Weekly Literature Review

Week 43 · October 25–October 31, 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. Improving regional flood risk assessment using flood frequency and dendrogeomorphic analyses in mountain catchments impacted by tropical cyclones
    2. Experimental study of oil recovery from pore of different sizes in tight sandstone reservoirs during CO2 flooding
    3. The analysis of urban flood risk propagation based on the modified susceptible infected recovered model
    4. A novel spatiotemporal multi-attribute method for assessing flood risks in urban spaces under climate change and demographic scenarios
  3. Drought Analysis and Prediction
    1. Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California
    2. The importance of tree internal water storage under drought conditions
    3. Nitrogen nutrition addition mitigated drought stress by improving carbon exchange and reserves among two temperate trees
    4. The effects of non‐stationarity on SPI for operational drought monitoring in Europe
  4. Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
    1. The 63-year changes in annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin
    2. How Will Baseflow Respond to Climate Change in the Upper Colorado River Basin?
  5. Climate Change and Water Resources
    1. A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
    2. Nursing students’ attitudes towards climate change and sustainability: A cross-sectional multisite study
    3. A framework for social tipping in climate change mitigation: What we can learn about social tipping dynamics from the chlorofluorocarbons phase-out
    4. Greenland ice sheet mass balance from 1840 through next week
    5. Influences of Climate Change and Human Activities on NDVI Changes in China
    6. Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses
    7. Sentinel‐Based Inventory of Thermokarst Lakes and Ponds Across Permafrost Landscapes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
    8. Quantitative assessment of regional land use and climate change impact on runoff across Gilgit watershed
    9. Climate change awareness of the young generation and its impact on their diet
    10. Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change
    11. Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing
    12. “Don’t confuse me with facts”—how right wing populism affects trust in agencies advocating anthropogenic climate change as a reality
    13. Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change on flow regime variations in upper Indus basin
  6. Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
    1. Convection‐Permitting Simulations With the E3SM Global Atmosphere Model
    2. Analysis of crop water requirements and irrigation demands for rice: Implications for increasing effective rainfall
    3. The normalised Sentinel-1 Global Backscatter Model, mapping Earth’s land surface with C-band microwaves
    4. Quantifying the stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits of urban street tree canopy
    5. Real-time rainfall-runoff prediction using light gradient boosting machine coupled with singular spectrum analysis
    6. Aerosol absorption in global models from AeroCom phase III
    7. Conservation tillage improves soil water storage, spring maize (Zea mays L.) yield and WUE in two types of seasonal rainfall distributions
    8. Regulation of alpine meadow patch coverage on runoff and sediment under natural rainfall on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
    9. Deformation responses of landslides to seasonal rainfall based on InSAR and wavelet analysis
    10. Post‐Wildfire Generation of Debris‐Flow Slurry by Rill Erosion on Colluvial Hillslopes
    11. Representing a dense network of ponds and reservoirs in a semi-distributed dryland catchment model
    12. Optimizing N fertilizer rates sustained rice yields, improved N use efficiency, and decreased N losses via runoff from rice-wheat cropping systems
  7. Water Management and Sustainability
    1. Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy
    2. Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia
    3. Deep mitigation of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases toward 1.5 °C and 2 °C futures
    4. JUWELS Cluster and Booster: Exascale Pathfinder with Modular Supercomputing Architecture at Juelich Supercomputing Centre
    5. Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands
    6. Occurrence and distribution of antibiotics in groundwater, surface water, and sediment in Xiong’an New Area, China, and their relationship with antibiotic resistance genes
    7. A Wireless Sensor Network Deployment for Soil Moisture Monitoring in Precision Agriculture
    8. The micropolitical life of energy projects: A collaborative exploration of injustice and resistance to small hydropower projects in the Wallmapu, Southern Chile
    9. Distribution, transfer, ecological and human health risks of antibiotics in bay ecosystems
    10. Sustainable Water Supply and Demand Management in Semi-arid Regions: Optimizing Water Resources Allocation Based on RCPs Scenarios
    11. Increasing large wildfires over the western United States linked to diminishing sea ice in the Arctic
    12. Prognosis of metal concentrations in sediments and water of Paraopeba River following the collapse of B1 tailings dam in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
    13. Darkening of the Svalbard Fjords Waters Observed With Satellite Ocean Color Imagery in 1997–2019
    14. The Importance of Groundwater in Critical Zone Science
    15. Spatial characteristics and influencing factors of Chinese traditional villages in eight provinces the Yellow River flows through
  8. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  9. Filtering Criteria

Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment

This week features 4 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Quesada‐Román, Li et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.

