Massive New Database Catalogs China’s 5,142 Reservoirs in Unprecedented Detail
A new publicly available database compiles more than twenty attributes for 5,142 Chinese reservoirs, capturing 87.5 percent of the nation's ...
Tag: hydrology
New Method Cuts Uncertainty in How Rainfall Becomes Runoff Across Australia
Australian researchers have developed a two-parameter method that dramatically reduces uncertainty in identifying rainfall-runoff events and reveals a continent-wide climate ...
Weighing the World’s Snow: Satellites Track Northern Hemisphere Snowpack From Space
A new dataset fuses satellite gravity measurements with meteorological data to reconstruct two decades of snow water equivalent, depth, and ...
Satellite Skin Temperature Gets a Memory Boost in Land Models Through Joint Soil Updates
Researchers have devised an ensemble-based scheme that jointly updates soil temperature and moisture, turning fleeting satellite land surface temperature observations ...
Satellite Soil Moisture Data Sharpens Watershed Models Without Sacrificing Streamflow Skill
A new study shows that calibrating watershed models with downscaled, bias-corrected satellite soil moisture data dramatically improves the representation of ...
New 45-Year Precipitation Map of North America Blends Weather Models with Thousands of Rain Gauges
A new 45-year, high-resolution precipitation reanalysis for North America directly assimilates thousands of ground-station observations, outperforming major global datasets in ...
Drier Air Is Quietly Rewiring How the Planet Loses Water, 40-Year Global Analysis Reveals
A 40-year global analysis shows that rising vapor pressure deficit increases evapotranspiration across about 61 percent of land but suppresses ...
Alpine Lakes and Reservoirs Flatten Hourly Flood Peaks Far More Than Daily Ones
New research across the Alps shows that lakes and reservoirs dampen hourly flood peaks up to 70 percent, far more ...
Groundwater quietly keeps the world’s rivers alive when drought strikes
A global analysis of streamflow gauges, satellite water storage data and CMIP6 simulations shows that baseflow from groundwater and catchment ...
New Statistical Study Reveals How Climate Change Reshapes Both Light and Extreme Rainfall
A study of more than 900 French rain gauges shows that flexible three-parameter distributions with evolving shape parameters are essential ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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