Earth Interactions: Recent submissions
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Planning for an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Sensitivity Assessment toward Adaptation Planning for Public Water Supply
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ssessing climate change risk to municipal water supplies is often conducted by hydrologic modeling specific to local watersheds and infrastructure to ensure that outputs are compatible with existing planning frameworks and ... -
Comparison of PMP-Driven Probable Maximum Floods with Flood Magnitudes due to Increasingly Urbanized Catchment: The Case of American River Watershed
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ince historical (predam) data are traditionally the sole criterion for dam design, future (postdam) meteorological and hydrological variability due to land-use and land-cover change cannot be considered for assessing design ... -
Modeling the Vulnerability of an Urban Groundwater System due to the Combined Impacts of Climate Change and Management Scenarios
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)limate change impact on a groundwater-dependent small urban town has been investigated in the semiarid hard rock aquifer in southern India. A distributed groundwater model was used to simulate the groundwater levels in the ... -
Toward a Methodology to Investigate the Downstream Flood Hazards on the American River due to Changes in Probable Maximum Flood due to Effects of Artificial Reservoir Size and Land-Use/Land-Cover Patterns
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ecent research in mesoscale hydrology suggests that the size of the reservoirs and the land-use/land-cover (LULC) patterns near them impact the extreme weather [e.g., probable maximum flood (PMF)]. A key question was ... -
An Assessment of the Influences of Surface and Subsurface Water Level Dynamics in the Development of Gullies in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ully erosion?induced problems have been challenging the people and government of Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria for a long time. In spite of the numerous geoscientific and engineering studies so far conducted in the ... -
Satellite Detection of Spatial Distribution and Temporal Changes of Surface Soil Moisture at Three Gorges Dam Region from 2003 to 2011
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)nowledge of the spatial distribution and temporal changes of the land surface parameters at the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) region is essential to understanding the changes of hydrological processes and climate systems possibly ... -
A Spatially Distributed Model to Simulate Water, Energy, and Vegetation Dynamics Using Information from Regional Climate Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)tudies seeking to understand the impacts of climate variability and change on the hydrology of a region need to take into account the dynamics of vegetation and its interaction with the hydrologic and energy cycles. Yet, ... -
Using Remote Sensing Data to Improve Groundwater Supply Estimations in Gujarat, India
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ndia is the greatest groundwater consumer in the world, with estimated annual withdrawals exceeding 230 km3. More than 60% of irrigated agriculture, 85% of drinking water supplies, and 50% of urban and industrial water ... -
Mangrove Microclimate: A Case Study from Southeastern Brazil
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)mangrove is a transitional coastal ecosystem between marine and terrestrial environments that is characterized by salinity and constant tidal flooding. Mangroves contain plant communities that are adapted to several physical ... -
Considering Streamflow Trend Analyses Uncertainty in Urbanizing Watersheds: A Baseflow Case Study in the Central United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)ssuming pro rata reductions in baseflow resulting from urban development may not be valid in all urbanizing watersheds. Anthropogenic offsets or compensatory contributions to baseflow (e.g., net exfiltration from sewer ... -
Modeling Regional Vegetation NPP Variations and Their Relationships with Climatic Parameters in Wuhan, China
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)et primary productivity (NPP) is an important component of the carbon cycle and a key indicator of ecosystem performance. The aim of this study is to construct a more accurate regional vegetation NPP estimation model and ... -
Reducing Inconsistencies in Point Observations of Maximum Flood Inundation Level
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)lood simulation models and hazard maps are only as good as the underlying data against which they are calibrated and tested. However, extreme flood events are by definition rare, so the observational data of flood inundation ... -
Analysis of the Establishment of Seedlings of Açai (Euterpe Oleracea Mart.) in the Understory of a Forest of Amazon Floodplain
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he effects of diffuse solar radiation (DSR), precipitation, and air temperature on survival and mortality of seedlings of açai (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) were evaluated in an estuarine floodplain forest located in the ... -
Evaluation of a Dynamic Agroecosystem Model (Agro-IBIS) for Soybean in Southern Brazil
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ith the growing demands for food and biofuel, new technologies and crop management systems are being used to increase productivity and minimize land-use impacts. In this context, estimates of productivity and the impacts ... -
Are Temperature and Precipitation Extremes Increasing over the U.S. High Plains?
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)arge-scale environmental, social, and economic impacts of recent weather and climate extremes are raising questions about whether the frequency and intensity of these extremes have been increasing. Here, the authors evaluate ... -
Hydroclimate Analysis of Severe Floods in China’s Poyang Lake Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)oyang Lake in Jiangxi Province is the largest freshwater lake in China and is historically a region of significant floods. Maximum annual lake stage and the number of severe flood events have increased during the past few ... -
Simulating Hydrological Drought Properties at Different Spatial Units in the United States Based on Wavelet–Bayesian Regression Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ecause of their stochastic nature, droughts vary in space and time, and therefore quantifying droughts at different time units is important for water resources planning. The authors investigated the relationship between ... -
Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n this study, the authors provide a global assessment of the performance of different drought indices for monitoring drought impacts on several hydrological, agricultural, and ecological response variables. For this purpose, ... -
Characteristics of Drought and Persistent Wet Spells over the United States in the Atmosphere–Land–Ocean Coupled Model Experiments
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)tmosphere?land?ocean coupled model simulations are examined to diagnose the ability of models to simulate drought and persistent wet spells over the United States. A total of seven models are selected for this study. They ... -
Relationships of Fire and Precipitation Regimes in Temperate Forests of the Eastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ire affects virtually all terrestrial ecosystems but occurs more commonly in some than in others. This paper investigates how climate, specifically the moisture regime, influences the flammability of different landscapes ...