Weekly Literature Review

Week 19 · May 8–May 14, 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 Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions, with 289 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. Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis
    2. Pricing Climate Change Exposure
    3. Wetting and drying trends under climate change
    4. The critical role of biochar to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought and salinity stress in plants
    5. The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective
    6. Enhancing Climate Neutrality and Resilience through Coordinated Climate Action: Review of the Synergies between Mitigation and Adaptation Actions
    7. Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal
    8. Health effects of climate change in Africa: A call for an improved implementation of prevention measures
    9. A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome
    10. Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN
    11. Assessing the climate change mitigation potential from food waste composting
    12. Remote sensing of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) stocks, fluxes and transformations along the land-ocean aquatic continuum: advances, challenges, and opportunities
    13. Board gender diversity and firm-level climate change exposure: A global perspective
    14. Will environmental taxes help to mitigate climate change? A comparative study based on OECD countries
    15. Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites
    16. Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric humidity on land surface temperature under different climatic background
  3. Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation
    1. Parameters and methods used in flood susceptibility mapping: a review
  4. Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction
    1. Humidity – The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease
    2. Landslide susceptibility modeling by interpretable neural network
    3. A deep learning method for optimizing semantic segmentation accuracy of remote sensing images based on improved UNet
    4. Reduced-order digital twin and latent data assimilation for global wildfire prediction
    5. A comparative study of data-driven models for runoff, sediment, and nitrate forecasting.
    6. Metaheuristic approaches for prediction of water quality indices with relief algorithm-based feature selection
  5. Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater
    1. Climate Resilient Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture
    2. Multi-criteria group decision-making for optimal management of water supply with fuzzy ELECTRE-based outranking method
    3. Hydrogeochemical assessment of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation applying groundwater quality index (GWQI) and irrigation water quality index (IWQI)
    4. Mapping Aquifer Recharge Potential Zones (ARPZ) Using Integrated Geospatial and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in an Arid Region of Saudi Arabia
    5. Salt-resistant agarose-polyvinylpyrrolidone composite hydrogel with pitted-surface towards highly efficient water desalination and purification
    6. Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia
    7. Assessment of Hg pollution in stream waters and human health risk in areas impacted by mining activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
    8. Recent and projected changes in water scarcity and unprecedented drought events over Southern Pakistan
  6. Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing
    1. Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions
    2. Rewards, risks and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in water systems
    3. JWST NIRCam + NIRSpec: interstellar medium and stellar populations of young galaxies with rising star formation and evolving gas reservoirs
    4. Effects of land use/cover change on carbon storage between 2000 and 2040 in the Yellow River Basin, China
    5. The oral microbiota is a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance: resistome and phenotypic resistance characteristics of oral biofilm in health, caries, and periodontitis
    6. A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency
    7. Development of a map for land use and land cover classification of the Northern Border Region using remote sensing and GIS
    8. Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in a freshwater river in northwestern Himalayas, India - Scenario of riverbank solid waste disposal sites
    9. European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings
    10. Extending global river gauge records using satellite observations
    11. Microfluidic hydrogen storage capacity and residual trapping during cyclic injections: Implications for underground storage
    12. Melt rates in the kilometer-size grounding zone of Petermann Glacier, Greenland, before and during a retreat
    13. Destabilizing Effects of Environmental Stressors on Aquatic Communities and Interaction Networks across a Major River Basin
    14. Comparison of gridded precipitation estimates for regional hydrological modeling in West and Central Africa
    15. A comparative study on urban land use eco-efficiency of Yangtze and Yellow rivers in China: From the perspective of spatiotemporal heterogeneity, spatial transition and driving factors
    16. The future of Alpine Run-of-River hydropower production: Climate change, environmental flow requirements, and technical production potential
    17. Toward noninvasive monitoring of plant leaf water content by electrical impedance spectroscopy
    18. Hydrochemistry and quality appraisal of groundwater in Birr River Catchment, Central Blue Nile River Basin, using multivariate techniques and water quality indices
    19. Benchmarking high-resolution hydrologic model performance of long-term retrospective streamflow simulations in the contiguous United States
  7. Statistics
    1. Papers by journal
  8. Filtering Criteria

Climate Change and Terrestrial Water Storage

This week features 16 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.

Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis

Authors: Matteo Monai, Kellie Jenkinson, Angela E. M. Melcherts, Jaap N. Louwen, Ece Arslan Irmak, Sandra Van Aert et al.

Journal: Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.adf6984 · Citations: 257

Matched topics: reservoir

and favoring carbon-carbon coupling by providing a carbon species reservoir. Our findings challenge the conventional understanding of SMSIs and call for more-detailed operando investigations of nanocatalysts at the single-particle level to revisit static models of structure-activity relationships.

Pricing Climate Change Exposure

Authors: Zacharias Sautner, Laurence van Lent, Grigory Vilkov, Ruishen Zhang

Journal: Management Science · DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2023.4686 · Citations: 252

Matched topics: climate change

We estimate the risk premium for firm-level climate change exposure among S&P 500 stocks and its time-series evolution between 2005 to 2020. Exposure reflects the attention paid by market participants in earnings calls to a firm’s climate-related risks and opportunities. When extracted from realized returns, the unconditional risk premium is insignificant but exhibits a period with a positive risk premium before the financial crisis and a steady increase thereafter. Forward-looking expect…

Authors: Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Matthew Rodell, Michela Biasutti, Sonia I. Seneviratne

Journal: Nature Water · DOI: 10.1038/s44221-023-00073-w · Citations: 128

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

The critical role of biochar to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought and salinity stress in plants

Authors: Yanfang Wu, Xiaodong Wang, Long Zhang, Yongjie Zheng, Xinliang Liu, Yueting Zhang

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science · DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1163451 · Citations: 104

Matched topics: drought

Drought stress (DS) is a potential abiotic stress that is substantially reducing crop productivity across the globe. Likewise, salinity stress (SS) is another serious abiotic stress that is also a major threat to global crop productivity. The rapid climate change increased the intensity of both stresses which pose a serious threat to global food security; therefore, it is urgently needed to tackle both stresses to ensure better crop production. Globally, different measures are being used to i…

The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective

Authors: Efi Rousi, Andreas H. Fink, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Florian N. Becker, Goratz Beobide‐Arsuaga, Marcus Breil et al.

Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-23-1699-2023 · Citations: 97

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract. The summer of 2018 was an extraordinary season in climatological terms for northern and central Europe, bringing simultaneous, widespread, and concurrent heat and drought extremes in large parts of the continent with extensive impacts on agriculture, forests, water supply, and the socio-economic sector. Here, we present a comprehensive, multi-faceted analysis of the 2018 extreme summer in terms of heat and drought in central and northern Europe, with a particular focus on Germany. T…

Enhancing Climate Neutrality and Resilience through Coordinated Climate Action: Review of the Synergies between Mitigation and Adaptation Actions

Authors: Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, Ioannis Sebos

Journal: Climate · DOI: 10.3390/cli11050105 · Citations: 93

Matched topics: land surface model, hydropower

Recently, reported long-term climate change consequences, such as rising temperatures and melting glaciers, have emphasized mitigation and adaptation actions. While moderating the severity of climate changes, precautionary human actions can also protect the natural environment and human societies. Furthermore, public and private collaboration can leverage resources and expertise, resulting in more impactful mitigation and adaptation actions for effective climate change responses. A coordinate…

Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal

Authors: Lennart T. Bach, David T. Ho, Philip W. Boyd, Michael D. Tyka

Journal: Limnology and Oceanography Letters · DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10330 · Citations: 75

Matched topics: earth system model

Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is considered an essential component of climate change mitigation—as a supplement to emission reductions. Marine CDR methods have the potential to provide gigatonne-scale CDR but they differ from terrestrial methods in that they first reduce CO2 in seawater to ultimately increase the net flux of CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean. For CDR to be realized, CO2 must be absorbed by seawater after the deployment of a marine CDR method. However, equilibrat…

Health effects of climate change in Africa: A call for an improved implementation of prevention measures

Authors: Enos Moyo, Leroy Nhari, Perseverance Moyo, Grant Murewanhema, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

Journal: Eco-Environment & Health · DOI: 10.1016/j.eehl.2023.04.004 · Citations: 64

