstract The Third Pole experiences accelerated glacier retreating particularly in the eastern‐Himalaya, coinciding with a decrease of monsoon‐precipitation in the early 21st century. The extent to which the vanishing abundant maritime glaciers buffer the declining precipitation‐runoff remains unclear. Here, with a state‐of‐the‐art enthalpy‐based distributed cryosphere‐hydrology model and first‐hand hydrometeorology observations at Motuo (latest accessible Chinese county), we carefully examin…


A parameterization of sub-grid topographical effects on solar radiation in the E3SM Land Model (version 1.0): implementation and evaluation over the Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Dalei Hao, Gautam Bisht, Yu Gu, Wei‐Liang Lee, Kuo‐Nan Liou, L. Ruby Leung

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-6273-2021 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. Topography exerts significant influences on the incoming solar radiation at the land surface. A few stand-alone regional and global atmospheric models have included parameterizations for sub-grid topographic effects on solar radiation. However, nearly all Earth system models (ESMs) that participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) use a plane-parallel (PP) radiative transfer scheme that assumes that the terrain is flat. In this study, we incorporated a well-vali…


Impacts of rainfall spatial and temporal variabilities on runoff quality and quantity at the watershed scale

Authors: Wenjie Zhou, Zhihua Zhu, Yulei Xie, Yanpeng Cai

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127057 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract not available.


Early warm-season mesoscale convective systems dominate soil moisture–precipitation feedback for summer rainfall in central United States

Authors: Huancui Hu, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105260118 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: hydrologic model

Land-atmosphere interactions play an important role in summer rainfall in the central United States, where mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) contribute to 30 to 70% of warm-season precipitation. Previous studies of soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks focused on the total precipitation, confounding the distinct roles of rainfall from different convective storm types. Here, we investigate the soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks associated with MCS and non-MCS rainfall and their surface hy…


Recent variability of sub‐seasonal monsoon precipitation and its potential drivers in Myanmar using in‐situ observation during 1981–2020

Authors: Zin Mie Mie Sein, Xiefei Zhi, Irfan Ullah, Kamran Azam, Hamida Ngoma, Farhan Saleem et al.

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7419 · Citations: 53

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract The present study assessed the spatiotemporal variation of summer monsoon precipitation and its potential drivers in Myanmar, utilizing monthly precipitation data from forty‐six (46) synoptic meteorological stations spanning 1981–2020. The nonparametric statistical Mann–Kendall (MK), Sequential Mann–Kendall (SQMK) test, Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF), and Probability Distribution Function (PDF) were used to determine the spatiotemporal monsoon precipitation trends and variabilit…


Evaluation of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) precipitation forecast from the North American Multi-Model ensemble phase II (NMME-2) over the contiguous U.S.

Authors: Lujun Zhang, Taereem Kim, Tiantian Yang, Yang Hong, Qian Zhu

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127058 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, seasonal, hydropower

Abstract not available.


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.

Soil salinity: A global threat to sustainable development

Authors: Ajay Singh

Journal: Soil Use and Management · DOI: 10.1111/sum.12772 · Citations: 393

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Soil is a vital resource for feeding the burgeoning global population, and it is also essential for realizing most of the ‘United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’. For example, it is vital to realizing the ‘Zero hunger (SDG2), Good health and well‐being (SDG3), Clean water and sanitation (SDG6), and Life on land (SDG15)’. Excess salts present in the soil make it saline, and it poses a significant threat to agricultural production and environmental health. Soil salinity i…


Energy systems in scenarios at net-zero CO2 emissions

Authors: Julianne DeAngelo, Inês L. Azevedo, John Bistline, Leon Clarke, Gunnar Luderer, Edward Byers et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26356-y · Citations: 258

Matched topics: hydropower, earth system model

emissions have not yet been evaluated. Here, we examine the energy systems of 177 net-zero scenarios and discuss their long-term technological and regional characteristics in the context of current energy policies. We find that, on average, renewable energy sources account for 60% of primary energy at net-zero (compared to ∼14% today), with slightly less than half of that renewable energy derived from biomass. Meanwhile, electricity makes up approximately half of final energy consumed (compar…


Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

Authors: Luke Grant, Inne Vanderkelen, Lukas Gudmundsson, Zeli Tan, Marjorie Perroud, Victor Stepanenko et al.

Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00833-x · Citations: 215

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Natural infrastructure in sustaining global urban freshwater ecosystem services

Authors: Min Gon Chung, Kenneth A. Frank, Yadu Pokhrel, Thomas Dietz, Jianguo Liu

Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00786-4 · Citations: 194

Matched topics: flood, hydropower, surface water

Abstract not available.


The New Swiss Glacier Inventory SGI2016: From a Topographical to a Glaciological Dataset

Authors: Andreas Linsbauer, Matthias Huss, Elias Hodel, Andreas Bauder, Mauro Fischer, Yvo Weidmann et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.704189 · Citations: 149

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model

Glaciers in Switzerland are shrinking rapidly in response to ongoing climate change. Repeated glacier inventories are key to monitor such changes at the regional scale. Here we present the new Swiss Glacier Inventory 2016 (SGI2016) that has been acquired based on sub-meter resolution aerial imagery and digital elevation models, bringing together topographical and glaciological approaches and knowledge. We define the process, workflow and required glaciological adaptations to compile a highly …


Impact of short-term organic amendments incorporation on soil structure and hydrology in semiarid agricultural lands

Authors: Li Dong, Wentong Zhang, Y. Xiong, J. Zou, Quanzhong Huang, Xu Xu et al.

Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.ISWCR.2021.10.003 · Citations: 95

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model

Abstract Soil structure plays an important role in edaphic conditions and the environment. In this study, we investigated the effects of organic amendment on soil structure and hydraulic properties. A corn field in a semiarid land was separately amended with sheep manure compost at five different rates (2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 t/ha) and corn stover (6 t/ha) in combination with two decomposing agents. The soil structure of different amended soils was analyzed from the aggregate and pore domain persp…


Optimizing the sizes of wind and photovoltaic plants complementarily operating with cascade hydropower stations: Balancing risk and benefit

Authors: Xin Wen, Yuanliang Sun, Qiaofeng Tan, Zhengyang Tang, Zhenni Wang, Zhehua Liu et al.

Journal: Applied Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117968 · Citations: 82

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract not available.


Cross-regional integrated transmission of wind power and pumped-storage hydropower considering the peak shaving demands of multiple power grids

Authors: Wenlin Yuan, Wenpeng Xin, Chengguo Su, Chuntian Cheng, Denghua Yan, Zening Wu

Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.046 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract not available.


A Direct Mass Spectrometry Method for the Rapid Analysis of Ubiquitous Tire-Derived Toxin N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine Quinone (6-PPDQ)

Authors: J. J. Monaghan, Angelina Jaeger, Alon Agua, Ryan S. Stanton, Michael C. Pirrung, Chris G. Gill et al.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology Letters · DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00794 · Citations: 60

Matched topics: runoff

-phenylenediamine quinone (6-PPDQ), has recently been found to contribute to “urban runoff mortality syndrome” in Coho salmon at nanogram per liter levels. Given the number of fish-bearing streams with multiple stormwater inputs, large-scale campaigns to identify 6-PPDQ sources and evaluate mitigation strategies will require sensitive, high-throughput analytical methods. We report the development and optimization of a direct sampling tandem mass spectrometry method for semiquantitative 6-PPDQ…


Mowing event detection in permanent grasslands: Systematic evaluation of input features from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 time series

Authors: Felix Lobert, Ann-Kathrin Holtgrave, Marcel Schwieder, Marion Pause, Juliane Vogt, Alexander Gocht et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112751 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

The intensity of land use and management in permanent grasslands affects both biodiversity and important ecosystem services. Comprehensive knowledge about these intensities is a crucial factor for sustainable decision-making in landscape policy. For meadows, the management intensity can be described by proxies such as the mowing frequency, usually, a higher number of cuts indicate higher intensities. Dense time series of medium resolution (10–30 m) remote sensing data are suitable for the det…


Landscape dynamics facilitated non-point source pollution control and regional water security of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China

Authors: Chunbo Huang, Dengyue Zhao, Xin Fan, Chao Liu, Guosong Zhao

Journal: Environmental Impact Assessment Review · DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106696 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: hydrologic model, reservoir, land surface model

Abstract not available.


Effects of drip irrigation nitrogen coupling on dry matter accumulation and yield of Summer Maize in arid areas of China

Authors: Liang Ma, Xu Zhang, Qingyuan Lei, Feng Liu

Journal: Field Crops Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108321 · Citations: 52

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


The Dominant Control of Relief on Soil Water Content Distribution During Wet‐Dry Transitions in Headwaters

Authors: Xiaole Han, Jintao Liu, Puneet Srivastava, Hu Liu, Xiaopeng Li, Xuhui Shen et al.

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr029587 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff

Abstract The redistribution of hillslope soil water during and after rainstorms is affected by soil properties and topography. Therefore, understanding how soil‐terrain attributes affect the soil volumetric water content (VWC) distribution under various catchment storages is a prerequisite for accurate hydrological modeling. Herein, the relationships between soil‐terrain attributes and soil VWC were examined in a steep (average slope = 60%), forested, zero‐order catchment. Detailed topography…


Impact of controlled drainage on subsurface drain flow and nitrate load: A synthesis of studies across the U.S. Midwest and Southeast

Authors: Matthew J. Helmers, Lori Abendroth, Benjamin D. Reinhart, Giorgi Chighladze, Lindsay Pease, L. C. Bowling et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107265 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: water management

Controlled drainage (CD), sometimes called drainage water management, is a practice whereby the drainage system outflow is managed during specific periods to retain more water in the field. Although CD has been shown to reduce downstream nitrate-N (NO3–N) load, seasonal patterns have been less consistent which can potentially impact the effectiveness of conservation practices. The main objective of this study was to assess the regional and seasonal impact of conventional free drainage (FD) a…


Automatic mapping of national surface water with OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 MSI data using deep learning

Authors: Hao Li, Johannes Zech, Christina Ludwig, Sascha Fendrich, Aurélie Shapiro, Michael Schultz et al.

Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102571 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: surface water

Large-scale mapping activities can benefit from the vastly increasing availability of earth observation (EO) data, especially when combined with volunteered geographical information (VGI) using machine learning (ML). High-resolution maps of inland surface water bodies are important for water supply and natural disaster mitigation as well as for monitoring, managing, and preserving landscapes and ecosystems. In this paper, we propose an automatic surface water mapping workflow by training a de…


Soil salinity variations and cotton growth under long-term mulched drip irrigation in saline-alkali land of arid oasis

Authors: Wenhao Li, Zhenhua Wang, Jinzhu Zhang, Rui Zong

Journal: Irrigation Science · DOI: 10.1007/s00271-021-00749-9 · Citations: 47

Matched topics: hydrologic model, irrigation

Abstract The sustainable development and utilization of saline-alkali land are closely related to holding fast the minimum cultivated land area of China. The change of soil salt in cotton field under long-term mulched drip irrigation (MDI) is connected with the development of the national cotton industry. From 2015 to 2019, five cotton fields with different applying years of MDI, which were reclaimed in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2015 respectively and were saline-alkali wasteland before, were…


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