Weekly Literature Review
Week 06 · February 7–February 13, 2022
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
- Comparison of CMIP5 and CMIP6 GCM performance for flood projections in the Mekong River Basin
- Can we detect more ephemeral floods with higher density harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data compared to Landsat 8 alone?
- Flooding, Food Security and the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria: An Assemblage and Systems Thinking Approach
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Drought stress responses and inducing tolerance by seed priming approach in plants
- Agricultural Drought and Its Potential Impacts: Enabling Decision-Support for Food Security in Vulnerable Regions
- A geography of drought indices: mismatch between indicators of drought and its impacts on water and food securities
- Interactive Effects of Melatonin and Nitrogen Improve Drought Tolerance of Maize Seedlings by Regulating Growth and Physiochemical Attributes
- Thermal imaging for assessment of maize water stress and yield prediction under drought conditions
- Drought impacts in forest canopy and deciduous tree saplings in Central European forests
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- The Mediterranean climate change hotspot in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 projections
- Seaweed: A potential climate change solution
- Future Mangrove Carbon Storage Under Climate Change and Deforestation
- The impact of climate change awareness on behavioral changes in Germany: changing minds or changing behavior?
- Relationships between climate change, phenology, edaphic factors, and net primary productivity across the Tibetan Plateau
- Farmers’ incremental adaptation to water scarcity: An application of the model of private proactive adaptation to climate change (MPPACC)
- Threshold effect of ecosystem services in response to climate change, human activity and landscape pattern in the upper and middle Yellow River of China
- Artificial intelligence and climate change: ethical issues
- Irrigation estimates from space: Implementation of different approaches to model the evapotranspiration contribution within a soil-moisture-based inversion algorithm
- Multivariate Bias‐Correction of High‐Resolution Regional Climate Change Simulations for West Africa: Performance and Climate Change Implications
- The July 2019 European Heat Wave in a Warmer Climate: Storyline Scenarios with a Coupled Model Using Spectral Nudging
- Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation
- Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change
- Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change
- Indigenous mental health and climate change: A systematic literature review
- Understanding land use/land cover and climate change impacts on hydrological components of Usri watershed, India
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Modeling of Surface Flow and Infiltration During Surface Irrigation Advance Based on Numerical Solution of Saint–Venant Equations Using Preissmann’s Scheme
- Modeling the effects of topography and slope gradient of an artificially formed slope on runoff, sediment yield, water and soil loss of sandy soil
- A study on availability of ground observations and its impacts on bias correction of satellite precipitation products and hydrologic simulation efficiency
- Water Management and Sustainability
- Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
- A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China
- Accounting for interactions between Sustainable Development Goals is essential for water pollution control in China
- Permanent grasslands in Europe: Land use change and intensification decrease their multifunctionality
- Distribution and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants within the global river network
- Using propanol as an additive to CO2 for improving CO2 utilization and storage in oil reservoirs
- A global 1‐km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory
- Global sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget, with a focus on advanced data products and uncertainty characterisation
- Geospatial assessment of water quality using principal components analysis (PCA) and water quality index (WQI) in Basho Valley, Gilgit Baltistan (Northern Areas of Pakistan)
- Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience
- Assessment of groundwater potential zone using MCDA and AHP techniques: case study from a tropical river basin of India
- Water Migration and Segregated Ice Formation in Frozen Ground: Current Advances and Future Perspectives
- Organizational Principles of Hyporheic Exchange Flow and Biogeochemical Cycling in River Networks Across Scales
- Short-term effects of compost amendments to soil on soil structure, hydraulic properties, and water regime
- Appraisal of spatial–temporal variation and pollution source estimation of Ganga River system through pollution indices and environmetrics in Upper Ganga basin
- Recently constructed hydropower dams were associated with reduced economic production, population, and greenness in nearby areas
- Assessment of pumped hydropower energy storage potential along rivers and shorelines
- A hydrologist’s guide to open science
- Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea
- Uncertainty in the Winter Tropospheric Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss: The Role of Stratospheric Polar Vortex Internal Variability
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 3 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Try, Tulbure et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Comparison of CMIP5 and CMIP6 GCM performance for flood projections in the Mekong River Basin
Authors: Sophal Try, Shigenobu Tanaka, K. Tanaka, Takahiro Sayama, Temur Khujanazarov, Chantha Oeurng
Journal: Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101035 · Citations: 87
Matched topics: river, runoff, flood
Mekong River Basin. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) recently announced an updated version of general circulation models (GCMs). This study investigated the performance of improved CMIP6 over those of CMIP5 with respect to precipitation and flood representations in the Mekong River Basin (MRB). The correlation and error comparison from the referenced precipitation exhibited a significant improvement in the peak value representation. Hence, the impacts of climate chang…
Can we detect more ephemeral floods with higher density harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data compared to Landsat 8 alone?
