Weekly Literature Review
Week 03 · January 17–January 23, 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
- Multi-objective optimization for stormwater management by green-roofs and infiltration trenches to reduce urban flooding in central Delhi
- Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for flood insurance as climate change adaptation strategy in northern Bangladesh
- A practical approach to flood hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessing and mapping for Quang Binh province, Vietnam
- Accounting for uncertainty in real-time flood inundation mapping using HAND model: Iowa case study
- Effects of stormwater infrastructure data completeness and model resolution on urban flood modeling
- Drought Analysis and Prediction
- Drought Stress in Brassica napus: Effects, Tolerance Mechanisms, and Management Strategies
- Improving the drought monitoring capability of VHI at the global scale via ensemble indices for various vegetation types from 2001 to 2018
- Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling
- The flavonoid biosynthesis regulator PFG3 confers drought stress tolerance in plants by promoting flavonoid accumulation
- Inclusion of groundwater and socio-economic factors for assessing comprehensive drought vulnerability over Narmada River Basin, India: A geospatial approach
- A New Perspective on Drought Propagation: Causality
- Changes and driving factors of compound agricultural droughts and hot events in eastern China
- Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
- Stream water quality prediction using boosted regression tree and random forest models
- Streamflow trends in the Tigris river basin using Mann−Kendall and innovative trend analysis methods
- Ensemble streamflow forecasting over a cascade reservoir catchment with integrated hydrometeorological modeling and machine learning
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking
- Impacts of Climate Change on Blue Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Mangrove Forests
- Spurious Late Historical‐Era Warming in CESM2 Driven by Prescribed Biomass Burning Emissions
- Nonlinear sensitivity of glacier mass balance to future climate change unveiled by deep learning
- Changes of Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the future warming climate
- Correcting Coarse‐Grid Weather and Climate Models by Machine Learning From Global Storm‐Resolving Simulations
- Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management
- The right to a healthy environment: Reconceptualizing human rights in the face of climate change
- Mountain Permafrost Hydrology—A Practical Review Following Studies from the Andes
- Changes in land use enhance the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to fire-climate extremes
- Hydrologic Modeling and Calibration
- Land transpiration-evaporation partitioning errors responsible for modeled summertime warm bias in the central United States
- Future urban heat island influence on precipitation
- Linking Total Precipitable Water to Precipitation Extremes Globally
- On the Precipitation‐Induced Uncertainties in Process‐Based Hydrological Modeling in the Mekong River Basin
- Application of the hydrochemistry, stable isotopes and MixSIAR model to identify nitrate sources and transformations in surface water and groundwater of an intensive agricultural karst wetland in Guilin, China.
- Water Management and Sustainability
- A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed
- Mitigating Emissions in India: Accounting for the Role of Real Income, Renewable Energy Consumption and Investment in Energy
- Remote Sensing Big Data for Water Environment Monitoring: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects
- Towards sustainable saline agriculture: Interfacial solar evaporation for simultaneous seawater desalination and saline soil remediation
- Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over the European Alps
- Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss
- The Historical Development of Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Global gridded crop harvested area, production, yield, and monthly physical area data circa 2015
- Membrane technology for sustainable water resources management: Challenges and future projections
- Soil moisture content retrieval from Landsat 8 data using ensemble learning
- Weather Radar in Complex Orography
- Application of native plants in constructed floating wetlands as a passive remediation approach for PFAS-impacted surface water
- Multi-objective optimization of water resources allocation in Han River basin (China) integrating efficiency, equity and sustainability
- Stratification constrains future heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean between 30°S and 55°S
- The spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services bundles and the social-economic-ecological drivers in the Yellow River Delta region
- Rice yield, water productivity, and nitrogen use efficiency responses to nitrogen management strategies under supplementary irrigation for rain-fed rice cultivation
- The DOE E3SM v1.2 Cryosphere Configuration: Description and Simulated Antarctic Ice‐Shelf Basal Melting
- Globally elevated chemical weathering rates beneath glaciers
- Preprocessing approaches in machine-learning-based groundwater potential mapping: an application to the Koulikoro and Bamako regions, Mali
- Earlier snowmelt predominates advanced spring vegetation greenup in Alaska
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Flood Modeling and Risk Assessment
This week features 5 papers advancing flood science, spanning susceptibility mapping, risk assessment, and hydrodynamic modeling. Notable contributions from Kumar, Hossain et al. The studies collectively advance both data-driven and physically-based approaches to flood prediction and management.
