Hamidreza Zoraghein, Brian C. O’Neill DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.54 Abstract: Background: Spatial population models are important to inform understanding of historical demographic development patterns and to project possible future changes, especially for use in anticipating environmental interactions. Objective: We document, calibrate, and evaluate a high-resolution gravity-based population downscaling model for each US…

AFM Kamal Chowdhury, Thanh Duc Dang, Hung Tan Thai Nguyen, Rachel Koh, Stefano Galelli DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001814 Abstract: The Greater Mekong Subregion is a transnational area bound together by the Mekong River basin and its immense hydropower resources, historically seen as the backbone of regional economic development. The basin is now…

Anna Di Mauro, Andrea Cominola, Andrea Castelletti, Armando Di Nardo DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13010036 Abstract: Over the last three decades, the increasing development of smart water meter trials and the rise of demand management has fostered the collection of water demand data at increasingly higher spatial and temporal resolutions. Counting these new…

Stephanie T Waldhoff, Ian Sue Wing, James Edmonds, Guoyong Leng and Xuesong Zhang DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abadcb Abstract: Analyses of the future impacts of changing crop yields on agricultural production, prices, food security, and GDP growth using Integrated Assessment models require country-level yield shocks due to changing weather conditions, for a wide…

Jason Evanoff, Chris R. Vernon, Stephanie Waldhoff, Abigail Snyder, and Corinne Hartin DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02782 Abstract: In a world of increasingly online, distributed, and diverse interdisciplinary research, there is a need to provide accessible and user-friendly interactive visualization tools that elucidate complex models and their output products. hectorui is an R…

Julia K Szinai, Ranjit Deshmukh, Daniel M Kammen and Andrew D Jones DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc378 Abstract: Electricity and water systems are inextricably linked through water demands for energy generation, and through energy demands for using, moving, and treating water and wastewater. Climate change may stress these interdependencies, together referred to as…

Matthew Binsted, Gokul Iyer, Ryna Cui, Zarrar Khan, Kalyn Dorheim, Leon Clarke DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2020.100551 Abstract: Energy-economic models are used to provide science-based decision support in many contexts; evaluating scenarios generated by these models is critical for establishing the credibility of the analyses these tools support. We propose a framework for…

Absar, S.M., McManamay, R.A., Preston, B.L., Taylor, A.M. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111911 Abstract: Scenarios are commonly used to evaluate the environmental implications of future alternative energy pathways – they provide a benchmark for policy-makers to evaluate social, economic or environmental tradeoffs of various policies and their benefits to society. However, scenarios may…

Chi Chen, Dan Li, Yue Li, Shilong Piao, Xuhui Wang, Maoyi Huang, Pierre Gentine, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Ranga B. Myneni DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb1981 Abstract: Satellite observations show widespread increasing trends of leaf area index (LAI), known as the Earth greening. However, the biophysical impacts of this greening on land surface temperature…

Xuan Luo, Pouya Vahmani, Tianzhen Hong and Andrew Jones DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11111206 Abstract: More frequent and longer duration heat waves have been observed worldwide and are recognized as a serious threat to human health and the stability of electrical grids. Past studies have identified a positive feedback between heat waves and…