Assessing the impact of climate change on groundwater levels

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the future work and conclusions and future-work section and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 1 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 6 representative gaps

• Decadal simulation of winter deep percolation driven by snowmelt and precipitation using HYDRUS-1D (2026) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · doi

  This study is limited to winter season rainfall and snowmelt, season crop excluding irrigation, and vegetation cover. evapotranspiration, Therefore, incorporate multimodal should comparison across soil types, growing season processes, and broader validation to strengthen understanding of bottom flux the root zone and groundwater potential recharge. from HYDRUS modeling provides an understanding of fluxes under diverse locations, soils, and climates, which supports informed decision-making for water management in agricultural fields. Certain management practices such as precision irrigation, soil amendments, organic matter, soil cover, terracing, and cover cropping enhance water infiltration and sustainable groundwater recharge, which needs to be explored to improve understanding of the water balance and groundwater potential recharge in agricultural systems. These findings highlight the need to account for winter season hydrological processes in groundwater assessment, especially in coarse-textured soils. Integration of snowmelt-driven DP into agricultural water management can improve potential recharge estimation, support sustainable irrigation management, and enhance resilience to cope with increasing winter climate variability.

  generalfuture work
  Keywords: season groundwater recharge water management winter irrigation cover soil understanding potential agricultural snowmelt processes soils
• Decadal simulation of winter deep percolation driven by snowmelt and precipitation using HYDRUS-1D (2026) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · doi

  Certain management practices such as precision irrigation, soil amendments, organic matter, soil cover, terracing, and cover cropping enhance water infiltration and sustainable groundwater recharge, which needs to be explored to improve understanding of the water balance and groundwater potential recharge in agricultural systems.

  generalconclusions
  Keywords: soil cover water groundwater recharge certain management practices precision irrigation amendments organic matter terracing cropping
• Calibration using downscaled and bias-corrected satellite soil-moisture data can improve watershed model representation of soil-moisture variability (2026) · Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · doi

  7 Limitations This study was conducted in a small (14. Long-term water balance estimates varied widely across the three calibration approaches, indicating the need for further evaluation, partic- ularly using independent evapotranspiration measurements, to assess how soil-moisture constraints influence internal flux partitioning. While the added complexity of downscaling and multi-objective calibration is warranted in this small, satura- tion excess watershed, caution is needed in generalizing these findings to other settings or assuming that improved satellite soil-moisture fit automatically implies improved hydrologic realism.

  generalconclusions
  Keywords: small calibration soil moisture improved limitations conducted long term water balance estimates varied widely across
• Research on the hydrochemical characteristics of groundwater and dynamic changes in water level depth in Jinchang City (2025) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · doi

  Author contributions Against the background of global climate change and intensified system—highly Jinchang City’s groundwater human activities, dependent limited and snowmelt precipitation—will face long-term challenges. Combining recent research findings, this section discusses key future trends and research directions to support sustainable water resource management: on Qilian Mountain JS: Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. SL: Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. QG: Resources, draft, Writing – review and editing. YJ: Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft. Supervision, Writing original – 1. The impact of climate vegetation on groundwater recharge: Two core processes will reshape groundwater recharge: (2019) predict a significant Firstly, Mohammed et al., decrease in snowmelt in the Northern Hemisphere, which will reduce surface runoff (the main source of recharge for the Jinchang Quaternary aquifer) and exacerbate the recharge and exploitation gap. Secondly, global greening (Zan et al., 2024) will promote vegetation evapotranspiration and reduce infiltrating the precipitation/runoff proportion of

  generalfuture work
  Keywords: writing original draft recharge groundwater review editing global climate jinchang snowmelt precipitation methodology supervision resources
• Quantifying irrigation-driven recharge in a complex urban-agricultural system: the case of Milan, Italy (2026) · Frontiers in Water · doi

  assessing the impact of climate change on groundwater levels, - evaluating the effects of different irrigation practices on groundwater recharge, - developing more advanced models to simulate complex urban-agricultural systems

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: assessing impact climate change groundwater levels evaluating effects
• Moderate winter irrigation reduction improves maize water productivity under green manure incorporation by optimizing root distribution and water consumption (2026) · Agricultural Water Management · cited 1× · doi

  However, the reduction threshold for winter irrigation and its coordinated effects on soil water distribution, evapotranspiration partitioning, root traits, and yield formation under green manure incorporation remain insufficiently quantified.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: reduction threshold winter irrigation coordinated effects soil water distribution evapotranspiration partitioning root traits yield formation

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