Multi-objective optimization for stormwater management by green-roofs and infiltration trenches to reduce urban flooding in central Delhi
Authors: Satish Kumar, Ravi Kumar Guntu, Ankit Agarwal, Vasant Govind Kumar Villuri, Srinivas Pasupuleti, D. R. Kaushal et al.
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127455 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: runoff, water management, flood
Abstract not available.
Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for flood insurance as climate change adaptation strategy in northern Bangladesh
Authors: Md Shakhawat Hossain, G. M. Monirul Alam, Shah Fahad, Tanwne Sarker, M Moniruzzaman, Md. Ghulam Rabbany
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.130584 · Citations: 84
Matched topics: flood, climate change
Abstract not available.
A practical approach to flood hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessing and mapping for Quang Binh province, Vietnam
Authors: Hang Ha, Quynh Duy Bui, Huy Nguyen, Binh Thai Pham, Trinh Dinh Lai, Chinh Luu
Journal: Environment Development and Sustainability · DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-02041-4 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Accounting for uncertainty in real-time flood inundation mapping using HAND model: Iowa case study
Authors: Zhouyayan Li, Jerry Mount, İbrahim Demir
Journal: Natural Hazards · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-022-05215-z · Citations: 71
Matched topics: flood
Abstract not available.
Effects of stormwater infrastructure data completeness and model resolution on urban flood modeling
Authors: Ashish Shrestha, Giuseppe Mascaro, Margaret Garcia
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127498 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, water management, flood
Abstract not available.
Drought Analysis and Prediction
Drought research this week encompasses 7 studies covering monitoring, prediction, and impact assessment. Key work by Batool, Zeng et al. highlights advances in drought characterization across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Drought Stress in Brassica napus: Effects, Tolerance Mechanisms, and Management Strategies
Authors: Maria Batool, A. M. El-Badri, M. Hassan, Haiyun Yang, Chunyun Wang, Zhen Yan et al.
Journal: Journal of Plant Growth Regulation · DOI: 10.1007/s00344-021-10542-9 · Citations: 160
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Improving the drought monitoring capability of VHI at the global scale via ensemble indices for various vegetation types from 2001 to 2018
Authors: Jingyu Zeng, Rongrong Zhang, Yanping Qu, Virgílio A. Bento, Tao Zhou, Yuehuan Lin et al.
Journal: Weather and Climate Extremes · DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2022.100412 · Citations: 152
Matched topics: drought
Drought is one of the most complex and harmful natural disasters. A study on the temporal and spatial patterns and the evolution of drought can provide a scientific basis for predicting drought occurrences. Based on a multi-source dataset, we select a suitable control drought indicator for improving the vegetation health index (VHI), optimize its algorithm through Pearson correlation analysis, and compare the VHI performance before and after the improvement for various vegetation types. Resul…
Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling
Authors: Ashish A. Malik, Nicholas Bouskill
Journal: Functional Ecology · DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14010 · Citations: 129
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Quantifying the impact of drought on microbial processes and its consequences for soil carbon cycling is hindered by the lack of underlying mechanistic understanding. Therefore, there is a need to scale up the physiological response to changing water status from individual soil microbes to collective communities across different ecosystems. Here we propose the use of a framework that incorporates trait‐based ecology to link drought‐impacted microbial processes to rates of soil carbon…
The flavonoid biosynthesis regulator PFG3 confers drought stress tolerance in plants by promoting flavonoid accumulation
Authors: LI Bao-zhu, Ruonan Fan, Fan Yanting, Liu Runan, Hui Zhang, Chen Tingting et al.