Authors: Mirela G. Tulbure, Mark Broich, Vinicius Perin, Mollie D. Gaines, Junchang Ju, Stephen V. Stehman et al.
Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.01.021 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: flood, surface water
Abstract not available.
Flooding, Food Security and the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria: An Assemblage and Systems Thinking Approach
Authors: Adaku Jane Echendu
Journal: Social Sciences · DOI: 10.3390/socsci11020059 · Citations: 57
Matched topics: flood
Food is connected to sustainable development goals in numerous ways, as food security is key to achieving sustainable development. The world is currently not on track to achieve the set sustainable development goals (SDGs). In Nigeria, flooding is a recurrent disaster and constitutes a setback to success with the SDGs and sustainable development. Flooding disasters are a threat to food security due to their impact on the food system. This study is an integrative review that explores the link …
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 6 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Saha, Orimoloye et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Drought stress responses and inducing tolerance by seed priming approach in plants
Authors: Debanjana Saha, Prince Choyal, Udit Nandan Mishra, Prajjal Dey, Bandana Bose, Prathibha MD et al.
Journal: Plant Stress · DOI: 10.1016/j.stress.2022.100066 · Citations: 116
Matched topics: drought
Field crops are subjected to drought at different growth stages and cause for substantial yield loss in major crops, thus threaten to global food security. The crop researcher have evaluated numerous physiological, biochemical and molecular strategies to combat drought stresses but these approaches are not enough in present scenario. Therefore, it is argued that plants can be primed by assorted organic and in-organic promoters for excelling fortitude under stress conditions. Hence, seed primi…
Agricultural Drought and Its Potential Impacts: Enabling Decision-Support for Food Security in Vulnerable Regions
Authors: Israel R. Orimoloye
Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.838824 · Citations: 112
Matched topics: streamflow, drought
Increasing demand for food and environmental stressors are some of the most challenging problems that human societies face today and these have encouraged new studies to examine drought impacts on food production. Seeking to discuss these important issues in the South African context, this study analyzed the impacts of drought on food security in one of the country’s largest commercial agricultural land (Free State Province). Earth observation and crop data were acquired from Application for …
A geography of drought indices: mismatch between indicators of drought and its impacts on water and food securities
Authors: Sarra Kchouk, Lieke Melsen, David W. Walker, Pieter van Oel
Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-22-323-2022 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: drought
Abstract. Drought monitoring and early warning systems (DEWSs) are seen as helpful tools to tackle drought at an early stage and reduce the possibility of harm or loss. They usually include indices attributed to meteorological, agricultural and/or hydrological drought: physically based drought drivers. These indices are used to determine the onset, end and severity of a drought event. Drought impacts, like water and food securities, are less monitored or even not included in DEWSs. Therefore,…
Interactive Effects of Melatonin and Nitrogen Improve Drought Tolerance of Maize Seedlings by Regulating Growth and Physiochemical Attributes
Authors: Shakeel Ahmad, Guo-Yun Wang, Ihsan Muhammad, yuxin chi, Muhammad Zeeshan, Jamal Nasar et al.
Journal: Antioxidants · DOI: 10.3390/antiox11020359 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: drought
) improves the plant growth, photosynthetic efficiency, and enzymatic activity of maize seedling under drought-stress conditions.
