Your search found 3 records
1 Huang, M.; Gallichand, J.; Zhang, P.. 2003. Runoff and sediment responses to conservation practices: Loess Plateau of China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 39(5):1197-1207.
Water conservation ; Runoff ; Sedimentation ; Erosion ; Watersheds ; River basins / China / Loess Plateau / Yellow River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H034881)
2 Zhang, P.; Jeong, J.-H.; Yoon, J.-H.; Kim, H.; Wang, S.-Y. S.; Linderholm, H. W.; Fang, K.; Wu, X.; Chen, D. 2020. Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point. Science, 370(6520):1095-1099. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb3368]
Climate change ; Arid climate ; Warm season ; Soil moisture ; Droughts ; Air temperature ; Trends ; Observation / East Asia / Mongolia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050100)
(4.03 MB)
Unprecedented heatwave-drought concurrences in the past two decades have been reported over inner East Asia. Tree-ring–based reconstructions of heatwaves and soil moisture for the past 260 years reveal an abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over this region. Enhanced land-atmosphere coupling, associated with persistent soil moisture deficit, appears to intensify surface warming and anticyclonic circulation anomalies, fueling heatwaves that exacerbate soil drying. Our analysis demonstrates that the magnitude of the warm and dry anomalies compounding in the recent two decades is unprecedented over the quarter of a millennium, and this trend clearly exceeds the natural variability range. The “hockey stick”–like change warns that the warming and drying concurrence is potentially irreversible beyond a tipping point in the East Asian climate system.
3 Lin, J.; Bryan, B. A.; Zhou, X.; Lin, P.; Do, H. X.; Gao, L.; Gu, X.; Liu, Z.; Wan, L.; Tong, S.; Huang, J.; Wang, Q.; Zhang, Y.; Gao, H.; Yin, J.; Chen, Z.; Duan, W.; Xie, Z.; Cui, T.; Liu, J.; Li, M.; Li, X.; Xu, Z.; Guo, F.; Shu, L.; Li, B.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, P.; Fan, B.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Huang, J.; Li, X.; Cai, Y.; Yang, Z. 2023. Making China’s water data accessible, usable and shareable. Nature Water, 1:328-335. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00039-y]
Water resources ; Data collection ; Databases ; Monitoring ; Modelling ; Water quality ; Wastewater treatment ; Stream flow ; Transboundary waters ; Water demand ; Infrastructure ; Policies / China
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052133)
(1.42 MB)
Water data are essential for monitoring, managing, modelling and projecting water resources. Yet despite such data—including water quantity, quality, demand and ecology—being extensively collected in China, it remains difficult to access, use and share them. These challenges have led to poor data quality, duplication of effort and wasting of resources, limiting their utility for supporting decision-making in water resources policy and management. In this Perspective we discuss the current state of China’s water data collection, governance and sharing, the barriers to open-access water data and its impacts, and outline a path to establishing a national water data infrastructure to reform water resource management in China and support global water-data sharing initiatives.
Powered by DB/Text WebPublisher, from