Improving regional flood risk assessment using flood frequency and dendrogeomorphic analyses in mountain catchments impacted by tropical cyclones

Authors: Adolfo Quesada‐Román, Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Sebastián Granados-Bolaños, Christian Birkel, Markus Stoffel

Journal: Geomorphology · DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108000 · Citations: 73

Matched topics: flood

River floods frequently occur when tropical cyclones hit land. Nonetheless, systematic, long-term discharge data remain rather scarce in many tropical countries, which prevent proper analysis of peak discharges occurring during floods. The Térraba catchment is the biggest and most dynamic catchment in Costa Rica. In this study, we developed regional flood-frequency analyses combining tree-ring based estimation and measurement of peak discharge at monitoring stations during tropical cyclones t…


Experimental study of oil recovery from pore of different sizes in tight sandstone reservoirs during CO2 flooding

Authors: Xiang Li, Junjie Xue, Yanqing Wang, Weipeng Yang, Jun Lu

Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2021.109740 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: reservoir, flood

Abstract not available.


The analysis of urban flood risk propagation based on the modified susceptible infected recovered model

Authors: Peng Wang, Yabo Li, Ping Yu, Yuhu Zhang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127121 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.


A novel spatiotemporal multi-attribute method for assessing flood risks in urban spaces under climate change and demographic scenarios

Authors: Lucas Borges Leal da Silva, Marcelo Hazin Alencar, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103501 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: flood, climate change

Abstract not available.


Drought Analysis and Prediction

Drought research this week encompasses 4 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Robbins, Preisler et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California

Authors: Zachary Robbins, Chonggang Xu, Brian H. Aukema, Polly C. Buotte, Rutuja Chitra‐Tarak, Christopher J. Fettig et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15927 · Citations: 76

Matched topics: drought

if the effects of compromised tree defenses (15%-20%) and increased western pine beetle populations (20%) are additive. Due to the warming ability to considerably increase mortality through the mechanism of bark beetle populations, models need to consider climate’s influence on both host tree stress and the bark beetle population dynamics when determining future levels of tree mortality.


The importance of tree internal water storage under drought conditions

Authors: Yakir Preisler, Teemu Hölttä, José M. Grünzweig, Itay Oz, Fedör Tatarinov, Nadine K. Ruehr et al.

Journal: Tree Physiology · DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpab144 · Citations: 68

Matched topics: drought

Global warming and drying trends, as well as the increase in frequency and intensity of droughts, may have unprecedented impacts on various forest ecosystems. We assessed the role of internal water storage (WS) in drought resistance of mature pine trees in the semi-arid Yatir Forest. Transpiration (T), soil moisture and sap flow (SF) were measured continuously, accompanied by periodical measurements of leaf and branch water potential (Ψleaf) and water content (WC). The data were used to param…


Nitrogen nutrition addition mitigated drought stress by improving carbon exchange and reserves among two temperate trees

Authors: Hongxia Zhang, Xinrong Li, Dexin Guan, Anzhi Wang, Fenghui Yuan, Jiabing Wu

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108693 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.


The effects of non‐stationarity on SPI for operational drought monitoring in Europe

Authors: Carmelo Cammalleri, Jonathan Spinoni, Paulo Barbosa, Andrea Toreti, J. Vogt

Journal: International Journal of Climatology · DOI: 10.1002/joc.7424 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: drought

Abstract It is a good practice to follow common guidelines in the computation of Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) data sets as part of operational drought monitoring systems. In the European Drought Observatory ( https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ ), reference statistics are computed following the World Meteorological Organization Guidelines on the Calculation of Climate Normals, where a definition of the reference period for monitoring applications is introduced as the most recent 30‐year p…


Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning

Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 2 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.

