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Environmental Sciences
Abubaker Omer, Ma Zhuguo, Xing Yuan, Ziyan Zheng, Farhan Saleem
Summary: The future drought risk in the Yellow River Basin will be influenced by land-use/land cover changes and consumptive water use. LULCC-BAU2 scenario is projected to increase the risk of mild and moderate droughts, while CWU and LULCC-BAU1 scenarios will impose higher risk of severe and extreme events.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hoang Tran, Jun Zhang, Mary Michael O'Neill, Anna Ryken, Laura E. Condon, Reed M. Maxwell
Summary: This article presents a hydrological reconstruction of the Upper Colorado River Basin using hourly temporal resolution and 1-km spatial resolution from October 1982 to September 2019. The validated dataset includes various hydrologic variables such as streamflow, water table depth, snow water equivalent (SWE), and evapotranspiration (ET). These datasets provide a long-term simulation of natural flow for one of the most over-allocated basins in the world.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mudassar Iqbal, Jun Wen, Muhammad Masood, Muhammad Umer Masood, Muhammad Adnan
Summary: Climate change has a greater impact on hydrological processes in the sub-basins of the Yellow River Source Region, compared to land-use changes. The combined impacts of climate and land-use changes are most noticeable in the Maqu subbasin, where there is a significant decrease in runoff and increase in evapotranspiration.
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Engineering, Civil
Peng Ji, Xing Yuan, Yang Jiao
Summary: The upper Yellow River Basin (UYRB) plays a crucial role in the freshwater supply of the Yellow River. Research shows that while there will be continuous wetting and vegetation greening in the UYRB in a future with warmer temperatures, the impact on hydrological drought changes remains uncertain due to interactions between climate change, land cover change, and reservoir operations. A study using the CSSPv2 + Reservoir model reveals that increased precipitation during dry seasons can reduce the duration of hydrological droughts at different warming levels, but the severity of droughts is limited. However, a significant increase in leaf area index under higher warming levels intensifies evapotranspiration and exacerbates drought severity. Furthermore, reservoir operations aimed at stable hydropower generation can decrease drought duration but increase drought frequency and severity, highlighting the need for a balance between hydropower generation and drought mitigation in future reservoir operations.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Moctar Dembele, Elga Salvadore, Sander Zwart, Natalie Ceperley, Gregoire Mariethoz, Bettina Schaefli
Summary: This study integrates a comprehensive modeling framework to predict future water resource challenges in the transboundary Volta River basin in West Africa, providing climate-resilient land and water management strategies for sustainable water management.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2023)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Guangyong Li, Cuihong Jiang, Yonghong Zhang, Guanghui Jiang
Summary: This study found that the water yield in the Yellow River Basin overall increased during the study period, with cultivated land and grassland being the main contributing factors. Different regions showed varying impacts on water yield, and land use/land cover changes have been beneficial to water yield in recent years.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Agronomy
Yitao Zhang, Pingguo Yang, Jian Liu, Xucheng Zhang, Ying Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Lei Li
Summary: The Yellow River Basin faces challenges in sustainable water management in agriculture, but research shows that practices such as mulching, drip irrigation, and water-nutrient coupling are essential for improving crop production and environmental protection. Further research is needed to understand the efficiency of management practices in different landscapes and changing climates, as well as to analyze system-level linkages between water balance, soil water availability, conservation, water and soil losses, and agricultural and environmental sustainability.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Pamela A. Melo, Livia A. Alvarenga, Javier Tomasella, Carlos R. de Mello, Minella A. Martins, Gilberto Coelho
Summary: This study quantified the hydrological impacts of climate and anthropogenic changes in the Upper Grande River Basin and predicted potential future impacts on runoff based on climate model projections. The results showed that both climate and land-use changes have significant influences on the hydrological regime, with the expansion of agricultural areas being the main driver of anthropogenic impacts. Future climate projections indicate a reduction in average runoff, and the Budyko framework performed well in predicting future climate change impacts on water availability, similar to previous hydrological modeling studies in the same region.
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dawit Samuel Teshome, Megersa Kebede Leta, Habitamu Taddese, Alene Moshe, Terefe Tolessa, Gebiaw T. Ayele, Songcai You
Summary: This study assesses the hydrological responses of land cover changes in the Muger watershed from 1986 to 2020. The key findings are that changes in cultivation land, forest land, and settlement have significant impacts on the hydrological processes. The study outcome can assist decision-makers and planners in preparing adaptable strategies under changing land cover conditions within a watershed.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Jingyi Hu, Yiping Wu, Pengcheng Sun, Fubo Zhao, Ke Sun, Tiejian Li, Bellie Sivakumar, Linjing Qiu, Yuzhu Sun, Zhangdong Jin
Summary: The study investigates the potential impacts of future climate change in the headwater area of the Yellow River Basin on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Results show that with warmer and wetter climate, actual evapotranspiration is expected to increase significantly, leading to a decrease in water supply and a worsening water crisis.
STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xutong Ru, Hongquan Song, Haoming Xia, Shiyan Zhai, Yaobin Wang, Ruiqi Min, Haopeng Zhang, Longxin Qiao
Summary: Land use and land cover change (LUCC) has an impact on temperature changes in the Yellow River Basin, with urban expansion and conversion of farmland to grassland leading to a rise in temperature.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Meijiao Chen, Fang Tian, Xianyong Cao, Wanyi Zhang, Birgit Plessen, Steffen Mischke
Summary: Understanding the availability of water resources in the Yellow River Source Area is crucial for the hydrology, ecology, and socioeconomics of the region. By analyzing sediment core samples, this study investigates the lake-level changes and driving factors in the area over the past 7.4 thousand years. The results suggest that global warming may lead to a significant decrease in lake levels and water availability in the Yellow River downstream.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Leandro Avila, Reinaldo Silveira, Andre Campos, Nathalli Rogiski, Jose Goncalves, Arlan Scortegagna, Camila Freita, Cassia Aver, Fernando Fan
Summary: Hydrological modeling is a valuable tool for water resources management, allowing for the representation of hydrological processes and prediction of streamflow. This study evaluates the performance of five hydrological models in representing streamflow in the Tocantins river basin in Brazil, finding that one model outperforms the others. Additionally, the limitations of lumped models for large river basins are discussed.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lyuliu Liu, Chan Xiao, Yihua Liu
Summary: This study investigates the potential impacts of climate change on water scarcity and hydrological extremes in the Yellow River Basin. The results show that water shortage will continue to be a threat, although there will be some alleviation. More and larger floods will occur in the summer, especially in the long term under the SSP5-8.5 scenario. There will also be more hydrological droughts, with some extreme droughts exceeding historical magnitudes.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kaiwen Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Gang Wang, Tiantian Li, Jinbo Song, Wenhuan Wu, Vijay P. Singh
Summary: The ecological conservation and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is a major national strategy in China. The Mongolian section of the Yellow River Basin is an important ecological barrier in Northern China, and understanding the interactions between soil moisture and surface water availability in this region is crucial for regional ecological security.
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Irfan Ullah, Xieyao Ma, Jun Yin, Temesgen Gebremariam Asfaw, Kamran Azam, Sidra Syed, Mengyang Liu, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Shahzaman
Summary: Drought is a frequent natural disaster in Pakistan, impacting livelihoods, agriculture, and the economy. Reanalysis products provide relatively accurate assessment of drought in Pakistan, with overestimation of drought severity in western regions. CRU TS and MERRA-2 show significant increasing trends in monthly drought areas and occurrence in dominant arid regions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Irfan Ullah, Xieyao Ma, Jun Yin, Farhan Saleem, Sidra Syed, Abubaker Omer, Birhanu Asmerom Habtemicheal, Mengyang Liu, Muhammad Arshad
Summary: Long-term drought monitoring and assessment are crucial for meteorological disaster risk management. This study investigated spatiotemporal changes in drought characteristics over Pakistan and explored the role of large-scale circulation and climate variability in drought occurrences. The findings suggest an increase in drought severity in arid regions, with temperature and rainfall playing significant roles in defining drought patterns. Influential factors include Nino4, sea surface temperature, and the multivariate ENSO4.0 Index.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Irfan Ullah, Farhan Saleem, Vedaste Iyakaremye, Jun Yin, Xieyao Ma, Sidra Syed, Saadia Hina, Temesgen Gebremariam Asfaw, Abubaker Omer
Summary: The risk and persistence of heatwave events have intensified and are expected to increase faster in the future. This study investigates the projected heat stress and associated socioeconomic exposure in South Asia using climate models, population, and GDP projections. The findings suggest that the region is at risk of widespread changes in heat stress, with significant increases in population and GDP exposure.
