Scientific Results

This catalogue is obtained by conducting a systematic literature review of scientific studies and reviews related to monitoring, forecasting, and simulating the inland water cycle. The analysis maps scientific expertise across research groups and classifies findings by the type of inland water studied, application focus, and geographical scope. A gap analysis will identify missing research areas and assess their relevance to policymaking.

ID â–² Type Year Authors Title Venue/Journal DOI Research type Water System Technical Focus Abstract Link with Projects Link with Tools Related policies ID
publications-2411 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Celina Aznarez; Patricia Jimeno-Sáez; Adrián López-Ballesteros; Juan Pablo Pacheco; Javier Senent-Aparicio Analysing the Impact of Climate Change on Hydrological Ecosystem Services in Laguna del Sauce (Uruguay) Using the SWAT Model and Remote Sensing Data Remote Sens 10.3390/rs13102014 Simulation & Modeling Wastewater Treatment Plants Assessing how climate change will affect hydrological ecosystem services (HES) provision is necessary for long-term planning and requires local comprehensive climate information. In this study, we used SWAT to evaluate the impacts on four HES, natural hazard protection, erosion control regulation and water supply and flow regulation for the Laguna del Sauce catchment in Uruguay. We used downscaled CMIP-5 global climate models for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5 projections. We calibrated and validated our SWAT model for the periods 2005–2009 and 2010–2013 based on remote sensed ET data. Monthly NSE and R2 values for calibration and validation were 0.74, 0.64 and 0.79, 0.84, respectively. Our results suggest that climate change will likely negatively affect the water resources of the Laguna del Sauce catchment, especially in the RCP 8.5 scenario. In all RCP scenarios, the catchment is likely to experience a wetting trend, higher temperatures, seasonality shifts and an increase in extreme precipitation events, particularly in frequency and magnitude. This will likely affect water quality provision through runoff and sediment yield inputs, reducing the erosion control HES and likely aggravating eutrophication. Although the amount of water will increase, changes to the hydrological cycle might jeopardize the stability of freshwater supplies and HES on which many people in the south-eastern region of Uruguay depend. Despite streamflow monitoring capacities need to be enhanced to reduce the uncertainty of model results, our findings provide valuable insights for water resources planning in the study area. Hence, water management and monitoring capacities need to be enhanced to reduce the potential negative climate change impacts on HES. The methodological approach presented here, based on satellite ET data can be replicated and adapted to any other place in the world since we employed open-access software and remote sensing data for all the phases of hydrological modelling and HES provision assessment. 101017861
publications-2412 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Javier Senent-Aparicio, Adrián López-Ballesteros, Anders Nielsen, Dennis Trolle A holistic approach for determining the hydrology of the mar menor coastal lagoon by combining hydrological & hydrodynamic models Journal of Hydrology 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127150 Simulation & Modeling Irrigation Systems No abstract available 101017861
publications-2413 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Javier Senent-Aparicio; Pablo Blanco-Gómez; Adrián López-Ballesteros; Patricia Jimeno-Sáez; Julio Pérez-Sánchez Evaluating the Potential of GloFAS-ERA5 River Discharge Reanalysis Data for Calibrating the SWAT Model in the Grande San Miguel River Basin (El Salvador) Remote Sens 10.3390/rs13163299 Simulation & Modeling Irrigation Systems Hydrological modelling requires accurate climate data with high spatial-temporal resolution, which is often unavailable in certain parts of the world—such as Central America. Numerous studies have previously demonstrated that in hydrological modelling, global weather reanalysis data provides a viable alternative to observed data. However, calibrating and validating models requires the use of observed discharge data, which is also frequently unavailable. Recent, global-scale applications have been developed based on weather data from reanalysis; these applications allow streamflows with satisfactory resolution to be obtained. An example is the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), which uses the fifth generation of reanalysis data produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ERA5) as input. It provides discharge data from 1979 to the present with a resolution of 0.1°. This study assesses the potential of GloFAS for calibrating hydrological models in ungauged basins. For this purpose, the quality of data from ERA5 and from the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation and Temperature with Station as well as the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was analysed. The focus was on flow simulation using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. The models were calibrated using GloFAS discharge data. Our results indicate that all the reanalysis datasets displayed an acceptable fit with the observed precipitation and temperature data. The correlation coefficient (CC) between the reanalysis data and the observed data indicates a strong relationship at the monthly level all of the analysed stations (CC > 0.80). The Kling–Gupta Efficiency (KGE) also showed the acceptable performance of the calibrated SWAT models (KGE > 0.74). We concluded that GloFAS data has substantial potential for calibrating hydrological models that estimate the monthly streamflow in ungauged watersheds. This approach can aid water resource management. 101017861
publications-2414 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Inmaculada C. Jiménez-Navarro, Patricia Jimeno-Sáez, Adrián López-Ballesteros, Julio Pérez-Sánchez and Javier Senent-Aparicio Impact of Climate Change on the Hydrology of the Forested Watershed That Drains to Lake Erken in Sweden: An Analysis Using SWAT+ and CMIP6 Scenarios Forests 10.3390/f12121803 Simulation & Modeling Natural Water Bodies Precipitation and temperature around the world are expected to be altered by climate change. This will cause regional alterations to the hydrological cycle. For proper water management, anticipating these changes is necessary. In this study, the basin of Lake Erken (Sweden) was simulated with the recently released software SWAT+ to study such alterations in a short (2026–2050), medium (2051–2075) and long (2076–2100) period, under two different climate change scenarios (SSP2-45 and SSP5-85). Seven global climate models from the latest projections of future climates that are available (CIMP 6) were compared and ensembled. A bias-correction of the models’ data was performed with five different methods to select the most appropriate one. Results showed that the temperature is expected to increase in the future from 2 to 4 °C, and precipitation from 6% to 20%, depending on the scenario. As a result, water discharge would also increase by about 18% in the best-case scenario and by 50% in the worst-case scenario, and the surface runoff would increase between 5% and 30%. The floods and torrential precipitations would also increase in the basin. This trend could lead to soil impoverishment and reduced water availability in the basin, which could damage the watershed’s forests. In addition, rising temperatures would result in a 65% reduction in the snow water equivalent at best and 92% at worst. 101017861
publications-2415 Peer reviewed articles 2022 Alexandra E. Spyropoulou, Yannis G. Lazarou, Andreas A. Sapalidis, Chrysi S. Laspidou Geochemical modeling of mercury in coastal groundwater Chemosphere 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131609 Uncategorized Precipitation & Ecological Systems No abstract available 734409
publications-2416 Peer reviewed articles 2019 Franz Tscheikner-Gratl, Nicolas Caradot, Frédéric Cherqui, Joao P. Leitão, Mehdi Ahmadi, Jeroen G. Langeveld, Yves Le Gat, Lisa Scholten, Bardia Roghani, Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Mathieu Lepot, Bram Stegeman, Anna Heinrichsen, Ingo Kropp, Karsten Kerres, Maria do Céu Almeida, Peter M. Bach, Matthew Moy de Vitry, Alfeu Sá Marques, Nuno Eduardo Simões, Pascale Rouault, Nathalie Hernandez, Andres Sewer asset management – state of the art and research needs Urban Water Journal 10.1080/1573062x.2020.1713382 Data Management & Analytics Natural Water Bodies No abstract available 786566
publications-2417 Peer reviewed articles 2023 Inmaculada C Jiménez-Navarro, Jorrit P Mesman, Don Pierson, Dennis Trolle, Anders Nielsen, Javier Senent-Aparicio Application of an integrated catchment-lake model approach for simulating effects of climate change on lake inputs and biogeochemistry Science of the Total Environment 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163946 Data Management & Analytics Wastewater Treatment Plants No abstract available 101017861
publications-2418 Peer reviewed articles 2024 Stefano Mammola, Florian Altermatt, Roman Alther, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca I. Băncilă, Paulo A. V. Borges, Traian Brad, David Brankovits, Pedro Cardoso, Francesco Cerasoli, Claire A. Chauveau, Teo Delić, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Arnaud Faille, Cene Fišer, Jean-François Flot, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Christian Griebler, Lara Konecny-Dupré, Alejandro Martínez, Nataša Perspectives and pitfalls in preserving subterranean biodiversity through protected areas npj Biodiversity 10.1038/s44185-023-00035-1 Uncategorized Wastewater Treatment Plants AbstractSubterranean ecosystems (comprising terrestrial, semi-aquatic, and aquatic components) are increasingly threatened by human activities; however, the current network of surface-protected areas is inadequate to safeguard subterranean biodiversity. Establishing protected areas for subterranean ecosystems is challenging. First, there are technical obstacles in mapping three-dimensional ecosystems with uncertain boundaries. Second, the rarity and endemism of subterranean organisms, combined with a scarcity of taxonomists, delays the accumulation of essential biodiversity knowledge. Third, establishing agreements to preserve subterranean ecosystems requires collaboration among multiple actors with often competing interests. This perspective addresses the challenges of preserving subterranean biodiversity through protected areas. Even in the face of uncertainties, we suggest it is both timely and critical to assess general criteria for subterranean biodiversity protection and implement them based on precautionary principles. To this end, we examine the current status of European protected areas and discuss solutions to improve their coverage of subterranean ecosystems. 101031043
publications-2419 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Consoli, G., Haller, R.M., Doering, M., Hashemi, S. & Robinson, C.T. Tributary effects on the ecological responses of a regulated river to experimental floods Journal of Environmental Management Uncategorized Wastewater Treatment Plants No abstract available 765553
publications-2420 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Diana Derepasko, Joseph H.A. Guillaume, Avril C. Horne, Martin Volk, Considering scale within optimization procedures for water management decisions: Balancing environmental flows and human needs, Environmental Modelling & Software, Simulation & Modeling Wastewater Treatment Plants No abstract available 765553