--- OA_type: closed access _id: '22579' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Decades of research on the Mekong River basin have vastly expanded our knowledge of key hydrological and\r\necological processes, in part thanks to the development of modelling tools. However, few of these models are\r\nopenly available to the research community or adhere to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)\r\nprinciples, particularly in the domain of hydrology, in turn limiting transparency, reproducibility, and broader\r\nscientific engagement. Here, we address this gap and introduce VIC-Res Mekong, an open-source hydrologicalwater management model for the Mekong River basin. The model is implemented over a spatial domain\r\nof ∼630,000 km2 and has a resolution of 0.0625 degrees. Water and energy budgets are simulated with\r\nthe Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model, while streamflow routing is simulated with VIC-Res, which\r\nexplicitly accounts for the storage and release dynamics of reservoirs. This is of key importance for a basin\r\nlike the Mekong, where the active storage capacity of dams has increased from 20 km3 to nearly 80 km3 in the past fifteen years. To this purpose, VIC-Res Mekong integrates information from a database containing reservoir storage time series (inferred from satellite images) for 129 dams that accounts for more than 90% of total storage capacity. These data support both hindcast simulations and the derivation of reservoir operating rules, enabling a flexible and realistic representation of dam operations that allows to characterize in detail dam-induced hydrological alterations." article_number: '106603' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Hisham full_name: Eldardiry, Hisham last_name: Eldardiry - first_name: Shanti Shwarup full_name: Mahto, Shanti Shwarup last_name: Mahto - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone id: cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6 last_name: Fatichi - first_name: Stefano full_name: Galelli, Stefano last_name: Galelli citation: ama: 'Eldardiry H, Mahto SS, Fatichi S, Galelli S. VIC-Res Mekong: An open-source hydrological-water management model for the Mekong River basin. Environmental Modelling & Software. 2025;193. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106603' apa: 'Eldardiry, H., Mahto, S. S., Fatichi, S., & Galelli, S. (2025). VIC-Res Mekong: An open-source hydrological-water management model for the Mekong River basin. Environmental Modelling & Software. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106603' chicago: 'Eldardiry, Hisham, Shanti Shwarup Mahto, Simone Fatichi, and Stefano Galelli. “VIC-Res Mekong: An Open-Source Hydrological-Water Management Model for the Mekong River Basin.” Environmental Modelling & Software. Elsevier, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106603.' ieee: 'H. Eldardiry, S. S. Mahto, S. Fatichi, and S. Galelli, “VIC-Res Mekong: An open-source hydrological-water management model for the Mekong River basin,” Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 193. Elsevier, 2025.' ista: 'Eldardiry H, Mahto SS, Fatichi S, Galelli S. 2025. VIC-Res Mekong: An open-source hydrological-water management model for the Mekong River basin. Environmental Modelling & Software. 193, 106603.' mla: 'Eldardiry, Hisham, et al. “VIC-Res Mekong: An Open-Source Hydrological-Water Management Model for the Mekong River Basin.” Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 193, 106603, Elsevier, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106603.' short: H. Eldardiry, S.S. Mahto, S. Fatichi, S. Galelli, Environmental Modelling & Software 193 (2025). das_tickbox: '1' date_created: 2026-07-27T12:30:25Z date_published: 2025-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T09:07:29Z day: '01' doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106603 extern: '1' intvolume: ' 193' keyword: - VIC hydrologic model - Mekong river - Large-scale hydrology - Water resources management - Reservoir operations - Remote sensing language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa_version: None publication: Environmental Modelling & Software publication_identifier: eissn: - 1873-6726 issn: - 1364-8152 publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'VIC-Res Mekong: An open-source hydrological-water management model for the Mekong River basin' type: journal_article user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd volume: 193 year: '2025' ... --- DOAJ_listed: '1' OA_place: publisher OA_type: gold _id: '22513' abstract: - lang: eng text: High elevation headwater catchments are complex hydrological systems that seasonally buffer