Weekly Literature Review
Week 2 · January 9–January 15, 2023
50 relevant papers found across 6 themes
Executive Summary
This week’s review covers 50 papers across 6 themes. The most cited paper examines Soil Constraints in an Arid Environment—Challenges, Prospects, and Implications, with 256 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
- Executive Summary
- Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage
- Soil Constraints in an Arid Environment—Challenges, Prospects, and Implications
- Biophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming
- Global droughts connected by linkages between drought hubs
- Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability
- Ecosystem Services Provided by Seaweeds
- Extremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau
- Spatiotemporal evolution of global long-term patterns of soil moisture
- Future hydrological drought changes over the upper Yellow River basin: The role of climate change, land cover change and reservoir operation
- Zinc oxide nanoparticles as potential hallmarks for enhancing drought stress tolerance in wheat seedlings
- Shade avoidance in the context of climate change
- Impact of climate changes in the suitable areas for Coffea arabica L. production in Mozambique: Agroforestry as an alternative management system to strengthen crop sustainability
- Leaf thermal tolerance and sensitivity of temperate tree species are correlated with leaf physiological and functional drought resistance traits
- Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies
- Revisiting the agro-climatic zones of Ghana: A re-classification in conformity with climate change and variability
- Reviewing peatland forestry: Implications and mitigation measures for freshwater ecosystem browning
- OPTRAM-ET: A novel approach to remote sensing of actual evapotranspiration applied to Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 observations
- Seasonal precipitation and continentality drive bimodal growth in Mediterranean forests
- Evolution of offshore wind resources in Northern Europe under climate change
- Nutrient regime modulates drought response patterns of three temperate tree species
- Planning for context-based climate adaptation: Flood management inquiry in Accra
- Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
- Flood susceptible prediction through the use of geospatial variables and machine learning methods
- Instructive Surprises in the Hydrological Functioning of Landscapes
- Bottom-up multilevel flood hazard mapping by integrated inundation modelling in data scarce cities
- Optimal dispatching rules of hydropower reservoir in flood season considering flood resources utilization: A case study of Three Gorges Reservoir in China
- Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
- Continuous streamflow prediction in ungauged basins: long short-term memory neural networks clearly outperform traditional hydrological models
- A novel hybrid BPNN model based on adaptive evolutionary Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for water quality index prediction
- A Comparison of Machine Learning and Empirical Approaches for Deriving Bathymetry from Multispectral Imagery
- Prediction of rock mass class ahead of TBM excavation face by ML and DL algorithms with Bayesian TPE optimization and SHAP feature analysis
- Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction
- Development of a TVF-EMD-based multi-decomposition technique integrated with Encoder-Decoder-Bidirectional-LSTM for monthly rainfall forecasting
- How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields?
- Hydropower and Renewable Energy-Water Systems
- Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
- Destabilized microbial networks with distinct performances of abundant and rare biospheres in maintaining networks under increasing salinity stress
- Wormlike Perovskite Oxide Coupled with Phase‐Change Material for All‐Weather Solar Evaporation and Thermal Storage Applications
- Advancing measurements and representations of subsurface heterogeneity and dynamic processes: towards 4D hydrogeology
- Groundwater recharge estimation using in-situ and GRACE observations in the eastern region of the United Arab Emirates
- Identification of optimal irrigation and fertilizer rates to balance yield, water and fertilizer productivity, and fruit quality in greenhouse tomatoes using TOPSIS
- Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
- Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images
- Experimental study of the influence of wetting and drying cycles on the strength of intact rock samples from a red stratum in the Three Gorges Reservoir area
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the surface water and sediment along Euphrates River system: Occurrence, sources, ecological and health risk assessment.
- Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans
- Properties and metal binding behaviors of sediment dissolved organic matter (SDOM) in lakes with different trophic states along the Yangtze River Basin: A comparison and summary
- Potential health risk assessment of metals in the muscle of seven wild fish species from the Wujiangdu reservoir, China
- Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries
- Vegetation Change and Eco-Environmental Quality Evaluation in the Loess Plateau of China from 2000 to 2020
- Assessment of agricultural drought based on multi-source remote sensing data in a major grain producing area of Northwest China
- Long-term effects of vegetation restoration on hydrological regulation functions and the implications to afforestation on the Loess Plateau
- Interbasin water transfers in the United States and Canada
- Spatial–Temporal Evolutions of Ecological Environment Quality and Ecological Resilience Pattern in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt
- Future climate or land use? Attribution of changes in surface runoff in a typical Sahelian landscape
- Statistics
- Filtering Criteria
Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage
This week features 20 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.