Matched topics: climate change

The world’s climate, particularly in Africa, has changed substantially during the past few decades, contributed by several human activities. Africa is one of the continents that is most vulnerable to climate change globally. Since the beginning of 2022, extreme weather events in Africa have affected about 19 million people and killed at least 4,000 individuals. Cyclones, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and famine were among the severe weather occurrences. Natural disasters and extreme…

A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome

Authors: Aline Hänggli, Samuel A. Levy, Dolors Armenteras, C. Isabella Bovolo, Joyce Brandão, Ximena Rueda et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd408 · Citations: 63

Matched topics: hydropower

Abstract The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of infectious diseases, and damage to rural and indigenous livelihoods. Hundreds of articles have been published on the topic of deforestation across Amazonia, yet there has been no recent synthesis of deforestation drivers and deforestation-control policy effectiveness in the region. Here we undertook the …

Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN

Authors: James Ball, Sebastian Hickman, Toby Jackson, Xian Jing Koay, James Hirst, William I. Jay et al.

Journal: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation · DOI: 10.1002/rse2.332 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: earth system model

Abstract Tropical forests are a major component of the global carbon cycle and home to two‐thirds of terrestrial species. Upper‐canopy trees store the majority of forest carbon and can be vulnerable to drought events and storms. Monitoring their growth and mortality is essential to understanding forest resilience to climate change, but in the context of forest carbon storage, large trees are underrepresented in traditional field surveys, so estimates are poorly constrained. Aerial photographs…

Assessing the climate change mitigation potential from food waste composting

Authors: Tibisay Pérez, Sintana E. Vergara, Whendee L. Silver

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34174-z · Citations: 56

Matched topics: climate change

e for California by year 2025. Our results suggest that food waste composting can help mitigate emissions. Increased turning during the thermophilic phase and less watering overall could potentially further lower emissions.

Remote sensing of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) stocks, fluxes and transformations along the land-ocean aquatic continuum: advances, challenges, and opportunities

Authors: Cédric G. Fichot, Maria Tzortziou, Antonio Mannino

Journal: Earth-Science Reviews · DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104446 · Citations: 55

Matched topics: earth system model

From stream headwaters to the deep ocean, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is ubiquitous across the world’s aquatic systems, where it fulfills important biogeochemical and ecological functions. Importantly, DOC is a dynamic component of the carbon cycle and represents a global reservoir (mass of carbon) equivalent in size to the atmospheric CO2 pool. The mobilization, transport, and transformations of DOC along the land-ocean aquatic continuum biogeochemically connect terrestrial landscapes, fr…

Board gender diversity and firm-level climate change exposure: A global perspective

Authors: Vu Quang Trinh, Hai Hong Trinh, Thi Hong Hanh Nguyen, Xuan Vinh Vo

Journal: Finance research letters · DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103995 · Citations: 48

Matched topics: climate change

This study examines the association between board gender diversity and firm-level climate change exposure. Using a global sample of 14,685 firm-year observations covering 2469 firms across 63 countries from 2000–2021, we find that firms with more gender-diverse boards are likely to exhibit lower climate change exposure. The results remain after we decompose the exposure into three components: exposures to opportunity, physical (e.g., sea level rises), and regulatory shocks (e.g., carbon taxes…

Will environmental taxes help to mitigate climate change? A comparative study based on OECD countries

Authors: Pinglin He, Shuhao Zhang, Lei Wang, Jing Ning

Journal: Economic Analysis and Policy · DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2023.04.032 · Citations: 47

Matched topics: climate change

Abstract not available.

Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites

Authors: Felix Pohl, Oldřich Rakovec, Corinna Rebmann, Anke Hildebrandt, Friedrich Boeing, Floris Hermanns et al.

Journal: Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02192-1 · Citations: 36

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, drought

Eddy covariance sites are ideally suited for the study of extreme events on ecosystems as they allow the exchange of trace gases and energy fluxes between ecosystems and the lower atmosphere to be directly measured on a continuous basis. However, standardized definitions of hydroclimatic extremes are needed to render studies of extreme events comparable across sites. This requires longer datasets than are available from on-site measurements in order to capture the full range of climatic varia…

Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric humidity on land surface temperature under different climatic background

Authors: Kang Jiang, Zhihua Pan, Feifei Pan, Adriaan J. Teuling, Guolin Han, Pingli An et al.