water and release it in the form of snow and ice melt, modulating downstream runoff regimes and water availability. In High Mountain Asia (HMA), where a wide range of climates from semi-arid to monsoonal exist, the importance of the cryospheric contributions to the water budget varies with the amount and seasonal distribution of precipitation. Losses due to evapotranspiration and sublimation are to date largely unquantified components of the water budget in such catchments, although they can be comparable in magnitude to glacier melt contributions to streamflow. Here, we simulate the hydrology of three high elevation headwater catchments in distinct climates in HMA over 10 years using an ecohydrological model geared towards high-mountain areas including snow and glaciers, forced with reanalysis data. Our results show that evapotranspiration and sublimation together are most important at the semi-arid site, Kyzylsu, on the northernmost slopes of the Pamir mountain range. Here, the evaporative loss amounts to 28% of the water throughput, which we define as the total water added to, or removed from the water balance within a year. In comparison, evaporative losses are 19% at the Central Himalayan site Langtang and 13% at the wettest site, 24 K, on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. At the three sites, respectively, sublimation removes 15%, 13% and 6% of snowfall, while evapotranspiration removes the equivalent of 76%, 28% and 19% of rainfall. In absolute terms, and across a comparable elevation range, the highest ET flux is 413 mm yr−1 at 24 K, while the highest sublimation flux is 91 mm yr−1 at Kyzylsu. During warm and dry years, glacier melt was found to only partially compensate for the annual supply deficit. article_number: '044057' article_processing_charge: No article_type: letter_note author: - first_name: S full_name: Fugger, S last_name: Fugger - first_name: T E full_name: Shaw, T E last_name: Shaw - first_name: A full_name: Jouberton, A last_name: Jouberton - first_name: E S full_name: Miles, E S last_name: Miles - first_name: P full_name: Buri, P last_name: Buri - first_name: M full_name: McCarthy, M last_name: McCarthy - first_name: C full_name: Fyffe, C last_name: Fyffe - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone id: cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6 last_name: Fatichi - first_name: M full_name: Kneib, M last_name: Kneib - first_name: Peter full_name: Molnar, Peter last_name: Molnar - first_name: F full_name: Pellicciotti, F last_name: Pellicciotti citation: ama: Fugger S, Shaw TE, Jouberton A, et al. Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 2024;19(4). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 apa: Fugger, S., Shaw, T. E., Jouberton, A., Miles, E. S., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., … Pellicciotti, F. (2024). Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 chicago: Fugger, S, T E Shaw, A Jouberton, E S Miles, P Buri, M McCarthy, C Fyffe, et al. “Hydrological Regimes and Evaporative Flux Partitioning at the Climatic Ends of High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters. IOP Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0. ieee: S. Fugger et al., “Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia,” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 4. IOP Publishing, 2024. ista: Fugger S, Shaw TE, Jouberton A, Miles ES, Buri P, McCarthy M, Fyffe C, Fatichi S, Kneib M, Molnar P, Pellicciotti F. 2024. Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 19(4), 044057. mla: Fugger, S., et al. “Hydrological Regimes and Evaporative Flux Partitioning at the Climatic Ends of High Mountain Asia.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 4, 044057, IOP Publishing, 2024, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0. short: S. Fugger, T.E. Shaw, A. Jouberton, E.S. Miles, P. Buri, M. McCarthy, C. Fyffe, S. Fatichi, M. Kneib, P. Molnar, F. Pellicciotti, Environmental Research Letters 19 (2024). das_tickbox: '1' date_created: 2026-07-27T12:30:24Z date_published: 2024-04-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-07T11:03:46Z day: '09' doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 extern: '1' intvolume: ' 19' issue: '4' keyword: - Glacio-hydrology - High mountain Asia - High mountain hydrology - Ecohydrology - Landsurface modelling - Remote sensing hydrology language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Environmental Research Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1748-9326 publication_status: published publisher: IOP Publishing quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd volume: 19 year: '2024' ... --- OA_type: closed access _id: '22534' abstract: - lang: eng text: Tree planting is a prevalent strategy to mitigate urban heat. Tree cooling efficiency(TCE), defined as the temperature reduction for a 1% tree cover increase, plays animportant role in urban climate as it regulates the capacity of trees to alter the sur-face energy and water budget. However, the spatial variation and more importantly,temporal heterogeneity of TCE in global cities are not fully explored. Here, we usedLandsat-based tree cover and land surface temperature (LST) to compare TCEs at areference air temperature and tree cover level across 806 global cities and to exploretheir potential drivers with a boosted regression tree (BRT) machine learning model.From the results, we found that TCE is spatially regulated by not only leaf area index(LAI) but climate variables and anthropogenic factors especially city albedo, withouta specific variable dominating the others. However, such spatial difference is attenu-ated by the decrease of TCE with tree cover, most pronounced in midlatitude cities.During the period 2000–2015, more than 90% of analyzed cities showed an increas-ing trend in TCE, which is likely explained by a combined result of the increase in LAI,intensified solar radiation due to decreased aerosol content, increase in urban vaporpressure deficit (VPD) and decrease of city albedo. Concurrently, significant urbanafforestation occurred across many cities showing a global city-scale mean tree coverincrease of 5.3 ± 3.8% from 2000 to 2015. Over the growing season, such increasescombined with an increasing TCE were estimated to on average yield a midday sur-face cooling of 1.5 ± 1.3°C in tree-covered urban areas. These results are offeringnew insights into the use of urban afforestation as an adaptation to global warmingand urban planners may leverage them to provide more cooling benefits if trees areprimarily planted for this purpose. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Jiacheng full_name: Zhao, Jiacheng last_name: Zhao - first_name: Xiang full_name: Zhao, Xiang last_name: Zhao - first_name: Donghai full_name: Wu, Donghai last_name: Wu - first_name: Naika full_name: Meili, Naika last_name: Meili - first_name: Simone full_name: Fatichi, Simone id: cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6 last_name: Fatichi citation: ama: Zhao J, Zhao X, Wu D, Meili N, Fatichi S. Satellite‐based evidence highlights a considerable increase of urban tree cooling benefits from 2000 to 2015. Global Change Biology. 2023;29(11):3085-3097. doi:10.1111/gcb.16667 apa: Zhao, J., Zhao, X., Wu, D., Meili, N., & Fatichi, S. (2023). Satellite‐based evidence highlights a considerable increase of urban tree cooling benefits from 2000 to 2015. Global Change Biology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16667 chicago: Zhao, Jiacheng, Xiang Zhao, Donghai Wu, Naika Meili, and Simone Fatichi. “Satellite‐based Evidence Highlights a Considerable Increase of Urban Tree Cooling Benefits from 2000 to 2015.” Global Change Biology. Wiley, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16667. ieee: J. Zhao, X. Zhao, D. Wu, N. Meili, and S. Fatichi, “Satellite‐based evidence highlights a considerable increase of urban tree cooling benefits from 2000 to 2015,” Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 11. Wiley, pp. 3085–3097, 2023. ista: Zhao J, Zhao X, Wu D, Meili N, Fatichi S. 2023. Satellite‐based evidence highlights a considerable increase of urban tree cooling benefits from 2000 to 2015. Global Change Biology. 29(11), 3085–3097. mla: Zhao, Jiacheng, et al. “Satellite‐based Evidence Highlights a Considerable Increase of Urban Tree Cooling Benefits from 2000 to 2015.” Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 11, Wiley, 2023, pp. 3085–97, doi:10.1111/gcb.16667. short: J. Zhao, X. Zhao, D. Wu, N. Meili, S. Fatichi, Global Change Biology 29 (2023) 3085–3097. das_tickbox: '1' date_created: 2026-07-27T12:30:24Z date_published: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-08-12T08:28:41Z day: '01' doi: 10.1111/gcb.16667 extern: '1' external_id: pmid: - '36876991 ' intvolume: ' 29' issue: '11' keyword: - Climate change - Remote sensing - Tree cooling efficiency - Tree cover - Urban afforestation language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa_version: None page: 3085-3097 pmid: 1 publication: Global Change Biology publication_identifier: eissn: - 1365-2486 issn: - 1354-1013 publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Satellite‐based evidence highlights a considerable increase of urban tree cooling benefits from 2000 to 2015 type: journal_article user_id: ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd volume: 29 year: '2023' ...