Soil Constraints in an Arid Environment—Challenges, Prospects, and Implications
Authors: Anandkumar Naorem, Somasundaram Jayaraman, Yash P. Dang, Ram C. Dalal, Nishant K. Sinha, Ch. Srinivasa Rao et al.
Journal: Agronomy · DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13010220 · Citations: 256
Matched topics: water management
Climate models project that many terrestrial ecosystems will become drier over the course of this century, leading to a drastic increase in the global extent of arid soils. In order to decrease the effects of climate change on global food security, it is crucial to understand the arid environment and the constraints associated with arid soils. Although the effects of aridity on aboveground organisms have been studied extensively, our understanding of how it affects soil processes and nutrient…
Biophysical impacts of earth greening can substantially mitigate regional land surface temperature warming
Authors: Yitao Li, Zhao-Liang Li, Hua Wu, Chenghu Zhou, Xiangyang Liu, Pei Leng et al.
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-35799-4 · Citations: 199
Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model
Vegetation change can alter surface energy balance and subsequently affect the local climate. This biophysical impact has been well studied for forestation cases, but the sign and magnitude for persistent earth greening remain controversial. Based on long-term remote sensing observations, we quantify the unidirectional impact of vegetation greening on radiometric surface temperature over 2001-2018. Here, we show a global negative temperature response with large spatial and seasonal variabilit…
Global droughts connected by linkages between drought hubs
Authors: Somnath Mondal, Ashok K. Mishra, L. Ruby Leung, Benjamin I. Cook
Journal: Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35531-8 · Citations: 164
Matched topics: hydrology, drought, earth system model
Abstract Quantifying the spatial and interconnected structure of regional to continental scale droughts is one of the unsolved global hydrology problems, which is important for understanding the looming risk of mega-scale droughts and the resulting water and food scarcity and their cascading impact on the worldwide economy. Using a Complex Network analysis, this study explores the topological characteristics of global drought events based on the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index. …
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability
Authors: Jie Jiang, Tianjun Zhou
Journal: Nature Geoscience · DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01111-0 · Citations: 146
Matched topics: drought, earth system model
A severe agricultural drought swept Central Asia in 2021, causing mass die-offs of crops and livestock. The anthropogenic contribution to declines in soil moisture in this region over recent decades has remained unclear. Here we show from analysis of large ensemble simulations that the aggravation of agricultural droughts over southern Central Asia since 1992 can be attributed to both anthropogenic forcing and internal variability associated with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO). Al…
Ecosystem Services Provided by Seaweeds
Authors: João Cotas, Louisa Gomes, Diana Pacheco, Leonel Pereira
Journal: Hydrobiology · DOI: 10.3390/hydrobiology2010006 · Citations: 137
Matched topics: earth system model
The ecosystem services can be divided using two major classification systems, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) and the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES). In the MEA system, the ecosystem services are divided into four major service clusters: supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural. On the other hand, the CICES system regards the “MEA supporting services” as organism natural function (and not an ecosystem service). Thus, this function is the …
Extremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Chao He, Tianjun Zhou, Lixia Zhang, Xiaolong Chen, Wenxia Zhang
Journal: Climate Dynamics · DOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06669-y · Citations: 126
Matched topics: flood, earth system model
Abstract In the summer (July and August) of 2022, unprecedented heat wave occurred along the Yangtze River Valley (YRV) over East Asia while unprecedented flood occurred over western South Asia (WSA), which are located on the eastern and western sides of Tibetan Plateau (TP). Here, by analyzing the interannual variability based on observational and reanalysis data, we show evidences that the anomalous zonal flow over subtropical Tibetan Plateau (TP) explains a major fraction the extreme event…
Spatiotemporal evolution of global long-term patterns of soil moisture
Authors: Preet Lal, Ankit Shekhar, Mana Gharun, Narendra N. Das
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161470 · Citations: 92
Matched topics: water management, land surface model, earth system model
soil layer (28-100 cm), respectively. About 80 % of areas with drying soil pattern also showed increasing evapotranspiration and/or decreasing precipitation. Specifically, decreasing P, increasing BSe and VT pattern were detected for 11 % of the soil drying pattern area. Similarly, increasing BSe and VT pattern, only decreasing P and only increasing VT pattern were detected for 17 %, 25 % and 12 % of soil drying areas, respectively. Both decreasing precipitation and increasing evapotranspirat…
Future hydrological drought changes over the upper Yellow River basin: The role of climate change, land cover change and reservoir operation
Authors: Peng Ji, Xing Yuan, Yang Jiao
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129128 · Citations: 45
Matched topics: hydrologic model, river, streamflow, reservoir, drought, land surface model, climate change, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Zinc oxide nanoparticles as potential hallmarks for enhancing drought stress tolerance in wheat seedlings
Authors: Rukhsar-Ul-Haq, Abida Kausar, Sadam Hussain, Sadam Hussain, Talha Javed, Sara Zafar et al.