Thermal imaging for assessment of maize water stress and yield prediction under drought conditions
Authors: Chukiat Pradawet, Nuttapon Khongdee, Wanwisa Pansak, Wolfram Spreer, Thomas Hilger, Georg Cadisch
Journal: Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science · DOI: 10.1111/jac.12582 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Maize production in Thailand is increasingly suffering from drought periods along the cropping season. This creates the need for rapid and accurate methods to detect crop water stress to prevent yield loss. The study was, therefore, conducted to improve the efficacy of thermal imaging for assessing maize water stress and yield prediction. The experiment was carried out under controlled and field conditions in Phitsanulok, Thailand. Five treatments were applied, including (T1) fully i…
Drought impacts in forest canopy and deciduous tree saplings in Central European forests
Authors: Mirela Beloiu, Reinhold Stahlmann, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120075 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
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.
Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States
Authors: Kieran M. R. Hunt, Gwyneth Matthews, F. Pappenberger, C. Prudhomme
Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-2022-53 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: river, streamflow
Abstract. Accurate river streamflow forecasts are a vital tool in the fields of water security, flood preparation and agriculture, as well as in industry more generally. Over the last century, physics-based models traditionally used to produce streamflow forecasts have become increasingly sophisticated, with forecasts improving accordingly. However, the development of such models is often bound by two soft limits: empiricism – many physical relationships are represented by computationally eff…
Short-Term Daily Univariate Streamflow Forecasting Using Deep Learning Models
Authors: Eyob Betru Wegayehu, Fiseha Behulu Muluneh
Journal: Advances in Meteorology · DOI: 10.1155/2022/1860460 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management, hydropower
Hydrological forecasting is one of the key research areas in hydrology. Innovative forecasting tools will reform water resources management systems, flood early warning mechanisms, and agricultural and hydropower management schemes. Hence, in this study, we compared Stacked Long Short-Term Memory (S-LSTM), Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) with the classical Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) network for one-step daily streamflow forecasting. The analysis…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 16 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
The Mediterranean climate change hotspot in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 projections
Authors: Pep Cos, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, Martin Jury, Raül Marcos-Matamoros, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Margarida Samsó
Journal: Earth System Dynamics · DOI: 10.5194/esd-13-321-2022 · Citations: 295
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract. The enhanced warming trend and precipitation decline in the Mediterranean region make it a climate change hotspot. We compare projections of multiple Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) and Phase 6 (CMIP6) historical and future scenario simulations to quantify the impacts of the already changing climate in the region. In particular, we investigate changes in temperature and precipitation during the 21st century following scenarios RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for CMIP…
Seaweed: A potential climate change solution
Authors: Wilson Thau Lym Yong, Vun Yee Thien, Rennielyn Rupert, Kenneth Francis Rodrigues
Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112222 · Citations: 152
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Future Mangrove Carbon Storage Under Climate Change and Deforestation
Authors: Mark Chatting, Ibrahim Al-Maslamani, Mark Walton, Martin W. Skov, Hilary Kennedy, Y. Sinan Hüsrevoğlu et al.
Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science · DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.781876 · Citations: 106
Matched topics: climate change
Mangroves are important sinks of organic carbon (C) and there is significant interest in their use for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation. Adverse impacts on organic carbon storage potential from future climate change and deforestation would devalue such ambitions, thus global projections of future change remains a priority research area. We modeled the effects of climate change on future C stocks and soil sequestration rates (CSR) under two climate scenarios (“business as usual”: SSP245 and…
The impact of climate change awareness on behavioral changes in Germany: changing minds or changing behavior?
Authors: Sandra Venghaus, Meike Henseleit, Maria Belka
Journal: Energy Sustainability and Society · DOI: 10.1186/s13705-022-00334-8 · Citations: 101
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Background The increasing frequency of extreme weather events across the globe, the intensifying international debates about the political urgency to mitigate climate change, as well as the respective more action demanding social movements have caused a significant increase in climate change awareness among the population. Little research, however, has systematically analyzed the behavioral impact of this development. Using Germany as a case study, we therefore scrutinize whether the…
Relationships between climate change, phenology, edaphic factors, and net primary productivity across the Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Huaizhang Sun, Yangbo Chen, Junnan Xiong, Chongchong Ye, Zhiwei Yong, Yi Wang et al.