Journal: iScience · DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106837 · Citations: 44

Matched topics: land surface model

Soil moisture (SM) and atmospheric humidity (AH) are crucial climatic variables that significantly affect the climate system. However, the combined influencing mechanisms of SM and AH on the land surface temperature (LST) under global warming are still unclear. Here, we systematically analyzed the interrelationships among annual mean values of SM, AH, and LST using ERA5-Land reanalysis data and revealed the role of SM and AH on the spatiotemporal variations of LST through mechanism analysis a…

Flood Risk Assessment and Extreme Precipitation

Flood risk assessment and extreme precipitation research are well represented this week with 1 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.

Parameters and methods used in flood susceptibility mapping: a review

Authors: Cagla Melisa Kaya, Leyla Derin

Journal: Journal of Water and Climate Change · DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2023.035 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: flood

A correct understanding of the parameters and methods used in flood susceptibility mapping (FSM) is critical for identifying the strengths and limitations of different mapping approaches, as well as for developing methodologies. In this study, we examined scientific publications in the literature using WoS. Although the number of methods used is quite high (about 160 with submethods), the number of parameters used in these methods varies, with a maximum of 21 and a minimum of 5 parameters pre…

Machine Learning and AI for Hydrological Prediction

This week’s 6 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.

Humidity – The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

Authors: Joel J. Brown, Mercedes Pascual, Michael C. Wimberly, Leah R. Johnson, Courtney C. Murdock

Journal: Ecology Letters · DOI: 10.1111/ele.14228 · Citations: 157

Matched topics: hydrology, land surface model

Vector-borne diseases cause significant financial and human loss, with billions of dollars spent on control. Arthropod vectors experience a complex suite of environmental factors that affect fitness, population growth and species interactions across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Temperature and water availability are two of the most important abiotic variables influencing their distributions and abundances. While extensive research on temperature exists, the influence of humidity on v…

Landslide susceptibility modeling by interpretable neural network

Authors: Khalid Youssef, Kun Shao, Seulgi Moon, Louis‐S. Bouchard

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment · DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00806-5 · Citations: 86

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model

Abstract Landslides are notoriously difficult to predict because numerous spatially and temporally varying factors contribute to slope stability. Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been shown to improve prediction accuracy but are largely uninterpretable. Here we introduce an additive ANN optimization framework to assess landslide susceptibility, as well as dataset division and outcome interpretation techniques. We refer to our approach, which features full interpretability, high accuracy,…

A deep learning method for optimizing semantic segmentation accuracy of remote sensing images based on improved UNet

Authors: Xiaolei Wang, Zirong Hu, Shouhai Shi, Mei Hou, Lei Xu, Xiang Zhang

Journal: Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34379-2 · Citations: 80

Matched topics: land surface model

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery (RSI) is critical in many domains due to the diverse landscapes and different sizes of geo-objects that RSI contains, making semantic segmentation challenging. In this paper, a convolutional network, named Adaptive Feature Fusion UNet (AFF-UNet), is proposed to optimize the semantic segmentation performance. The model has three key aspects: (1) dense skip connections architecture and an adaptive feature fusion module that adaptively weighs diffe…

Reduced-order digital twin and latent data assimilation for global wildfire prediction

Authors: Caili Zhong, Sibo Cheng, Matthew Kasoar, Rossella Arcucci

Journal: Natural hazards and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/nhess-23-1755-2023 · Citations: 52

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

Abstract. The occurrence of forest fires can impact vegetation in the ecosystem, property, and human health but also indirectly affect the climate. The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator – INteractive Fire and Emissions algorithm for Natural envirOnments (JULES-INFERNO) is a global land surface model, which simulates vegetation, soils, and fire occurrence driven by environmental factors. However, this model incurs substantial computational costs due to the high data dimensionality and the co…

A comparative study of data-driven models for runoff, sediment, and nitrate forecasting.

Authors: Mohammad G. Zamani, M. Nikoo, Dana Rastad, Banafsheh Nematollahi

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management · DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118006 · Citations: 50

Matched topics: runoff, streamflow

Effective prediction of qualitative and quantitative indicators for runoff is quite essential in water resources planning and management. However, although several data-driven and model-driven forecasting approaches have been employed in the literature for streamflow forecasting, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a comprehensive comparison of well-known data-driven and model-driven forecasting techniques for runoff evaluation in terms of quality and quantity. This study filled this knowl…

Metaheuristic approaches for prediction of water quality indices with relief algorithm-based feature selection

Authors: Nand Lal Kushwaha, Jitendra Rajput, Truptimayee Suna, D.R. Sena, Danny Singh, Ashok K. Mishra et al.