Journal: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.01.014 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: drought
Abstract not available.
Shade avoidance in the context of climate change
Authors: Jorge J. Casal, Christian Fankhauser
Journal: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad004 · Citations: 66
Matched topics: climate change
When exposed to changes in the light environment caused by neighboring vegetation, shade-avoiding plants modify their growth and/or developmental patterns to access more sunlight. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), neighbor cues reduce the activity of the photosensory receptors phytochrome B (phyB) and cryptochrome 1, releasing photoreceptor repression imposed on PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORs (PIFs) and leading to transcriptional reprogramming. The phyB-PIF hub is at the core of all sha…
Impact of climate changes in the suitable areas for Coffea arabica L. production in Mozambique: Agroforestry as an alternative management system to strengthen crop sustainability
Authors: Crimildo T. Cassamo, David Draper, María M. Romeiras, Isabel Marques, R. M. Chiulele, Marisa Rodrigues et al.
Journal: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108341 · Citations: 59
Matched topics: climate change, earth system model
Climate changes (CC) are a main global phenomenon, with a worldwide impact on natural and agricultural ecosystems. The objective of this study was to analyse the potential impact of future CC on the suitability of areas for rainfed coffee growth, both at the Mozambique national scale and in the Gorongosa Mountain, under Agroforestry (AFS) and Full Sun (FS) management systems. The latter study site is part of the Gorongosa National Park (PNG), one of the most biodiverse places and an outstandi…
Leaf thermal tolerance and sensitivity of temperate tree species are correlated with leaf physiological and functional drought resistance traits
Authors: Ines Katharina Münchinger, Peter Hajek, Berivan Akdogan, Astor Toraño Caicoya, Norbert Kunert
Journal: Journal of Forestry Research · DOI: 10.1007/s11676-022-01594-y · Citations: 61
Matched topics: drought
Abstract Climate change is causing more frequent and severe climatic events, such as extreme heat and co-occurring drought, potentially accelerating tree mortality. Which tree species will cope better with those extreme events is still being researched. This study focuses on heat as a physiological stress factor and interspecific variation of thermal tolerance and sensitivity traits in 15 temperate coniferous and broad-leaved tree species. We investigate (1) whether thermal tolerance and sens…
Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies
Authors: Laura Carrea, Jean‐François Crétaux, Xiaohan Liu, Yuhao Wu, Beatriz Calmettes, Claude Duguay et al.
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01889-z · Citations: 56
Matched topics: hydrology, surface water
A consistent dataset of lake surface water temperature, ice cover, water-leaving reflectance, water level and extent is presented. The collection constitutes the Lakes Essential Climate Variable (ECV) for inland waters. The data span combined satellite observations from 1992 to 2020 inclusive and quantifies over 2000 relatively large lakes, which represent a small fraction of the number of lakes worldwide but a significant fraction of global freshwater surface. Visible and near-infrared optic…
Revisiting the agro-climatic zones of Ghana: A re-classification in conformity with climate change and variability
Authors: Edmund I. Yamba, Jeffrey N. A. Aryee, Emmanuel Quansah, Patrick Davies, Cosmos S. Wemegah, Marian Amoakowaah Osei et al.
