River water quality shaped by land–river connectivity in a changing climate

L Li, JLA Knapp, A Lintern, GHC Ng, J Perdrial… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
River water quality is crucial to ecosystem health and water security, yet its deterioration
under climate change is often overlooked in climate risk assessments. Here we review how …

Soil hydrology in the Earth system

H Vereecken, W Amelung, SL Bauke… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil hydrological processes (SHP) support ecosystems, modulate the impact of climate
change on terrestrial systems and control feedback mechanisms between water, energy and …

The deep soil organic carbon response to global change

CE Hicks Pries, R Ryals, B Zhu, K Min… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over 70% of soil organic carbon (SOC) is stored at a depth greater than 20 cm belowground.
A portion of this deep SOC actively cycles on annual to decadal timescales and is sensitive …

Divergent effects of climate change on future groundwater availability in key mid-latitude aquifers

WY Wu, MH Lo, Y Wada, JS Famiglietti… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Groundwater provides critical freshwater supply, particularly in dry regions where surface
water availability is limited. Climate change impacts on GWS (groundwater storage) could …

Analytical modelling of soil porosity and bulk density across the soil organic matter and land-use continuum

DA Robinson, A Thomas, S Reinsch, I Lebron… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The thin layer of soil at the earth's surface supports life, storing water and nutrients for plant
uptake. These processes occur in the soil pore space, often half the soil volume, but our …

Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa

MO Cuthbert, RG Taylor, G Favreau, MC Todd… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa supports livelihoods and poverty alleviation,,
maintains vital ecosystems, and strongly influences terrestrial water and energy budgets. Yet …

An overview of flood concepts, challenges, and future directions

A Mishra, S Mukherjee, B Merz, VP Singh… - Journal of hydrologic …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
This review provides a broad overview of the current state of flood research, current
challenges, and future directions. Beginning with a discussion of flood-generating …

Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models

S Fatichi, D Or, R Walko, H Vereecken… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most soil hydraulic information used in Earth System Models (ESMs) is derived from pedo-
transfer functions that use easy-to-measure soil attributes to estimate hydraulic parameters …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal dynamics of wetlands and their driving factors based on PLS-SEM: A case study in Wuhan

C Wang, L Ma, Y Zhang, N Chen, W Wang - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, wetlands have been severely damaged due to natural environment and human
activities. Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of wetlands and their driving forces is …

Remotely sensed soil moisture can capture dynamics relevant to plant water uptake

AF Feldman, DJ Short Gianotti, J Dong… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A frequently expressed viewpoint across the Earth science community is that global soil
moisture estimates from satellite L‐band (1.4 GHz) measurements represent moisture only …