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Research article
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12 Oct 2016
Research article |
| 12 Oct 2016
A seawater desalination scheme for global hydrological models
National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1,
Laxenburg, Austria
Sayaka Yoshikawa
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, 2-12-1-M1-6 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Kaoru Kakinuma
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, 2-12-1-M1-6 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Climate Systems Research, Earth Institute, Columbia
University, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY, USA
Shinjiro Kanae
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, 2-12-1-M1-6 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Low Trihalomethane Formation during Managed Aquifer Recharge with Chlorinated Desalinated Water A. Bernstein et al. 10.3390/w12030711
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- Nitrogen Fertilization of Plants Irrigated with Desalinated Water: A Study of Interactions of Nitrogen with Chloride A. Bar-Tal et al. 10.3390/w12092354
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- Growth patterns in mature desalination technologies and analogies with the energy field B. Mayor 10.1016/j.desal.2019.01.029
- Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies M. van Vliet et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/abbfc3
- Balancing clean water-climate change mitigation trade-offs S. Parkinson et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf2a3
- Sustainable Groundwater Exploitation Aiming at the Reduction of Water Vulnerability in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region R. Cavalcante Júnior et al. 10.3390/en12050904
- Solar-Powered Direct Air Capture: Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment E. Prats-Salvado et al. 10.1021/acs.est.3c08269
- Bridging the gap: a new module for human water use in the Community Earth System Model version 2.2.1 S. Taranu et al. 10.5194/gmd-17-7365-2024
- Environmental flow requirements largely reshape global surface water scarcity assessment X. Liu et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac27cb
- Toward hyper-resolution global hydrological models including human activities: application to Kyushu island, Japan N. Hanasaki et al. 10.5194/hess-26-1953-2022
- A global hydrological simulation to specify the sources of water used by humans N. Hanasaki et al. 10.5194/hess-22-789-2018
- An Economic Assessment of the Global Potential for Seawater Desalination to 2050 L. Gao et al. 10.3390/w9100763
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Short summary
Although seawater desalination has been widely implemented and used as a key source of water in arid regions, it has been seldom included in global water resource assessments based on numerical simulations. We first developed a global model to estimate the areal extent and production of seawater desalination which was designed to be incorporated with global hydrological models. The model was applied to future periods under three distinct socioeconomic conditions.
Although seawater desalination has been widely implemented and used as a key source of water in...