Journal: PLOS Climate · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000023 · Citations: 60
Matched topics: climate change
The Ghana Meteorological Agency delineated Ghana’s geographical space into four agro-climatic zones namely the north, transition, forest and coastal zones. Since the demarcation in the 1960s, previous studies have rarely provided a more dis-aggregated agro-climatic zone map in tandem with contemporary climate change and variability. The continued use of this age-old classified zones is a disservice to the public. In this study, therefore, we evaluated the existing agro-climatic zone map of Gh…
Reviewing peatland forestry: Implications and mitigation measures for freshwater ecosystem browning
Authors: Laura H. Härkönen, Ahti Lepistö, Sakari Sarkkola, Pirkko Kortelainen, Antti Räike
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120776 · Citations: 48
Matched topics: hydrology, runoff, water management
Freshwaters of the boreal and temperate regions have experienced increased browning during the last decades. Browning, or brownification, is mostly driven by increased organic carbon (OC) and iron concentrations. It can cause detrimental changes in aquatic ecosystems through effects on chemistry, physics and ecology. Additionally, browning can impact aquatic greenhouse gas emissions, increase the costs of drinking water treatment and weaken the recreational value of water bodies. All these im…
OPTRAM-ET: A novel approach to remote sensing of actual evapotranspiration applied to Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 observations
Authors: Ali Mokhtari, Morteza Sadeghi, Yasamin Afrasiabian, Kang Yu
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113443 · Citations: 51
Matched topics: hydrologic model, land surface model
Abstract not available.
Seasonal precipitation and continentality drive bimodal growth in Mediterranean forests
Authors: Cristina Valeriano, Emília Gutiérrez, Michele Colangelo, Antonio Gazol, Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero, Jan Tumajer et al.
Journal: Dendrochronologia · DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126057 · Citations: 55
Matched topics: seasonal
Tree phenology is sensitive to climate warming and changes in seasonal precipitation. Long xylogenesis records are scarce, thus limiting our ability to analyse how radial growth responds to climate variability. Alternatively, process-based growth models can be used to simulate intra-annual growth dynamics and to better understand why growth bimodality varies along temperature and precipitation gradients. We used the Vaganov-Shashkin (VS) growth model to analyse the main climatic drivers of gr…
Evolution of offshore wind resources in Northern Europe under climate change
Authors: A. Martinez, L. Murphy, Gregório Iglesias
Journal: Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.126655 · Citations: 54
Matched topics: climate change
Climate-change impacts on offshore wind resources in Northern Europe over the 21st century are investigated based on the most up-to-date narratives of societal development and land use, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Three scenarios are considered: a high-emissions (pessimistic) scenario, SSP5-8.5; an intermediate scenario, SSP2-4.5, in which current emissions do not vary notably; and, for the first time in this type of work, a low-emissions (optimistic) scenario, SSP1-1.9, represe…
Nutrient regime modulates drought response patterns of three temperate tree species
Authors: Gerhard Schmied, Torben Hilmers, Karl Heinz Mellert, Enno Uhl, Vincent Buness, Dominik Ambs et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161601 · Citations: 53
Matched topics: drought
Against the backdrop of global change, the intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts are projected to increase and threaten forest ecosystems worldwide. Tree responses to drought are complex and likely to vary among species, drought characteristics, and site conditions. Here, we examined the drought response patterns of three major temperate tree species, s. fir (Abies alba), E. beech (Fagus sylvatica), and N. spruce (Picea abies), along an ecological gradient in the South - Central - Ea…
Planning for context-based climate adaptation: Flood management inquiry in Accra
Authors: Eric Gaisie, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
Journal: Environmental Science & Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.01.002 · Citations: 47
Matched topics: hydrology, flood
Discourses on climate change often characterise African cities as homogenous, experiencing the same climate events and requiring the same planning solutions. However, African cities are diverse and different across regions, scales, and contexts, despite some resemblance of urban problems. This paper addresses the generalisation of climate change issues and urban planning responses in African cities by: (i) exploring how climate impact, specifically flooding is different in one African city in…
Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
Flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation research are well represented this week with 4 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.
Flood susceptible prediction through the use of geospatial variables and machine learning methods
Authors: Navid Mahdizadeh Gharakhanlou, Liliana Pérez
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129121 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: hydrologic model, flood
Abstract not available.
Instructive Surprises in the Hydrological Functioning of Landscapes
Authors: James W. Kirchner, Paolo Benettin, Ilja van Meerveld
Journal: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-071822-100356 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, earth system model
Landscapes receive water from precipitation and then transport, store, mix, and release it, both downward to streams and upward to vegetation. How they do this shapes floods, droughts, biogeochemical cycles, contaminant transport, and the health of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Because many of the key processes occur invisibly in the subsurface, our conceptualization of them has often relied heavily on physical intuition. In recent decades, however, much of this intuition has been overt…
Bottom-up multilevel flood hazard mapping by integrated inundation modelling in data scarce cities
Authors: Mingfu Guan, Kaihua Guo, Haochen Yan, Nigel Wright
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129114 · Citations: 49
Matched topics: hydrology, flood, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Optimal dispatching rules of hydropower reservoir in flood season considering flood resources utilization: A case study of Three Gorges Reservoir in China
Authors: Zhanxing Xu, Mo Li, Jianzhong Zhou, Xin Zhang
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.135975 · Citations: 38
Matched topics: runoff, reservoir, flood, hydropower
Abstract not available.
Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
This week’s 7 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.
Continuous streamflow prediction in ungauged basins: long short-term memory neural networks clearly outperform traditional hydrological models
Authors: Richard Arsenault, Jean‐Luc Martel, Frédéric Brunet, François Brissette, Juliane Mai
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-139-2023 · Citations: 212
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow, hydropower, earth system model
Abstract. This study investigates the ability of long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to perform streamflow prediction at ungauged basins. A set of state-of-the-art, hydrological model-dependent regionalization methods are applied to 148 catchments in northeast North America and compared to an LSTM model that uses the exact same available data as the hydrological models. While conceptual model-based methods attempt to derive parameterizations at ungauged sites from other similar or n…
A novel hybrid BPNN model based on adaptive evolutionary Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for water quality index prediction
Authors: Lingxuan Chen, Tunhua Wu, Zhaocai Wang, Xiaolong Lin, Yixuan Cai
Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109882 · Citations: 168
Matched topics: water management
With the accelerated industrialization and urbanization process, water pollution in rivers is being increasingly worsened, and has caused a series of ecological and environmental issues. The prediction of river water quality index (WQI) is a prerequisite for river pollution prevention and management. However, the water quality data series is non-smooth and non-linear, and a strong coupling relationship between different water quality parameters that influence each other is observed, making it…
A Comparison of Machine Learning and Empirical Approaches for Deriving Bathymetry from Multispectral Imagery
Authors: Wenneng Zhou, Yimin Tang, Wenlong Jing, Yong Li, Ji Yang, Yingbin Deng et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs15020393 · Citations: 67
Matched topics: earth system model
Knowledge of the precise water depth in shallow areas of the ocean is of great significance to the safe navigation of ships and hydrographic surveying. Compared with traditional bathymetry, satellite remote sensing for water depth determination makes it possible to cover large areas by dynamic observation. In this paper, we conducted an optically shallow water bathymetric inversion study using a Stumpf empirical model, random forest model, neural network model, and support vector machine mode…
Prediction of rock mass class ahead of TBM excavation face by ML and DL algorithms with Bayesian TPE optimization and SHAP feature analysis
Authors: Cheng Chen, Hyungjoon Seo
Journal: Acta Geotechnica · DOI: 10.1007/s11440-022-01779-z · Citations: 66
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract In this paper, field construction data from the Singapore Metro Line project were used to study the mapping relationship and establish the prediction model between TBM operation data and the ground condition ahead of the excavation face. The study presents a multi-classifier competition mechanism to construct ten separate classifiers, including logistic regression, support vector machine, random forest, extremely randomized trees, adaptive boosting machine, extreme gradient boosting …
Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction
Authors: Alexandre M.J.‐C. Wadoux, Nicolas Saby, Manuel Martín
Journal: SOIL · DOI: 10.5194/soil-9-21-2023 · Citations: 65
Matched topics: land surface model
Abstract. Insights into the controlling factors of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock variation are necessary both for our scientific understanding of the terrestrial carbon balance and to support policies that intend to promote carbon storage in soils to mitigate climate change. In recent years, complex statistical and algorithmic tools from the field of machine learning have become popular for modelling and mapping SOC stocks over large areas. In this paper, we report on the development of a s…
Development of a TVF-EMD-based multi-decomposition technique integrated with Encoder-Decoder-Bidirectional-LSTM for monthly rainfall forecasting
Authors: Mehdi Jamei, Mumtaz Ali, Anurag Malik, Masoud Karbasi, Priya Rai, Zaher Mundher Yaseen
Journal: Journal of Hydrology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129105 · Citations: 64
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract not available.
How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields?