The 63-year changes in annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin

Authors: Daniele Masseroni, Stefania Camici, Alessio Cislaghi, Giorgio Vacchiano, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-5589-2021 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow

Abstract. Determining the spatiotemporal variability in the annual streamflow volume plays a relevant role in hydrology with regard to improving and implementing sustainable and resilient policies and practices of water resource management. This study investigates annual streamflow volume trends in a newly assembled, consolidated, and validated data set of daily mean river flow records from more than 3000 stations which cover near-natural basins in more than 40 countries across Europe. Althou…


How Will Baseflow Respond to Climate Change in the Upper Colorado River Basin?

Authors: Olivia Miller, Matthew P. Miller, Patrick Longley, J. R. Alder, L. A. Bearup, T. Pruitt et al.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl095085 · Citations: 53

Matched topics: hydrology, river, streamflow, climate change

Abstract Baseflow is critical to sustaining streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Therefore, effective water resources management requires estimates of baseflow response to climatic changes. This study provides the first estimates of projected baseflow changes from historical (1984–2012) to thirty‐year periods centered around 2030, 2050, and 2080 under warm/wet, median, and hot/dry climatic conditions using a hybrid statistical‐deterministic baseflow model. Total baseflow supplied to …


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.

A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change

Authors: L. Berrang‐Ford, A. Siders, A. Lesnikowski, A. P. Fischer, M. Callaghan, N. Haddaway et al.

Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y · Citations: 593

Matched topics: climate change, earth system model

Abstract not available.


Nursing students’ attitudes towards climate change and sustainability: A cross-sectional multisite study

Authors: Carmen Álvarez‐Nieto, Janet Richardson, María Ángeles Navarro-Perán, Naomi Tutticci, Norma Huss, Marie Elf et al.

Journal: Nurse Education Today · DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105185 · Citations: 147

Matched topics: climate change

BACKGROUND: Education is a social tipping intervention necessary for stabilising the earth’s climate by 2050. Integrating sustainable healthcare into healthcare professions curricula is a key action to raise awareness. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to: i) investigate nursing students’ attitudes towards and awareness of climate change and sustainability issues and its inclusion in nurse education, ii) explore differences across a range of countries, and iii) compare attitudes in 2019 with those…


A framework for social tipping in climate change mitigation: What we can learn about social tipping dynamics from the chlorofluorocarbons phase-out

Authors: Isabelle Stadelmann‐Steffen, Christina Eder, Niklas Harring, Gabriele Spilker, Αλεξία Κατσανίδου

Journal: Energy Research & Social Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102307 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: climate change

In the natural sciences, the concept of “(natural) tipping points” has become a hot topic in climate change research. To better understand and evaluate the possibilities for and the barriers to the fundamental societal transformations necessary for climate change mitigation, we suggest a social tipping dynamics framework. We contrast this framework with previous accounts of stability and change and show that integrating these approaches under the umbrella of a social tipping dynamics framewor…


Greenland ice sheet mass balance from 1840 through next week

Authors: Kenneth D. Mankoff, Xavier Fettweis, Peter L. Langen, Martin Stendel, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Nanna B. Karlsson et al.

Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-5001-2021 · Citations: 94

Matched topics: runoff, earth system model

Abstract. The mass of the Greenland ice sheet is declining as mass gain from snow accumulation is exceeded by mass loss from surface meltwater runoff, marine-terminating glacier calving and submarine melting, and basal melting. Here we use the input–output (IO) method to estimate mass change from 1840 through next week. Surface mass balance (SMB) gains and losses come from a semi-empirical SMB model from 1840 through 1985 and three regional climate models (RCMs; HIRHAM/HARMONIE, Modèle Atmosp…


Influences of Climate Change and Human Activities on NDVI Changes in China

Authors: Yu Liu, Jiyang Tian, Ronghua Liu, Liuqian Ding

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13214326 · Citations: 88

Matched topics: climate change, hydropower

The spatiotemporal evolution of vegetation and its influencing factors can be used to explore the relationships among vegetation, climate change, and human activities, which are of great importance for guiding scientific management of regional ecological environments. In recent years, remote sensing technology has been widely used in dynamic monitoring of vegetation. In this study, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and standardized precipitation–evapotranspiration index (SPEI)…


Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses

Authors: Walter Leal Filho, Newton R. Matandirotya, Johannes M. Lütz, Esubalew Abate Alemu, Francis Q. Brearley, Anastasia Ago Baidoo et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26540-0 · Citations: 85

Matched topics: climate change

Climate change negatively impacts the livelihoods of indigenous communities across the world, including those located on the African continent. This Comment reports on how five African indigenous communities have been impacted by climate change and the adopted adaptation mechanisms.


