Distinguishing Direct Human‐Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle

Kåresdotter, Elisie; Destouni, Georgia; Ghajarnia, Navid; Lammers, R. B.; Kalantari, Zahra

doi:10.1029/2022ef002848

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“…Notably, this study did not consider the contributions from other human activities, such as transboundary water diversion from southern China to northern China (An et al., 2021; Karesdotter et al., 2022), which could lead to a potential error in the water storage change estimated from water balances. Furthermore, the impact of coal mining was ignored although it may have led to some errors in the TWSC in some basins.…”

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Dominant Drivers for Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Are Different in Northern and Southern China

Li,

Yu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

JGR Atmospheres

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Subsurface water storage is a key component in the water cycle, and China is facing severe issues with water resource shortage. This study estimates the terrestrial water storage (TWS) changes from 2003 to 2017 using a water balance approach over seven large basins in China. The estimated inter‐annual variations and trends in TWS correspond well with those obtained from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment observation. Variance analysis shows that annual precipitation in northern China plays a more important role in controlling annual TWS variability than that in southern China. This increased sensitivity is primarily attributed to the limited availability of water resources and the arid climate conditions prevalent in northern China. Interestingly, actual evapotranspiration is the dominant driver, contributing more than 55% to the declining trend in TWS in two northern basins: Hai River and Yellow River basins, where the leaf area index has strongly increased. Precipitation and evapotranspiration account for over 89% of the TWS trend over basins in northeastern China. Meanwhile, the dominant drivers for TWS in southern China are precipitation (50%–54%) and runoff (33%–41%). Our results suggest that it requires strong ecological conservation actions in order to keep water resources sustainable in northern China.

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Dominant Drivers for Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Are Different in Northern and Southern China

Li,

Yu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

JGR Atmospheres

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“…The large‐scale interactions of the terrestrial water system with other natural geosystems (atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere) include aspects of water flow, storage and quality, as well as other societal and environmental interaction components. The latter involve change drivers and pressures related to climate change as well as to human land and water uses (Althoff & Destouni, 2023; Destouni et al., 2013; Jaramillo & Destouni, 2014) and the nexus of societal water, energy and food systems (Howells et al., 2013; Jaramillo & Destouni, 2015; Kåresdotter et al., 2022). Moreover, the GSW conditions and changes also affect and interact with impacts on health (Ma et al., 2021), biodiversity (Albert et al., 2021) and ecosystem services (Falkenmark et al., 2019).…”

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Research Gaps and Priorities for Terrestrial Water and Earth System Connections From Catchment to Global Scale

Zarei,

Destouni

2024

Earth's Future

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The out‐of‐sight groundwater and visible but much less extensive surface waters on land constitute a linked terrestrial water system around the planet. Research is crucial for our understanding of these terrestrial water system links and interactions with other geosystems and key challenges of Earth System change. This study uses a scoping review approach to discuss and identify topical, methodological and geographical gaps and priorities for research on these links and interactions of the coupled ground‐ and surface water (GSW) system at scales of whole‐catchments or greater. Results show that the large‐scale GSW system is considered in just a small part (0.4%–0.8%) of all studies (order of 105 for each topic) of either groundwater or surface water flow, storage, or quality at any scale. While relatively many of the large‐scale GSW studies consider links with the atmosphere or climate (8%–43%), considerably fewer address links with: (a) the cryosphere or coastal ocean as additional interacting geosystems (5%–9%); (b) change drivers/pressures of land‐use, water use, or the energy or food nexus (2%–12%); (c) change impacts related to health, biodiversity or ecosystem services (1%–4%). Methodologically, use of remote sensing data and participatory methods is small, while South America and Africa emerge as the least studied geographic regions. The paper discusses why these topical, methodological and geographical findings indicate important research gaps and priorities for the large‐scale coupled terrestrial GSW system and its roles in the future of the Earth System.

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“…For example, land‐use changes can alter vector, host and pathogen niches, and host and vector community composition, to posing either higher or lower infection risks (Bellard et al., 2012; Gottdenker et al., 2014; Ogden & Tsao, 2009; Randolph & Dobson, 2012). Moreover, landscape hydrological conditions are related to variations and change trends in both weather‐climate and human land‐ and water‐uses locally regionally (Destouni & Prieto, 2018; Jarsjö et al., 2012; Moshir Panahi et al., 2022) and globally around the world (Destouni et al., 2013; Jaramillo & Destouni, 2014; Kåresdotter et al., 2022) and their changes, for example, in flood event occurrence, can affect vector breeding sites and related vector‐borne disease outbreaks, as well as human exposure to water‐borne diseases (S. Y. Liang & Messenger, 2018). In some regions, disease impacts of landscape‐hydrology changes (Ma et al., 2021) or human activity developments (Reiter, 2001) can even outweigh those of climate change for various diseases (e.g., tick‐borne encephalitis, Q fever and Puumala virus infection for the former types of impacts, and malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever for the latter).…”

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Infectious Disease Sensitivity to Climate and Other Driver‐Pressure Changes: Research Effort and Gaps for Lyme Disease and Cryptosporidiosis

Kalantari

Destouni

2023

GeoHealth

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Climate sensitivity of infectious diseases is discussed in many studies. A quantitative basis for distinguishing and predicting the disease impacts of climate and other environmental and anthropogenic driver‐pressure changes, however, is often lacking. To assess research effort and identify possible key gaps that can guide further research, we here apply a scoping review approach to two widespread infectious diseases: Lyme disease (LD) as a vector‐borne and cryptosporidiosis as a water‐borne disease. Based on the emerging publication data, we further structure and quantitatively assess the driver‐pressure foci and interlinkages considered in the published research so far. This shows important research gaps for the roles of rarely investigated water‐related and socioeconomic factors for LD, and land‐related factors for cryptosporidiosis. For both diseases, the interactions of host and parasite communities with climate and other driver‐pressure factors are understudied, as are also important world regions relative to the disease geographies; in particular, Asia and Africa emerge as main geographic gaps for LD and cryptosporidiosis research, respectively. The scoping approach developed and gaps identified in this study should be useful for further assessment and guidance of research on infectious disease sensitivity to climate and other environmental and anthropogenic changes around the world.

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Distinguishing Direct Human‐Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle

Cited by 30 publications

References 85 publications

Dominant Drivers for Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Are Different in Northern and Southern China

Dominant Drivers for Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Are Different in Northern and Southern China

Research Gaps and Priorities for Terrestrial Water and Earth System Connections From Catchment to Global Scale

Infectious Disease Sensitivity to Climate and Other Driver‐Pressure Changes: Research Effort and Gaps for Lyme Disease and Cryptosporidiosis

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