Authors: Balsher Singh Sidhu, Zia Mehrabi, Navin Ramankutty, Milind Kandlikar
Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acb164 · Citations: 52
Matched topics: climate change
Abstract Ordinary least squares linear regression (LR) has long been a popular choice among researchers interested in using historical data for estimating crop yield response to climate change. Today, the rapidly growing field of machine learning (ML) offers a wide range of advanced statistical tools that are increasingly being used for more accurate estimates of this relationship. This study compares LR to a popular ML technique called boosted regression trees (BRTs). We find that BRTs provi…
Hydropower and Renewable Energy-Water Systems
The integration of hydropower with renewable energy systems is addressed by 1 papers this week, focusing on optimal capacity configuration, generation prediction, and climate change adaptation strategies for hybrid energy-water systems. Studies demonstrate the complementary potential of hydro-wind-solar systems and explore machine learning approaches for hydropower generation forecasting.
Coordinated operation of conventional hydropower plants as hybrid pumped storage hydropower with wind and photovoltaic plants
Authors: Zhenni Wang, Guohua Fang, Xin Wen, Qiaofeng Tan, Ping Zhang, Zhehua Liu
Journal: Energy Conversion and Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116654 · Citations: 178
Matched topics: hydropower
Abstract not available.
Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
Water management research this week spans 5 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.
Destabilized microbial networks with distinct performances of abundant and rare biospheres in maintaining networks under increasing salinity stress
Authors: Changchao Li, Ling Jin, Chao Zhang, Shuzhen Li, Tong Zhou, Zhongyi Hua et al.
Journal: iMeta · DOI: 10.1002/imt2.79 · Citations: 209
Matched topics: earth system model
Global changes such as seawater intrusion and freshwater resource salinization increase environmental stress imposed on the aquatic microbiome. A strong predictive understanding of the responses of the aquatic microbiome to environmental stress will help in coping with the “gray rhino” events in the environment, thereby contributing to an ecologically sustainable future. Considering that microbial ecological networks are tied to the stability of ecosystem functioning and that abundant and rar…
Wormlike Perovskite Oxide Coupled with Phase‐Change Material for All‐Weather Solar Evaporation and Thermal Storage Applications
Authors: Muhammad Sultan Irshad, Naila Arshad, Jian Zhang, Changyuan Song, Naveed Mushtaq, Muneerah Alomar et al.
Journal: Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research · DOI: 10.1002/aesr.202200158 · Citations: 90
Matched topics: water management
Interfacial solar‐driven water evaporation has shown promising prospects in desalination technology. However, the lower photothermal conversion efficiency caused by the intermittent nature of sunlight and salt accumulation remains a significant challenge for continuous desalination. Herein, the hierarchical design of interfacial solar evaporation is reported, which realizes enhanced photothermal conversion, waste heat storage/release, and effective thermal management for continuous desalinati…
Advancing measurements and representations of subsurface heterogeneity and dynamic processes: towards 4D hydrogeology
Authors: Thomas Hermans, Pascal Goderniaux, Damien Jougnot, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Philip Brunner, Frédéric Nguyen et al.
Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-255-2023 · Citations: 70
Matched topics: hydrology, streamflow, earth system model
Abstract. Essentially all hydrogeological processes are strongly influenced by the subsurface spatial heterogeneity and the temporal variation of environmental conditions, hydraulic properties, and solute concentrations. This spatial and temporal variability generally leads to effective behaviors and emerging phenomena that cannot be predicted from conventional approaches based on homogeneous assumptions and models. However, it is not always clear when, why, how, and at what scale the 4D (3D …
Groundwater recharge estimation using in-situ and GRACE observations in the eastern region of the United Arab Emirates
Authors: Khaled Alghafli, Xiaogang Shi, William T. Sloan, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Qiuhong Tang, Ahmed Sefelnasr et al.
Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161489 · Citations: 48
Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model
, and Nash-Sutcliff Efficiency = 0.7). Using the Mann-Kendall trend test and Sen’s slope, the analyses of policies, number of wells, and farm areal expansion with groundwater time series derived from GRACE helped to validate GRACE and emphasize the importance of regulations for sustainable development of groundwater resources. The impacts of subsidy cuts after 2010 can be captured from the GRACE data in the eastern region of Abu Dhabi Emirate. The linear trend of groundwater storage anomaly o…
Identification of optimal irrigation and fertilizer rates to balance yield, water and fertilizer productivity, and fruit quality in greenhouse tomatoes using TOPSIS
Authors: Xuemei Yu, Junwei Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Lele Ma, Xiaocong Jiao, Mingfei Zhao et al.
Journal: Scientia Horticulturae · DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2023.111829 · Citations: 45
Matched topics: water management, irrigation
Abstract not available.
Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
This theme encompasses 13 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.
Semantic segmentation of water bodies in very high-resolution satellite and aerial images
Authors: Marc Wieland, Sandro Martinis, Ralph Kiefl, Veronika Gstaiger
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113452 · Citations: 173
Matched topics: earth system model
Abstract not available.
Experimental study of the influence of wetting and drying cycles on the strength of intact rock samples from a red stratum in the Three Gorges Reservoir area
Authors: Qiong Wu, Yuxin Liu, Huiming Tang, Jintao Kang, Liangqing Wang, Changdong Li et al.
Journal: Engineering Geology · DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2023.107013 · Citations: 136
Matched topics: reservoir
Abstract not available.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the surface water and sediment along Euphrates River system: Occurrence, sources, ecological and health risk assessment.
Authors: Ruqayah Ali Grmasha, Marwan H. Abdulameer, C. Stenger-Kovács, Osamah J. Al-sareji, Zaid Al-Gazali, Raed A. Al-Juboori et al.
Journal: Marine Pollution Bulletin · DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114568 · Citations: 95
Matched topics: river, hydropower, surface water
This study presented for the first time a comprehensive measurement campaign of 16 PAHs along the Euphrates River for five months, in both water and sediment samples. Our study revealed that the PAHs contamination increased along the flow direction due to the increasing non-point pollution and the return flows of agriculture. The 5-6 rings PAHs were dominant in water and sediment samples with an average of 42 % and 50 %, respectively. The diagnostic ratios of PAHs suggest that the pollution o…
Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans
Authors: Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael Mann et al.
Journal: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s00376-023-2385-2 · Citations: 99
Matched topics: earth system model
Joules); and according to NCEI/NOAA data, by 9.1 ± 8.7 ZJ. Among seven regions, four basins (the North Pacific, North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, and southern oceans) recorded their highest OHC since the 1950s. The salinity-contrast index, a quantification of the “salty gets saltier-fresh gets fresher” pattern, also reached its highest level on record in 2022, implying continued amplification of the global hydrological cycle. Regional OHC and salinity changes in 2022 were dominated by a …
Properties and metal binding behaviors of sediment dissolved organic matter (SDOM) in lakes with different trophic states along the Yangtze River Basin: A comparison and summary
Authors: Tuantuan Fan, Xin Yao, Zhaoli Sun, Dongling Sang, Li Liu, Huanguang Deng et al.
Journal: Water Research · DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119605 · Citations: 86
Matched topics: river
Abstract not available.
Potential health risk assessment of metals in the muscle of seven wild fish species from the Wujiangdu reservoir, China
Authors: Shenwen Cai, Boping Zeng, Chuntao Li
Journal: Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods · DOI: 10.15586/qas.v15i1.1121 · Citations: 77
Matched topics: reservoir, surface water
Concentrations of Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, Pb, Cd, As, and Hg were analyzed in the surface water and muscle of seven fish species (Carassius auratus, Cyprinus carpio, Hemiculter leucisculus, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, Silurus meriaionalis, Ctenopharyngodon idellus, and Parabramis pekinensis) from the Wujiangdu reservoir, China. All metal concen-trations in water were lower than grade one water quality values. Mean metal concentrations in the fish muscle decreased in the order: Zn (10.765 mg kg−1) > Fe (…
Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries
Authors: Marco Carrer, Raffaella Dibona, Angela Luisa Prendin, Michele Brunetti
Journal: Nature Climate Change · DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01575-3 · Citations: 78
Matched topics: hydrology
Abstract Snow cover in high-latitude and high-altitude regions has strong effects on the Earth’s climate, environmental processes and socio-economic activities. Over the last 50 years, the Alps experienced a 5.6% reduction per decade in snow cover duration, which already affects a region where economy and culture revolve, to a large extent, around winter. Here we present evidence from 572 ring-width series extracted from a prostrate shrub ( Juniperus communis L.) growing at high elevation in …
Vegetation Change and Eco-Environmental Quality Evaluation in the Loess Plateau of China from 2000 to 2020
Authors: Shifeng Chen, Qifei Zhang, Yaning Chen, Honghua Zhou, Yanyun Xiang, Zhihui Liu et al.
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs15020424 · Citations: 62
Matched topics: earth system model
Vegetation change and ecological quality of the Loess Plateau (LP) are directly related to ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Based on LP ecological zoning and multisource remote sensing data, we analyzed vegetation change and its relationship with climate, terrestrial water storage (TWS), and land use/cover change from 2000 to 2020, using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), fraction of vegetation cover (FVC), and net primary productiv…
Assessment of agricultural drought based on multi-source remote sensing data in a major grain producing area of Northwest China
Authors: Siyang Cai, Depeng Zuo, Huixiao Wang, Zongxue Xu, Guoqing Wang, Hong Yang
Journal: Agricultural Water Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108142 · Citations: 56
Matched topics: drought
Drought is considered to be one of the most serious natural disasters in China, which can result in enormous damage to nature and socio-economy. Compared to traditional ground-based monitoring techniques, remote sensing can effectively compensate for spatial discontinuities at ground stations. The use of remote sensing technology for drought monitoring has irreplaceable advantages. The applicability of the TRMM3B43 dataset for precipitation was firstly verified in the Wei River basin, and the…
Long-term effects of vegetation restoration on hydrological regulation functions and the implications to afforestation on the Loess Plateau
Authors: Feng Tianjiao, Wei Tianxing, Saskia Keesstra, Zhang Jianjun, Huaxing Bi, Ruoshui Wang et al.
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109313 · Citations: 55
Matched topics: hydrologic model
Abstract not available.
Interbasin water transfers in the United States and Canada
Authors: Md Abu Bakar Siddik, Kerim E. Dickson, James Rising, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Landon Marston
Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-01935-4 · Citations: 49
Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model
Interbasin water transfers (IBTs) can have a significant impact on the environment, water availability, and economies within the basins importing and exporting water, as well as basins downstream of these water transfers. The lack of comprehensive data identifying and describing IBTs inhibits understanding of the role IBTs play in supplying water for society, as well as their collective hydrologic impact. We develop three connected datasets inventorying IBTs in the United States and Canada, i…
Spatial–Temporal Evolutions of Ecological Environment Quality and Ecological Resilience Pattern in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt
Authors: Lu Peng, Haowei Wu, Zhihui Li
Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs15020430 · Citations: 49
Matched topics: river, earth system model
Ecological environment quality and resilience assessment is an important prerequisite for ensuring the coordination and stability of socio-economic development and eco-environment protection. Remote sensing technology has provided new approaches for quantitatively evaluating regional ecological environment quality and resilience rapidly, accurately, and objectively. Taking the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREBML) as an example, to assess ecological environment …
Future climate or land use? Attribution of changes in surface runoff in a typical Sahelian landscape
Authors: Roland Yonaba, Lawani Adjadi Mounirou, Tazen Fowé, Mahamadou Koïta, Angelbert Chabi Biaou, Cheick Oumar Zouré et al.
Journal: Comptes Rendus Géoscience · DOI: 10.5802/crgeos.179 · Citations: 33
Matched topics: runoff, streamflow, water management, land surface model, earth system model
In this study, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model is used to assess changes in surface runoff between the baseline (1995–2014) and future (2031–2050) periods in the Tougou watershed ( 37 km 2 ) in Burkina Faso. The study uses a combination of land use maps (for current and future periods) and a bias-corrected ensemble of 9 CMIP6 climate models, under two warming scenarios. An increase in rainfall (13.7% to 18.8%) is projected, which is the major contributor to the increase…
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| Topics searched | 16 |
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| After deduplication | 596 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 50 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 546 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Journal of Hydrology | 4 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 3 |
| Remote Sensing | 3 |
| Hydrology and earth system sciences | 2 |
| Nature Communications | 2 |
| Remote Sensing of Environment | 2 |
| Scientific Data | 2 |
| Agronomy | 1 |
| iMeta | 1 |
| Energy Conversion and Management | 1 |
| Ecological Indicators | 1 |
| Nature Geoscience | 1 |
| Hydrobiology | 1 |
| Engineering Geology | 1 |
| Climate Dynamics | 1 |
| Marine Pollution Bulletin | 1 |
| Advances in Atmospheric Sciences | 1 |
| Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research | 1 |
| Water Research | 1 |
| Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods | 1 |
| Nature Climate Change | 1 |
| Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 1 |
| PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 1 |
| Acta Geotechnica | 1 |
| Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 |
| SOIL | 1 |
| Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | 1 |
| Journal of Forestry Research | 1 |
| PLOS Climate | 1 |
| Forest Ecology and Management | 1 |
| Agricultural Water Management | 1 |
| Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 1 |
| Dendrochronologia | 1 |
| Energy | 1 |
| Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 |
| Comptes Rendus Géoscience | 1 |
| Environmental Research Letters | 1 |
| Environmental Science & Policy | 1 |
| Scientia Horticulturae | 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