Weekly Literature Review
Week 35 · August 30–September 5, 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
- U-FLOOD – Topographic deep learning for predicting urban pluvial flood water depth
- Examining LightGBM and CatBoost models for wadi flash flood susceptibility prediction
- A deep learning model for predicting river flood depth and extent
- Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article)
- Power system resilience to floods: Modeling, impact assessment, and mid-term mitigation strategies
- Continuous Monitoring of the Flooding Dynamics in the Albufera Wetland (Spain) by Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Datasets
- The prediction of floods in Venice: methods, models and uncertainty (review article)
- Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: A probabilistic modeling framework
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China
- How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity
- Drought induces shifts in soil fungal communities that can be linked to root traits across 24 plant species
- Droughts across China: Drought factors, prediction and impacts
- Integrating Behavioral Theories in Agent-Based Models for Agricultural Drought Risk Assessments
- Critical Aquifer Overdraft Accelerates Degradation of Groundwater Quality in California’s Central Valley During Drought
- Leaf Shedding and Non-Stomatal Limitations of Photosynthesis Mitigate Hydraulic Conductance Losses in Scots Pine Saplings During Severe Drought Stress
- Impact of meteorological drought on agriculture production at different scales in Punjab, Pakistan
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning
- Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels
- Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)
- Large uncertainties in trends of energy demand for heating and cooling under climate change
- Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China
- Are citizen juries and assemblies on climate change driving democratic climate policymaking? An exploration of two case studies in the UK
- Can reservoir regulation mitigate future climate change induced hydrological extremes in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin?
- Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production
- Climate change may interact with nitrogen fertilizer management leading to different ammonia loss in China’s croplands
- The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity
- Surface energy balance of sub‐Arctic roads with varying snow regimes and properties in permafrost regions
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Soil Moisture Responses to Rainfall: Implications for Runoff Generation
- Higher Probability of Occurrence of Hotter and Shorter Heat Waves Followed by Heavy Rainfall
- Bayesian LSTM With Stochastic Variational Inference for Estimating Model Uncertainty in Process‐Based Hydrological Models
- Regionalization for Ungauged Catchments — Lessons Learned From a Comparative Large‐Sample Study
- High Resolution Water Table Modeling of the Shallow Groundwater Using a Knowledge-Guided Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Model
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China?
- Carbon footprint and embodied carbon transfer at the provincial level of the Yellow River Basin.
- Improving the Resolution of GRACE Data for Spatio-Temporal Groundwater Storage Assessment
- The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme
I n‐N‐O ut: A hierarchical framework to understand and predict soil carbon storage and nitrogen recycling- Mulched drip irrigation increases cotton yield and water use efficiency via improving fine root plasticity
- Embodied GHG Emissions of Wooden Buildings—Challenges of Biogenic Carbon Accounting in Current LCA Methods
- Monitoring Drinking Water Quality in Nationally Representative Household Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cross-Sectional Analysis of 27 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 2014–2020
- Guar Gum-Based Hydrogels as Potent Green Polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery in High-Salinity Reservoirs
- Emerging and Innovative Materials for Hydropower Engineering Applications: Turbines, Bearings, Sealing, Dams and Waterways, and Ocean Power
- Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet
- Quantifying the release of tyre wear particles to the marine environment via multiple pathways
- A Comparison of Multiple Imputation Methods for Recovering Missing Data in Hydrological Studies
- Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM
- Changes in soil salinity under treated wastewater irrigation: A meta-analysis
- An all-sky 1 km daily land surface air temperature product over mainland China for 2003–2019 from MODIS and ancillary data
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 8 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Löwe, Saber et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
U-FLOOD – Topographic deep learning for predicting urban pluvial flood water depth
Authors: Roland Löwe, Julian Böhm, David G. Jensen, Jorge Leandro, Søren H. Rasmussen
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126898 · Citations: 199
Matched topics: flood
This study investigates how deep-learning can be configured to optimise the prediction of 2D maximum water depth maps in urban pluvial flood events. A neural network model is trained to exploit patterns in hyetographs as well as in topographical data, with the specific aim of enabling fast predictions of flood depths for observed rain events and spatial locations that have not been included in the training dataset. A neural network architecture that is widely used for image segmentation (U-NE…
Examining LightGBM and CatBoost models for wadi flash flood susceptibility prediction
Authors: Mohamed Saber, Tayeb Boulmaiz, Mawloud Guermoui, Karim I. Abdrabo, Sameh A. Kantoush, Tetsuya Sumi et al.
