River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling

T Maavara, Q Chen, K Van Meter, LE Brown… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The increased use of hydropower is currently driving the greatest surge in global dam
construction since the mid-20th century, meaning that most major rivers on Earth are now …

The measurement of water scarcity: Defining a meaningful indicator

S Damkjaer, R Taylor - Ambio, 2017‏ - Springer
Metrics of water scarcity and stress have evolved over the last three decades from simple
threshold indicators to holistic measures characterising human environments and freshwater …

Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change

J Boulange, N Hanasaki, D Yamazaki… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Globally, flood risk is projected to increase in the future due to climate change and
population growth. Here, we quantify the role of dams in flood mitigation, previously …

Water bodies' map** from Sentinel-2 imagery with modified normalized difference water index at 10-m spatial resolution produced by sharpening the SWIR band

Y Du, Y Zhang, F Ling, Q Wang, W Li, X Li - Remote Sensing, 2016‏ - mdpi.com
Monitoring open water bodies accurately is an important and basic application in remote
sensing. Various water body map** approaches have been developed to extract water …

Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming

T Maavara, R Lauerwald, P Regnier… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
The damming of rivers represents one of the most far-reaching human modifications of the
flows of water and associated matter from land to sea. Dam reservoirs are hotspots of …

Reassessment of 20th century global mean sea level rise

S Dangendorf, M Marcos, G Wöppelmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
The rate at which global mean sea level (GMSL) rose during the 20th century is uncertain,
with little consensus between various reconstructions that indicate rates of rise ranging from …

An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales

G Grill, B Lehner, AE Lumsdon… - Environmental …, 2015‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The global number of dam constructions has increased dramatically over the past six
decades and is forecast to continue to rise, particularly in less industrialized regions …

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

MP Clark, Y Fan, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global
environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle …

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 phosphorus retention by river damming

T Maavara, CT Parsons, C Ridenour… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
More than 70,000 large dams have been built worldwide. With growing water stress and
demand for energy, this number will continue to increase in the foreseeable future …