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Session Proposal: Understanding and Quantifying the Human Impacts on Water Cycle (AGU25)

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Understanding and Quantifying the Human Impacts on Water Cycle

Session ID#: 249093

Session Description:
Human activities have been causing significant alterations to the Earth's surface, leading to heightened fluctuations in the global water cycle. Conceptual models typically fail to accurately capture manmade processes such as irrigation, groundwater pumping, and reservoir management. Water scarcity and hydrologic severe events are considered significant risks to water supply and ecosystem sustainability, exacerbated by such human effects. Satellite remote sensing is frequently the most pragmatic approach to capture the impact of human influences on the land surface.  This session invites submissions on: (1) the challenges and requirements for developing representations of human influences, (2) innovative methods that focus on capturing the human impact on the hydrologic cycle using observations and models, (3) measuring the wider effects of the human impact on hydrological extremes. Studies focused on historical reconstruction as well as future projections and forecasts using open research tools, interoperable data, and models are encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:

1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1842 Irrigation [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Shahryar Khalique Ahmad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Timothy M Lahmers1, Sujay V Kumar1 and Dr. Joshua K Roundy, PhD2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States(2)University of Kansas, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, KS, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Timothy M Lahmers, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Attribution Analysis of Runoff Evolution in the Yellow River Basin During 1956–2022: A Perspective from Water Discharge into the Sea Variability (1847144)
Hanlin Zhu, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, CHINA
 
Advancing field-resolution irrigation disaggregation to support agricultural water management and conservation (Invited) (1859338)
Sam C Zipper1,2 and Fahad Khan Khadim1, (1)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, United States
 
Changing Hydrology Under Climate Extremes: Quantifying Climate and Human Drivers in Large River Basins (1867070)
Sabab Ali Shah, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Department of Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou City, China, Akinwale T. Ogunrinde, Northwest Institute of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Lanzhou City, China, Raied Alharbi, King Saud University, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Xian Xue Sr., Northwest Institute of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Department of Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou City, China, Asim Qayyum Butt, Northwest Institute of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cryosphere Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Lanzhou City, China, Yousuf Nasurallah Jr., Aror University of Art, Architecture, Design and Heritage, Department of Enviornmental Sciences, Sukkur, Pakistan and Akinwale T. Ogunrinde
 
Assessing Human Impacts on the Water Cycle using Satellites, Modeling, and Monitoring Approaches (Invited) (1868396)
Bridget R Scanlon1, Ashraf Rateb1, Sarah Fakhreddine2 and Don Pool3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Civil and Env. Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States, (3)Hydrogeologist LLC, Tucson, United States
 
When Conflict Meets Climate: Satellite-Based Assessment of Water Stress in the Sarsang Reservoir During the 2023 Blockade (1881570)
Inaya Raja, Organization Not Listed, Boston, United States
 
An evaluation of the model representation of natural and anthropogenic land surface fluxes for contrasting sites from the LIAISE field campaign (1890920)
Aaron Anthony Boone, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Martin Best, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom and Belen Marti, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
 
Human contributions to evapotranspiration mitigate swings in dry to wet year transitions (1894502)
Zoe Pierrat1,2, Rebecca Gustine3,4, Anna Boser5, Sophie Ruehr6, Christine M Lee4, John T Reager II7 and Kerry Cawse-Nicholson4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Irrigation Influence on the US Great Plains Flash Drought of 2012: A Modeling Study (1898964)
Sakshi Labhane, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Mahmoud Osman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States and Nicholas Parazoo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Unveiling Dam-Induced Hydrological Alterations in Mainland Southeast Asia (1908219)
Stefano Galelli, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, Dung Trung Vu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore, Singapore, Simone Fatichi, National University of Singapore, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore, Hisham Eldardiry, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States and Shanti Shwarup Mahto, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Earth Sciences, Ahmedabad, India
 
Assessing Sectoral Water Demands and Identifying Water Stress Hotspots in Indian River Basins (1919319)
Anuj Prakash Kushwaha II, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India and Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
 
Modeling water management actions with SWAT+ and evaluating their impacts on model performance and streamflow regime (1944157)
Alejandro Sánchez-Gómez1, Aruca Pedrero-Redondo2, José Manuel Rodríguez Castellanos2 and Eugenio Molina-Navarro2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
 
Observational evidence of increased afternoon rainfall downwind of irrigated areas (1944236)
Peter Greve, Helmholtz Zentrum HEREON, Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, GERMANY, Amelie Schmitt, Helmholtz Zentrum HEREON, Geesthacht, Germany, Diego G. Miralles, Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, Environmental Studies, New York, NY, United States, Kirsten Lynn Findell, NOAA, Princeton, United States, Almudena García-García, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Remote Sensing Department, Leipzig, Germany and Jian Peng, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department of Remote Sensing, Leipzig, Germany
 
Analysis of Well Depths from 1920-2023 for the Major Aquifers of Texas (1949299)
Hudson Davis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and M. Bayani Cardenas, University of Texas at Austin, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States
 
Modeling Precipitation and Groundwater with Vector Autoregression: Irrigation-Driven Sensitivity of Deep Aquifers in Minnesota (1955338)
Gabriel Kaplan, Carleton College, Geology, Northfield, United States and Amanda Yourd, Department of Natural Resources Minnesota, Ecological and Water Resources, Saint Paul, United States
 
Historical and projected multisectoral monthly water demands for the contiguous United States (1958271)
Cameron Bracken1, Hassan Niazi2, Travis Thurber1, Kendall Mongird3, Nathalie Voisin1, Ning Sun1 and Jennie S Rice3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, United States
 
Using Integrated Hydrologic Modeling to Investigate the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Droughts in Catchments with Human Water Management (1987888)
Benjamin West, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Laura E Condon, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Hydrological Modelling for the Resilient Agriculture-Water-Community Systems Initiative (1997076)
Madan Pokhrel, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Civil Engineering, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Huidae Cho, Department of Civil Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States
 
Quantifying Topographical Change Using Historical KH-9 Imagery Derived Digital Elevation Models (2004489)
Corrine Coakley, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Kent State University Kent Campus, Geography, Kent, United States, James Tyner, Kent State University, Geography, Kent, United States, Sokvisal Kimsroy, Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, United States and Stian Rice, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, United States
 
Unraveling Climate and Human Influences on Streamflow Extremes in North America (2005289)
Suman Bhattacharyya, The University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Marwan A Hassan, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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