Sentinel‐Based Inventory of Thermokarst Lakes and Ponds Across Permafrost Landscapes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

Authors: Zhiqiang Wei, Zhiheng Du, Lei Wang, Jiahui Lin, Yaru Feng, Qian Xu et al.

Journal: Earth and Space Science · DOI: 10.1029/2021ea001950 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model

Abstract Thermokarst lakes and ponds (hereafter referred to as thaw lakes) play an important role in the permafrost regions by regulating hydrology, ecology, and biogeochemistry. However, detailed quantitative information on thaw lake extent and distribution remains poorly resolved across the entire permafrost regions on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau (QTP). Here, we applied the random forest (RF) model and manual visual vectorization methods to extract thaw lake boundaries on the QTP based on Sen…


Quantitative assessment of regional land use and climate change impact on runoff across Gilgit watershed

Authors: Muhammad Shahid, Khalil Ur Rahman, Sajjad Haider, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Abdul Jabbar Khan, Quoc Bao Pham et al.

Journal: Environmental Earth Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s12665-021-10032-x · Citations: 71

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, climate change

Abstract not available.


Climate change awareness of the young generation and its impact on their diet

Authors: Kristin Jürkenbeck, Achim Spiller, Maureen Schulze

Journal: Cleaner and Responsible Consumption · DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2021.100041 · Citations: 69

Matched topics: climate change

As climate change is a topic that highly influences the young generation, it is important to understand the level of climate change awareness of younger people. Nutrition is an important aspect to consider in relation to climate change awareness, as nutrition is a field of action where everyone can contribute. For example, following a meat-free diet can significantly help mitigate climate change. The aim of this study was to analyze the climate change awareness of the young generation and to …


Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change

Authors: Paul R. Elsen, Earl C. Saxon, B. Alexander Simmons, Michelle Ward, Brooke Williams, Hedley S. Grantham et al.

Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15962 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: climate change

(42.6% of land) under “business-as-usual” (RCP8.5) emissions scenarios. Accelerated rates of change are observed in hundreds of ecoregions across all biomes except Tropical Coniferous Forests. While only 30 ecoregions (3.5%) had over half of their areas change to a different life zone during the 20th century, by 2070 this number is projected to climb to 111 ecoregions (13.1%) under RCP4.5 and 281 ecoregions (33.2%) under RCP8.5. We identified weak correlations between life zone change and thr…


Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing

Authors: Sarah E. McBride, Matthew D. Hammond, Chris G. Sibley, Taciano L. Milfont

Journal: Journal of Environmental Psychology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101713 · Citations: 60

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.


“Don’t confuse me with facts”—how right wing populism affects trust in agencies advocating anthropogenic climate change as a reality

Authors: Olve Krange, Bjørn P. Kaltenborn, Martin Hultman

Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00930-7 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Everyday public denial of anthropogenically caused climate change (ACC) has complex antecedents and exists on both individual and institutional levels. Earlier research has linked ACC denial to opposition to formal science and elites, perceived threats to the industrialist capitalist order and existing system properties. Research also suggest that trust in public organizations is a key factor in determining support or opposition to climate change policies. In this paper, we explore t…


Hydrological impacts of climate and land-use change on flow regime variations in upper Indus basin

Authors: Kashif Haleem, Afed Ullah Khan, Sohail Ahmad, M. Zahir Khan, Fayaz Ahmad Khan, Wisal Muhammad Khan et al.

Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2021.238 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, land surface model

Abstract Investigating the effects of climate and land-use changes on surface runoff is critical for water resources management. The majority of studies focused on projected climate change effects on surface runoff, while neglecting future land-use change. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to discriminate the impacts of projected climate and land-use changes on surface runoff using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) through the lens of the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan. Future s…


Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration

Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 12 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.

