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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3315-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3315-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
01 Jul 2022
Research article |
| 01 Jul 2022
| 01 Jul 2022
Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes
Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo,
Finland
Elina Alanärä
Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo,
Finland
Miina Porkka
Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo,
Finland
Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Lauri Ahopelto
Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo,
Finland
Freshwater Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Tom Gleeson
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Chinchu Mohan
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Lan Wang-Erlandsson
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
Sweden
Martina Flörke
Institute of Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources Management,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Dieter Gerten
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the
Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin,
Germany
Simon N. Gosling
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7
2RD, United Kingdom
Naota Hanasaki
Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Hannes Müller Schmied
Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
(SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Niko Wanders
Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Water and Development Research Group, Aalto University, Espoo,
Finland
Data sets
Data for "Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes" Vili Virkki, Elina Alanärä, Miina Porkka, Lauri Ahopelto, Tom Gleeson, Chinchu Mohan, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Martina Flörke, Dieter Gerten, Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Hannes Müller Schmied, Niko Wanders, and Matti Kummu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6552573
Short summary
Direct and indirect human actions have altered streamflow across the world since pre-industrial times. Here, we apply a method of environmental flow envelopes (EFEs) that develops the existing global environmental flow assessments by methodological advances and better consideration of uncertainty. By assessing the violations of the EFE, we comprehensively quantify the frequency, severity, and trends of flow alteration during the past decades, illustrating anthropogenic effects on streamflow.
Direct and indirect human actions have altered streamflow across the world since pre-industrial...
