Quantifying uncertainties in water resource prediction in data-scarce regions is essential for resource development. We use globally available datasets of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration for the regionalization of model parameters in t...
Arid regions are ecologically fragile and occupy a substantial portion of the global terrestrial surface. In these regions, ecosystem services (ESs) are strongly constrained by water availability and, more importantly, by the balance between water su...
Due to the large amount of water resources stored in glaciers, permafrost, and lakes, the source region of the Yangtze River (SRYR) is of great importance for the overall basin water flow. For this purpose, a state of art review and calculations were...
Land use/cover change (LUCC) can alter watershed water balance, while whole-watershed averages may obscure spatial heterogeneity among sub-basins. This study evaluated LUCC-induced hydrological responses in the northern region of Longyou County, Zhej...
The study of water balance is considered here as a way to assess the performance of regional climate models and examine model uncertainty and as an approach to understanding regional hydrology, especially interactions between atmospheric and hydrolog...
Quantifying components of soil water balance in farmland of the middle reaches of Heihe River Basin is essential for efficiently scheduling and allocating limited water resources for irrigation in this arid region. A soil water balance model based on...
Vegetation serves as a key element in the land-atmospheric system, and changes in vegetation can impact the regional water-energy balance via several biophysical processes. This study proposes a new water-energy balance index that estimates the avail...
China is the largest country in terms of population and its booming urbanization has exerted negative effects on ground-surface hydrological processes at different spatial scales, land-use types, and water balance, such as surface runoff, groundwater...
Many applications of water resources planning and management depend on continuous streamflow predictions. A lack of data sources makes it difficult to predict stream flows in many world regions, including Saudi Arabia. Therefore, using simple, parsim...
This study investigates hydroclimatic variability and water balance dynamics in the Akmola region during 2003–2023 using observations from 16 meteorological stations. The study evaluates changes in air temperature, precipitation, reference evap...
Surface water extent (SWE) is a key indicator of the regional water balance in dryland environments. However, the hydrological processes regulating SWE responses remain poorly constrained. Focusing on the Mu Us Sandy Land (MUSL), this study integrate...
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) and water balance (WB) are key indicators of hydroclimatic conditions and water availability, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. This study investigates the interannual variability, long-term trends, and ab...
This study investigates the effects of climate change on the irrigation demand of vegetable crops caused by alteration of climate parameters affecting evapotranspiration (ET), plant development, and growing periods in Central Europe. Utilizing a mode...
Due to the high nonlinearity of the three-dimensional (3-D) unsaturated-saturated water flow equation, using a fully 3-D numerical model is computationally expensive for large scale applications. A new unsaturated-saturated water flow model is develo...
Climate change is expected to alter hydro-climatic conditions and water availability across Central Europe, with important implications for vegetation and land-use systems. This study assesses projected changes in climatic water balance (CWB), hydro-...
This manuscript aims to create large-scale calculations of agro-climatic factors from global climatic data with high granularity-climatic ERA5-Land dataset from the Copernicus Climate Change Service in particular. First, we analyze existing approache...
Accurate prediction of daily actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) is crucial for effective irrigation scheduling and sustainable water resources management. Recently, machine learning (ML) has expanded to predict nonlinear environmental systems like...
Storage and runoff are the two fundamental surface hydrological variables of a catchment. Research studies have been focused on the storage-runoff (S-R) hysteretic relationship of a catchment and its explanation very recently, thanks to satellite gra...
Accurate estimates of actual crop evapotranspiration (ET) are important for optimal irrigation water management, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Common ET sensing methods include Bowen Ratio, Eddy Covariance (EC), and scintillometers. Large...
Climate change, water shortages and desertification threaten the economic and environmental sustainability in the Mediterranean. Limited rainfall and higher temperatures put agricultural production, which relies on water availability, in jeopardy. Th...
Optimal planning and management of the limited water resources for maximum productivity in agriculture requires quantifying the irrigation applied at a regional scale. However, most efforts involving remote sensing applications in assessing large-sca...
The evaluation of water and energy cycles from the estimation of water balance is a fundamental instrument to assess the water potential of a region. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the probable monthly water deficit and surplus in...
Irrigation is facing increasing pressure from other competitive water users to reduce water consumption in a water scarce region. Based on the Basin-wide Holistic Integrated Water Assessment (BHIWA) model, the effects of water management strategies o...
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Climate change scenarios show that water availability could be decreasing in the near future, adding to the increasing problem of the growing water demands in socioeconomic sectors. The aim of this work was to generate a geographically explicit water...
Second-crop corn is an important component of Brazilian grain production and is highly exposed to climatic variability because crop development occurs during the transition from the rainy to the drier season. This study assessed the performance of ma...