Journal: Geocarto International · DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2021.1974959 · Citations: 133
Matched topics: flood
This study presents two machine learning models, namely, the light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM) and categorical boosting (CatBoost), for the first time for predicting flash flood susceptibility (FFS) in the Wadi System (Hurghada, Egypt). A flood inventory map with 445 flash flood sites was produced and randomly divided into two groups for training (70%) and testing (30%). Fourteen flood controlling factors were selected and evaluated for their relative importance in flood occurrence p…
A deep learning model for predicting river flood depth and extent
Authors: Hossein Hosseiny
Journal: Environmental Modelling & Software · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105186 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: river, flood
Abstract not available.
Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article)
Authors: Piero Lionello, David Barriopedro, Christian Ferrarin, Robert J. Nicholls, Mirko Orlić, Fabio Raicich et al.
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-21-2705-2021 · Citations: 107
Matched topics: flood, earth system model
Abstract. Floods in the Venice city centre result from the superposition of several factors: astronomical tides; seiches; and atmospherically forced fluctuations, which include storm surges, meteotsunamis, and surges caused by atmospheric planetary waves. All these factors can contribute to positive water height anomalies individually and can increase the probability of extreme events when they act constructively. The largest extreme water heights are mostly caused by the storm surges produce…
Power system resilience to floods: Modeling, impact assessment, and mid-term mitigation strategies
Authors: Laiz Souto, Joshua Yip, Wen‐Ying Wu, Brent Austgen, Erhan Kutanoğlu, John J. Hasenbein et al.
Journal: International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.107545 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
Abstract not available.
Continuous Monitoring of the Flooding Dynamics in the Albufera Wetland (Spain) by Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Datasets
Authors: Carmela Cavallo, Maria Nicolina Papa, Massimiliano Gargiulo, Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Paolo Vezza, Giuseppe Ruello
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13173525 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: flood
Satellite data are very useful for the continuous monitoring of ever-changing environments, such as wetlands. In this study, we investigated the use of multispectral imagery to monitor the winter evolution of land cover in the Albufera wetland (Spain), using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 datasets. With multispectral data, the frequency of observation is limited by the possible presence of clouds. To overcome this problem, the data acquired by the two missions, Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2, were jointl…
The prediction of floods in Venice: methods, models and uncertainty (review article)
Authors: Georg Umgiesser, Marco Bajo, Christian Ferrarin, Andrea Cucco, Piero Lionello, Davide Zanchettin et al.
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-21-2679-2021 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: flood
Abstract. This paper reviews the state of the art in storm surge forecasting and its particular application in the northern Adriatic Sea. The city of Venice already depends on operational storm surge forecasting systems to warn the population and economy of imminent flood threats, as well as help to protect the extensive cultural heritage. This will be more important in the future, with the new mobile barriers called MOSE (MOdulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, Experimental Electromechanical M…
Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: A probabilistic modeling framework
Authors: David Lallemant, Perrine Hamel, Mariano Balbi, Tian Ning Lim, Rafael Schmitt, Shelly Win
Journal: One Earth · DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.08.010 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: flood
Flooding is the most frequent and damaging natural hazard globally. While nature-based solutions can reduce flood risk, they are not part of mainstream risk management. We develop a probabilistic risk analysis framework to quantify these benefits that (1) accounts for frequent small events and rarer large events, (2) can be applied to large basins and data-scarce contexts, and (3) quantifies economic benefits and reduction in people affected. Measuring benefits in terms of avoided losses enab…
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 8 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Ding, Feng et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Attribution of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought propagation in different climatic regions of China
Authors: Yibo Ding, Xinglong Gong, Zhenxiang Xing, H. Cai, Zhaoqiang Zhou, Doudou Zhang et al.
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.AGWAT.2021.106996 · Citations: 219
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity
Authors: Xiao Feng, Cory Merow, Zhihua Liu, Daniel Park, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Brian Maitner et al.