Journal: Ecological Informatics · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102122 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: irrigation

Abstract not available.

Water Management, Irrigation, and Groundwater

Water management research this week spans 8 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.

Climate Resilient Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture

Authors: Shambhu Chouhan, Smita Kumari, Rajneesh Kumar, Pravin L. Chaudhary

Journal: International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · DOI: 10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i71894 · Citations: 45

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, water management, irrigation

The management of water resources in both irrigated and rain-fed agriculture is becoming an increasingly complex worldwide due to anticipated water scarcity, and compounded by the challenges of global warming and climate change. Climate-smart water technologies viz. Drip irrigation, Central pivot irrigation, Hydrogel and SWAT method need to be judiciously applied to overcome these challenges. Agriculture is a critical sector in India and other developing countries, providing substantial emplo…

Multi-criteria group decision-making for optimal management of water supply with fuzzy ELECTRE-based outranking method

Authors: Muhammad Akram, Kiran Zahid, Muhammet Deveci

Journal: Applied Soft Computing · DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2023.110403 · Citations: 62

Matched topics: water management

This study elevates the potential of ELECTRE IV method using the logical backgrounds of fuzzy sets in the proposed fuzzy ELECTRE IV method to capture the water supply problem of Iran. ELECTRE IV method, being an advanced variant of ELECTRE family, operates on the outranking principle to achieve the results using three types of preferences and five dominance relations that exhibit different levels of superiorities among alternatives. The proposed procedure is designed to exhibit the linguistic…

Hydrogeochemical assessment of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation applying groundwater quality index (GWQI) and irrigation water quality index (IWQI)

Authors: Arijit Ghosh, Biswajit Bera

Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development · DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2023.100958 · Citations: 57

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Mapping Aquifer Recharge Potential Zones (ARPZ) Using Integrated Geospatial and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in an Arid Region of Saudi Arabia

Authors: Mohd Yawar Ali Khan, Mohamed ElKashouty, Faisal K. Zaidi, Johnbosco C. Egbueri

Journal: Remote Sensing · DOI: 10.3390/rs15102567 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: hydrology, water management

There is an urgent need to explore and analyze new aquifer recharge potential zones (ARPZ) in arid regions exposed mainlyto hard rock local aquifers, whether fractured or non-fractured, for investment and fulfillment of the Saudi Vision 2030. Over-pumping, seawater intrusion, climatological changes, population growth, lack of traditional water supplies, expensive desalinized water, and excessive evaporation have characterized the Duba region of Tabuk province of Saudi Arabia (SA). Aquifer pro…

Salt-resistant agarose-polyvinylpyrrolidone composite hydrogel with pitted-surface towards highly efficient water desalination and purification

Authors: Lina Chen, Xuelong Chen, Baozheng Cui, Jingbo Zhu, Ningjing Bai, Wei Wang et al.

Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal · DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.143440 · Citations: 47

Matched topics: surface water

Abstract not available.

Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia

Authors: Basira Mir-Makhamad, Robert N. Spengler

Journal: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00924-2 · Citations: 47

Matched topics: irrigation

(coriander) - have first been observed in phases dated to the 19th century ce. There is reason to believe that elaborate irrigation systems and seasonal rotation cycles were already in place in this region prior to the development of a centralized Arabic and Islamic government and are likely tied to urbanization in the first half of the first millennium ce. We suggest that most of the trappings of Watson’s model were present prior to this, but, as Watson’s thesis is multifaceted their presenc…

Assessment of Hg pollution in stream waters and human health risk in areas impacted by mining activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Authors: Carlos Mestanza-Ramón, Samantha Jiménez-Oyola, Alex Vinicio Gavilanes Montoya, Danny Daniel Castillo Vizuete, Giovanni D’Orio, Juan Cedeño-Laje et al.

