Peat expansion is tightly coupled to the global climate cycle. As a nature-based solution to climate change, we need to know how they will respond to different climate scenarios.
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Improving Eddy Tower Evapotranspiration Estimates
Understanding evapotranspiration rates is important. A new technique aims to make their calculation more efficient.
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Let’s Not Forget About Long Droughts
Why do conceptual hydrologic models struggle to model long-term droughts? A new study investigates.
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How Wildfires Worsen Flood Risk
A new approach to analyzing watersheds shows how storms occurring after a wildfire can have higher flooding risk than similar storms that occurred before a fire.
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Robustness Through Diversity: Learning from Heterogeneous Aquifers
Learning from diverse aquifer structures, which are all over the place, leads to robust inverse methods.
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A Road Map to Truly Sustainable Water Systems in Space
Future astronauts need efficient, durable, and trustworthy closed-loop systems to provide water for missions lasting months to years.
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Calibrating the Clocks: Reconciling Groundwater Age from Two Isotopes
A new quantitative model corrects for tracer-based age biases from 39Ar and 14C isotopes leading to more accurate estimates of groundwater residence times.
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Episodic Tales of Salt
When episodic pulses of road salt hit after a winter storm, the impact can be like a lightning strike for the environment.
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Beavers are Not Concerned About Groundwater
But, scientists are! A new study illuminates the complex interactions of beaver dam induced ponding and floodplain inundation with shallow groundwater storage and flow patterns.