Satellite remote sensing for water resources management: Potential for supporting sustainable development in data‐poor regions

J Sheffield, EF Wood, M Pan, H Beck… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water resources management (WRM) for sustainable development presents many
challenges in areas with sparse in situ monitoring networks. The exponential growth of …

The effect of deep tillage on crop yield–What do we really know?

F Schneider, A Don, I Hennings, O Schmittmann… - Soil and tillage …, 2017 - Elsevier
The subsoil below the regularly tilled topsoil stores large nutrient stocks and can retain water
even under drought conditions. Mechanical soil profile modifications, commonly referred to …

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

F Yao, B Livneh, B Rajagopalan, J Wang, JF Crétaux… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth's
liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends and drivers of lake volume change remain …

The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally

V Thompson, AT Kennedy-Asser, E Vosper, YTE Lo… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
In June 2021, western North America experienced a record-breaking heat wave outside the
distribution of previously observed temperatures. While it is clear that the event was extreme …

[HTML][HTML] ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

J Muñoz-Sabater, E Dutra… - … system science data, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European
Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is …

Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale

FHM Tang, M Lenzen, A McBratney, F Maggi - Nature geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Pesticides are widely used to protect food production and meet global food demand but are
also ubiquitous environmental pollutants, causing adverse effects on water quality …

A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes

M Ombadi, MD Risser, AM Rhoades, C Varadharajan - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The intensity of extreme precipitation events is projected to increase in a warmer climate,,,–,
posing a great challenge to water sustainability in natural and built environments. Of …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021

SY Philip, SF Kew, GJ Van Oldenborgh… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Towards the end of June 2021, temperature records were broken by several degrees
Celsius in several cities in the Pacific Northwest areas of the US and Canada, leading to …

High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections

HE Beck, TR McVicar, N Vergopolan, A Berg… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
We introduce Version 2 of our widely used 1-km Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps
for historical and future climate conditions. The historical maps (encompassing 1901–1930 …

Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …