Kate E. Buenau, Heida L. Diefenderfer, Maggie A. Mckeon, Amy B. Borde
{"title":"Tidal–hydrological dynamics of water temperature across freshwater forested wetlands on the northeastern Pacific coast","authors":"Kate E. Buenau, Heida L. Diefenderfer, Maggie A. Mckeon, Amy B. Borde","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13249","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tidal freshwater forests were once extensive across temperate coastlines, but loss and fragmentation have made estimation of their ecosystem functions challenging. We measured water temperature for 2 years in three Sitka spruce tidal forests, a restoration site, and an adjacent emergent marsh on the Columbia River, Washington, United States. We assessed spatial variability of water temperature within sites including the effects of hydrology, differences among bay and tributary tidal forests, and differences between the tidal forests and the mainstem Columbia, the restoration site, and the emergent marsh. The tidal forests nearest to the bay had lower interior water temperatures than their channel confluences by up to 2.5°C (weekly median temperature) and 2.0°C (weekly maximum temperature), with most cooling occurring during the low-flow months of July–September. Tributary sites had maximum temperatures up to 1.9°C cooler than bay sites and 4.2°C cooler than the mainstem. Temperatures in the two bay sites decreased by −0.16°C/100 m and −0.07°C/100 m, on average. The restoration site had the smallest within-site temperature gradient. Differences in maximum temperatures were greatest when tidal range was low, while higher tidal ranges were associated with warmer and more variable site interiors relative to their confluences. These results suggest that water temperatures in these tidal forests can provide temperature refugia for cold water biota including salmon.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ken Eng, Laura Medalie, Kenneth D. Skinner, Tamara I. Ivahnenko, Julian A. Heilman, Jared D. Smith
{"title":"Predictability and behavior of water transfers across basin boundaries","authors":"Ken Eng, Laura Medalie, Kenneth D. Skinner, Tamara I. Ivahnenko, Julian A. Heilman, Jared D. Smith","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13250","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inter-basin water transfers (IBTs) are important components of water balances of basins, and they can have substantial impact on regional water availability. Flow information is often not available at locations with known IBTs, which is a drawback in several published IBT databases. Few, if any, studies examine whether IBT flow behavior can be generalized, and if these behaviors can be predicted at undocumented locations or known IBT locations with no flow information. In this study, we employ a clustering method based on image matching to identify similar classes of flow behavior of IBTs. Machine learning models are used to assess how well IBT flow characteristics (e.g., average flow) associated with these behaviors can be predicted. These evaluations of IBTs are done for two regions in the United States. Three primary classes of IBTs (seasonal, nonseasonal/not mixed, and seasonal/mixed) are identified across the two regions analyzed. The IBT flow characteristics are accurately predicted in the northeast region. In the Colorado region, however, only the flow characteristics related to timing were accurately predicted. These results indicate that the proposed modeling framework can be used to identify generalizable IBT flow characteristics. This framework is shown to predict flow characteristics with a reasonable amount of accuracy to undocumented locations and improves previously published IBT databases by backfilling flow information to locations with a known IBT presence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstructing seasonal unimpaired runoff volumes to the San Francisco Estuary: Extending the available record back to water year 1872","authors":"Yuchuan Lai, Paul H. Hutton, Sujoy B. Roy","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13247","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unimpaired flow, also known as “virgin” or “naturalized” flow, is the theoretical runoff that would occur absent human alteration and is a common metric used worldwide to support watershed management, regulation and ecosystem restoration. California water managers use an existing record of unimpaired runoff from 10 watersheds upstream of the San Francisco Estuary to inform a variety of planning and regulatory functions. In this work, we extended the available record by several decades to 1872. This runoff reconstruction, accomplished through a multivariate regression-based modeling approach, used a novel time series methodology that decomposes and combines sparse records measured at varying locations to generate composite temperature and precipitation input for each watershed. Runoff predictions were used to calculate watershed runoff indices and assign water year classifications using current regulatory conventions. The first third of the extended record (1872–1921) has a significantly higher percentage of wet years and a significantly lower percentage of dry and critically dry years compared with the latter two-thirds of the record (1922–2021). Consistent with earlier paleohydrology research, this finding indicates the occurrence of a dramatic decadal-scale hydrologic shift from very wet to very dry conditions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13247","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on simulating the filling and emptying process of ship lock based on Storm Water Management Model","authors":"Jiayi Zhang, Zhenghua Gu, Minxiong Cao","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13248","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was widely used in hydrological