Journal: Environmental and Experimental Botany · DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2022.104792 · Citations: 82
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Inclusion of groundwater and socio-economic factors for assessing comprehensive drought vulnerability over Narmada River Basin, India: A geospatial approach
Authors: Sabyasachi Swain, Surendra Kumar Mishra, Ashish Pandey, Praveen Kalura
Journal: Applied Water Science · DOI: 10.1007/s13201-021-01529-8 · Citations: 76
Matched topics: hydrology, river, streamflow, drought
Abstract Drought is amongst the most precarious natural hazards associated with severe repercussions. The characterization of droughts is usually carried out by the sector-specific (meteorological/agricultural/hydrological) indices that are mostly based on hydroclimatic variables. Groundwater is the major source of water supply during drought periods, and the socio-economic factors control the aftermaths of droughts; however, they are often ignored by the sector-specific indices, thereby fail…
A New Perspective on Drought Propagation: Causality
Authors: Haiyun Shi, Yiyang Zhao, Suning Liu, Hejiang Cai, Zhaoqiang Zhou
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl096758 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, drought
Abstract The essence of propagation from meteorological to hydrological drought is the cause‐effect relationship between precipitation and runoff. This study challenged the reliability of applying linear or non‐linear correlation (i.e., closeness/similarity, a non‐directional scalar) to study drought propagation (i.e., causality, a directional vector). Meanwhile, in the field of hydrometeorology, causality analysis is burgeoning in model simulations, but still rare in analyzing the observatio…
Changes and driving factors of compound agricultural droughts and hot events in eastern China
Authors: Yu Zhang, Zengchao Hao, Sifang Feng, Xuan Zhang, Fanghua Hao
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107485 · Citations: 71
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Streamflow Forecasting and Machine Learning
Machine learning and data-driven approaches to streamflow prediction feature prominently with 3 papers. The studies demonstrate continued innovation in hybrid modeling frameworks, signal decomposition techniques, and ensemble methods for improved hydrological forecasting.
Stream water quality prediction using boosted regression tree and random forest models
Authors: Ali O. Alnahit, Ashok K. Mishra, Abdul A. Khan
Journal: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s00477-021-02152-4 · Citations: 169
Matched topics: runoff
Abstract not available.
Streamflow trends in the Tigris river basin using Mann−Kendall and innovative trend analysis methods
Authors: Veysel Gümüş, Yavuz Avşaroğlu, Oğuz Şimşek
Journal: Journal of Earth System Science · DOI: 10.1007/s12040-021-01770-4 · Citations: 97
Matched topics: river, streamflow
Abstract not available.
Ensemble streamflow forecasting over a cascade reservoir catchment with integrated hydrometeorological modeling and machine learning
Authors: Junjiang Liu, Xing Yuan, Junhan Zeng, Yang Jiao, Yong Li, Lihua Zhong et al.
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-265-2022 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, land surface model
Abstract. A popular way to forecast streamflow is to use bias-corrected meteorological forecasts to drive a calibrated hydrological model, but these hydrometeorological approaches suffer from deficiencies over small catchments due to uncertainty in meteorological forecasts and errors from hydrological models, especially over catchments that are regulated by dams and reservoirs. For a cascade reservoir catchment, the discharge from the upstream reservoir contributes to an important part of the…
Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate-water interactions are explored in 10 papers this week, addressing impacts on the cryosphere, water cycle components, and regional water resources under changing conditions.
