The data assimilation technique is an effective method for reducing initial condition errors in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. This paper evaluated the potential of the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model and its three-dimensiona...
The quality of precipitation forecasting is critical for more accurate hydrological forecasts, especially flood forecasting. The use of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models has attracted much attention due to their impact on increasing the flood...
With the aim of improving the understanding of water exchanges in medium-scale catchments of northern China, the spatiotemporal characteristics of rainfall and several key water cycle elements e.g., soil moisture, evapotranspiration and generated run...
The newly developed WRF-Hydro model is a fully coupled atmospheric and hydrological processes model suitable for studying the intertwined atmospheric hydrological processes. This study utilizes the WRF-Hydro system on the Three-River source region. T...
A pair of hydro-meteorological modeling systems were calibrated and evaluated for the Ayalon basin in central Israel to assess the advantages and limitations of one-way versus two-way coupled modeling systems for flood prediction. The models used inc...
The uncertainties that affect hydrometeorological modelling chains can be addressed through ensemble approaches. In this paper, a convection-permitting ensemble system was assessed based on the downscaling of all members of the ECMWF ensemble predict...
The past two decades have seen an intensive development in two-way coupled atmospheric and hydrological models, providing new opportunities to thoroughly understand hydrology–atmosphere coupling and improve hydrometeorological forecasting, whic...
The Source Region of the Yellow River (SRYR), renowned as the “Water Tower of the Yellow River”, serves as an important water conservation domain in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, significantly influencing water resources within t...
Since the beginning of the 2000s, most of the West-African countries, particularly Benin, have experienced an increased frequency of extreme flood events. In this study, we focus on the case of the Ouémé river basin in Benin. To investi...
Similar to seasonal and intraseasonal variations in polar motion (PM), interannual variations are also largely caused by changes in the angular momentum of the Earth’s geophysical fluid layers composed of the atmosphere, the oceans, and in-land...
Coupled terrestrial carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and hydrological processes play a crucial role in the climate system, providing both positive and negative feedbacks to climate change. In this review we summarize published research results to gain an inc...
Land surface processes can significantly influence weather and climate. The Common Land Model version 2005 (CoLM2005) has been coupled to the Global Forecast System of the Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System (GRAPES_GFS), which is inde...
Landscape pattern is closely associated with pollution in rapidly urbanizing watersheds, but most studies still focus on single pollutants or single environmental media. This study developed a watershed-based framework to compare coupled water and ai...
Simulations of a Regional Climate Model (RCM) driven by identical lateral boundary conditions but initialized at different times exhibit the phenomenon of so-called internal model variability (or in short, Internal Variability—IV), which is def...
Atmospheric-chemical coupled models usually parameterize sea-salt aerosol (SSA) emissions using whitecap fraction estimated considering only wind speed and ignoring sea state. This approach may introduce inaccuracies in SSA simulation. This study aim...
Drought is one of the most complex and impactful natural hazards under global climate change, exerting profound effects on water resources, agricultural productivity, ecosystem stability, and socio-economic systems. Despite extensive research, curren...
The land-surface developments of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) are based on the Carbon-Hydrology Tiled Scheme for Surface Exchanges over Land (CHTESSEL) and form an integral part of the Integrated Forecasting System (...
Against the backdrop of accelerated terrestrial hydrological cycling and the increasing concurrence of drought-heatwave compound extremes under global warming, regional land-atmosphere coupling has emerged as a central mechanism shaping climate feedb...
Soil moisture over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) can affect hydrological cycles on local and remote scales through land–atmosphere interactions. However, TP long-term surface soil moisture characteristics and their response to climate change are sti...
Vegetation is a natural link between the atmosphere, soil, and water, and it significantly influences hydrological processes in the context of climate change. Under global warming, vegetation greening significantly aggravates the water conflicts betw...
Saudi Arabia is threatened by recurrent flash floods caused by extreme precipitation events. To mitigate the risks associated with these natural disasters, we implemented an advanced nationwide flash flood forecast system, boosting disaster preparedn...