simulation, river network calculation, flood control, and disaster reduction, but it was rarely used in ship lock hydraulics simulation. In this paper, SWMM is used to simulate the water filling and emptying process in ship lock. One-dimensional hydraulic mathematical models are established for the centralized filling and emptying system, simple decentralized filling and emptying system, and complex decentralized filling and emptying system, respectively, and they are applied to Mengli Ship Lock of North River in Guangdong Province, Qiaogong Ship Lock of Hongshui River, and Bajiangkou Ship Lock of Gui River in Guangxi Province of China. Compared with the results from the physical model experiments of ship lock hydraulics, it is shown that SWMM has better simulation effects on the centralized filling and emptying system with short corridor and the simple decentralized filling and emptying system, and their relative errors of filling and emptying time and maximum flow are totally less than 5%. For the complex decentralized filling and emptying system, SWMM has a good simulation effect on the water level change process, but the simulation error of the flow change process is larger relatively, and the relative errors of filling and emptying time and maximum flow are totally less than 10%. In addition, the filling and emptying process simulations are all completed within 5 s for three types of filling and emptying systems. The results show that the mathematical model of ship lock filling and emptying based on SWMM has high operation efficiency and good simulation accuracy and can not only be used as an effective tool for hydraulic calculation of ship lock but also provide mathematical model support for navigation intelligent scheduling.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating floodplain vegetation after valley-scale restoration with unsupervised classification of National Agriculture Imagery Program data in semi-arid environments","authors":"Jay W. Munyon, Rebecca L. Flitcroft","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Monitoring vegetation response to valley-scale floodplain restoration to evaluate effectiveness can be costly and time-consuming. We used publicly available National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data and commonly used ArcGIS software to assess land cover change over time at five study sites located in semi-arid environments of eastern Oregon and north-central California. Accuracy assessments of our unsupervised classifications were used to evaluate effectiveness. Overall accuracy across sites and years ranged from 64.2% to 89.2% with mean and median accuracy of 79.1% and 80.6%, respectively. Further, we compared our classifications with high-resolution uncrewed aerial systems (UAS)-based data collected in the same timeframe. Restored areas classified as dense vegetation were within 4% of the UAS study, water was within 6%, and post-restoration classifications of sparse vegetation and bare ground classes were within 6% and 4% of the UAS study, respectively. This comparison demonstrates that our unsupervised NAIP data classification of land cover change across entire valley-scale restoration projects can be used to monitor riparian vegetation change over time as accurately as UAS-based methods, but at lower cost. Additionally, our methods leverage existing fine-resolution, pre-restoration vegetation density data that were not collected as part of project planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Streamflow simulation improvements enabled by a state-of-the-art algorithm for reservoir routing in the U.S. National Water Model","authors":"Donghui Li, Anav Vora, Ximing Cai","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13244","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates whether improvements could be achieved for the United States National Water Model (NWM) by using a data-driven reservoir operation simulation algorithm, that is, the generic data-driven reservoir operation model (GDROM), to replace the existing reservoir representation in NWM for reservoir routing in streamflow simulation. The evaluations of NWM versus NWM + GDROM are conducted using 41-year NWM retrospective simulation products during 1979 to 2020. The results show that NWM + GDROM exhibits significant improvement to NWM in both the entire Contiguous U.S. (CONUS) and various regions. It is found that the accuracy of reservoir inflow and storage values affects the NWM + GDROM improvement. When driven by observed storage (which is usually more accurate than modeled storage) or more accurately simulated inflow, NWM + GDROM produces more significant improvements in reservoir outflow simulations in all the study CONUS regions. Especially, since high flows are more accurately simulated by NWM than low flows, NWM + GDROM has larger improvement for the simulation of high flows than low flows.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comprehensive evaluation of water quality grades based on improved CRITIC and multidimensional connection cloud combination","authors":"Wen Zhou, Xinyu Xu","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13242","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study proposes a comprehensive water quality assessment method for nine major plateau lakes in Yunnan Province, based on an improved CRITIC method combined with a multidimensional connectivity cloud model. Key water quality monitoring indicators (NH3-N, COD, TP, TN, permanganate index, DO, pH) were selected, and the weights were determined using the improved CRITIC method, highlighting the impact of NH3-N, COD, and TP. These weights were then integrated with a multidimensional connectivity cloud model to classify lake water quality levels. The results indicated the following water quality grades for the lakes: Dianchi (III), Fuxian Lake (I), Erhai (II), Xingyun Lake (I), Qilu Lake (II), Yilong Lake (II), Lugu Lake (I), Yangzonghai (II), and Chenghai (II). Compared to five conventional methods, the proposed approach better addresses the issues of fuzziness, randomness, and discreteness in water quality indicators, avoiding the boundary selection problems inherent in traditional methods. By combining the improved CRITIC method with a multidimensional connectivity cloud model, the study achieves more precise and reliable evaluations through objective weighting and comprehensive consideration of multiple indicators. This method offers a more accurate reflection of lake water quality conditions and provides a scientific basis for water quality management and decision-making, demonstrating significant potential for application in the field of environmental science.