Weekly Literature Review
Week 16 · April 18–April 24, 2022
50 relevant papers found across 5 themes
Executive Summary
This week’s review covers 50 papers across Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment, Drought Analysis and Prediction, Climate Change and Water Resources, Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration, and Water Management and Sustainability.
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
- Global Increases in Compound Flood‐Hot Extreme Hazards Under Climate Warming
- Surface water-groundwater interactions and local land use control water quality impacts of extreme rainfall and flooding in a vulnerable semi-arid region of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Spatial distribution patterns and potential exposure risks of urban floods in Chinese megacities
- Alteration of River Flow and Flood Dynamics by Existing and Planned Hydropower Dams in the Amazon River Basin
- Experimental Investigation of Foam Flooding Using Anionic and Nonionic Surfactants: A Screening Scenario to Assess the Effects of Salinity and pH on Foam Stability and Foam Height
- An integrated approach to streamflow estimation and flood inundation mapping using VIC, RAPID and LISFLOOD-FP
- Predicting combined tidal and pluvial flood inundation using a machine learning surrogate model
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought
- Melatonin Mitigates Drought Induced Oxidative Stress in Potato Plants through Modulation of Osmolytes, Sugar Metabolism, ABA Homeostasis and Antioxidant Enzymes
- The impact of high temperature and drought stress on the yield of major staple crops in northern China
- Drought and water-use efficiency are dominant environmental factors affecting greenness in the Yellow River Basin, China
- Increasing footprint of climate warming on flash droughts occurrence in Europe
- Root hairs matter at field scale for maize shoot growth and nutrient uptake, but root trait plasticity is primarily triggered by texture and drought
- Hydrological Drought Analysis using Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) in Ethiopia
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide
- Microbes and Climate Change: a Research Prospectus for the Future
- Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Use Land Cover in the Response to Local Climate Change Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Data
- Ice‐Nucleating Particles That Impact Clouds and Climate: Observational and Modeling Research Needs
- Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change
- Projected impacts of climate change on tourism in the Canary Islands
- Climate change, multi-hazards and society: An empirical study on the coastal community of Indian Sundarban
- Forecasting of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in Kuwait using United States Environmental Protection Agency, Intergovernmental panel on climate change, and machine learning methods
- Impacts of climate change on reproductive phenology in tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia
- Climate transition at the Eocene–Oligocene influenced by bathymetric changes to the Atlantic–Arctic oceanic gateways
- Adaptation to Climate Change and Impact on Smallholder Farmers’ Food Security in South Africa
- Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area
- Farmers’ Perception and Efficacy of Adaptation Decisions to Climate Change
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Brine management (saline water & wastewater effluents): Sustainable utilization and resource recovery strategy through Minimal and Zero Liquid Discharge (MLD & ZLD) desalination systems
- A new conceptual framework for the transformation of groundwater dissolved organic matter
- GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations
- Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest
- Microscale carbon distribution around pores and particulate organic matter varies with soil moisture regime
- Floating solar PV to reduce water evaporation in water stressed regions and powering water pumping: Case study Jordan
- Geospatial and statistical approaches to nitrate health risk and groundwater quality assessment of an alluvial aquifer in SE Nigeria for drinking and irrigation purposes
- Multi-decadal analysis of water resources and agricultural change in a Mediterranean semiarid irrigated piedmont under water scarcity and human interaction
- Solar Fertigation: A Sustainable and Smart IoT-Based Irrigation and Fertilization System for Efficient Water and Nutrient Management
- Diurnal and seasonal patterns of global urban dry islands
- Time-series maps reveal widespread change in plant functional type cover across Arctic and boreal Alaska and Yukon
- Ecosystem health assessment in debris flow-prone areas: A case study of Bailong River Basin in China
- A Multitasking Flexible Sensor via Reservoir Computing
- A comprehensive health risk assessment and groundwater quality for irrigation and drinking purposes around municipal solid waste sanitary landfill: A case study in Morocco
- Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs
- Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Suspect Screening Reveals Point Source-Specific Patterns of Emerging and Novel Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in German and Chinese Rivers
- Vine water status mapping with multispectral UAV imagery and machine learning
- Influence of different LCIA methods on an exemplary scenario analysis from a process development LCA case study
- Five decades of terrestrial and freshwater research at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
- A decade of cold Eurasian winters reconstructed for the early 19th century
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 7 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Gu, Geris et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Global Increases in Compound Flood‐Hot Extreme Hazards Under Climate Warming
