Hydrologic impacts of changing land use and climate in the Veneto lowlands of Italy

Pijl, Anton; Brauer, Claudia; Sofia, Giulia; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Tarolli, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2018.04.001

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“…In larger lowland rivers, low topographic and hydraulic gradients can induce flooding due to backwater effects (Geertsema et al, 2018). Due to the strong human influence on hydrological processes due to, for instance, changes in drainage density or land use shifts towards more urbanisation, lowland areas might also be sensitive to changes in hydrological extremes (Pijl et al, 2018).…”

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Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in The Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

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Abstract. The soil moisture status near the land surface is a key determinant of vegetation productivity. The critical soil moisture content determines the transition from an energy-limited to a water-limited evapotranspiration regime. This study quantifies the critical soil moisture content by comparison of in situ soil moisture profile measurements of the Raam and Twenthe networks in the Netherlands, with two satellite derived vegetation indices (NIRv and VOD) during the 2018 summer drought. The critical soil moisture content is obtained through a piece-wise linear correlation of the NIRv and VOD anomalies with soil moisture on different depths of the profile. This nonlinear relation reflects the observation that negative soil moisture anomalies develop weeks before the first reduction in vegetation indices. Furthermore, the inferred critical soil moisture content was found to increase with observation depth and this relationship is shown to be linear and distinctive per area, reflecting the tendency of roots to take up water from deeper layers when drought progresses. The relations of non-stressed towards water-stressed vegetation conditions on distinct depths are derived using Remote Sensing, enabling the parameterization of reduced evapotranspiration and its effect on GPP in models to study the impact of a drought on the carbon cycle.

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Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in The Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

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“…En cuencas degradadas, como medida correctiva, la rotación de cultivos reduce la erosión hasta en 69% (Abdelwahab, Bingner, Milillo, & Gentile, 2014); por otro lado, la conversión de cobertura forestal del suelo a tierras de cultivo (agrícola o de pastoreo) produce reducciones en el carbono orgánico en suelos minerales y carbono en las raíces finas (Mendoza-Vega, Karltun, & Olsson, 2003). El cambio de uso de suelo en escenarios de cambio climático disminuye en 19% la descarga anual de escurrimientos y el flujo máximo en el verano hasta de 45% (Pijl, Brauer, Sofia, Teuling, & Tarolli, 2018).…”

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Estimación de la disponibilidad hídrica en la cuenca del lago de Zirahuén

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“…In order to isolate the hydrological impact of climate change from that of changes in land use, models with varying levels of complexity are used. Typically, hydrological or land surface models run at hourly or daily resolution are used (Bosmans et al, 2017;Breuer et al, 2009;Viney et al, 2009;Dwarakish and Ganasri, 2015;Pijl et al, 2018). Such models often contain a high number of poorly-constrained parameters and parameterizations, leading to large uncertainty in trend estimates (Arnell, 2011), or even disagreement in the direction of simulated trends (Melsen et al, 2018).…”

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“…The strong impact of land use on water balance partitioning at smaller scales, combined with the large-scale land use changes that have occurred over Europe over the past decades, leads to the question how they have impacted changing patterns of green and blue water fluxes. Previous assessments of past and future changes in streamflow have either focussed on land use/cover (Sterling et al, 2012) or climate contributions (Wilby, 2006;Gardner, 2009;Hannaford et al, 2013), or have focussed on smaller catchments under particular climate conditions (van Roosmalen et al, 2009;Pijl et al, 2018). Therefore, we aim to understand how recent decadal changes in climate (e.g., precipitation, temperature) and land use (de-/afforestation, urbanization) have impacted the amount and distribution of water resources availability across Europe since the 1950s.…”

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Climate change, re-/afforestation, and urbanisation impacts on evapotranspiration and streamflow in Europe

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Abstract. Since the 1950s, Europe has seen large shifts in climate and land cover. Previous assessments of past and future changes in evapotranspiration or streamflow have either focussed on land use/cover or climate contributions, or have focussed on individual catchments under specific climate conditions. Here, we aim to understand how decadal changes in climate (e.g., precipitation, temperature) and land use (e.g., de-/afforestation, urbanization) have impacted the amount and distribution of water resources availability across Europe since the 1950s. To this end, we simulate the distribution of green and blue water fluxes at high-resolution (1 × 1 km) by combining (a) a steady-state Budyko model for water balance partitioning constrained by long-term (lysimeter) observations across different land-use types, (b) a novel decadal high-resolution historical land use reconstruction, and (c) gridded observations of key meteorological variables. The continental-scale patterns in the simulations agree well with coarser-scale observation-based estimates of evapotranspiration, and also with observed changes in streamflow from small basins across Europe. We find that strong shifts in the continental-scale patterns of evapotranspiration and streamflow have occured from 1950 to 2010. In Sweden, for example, increased precipitation dominates effects of large scale re- and afforestation leading to increases in both streamflow and evapotranspiration. In most of the Mediterrenean, decreased precipitation combines with increased forest cover and potential evapotranspiration to reduce streamflow. In spite of local and regional scale complexity, the Europe-wide net contribution of land use, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration changes to changes in ET is similar with around ~ 40 km3/y, equivalent to the discharge of a large river. For streamflow, changes in precipitation dominate land use and potential evapotranspiration contributions with ~ 90 km3/y compared to ~ 45 km3/y. Locally, increased forest cover and urbanisation have lead to significant decreases and increases of available streamflow.

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Hydrologic impacts of changing land use and climate in the Veneto lowlands of Italy

Cited by 37 publications

References 43 publications

Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in The Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in The Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

Estimación de la disponibilidad hídrica en la cuenca del lago de Zirahuén

Climate change, re-/afforestation, and urbanisation impacts on evapotranspiration and streamflow in Europe

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