A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

RP Allan, M Barlow, MP Byrne… - Annals of the New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, thermodynamics explains an increase in atmospheric water vapor with warming of
around 7%/° C near to the surface. In contrast, global precipitation and evaporation are …

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, G Blöschl - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

[HTML][HTML] Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management

LJ Slater, B Anderson, M Buechel… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Hydroclimatic extremes such as intense rainfall, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wind or
storms have devastating effects each year. One of the key challenges for society is …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

[HTML][HTML] Transformation of Brazil's biomes: The dynamics and fate of agriculture and pasture expansion into native vegetation

CB Caballero, TW Biggs, N Vergopolan… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Land use and cover change (LUCC) in Brazil encompass a complex interplay of diverse
factors across different biomes. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for informed …

A recent systematic increase in vapor pressure deficit over tropical South America

A Barkhordarian, SS Saatchi, A Behrangi, PC Loikith… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We show a recent increasing trend in Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) over tropical South
America in dry months with values well beyond the range of trends due to natural variability …

Watershed ecohydrological processes in a changing environment: opportunities and challenges

Z Cao, S Wang, P Luo, D Xie, W Zhu - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Basin ecohydrological processes are essential for informing policymaking and social
development in response to growing environmental problems. In this paper, we review …

CAMELS-BR: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 897 catchments in Brazil

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, N Addor… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
We introduce a new catchment dataset for large-sample hydrological studies in Brazil. This
dataset encompasses daily time series of observed streamflow from 3679 gauges, as well …

Causes, responses, and implications of anthropogenic versus natural flow intermittence in river networks

T Datry, A Truchy, JD Olden, MH Busch… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Rivers that do not flow year-round are the predominant type of running waters on Earth.
Despite a burgeoning literature on natural flow intermittence (NFI), knowledge about the …