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Impact of atmospheric circulations on droughts and drought propagation over China
The GRACE satellite mission provides a new approach for monitoring, tracking, and assessing drought conditions by detecting changes in Earth’s gravitational fields and inversing signals of terrestrial water st...
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Non-stationary modeling of seasonal precipitation series in Turkey: estimating the plausible range of seasonal extremes
It is increasingly recognized that the assumption of stationarity is not always appropriate for estimating return periods from meteorological time series under the effects of climate change and climate variabi...
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Open AccessIncrease in ocean-onto-land droughts and their drivers under anthropogenic climate change
Ocean-onto-land droughts (OTLDs)—i.e., droughts originating over the oceans and migrating onto land—are a recently identified phenomenon with severe natural and human impacts. However, the influence of anthrop...
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Open AccessLarge anomalies in future extreme precipitation sensitivity driven by atmospheric dynamics
Increasing atmospheric moisture content is expected to intensify precipitation extremes under climate warming. However, extreme precipitation sensitivity (EPS) to temperature is complicated by the presence of ...
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Making China’s water data accessible, usable and shareable
Water data are essential for monitoring, managing, modelling and projecting water resources. Yet despite such data—including water quantity, quality, demand and ecology—being extensively collected in China, it...
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Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events
Compound drought–heatwave (CDHW) events are one of the worst climatic stressors for global sustainable development. However, the physical mechanisms behind CDHWs and their impacts on socio-ecosystem productivi...
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Thermodynamic driving mechanisms for the formation of global precipitation extremes and ecohydrological effects
Global warming has altered the thermodynamic and dynamic environments of climate systems, affecting the biogeochemical processes between the geosphere and atmosphere, which has significant impacts on precipita...
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Quantifying both climate and land use/cover changes on runoff variation in Han River basin, China
Climate change and land use/cover change (LUCC) can both exert great impacts on the generation processes of precipitation and runoff. However, previous studies usually neglected considering the contribution co...
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Projection of droughts and their socioeconomic exposures based on terrestrial water storage anomaly over China
Global warming has altered the thermodynamic and dynamic environments of the climate system, thus affecting the energy budget and water cycle process of the land-atmosphere system. Under changes in key hydrolo...
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High effectiveness of GRACE data in daily-scale flood modeling: case study in the Xijiang River Basin, China
The modeling and forecasting of short-duration and high-intensity floods are of importance for flood defenses and adaptations. One of the conventional ways to model or forecast such events is to utilize hydrol...
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Open AccessConstrained CMIP6 projections indicate less warming and a slower increase in water availability across Asia
Climate projections are essential for decision-making but contain non-negligible uncertainty. To reduce projection uncertainty over Asia, where half the world’s population resides, we develop emergent constrai...
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Open AccessMulti-objective optimization of water resources allocation in Han River basin (China) integrating efficiency, equity and sustainability
The hydrological cycle, affected by climate change and rapid urbanization in recent decades, has been altered to some extent and further poses great challenges to three key factors of water resources allocatio...
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Open AccessAdaptive optimal allocation of water resources response to future water availability and water demand in the Han River basin, China
Global warming and anthropogenic changes can result in the heterogeneity of water availability in the spatiotemporal scale, which will further affect the allocation of water resources. A lot of researches have...
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Integrating hybrid runoff generation mechanism into variable infiltration capacity model to facilitate hydrological simulations
Hydrological models of simulating the process of runoff generation play a pivotal role to predict the dynamic hydrological fluxes and states. In order to describe the process of runoff generation, three mechan...
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Flood Frequency Analysis of Interconnected Rivers by Copulas
Flood frequency analysis (FFA) considering the confluence of interconnected rivers is important for hydraulic structures (such as dams or diversions) design, but it has received little attention. This study devel...
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Quantitative assessment of adaptive measures on optimal water resources allocation by using reliability, resilience, vulnerability indicators
Water resources allocation is facing great challenge, since hydrological series have shown non-stationarity with high uncertainty due to climate change and human activities. Adaptive measures are suggested to ...
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Heuristic Input Variable Selection in Multi-Objective Reservoir Operation
Deriving operating rules for multi-objective cascade reservoir systems is an important challenge in water resources management. To address, this study combines a radial basis function network with an evolution...
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Open AccessReply to ‘Increases in temperature do not translate to increased flooding’
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Open AccessLarge increase in global storm runoff extremes driven by climate and anthropogenic changes
Weather extremes have widespread harmful impacts on ecosystems and human communities with more deaths and economic losses from flash floods than any other severe weather-related hazards. Flash floods attribute...
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Uncertainty Analysis of Bivariate Design Flood Estimation and its Impacts on Reservoir Routing
The bivariate hydrological quantile estimation may inevitably induce large sampling uncertainty due to short sample size. It is crucial to quantify such uncertainty and its impacts on reservoir routing. In thi...