Authors: Lei Gu, Jie Chen, Jiabo Yin, Louise Slater, Huimin Wang, Qiang Guo et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2022gl097726 · Citations: 155
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
Abstract Under global warming, a novel category of extreme events has become increasingly apparent, where flood and hot extremes occur in rapid succession, causing significant damages to infrastructure and ecosystems. However, these bivariate compound flood‐hot extreme (CFH) hazards have not been comprehensively examined at the global scale, and their evolution under climate warming remains unstudied. Here, we present the first global picture of projected changes in CFH hazards by using a cas…
Surface water-groundwater interactions and local land use control water quality impacts of extreme rainfall and flooding in a vulnerable semi-arid region of Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Josie Geris, Jean‐Christophe Comte, Fulvio Franchi, Alfred K. Petros, Sithabile Tirivarombo, Ame Thato Selepeng et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127834 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: water management, flood, surface water
While extreme rainfall events may provide rare opportunities for replenishment of surface water and groundwater resources in vulnerable (semi)arid areas, they are typically also associated with widespread flooding. The impacts on contaminant movement associated with spatio-temporally complex relationships between surface water and groundwater during such events in these regions are largely unknown. The catchment area (∼4350 km2) upstream of Gaborone Dam on the Notwane River in south-east Bots…
Spatial distribution patterns and potential exposure risks of urban floods in Chinese megacities
Authors: Chunlin Li, Miao Liu, Yuanman Hu, Hao Wang, Rui Zhou, Wen Wu et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127838 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Alteration of River Flow and Flood Dynamics by Existing and Planned Hydropower Dams in the Amazon River Basin
Authors: Suyog Chaudhari, Yadu Pokhrel
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr030555 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, flood, hydropower
Abstract Hydropower dams have received increased global attention due to their detrimental socioenvironmental ramifications. Such attention has led to an increase in studies on the impacts of reservoir operation on river flow; however, a holistic understanding of the compounded effects of hydropower dams on different hydrological characteristics is lacking, especially for large river basins such as the Amazon where hydropower development is on the rise. Here, we mechanistically quantify the h…
Experimental Investigation of Foam Flooding Using Anionic and Nonionic Surfactants: A Screening Scenario to Assess the Effects of Salinity and pH on Foam Stability and Foam Height
Authors: Hassan Emami, Abbas Ayatizadeh Tanha, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Amir H. Mohammadi
Journal: ACS Omega · DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c00314 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: flood
[Image: see text] Gravity override and viscous fingering are inevitable in gas flooding for improving hydrocarbon production from petroleum reservoirs. Foam is used to regulate gas mobility and consequently improve sweep efficiency. In the enhanced oil recovery process, when the foam is introduced into the reservoir and exposed to the initial saline water saturation and pH condition, selection of the stable foam is crucial. Salinity and pH tolerance of generated foams are a unique concern in …
An integrated approach to streamflow estimation and flood inundation mapping using VIC, RAPID and LISFLOOD-FP
Authors: Saswata Nandi, M. Janga Reddy
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127842 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, flood
Abstract not available.
Predicting combined tidal and pluvial flood inundation using a machine learning surrogate model
Authors: Faria Tuz Zahura, Jonathan L. Goodall
Journal: Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101087 · Citations: 53
Matched topics: flood, surface water
Flooding increases in recent years, in particular for coastal communities facing sea level rise, have brought renewed attention to real-time, street-scale flood forecasting. Such flood models using conventional physics-based modeling approaches are often unrealistic for real-time decision support use cases due to their long model runtime. Machine learning offers an alternative strategy whereby a surrogate model can be trained to mimic relationships present within the physics-based model and, …
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Dannenberg, El-Yazied et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought
Authors: Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Mallory L. Barnes, William K. Smith, Miriam R. Johnston, Russell L. Scott et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16214 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Earth’s ecosystems are increasingly threatened by “hot drought,” which occurs when hot air temperatures coincide with precipitation deficits, intensifying the hydrological, physiological, and ecological effects of drought by enhancing evaporative losses of soil moisture (SM) and increasing plant stress due to higher vapor pressure deficit (VPD). Drought‐induced reductions in gross primary production (GPP) exert a major influence on the terrestrial carbon sink, but the extent to which…
Melatonin Mitigates Drought Induced Oxidative Stress in Potato Plants through Modulation of Osmolytes, Sugar Metabolism, ABA Homeostasis and Antioxidant Enzymes
Authors: Ahmed Abou El-Yazied, Mohamed F. M. Ibrahim, Mohamed F. M. Ibrahim, Mervat A. R. Ibrahim, Mervat A. R. Ibrahim, Ibrahim Nasef et al.