Journal: Environmental Geochemistry and Health · DOI: 10.1007/s10653-023-01597-6 · Citations: 46

Matched topics: surface water

Illegal gold mining activities have contributed to the release and mobilization of Hg and environmental degradation in many parts of the world. This study aims to determine the concentration of Hg in five provinces of the Amazon Region of Ecuador, in addition to assessing the risk to human health of exposed populations, applying deterministic and probabilistic methods. For this purpose, 147 water samples were collected in rivers and streams crossing and/or located near mining areas. As a resu…

Recent and projected changes in water scarcity and unprecedented drought events over Southern Pakistan

Authors: Irfan Ullah, Xin‐Min Zeng, Saadia Hina, Sidra Syed, Xieyao Ma, Vedaste Iyakaremye et al.

Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science · DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1113554 · Citations: 29

Matched topics: hydrologic model, streamflow, drought, hydropower

In recent decades, water scarcity is a significant constraint for socioeconomic development and threatens livelihood in an agriculture-based developing country like Pakistan. The water crisis in the country is projected to exacerbate in the coming years, especially in the southern parts. This dire situation calls for an investigation of major droughts, associated water scarcity, and changes in teleconnection patterns over Southern Pakistan. Moderate to low Southeastern monsoon (SEM) precipita…

Hydrological Processes, Snow Dynamics, and Remote Sensing

This theme encompasses 19 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.

Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions

Authors: Fabian Ewald Fassnacht, Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder, Erik Næsset

Journal: Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research · DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpad024 · Citations: 289

Matched topics: land surface model, earth system model

Abstract Remote sensing has developed into an omnipresent technology in the scientific field of forestry and is also increasingly used in an operational fashion. However, the pace and level of uptake of remote sensing technologies into operational forest inventory and monitoring programs varies notably by geographic region. Herein, we highlight some key challenges that remote sensing research can address in the near future to further increase the acceptance, suitability and integration of rem…

Rewards, risks and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in water systems

Authors: Catherine E. Richards, Asaf Tzachor, Shahar Avin, Richard Fenner

Journal: Nature Water · DOI: 10.1038/s44221-023-00069-6 · Citations: 118

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

Abstract not available.

JWST NIRCam + NIRSpec: interstellar medium and stellar populations of young galaxies with rising star formation and evolving gas reservoirs

Authors: Sandro Tacchella, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant Robertson, Stefano Carniani, Francesco D’Eugenio, Nimisha Kumari et al.

Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1408 · Citations: 128

Matched topics: reservoir

ABSTRACT We present an interstellar medium and stellar population analysis of three spectroscopically confirmed z > 7 galaxies in the Early Release Observations JWST/NIRCam and JWST/NIRSpec data of the SMACS J0723.3−7327 cluster. We use the Bayesian spectral energy distribution-fitting code prospector with a flexible star formation history (SFH), a variable dust attenuation law, and a self-consistent model of nebular emission (continuum and emission lines). Importantly, we self-consist…

Effects of land use/cover change on carbon storage between 2000 and 2040 in the Yellow River Basin, China

Authors: Chenglong Xu, Qi‐Bin Zhang, Qiang Yu, Jiping Wang, Fei Wang, Shi Qiu et al.

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110345 · Citations: 90

Matched topics: river

Land use/cover change (LUCC) is the primary source of carbon storage changes in the ecosystem. Up to now, there are few studies about the impacts and driving mechanisms of LUCC for carbon storage in the ecosystem at spatial–temporal scales. Characterizing LUCC of the Yellow River Basin (YRB) and its role in carbon storage are very important and necessary to elucidate the results of human activities on ecosystems. The policies to address potential future risks should be formulated in advance t…

The oral microbiota is a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance: resistome and phenotypic resistance characteristics of oral biofilm in health, caries, and periodontitis

Authors: A. Anderson, C. von Ohle, C. Frese, S. Boutin, C. Bridson, K. Schoilew et al.