Convection‐Permitting Simulations With the E3SM Global Atmosphere Model

Authors: Peter Caldwell, Christopher R. Terai, Benjamin Hillman, Noel D. Keen, Peter Bogenschutz, Weiren Lin et al.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002544 · Citations: 154

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract This paper describes the first implementation of the Δ x = 3.25 km version of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) global atmosphere model and its behavior in a 40‐day prescribed‐sea‐surface‐temperature simulation (January 20 through February 28, 2020). This simulation was performed as part of the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non‐hydrostatic Domains (DYAMOND) Phase 2 model intercomparison. Effective resolution is found to be the horizontal dynam…


Analysis of crop water requirements and irrigation demands for rice: Implications for increasing effective rainfall

Authors: Wanqi Luo, Mengting Chen, Yinhong Kang, Wenping Li, Dan Li, Yuanlai Cui et al.

Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107285 · Citations: 102

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.


The normalised Sentinel-1 Global Backscatter Model, mapping Earth’s land surface with C-band microwaves

Authors: Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Senmao Cao, Claudio Navacchi, Vahid Freeman, Felix Reuß, Dirk Geudtner et al.

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01059-7 · Citations: 95

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

We present a new perspective on Earth’s land surface, providing a normalised microwave backscatter map from spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations. The Sentinel-1 Global Backscatter Model (S1GBM) describes Earth for the period 2016-17 by the mean C-band radar cross section in VV- and VH-polarisation at a 10 m sampling. We processed 0.5 million Sentinel-1 scenes totalling 1.1 PB and performed semi-automatic quality curation and backscatter harmonisation related to orbit geometr…


Quantifying the stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits of urban street tree canopy

Authors: William R. Selbig, Steven P. Loheide, William D. Shuster, Bryant C. Scharenbroch, Robert C. Coville, James Kruegler et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151296 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract not available.


Real-time rainfall-runoff prediction using light gradient boosting machine coupled with singular spectrum analysis

Authors: Zhongjie Cui, Qing Xiaoxia, Hongxiang Chai, Senxiong Yang, Ying Zhu, Feifei Wang

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127124 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract not available.


Aerosol absorption in global models from AeroCom phase III

Authors: Maria Sand, B. H. Samset, Gunnar Myhre, Jonas Gliß, Susanne E. Bauer, Huisheng Bian et al.

Journal: Atmospheric chemistry and physics · DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-15929-2021 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract. Aerosol-induced absorption of shortwave radiation can modify the climate through local atmospheric heating, which affects lapse rates, precipitation, and cloud formation. Presently, the total amount of aerosol absorption is poorly constrained, and the main absorbing aerosol species (black carbon (BC), organic aerosols (OA), and mineral dust) are diversely quantified in global climate models. As part of the third phase of the Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models (AeroC…


Conservation tillage improves soil water storage, spring maize (Zea mays L.) yield and WUE in two types of seasonal rainfall distributions

Authors: Qi Zhang, Shulan Wang, Yuanguang Sun, Yuanhong Zhang, Haoyu Li, Pengzhao Liu et al.

Journal: Soil and Tillage Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2021.105237 · Citations: 78

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract not available.


Regulation of alpine meadow patch coverage on runoff and sediment under natural rainfall on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Yali Niu, Shuyuan Li, Yü Liu, Jianjun Shi, Yanlong Wang, Yushou Ma et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127101 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract not available.


Deformation responses of landslides to seasonal rainfall based on InSAR and wavelet analysis

Authors: Ya Liu, Haijun Qiu, Dongdong Yang, Zijing Liu, Shuyue Ma, Yanqian Pei et al.

Journal: Landslides · DOI: 10.1007/s10346-021-01785-4 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: seasonal

Abstract not available.


Post‐Wildfire Generation of Debris‐Flow Slurry by Rill Erosion on Colluvial Hillslopes

Authors: Paul Alessio, Thomas Dunne, Kristin Morell

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · DOI: 10.1029/2021jf006108 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract Landscapes after wildfire commonly experience accelerated hillslope erosion, which often contributes to the mobilization and volume of debris flows. However, quantitative studies of the erosion and its relationship to rainfall, runoff, and landscape characteristics have been limited to a narrow range of physiographic conditions. We estimated the volume and delivery rate of slurry (a water‐sediment mixture) supplied to stream channels during a post‐wildfire rainstorm that generated la…


Representing a dense network of ponds and reservoirs in a semi-distributed dryland catchment model

Authors: Udinart Prata Rabelo, Jörg Dietrich, Alexandre Cunha Costa, Max Nino Simshäuser, Fernanda E. Scholz, Van Thinh Nguyen et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127103 · Citations: 63

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, reservoir

Abstract not available.