Article
Agronomy
Sorada Tapsuwan, Jorge L. Pena-Arancibia, Neil Lazarow, Melisa Albisetti, Hongxing Zheng, Rodrigo Rojas, Vianney Torres-Alferez, Francis H. S. Chiew, Richard Hopkins, David J. Penton
Summary: This paper presents findings from a stochastic benefit-cost analysis in the Tacna region, evaluating the net benefit and benefit-cost ratio under climate change and socioeconomic development. The study suggests that investing in water use efficiency and conservation measures produces more favorable net benefit outcomes compared to investing in water supply infrastructure.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Kaidong Lu, Muhammad Arshad, Xieyao Ma, Irfan Ullah, Jianjian Wang, Wei Shao
Summary: The present study evaluates the performance of 46 global climate models (GCMs) from CMIP6 in simulating historical precipitation and temperature in China. The study selects the best-performing models for future projections and finds an increasing trend in precipitation and temperature across China and three major river basins. The study highlights the need for further assessment and implementation of accurate simulation methods for future practice.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Irfan Ullah, Xieyao Ma, Jun Yin, Abubaker Omer, Birhanu Asmerom Habtemicheal, Farhan Saleem, Vedaste Iyakaremye, Sidra Syed, Muhammad Arshad, Mengyang Liu
Summary: This study investigates the spatiotemporal changes in meteorological drought in South Asia from 1981 to 2020 using observation-based datasets. The results show a significant drying trend in the winter season, particularly in the southwestern and northeastern parts of South Asia. Moreover, arid and semi-arid regions experience longer and more severe droughts compared to other parts of South Asia. The relationship between drought variability and climate drivers also varies over time.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Irfan Ullah, Xieyao Ma, Guoyu Ren, Jun Yin, Vedaste Iyakaremye, Sidra Syed, Kaidong Lu, Yun Xing, Vijay P. Singh
Summary: The drought situation in South Asia is related to ocean variability modes, precipitation, temperature, and vapor pressure deficit, while the relationship with ENSO and IOD events is not significant.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Linan Guo, Yanhong Wu, Hongxing Zheng, Bing Zhang, Lanxin Fan, Haojing Chi, Bokun Yan, Xiaoqi Wang
Summary: This study investigates the consistency and uncertainty of eight ET products over China and finds that these products are largely consistent with each other. The study also reveals considerable differences in estimated mean annual ET values and higher uncertainties in arid regions compared to humid regions. Model averaging can help reduce uncertainties.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Francis H. S. Chiew, Hongxing Zheng, Nicholas J. Potter, Stephen P. Charles, Marcus Thatcher, Fei Ji, Jozef Syktus, David E. Robertson, David A. Post
Summary: This study compares future streamflow projections for 133 catchments in the Murray-Darling Basin simulated by a hydrological model, using future rainfall inputs generated by different methods informed by climate change signals from different global climate models and dynamically downscaled datasets. The research shows a large range in future projections due to uncertainty in rainfall projections. Dynamical downscaling provides higher spatial resolution simulations, but projections from different datasets can vary significantly. It may be prudent to communicate a limited number of future scenarios for impact assessments, particularly if all projections indicate a drier future in the Basin.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Irfan Ullah, Xieyao Ma, Temesgen Gebremariam Asfaw, Jun Yin, Vedaste Iyakaremye, Farhan Saleem, Yun Xing, Kamran Azam, Sidra Syed
Summary: This study quantifies the future changes in drought risks and associated socioeconomic exposure in South Asia using global climate models. The findings suggest that global warming will increase the frequency and severity of droughts in the region, with significant impacts on the population and GDP. Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius can significantly reduce the drought risk influence in South Asia.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rui Wei, Yuxin Li, Jun Yin, Xieyao Ma
Summary: This study highlights the importance of considering areal weights in grid data analysis. The use of weighted sample statistics and grid interpolation methods result in different outcomes, emphasizing the need for explicit clarification of grid data processing methods to improve reproducibility in climate research.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yanhong Wu, Linan Guo, Bing Zhang, Hongxing Zheng, Lanxin Fan, Haojing Chi, Junsheng Li, Shenglei Wang
Summary: This research presents a dataset of lake ice phenology data from 132 lakes on the Tibetan Plateau over a 39-year period. The data derived through remote sensing and numerical modeling methods is highly consistent with existing approaches, providing valuable information for studying lake-atmosphere interactions and long-term hydrothermal changes on the Tibetan Plateau.
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Kun Lu, Qingyang Zhou, Rongpeng Li, Zhifeng Zhao, Xianfu Chen, Jianjun Wu, Honggang Zhang
Summary: This article rethinks the design of modern communications, introduces a new semantics-aware communication framework, analyzes the defects of existing techniques, and proposes a confidence-based distillation mechanism and a reinforcement learning-powered semantic communication paradigm. It provides new insights into how semantics are processed and represented and verifies the benefits of semantics-aware coding and communication.
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Rui Zou, Yixing Yin, Xiaojun Wang, Zengxin Zhang, Xieyao Ma, Mengyang Liu, Irfan Ullan
Summary: This study uses precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow indices to explore the characteristics and propagation process from meteorological drought (MD) to hydrological drought (HD) in eastern Gansu, China. The results show that the region was wetter/drier before/after 2000 and that the propagation time from MD to HD is typically within 1-10 months. Furthermore, the decrease in precipitation and water resource consumption contributed to the dryness observed after 2000.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Linan Guo, Hongxing Zheng, Yanhong Wu, Lanxin Fan, Mengxuan Wen, Junsheng Li, Fangfang Zhang, Liping Zhu, Bing Zhang
Summary: Lake surface water temperature (LSWT) is a critical physical property and indicator of climate change in the aquatic ecosystem. This study presents a comprehensive dataset of daily LSWT for 160 lakes across the Tibetan Plateau, combining satellite-based observation and modeling. The dataset reveals a significant increase in annual LSWT from 1978 to 2017, with a higher warming rate in winter than in summer.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2022)