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking
Authors: Jared Finnegan
Journal: Comparative Political Studies · DOI: 10.1177/00104140211047416 · Citations: 133
Matched topics: climate change
Many policy problems require taking costly action today for future benefits. Examining the case of climate change, this paper examines how two institutions—electoral rules and interest group intermediation—structure the distributional politics of climate change and as a result, drive variation in climate “policy investments” across the high-income democracies. Proportional electoral rules increase electoral safety, allowing politicians to impose short-term costs on voters. Concertation betwee…
Impacts of Climate Change on Blue Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Mangrove Forests
Authors: Daniel M. Alongi
Journal: Forests · DOI: 10.3390/f13020149 · Citations: 125
Matched topics: climate change
Mangroves store blue carbon (693 Mg CORG ha−1) disproportionate to their small area, mainly (74%) in deep soil horizons. Global stock estimates for mangroves (5.23–8.63 Pg CORG) are equivalent to 15–24% of those in the tropical coastal ocean. Carbon burial in mangrove soils averages 184 g CORG m−2 a−1 with global estimates (9.6–15.8 Tg CORG a−1) reflecting their importance in carbon sequestration. Extreme weather events result in carbon stock losses and declines in carbon cycling and export. …
Spurious Late Historical‐Era Warming in CESM2 Driven by Prescribed Biomass Burning Emissions
Authors: John Fasullo, Jean‐François Lamarque, Cécile Hannay, Nan Rosenbloom, Simone Tilmes, Patricia DeRepentigny et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2021gl097420 · Citations: 105
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract A spurious increase in the interannual variability of prescribed biomass burning (BB) emissions in the CMIP6 forcing database during the satellite era of wildfire monitoring (1997–2014) is found to lead to warming in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics in simulations with the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2). Using targeted sensitivity experiments with the CESM2 in which prescribed BB emissions are homogenized and variability is removed, we show that the warming is spe…
Nonlinear sensitivity of glacier mass balance to future climate change unveiled by deep learning
Authors: Jordi Bolíbar, Antoine Rabatel, Isabelle Gouttevin, Harry Zekollari, Clovis Galiez
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28033-0 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: hydrology, climate change, hydropower
Glaciers and ice caps are experiencing strong mass losses worldwide, challenging water availability, hydropower generation, and ecosystems. Here, we perform the first-ever glacier evolution projections based on deep learning by modelling the 21st century glacier evolution in the French Alps. By the end of the century, we predict a glacier volume loss between 75 and 88%. Deep learning captures a nonlinear response of glaciers to air temperature and precipitation, improving the representation o…
Changes of Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the future warming climate
Authors: Kaiqiang Deng, César Azorín-Molina, Song Yang, Chundi Hu, Gangfeng Zhang, Lorenzo Minola et al.
Journal: Atmospheric Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106040 · Citations: 93
Matched topics: climate change
The Southern Hemisphere westerlies (SHWs) play a key role in regulating global climate and ocean circulation, but their future changes under low to high greenhouse gas forcings remain unclear. This study investigates the long-term trends in strength and position of the SHWs and their linkage with human activities, based on the ERA5 reanalysis and model simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6). The results show that the SHWs have intensified and shifted polewa…
Correcting Coarse‐Grid Weather and Climate Models by Machine Learning From Global Storm‐Resolving Simulations
Authors: Christopher S. Bretherton, Brian Henn, Anna Kwa, Noah Brenowitz, Oliver Watt‐Meyer, Jeremy McGibbon et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002794 · Citations: 91
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract Global atmospheric “ storm‐resolving ” models with horizontal grid spacing of less than 5 km resolve deep cumulus convection and flow in complex terrain. They promise to be reference models that could be used to improve computationally affordable coarse‐grid global climate models across a range of climates, reducing uncertainties in regional precipitation and temperature trends. Here, machine learning of nudging tendencies as functions of column state is used to correct the physical …
Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management
Authors: Juliano Palacios‐Abrantes, Thomas L. Frölicher, Gabriel Reygondeau, U. Rashid Sumaila, Alessandro Tagliabue, Colette C. C. Wabnitz et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology · DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16058 · Citations: 88
Matched topics: earth system model
Climate change is shifting the distribution of shared fish stocks between neighboring countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and the high seas. The timescale of these transboundary shifts determines how climate change will affect international fisheries governance. Here, we explore this timescale by coupling a large ensemble simulation of an Earth system model under a high emission climate change scenario to a dynamic population model. We show that by 2030, 23% of transboundary stocks wil…
The right to a healthy environment: Reconceptualizing human rights in the face of climate change