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03876-7 · Citations: 178
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Drought induces shifts in soil fungal communities that can be linked to root traits across 24 plant species
Authors: Yudi M. Lozano, Carlos A. Aguilar‐Trigueros, Julien Roy, Matthias C. Rillig
Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.17707 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: drought
Root traits respond to drought in a species-specific manner, but little is known about how soil fungal communities and root traits respond to drought in concert. In a glasshouse experiment, we determined the response of soil pathogens, saprotrophs, and mutualistic and all fungi associated with the roots of 24 plant species subjected to drought. At harvest, soil fungal communities were characterized by sequencing. Data on root traits were extracted from a previously published work. Differences…
Droughts across China: Drought factors, prediction and impacts
Authors: Qiang Zhang, Rui Shi, Vijay P. Singh, Chong‐Yu Xu, Huiqian Yu, Keke Fan et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150018 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Integrating Behavioral Theories in Agent-Based Models for Agricultural Drought Risk Assessments
Authors: Teun Schrieks, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Marthe Wens, Toon Haer, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Journal: Frontiers in Water · DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.686329 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: drought
Improving assessments of droughts risk for smallholder farmers requires a better understanding of the interaction between individual adaptation decisions and drought risk. Agent-based modeling is increasingly used to capture the interaction between individual decision-making and the environment. In this paper, we provide a review of drought risk agent-based models with a focus on behavioral rules. This review leads to the conclusion that human decision rules in existing drought risk agent-bas…
Critical Aquifer Overdraft Accelerates Degradation of Groundwater Quality in California’s Central Valley During Drought
Authors: Zeno F. Levy, Bryant C. Jurgens, Karen R. Burow, S. Voss, Kirsten E. Faulkner, Jose A. Arroyo‐Lopez et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl094398 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Drought‐induced pumpage has precipitated dramatic groundwater‐level declines in California’s Central Valley over the past 30 yr, but the impacts of aquifer overdraft on water quality are poorly understood. This study coupled over 160,000 measurements of nitrate from ∼6,000 public‐supply wells with a 30 yr reconstruction of groundwater levels throughout the Central Valley to evaluate dynamic relations between aquifer exploitation and resource quality. We find that long‐term rates of g…
Leaf Shedding and Non-Stomatal Limitations of Photosynthesis Mitigate Hydraulic Conductance Losses in Scots Pine Saplings During Severe Drought Stress
Authors: Daniel Nadal‐Sala, Rüdiger Grote, Benjamin Birami, Timo Knüver, Romy Rehschuh, Selina Schwarz et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.715127 · Citations: 70
Matched topics: drought
During drought, trees reduce water loss and hydraulic failure by closing their stomata, which also limits photosynthesis. Under severe drought stress, other acclimation mechanisms are trigged to further reduce transpiration to prevent irreversible conductance loss. Here, we investigate two of them: the reversible impacts on the photosynthetic apparatus, lumped as non-stomatal limitations (NSL) of photosynthesis, and the irreversible effect of premature leaf shedding. We integrate NSL and leaf…
Impact of meteorological drought on agriculture production at different scales in Punjab, Pakistan
Authors: Muhammad Waseem, Tahira Khurshid, Adnan Abbas, Ijaz Ahmad, Zeeshan Javed
Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2021.244 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: drought
Abstract The present study aimed to quantify the impacts of the meteorological drought on the production of maize crops, using district-level observed precipitation and yield data of 21 districts across Punjab, Pakistan from 2001 to 2020. The overall analysis showed that the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) effectively reflects the variations in drought characteristics in Punjab on spatiotemporal scales. It also resulted that in south Punjab, the maize yield was negatively affected by t…
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.
Streamflow prediction using an integrated methodology based on convolutional neural network and long short-term memory networks
Authors: Sujan Ghimire, Zaher Mundher Yaseen, Aitazaz A. Farooque, Ravinesh C. Deo, Ji Zhang, Xiaohui Tao
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96751-4 · Citations: 270
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, earth system model
prediction.
Artificial intelligence modelling integrated with Singular Spectral analysis and Seasonal-Trend decomposition using Loess approaches for streamflow predictions
Authors: Halit Apaydin, M. Sattari, K. Falsafian, R. Prasad
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2021.126506 · Citations: 114
Matched topics: streamflow, seasonal
Abstract not available.
