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Urbanization suitability maps: a dynamic spatial decision support system for sustainable land use

Recent developments in land consumption assessment identify the need to implement integrated evaluation approaches, with particular attention to the development of multidimensional tools for guiding and managing sustainable land use. Land use policy decisions are implemented mostly through spatial planning and its related zoning. We propose a novel methodological approach to identify a decision-making process for land use allocation.

Technology and human purpose: the problem of solids transport on the Earth’s surface

Invoking purpose as a mechanism in solids advection is an example of the need to import anthropic principles and concepts into the language and methodology of modern Earth system dynamics.

High-resolution interpolar difference of atmospheric methane around the Last Glacial Maximum

Here we present new high-resolution methane records from the North Greenland Ice Core Project and the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dronning Maud Land ice cores covering Termination 1, the Last Glacial Maximum, and parts of the last glacial back to 32 000 years before present.

Marine bacteria in deep Arctic and Antarctic ice cores: a proxy for evolution in oceans over 300 million generations

Ice cores offer the opportunity to study evolution of marine microbes over ~ 300 million generations by analysing their genomes vs. depth in glacial ice over the last 700 000 yr as frozen proxies for changes in their genomes in oceans.

It takes a community to raise a hydrologist: the Modular Curriculum for Hydrologic Advancement (MOCHA)

In this paper we combine literature review, community survey, discussion and assessment to provide a holistic baseline for the future of hydrology education. The ultimate objective of our educational initiative is to enable educators to train a new generation of “renaissance hydrologists,” who can master the holistic nature of our field and of the problems we encounter.

Should we apply bias correction to global and regional climate model data?

With this article, we advocate communicating the entire uncertainty range associated with climate change predictions openly and hope to stimulate a lively discussion on bias correction among the atmospheric and hydrological community and end users of climate change impact studies.

Incorporating student-centered approaches into catchment hydrology teaching: a review and synthesis

As hydrologists confront the future of water resources on a globalized, resource-scarce and human-impacted planet, the educational preparation of future generations of water scientists becomes increasingly important.

The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia over the last two decades

Biogeosciences
DOI 10.5194/bg-9-3571-2012
7 September 2012

We estimate the current terrestrial carbon balance of East Asia and its driving mechanisms during 1990–2009 using three different approaches: inventories combined with satellite greenness measurements, terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle models and atmospheric inversion models.

Water resources trends in Middle East and North Africa towards 2050

Changes in water resources availability can be expected as consequences of climate change, population growth, economic development and environmental considerations. A two-stage modeling approach is used to explore the impact of these changes in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

Aboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide forest biomass estimates in 327 plots across four continents using 42 656 H and diameter measurements and harvested trees from 20 sites to answer various questions.

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