Weekly Literature Review

Week 34 · August 21–August 27, 2023

50 relevant papers found across 5 themes

Executive Summary

This week’s review covers 50 papers across 5 themes. The most cited paper examines Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water, with 343 citations. Key research areas include climate change and terrestrial water storage, flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation, machine learning and ai for hydrological prediction.

Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage
    1. Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation
    2. The role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in plant drought stress responses
    3. Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality
    4. Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change
    5. Quantum Mpemba Effect in a Quantum Dot with Reservoirs
    6. Bamboo as a Nature-Based Solution (NbS) for Climate Change Mitigation: Biomass, Products, and Carbon Credits
    7. Attribution of Extreme Events to Climate Change
    8. Impacts of climate change and building energy efficiency improvement on city-scale building energy consumption
    9. The urgency of climate action and the aim for justice in energy transitions – dynamics and complexity
    10. Climate model Selection by Independence, Performance, and Spread (ClimSIPS v1.0.1) for regional applications
    11. Diagnosing evapotranspiration responses to water deficit across biomes using deep learning
    12. The effect of exogenous melatonin on root growth and lifespan and seed cotton yield under drought stress
    13. Seasonal Variability of the Surface Ocean Carbon Cycle: A Synthesis
    14. Higher vegetation sensitivity to meteorological drought in autumn than spring across European biomes
    15. Future changes in hydrological drought across the Yangtze River Basin: identification, spatial–temporal characteristics, and concurrent probability
    16. Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change
    17. Coordination of growth and drought responses by GA‐ABA signaling in rice
    18. A novel regional drought monitoring method using GNSS-derived ZTD and precipitation
    19. Modeling the potential impact of climate change on maize-maize cropping system in semi-arid environment and designing of adaptation options
    20. Analysis of Trend in Meteorological and Hydrological Time-series using Mann-Kendall and Sen’s Slope Estimator Statistical Test in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
    21. Effects of drought and recovery on soil volatile organic compound fluxes in an experimental rainforest
    22. Exogenous melatonin confers drought stress by promoting plant growth, photosynthetic efficiency and antioxidant defense system of pea (Pisum sativum L.)
    23. Ecovoltaics: Framework and future research directions to reconcile land-based solar power development with ecosystem conservation
    24. Bacillus subtilis ER-08, a multifunctional plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium, promotes the growth of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) plants under salt and drought stress
  3. Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
    1. Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods
    2. Artificial Intelligence based Performance Models to Support Hydrologic Rainfall Conditions using Ensembling Approach
    3. Mapping social vulnerability to floods. A comprehensive framework using a vulnerability index approach and PCA analysis
    4. A synergistic approach towards understanding flood risks over coastal multi-hazard environments: Appraisal of bivariate flood risk mapping through flood hazard, and socio-economic-cum-physical vulnerability dimensions
    5. Dynamic risk assessment of urban flood disasters based on functional area division—A case study in Shenzhen, China
  4. Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
    1. Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water
    2. Can transfer learning improve hydrological predictions in the alpine regions?
    3. A Comparative Study on Forecasting of Long-term Daily Streamflow using ANN, ANFIS, BiLSTM and CNN-GRU-LSTM
    4. Tempo-Spatial Landslide Susceptibility Assessment from the Perspective of Human Engineering Activity
    5. Anthropogenic activities mediate stratification and stability of microbial communities in freshwater sediments
  5. Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
    1. Defining Renewable Groundwater Use and Its Relevance to Sustainable Groundwater Management
    2. Water accounting under climate change in the transboundary Volta River Basin with a spatially calibrated hydrological model
    3. Self-Rotating Spherical Evaporator Based on Hydrogel and Black Titanium Oxide for Continuous Desalination of Seawater
    4. Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on seasonal runoff in the Yongding River basin
    5. Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance
    6. Groundwater-surface water interactions in a semi-arid irrigated agricultural valley: A hydrometric and tracer-aided approach
    7. Coupling effect analysis of drip irrigation and mixed slow-release nitrogen fertilizer on yield and physiological characteristics of winter wheat in Guanzhong area
  6. Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
    1. The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change
    2. Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change
    3. High levels of tire wear particles in soils along low traffic roads
    4. On the relation between antecedent basin conditions and runoff coefficient for European floods
    5. Integrating remote sensing derived indices and machine learning algorithms for precise extraction of small surface water bodies in the lower Thoubal river watershed, India
    6. Seasonal variations of microplastic pollution in the German River Weser
    7. Reconfigurable reservoir computing in a magnetic metamaterial
    8. Long-term trends of salinity in coastal wetlands: Effects of climate, extreme weather events, and sea water level
    9. Experimental Demonstration of High‐Performance Physical Reservoir Computing with Nonlinear Interfered Spin Wave Multidetection
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage

This week features 24 papers examining the intersection of climate change and terrestrial water dynamics. Studies investigate water storage changes, drought mechanisms and projections, vegetation-water interactions, and Earth system model uncertainties. Key contributions address large-scale water storage trends, land-atmosphere coupling effects on drought onset, and methods for characterizing future drought under climate change scenarios.

Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation

Authors: Thales A. P. West, S. Wunder, E. Sills, J. Börner, S. Rifai, A. Neidermeier et al.

Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.ade3535 · Citations: 335

Matched topics: climate change

Carbon offsets from voluntary avoided-deforestation projects are generated on the basis of performance in relation to ex ante deforestation baselines. We examined the effects of 26 such project sites in six countries on three continents using synthetic control methods for causal inference. We found that most projects have not significantly reduced deforestation. For projects that did, reductions were substantially lower than claimed. This reflects differences between the project ex ante basel…

The role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in plant drought stress responses

Authors: Maha Chieb, E. Gachomo

Journal: BMC Plant Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04403-8 · Citations: 280

Matched topics: drought

Climate change has exacerbated the effects of abiotic stresses on plant growth and productivity. Drought is one of the most important abiotic stress factors that interfere with plant growth and development. Plant selection and breeding as well as genetic engineering methods used to improve crop drought tolerance are expensive and time consuming. Plants use a myriad of adaptative mechanisms to cope with the adverse effects of drought stress including the association with beneficial microorgani…

Authors: Samuel Lüthi, Christopher Fairless, Erich Fischer, Noah Scovronick, Ben Armstrong, Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coêlho et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40599-x · Citations: 214

Matched topics: earth system model

Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean global temperature rise, but it is unclear how much climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme summer seasons with high impact on human health. In this probabilistic analysis, we combined empirical heat-mortality relationships for 748 locations from 47 countries with climate model large e…

Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change

Authors: Kelly G. Lyons, Péter Török, Julia‐Maria Hermann, Kathrin Kiehl, Anita Kirmer, Johannes Kollmann et al.

Journal: Global Ecology and Conservation · DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02612 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: water management, climate change

Grasslands are ubiquitous globally, and their conservation and restoration are critical to combat both the biodiversity and climate crises. There is increasing interest in implementing effective multifunctional grassland restoration to restore biodiversity concomitant with above- and belowground carbon sequestration, delivery of carbon credits and/or integration with land dedicated to solar panels. Other common multifunctional restoration considerations include improved forage value, erosion …

Quantum Mpemba Effect in a Quantum Dot with Reservoirs

Authors: Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Satoshi Takada, Hisao Hayakawa

Journal: Physical Review Letters · DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.080402 · Citations: 89

Matched topics: reservoir

The temperatures of two copies of a quantum dot, one initially hotter than the other, can cross each other at some finite time and reverse their identities, the first such prediction in a quantum regime.

Bamboo as a Nature-Based Solution (NbS) for Climate Change Mitigation: Biomass, Products, and Carbon Credits

Authors: Chunyu Pan, Guomo Zhou, A. Shrestha, Jialu Chen, R. Kozak, Nuyun Li et al.