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 11 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning
Authors: Joern Birkmann, Ali Jamshed, Joanna M. McMillan, Daniel Feldmeyer, Edmond Totin, William Solecki et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150065 · Citations: 307
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate change and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of the research has been devoted to improving the quality of climate information and hazard data, including exposure to specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention has been given to the assessment of vulnerability and embedded social, economic and historical conditions that foster vulnerability of societi…
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels
Authors: Claudia Tebaldi, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Michalis Vousdoukas, D. J. Rasmussen, Ben Vega‐Westhoff, Ebru Kirezci et al.
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01127-1 · Citations: 284
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The Paris agreement focused global climate mitigation policy on limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Consequently, projections of hazards and risk are increasingly framed in terms of global warming levels rather than emission scenarios. Here, we use a multimethod approach to describe changes in extreme sea levels driven by changes in mean sea level associated with a wide range of global warming levels, from 1.5 to 5 °C, and for a large number of locatio…
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)
Authors: Valerie Hase, Daniela Mahl, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Keller
Journal: Global Environmental Change · DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102353 · Citations: 251
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change poses a challenge to countries across the world, with news media being an important source of information on the issue. To understand how and how much news media cover climate change, this study compares coverage in ten countries from the Global North and the Global South between 2006 and 2018 (N = 71,674). Based on a panel analysis, we illustrate that news media attention varies across countries and is often associated with political, scientific, and (partly) societal focusing…
Large uncertainties in trends of energy demand for heating and cooling under climate change
Authors: Adrien Deroubaix, Inga Labuhn, M. Camredon, Benjamin Gaubert, Paul‐Arthur Monerie, Max Popp et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25504-8 · Citations: 146
Matched topics: climate change
The energy demand for heating and cooling buildings is changing with global warming. Using proxies of climate-driven energy demand based on the heating and cooling Degree-Days methodology applied to thirty global climate model simulations, we show that, over all continental areas, the climate-driven energy demand trends for heating and cooling were weak, changing by less than 10% from 1950 to 1990, but become stronger from 1990 to 2030, changing by more than 10%. With the multi-model mean, th…
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China
Authors: Zhifu Mi, Xinlu Sun
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00258-9 · Citations: 118
Matched topics: climate change, hydropower
Abstract China has announced its goal of reaching carbon neutrality before 2060, which will be challenging because the country is still on a path towards peak carbon emissions in approximately 2030. Carbon emissions in China did decline from 2013 to 2016, following a continuous increase since the turn of the century. Here we evaluate regional efforts and motivations in promoting carbon emission reduction during this period. Based on a climate change mitigation index, we pinpoint the leading a…
Are citizen juries and assemblies on climate change driving democratic climate policymaking? An exploration of two case studies in the UK
Authors: Rebecca Wells, Candice Howarth, Lina Brand-Correa
Journal: Climatic Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-03218-6 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: climate change
In light of increasing pressure to deliver climate action targets and the growing role of citizens in raising the importance of the issue, deliberative democratic processes (e.g. citizen juries and citizen assemblies) on climate change are increasingly being used to provide a voice to citizens in climate change decision-making. Through a comparative case study of two processes that ran in the UK in 2019 (the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury and the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Chan…
Can reservoir regulation mitigate future climate change induced hydrological extremes in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin?
Authors: Xiaobo Yun, Q. Tang, Jiabo Li, Hui Lu, Lu Zhang, Deliang Chen
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2021.147322 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production
Authors: Dániel Fróna, János Szenderák, Mónika Harangi–Rákos
Journal: Nature Conservation · DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.44.64296 · Citations: 79
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change seems to be larger, more complex and more unpredictable than any other environmental problem. This review deals with the economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production. The causes and consequences of climate change are very diverse, while populations in low-income countries are increasingly exposed to its negative effects. Supplying the population with food is possible with increased agricultural production, but this often occurs under unsustainable circum…
Climate change may interact with nitrogen fertilizer management leading to different ammonia loss in China’s croplands
Authors: Xiangrui Xu, Xiao Ouyang, Yining Gu, Kun Cheng, Pete Smith, Jianfei Sun et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15874 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: climate change
volatilization under future climate change can be mitigated by 26.1-47.5% through various N fertilizer management optimization options.