Journal: Plants · DOI: 10.3390/plants11091151 · Citations: 109
Matched topics: drought
, lipid peroxidation (malondialdehyde; MDA) and abscisic acid (ABA) were significantly decreased compared to the untreated plants. These responses may reveal the protective role of MT against drought induced carbonyl/oxidative stress and enhancing the antioxidative defense systems. Furthermore, tuber yield was differentially responded to MT treatments under well-watered and drought stressed conditions. Since, applied-MT led to an obvious decrease in tuber yield under well-watered conditions. …
The impact of high temperature and drought stress on the yield of major staple crops in northern China
Authors: Xiufang Zhu, Tingting Liu, Kun Xu, Changxiu Chen
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115092 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Drought and water-use efficiency are dominant environmental factors affecting greenness in the Yellow River Basin, China
Authors: Gexia Qin, Zhiyuan Meng, Yang Fu
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155479 · Citations: 61
Matched topics: river, drought
Abstract not available.
Increasing footprint of climate warming on flash droughts occurrence in Europe
Authors: Jignesh Shah, Vittal Hari, Oldřich Rakovec, Yannis Markonis, Luis Samaniego, Vimal Mishra et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6888 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Flash droughts are caused by a rapid depletion of soil moisture, and they severely affect vegetation growth and agricultural production. Notwithstanding the growing importance of flash droughts under the warming climate, drivers of flash droughts across the Europe are not well understood. Here we estimate the changes in flash droughts characteristics across Europe using the ERA5 reanalysis dataset for 1950–2019 period. We find a substantial increase in the frequency and spatial exten…
Root hairs matter at field scale for maize shoot growth and nutrient uptake, but root trait plasticity is primarily triggered by texture and drought
Authors: Doris Vetterlein, Maxime Phalempin, Eva Lippold, Steffen Schlüter, Susanne Schreiter, Mutez Ali Ahmed et al.
Journal: Plant and Soil · DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05434-0 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Aims Root hairs are important for uptake, especially for nutrients with low mobility in soils with high sorption capacity. Mutants with defective root hairs are expected to have lower nutrient uptake, unless they compensate with more root growth. Since root hairs can also contribute to the plant’s water uptake their importance could change over the course of a growing season. It was our objective to investigate the role of root hairs under field conditions. Methods The root hair muta…
Hydrological Drought Analysis using Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) in Ethiopia
Authors: Kassa Abera Tareke, Admasu Gebeyehu Awoke
Journal: Advances in Meteorology · DOI: 10.1155/2022/7067951 · Citations: 48
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, drought, hydropower
Drought is a natural disaster that has impacts on society, the environment, and the ecosystem. Ethiopia faced many horrible severe drought events in the last few decades. Even though there are some drought-related studies in the country, most of the investigations were focused on meteorological drought analysis. This study was focused on hydrological drought analysis in Ethiopia using the streamflow drought index (SDI). The main objective was to identify drought-prone areas and severe drought…
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.
Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide
Authors: Charlotte L. Outhwaite, P. McCann, T. Newbold
Journal: Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04644-x · Citations: 490
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Microbes and Climate Change: a Research Prospectus for the Future
Authors: James M. Tiedje, Mary Ann Bruns, Arturo Casadevall, Craig S. Criddle, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, David M. Karl et al.