Journal: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102708 · Citations: 96
Matched topics: climate change
Net primary productivity (NPP) is an important indicator of ecosystem function and sustainability. It plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, especially in the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Until now, few studies have explored the relationships between climate change, phenology, edaphic factors, and NPP. Quantifying NPP trends and exploring the response mechanisms of NPP to climate change, phenology, and edaphic factors is of great significance to ecosystem maintenance and related policy-…
Farmers’ incremental adaptation to water scarcity: An application of the model of private proactive adaptation to climate change (MPPACC)
Authors: Tahereh Zobeidi, Jafar Yaghoubi, Masoud Yazdanpanah
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107528 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract not available.
Threshold effect of ecosystem services in response to climate change, human activity and landscape pattern in the upper and middle Yellow River of China
Authors: Shanshan Guo, Changyue Wu, Yinghong Wang, Guoqiang Qiu, Di Zhu, Qian Niu et al.
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108603 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: river, climate change
Identifying spatiotemporal heterogeneity and impact mechanism of ecosystem service value (ESV) is critical for enhancing ecosystem management and regional sustainability. However, the existing findings have failed to investigate the synergetic effect of multiple drivers on ESV, nor have considered the threshold effects under different conditions, which is important to understand the complex and frequently interacting ecosystem. In this study, we applied the improved ESV calculation method, Pe…
Artificial intelligence and climate change: ethical issues
Authors: Anders Nordgren
Journal: Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society · DOI: 10.1108/jices-11-2021-0106 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: climate change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to pinpoint and analyse ethical issues raised by the dual role of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to climate change, that is, AI as a contributor to climate change and AI as a contributor to fighting climate change. Design/methodology/approach This paper consists of three main parts. The first part provides a short background on AI and climate change respectively, followed by a presentation of empirical findings on the contribution of AI to climat…
Irrigation estimates from space: Implementation of different approaches to model the evapotranspiration contribution within a soil-moisture-based inversion algorithm
Authors: Jacopo Dari, Pere Quintana‐Seguí, Renato Morbidelli, Carla Saltalippi, Alessia Flammini, Elena Giugliarelli et al.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107537 · Citations: 74
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Multivariate Bias‐Correction of High‐Resolution Regional Climate Change Simulations for West Africa: Performance and Climate Change Implications
Authors: Diarra Dieng, Alex J. Cannon, Patrick Laux, Cornelius Hald, Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Jaber Rahimi et al.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · DOI: 10.1029/2021jd034836 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract A multivariate bias correction based on N‐dimensional probability density function transform (MBCn) technique is applied to four different high‐resolution regional climate change simulations and key meteorological variables, namely precipitation, mean near‐surface air temperature, near‐surface maximum air temperature, near‐surface minimum air temperature, surface downwelling solar radiation, relative humidity, and wind speed. The impact of bias‐correction on the historical (1980–2005…
The July 2019 European Heat Wave in a Warmer Climate: Storyline Scenarios with a Coupled Model Using Spectral Nudging
Authors: Antonio Sánchez‐Benítez, Helge Goessling, Felix Pithan, Tido Semmler, Thomas Jung
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-21-0573.1 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: hydrology, earth system model
Abstract Extreme weather events are triggered by atmospheric circulation patterns and shaped by slower components, including soil moisture and sea surface temperature, and by the background climate. This separation of factors is exploited by the storyline approach in which an atmospheric model is nudged toward the observed dynamics using different climate boundary conditions to explore their influence. The storyline approach disregards uncertain climatic changes in the frequency and intensity…
Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation
Authors: Emma Kovak, Dan Blaustein‐Rejto, Matin Qaim
Journal: Trends in Plant Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.01.004 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: climate change
Genetically modified (GM) crops can help reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In addition to possible decreases in production emissions, GM yield gains also mitigate land-use change and related emissions. Wider adoption of already-existing GM crops in Europe could result in a reduction equivalent to 7.5% of the total agricultural GHG emissions of Europe.