The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity
Authors: Maria Brockhaus, Monica Di Gregorio, Houria Djoudi, M. Moeliono, Phạm T.T., Grace Wong
Journal: AMBIO · DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01602-1 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: climate change
Halting forest loss and achieving sustainable development in an equitable manner require state, non-state actors, and entire societies in the Global North and South to tackle deeply established patterns of inequality and power relations embedded in forest frontiers. Forest and climate governance in the Global South can provide an avenue for the transformational change needed-yet, does it? We analyse the politics and power in four cases of mitigation, adaptation, and development arenas. We use…
Surface energy balance of sub‐Arctic roads with varying snow regimes and properties in permafrost regions
Authors: Lin Chen, Clifford I. Voss, Daniel Fortier, Jeffrey M. McKenzie
Journal: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes · DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2129 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract Surface energy balance (SEB) strongly influences the thermal state of permafrost, cryohydrological processes, and infrastructure stability. Road construction and snow accumulation affect the energy balance of underlying permafrost. Herein, we use an experimental road section of the Alaska Highway to develop a SEB model to quantify the surface energy components and ground surface temperature (GST) for different land cover types with varying snow regimes and properties. Simulated and m…
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.
Soil Moisture Responses to Rainfall: Implications for Runoff Generation
Authors: Nitin K. Singh, R. E. Emanuel, B. L. McGlynn, Chelcy Ford Miniat
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2020wr028827 · Citations: 167
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff
Abstract Soil moisture is a key control on runoff generation and biogeochemical processes on hillslopes. Precipitation events can evoke different soil moisture responses with depth through the soil profile, and responses can differ among landscape positions along a hillslope. We sought to elucidate the nature of these responses by estimating changes in water content, response time between peak precipitation and peak soil moisture, and wetting front velocities for 43 storms at 45 locations on …
Higher Probability of Occurrence of Hotter and Shorter Heat Waves Followed by Heavy Rainfall
Authors: Jiewen You, Shuo Wang
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl094831 · Citations: 113
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The consecutive heat wave and heavy rainfall (CHWHR) events, defined as the occurrence of heat waves followed by heavy rainfall, can cause more damages than individual extremes. Nevertheless, this type of compound event has not been diagnosed systematically. Here we examine the occurrence of CHWHR events and underlying characteristics. We find 22% of land areas experienced statistically significant CHWHR events within 7 days in China during 1981–2005, with an average 26% of heat wave…
Bayesian LSTM With Stochastic Variational Inference for Estimating Model Uncertainty in Process‐Based Hydrological Models
Authors: Dayang Li, Lucy Marshall, Zhongmin Liang, Ashish Sharma, Yan Zhou
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr029772 · Citations: 98
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract Significant attention has recently been paid to deep learning as a method for improved catchment modeling. Compared with process‐based models, deep learning is often criticized for its lack of interpretability. One solution is to combine a process‐based hydrological model with a residual error model based on deep learning to give full scope to their respective advantages. In classical residual error models, Bayesian inference via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is commonly used to pr…
Regionalization for Ungauged Catchments — Lessons Learned From a Comparative Large‐Sample Study
Authors: Sandra Pool, Marc Vis, Jan Seibert
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr030437 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract Model parameter values for ungauged catchments can be regionalized from hydrologically similar gauged catchments. Achieving reliable and robust predictions in ungauged catchments by regionalization, however, is still a major challenge. Here, we conduct a comparative assessment of 19 regionalization approaches based on previously published literature to contribute new insights into their performance in different geographic regions. The approaches use geographical information, physical…
High Resolution Water Table Modeling of the Shallow Groundwater Using a Knowledge-Guided Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Model
Authors: Julian Koch, Jane Gotfredsen, Raphael Schneider, Lars Troldborg, Simon Stisen, Hans Jørgen Henriksen
Journal: Frontiers in Water · DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.701726 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, earth system model
Detailed knowledge of the uppermost water table representing the shallow groundwater system is critical in order to address societal challenges that relate to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change and enhancing climate resilience in general. Machine learning (ML) allows for high resolution modeling of the water table depth beyond the capabilities of conventional numerical physically-based hydrological models with respect to spatial resolution and overall accuracy. For this, in-situ …
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.
Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China?