Authors: Elena Cima
Journal: Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law · DOI: 10.1111/reel.12430 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract There is hardly any doubt that climate change threatens the enjoyment of a wide range of human rights. Yet, in the absence of a distinct right to a healthy environment, a victim of climate change impacts would have to rely on existing rights to bring a claim. However, not only are these avenues not always successful or even sufficient to effectively and adequately compensate the victims, but they appear especially problematic in the context of climate change. This article explores th…
Mountain Permafrost Hydrology—A Practical Review Following Studies from the Andes
Authors: Lukas U. Arenson, Jordan S. Harrington, Cassandra E.M. Koenig, Pablo Wainstein
Journal: Geosciences · DOI: 10.3390/geosciences12020048 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow
Climate change is expected to reduce water security in arid mountain regions around the world. Vulnerable water supplies in semi-arid zones, such as the Dry Andes, are projected to be further stressed through changes in air temperature, precipitation patterns, sublimation, and evapotranspiration. Together with glacier recession this will negatively impact water availability. While glacier hydrology has been the focus of scientific research for a long time, relatively little is known about the…
Changes in land use enhance the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to fire-climate extremes
Authors: Sujay V. Kumar, Augusto Getirana, Renata Libonati, Christopher Hain, Sarith Mahanama, Niels Andela
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05130-0 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, drought, land surface model
The Pantanal, the largest contiguous wetland in the world with a high diversity of ecosystems and habitat for several endangered species, was impacted by record-breaking wildfires in 2020. In this study, we integrate satellite and modeling data that enable exploration of natural and human contributing factors to the unprecedented 2020 fires. We demonstrate that the fires were fueled by an exceptional multi-year drought, but dry conditions solely could not explain the spatial patterns of burni…
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.
Land transpiration-evaporation partitioning errors responsible for modeled summertime warm bias in the central United States
Authors: Jianzhi Dong, Fangni Lei, Wade T. Crow
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27938-6 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Abstract Earth system models (ESMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experiment exhibit a well-known summertime warm bias in mid-latitude land regions – most notably in the central contiguous United States (CUS). The dominant source of this bias is still under debate. Using validated datasets and both coupled and off-line modeling, we find that the CUS summertime warm bias is driven by the incorrect partitioning of evapotranspiration (ET) into its canopy transpir…
Future urban heat island influence on precipitation
Authors: Birthe Marie Steensen, Louis Marelle, Øivind Hodnebrog, Gunnar Myhre
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-06105-z · Citations: 74
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract Urbanization and global warming are two of the major human impacts on the environment. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect can change precipitation patterns. Global warming also leads to changes in precipitation and especially an increase in intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation. With urbanization expected to grow in the future, the role of UHI in a warmer climate is an important research question. We present results from 20-year long regional convection-permitting model si…
Linking Total Precipitable Water to Precipitation Extremes Globally
Authors: Seokhyeon Kim, Ashish Sharma, Conrad Wasko, Rory Nathan
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2021ef002473 · Citations: 72
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract The relationship between extreme precipitation ( EP ) and precipitable water ( W ) is useful to assess design extremes and speculate on their expected changes with rising global temperatures. This study investigates the relationship between daily and longer‐duration EP and corresponding W at a global scale by analyzing remote‐sensed and reanalysis data sets from 2003 to 2019. An assessment of the consistency in the temporal trend across various W data sets reveals a consistent statis…
On the Precipitation‐Induced Uncertainties in Process‐Based Hydrological Modeling in the Mekong River Basin
Authors: Tamanna Kabir, Yadu Pokhrel, Farshid Felfelani
Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2021wr030828 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow, land surface model
Abstract Numerous studies have examined the reliability of various precipitation products over the Mekong River Basin (MRB) and modeled its basin hydrology. However, there is a lack of comprehensive studies on precipitation‐induced uncertainties in hydrological simulations using process‐based land surface models. This study examines the propagation of precipitation uncertainty into hydrological simulations over the entire MRB using the Community Land Model version 5 (CLM5) at a high spatial r…
Application of the hydrochemistry, stable isotopes and MixSIAR model to identify nitrate sources and transformations in surface water and groundwater of an intensive agricultural karst wetland in Guilin, China.