Journal: mBio · DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00800-22 · Citations: 185
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Climate change is the most serious challenge facing humanity. Microbes produce and consume three major greenhouse gases-carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide-and some microbes cause human, animal, and plant diseases that can be exacerbated by climate change. Hence, microbial research is needed to help ameliorate the warming trajectory and cascading effects resulting from heat, drought, and severe storms. We present a brief summary of what is known about microbial responses to climate cha…
Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Use Land Cover in the Response to Local Climate Change Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Data
Authors: Sajjad Hussain, Linlin Lu, Muhammad Mubeen, Wajid Nasim, Shankar Karuppannan, Shah Fahad et al.
Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land11050595 · Citations: 141
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is likely to have serious social, economic, and environmental impacts on farmers whose subsistence depends on nature. Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes were examined as a significant tool for assessing changes at diverse temporal and spatial scales. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has the potential ability to signify the vegetation structures of various eco-regions and provide valuable information as a remote sensing tool in studying vegetation phenology cycles. …
Ice‐Nucleating Particles That Impact Clouds and Climate: Observational and Modeling Research Needs
Authors: Susannah M. Burrows, Christina S. McCluskey, Gavin C. Cornwell, Isabelle Steinke, Kai Zhang, Bin Zhao et al.
Journal: Reviews of Geophysics · DOI: 10.1029/2021rg000745 · Citations: 139
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Atmospheric ice‐nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes, with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative properties, and thus for weather and climate. Additionally, INP emissions respond to changes in the Earth System and climate, for example, desertification, agricultural practices, and fires, and therefore may introduce climate feedbacks that are still poorly understood. As knowledge of the nature and origins of INPs …
Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change
Authors: James Rising, Charlotte Taylor, Matthew C. Ives, Robert E. Ward
Journal: Ecological Economics · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107437 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: climate change
A large discrepancy exists between the dire impacts that most natural scientists project we could face from climate change and the modest estimates of damages calculated by mainstream economists. Economic assessments of climate change risks are intended to be comprehensive, covering the full range of physical impacts and their associated market and non-market costs, considering the greater vulnerability of poor people and the challenges of adaptation. Available estimates still fall significan…
Projected impacts of climate change on tourism in the Canary Islands
Authors: Judit Carrillo, Albano González, Juan C. Pérez, Francisco J. Expósito, Juan P. Díaz
Journal: Regional Environmental Change · DOI: 10.1007/s10113-022-01880-9 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Abstract The Canary Islands are a leading tourist destination. Their strong economic dependence on this sector makes them vulnerable to climate change. The steep orography of the islands causes impact of climate change and their potential influence on tourism to be spatially heterogenous. To account for this variability, regional climate simulations were computed using the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) numerical weather prediction model driven by the results of three CMIP5 global climat…
Climate change, multi-hazards and society: An empirical study on the coastal community of Indian Sundarban
Authors: Manas Mondal, Anupam Biswas, Subrata Halder, Somnath Mandal, Pintu Mandal, Subhasis Bhattacharya et al.
Journal: Natural Hazards Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.nhres.2022.04.002 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: climate change
Effective mitigation and adaptation methods are critical for addressing multi-hazards in various parts of the world as a result of changing climate occurrences. Basically, coastal areas around the world have been proven to be particularly sensitive and at risk as a result of recent climate change, forcing people to relocate in order to survive. In the previous 2–3 years, cyclones such as Fani, Bulbul, Amphan, and Yass have wreaked havoc on eastern India’s coastal region. The aim of this study…
Forecasting of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in Kuwait using United States Environmental Protection Agency, Intergovernmental panel on climate change, and machine learning methods
Authors: Sharaf AlKheder, Ali Almusalam
Journal: Renewable Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.023 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Impacts of climate change on reproductive phenology in tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia
Authors: Shinya Numata, Koharu Yamaguchi, Masaaki Shimizu, Gen Sakurai, Ayaka Morimoto, Noraliza Alias et al.