Authors: Zhicong Yin, Yu Wan, Yijia Zhang, Huijun Wang
Journal: National Science Review · DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwab165 · Citations: 193
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Severe sandstorms reoccurred in the spring of 2021 after an absence for more than 10 years in North China. The dust source area, located in Mongolia, suffered destructive cooling and warming in early and late winter, which loosened the land. A lack of precipitation, excessive snow melt and strong evaporation resulted in dry soil and exiguous spring vegetation. A super-strong Mongolian cyclone developed on the bare and loose ground, and easily blew and transported large amounts of sand particl…
Carbon footprint and embodied carbon transfer at the provincial level of the Yellow River Basin.
Authors: Xueliang Yuan, Xuerou Sheng, Leping Chen, Yuzhou Tang, Yue Li, Yanshuang Jia et al.
Journal: Science of the Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149993 · Citations: 156
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Improving the Resolution of GRACE Data for Spatio-Temporal Groundwater Storage Assessment
Authors: Shoaib Ali, Dong Liu, Qiang Fu, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema, Quoc Bao Pham, Md. Mafuzur Rahaman et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs13173513 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff
Groundwater has a significant contribution to water storage and is considered to be one of the sources for agricultural irrigation; industrial; and domestic water use. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite provides a unique opportunity to evaluate terrestrial water storage (TWS) and groundwater storage (GWS) at a large spatial scale. However; the coarse resolution of GRACE limits its ability to investigate the water storage change at a small scale. It is; therefore; ne…
The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme
Authors: Philippe Choler, Arthur Bayle, Bradley Z. Carlson, Christophe F. Randin, Gianluca Filippa, Edoardo Cremonese
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15820 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: earth system model
The long-term increase in satellite-based proxies of vegetation cover is a well-documented response of seasonally snow-covered ecosystems to climate warming. However, observed greening trends are far from uniform, and substantial uncertainty remains concerning the underlying causes of this spatial variability. Here, we processed surface reflectance of the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) to investigate trends and drivers of changes in the annual peak values of the Normali…
I n‐N‐O ut: A hierarchical framework to understand and predict soil carbon storage and nitrogen recycling
Authors: M. Francesca Cotrufo, Jocelyn M. Lavallee, Yao Zhang, Paige M. Hansen, Keith Paustian, Meagan E. Schipanski et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15782 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: land surface model
Soils play a crucial role in the fight against climate change. Through proper management, they can contribute significantly to atmospheric carbon (C) drawdown. On the other hand, greenhouse gas emissions from soils may trigger strong positive feedbacks to global warming. One key challenge is that soil C accrual requires nitrogen (N), but the addition of N fertilizers has cascading impacts on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and atmospheric and water pollution. Robust understanding and models are…
Mulched drip irrigation increases cotton yield and water use efficiency via improving fine root plasticity
Authors: Jiangtao Wang, Gang-feng Du, Jingshan Tian, Chuangdao Jiang, Yali Zhang, Wangfeng Zhang
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.AGWAT.2021.106992 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Embodied GHG Emissions of Wooden Buildings—Challenges of Biogenic Carbon Accounting in Current LCA Methods
Authors: Camilla Marlene Ernst Andersen, Freja Nygaard Rasmussen, Guillaume Habert, Harpa Birgisdóttir
Journal: Frontiers in Built Environment · DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2021.729096 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: earth system model
Buildings play a vital role in reaching the targets stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Increasing the use of wood in construction is a proposed upcoming strategy to reduce the embodied greenhouse gas emissions of buildings. This study examines existing life cycle assessments of wooden buildings. The aim is to investigate embodied greenhouse gas emission results reported, as well as methodological approaches applied in existing liter…
Monitoring Drinking Water Quality in Nationally Representative Household Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cross-Sectional Analysis of 27 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 2014–2020
Authors: Robert Bain, Richard B. Johnston, Shane M. Khan, Attila Hancioglu, Tom Slaymaker
Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives · DOI: 10.1289/ehp8459 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: water management
BACKGROUND: The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious new benchmark for safely managed drinking water services (SMDWs), but many countries lack national data on the availability and quality of drinking water. OBJECTIVES: ) contamination in 27 low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS: contamination. RESULTS: ; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.15) were positively associated with contamination at the PoU. DISCUSSION: Cross-sectional water quality data can be collected in household su…