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change
Authors: Bao‐Jun Sun, Caroline M. Williams, Teng Li, John R. Speakman, Zengguang Jin, Hong‐Liang Lu et al.
Journal: Ecological Monographs · DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1512 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Patterns in functional diversity of organisms at large spatial scales can provide insight into possible responses to future climate change, but it remains a challenge to link large‐scale patterns at the population or species level to their underlying physiological mechanisms at the individual level. The climate variability hypothesis predicts that temperate ectotherms will be less vulnerable to climate warming compared with tropical ectotherms, due to their superior acclimatization c…
Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change
Authors: Vera Ferreira, Ana Paula Barreira, Patrícia Pinto, Τhomas Panagopoulos
Journal: Environmental Science & Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.007 · Citations: 59
Matched topics: climate change
Climate change is affecting cities worldwide. Accordingly, cities are required to find sustainable solutions to tackle climate change’s effects, designing bottom-up policies to enhance their success. The involvement of stakeholders plays a central role in the definition of appropriate policies to tackle the challenges posed to cities by climate change. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly proposed to adapt to and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. This study aims to asse…
Indigenous mental health and climate change: A systematic literature review
Authors: Emily Ann Vecchio, Michelle Dickson, Ying Zhang
Journal: The Journal of Climate Change and Health · DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2022.100121 · Citations: 58
Matched topics: climate change
Indigenous Peoples are among the most vulnerable to adverse mental health impacts resulting from climate change globally. In the context of a continually changing climate, an understanding of the diverse risks, impact, and responses of Indigenous communities to climate related mental health impacts is timely. The present study conducted a systematic literature review on the related effects, mechanisms of vulnerability, and adaptive responses and coping strategies to climate change related men…
Understanding land use/land cover and climate change impacts on hydrological components of Usri watershed, India
Authors: Mukesh Kumar, Derrick Mario Denis, Arnab Kundu, Nitin Joshi, Shakti Suryavanshi
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01547-6 · Citations: 54
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management, climate change
Abstract Land use/cover (LULC) and climate are significant environmental factors that influence watershed hydrology across the globe. The present study attempts to understand the consequences of existing changing patterns of climate and LULC on the hydrology of the Usri watershed. Different water balance components were simulated using a semi-distributed Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. Sixteen scenarios were generated using combinations of four periods of climatic data (1974–84; …
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.
Modeling of Surface Flow and Infiltration During Surface Irrigation Advance Based on Numerical Solution of Saint–Venant Equations Using Preissmann’s Scheme
Authors: M. Shayannejad, M. Ghobadi, K. Ostad‑Ali‑Askari
Journal: Pure and Applied Geophysics · DOI: 10.1007/s00024-022-02962-9 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Modeling the effects of topography and slope gradient of an artificially formed slope on runoff, sediment yield, water and soil loss of sandy soil
Authors: Tao Chen, Jisen Shu, Han Liu, Tian Guang, Guoyu Yang, Jinxing Lv
Journal: CATENA · DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106060 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
A study on availability of ground observations and its impacts on bias correction of satellite precipitation products and hydrologic simulation efficiency
Authors: Li Zhou, Toshio Koike, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Mohamed Rasmy, Katsuhiro ONUMA, Hiroyuki Ito et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127595 · Citations: 61
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
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.
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
Authors: Patrick Meyfroidt, Ariane de Bremond, Casey M. Ryan, Emma Archer, Richard Aspinall, Abha Chhabra et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109217118 · Citations: 404
Matched topics: hydropower, earth system model
Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help to explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in land use and thus also point toward solutions. Th…
A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China
Authors: Xiaoxin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Philippe Ciais, Yuemin Yue, Xiangming Xiao et al.
Journal: Nature Sustainability · DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00843-y · Citations: 328
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract not available.