Optimizing N fertilizer rates sustained rice yields, improved N use efficiency, and decreased N losses via runoff from rice-wheat cropping systems

Authors: Jun Qiao, Jing Wang, Dong Zhao, Wei Zhou, Graeme Schwenke, Tingmei Yan et al.

Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2021.107724 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: runoff

Abstract not available.


Water Management and Sustainability

Water management research spans 15 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.

Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy

Authors: Jackson Lord, Ashley Thomas, Neil D. Treat, Matthew Forkin, Robert Bain, Pierre Dulac et al.

Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03900-w · Citations: 347

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

. Our tools can inform design trade-offs for atmospheric water harvesting devices that maximize global impact, alongside ongoing efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with existing technologies.


Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia

Authors: Dongfeng Li, Xixi Lu, Irina Overeem, Desmond E. Walling, James P. M. Syvitski, Albert J. Kettner et al.

Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.abi9649 · Citations: 313

Matched topics: runoff, hydropower

Rivers originating in High Mountain Asia are crucial lifelines for one-third of the world’s population. These fragile headwaters are now experiencing amplified climate change, glacier melt, and permafrost thaw. Observational data from 28 headwater basins demonstrate substantial increases in both annual runoff and annual sediment fluxes across the past six decades. The increases are accelerating from the mid-1990s in response to a warmer and wetter climate. The total sediment flux from High Mo…


Deep mitigation of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases toward 1.5 °C and 2 °C futures

Authors: Yang Ou, Christopher Roney, Jameel Alsalam, Katherine Calvin, Jared Creason, Jae Edmonds et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26509-z · Citations: 192

Matched topics: earth system model

for 1.5 °C and 2 °C climate change scenarios.


JUWELS Cluster and Booster: Exascale Pathfinder with Modular Supercomputing Architecture at Juelich Supercomputing Centre

Authors: Damián Alvarez

Journal: Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRF · DOI: 10.17815/jlsrf-7-183 · Citations: 160

Matched topics: earth system model

JUWELS is a multi-petaflop modular supercomputer operated by Juelich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Juelich as a European and national supercomputing resource for the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. In addition, JUWELS serves the Earth system modeling community and the AI community within the Helmholtz Association as well. JUWELS currently consists of two modules. The first module deployed in 2018 is the so-called Cluster module. The Cluster is a BullSequana X1000 system with Int…


Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands

Authors: Miguel Berdugo, Blai Vidiella, Ricard V. Solé, Fernando T. Maestre

Journal: Functional Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13962 · Citations: 136

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract With ongoing climate change, the probability of crossing environmental thresholds promoting abrupt changes in ecosystem structure and functioning is higher than ever. In drylands (areas where it rains <65% of what could be potentially evaporated), recent research has shown how the crossing of three aridity thresholds [at aridity (1‐Aridity Index) values of 0.54, 0.70 and 0.80] leads to abrupt changes on ecosystem structural and functional attributes. Despite the importance of thes…


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: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151011 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: surface water

Abstract not available.


A Wireless Sensor Network Deployment for Soil Moisture Monitoring in Precision Agriculture

Authors: Jaime Lloret, Sandra Sendra, Laura García, Jose M. Jiménez

Journal: Sensors · DOI: 10.3390/s21217243 · Citations: 129

Matched topics: earth system model

The use of precision agriculture is becoming more and more necessary to provide food for the world’s growing population, as well as to reduce environmental impact and enhance the usage of limited natural resources. One of the main drawbacks that hinder the use of precision agriculture is the cost of technological immersion in the sector. For farmers, it is necessary to provide low-cost and robust systems as well as reliability. Toward this end, this paper presents a wireless sensor network of…


The micropolitical life of energy projects: A collaborative exploration of injustice and resistance to small hydropower projects in the Wallmapu, Southern Chile

Authors: Maite Hernando-Arrese, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch

Journal: Energy Research & Social Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102332 · Citations: 71

