Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

B Merz, G Blöschl, S Vorogushyn, F Dottori… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

The state of the art in deep learning applications, challenges, and future prospects: A comprehensive review of flood forecasting and management

V Kumar, HM Azamathulla, KV Sharma, DJ Mehta… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Floods are a devastating natural calamity that may seriously harm both infrastructure and
people. Accurate flood forecasts and control are essential to lessen these effects and …

Reservoir operations under climate change: Storage capacity options to mitigate risk

N Ehsani, CJ Vörösmarty, BM Fekete, EZ Stakhiv - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Observed changes in precipitation patterns, rising surface temperature, increases in
frequency and intensity of floods and droughts, widespread melting of ice, and reduced …

Global Dam Tracker: A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information

AT Zhang, VX Gu - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
We present one of the most comprehensive geo-referenced global dam databases to date.
The Global Dam Tracker (GDAT) contains 35,000 dams with cross-validated geo …

Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review

P Gentine, JK Green, M Guérin… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The terrestrial carbon and water cycles are strongly coupled. As atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentration increases, climate and the coupled hydrologic cycle are modified, thus …

Multi-decadal variations in delta shorelines and their relationship to river sediment supply: An assessment and review

M Besset, EJ Anthony, F Bouchette - Earth-science reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The inception, growth, and decline of numerous large and small river deltas on Earth have
been strongly influenced by human population dynamics and interventions on catchments …

The frontiers of water and sanitation

AM Michalak, J **a, D Brdjanovic, AN Mbiyozo… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
The way in which human society uses water is continuously evolving. The present
challenges related to clean water availability require the development of sustainable …

Impact of extreme drought climate on water security in North Borneo: Case study of Sabah

C Payus, L Ann Huey, F Adnan, A Besse Rimba… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
For countries in Southeast Asia that mainly rely on surface water as their water resource,
changes in weather patterns and hydrological systems due to climate change will cause …

Patterns, drivers, and a predictive model of dam removal cost in the United States

JJ Duda, S Jumani, DJ Wieferich, D Tullos… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Given the burgeoning dam removal movement and the large number of dams approaching
obsolescence in the United States, cost estimating data and tools are needed for dam …