Journal: Climate · DOI: 10.3390/cli11090175 · Citations: 81

Matched topics: climate change

Bamboo, a rapidly growing woody grass prevalent in pan-tropical zones, holds promising potential as a nature-based solution (NbS) for climate change mitigation. In this systematic review of 91 research articles, we critically assess the scope and constraints of bamboo’s role in mitigating climate change across three dimensions: as a carbon sink in biomass form, as carbon storage in bamboo products, and as a contributor to carbon project credits. Our analysis reveals that existing studies disp…

Attribution of Extreme Events to Climate Change

Authors: Friederike E. L. Otto

Journal: Annual Review of Environment and Resources · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-112621-083538 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: climate change

Within the past decade, the attribution of extreme weather events and their impacts has enabled scientists, the public, and policymakers alike to connect real-world experiences of extreme weather events with scientific understanding of anthropogenic climate change. Attribution studies of recent extreme weather events have formed a new and important line of evidence in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report understanding present-day impacts of climat…

Impacts of climate change and building energy efficiency improvement on city-scale building energy consumption

Authors: Yixing Chen, Zhiyi Ren, Zhiwen Peng, Jingjing Yang, Zhihua Chen, Deng Zhang

Journal: Journal of Building Engineering · DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107646 · Citations: 79

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

The urgency of climate action and the aim for justice in energy transitions – dynamics and complexity

Authors: Natascha van Bommel, Johanna Höffken

Journal: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions · DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2023.100763 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: hydropower

Policymakers are confronted with a growing urgency to act upon climate change, while simultaneously, justice considerations are increasingly foregrounded in discussions on energy transition policies. Yet, the dynamics between urgency and justice in energy transitions are not well understood. In this study, we investigate these dynamics thoroughly by taking stock of and bridging different bodies of literature on urgency, justice, and energy transitions. We found the main dynamics to be enablin…

Climate model Selection by Independence, Performance, and Spread (ClimSIPS v1.0.1) for regional applications

Authors: Anna Merrifield, Lukas Brunner, Ruth Lorenz, Vincent Humphrey, Reto Knutti

Journal: Geoscientific model development · DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-4715-2023 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: streamflow, earth system model

Abstract. As the number of models in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) archives increase from generation to generation, there is a pressing need for guidance on how to interpret and best use the abundance of newly available climate information. Users of the latest CMIP6 seeking to draw conclusions about model agreement must contend with an “ensemble of opportunity” containing similar models that appear under different names. Those who used the previous CMIP5 as a basis for downstre…

Diagnosing evapotranspiration responses to water deficit across biomes using deep learning

Authors: Francesco Giardina, Pierre Gentine, Alexandra G. Konings, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Benjamin D. Stocker

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.19197 · Citations: 43

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

Accounting for water limitation is key to determining vegetation sensitivity to drought. Quantifying water limitation effects on evapotranspiration (ET) is challenged by the heterogeneity of vegetation types, climate zones and vertically along the rooting zone. Here, we train deep neural networks using flux measurements to study ET responses to progressing drought conditions. We determine a water stress factor (fET) that isolates ET reductions from effects of atmospheric aridity and other cov…

The effect of exogenous melatonin on root growth and lifespan and seed cotton yield under drought stress

Authors: Lingxiao Zhu, Anchang Li, Hongchun Sun, Ping Li, Xiaoqing Liu, Congcong Guo et al.

Journal: Industrial Crops and Products · DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2023.117344 · Citations: 59

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Seasonal Variability of the Surface Ocean Carbon Cycle: A Synthesis

Authors: Keith B. Rodgers, Jörg Schwinger, Andrea J. Fassbender, Peter Landschützer, Ryohei Yamaguchi, Hartmut Frenzel et al.

Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles · DOI: 10.1029/2023gb007798 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: seasonal, earth system model

Abstract The seasonal cycle is the dominant mode of variability in the air‐sea CO 2 flux in most regions of the global ocean, yet discrepancies between different seasonality estimates are rather large. As part of the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Phase 2 project (RECCAP2), we synthesize surface ocean p CO 2 and air‐sea CO 2 flux seasonality from models and observation‐based estimates, focusing on both a present‐day climatology and decadal changes between the 1980s and 2010s. …

Higher vegetation sensitivity to meteorological drought in autumn than spring across European biomes

Authors: Hongxiao Jin, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Feng Tian, Zhanzhang Cai, Tobias Conradt, Boris Boincean et al.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00960-w · Citations: 49

Matched topics: water management, drought, land surface model

Abstract Europe has experienced severe drought events in recent decades, posing challenges to understand vegetation responses due to diverse vegetation distribution, varying growth stages, different drought characteristics, and concurrent hydroclimatic factors. To analyze vegetation response to meteorological drought, we employed multiple vegetation indicators across European biomes. Our findings reveal that vegetation sensitivity to drought increases as the canopy develops throughout the yea…

Future changes in hydrological drought across the Yangtze River Basin: identification, spatial–temporal characteristics, and concurrent probability

Authors: Jiarui Yu, Lei Zou, Jun Xia, Ming Dou, Huan Liu, Lingfeng Zuo

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130057 · Citations: 38

Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, drought

Abstract not available.

Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change

Authors: Michelle A. North, James Franke, Birgitt Ouweneel, Christopher H. Trisos

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aceb79 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract Cattle farming is a major source of global food production and livelihoods that is being impacted by climate change. However, despite numerous studies reporting local-scale heat impacts, quantifying the global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change remains challenging. We conducted a global synthesis of documented heat stress for cattle using 164 records to identify temperature-humidity conditions associated with decreased production and increased mortality, then projected…

Coordination of growth and drought responses by GA‐ABA signaling in rice

Authors: Zhigang Liao, Yunchao Zhang, Qing Yu, Weicong Fang, Meiyao Chen, Tianfei Li et al.

Journal: New Phytologist · DOI: 10.1111/nph.19209 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: drought

The drought caused by global warming seriously affects the crop growth and agricultural production. Plants have evolved distinct strategies to cope with the drought environment. Under drought stress, energy and resources should be diverted from growth toward stress management. However, the molecular mechanism underlying coordination of growth and drought response remains largely elusive. Here, we discovered that most of the gibberellin (GA) metabolic genes were regulated by water scarcity in …

A novel regional drought monitoring method using GNSS-derived ZTD and precipitation

Authors: Qingzhi Zhao, Kang Liu, Tingting Sun, Yibin Yao, Zufeng Li

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113778 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Modeling the potential impact of climate change on maize-maize cropping system in semi-arid environment and designing of adaptation options

Authors: Ghulam Abbas, Mukhtar Ahmed, Zartash Fatima, Sajjad Hussain, Ahmed M. S. Kheir, Sezai Erċışlı et al.

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109674 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Analysis of Trend in Meteorological and Hydrological Time-series using Mann-Kendall and Sen’s Slope Estimator Statistical Test in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Authors: Haruna Garba, Udeme U. Udokpoh

Journal: International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · DOI: 10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102748 · Citations: 37

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, streamflow

The monthly, seasonal, annual, and decadal trends of seven hydro-meteorological variables were analysed for stations in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, controlled by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and the Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA) from 1972 to 2021. At the 5% statistical significance level, the non-parametric Mann-Kendall and Sen’s slope estimator techniques were used to detect if there was a positive or negative trend and the magnitude of the trend in hydro-meteor…

Effects of drought and recovery on soil volatile organic compound fluxes in an experimental rainforest

Authors: Giovanni Pugliese, Johannes Ingrisch, Laura Meredith, Eva Y. Pfannerstill, T. Klüpfel, Kathiravan Meeran et al.

Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40661-8 · Citations: 41

Matched topics: hydrology, drought

C-pyruvate labeling experiments reveal that soil microbes are responsible for the emissions and that the VOC production is higher during drought. Soil rewetting induces a rapid and short abiotic emission peak of carbonyl compounds, and a slow and long biotic emission peak of sulfur-containing compounds. Results show that, the extended drought periods predicted for tropical rainforest regions will strongly affect soil VOC fluxes thereby impacting atmospheric chemistry and climate.