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting lake chlorophyll from stream phosphorus concentrations","authors":"Lester L. Yuan, Michael J. Paul","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13243","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Excess nutrient loads from streams drive primary production in downstream lakes, and managing these loads is key to achieving desired conditions in lakes. However, quantifying nutrient loads requires intensive sampling of both nutrient concentrations and streamflow. Total phosphorus measurements collected during routine stream monitoring are broadly available, but these data are thought to provide little information on annual nutrient loads because they are typically collected during low, baseflow conditions. Here, we demonstrate that these routine phosphorus measurements are correlated with annual nutrient loads. We also show that the average of these routine measurements of stream phosphorus within a watershed predict the average lake chlorophyll concentration in that same watershed. These relationships can then be used to set targets for stream phosphorus concentrations to achieve desired conditions in lakes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chengguo Wu, Boyu Nie, Xiaoyu Wang, Juliang Jin, Yuliang Zhou, Xia Bai, Yi Cui, Liangguang Zhou, Libing Zhang
{"title":"Set pair analysis and system dynamics coupling approach for structure simulation and variation trend evaluation of water resources spatial equilibrium system","authors":"Chengguo Wu, Boyu Nie, Xiaoyu Wang, Juliang Jin, Yuliang Zhou, Xia Bai, Yi Cui, Liangguang Zhou, Libing Zhang","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The implement of water resources spatial equilibrium (WRSE) schemes is fundamental task of integrated water resources management in China, in which, the evaluation and simulation analysis of WRSE system is of great concern for understanding the overall variation and feedback characteristics of WRSE system. Therefore, we utilized the ordered degree, entropy and connection number coupling model to evaluate the variation of WRSE system, and also employed system dynamics (SD) and scenario simulation integrated method to reveal the feedback characteristics between different equilibrium variables and subsystems, and thus the set pair analysis-SD based approach for structure simulation and variation trend evaluation of WRSE system was constructed. The application results in Anhui province, China demonstrated that, the overall variation of provincial spatial equilibrium situation of WRSE system presented obvious improving trend, 2009–2019, the index of ordered degree and connection number entropy in Hefei, increased from the minimum of 0.6434 (Grade 3, unequilibrium) to maximum of 0.9985 (Grade 1, equilibrium). Moreover, the future variation of WRSE system will display stable improving trend during 2020 to 2029, in which, annual water resources availability and water resources utilization efficiency will have significant influence on WRSE system. And the research findings can be favorable to formulate water resources development and utilization strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-production of a vulnerability assessment for aquatic and riparian ecosystems in the southwestern United States","authors":"D. Max Smith, Megan M. Friggens","doi":"10.1111/1752-1688.13240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13240","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To address impacts of climate change and other stressors on stream ecosystems, managers must prioritize resources and locations for conservation actions to facilitate effective cross-boundary solutions. Through a science management partnership, we co-produced a spatially explicit landscape assessment framework for cold-water fish habitat and riparian corridors in three large watersheds of the southwestern United States. Using literature review and stakeholder workshops, we developed indicators of vulnerability and built spatial datasets depicting areas of low to high vulnerability based on exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity for each resource. We found that, in general, vulnerability was greater for cold-water fish habitat than for riparian corridors. The Little Colorado River and San Juan River watersheds had the highest percentages of subwatersheds with high vulnerability of cold-water fish habitat. Conversely, the Upper Rio Grande watershed had the highest percentage with high vulnerability of riparian corridors. Assessments like ours facilitate the management of water resources at the scale of watersheds or river basins and incorporate physical characteristics, land-use history, current management practices, and status of imperiled species into actionable management plans.</p>","PeriodicalId":17234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The American Water Resources Association","volume":"60 6","pages":"1293-1312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1752-1688.13240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}