This paper aims to develop a method to assess regional water balances using remote sensing techniques. The Boufakrane river watershed in Meknes Region (Morocco), which is characterized by both a strong urbanization and a rural land use change, is tak...
In regions characterized by continuous permafrost, hydrological modeling remains a complex activity, primarily due to constraints related to the prevailing climatic conditions and the specific behavior of the active layer. High-latitude regions recei...
Droughts have a significant impact on surface water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Computational and data handling limitations have constrained previous time-series analyses. However, advances in cloud computing services and rem...
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) plays an important role in irrigation planning and supervision. Traditionally, the estimation of ETa was approximated using different in situ techniques, having high initial and maintenance costs with low spatial resol...
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The Czech Republic has diverse soil conditions, which cause notable differences in crop water balance (WB). To assess the long-term crop WB and crop water stress (CWS) intensity in rainfed conditions, four conventional eight- and ten-year crop rotati...
Limited studies in East Africa and particularly in Uganda have been carried out to determine and map water use and demands. This study aimed at assessing the impact of management options on sustainable water allocation in environmentally sensitive ca...
This study aims to evaluate a remote sensing-based approach to allow estimation of the temporal and spatial distribution of crop evapotranspiration (ET) and irrigation water requirements over irrigated areas in semi-arid regions. The method is based...
This study introduces the Bi-Level Source-Grid-Load Synergistic Optimization (BL_SGLSO) model, which effectively balances the competing objectives of water conservation and carbon emission reduction in the power industry. The model aims to establish...
This study takes the pumped hydro storage (PHS) in arid areas—where the irrigation reservoir in the piedmont plain serves as the lower reservoir—as the research object. It establishes a model framework for the evolution of heat flux in th...
Skin changes in women around age 40 are often attributed to impaired barrier function or reduced hydration, but large-scale data comparing sebum, hydration, and transepidermal water loss (TEWL) across age groups are scarce. In this cross-sectional st...
This study evaluates the use of remote sensing data to improve the understanding of groundwater resources in climate-sensitive regions with limited data availability and increasing agricultural water demands. The research focuses on estimating ground...
Climate change (CC) and land use/land cover change (LULCC) are significant drivers of hydrological change, and an effective watershed management requires a detailed understanding of their individual and the combined impact. This study focused on the...
In recent years, Indonesia has become the largest coal exporter in the world, and most of the coal is being mined by means of open-pit mining. The closure of an open-pit mine will usually leave a pit morphological landform that, in most cases, will b...
A reliable water supply is essential for balancing hydrologic, operational, and institutional constraints and is intensified by the water demands of emerging carbon-removal technologies. This study applies a reliable water-supply framework to Castle...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is usually difficult to estimate at the regional scale due to scarce direct measurements. This study uses the water balance equation to calculate the regional ET with observations of precipitation, runoff, and terrestrial wate...
Sustainable agriculture in China is threatened by rapid socioeconomic development, urbanization, and climate change. In addition, the distribution of freshwater resources between regions is highly unequal, and water shortages are common in arid regio...
Pollution from wastewater discharges requires the treatment of all wastewater to maintain water bodies in good condition, as well as the possibility of reusing this water. Thus, wastewater treatment is an activity that has developed significantly in...
In recent decades, the water cycle process in the Loess Plateau has undergone drastic changes under the influence of anthropogenic disturbance and climate variability. The Loess Plateau has been greatly affected by human activities and climate change...
There is a knowledge gap and practical demand to understand the co-evolutionary relationship between rural household livelihood and regional ecological footprints for developing sustainable livelihoods in ecological conservation regions. This paper t...
There is a lack of information about the effect of climate change on the water budget for the eastern side of Colombia, which is currently experiencing an increased pressure on its water resources due to the demand for food, industrial use, and human...
Forested catchments are critical sources of freshwater used by society, but anthropogenic climate change can alter the amount of precipitation partitioned into streamflow and evapotranspiration, threatening their role as reliable fresh water sources....
The Western Ghats (WG) in South India is a biological hotspot with a cluster of small river basins and heterogeneous climate and vegetation patterns, and it is categorized under the water stress region by Central Water Commission (CWC). This study ai...
Because of the complexity of wet steam two-phase condensation flow, many problems remain to be solved. The important part of condensation theory—the calculation of the water droplet growth model in the transition zone—is not ideal; thus, it is necess...
Regional climate change affects the state of inland water bodies and their water balance, which is determined by a number of hydrometeorological and hydrogeological factors. An integral characteristic of changes in the water balance is the behavior o...
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