Journal: Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials · DOI: 10.1186/s12941-023-00585-z · Citations: 84

Matched topics: reservoir

Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an ever-growing threat to modern medicine and, according to the latest reports, it causes nearly twice as many deaths globally as AIDS or malaria. Elucidating reservoirs and dissemination routes of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) are essential in fighting AMR. Human commensals represent an important reservoir, which is underexplored for the oral microbiota. Here, we set out to investigate the resistome and phenotypic resistance of oral biofil…

A signal-processing-based interpretation of the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency

Authors: Le Duc, Yohei Sawada

Journal: Hydrology and earth system sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-1827-2023 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, land surface model

Abstract. The Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) is a widely used score in hydrology, but it is not common in the other environmental sciences. One of the reasons for its unpopularity is that its scientific meaning is somehow unclear in the literature. This study attempts to establish a solid foundation for the NSE from the viewpoint of signal progressing. Thus, a simulation is viewed as a received signal containing a wanted signal (observations) contaminated by an unwanted signal (noise). This …

Development of a map for land use and land cover classification of the Northern Border Region using remote sensing and GIS

Authors: Abdulbasit A. Darem, Asma A. Alhashmi, Aloyoun M. Almadani, Ali Alanazi, Geraldine A. Sutantra

Journal: The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2023.04.005 · Citations: 74

Matched topics: water management

The land use and land cover study (LULC) play an essential role in regional socio-economic development and natural resource management to develop sustainable development in vegetation changes, water quantity and quality, land resources, and coastal management. This study uses remote sensing data to investigate LULC in the Northern Border Region (NBR) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The purpose of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the patterns and drivers of changes in LULC in …

Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in a freshwater river in northwestern Himalayas, India - Scenario of riverbank solid waste disposal sites

Authors: Muneeb Farooq, Farhat Un Nisa, Zahoor Manzoor, Sachin Tripathi, Adhithiya Venkatachalapati Thulasiraman, Mohammad Imran Khan et al.

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164027 · Citations: 67

Matched topics: river, runoff

Abstract not available.

European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings

Authors: Aaron Cremona, Matthias Huss, Johannes Landmann, Joël Borner, Daniel Farinotti

Journal: ˜The œcryosphere · DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-1895-2023 · Citations: 63

Matched topics: hydrology, hydropower

Abstract. Accelerating glacier melt rates were observed during the last decades. Substantial ice loss occurs particularly during heat waves that are expected to intensify in the future. Because measuring and modelling glacier mass balance on a daily scale remains challenging, short-term mass balance variations, including extreme melt events, are poorly captured. Here, we present a novel approach based on computer-vision techniques for automatically determining daily mass balance variations at…

Extending global river gauge records using satellite observations

Authors: Ryan Riggs, George H. Allen, Jida Wang, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Colin J. Gleason, Cédric H. David et al.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters · DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd407 · Citations: 52

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, streamflow

Abstract Long-term, continuous, and real-time streamflow records are essential for understanding and managing freshwater resources. However, we find that 37% of publicly available global gauge records ( N = 45 837) are discontinuous and 77% of gauge records do not contain real-time data. Historical periods of social upheaval are associated with declines in gauge data availability. Using river width observations from Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites, we fill in missing records at 2168 gauge l…

Microfluidic hydrogen storage capacity and residual trapping during cyclic injections: Implications for underground storage

Authors: Maksim Lysyy, Na Liu, Celine M. Solstad, Martin A. Fernø, Geir Ersland

Journal: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.253 · Citations: 63

Matched topics: land surface model

Long-term and large-scale H2 storage is vital for a sustainable H2 economy. Research in underground H2 storage (UHS) in porous media is emerging, but the understanding of H2 reconnection and recovery mechanisms under cyclic loading is not yet adequate. This paper reports a qualitative and quantitative investigation of H2 reconnection and recovery mechanisms in repeated injection-withdrawal cycles. Here we use microfluidics to experimentally investigate up to 5 cycles of H2 injection and withd…

Melt rates in the kilometer-size grounding zone of Petermann Glacier, Greenland, before and during a retreat

Authors: E. Ciracì, Eric Rignot, B. Scheuchl, Valentyn Tolpekin, Michael Wollersheim, Lu An et al.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220924120 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: hydrology

Warming of the ocean waters surrounding Greenland plays a major role in driving glacier retreat and the contribution of glaciers to sea level rise. The melt rate at the junction of the ocean with grounded ice-or grounding line-is, however, not well known. Here, we employ a time series of satellite radar interferometry data from the German TanDEM-X mission, the Italian COSMO-SkyMed constellation, and the Finnish ICEYE constellation to document the grounding line migration and basal melt rates …

Destabilizing Effects of Environmental Stressors on Aquatic Communities and Interaction Networks across a Major River Basin

Authors: Feilong Li, Yan Zhang, Florian Altermatt, Jianghua Yang, Xiaowei Zhang

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology · DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c00456 · Citations: 61

Matched topics: river

Human-driven environmental stressors are increasingly threatening species survival and diversity of river systems worldwide. However, it remains unclear how the stressors affect the stability changes across aquatic multiple communities. Here, we used environmental DNA (eDNA) data sets from a human-dominated river in China over 3 years and analyzed the stability changes in multiple communities under persistent anthropogenic stressors, including land use and pollutants. First, we found that per…

Comparison of gridded precipitation estimates for regional hydrological modeling in West and Central Africa

Authors: Christopher Kouakou, Jean‐Emmanuel Paturel, Frédéric Satgé, Yves Tramblay, Dimitri Defrance, Nathalie Rouché

Journal: Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101409 · Citations: 44

Matched topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, streamflow

Data-scarce basins located in West Africa and northern Central Africa. Multiple studies have shown that global gridded precipitation datasets could provide an alternative to the lack of observed data in Sub-Saharan Africa. This work evaluated 15 precipitation datasets based on satellite rainfall (ARC v.2, CHIRP v.2, CHIRPS v.2, PERSIANN-CDR, MSWEP v2.2 and TAMSAT v3), reanalysis (ERA5, JRA-55 Adj, MERRA-2 PRECTOT, MERRA-2 PRECTOTCORR, WFDEI-CRU and WFDEI-GPCC) and ground measurements (CPC v.1…

A comparative study on urban land use eco-efficiency of Yangtze and Yellow rivers in China: From the perspective of spatiotemporal heterogeneity, spatial transition and driving factors

Authors: Qian Chen, Liang Zheng, Ying Wang, Di Wu, Jiangfeng Li

Journal: Ecological Indicators · DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110331 · Citations: 52

Matched topics: river

Increasing urban land use eco-efficiency (ULUEE) is conducive to alleviating the human-land conflict in cities, especially in densely populated and ecologically sensitive areas. ULUEE research in the past has been less focused on different river basins from a comparative perspective, and largely ignored the regional heterogeneity in driving factors. Thus, this study aims to compare the spatiotemporal dynamics and driving factors of ULUEE in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) and Yellow Ri…

The future of Alpine Run-of-River hydropower production: Climate change, environmental flow requirements, and technical production potential

Authors: Tobias Wechsler, Stähli Manfred, Jorde Klaus, Massimiliano Zappa, Schaefli Bettina

Journal: The Science of The Total Environment · DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163934 · Citations: 26

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

. The simulations show an increase in winter production (4 % to 9 %) and a decrease in summer production (-2 % to -22 %), which together lead to an annual decrease of about -2 % to -7 % by the end of the century. The production loss due to environmental flow requirements is estimated at 3.5 % of the annual production; the largest low-elevation RoR power plants show little loss, while small and medium-sized power plants are most affected. The potential for increasing production by optimising t…

Toward noninvasive monitoring of plant leaf water content by electrical impedance spectroscopy

Authors: Ernesto Serrano‐Finetti, Eduardo Castillo, Smith Alejos, L. M. León Hilario

Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2023.107907 · Citations: 45

Matched topics: water management, irrigation

Abstract not available.

Hydrochemistry and quality appraisal of groundwater in Birr River Catchment, Central Blue Nile River Basin, using multivariate techniques and water quality indices

Authors: Ahunm Fentahun, Abraham Mechal, Shankar Karuppannan

Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · DOI: 10.1007/s10661-023-11198-6 · Citations: 49

Matched topics: river

Abstract not available.

Benchmarking high-resolution hydrologic model performance of long-term retrospective streamflow simulations in the contiguous United States

Authors: E. Towler, Sydney S. Foks, A. Dugger, J. Dickinson, H. Essaid, D. Gochis et al.

Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-1809-2023 · Citations: 33

Matched topics: hydrologic model, runoff, streamflow

Abstract. Because use of high-resolution hydrologic models is becoming more widespread and estimates are made over large domains, there is a pressing need for systematic evaluation of their performance. Most evaluation efforts to date have focused on smaller basins that have been relatively undisturbed by human activity, but there is also a need to benchmark model performance more comprehensively, including basins impacted by human activities. This study benchmarks the long-term performance o…

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