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 …

Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards

A AghaKouchak, LS Huning, M Sadegh, Y Qin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Growth in satellite observations and modelling capabilities has transformed drought
monitoring, offering near-real-time information. However, current monitoring efforts focus on …

The first high-resolution meteorological forcing dataset for land process studies over China

J He, K Yang, W Tang, H Lu, J Qin, Y Chen, X Li - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The China Meteorological Forcing Dataset (CMFD) is the first high spatial-temporal
resolution gridded near-surface meteorological dataset developed specifically for studies of …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25 global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data

HE Beck, AIJM Van Dijk, V Levizzani… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Current global precipitation (P) datasets do not take full advantage of the complementary
nature of satellite and reanalysis data. Here, we present Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble …

Toward improved predictions in ungauged basins: Exploiting the power of machine learning

F Kratzert, D Klotz, M Herrnegger… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Long short‐term memory (LSTM) networks offer unprecedented accuracy for prediction in
ungauged basins. We trained and tested several LSTMs on 531 basins from the CAMELS …

Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 1 …

Y **a, K Mitchell, M Ek, J Sheffield… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Results are presented from the second phase of the multiinstitution North American Land
Data Assimilation System (NLDAS‐2) research partnership. In NLDAS, the Noah, Variable …

Connections between groundwater flow and transpiration partitioning

RM Maxwell, LE Condon - Science, 2016 - science.org
Understanding freshwater fluxes at continental scales will help us better predict hydrologic
response and manage our terrestrial water resources. The partitioning of evapotranspiration …

Global reconstruction of naturalized river flows at 2.94 million reaches

P Lin, M Pan, HE Beck, Y Yang… - Water resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Spatiotemporally continuous global river discharge estimates across the full spectrum of
stream orders are vital to a range of hydrologic applications, yet they remain poorly …

A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications

A McNally, K Arsenault, S Kumar, S Shukla, P Peterson… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Seasonal agricultural drought monitoring systems, which rely on satellite remote sensing
and land surface models (LSMs), are important for disaster risk reduction and famine early …