As the world's largest distributed store of fresh water, ground water plays a central part in
sustaining ecosystems and enabling human adaptation to climate variability and change. The …

Global hydrology has come a long way since the first introduction of the primitive land surface
model of Manabe (1969) and the declaration of the “Emergence of Global Hydrology” by …

Population growth, economic development, and dietary changes have drastically increased
the demand for food and water. The resulting expansion of irrigated agriculture into semi-…

In regions with frequent water stress and large aquifer systems groundwater is often used
as an additional water source. If groundwater abstraction exceeds the natural groundwater …

Rivers originating in the high mountains of Asia are among the most meltwater-dependent
river systems on Earth, yet large human populations depend on their resources downstream 1 …

Various remote sensing products are used to identify spatial–temporal trends in snow cover
in river basins originating in the Himalayas and adjacent Tibetan–Qinghai plateau. It is …

More than 1.4 billion people depend on water from the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra,
Yangtze, and Yellow rivers. Upstream snow and ice reserves of these basins, important in …

Groundwater is a life-sustaining resource that supplies water to billions of people, plays a
central part in irrigated agriculture and influences the health of many ecosystems 1 , 2 . Most …

Surface fresh water (ie, blue water) is a vital and indispensable resource for human water
use in the agricultural, industrial, and domestic sectors. In this paper, global water availability …

Understanding global future river flood risk is a prerequisite for the quantification of climate
change impacts and planning effective adaptation strategies 1 . Existing global flood risk …