Exogenous melatonin confers drought stress by promoting plant growth, photosynthetic efficiency and antioxidant defense system of pea (Pisum sativum L.)

Authors: Riaz Ahmad, Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli, Saleh Alansi, Muhammad Ahsan Altaf

Journal: Scientia Horticulturae · DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2023.112431 · Citations: 45

Matched topics: drought

Abstract not available.

Ecovoltaics: Framework and future research directions to reconcile land-based solar power development with ecosystem conservation

Authors: Csaba Tölgyesi, Zoltán Bátori, John B. Pascarella, László Erdős, Péter Török, Péter Batáry et al.

Journal: Biological Conservation · DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110242 · Citations: 45

Matched topics: hydropower

Renewable energy production is gaining momentum globally as a way to combat climate change without drastically reducing human energy consumption. Solar energy offers the fastest developing solution. However, ground-mounted solar panels have a high land requirement, which leads to conflicts with other land use types, particularly agriculture and biodiversity conservation. The dual land use of agrivoltaics, i.e., continuing agricultural production under and between solar panels, may alleviate f…

Bacillus subtilis ER-08, a multifunctional plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium, promotes the growth of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) plants under salt and drought stress

Authors: Margi Patel, Shaikhul Islam, Fohad Mabood Husain, Virendra Kumar Yadav, Hyun‐Kyung Park, Krishna Kumar Yadav et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Microbiology · DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1208743 · Citations: 43

Matched topics: drought

Introduction: Sustainable agriculture and meeting the world’s food needs face considerable obstacles from abiotic stresses such as soil salinity and drought. This critical issue was addressed by our current study, which sought to uncover multi-trait bioinoculants from hostile ecosystems that could help mitigate salinity and drought stresses at the same time. Methods: which was collected from the Little Rann of Kachchh, India. Various biochemical and molecular approaches were applied for the d…

Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation

Flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation research are well represented this week with 5 papers advancing methodologies for flood susceptibility mapping, early warning systems, and resilience evaluation. Multiple studies employ GIS-based multi-criteria approaches and machine learning methods for spatial flood hazard assessment across diverse regions. Research also addresses the social dimensions of flood preparedness and strategic planning for flood mitigation.

Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods

Authors: Jinyao Lin, Wenli Zhang, Youyue Wen, Suixuan Qiu

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society · DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.104891 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Artificial Intelligence based Performance Models to Support Hydrologic Rainfall Conditions using Ensembling Approach

Authors: P. William, M. Yadav, Sorabh Lakhanpal, Anurag Shrivastava, K. Rawat, Swati Chaudhary

Journal: 2023 Second International Conference on Augmented Intelligence and Sustainable Systems (ICAISS) · DOI: 10.1109/ICAISS58487.2023.10250561 · Citations: 65

Matched topics: hydrologic model

The architectural design of the BC and the scale of its installation have a major impact on the effectiveness of the BC to lower the peak flow load of stormwater that enters an urban drainage system. In order to get the most of BC’s benefits, designers must constantly make sure they are using the appropriate settings. In all, there are 18 design parameters, each of which may be customized in a variety of ways. Therefore, it could be difficult to find the characteristics that would provide the…

Mapping social vulnerability to floods. A comprehensive framework using a vulnerability index approach and PCA analysis

Authors: Iulia Ajtai, Horaţiu Ștefӑnie, Cristian Maloș, Camelia Botezan, Andrei Radovici, Maria Bizău-Cârstea et al.

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110838 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: flood

In recent years, the analysis of social vulnerability to floods became an integrated part of the flood risk management process, the strategies and policies developed focusing on risk reduction methods that increase the resilience of vulnerable communities. Therefore, reliable and robust social vulnerability approaches are needed, which is also highlighted by the increasing socio-economic growth and climate change related effects that can lead to unpredictable consequences. The use of vulnerab…

A synergistic approach towards understanding flood risks over coastal multi-hazard environments: Appraisal of bivariate flood risk mapping through flood hazard, and socio-economic-cum-physical vulnerability dimensions

Authors: Dev Anand Thakur, Mohit Prakash Mohanty

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166423 · Citations: 42

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Dynamic risk assessment of urban flood disasters based on functional area division—A case study in Shenzhen, China

Authors: Ting Wang, Huimin Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Jing Huang

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118787 · Citations: 42

Matched topics: flood

Abstract not available.

Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction

This week’s 5 papers demonstrate continued momentum in applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to hydrological prediction challenges. Contributions span groundwater level forecasting, streamflow prediction, river flow modeling, and physics-informed approaches that integrate domain knowledge with data-driven methods. Notable advances include uncertainty quantification in ML predictions and optimization of model architectures for improved hydrological forecasting.

Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water

Authors: Sze Yee Wee, Ahmad Zaharin Aris

Journal: npj Clean Water · DOI: 10.1038/s41545-023-00274-6 · Citations: 343

Matched topics: runoff, water management

Abstract Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), known as the most detected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in various environmental compartments, have been associated with plastic pollution and endocrine dysfunction. Over the past 180 years (1839–2019), numerous emerging contaminants have been identified, with PFOA and PFOS receiving considerable attention based on scientific evidence and publications. Between 2018 and 2019, PFOA and PFOS experienced a …

Can transfer learning improve hydrological predictions in the alpine regions?

Authors: Yingying Yao, Yufeng Zhao, Xin Li, Dapeng Feng, Chaopeng Shen, Chuankun Liu et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130038 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, hydropower

Abstract not available.

A Comparative Study on Forecasting of Long-term Daily Streamflow using ANN, ANFIS, BiLSTM and CNN-GRU-LSTM

Authors: Sajjad M. Vatanchi, Hossein Etemadfard, M. Maghrebi, R. Shad

Journal: Water resources management · DOI: 10.1007/s11269-023-03579-w · Citations: 59

Matched topics: streamflow

Abstract not available.

Tempo-Spatial Landslide Susceptibility Assessment from the Perspective of Human Engineering Activity

Authors: Taorui Zeng, Zizheng Guo, Linfeng Wang, Bijing Jin, Fayou Wu, Rujun Guo

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs15164111 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: hydrology

The expansion of mountainous urban areas and road networks can influence the terrain, vegetation, and material characteristics, thereby altering the susceptibility of landslides. Understanding the relationship between human engineering activities and landslide occurrence is of great significance for both landslide prevention and land resource management. In this study, an analysis was conducted on the landslide caused by Typhoon Megi in 2016. A representative mountainous area along the easter…

Anthropogenic activities mediate stratification and stability of microbial communities in freshwater sediments

Authors: Xiaotian Zhou, Jay T. Lennon, Xiang Lu, Aidong Ruan

Journal: Microbiome · DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01612-z · Citations: 49

Matched topics: earth system model

BACKGROUND: Freshwater sediment microbes are crucial decomposers that play a key role in regulating biogeochemical cycles and greenhouse gas emissions. They often exhibit a highly ordered structure along depth profiles. This stratification not only reflects redox effects but also provides valuable insights into historical transitions, as sediments serve as important archives for tracing environmental history. The Anthropocene, a candidate geological epoch, has recently garnered significant at…

Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater

Water management research this week spans 7 papers covering integrated water resources management, irrigation scheduling, groundwater monitoring, and water-energy-food nexus analyses. Studies range from global-scale assessments to site-specific irrigation optimization, with particular attention to satellite-based monitoring of water use and land subsidence from groundwater extraction.