Journal: Communications Biology · DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03245-8 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract In humid forests in Southeast Asia, many species from dozens of plant families flower gregariously and fruit synchronously at irregular multi-year intervals 1–4 . Little is known about how climate change will impact these community-wide mass reproductive events. Here, we perform a comprehensive analysis of reproductive phenology and its environmental drivers based on a monthly reproductive phenology record from 210 species in 41 families in Peninsular Malaysia. We find that the propo…
Climate transition at the Eocene–Oligocene influenced by bathymetric changes to the Atlantic–Arctic oceanic gateways
Authors: Eivind O. Straume, Aleksi Nummelin, Carmen Gaina, Kerim H. Nisancioglu
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115346119 · Citations: 57
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (∼33.9 Ma) marks the largest step transformation within the Cenozoic cooling trend and is characterized by a sudden growth of the Antarctic ice sheets, cooling of the interior ocean, and the establishment of strong meridional temperature gradients. Here we examine the climatic impact of oceanic gateway changes at the Eocene–Oligocene Transition by implementing detailed paleogeographic reconstructions with realistic paleobathymetric models for the Atlantic–Arcti…
Adaptation to Climate Change and Impact on Smallholder Farmers’ Food Security in South Africa
Authors: Abiodun A. Ogundeji
Journal: Agriculture · DOI: 10.3390/agriculture12050589 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: climate change
If not adequately managed, climate change is predicted to have a large negative impact on smallholder subsistence farmers, posing a significant danger to household food security. However, the role of adaptive techniques used by farming households to reduce these negative effects and, as a result, their food insecurity status has not been sufficiently evaluated. This study explores the factors that influence smallholder farmers’ adoption of climate change adaptation measures, as well as their …
Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area
Authors: Ronnie Abolafia‐Rosenzweig, Cenlin He, Fei Chen
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6886 · Citations: 51
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, land surface model
Abstract This study predicts summer (June–September) fire burned area across the western United States (U.S.) from 1984 to 2020 using ensembles of statistical models trained with pre-fire season climate conditions. Winter and spring climate conditions alone explain up to 53% of the interannual variability and 58% of the increasing trend of observed summer burned area, which suggests that climate conditions in antecedent seasons have been an important driver to broad-scale changes in summer fi…
Farmers’ Perception and Efficacy of Adaptation Decisions to Climate Change
Authors: Krishna Viswanatha Reddy, Venkatesh Paramesh, V. Arunachalam, Bappa Das, P. Ramasundaram, Malay Pramanik et al.
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12051023 · Citations: 48
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is viewed as the main obstacle to agricultural development in developing countries. The high dependence on agriculture and allied sectors makes many countries vulnerable to the climate change phenomenon. There is a gap in macro and micro-level understanding of climate change. Thoughtful farmers’ perceptions and impacts of climate change on farming are fundamental for developing various mitigation and adaptation strategies. Therefore, the main aim of the present study was to und…
Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
Hydrologic model development and evaluation features 3 papers covering precipitation estimation, model calibration, rainfall-runoff processes, and large-scale simulation advances.
Global rainfall erosivity projections for 2050 and 2070
Authors: Panos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli, Francis Matthews, Leonidas Liakos, Nejc Bezak, Nazzareno Diodato et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127865 · Citations: 188
Matched topics: earth system model
The erosive force of rainfall (rainfall erosivity) is a major driver of soil, nutrient losses worldwide and an important input for soil erosion assessments models. Here, we present a comprehensive set of future erosivity projections at a 30 arc-second (∼1 km2) spatial scale using 19 downscaled General Circulation Models (GCMs) simulating three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) for the periods 2041–2060 and 2061–2080. The future rainfall erosivity projections were obtained based on …
Increasing trends in rainfall erosivity in the Yellow River basin from 1971 to 2020
Authors: W. Wang, Shuiqing Yin, Ge Gao, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Z. Wang
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127851 · Citations: 52
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
The seasonality of cholera in sub-Saharan Africa: a statistical modelling study
Authors: Javier Perez‐Saez, Justin Lessler, Elizabeth C. Lee, Francisco J. Luquero, Espoir Bwenge Malembaka, Flavio Finger et al.
Journal: The Lancet Global Health · DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00007-9 · Citations: 50
Matched topics: seasonal
BACKGROUND: Cholera remains a major threat in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where some of the highest case-fatality rates are reported. Knowing in what months and where cholera tends to occur across the continent could aid in improving efforts to eliminate cholera as a public health concern. However, largely due to the absence of unified large-scale datasets, no continent-wide estimates exist. In this study, we aimed to estimate cholera seasonality across SSA and explore the correlation between h…
Water Management and Sustainability
Water management research spans 20 papers addressing topics from irrigation optimization and reservoir operations to water resource assessment and sustainability frameworks.