Accounting for interactions between Sustainable Development Goals is essential for water pollution control in China
Authors: Mengru Wang, Annette B.G. Janssen, Jeanne Bazin, Maryna Strokal, Lin Ma, Carolien Kroeze
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28351-3 · Citations: 324
Matched topics: hydrology, water management
Meeting the United Nations’ (UN’s) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become a worldwide mission. How these SDGs interrelate, however, is not well known. We assess the interactions between SDGs for the case of water pollution by nutrients in China. The results show 319 interactions between SDGs for clean water (SDGs 6 and 14) and other SDGs, of which 286 are positive (synergies) and 33 are negative (tradeoffs) interactions. We analyze six scenarios in China accounting for the cobenef…
Permanent grasslands in Europe: Land use change and intensification decrease their multifunctionality
Authors: R.L.M. Schils, Conny Bufe, Caroline M. Rhymer, Richard M. Francksen, Valentin H. Klaus, Mohamed Abdalla et al.
Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107891 · Citations: 271
Matched topics: water management
Permanent grasslands cover 34% of the European Union’s agricultural area and are vital for a wide variety of ecosystem services essential for our society. Over recent decades, the permanent grassland area has declined and land use change continues to threaten its extent. Simultaneously, the management intensity of permanent grasslands increased. We performed a systematic literature review on the multifunctionality of permanent grasslands in Europe, examining the effects of land use and manage…
Distribution and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants within the global river network
Authors: H. Ehalt Macedo, B. Lehner, J. Nicell, G. Grill, Jing Li, Antonio Limtong et al.
Journal: Earth System Science Data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-559-2022 · Citations: 208
Matched topics: river, streamflow
Abstract. The main objective of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is to remove pathogens, nutrients, organics, and other pollutants from wastewater. After these contaminants are partially or fully removed through physical, biological, and/or chemical processes, the treated effluents are discharged into receiving waterbodies. However, since WWTPs cannot remove all contaminants, especially those of emerging concern, they inevitably represent concentrated point sources of residual contaminant …
Using propanol as an additive to CO2 for improving CO2 utilization and storage in oil reservoirs
Authors: Yueliang Liu, Zhenhua Rui, Tao Yang, Birol Dindoruk
Journal: Applied Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118640 · Citations: 145
Matched topics: reservoir, flood
Abstract not available.
A global 1‐km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory
Authors: Bin Fang, V. Lakshmi, Michael H. Cosh, Pang‐Wei Liu, Rajat Bindlish, Thomas J. Jackson
Journal: Vadose Zone Journal · DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20182 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
Abstract Microwave remote sensing technology has been applied to produce soil moisture (SM) retrievals on a global scale for various studies and applications. However, due to the limitations of current technology, the native spatial resolution of currently available passive microwave SM products is on the order of tens of kilometers, and this resolution cannot be used to characterize SM variability on a regional scale. To overcome this limitation, a downscaling algorithm based on the thermal …
Global sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget, with a focus on advanced data products and uncertainty characterisation
Authors: Martin Horwath, Benjamin D. Gutknecht, Anny Cazenave, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Florence Marti, Ben Marzeion et al.
Journal: Earth system science data · DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-411-2022 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model
Abstract. Studies of the global sea-level budget (SLB) and the global ocean-mass budget (OMB) are essential to assess the reliability of our knowledge of sea-level change and its contributors. Here we present datasets for times series of the SLB and OMB elements developed in the framework of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative. We use these datasets to assess the SLB and the OMB simultaneously, utilising a consistent framework of uncertainty characterisation. The time series, given at monthly sam…
Geospatial assessment of water quality using principal components analysis (PCA) and water quality index (WQI) in Basho Valley, Gilgit Baltistan (Northern Areas of Pakistan)
Authors: Syeda Urooj Fatima, Moazzam Ali Khan, Farhan Siddiqui, Nadeem Mahmood, Nasir Salman, Aamir Alamgir et al.
Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-09845-5 · Citations: 83
Matched topics: surface water
Abstract not available.
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience
Authors: Charles R. Lane, Irena F. Creed, Heather E. Golden, Scott G. Leibowitz, David Mushet, Mark C. Rains et al.