Matched topics: hydropower

This article contributes to an emerging body of literature about the micropolitics of the transition to renewable energy by examining how community leaders, in order to protect their territories, contest the energy transition. We present findings from two ethnographic case studies of small hydropower plants (SHPs) in indigenous Mapuche territory. As SHPs up to 20 MW are considered renewable projects by law, Chilean national authorities consider them as a non-invasive eco-friendly solution and…


Distribution, transfer, ecological and human health risks of antibiotics in bay ecosystems

Authors: Dong Liu, Yaoyang Xu, Muhammad Junaid, Yong‐Guan Zhu, Jun Wang

Journal: Environment International · DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106949 · Citations: 70

Matched topics: runoff

Antibiotics have been widely detected in bay ecosystems, yet little is known regarding their distribution, composition, sources, ecological and human health risks at the regional scale. We developed a systematic framework to mine data from existing publications and compiled an antibiotic concentration-based dataset containing 439 samples from 30 bays, and compared antibiotics across bays and matrices (water, sediment, and biota). Antibiotic concentrations varied considerably between bays, wit…


Sustainable Water Supply and Demand Management in Semi-arid Regions: Optimizing Water Resources Allocation Based on RCPs Scenarios

Authors: Mahsa Mirdashtvan, Ali Najafinejad, Arash Malekian, Amir Sadoddin

Journal: Water Resources Management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-021-03004-0 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: hydrologic model, water management

Abstract not available.


Increasing large wildfires over the western United States linked to diminishing sea ice in the Arctic

Authors: Yufei Zou, Philip J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, Zuowei Xie, Rudong Zhang

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26232-9 · Citations: 63

Matched topics: earth system model

The compound nature of large wildfires in combination with complex physical and biophysical processes affecting variations in hydroclimate and fuel conditions makes it difficult to directly connect wildfire changes over fire-prone regions like the western United States (U.S.) with anthropogenic climate change. Here we show that increasing large wildfires during autumn over the western U.S. are fueled by more fire-favorable weather associated with declines in Arctic sea ice during preceding mo…


Prognosis of metal concentrations in sediments and water of Paraopeba River following the collapse of B1 tailings dam in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Authors: Fernando António Leal Pacheco, Renato Farias do Valle, Maytê Maria Abreu Pires de Melo Silva, Teresa Cristina Tarlé Pissarra, Marília Carvalho de Melo, Carlos Alberto Valera et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151157 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.


Darkening of the Svalbard Fjords Waters Observed With Satellite Ocean Color Imagery in 1997–2019

Authors: Marta Konik, Mirosław Darecki, Alexey K. Pavlov, Sławomir Sagan, Piotr Kowalczuk

Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science · DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.699318 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: runoff

Global warming is not often discussed in the context of light availability within the water column. However, the light regimes in the Arctic Ocean are controlled by three factors that are influenced by climate changes which are the sea ice albedo feedback, glacial meltwater runoff and marine primary production. Based on a satellite data series acquired during time period 1997 – 2019, we inspected long-term changes of the three commonly used optical characteristics Chla , a tot (443), and K d …


The Importance of Groundwater in Critical Zone Science

Authors: Kamini Singha, Alexis Navarre‐Sitchler

Journal: Ground Water · DOI: 10.1111/gwat.13143 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow

The critical zone (CZ)-from treetops to groundwater-is an increasingly studied part of the earth system, where scientists study interactions between water, air, rock, soil, and life. Groundwater is both a boundary and an essential store in this integrated system, but is often not well considered in part because of the difficulty in accessing it and its slow movement relative to other parts of the system. Here, we describe some fundamental areas where groundwater hydrology is of fundamental im…


Spatial characteristics and influencing factors of Chinese traditional villages in eight provinces the Yellow River flows through

Authors: Chenge Gao, Ying Wu, Chenlong Bian, Xingxi Gao

Journal: River Research and Applications · DOI: 10.1002/rra.3880 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: river

Abstract Along with global urbanization and the dominant trend toward urban‐based policies, traditional villages are facing imbalanced development and the fate of revitalization or decline. In this study, 1,222 Chinese traditional villages in eight provinces the Yellow River flows through have been selected as the typical physical bearers of Chinese civilization of an investigation into the multi‐scale spatial characteristics, and multiple influencing factors and mechanisms for regional patte…


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