Brine management (saline water & wastewater effluents): Sustainable utilization and resource recovery strategy through Minimal and Zero Liquid Discharge (MLD & ZLD) desalination systems
Authors: Argyris Panagopoulos
Journal: Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification · DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2022.108944 · Citations: 311
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
A new conceptual framework for the transformation of groundwater dissolved organic matter
Authors: Liza K. McDonough, Martin S. Andersen, Megan I. Behnke, Helen Rutlidge, Phetdala Oudone, Karina Meredith et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29711-9 · Citations: 245
Matched topics: hydrology, surface water
Groundwater comprises 95% of the liquid fresh water on Earth and contains a diverse mix of dissolved organic matter (DOM) molecules which play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. Currently, the storage times and degradation pathways of groundwater DOM are unclear, preventing an accurate estimate of groundwater carbon sources and sinks for global carbon budgets. Here we reveal the transformations of DOM in aging groundwater using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry combined with…
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations
Authors: Jida Wang, Blake A. Walter, Fangfang Yao, Chunqiao Song, Meng Ding, Abu S. Maroof et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-1869-2022 · Citations: 205
Matched topics: hydrologic model, reservoir
Abstract. Dams and reservoirs are among the most widespread human-made infrastructures on Earth. Despite their societal and environmental significance, spatial inventories of dams and reservoirs, even for the large ones, are insufficient. A dilemma of the existing georeferenced dam datasets is the polarized focus on either dam quantity and spatial coverage (e.g., GlObal geOreferenced Database of Dams, GOODD) or detailed attributes for a limited dam quantity or region (e.g., GRanD (Global Rese…
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest
Authors: Ruyi Luo, Yakov Kuzyakov, Biao Zhu, Wei Qiang, Yan Zhang, Xueyong Pang
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16205 · Citations: 192
Matched topics: earth system model
Increasing phosphorus (P) inputs induced by anthropogenic activities have increased P availability in soils considerably, with dramatic effects on carbon (C) cycling and storage. However, the underlying mechanisms via which P drives plant and microbial regulation of soil organic C (SOC) formation and stabilization remain unclear, hampering the accurate projection of soil C sequestration under future global change scenarios. Taking the advantage of an 8-year field experiment with increasing P …
Microscale carbon distribution around pores and particulate organic matter varies with soil moisture regime
Authors: Steffen Schlüter, Frederic Leuther, Lukas Albrecht, Carmen Hoeschen, Rüdiger Kilian, Ronny Surey et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29605-w · Citations: 171
Matched topics: hydrology
Soil carbon sequestration arises from the interplay of carbon input and stabilization, which vary in space and time. Assessing the resulting microscale carbon distribution in an intact pore space, however, has so far eluded methodological accessibility. Here, we explore the role of soil moisture regimes in shaping microscale carbon gradients by a novel mapping protocol for particulate organic matter and carbon in the soil matrix based on a combination of Osmium staining, X-ray computed tomogr…
Floating solar PV to reduce water evaporation in water stressed regions and powering water pumping: Case study Jordan
Authors: L. W. Farrar, A.S. Bahaj, P.A.B. James, Arif A. Anwar, Nafn Amdar
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115598 · Citations: 110
Matched topics: hydropower, irrigation
Water resources are essential for human consumption and food production. The extraction and delivery of water resources are highly dependent on energy. Hence water, energy and food security are inextricably linked, and this nexus constitutes a major global societal challenge. Furthermore, globally, irrigation constitutes around 70% of our freshwater resources, rising to 90% in developing countries. There are over 300 million drinking water and irrigation ponds globally where 90% of the world’…
Geospatial and statistical approaches to nitrate health risk and groundwater quality assessment of an alluvial aquifer in SE Nigeria for drinking and irrigation purposes
Authors: Chinanu O. Unigwe, Johnbosco C. Egbueri, Michael E. Omeka
