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Engineering, Civil
Ruochen Sun, Qingyun Duan, Jiahu Wang
Summary: By utilizing three bias-insensitive spatial evaluation methods, this study assessed the evapotranspiration products across China and found that Noah and VIC have comparable performances and outperform CLSM in different statistic metrics. These evaluation results can help diagnose model errors and promote the spatial performance of the models.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rui Shao, Baoqing Zhang, Xiaogang He, Tongxuan Su, Yao Li, Biao Long, Xuejin Wang, Wenjing Yang, Chansheng He
Summary: This study quantifies the impact of vegetation restoration on water storage change in the Loess Plateau, China, highlighting that an increase in vegetation coverage can lead to a decrease in water storage. The research emphasizes the importance of considering time scales when ignoring water storage change in water balance analysis.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Srinivasa Rao Peddinti, Isaya Kisekka
Summary: Estimating actual crop evapotranspiration (ETc) using high-resolution aerial remote sensing data is crucial for detecting water stress and managing water resources in precision agriculture. This study compared three remote sensing ETc models and found that the Two-Source Energy Balance (TSEB) model performed the best in estimating instantaneous turbulent fluxes and spatial variability.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Xin Ma, Aihui Wang
Summary: This study simulated land surface processes in China using the CLM5 model and validated the results using multiple high-quality datasets. The simulations accurately captured most of the hydrological variables and energy fluxes, with some biases in certain aspects.
JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Guocan Wu, Yun Li, Shun Qin, Yuna Mao, Kaicun Wang
Summary: This study examines the uneven distribution of precipitation over China using gauge observations and reanalysis products from 1979 to 2018. The results show that while reanalysis datasets can reproduce spatial patterns, they tend to overestimate the annual number of wet days and underestimate precipitation intensity. The cumulative fractions of precipitation on the wettest days show a small negative trend in gauge observations but a positive and stronger trend in reanalyses.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Huatong Liu, Xing Yuan, Miao Zhang
Summary: This study examines the human influence on evapotranspiration (ET) across seven large river basins in the East Asian monsoon region from 2003 to 2019, finding varying levels of significance in different basins. Human-induced ET change is found to be more significant in northern semiarid basins, with reservoir evaporation playing a crucial role in this process.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Alexander P. Trishchenko, Calin Ungureanu
Summary: A novel satellite image processing technique has been utilized to produce annual time series of the minimum snow/ice extent over the northern circumpolar landmass area from 2000 to 2019. The study shows a significant declining trend in minimum snow cover during this period, which is closely related to surface air temperature changes.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Daeha Kim, Kyung-Ja Ha, Ji-Hye Yeo
Summary: This study projected future drought risks over East Asia using the CMIP6 climate projections and ET deficit perspective. Results suggest that future drought risks in East Asia may be higher than indicated by precipitation or soil moisture projections.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ting Lian, Xiaozhou Xin, Zhiqing Peng, Fugen Li, Hailong Zhang, Shanshan Yu, Huiyuan Liu
Summary: This study explores the effect and applicability of the EFAF method for correcting 1 km coarse resolution ET. The evaluation results show that the EFAF method outperforms the IPUS algorithm and provides more accurate ET estimates.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Xiaoyang Li, Lei Zou, Jun Xia, Ming Dou, Hongwei Li, Zhihong Song
Summary: This study analyzed the interannual variation and spatial distribution characteristics of evapotranspiration (ET) in China from 2005 to 2020 using the Priestley-Taylor Jet Propulsion Laboratory (PT-JPL) model. The contributions of climate change and land use/land cover change (LUCC) to ET variation were quantified, and the results showed that climate change had a greater impact on ET than LUCC. Temperature and net radiation were identified as the most critical factors affecting ET on a national scale.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Haiyan Teng, Ruby Leung, Grant Branstator, Jian Lu, Qinghua Ding
Summary: Significant surface air temperature warming is not uniformly distributed in the northern midlatitudes over land. It is confined to specific longitudinal sectors and is accompanied by high pressure ridges. The circulation trend pattern is associated with fluctuations of the Atlantic multidecadal variability and the interdecadal Pacific oscillation. The observed trends exceed the range of simulated multidecadal trends, suggesting the role of anthropogenic forcing. However, the understanding of low-frequency modes and their interactions remains limited.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Dehai Liao, Jun Niu, Shaozhong Kang, Shailesh Kumar Singh, Taisheng Du
Summary: The study shows that the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration due to climate change has an impact on crop evapotranspiration, leading to a reduction in water evaporation from crops. Model calculations suggest that the future increase in CO2 concentration may have a positive effect on water conservation through irrigation.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yipu Wang, Rui Li, Jiheng Hu, Xuewen Wang, Crispin Kabeja, Qilong Min, Yu Wang
Summary: Satellite remote sensing is crucial for estimating terrestrial evapotranspiration. The widely-used MOD16 ET product has been evaluated globally, but its accuracy under different cloud conditions remains uncertain. A comparison between MOD-ET and a new satellite microwave ET method showed that MOD-ET accuracy varied significantly with changing cloud cover in forests, while the EDVI-ET method demonstrated better performance under lower cloud cover.
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Qilin Wang, Yingping Wang, Lu Zhang, Shujing Qin, Quan Zhang, Pan Liu, Liu Liu, Kaijie Zou, Shujie Cheng, Lei Cheng
Summary: This study evaluated the performance of land surface models in estimating the impact of land-use change on terrestrial evapotranspiration globally. Results showed that errors in simulating land-use change impacts on evapotranspiration stem largely from how land-use data is interpreted. It was found that interpreting land-use data accounted for a larger percentage of errors compared to the model structure itself.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
J. C. A. Baker, L. Garcia-Carreras, W. Buermann, D. Castilho de Souza, J. H. Marsham, P. Y. Kubota, M. Gloor, C. A. S. Coelho, D. Spracklen
Summary: The study found that models simulating realistic controls on evapotranspiration in the Amazon region predicted suppressed future changes in precipitation, while models with unrealistic controls projected large increases or decreases in precipitation. By discounting projections from models with unrealistic controls, the analysis reduced uncertainty in future precipitation changes. The ensemble mean of plausible models showed a robust drying signal over the eastern Amazon and in the dry season, with precipitation increases in the west.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)