Journal: Ecosystems · DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00737-2 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow, water management, land surface model
Watershed resilience is the ability of a watershed to maintain its characteristic system state while concurrently resisting, adapting to, and reorganizing after hydrological (for example, drought, flooding) or biogeochemical (for example, excessive nutrient) disturbances. Vulnerable waters include non-floodplain wetlands and headwater streams, abundant watershed components representing the most distal extent of the freshwater aquatic network. Vulnerable waters are hydrologically dynamic and b…
Assessment of groundwater potential zone using MCDA and AHP techniques: case study from a tropical river basin of India
Authors: Anitabha Ghosh, Partha Pratim Adhikary, Biswajit Bera, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01548-5 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: river
Abstract Shortage of potable water is a global problem, and this problem can be met by searching new areas where groundwater is available. GIS is an effective and necessary tool to identify groundwater potential zones in an area. In the present study, groundwater potential zones (GWPZs) were identified in the Kangsabati River basin of east India having an area of about 6488 km 2 using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The criteria like geology, ge…
Water Migration and Segregated Ice Formation in Frozen Ground: Current Advances and Future Perspectives
Authors: Ziteng Fu, Qingbai Wu, Wenxin Zhang, Hailong He, Luyang Wang
Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.826961 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model
A characteristic of frozen ground is a tendency to form banded sequences of particle-free ice lenses separated by layers of ice-infiltrated soil, which produce frost heave. In permafrost, the deformation of the ground surface caused by segregated ice harms engineering facilities and has considerable influences on regional hydrology, ecology, and climate changes. For predicting the impacts of permafrost degradation under global warming and segregated ice transformation on engineering and envir…
Organizational Principles of Hyporheic Exchange Flow and Biogeochemical Cycling in River Networks Across Scales
Authors: Stefan Krause, Benjamin W. Abbott, Viktor Baranov, Susana Bernal, Phillip Blaen, Thibault Datry et al.
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr029771 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, water management, surface water
Abstract Hyporheic zones increase freshwater ecosystem resilience to hydrological extremes and global environmental change. However, current conceptualizations of hyporheic exchange, residence time distributions, and the associated biogeochemical cycling in streambed sediments do not always accurately explain the hydrological and biogeochemical complexity observed in streams and rivers. Specifically, existing conceptual models insufficiently represent the coupled transport and reactivity alon…
Short-term effects of compost amendments to soil on soil structure, hydraulic properties, and water regime
Authors: Pierre‐Adrien Rivier, Dorina Jamniczky, Attila Nemes, András Makó, Gyöngyi Barna, Nikolett Uzinger et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics · DOI: 10.2478/johh-2022-0004 · Citations: 69
Matched topics: hydrology, irrigation
Abstract Despite the increasing interest in applying composts as soil amendments worldwide, there is a lack of knowledge on short-term effects of compost amendments on soil structural and hydraulic properties. Our goal was to study the effect of compost and vermicompost-based soil amendments on soil structure, soil water retention characteristics, aggregate stability and plant water use efficiency compared to that of mineral fertilizers and food-waste digestate and examine if these effects ar…
Appraisal of spatial–temporal variation and pollution source estimation of Ganga River system through pollution indices and environmetrics in Upper Ganga basin
Authors: Gagan Matta, Avinash Kumar, Anjali Nayak, Pawan Kumar
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01552-9 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: hydrology, river, water management
Abstract National river of India, Ganga River, nurturing ecological, economic, and socio-cultural aspects defining the last long history of country. Forming the largest catchment, fulfil the needs of millions of people for fresh water used in domestic, agriculture, commercial and industrial sectors. Therefore, River Ganga is always the center of attraction to the administrative authorities, institutions, academicians and researchers for its quality issues. The periodically examination of the …
Recently constructed hydropower dams were associated with reduced economic production, population, and greenness in nearby areas
Authors: P. Fan, M. Cho, Zihan Lin, Z. Ouyang, J. Qi, Jiquan Chen et al.