Journal: Journal of the Indian Chemical Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2022.100479 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Multi-decadal analysis of water resources and agricultural change in a Mediterranean semiarid irrigated piedmont under water scarcity and human interaction
Authors: Youness Ouassanouan, Younes Fakır, Vincent Simonneaux, Mohamed Hakim Kharrou, Houssne Bouimouass, Insaf Najar et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155328 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Solar Fertigation: A Sustainable and Smart IoT-Based Irrigation and Fertilization System for Efficient Water and Nutrient Management
Authors: Uzair Ahmad, A. Alvino, Stefano Marino
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12051012 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: water management, irrigation
The agricultural sector is one of the major users of water resources. Water is an important asset that needs to be preserved using the latest available technologies. Modern technologies and digital tools can transform the agricultural domain from being manual and static to intelligent and dynamic leading to higher production with lesser human supervision. This study describe the agronomic models that should be integrated with the intelligent system which schedule the irrigation and fertilizat…
Diurnal and seasonal patterns of global urban dry islands
Authors: Naika Meili, Athanasios Paschalis, Gabriele Manoli, Simone Fatichi
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac68f8 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: hydrology, seasonal
Abstract Urban heat islands (UHIs) are a widely studied phenomenon, while research on urban-rural differences in humidity, the so called urban dry or moisture islands (UDIs, UMIs), is less common and a large-scale quantification of the seasonal and diurnal patterns of the UDI is still lacking. However, quantification of the UDI/UMI effect is essential to understand the impacts of humidity on outdoor thermal comfort, building energy consumption, and urban ecology in cities worldwide. Here, we …
Time-series maps reveal widespread change in plant functional type cover across Arctic and boreal Alaska and Yukon
Authors: Matthew J. Macander, Peter R. Nelson, Timm W. Nawrocki, Gerald V. Frost, Kathleen M. Orndahl, Eric C. Palm et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6965 · Citations: 59
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract Widespread changes in the distribution and abundance of plant functional types (PFTs) are occurring in Arctic and boreal ecosystems due to the intensification of disturbances, such as fire, and climate-driven vegetation dynamics, such as tundra shrub expansion. To understand how these changes affect boreal and tundra ecosystems, we need to first quantify change for multiple PFTs across recent years. While landscape patches are generally composed of a mixture of PFTs, most previous mo…
Ecosystem health assessment in debris flow-prone areas: A case study of Bailong River Basin in China
Authors: Yanyan Zhou, Dongxia Yue, Shuangying Li, Geng Liang, Zengzu Chao, Yan Zhao et al.
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131887 · Citations: 57
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
A Multitasking Flexible Sensor via Reservoir Computing
Authors: S. Wakabayashi, Takayuki Arie, Seiji Akita, Kohei Nakajima, Kuniharu Takei
Journal: Advanced Materials · DOI: 10.1002/adma.202201663 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: reservoir, surface water
Natural disasters are reported globally, and one source of severe damage to cities is flooding caused by locally heavy rain. Sharing of local weather information can save lives. However, it is difficult to collect local weather information in real-time because such data collection requires bulky, expensive sensors. For local, real-time monitoring of heavy rain and wind, a sensor system should be simple and low-cost so that it can be attached to a variety of surfaces, including roofs, vehicles…
A comprehensive health risk assessment and groundwater quality for irrigation and drinking purposes around municipal solid waste sanitary landfill: A case study in Morocco
Authors: Hamza El Fadili, Mohammed Ben Ali, Mohammed El Mahi, Asitha T. Cooray, El Mostapha Lotfi
Journal: Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enmm.2022.100698 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs
Authors: Rafael M. Almeida, Rafael Schmitt, Andrea Castelletti, Alexander S. Flecker, Julien Harou, Sebastián Heilpern et al.
Journal: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101175 · Citations: 55
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract not available.
Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Suspect Screening Reveals Point Source-Specific Patterns of Emerging and Novel Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in German and Chinese Rivers
Authors: Hanna Joerss, Frank Menger, Jianhui Tang, Ralf Ebinghaus, Lutz Ahrens
Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c07987 · Citations: 53
Matched topics: river
Only a few dozens of the several thousand existing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are monitored using conventional target analysis. This study employed suspect screening to examine patterns of emerging and novel PFAS in German and Chinese river water affected by industrial point sources. In total, 86 PFAS were (tentatively) identified and grouped into 18 structure categories. Homologue patterns revealed distinct differences between fluoropolymer production sites of the two countri…
Vine water status mapping with multispectral UAV imagery and machine learning
Authors: Zhehan Tang, Yufang Jin, María Mar Alsina, Andrew J. McElrone, Nicolás Bambach, William P. Kustas
Journal: Irrigation Science · DOI: 10.1007/s00271-022-00788-w · Citations: 49
Matched topics: water management
Abstract Optimizing water management has become one of the biggest challenges for grapevine growers in California, especially during drought conditions. Monitoring grapevine water status and stress level across the whole vineyard is an essential step for precision irrigation management of vineyards to conserve water. We developed a unified machine learning model to map leaf water potential ( \({\psi }_{\mathrm{leaf}}\) ψleaf ), by combining high-resolution multispectral remote sensing imagery…
Influence of different LCIA methods on an exemplary scenario analysis from a process development LCA case study
Authors: Daniel Koch, Anton Friedl, Bettina Mihalyi
Journal: Environment Development and Sustainability · DOI: 10.1007/s10668-022-02302-w · Citations: 48
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods quantify the impact of life cycle inventory data within each impact category by means of classification and characterization. This paper evaluated whether the selected LCIA method influenced the life cycle assessment (LCA) scenario analysis for decision support in process development and its possible reasons. For this study, a scenario analysis was used from a biorefinery LCA case study, as this is a key practice in process development. The…
Five decades of terrestrial and freshwater research at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
Authors: Åshild Ønvik Pedersen, Peter Convey, Kevin K. Newsham, Jesper Bruun Mosbacher, Eva Fuglei, Virve Ravolainen et al.
Journal: Polar Research · DOI: 10.33265/polar.v41.6310 · Citations: 47
Matched topics: hydrology
For more than five decades, research has been conducted at Ny-Ålesund, in Svalbard, Norway, to understand the structure and functioning of High-Arctic ecosystems and the profound impacts on them of environmental change. Terrestrial, freshwater, glacial and marine ecosystems are accessible year-round from Ny-Ålesund, providing unique opportunities for interdisciplinary observational and experimental studies along physical, chemical, hydrological and climatic gradients. Here, we synthesize terr…
A decade of cold Eurasian winters reconstructed for the early 19th century
Authors: Lukas Reichen, Angela‐Maria Burgdorf, Stefan Brönnimann, Jörg Franke, Ralf Hand, Veronika Valler et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29677-8 · Citations: 47
Matched topics: earth system model
Annual-to-decadal variability in northern midlatitude temperature is dominated by the cold season. However, climate field reconstructions are often based on tree rings that represent the growing season. Here we present cold-season (October-to-May average) temperature field reconstructions for the northern midlatitudes, 1701-1905, based on extensive phenological data (freezing and thawing dates of rivers, plant observations). Northern midlatitude land temperatures exceeded the variability rang…
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 810 |
| After deduplication | 599 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 549 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Journal of Hydrology | 5 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 4 |
| Nature Communications | 3 |
| Global Change Biology | 2 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 2 |
| Agronomy | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| ACS Omega | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies | 1 |
| Plants | 1 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 1 |
| Plant and Soil | 1 |
| Advances in Meteorology | 1 |
| Nature | 1 |
| mBio | 1 |
| Land | 1 |
| Reviews of Geophysics | 1 |
| Ecological Economics | 1 |
| Regional Environmental Change | 1 |
| Natural Hazards Research | 1 |
| Renewable Energy | 1 |
| Communications Biology | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Agriculture | 1 |
| The Lancet Global Health | 1 |
| Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification | 1 |
| Earth system science data | 1 |
| Energy Conversion and Management | 1 |
| Journal of the Indian Chemical Society | 1 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| Advanced Materials | 1 |
| Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management | 1 |
| Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 1 |
| Environmental Science & Technology | 1 |
| Irrigation Science | 1 |
| Environment Development and Sustainability | 1 |
| Polar Research | 1 |
Filtering Criteria
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
Databases: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex