Hydrological drought explained

AF Van Loon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is a complex natural hazard that impacts ecosystems and society in many ways.
Many of these impacts are associated with hydrological drought (drought in rivers, lakes …

An overview of the hydrology of non‐perennial rivers and streams

M Shanafield, SA Bourke, MA Zimmer… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐perennial rivers and streams are ubiquitous on our planet. Although several metrics
have been used to statistically group or compare streamflow characteristics, there is …

Long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network for low-flow hydrological time series forecasting

BB Sahoo, R Jha, A Singh, D Kumar - Acta Geophysica, 2019 - Springer
This article explores the suitability of a long short-term memory recurrent neural network
(LSTM-RNN) and artificial intelligence (AI) method for low-flow time series forecasting. The …

[HTML][HTML] Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure

RI McDonald, K Weber, J Padowski, M Flörke… - Global environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Urban growth is increasing the demand for freshwater resources, yet surprisingly the water
sources of the world's large cities have never been globally assessed, hampering efforts to …

Water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint

T Gleeson, Y Wada, MFP Bierkens, LPH Van Beek - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Groundwater is a life-sustaining resource that supplies water to billions of people, plays a
central part in irrigated agriculture and influences the health of many ecosystems,. Most …

Sustainability of global water use: past reconstruction and future projections

Y Wada, MFP Bierkens - Environmental Research Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Overuse of surface water and an increasing reliance on nonrenewable groundwater
resources have been reported over various regions of the world, casting significant doubt on …

Global river discharge and water temperature under climate change

MTH Van Vliet, WHP Franssen, JR Yearsley… - Global Environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate change will affect hydrologic and thermal regimes of rivers, having a direct impact
on freshwater ecosystems and human water use. Here we assess the impact of climate …

Measuring global water security towards sustainable development goals

AK Gain, C Giupponi, Y Wada - Environmental Research Letters, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Water plays an important role in underpinning equitable, stable and productive societies and
ecosystems. Hence, United Nations recognized ensuring water security as one (Goal 6) of …

Machine learning assisted hybrid models can improve streamflow simulation in diverse catchments across the conterminous US

G Konapala, SC Kao, SL Painter… - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Incomplete representations of physical processes often lead to structural errors in process-
based (PB) hydrologic models. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can reduce streamflow …

Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to assess land use impact on water resources in an East African watershed

TJ Baker, SN Miller - Journal of hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
Land cover and land use changes in Kenya's Rift Valley have altered the hydrologic
response of the River Njoro watershed by changing the partitioning of excess rainfall into …