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2108038119 · Citations: 68
Matched topics: hydropower
Significance This research provides a global-scale evaluation of the impact of dam construction by using a variety of global spatial databases. In particular, it provides insight into the impacts on economy, population, and greenness of 631 recently built hydropower dams by region and dam size. We discovered that 631 recently built hydropower dams were associated with reduced local economy, population, and greenness in areas within 50 km of the dam sites, particularly in the Global South. Thi…
Assessment of pumped hydropower energy storage potential along rivers and shorelines
Authors: J. Görtz, Marwan Aouad, Silke Wieprecht, K. Terheiden
Journal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.112027 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: river, hydropower
The increasing share of renewable energy sources, e.g. solar and wind, in global electricity generation defines the need for effective and flexible energy storage solutions. Pumped hydropower energy storage (PHES) plants with their technically-mature plant design and wide economic potential can meet these demands. Especially, in the vicinity of volatile renewable energy plants they can directly balance frequency fluctuations with short reaction times and large capacities. Therefore, site iden…
A hydrologist’s guide to open science
Authors: Caitlyn Hall, Sheila M. Saia, Andrea Popp, Nilay Doğulu, Stanislaus J. Schymanski, Niels Drost et al.
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-647-2022 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract. Open, accessible, reusable, and reproducible hydrologic research can have a significant positive impact on the scientific community and broader society. While more individuals and organizations within the hydrology community are embracing open science practices, technical (e.g., limited coding experience), resource (e.g., open access fees), and social (e.g., fear of weaknesses being exposed or ideas being scooped) challenges remain. Furthermore, there are a growing number of constan…
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea
Authors: Xiaogang Chen, Isaac R. Santos, Duofei Hu, Lucheng Zhan, Yan Zhang, Ze Zhao et al.
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography Letters · DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10236 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: surface water
Abstract We quantified whether pore‐water exchange flushes out saltmarsh sediment carbon, driving carbon outwelling into the ocean and outgassing into the atmosphere. Radon‐derived pore‐water exchange released 1.8 times more sediment carbon in the wet than in dry season. Both crab burrow flushing and delayed seepage of surface water infiltrating sediments during the spring tide released sediment carbon to surface waters. The outwelling flux of dissolved inorganic carbon exceeded dissolved org…
Uncertainty in the Winter Tropospheric Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss: The Role of Stratospheric Polar Vortex Internal Variability
Authors: Lantao Sun, Clara Deser, Isla R. Simpson, Michael Sigmond
Journal: Journal of Climate · DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-21-0543.1 · Citations: 54
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the past four decades and climate models project a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean by the middle of this century, with attendant consequences for regional climate. However, modeling studies lack consensus on how the large-scale atmospheric circulation will respond to Arctic sea ice loss. In this study, the authors conduct a series of 200-member ensemble experiments with the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) to isolate the atmospheri…
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 814 |
| After deduplication | 574 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 524 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Applied Water Science | 3 |
| Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 2 |
| Journal of Climate | 2 |
| Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies | 1 |
| ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Social Sciences | 1 |
| Plant Stress | 1 |
| Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems | 1 |
| Natural hazards and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Antioxidants | 1 |
| Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science | 1 |
| Forest Ecology and Management | 1 |
| Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 1 |
| Advances in Meteorology | 1 |
| Earth System Dynamics | 1 |
| Frontiers in Marine Science | 1 |
| Energy Sustainability and Society | 1 |
| International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 1 |
| Ecological Indicators | 1 |
| Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society | 1 |
| Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 1 |
| Trends in Plant Science | 1 |
| Ecological Monographs | 1 |
| Environmental Science & Policy | 1 |
| The Journal of Climate Change and Health | 1 |
| Pure and Applied Geophysics | 1 |
| CATENA | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Nature Sustainability | 1 |
| Nature Communications | 1 |
| Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | 1 |
| Earth System Science Data | 1 |
| Applied Energy | 1 |
| Vadose Zone Journal | 1 |
| Earth system science data | 1 |
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 1 |
| Ecosystems | 1 |
| Frontiers in Earth Science | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics | 1 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 1 |
| Limnology and Oceanography Letters | 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