Guar Gum-Based Hydrogels as Potent Green Polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery in High-Salinity Reservoirs
Authors: Shimaa M. Elsaeed, E. G. Zaki, Walaa A. E. Omar, Ahmed Ashraf Soliman, Attia Mahmoud Attia
Journal: ACS Omega · DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03352 · Citations: 94
Matched topics: reservoir
-poly(Am-AMPS)/Biochar (GBH composite), were evaluated as potential candidates for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) under high-salinity conditions. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of the synthesized hydrogels were investigated, and their rheological properties were measured at room temperature. Both GH and GHB display a shear-thinning performance. In polymer flooding experiments, guar gum hydrogel (GH) and guar gum/biochar composite hydrogel (GHB…
Emerging and Innovative Materials for Hydropower Engineering Applications: Turbines, Bearings, Sealing, Dams and Waterways, and Ocean Power
Authors: E. Quaranta, P. Davies
Journal: Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2021.06.025 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract The hydropower sector is currently experiencing several technological developments. New technologies and sustainable practices are emerging to make hydropower more flexible and eco-friendly. Novel materials have also been recently developed to increase performance, durability, and reliability; however, no systematic discussions can be found in the literature. Therefore, in this paper, novel materials for hydropower applications are presented, and their performance, advantages, and li…
Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet
Authors: Emanuele Quaranta, George Aggidis, Robert M. Boes, Claudio Comoglio, Carlo De Michele, Epari Ritesh Patro et al.
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114655 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: hydropower, earth system model
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 exclusion…
Quantifying the release of tyre wear particles to the marine environment via multiple pathways
Authors: Florence N.F. Parker-Jurd, Imogen E. Napper, Geoffrey D. Abbott, Simon Hann, Richard C. Thompson
Journal: Marine Pollution Bulletin · DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112897 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: runoff, surface water
Abstract not available.
A Comparison of Multiple Imputation Methods for Recovering Missing Data in Hydrological Studies
Authors: Fatimah Bibi Hamzah, Firdaus Mohamad Hamzah, Siti Fatin Mohd Razali, Hafiza Samad
Journal: Civil Engineering Journal · DOI: 10.28991/cej-2021-03091747 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: streamflow
Missing data is a common problem in hydrological studies; therefore, data reconstruction is critical, especially when it is crucial to employ all available resources, even incomplete records. Furthermore, missing data could have an impact on statistical analysis results, and the amount of variability in the data would not be fittingly anticipated. As a result, this study compared the performance of three imputation methods in predicting recurrence in streamflow datasets: robust random regress…
Monitoring high spatiotemporal water dynamics by fusing MODIS, Landsat, water occurrence data and DEM
Authors: Xiaodong Li, Feng Ling, Giles M. Foody, Doreen S. Boyd, Lai Jiang, Yihang Zhang et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112680 · Citations: 73
Matched topics: surface water
Monitoring the spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water from remote sensing imagery is essential for understanding water’s impact on the global ecosystem and climate change. There is often a tradeoff between the spatial and temporal resolutions of imagery acquired from current satellite sensors and as such various spatiotemporal image fusion methods have been explored to circumvent the challenges this situation presents (e.g., STARFM). However, some challenges persist in mapping surface water…
Changes in soil salinity under treated wastewater irrigation: A meta-analysis
Authors: Gao Yang, G. Shao, Wu Shiqing, W. Xiaojun, Jia Lu, J. Cui
Journal: Unknown · DOI: 10.1016/J.AGWAT.2021.106986 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
An all-sky 1 km daily land surface air temperature product over mainland China for 2003–2019 from MODIS and ancillary data
Authors: Yan Chen, Shunlin Liang, Han Ma, Bing Li, Tao He, Qian Wang
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-4241-2021 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
Abstract. Surface air temperature (Ta), as an important climate variable, has been used in a wide range of fields such as ecology, hydrology, climatology, epidemiology, and environmental science. However, ground measurements are limited by poor spatial representation and inconsistency, and reanalysis and meteorological forcing datasets suffer from coarse spatial resolution and inaccuracy. Previous studies using satellite data have mainly estimated Ta under clear-sky conditions or with limited…
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| Frontiers in Water | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| Geocarto International | 1 |
| Environmental Modelling & Software | 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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