Emerging trends in global freshwater availability

M Rodell, JS Famiglietti, DN Wiese, JT Reager… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Freshwater availability is changing worldwide. Here we quantify 34 trends in terrestrial water
storage observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites …

Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change

BD Tapley, MM Watkins, F Flechtner, C Reigber… - Nature climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Time-resolved satellite gravimetry has revolutionized understanding of mass transport in the
Earth system. Since 2002, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has …

Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

DG Miralles, P Gentine, SI Seneviratne… - Annals of the New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts and heatwaves cause agricultural loss, forest mortality, and drinking water scarcity,
especially when they occur simultaneously as combined events. Their predicted increase in …

Non-renewable groundwater use and groundwater depletion: a review

MFP Bierkens, Y Wada - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Population growth, economic development, and dietary changes have drastically increased
the demand for food and water. The resulting expansion of irrigated agriculture into semi …

Reconstruction of GRACE data on changes in total water storage over the global land surface and 60 basins

Z Sun, D Long, W Yang, X Li… - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Launched in May 2018, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow‐On
mission (GRACE‐FO)—the successor of the erstwhile GRACE mission—monitors changes …

Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges

B Li, M Rodell, S Kumar, HK Beaudoing… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The scarcity of groundwater storage change data at the global scale hinders our ability to
monitor groundwater resources effectively. In this study, we assimilate a state‐of‐the‐art …

[HTML][HTML] GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century

V Humphrey, L Gudmundsson - Earth System Science Data, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
The amount of water stored on continents is an important constraint for water mass and
energy exchanges in the Earth system and exhibits large inter-annual variability at both local …

Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions

Y Wada, MFP Bierkens, A De Roo… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Over recent decades, the global population has been rapidly increasing and human
activities have altered terrestrial water fluxes to an unprecedented extent. The phenomenal …

A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: the eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset

J Schellekens, E Dutra… - Earth System …, 2017 - essd.copernicus.org
The dataset presented here consists of an ensemble of 10 global hydrological and land
surface models for the period 1979–2012 using a reanalysis-based meteorological forcing …

Challenges of the Blue Economy: evidence and research trends

RM Martínez-Vázquez, J Milán-García… - Environmental Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background The Blue Economy is a recent field of study that encompasses
economic activities that depend on the sea, often associated with other economic sectors …