We investigate the reasons for the opposite climate change signals in precipitation between the regional climate model REMO and its driving earth system model MPI-ESM over the greater Congo region. Three REMO simulations following three RCP scenarios...
Ecological multivariate systems offer a suitable data set on which to apply recent advances in information theory and causality detection. These systems are driven by the interplay of various environmental factors: meteorological and hydrological for...
The aims of the study were to quantify nutrient loads from point and diffuse pollution sources in the Rio Mannu stream and to simulate mitigation measures for reducing nutrient loads delivered to the Santa Gilla wetland. The Soil and Water Assessment...
Soil moisture (SM) mediates land–atmosphere water and energy exchanges and is therefore central to evapotranspiration, drought evolution, and hydroclimate extremes. The SM drydown timescale (τ), typically derived from exponential decay fits...
Understanding of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and its research progress and applications is critical to answer scientific questions related to climate change. While numerous scientific papers based on CMIP have been published, the...
Surface and deep potential geophysical signals respond to the spatial redistribution of global mass variations, which may be monitored by geodetic observations. In this study, we analyze dense Global Positioning System (GPS) time series in the Easter...
Climate change is reshaping agricultural systems by altering temperature and rainfall regimes, increasing the frequency of extreme events, and intensifying risks to crop productivity, water use, and farm decision-making. As climate–agriculture...
Air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) pollution, poses serious challenges to environmental quality and sustainable development. The Tibetan Plateau, often described as the “Third Pole,” functions as a...
In this mini-review, we present evidence from the vast literature that one essential part of the coupled atmosphere–ocean system that makes life on Earth possible, the water cycle, is exhibiting changes along with many attributes of the global...
The surface-atmosphere turbulent exchanges couple the water, energy and carbon budgets in the Earth system. The biosphere plays an important role in the evaporation process, and vegetation related parameters such as the leaf area index (LAI), vertica...
Drawing on ERA5 reanalysis data for 2005–2025, this study examines long-term environmental change across China’s eight major deserts and on this basis develops a data-informed framework for integrating geoscientific evidence into geograph...
Accurate long–term water resource supply simulation and demand estimation are crucial for effective water resource allocation. This study proposes advanced artificial intelligence (AI)–based models for both long–term water resource...
Soil moisture is a crucial component of the water cycle and plays an important role in regional weather and climate. However, owing to the lack of In Situ observations, an accurate understanding of the spatiotemporal variations of soil moisture (SM)...
The identification of the biogeophysical effects due to land-use, land-cover, and land- management changes (LULCC) is yet to be clearly understood. A range of factors, such as the inclusion of an interactive ocean model component, representation of l...
Land data assimilation system (LDAS)-Monde, an offline land data assimilation system with global capacity, is applied over the CONtiguous US (CONUS) domain to enhance monitoring accuracy for water and energy states and fluxes. LDAS-Monde ingests sate...
Closed-basin lakes are highly sensitive to climatic variability, yet for the Lake Van Basin (Türkiye), the dynamic and spatially heterogeneous linkages among atmospheric drivers and lake-level changes (particularly their lag structure and predic...
This review assesses gaps in water quality modeling, emphasizing opportunities to improve next-generation models that are essential for managing water quality and are integral to meeting goals of scientific and management agencies. In particular, thi...
Since the evaporation duct height (EDH) only covers the antenna height of most shipborne microwave radars, mastering the EDH in advance has great significance in achieving long-range target detection. In this paper, a set of hydrological and meteorol...
Evapotranspiration (ET) plays an important role in transferring water and converting energy in the land–atmosphere system. Accurately estimating ET is crucial for understanding global climate change, ecological environmental problems, the water...
Ground fissures induced by coal mining severely disrupt eco-hydrological processes in semi-arid regions. To elucidate the underlying coupling mechanisms between fissure physical disturbances and plant–soil system regulation, this study conducte...
Soil moisture (SM), as a crucial variable in the soil–vegetation–atmosphere continuum, plays an important role in the terrestrial water cycle. Analyzing SM’s variation and driver factors is crucial to maintaining ecosystem diversity...