Defining Renewable Groundwater Use and Its Relevance to Sustainable Groundwater Management

Authors: Mark Cuthbert, Tom Gleeson, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Grant Ferguson, Richard G. Taylor

Journal: Water Resources Research · DOI: 10.1029/2022wr032831 · Citations: 54

Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, streamflow

Abstract Groundwater systems are commonly defined as renewable or non‐renewable based on natural fluxes of recharge or on estimates of aquifer storage and groundwater residence time. However, we show here that the principle of capture (i.e., how recharge and discharge change due to pumping) challenges simple definitions so that a groundwater system cannot be renewable or non‐renewable in and of itself, but only with reference to how the groundwater is being used. We develop and propose more h…

Water accounting under climate change in the transboundary Volta River Basin with a spatially calibrated hydrological model

Authors: Moctar Dembélé, Elga Salvadore, Sander J. Zwart, Natalie Ceperley, Grégoire Mariethoz, Bettina Schaefli

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130092 · Citations: 22

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, water management, climate change, hydropower

Sustainable water management requires evidence-based information on the current and future states of water resources. This study presents a comprehensive modelling framework that integrates the fully distributed mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM) and climate change scenarios with the Water Accounting Plus (WA+) tool to anticipate future water resource challenges and provide mitigation measures in the transboundary Volta River basin (VRB) in West Africa. The mHM model is forced with a large ense…

Self-Rotating Spherical Evaporator Based on Hydrogel and Black Titanium Oxide for Continuous Desalination of Seawater

Authors: Yumeng Ge, Zewen Su, Le Wang, Congcong Wang, Peiqing Cai, Shenghuang Lin et al.

Journal: ACS Materials Letters · DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.3c00761 · Citations: 56

Matched topics: surface water

Solar interfacial water evaporation technology has shown great promise for seawater desalination and wastewater treatment. However, the deposition of salt crystals on the evaporator surface restrains the evaporation rate, which will affect further development of this technology. In this work, a spherical polystyrene foam was utilized as the material support, the surface of which was coated with photothermal materials for evaporator fabrication. The employing of well-prepared black Ti4O7 as a …

Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on seasonal runoff in the Yongding River basin

Authors: Yong Du, Aimei Bao, Ting Zhang, Wei Ding

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110839 · Citations: 39

Matched topics: river, runoff, seasonal, climate change

The Yongding River has ceased to flow due to the impact of human activities and climate change, inducing environmental degradation. Analyzing the driving factors is vital for environmental restoration and water resources allocation, but it is challenging especially at seasonal scale. In this paper, the monthly abcd model was constructed for the Yongding River basin and two sub-basins, namely Yanghe and Sangganhe, to quantify the relative contribution of climate change and human activities to …

Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance

Authors: Elizabeth A. Koebele, Linda Estelí Méndez‐Barrientos, Nikki Nadeau, Andrea K. Gerlak

Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1687 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: water management

Abstract Collaborative governance has emerged as a promising approach for addressing complex water sustainability issues, with purported benefits from enhanced democracy to improved environmental outcomes. Collaborative processes are often assumed to be inherently more equitable than traditional governance approaches due to their goal of engaging diverse actors in the development of policy and management solutions. However, when collaborative water governance processes ignore issues of politi…

Groundwater-surface water interactions in a semi-arid irrigated agricultural valley: A hydrometric and tracer-aided approach

Authors: Ana Laura Liberoff, María Poca

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166625 · Citations: 25

Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, water management, surface water, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Coupling effect analysis of drip irrigation and mixed slow-release nitrogen fertilizer on yield and physiological characteristics of winter wheat in Guanzhong area

Authors: Xin Wang, Youzhen Xiang, Jinjin Guo, Zijun Tang, Shuting Zhao, Han Wang et al.

Journal: Field Crops Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109103 · Citations: 39

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing

This theme encompasses 9 papers advancing understanding of hydrological processes through field observations, modeling, and remote sensing. Research covers snow distribution and dynamics in cold regions, forest-hydrology interactions, land use change impacts on river systems, rainfall-runoff modeling uncertainty, and satellite-based monitoring of terrestrial water resources.

The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change

Authors: Caitlin Hicks Pries, Rebecca Ryals, Biao Zhu, Kyungjin Min, Alexia Cooper, Sarah Goldsmith et al.

Journal: Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-085332 · Citations: 152

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

Over 70% of soil organic carbon (SOC) is stored at a depth greater than 20 cm belowground. A portion of this deep SOC actively cycles on annual to decadal timescales and is sensitive to global change. However, deep SOC responses to global change likely differ from surface SOC responses because biotic controls on SOC cycling become weaker as mineral controls predominate with depth. Here, we synthesize the current information on deep SOC responses to the global change drivers of warming, shifti…

Authors: Suzanne E. Tank, J. W. McClelland, Robert G. M. Spencer, A. I. Shiklomanov, Anya Suslova, Florentina Moatar et al.

Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01247-7 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: hydrology, river, runoff

Abstract not available.

High levels of tire wear particles in soils along low traffic roads

Authors: Elisabeth S. Rødland, Lene Sørlie Heier, Ole Christian Lind, Sondre Meland

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166470 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: runoff

Traffic pollution has been linked to high levels of metals and organic contaminants in road-side soils, largely due to abrasion of tires, brake pads and the road surface. Although several studies have demonstrated correlations between different pollutants and various traffic variables, they mainly focused on roads with medium to high traffic density (>30,000 vehicles per day). In this study we have focused on investigating tire wear particles and road-related metals (zinc, copper, lead, chrom…

On the relation between antecedent basin conditions and runoff coefficient for European floods

Authors: Christian Massari, Victor Pellet, Yves Tramblay, Wade T. Crow, Gaby J. Gründemann, Tristian Hascoetf et al.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130012 · Citations: 31

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, flood, land surface model

The event runoff coefficient (i.e. the ratio between event runoff and precipitation that originated the runoff) is a key factor for understanding basin response to precipitation events. Runoff coefficient depends on precipitation intensity and duration but also on specific basin geohydrology attributes (including soil type, geology, land cover, topography ) and last but not least, antecedent (or pre-storm) conditions (i.e., the amount of water stored in the different hydrological compartments…

Integrating remote sensing derived indices and machine learning algorithms for precise extraction of small surface water bodies in the lower Thoubal river watershed, India

Authors: Md Hibjur Rahaman, Roshani, Md Masroor, Haroon Sajjad

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138563 · Citations: 40

Matched topics: river, streamflow, water management, surface water

Abstract not available.

Seasonal variations of microplastic pollution in the German River Weser

Authors: Sonya R. Moses, Martin G. J. Löder, Frank Herrmann, Christian Laforsch

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166463 · Citations: 39

Matched topics: river, runoff, seasonal

Abstract not available.

Reconfigurable reservoir computing in a magnetic metamaterial

Authors: Ian T. Vidamour, Charles Swindells, G. Venkat, Luca Manneschi, P. W. Fry, Alexander Welbourne et al.

Journal: Communications Physics · DOI: 10.1038/s42005-023-01352-4 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: reservoir

Abstract In-materia reservoir computing (RC) leverages the intrinsic physical responses of functional materials to perform complex computational tasks. Magnetic metamaterials are exciting candidates for RC due to their huge state space, nonlinear emergent dynamics, and non-volatile memory. However, to be suitable for a broad range of tasks, the material system is required to exhibit a broad range of properties, and isolating these behaviours experimentally can often prove difficult. By using …

Authors: Léa Lorrain‐Soligon, Frédéric Robin, Xavier Bertin, Marko A. Janković, Pierre Rousseau, Vincent Lelong et al.

Journal: Environmental Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116937 · Citations: 45

Matched topics: hydrology

Abstract not available.

Experimental Demonstration of High‐Performance Physical Reservoir Computing with Nonlinear Interfered Spin Wave Multidetection

Authors: Wataru Namiki, Daiki Nishioka, Yu Yamaguchi, Takashi Tsuchiya, Tohru Higuchi, Kazuya Terabe

Journal: Advanced Intelligent Systems · DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300228 · Citations: 44

Matched topics: reservoir

Physical reservoir computing, which is a promising method for the implementation of highly efficient artificial intelligence devices, requires a physical system with nonlinearity, fading memory, and the ability to map in high dimensions. Although it is expected that spin wave interference can perform as highly efficient reservoir computing in some micromagnetic simulations, there has been no experimental verification to date. Herein, reservoir computing is demonstrated that utilizes multidete…

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