Authors: Jun Li, Danni Zhu, Si-Yu Zhang, Guoli Yang, Yi Zhao, Changsong Zhou et al.
Journal: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113205 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: surface water
Karst water as the vital water supply source is generally suffered from NO3- contamination in intensive agricultural areas worldwide. Identifying NO3- sources and transformations is the key for understanding nitrogen pathways, and also for effectively controlling diffuse NO3- pollution. In this study, chemical variables and stable isotopes (δ2H-H2O, δ18O-H2O, δ15N-NO3- and δ18O-NO3-) were measured in 10 surface water (SW) samples and 13 groundwater (GW) samples collected from the Huixian kars…
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.
A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed
Authors: Laurence Hawker, Peter Uhe, Luntadila Paulo, Jeison Sosa, James Savage, Christopher Sampson et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4d4f · Citations: 595
Matched topics: hydrology, flood
Abstract Elevation data are fundamental to many applications, especially in geosciences. The latest global elevation data contains forest and building artifacts that limit its usefulness for applications that require precise terrain heights, in particular flood simulation. Here, we use machine learning to remove buildings and forests from the Copernicus Digital Elevation Model to produce, for the first time, a global map of elevation with buildings and forests removed at 1 arc second (∼30 m) …
Mitigating Emissions in India: Accounting for the Role of Real Income, Renewable Energy Consumption and Investment in Energy
Authors: Festus Víctor Bekun
Journal: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy · DOI: 10.32479/ijeep.12652 · Citations: 341
Matched topics: hydropower
Accomplishing environmental sustainability has become a global initiative whilst addressing climate change and its effects. Thus, there is a necessity for innovation on part of economies as they seek energy for sustainable development. Thus, we explore the case of India a highly industrialized and heavy emitter of carbon emission. To this end, this study explores the effect of renewable energy, non-renewable, economic growth, and investment in the energy sector on CO2 emission in the Indian e…
Remote Sensing Big Data for Water Environment Monitoring: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects
Authors: Jinyue Chen, Shuisen Chen, Rao Fu, Dan Li, Hao Jiang, Chongyang Wang et al.
Journal: Earth s Future · DOI: 10.1029/2021ef002289 · Citations: 259
Matched topics: water management
Abstract Accurate water extraction and quantitative estimation of water quality are two key and challenging issues for remote sensing of water environment. Recent advances in remote sensing big data, cloud computing, and machine learning have promoted these two fields into a new era. This study reviews the operating framework and methods of remote sensing big data for water environment monitoring, with emphasis on water extraction and quantitative estimation of water quality. The following as…
Towards sustainable saline agriculture: Interfacial solar evaporation for simultaneous seawater desalination and saline soil remediation
Authors: Pan Wu, Xuan Wu, Yida Wang, Haolan Xu, Gary Owens
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118099 · Citations: 216
Matched topics: irrigation
Abstract not available.
Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over the European Alps
Authors: Hans Lievens, Isis Brangers, Hans‐Peter Marshall, Tobias Jonas, Marc Olefs, Gabriëlle De Lannoy
Journal: The cryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-159-2022 · Citations: 178
Matched topics: water management, seasonal
Abstract. Seasonal snow is an essential water resource in many mountain regions. However, the spatio-temporal variability in mountain snow depth or snow water equivalent (SWE) at regional to global scales is not well understood due to the lack of high-resolution satellite observations and robust retrieval algorithms. We investigate the ability of the Sentinel-1 mission to monitor snow depth at sub-kilometer (100 m, 500 m, and 1 km) resolutions over the European Alps for 2017–2019. The Sentine…
Hotspots for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss
Authors: Xander Huggins, Tom Gleeson, Matti Kummu, Samuel C. Zipper, Yoshihide Wada, Tara J. Troy et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28029-w · Citations: 156
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, water management
Humans and ecosystems are deeply connected to, and through, the hydrological cycle. However, impacts of hydrological change on social and ecological systems are infrequently evaluated together at the global scale. Here, we focus on the potential for social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss. We find basins with existing freshwater stress are drying (losing storage) disproportionately, exacerbating the challenges facing the water stressed versus non-stressed basins …
The Historical Development of Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
Authors: Jan Vymazal
Journal: Land · DOI: 10.3390/land11020174 · Citations: 142
Matched topics: runoff
Constructed wetlands (CWs) for wastewater treatment are engineered systems that are designed and operated in order to use all natural processes involved in the removal of pollutants from wastewaters. CWs are designed to take advantage of many of the same processes that occur in natural wetlands, but do so within a more controlled environment. The basic classification is based on the presence/absence of wastewater on the wetland surface. The subsurface flow of CWs can be classified according t…
Global gridded crop harvested area, production, yield, and monthly physical area data circa 2015
Authors: Danielle Grogan, Steve Frolking, Dominik Wisser, Alexander Prusevich, Stanley Glidden
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01115-2 · Citations: 134
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model, earth system model
Here we provide an update to global gridded annual and monthly crop datasets. This new dataset uses the crop categories established by the Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) Version 3 model, which is based on the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) crop production data. We used publicly available data from the FAOSTAT database as well as GAEZ Version 4 global gridded dataset to generate circa 2015 annual crop harvested area, production, and yields by crop productio…
Membrane technology for sustainable water resources management: Challenges and future projections
Authors: Mansour Issaoui, Salah Jellali, Antonis A. Zorpas, Patrick Dutournié
Journal: Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy · DOI: 10.1016/j.scp.2021.100590 · Citations: 127
Matched topics: water management
Abstract not available.
Soil moisture content retrieval from Landsat 8 data using ensemble learning
Authors: Yufang Zhang, Shunlin Liang, Zhiliang Zhu, Han Ma, Tao He
Journal: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.01.005 · Citations: 115
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Weather Radar in Complex Orography
Authors: Urs Germann, Marco Boscacci, L. Clementi, Marco Gabella, Alessandro Hering, Maurizio Sartori et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs14030503 · Citations: 100
Matched topics: hydrology
Applications of weather radar data to complex orography are manifold, as are the problems. The difficulties start with the choice of suitable locations for the radar sites and their construction, which often involves long transport routes and harsh weather conditions. The next challenge is the 24/7 operation and maintenance of the remote, unmanned mountain stations, with high demands on the availability and stability of the hardware. The data processing and product generation also require sol…
Application of native plants in constructed floating wetlands as a passive remediation approach for PFAS-impacted surface water
Authors: John Awad, Gianluca Brunetti, Albert L. Juhasz, Mike Williams, Divina A. Navarro, Barbara Drigo et al.
Journal: Journal of Hazardous Materials · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128326 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: surface water
Abstract not available.
Multi-objective optimization of water resources allocation in Han River basin (China) integrating efficiency, equity and sustainability
Authors: Lele Deng, Shenglian Guo, Jiabo Yin, Yujie Zeng, Kebing Chen
Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04734-2 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, water management, hydropower
The hydrological cycle, affected by climate change and rapid urbanization in recent decades, has been altered to some extent and further poses great challenges to three key factors of water resources allocation (i.e., efficiency, equity and sustainability). However, previous studies usually focused on one or two aspects without considering their underlying interconnections, which are insufficient for interaction cognition between hydrology and social systems. This study aims at reinforcing wa…
Stratification constrains future heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean between 30°S and 55°S
Authors: Timothée Bourgeois, Nadine Goris, Jörg Schwinger, Jerry Tjiputra
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27979-5 · Citations: 89
Matched topics: earth system model
The Southern Ocean between 30°S and 55°S is a major sink of excess heat and anthropogenic carbon, but model projections of these sinks remain highly uncertain. Reducing such uncertainties is required to effectively guide the development of climate mitigation policies for meeting the ambitious climate targets of the Paris Agreement. Here, we show that the large spread in the projections of future excess heat uptake efficiency and cumulative anthropogenic carbon uptake in this region are strong…
The spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services bundles and the social-economic-ecological drivers in the Yellow River Delta region
Authors: Tingjing Zhang, Shuping Zhang, Qian Cao, Haiyang Wang, Yunlong Li
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108573 · Citations: 81
Matched topics: river
Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services (ESs) is important for ecosystem management and sustainable development. However, most studies used synergies and trade-offs to infer ESs relationships, while ESs bundles was infrequently involved. Research on the spatiotemporal dynamics and potential drivers of changes of ESs bundles is still lacking. In this study, we quantified and mapped 10 ESs in 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2015 in the Yellow River Delta (YRD) region. The h…
Rice yield, water productivity, and nitrogen use efficiency responses to nitrogen management strategies under supplementary irrigation for rain-fed rice cultivation
Authors: Jun Yan, Qixia Wu, Dongliang Qi, Jianqiang Zhu
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107486 · Citations: 80
Matched topics: water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
The DOE E3SM v1.2 Cryosphere Configuration: Description and Simulated Antarctic Ice‐Shelf Basal Melting
Authors: Darin Comeau, Xylar Asay‐Davis, Carolyn Begeman, Matthew J. Hoffman, Wuyin Lin, Mark Petersen et al.
Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · DOI: 10.1029/2021ms002468 · Citations: 75
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract The processes responsible for freshwater flux from the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), ice‐shelf basal melting and iceberg calving, are generally poorly represented in current Earth System Models (ESMs). Here we document the cryosphere configuration of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) v1.2. This includes simulating Antarctic ice‐shelf basal melting, which has been implemented through simulating the ocean circulation within static Antarctic ice‐shel…
Globally elevated chemical weathering rates beneath glaciers
Authors: Xiangying Li, Ninglian Wang, Yongjian Ding, Jon Hawkings, Jacob C. Yde, R. Raiswell et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28032-1 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: hydrology
). Glacial CDRs are positively correlated with air temperature, suggesting glacial chemical weathering yields are likely to increase in future. Our findings highlight that chemical weathering beneath glaciers is more intense than many other terrestrial systems and may become increasingly important for regional biogeochemical cycles.
Preprocessing approaches in machine-learning-based groundwater potential mapping: an application to the Koulikoro and Bamako regions, Mali
Authors: Víctor Gómez‐Escalonilla, Pedro Martínez‐Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-221-2022 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: water management
Abstract. Groundwater is crucial for domestic supplies in the Sahel, where the strategic importance of aquifers will increase in the coming years due to climate change. Groundwater potential mapping is a valuable tool to underpin water management in the region and, hence, to improve drinking water access. This paper presents a machine learning method to map groundwater potential. This is illustrated through its application in two administrative regions of Mali. A set of explanatory variables …
Earlier snowmelt predominates advanced spring vegetation greenup in Alaska
Authors: Jiangshan Zheng, Gensuo Jia, Xiyan Xu
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108828 · Citations: 63
Matched topics: seasonal
Abstract not available.
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| Databases searched | 2 |
| Topics searched | 16 |
| Total papers fetched | 868 |
| After deduplication | 609 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 559 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
|---|---|
| Nature Communications | 5 |
| Journal of Hydrology | 2 |
| Geophysical Research Letters | 2 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 2 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 2 |
| Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2 |
| Scientific Reports | 2 |
| Earth s Future | 2 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| Environment Development and Sustainability | 1 |
| Natural Hazards | 1 |
| Journal of Plant Growth Regulation | 1 |
| Weather and Climate Extremes | 1 |
| Functional Ecology | 1 |
| Environmental and Experimental Botany | 1 |
| Applied Water Science | 1 |
| Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment | 1 |
| Journal of Earth System Science | 1 |
| Comparative Political Studies | 1 |
| Forests | 1 |
| Atmospheric Research | 1 |
| Global Change Biology | 1 |
| Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law | 1 |
| Geosciences | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Water Resources Research | 1 |
| Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| The cryosphere | 1 |
| Land | 1 |
| Scientific Data | 1 |
| Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy | 1 |
| ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Remote Sensing | 1 |
| Journal of Hazardous Materials | 1 |
| Ecological Indicators | 1 |
| Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 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