Yoshihide Wada

Research interests

Publications

• The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle

  Science · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf0630

• Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

  Science · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn3747

• The imbalance of the Asian water tower

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00299-4

• Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00144-0

• Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

  Nature Climate Change · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00972-w

• South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-17428-6

• Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-16757-w

• Deceleration of China’s human water use and its key drivers

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909902117

• Non-renewable groundwater use and groundwater depletion: a review

  Environmental Research Letters · 2019 · 10.1088/1748-9326/ab1a5f

• Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y

• Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections

  Nature Sustainability · 2018 · 10.1038/s41893-018-0134-9

• Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704665115

• PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model

  Geoscientific model development · 2018 · 10.5194/gmd-11-2429-2018

• Reconstruction of global gridded monthly sectoral water withdrawals for 1971–2010 and analysis of their spatiotemporal patterns

  Hydrology and earth system sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2117-2018

• Relative contribution of monsoon precipitation and pumping to changes in groundwater storage in India

  Nature Geoscience · 2017 · 10.1038/ngeo2869

• Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination

  Nature Geoscience · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2943

• Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

  Earth s Future · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2016ef000518

• Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15697

• Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature21403

• Have GRACE satellites overestimated groundwater depletion in the Northwest India Aquifer?

  Scientific Reports · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24398

• Modeling global water use for the 21st century: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches

  Geoscientific model development · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-175-2016

• Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects

  Surveys in Geophysics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-015-9343-1

• The pronounced seasonality of global groundwater recharge

  Water Resources Research · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2014wr015809

• Global modeling of withdrawal, allocation and consumptive use of surface water and groundwater resources

  Earth System Dynamics · 2014 · 10.5194/esd-5-15-2014

• Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1222460110

• Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1222473110

• Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1222475110

• Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1222474110

• Ground water and climate change

  Nature Climate Change · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1744

• Water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint

  Nature · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11295

• Global monthly water stress: 1. Water balance and water availability

  Water Resources Research · 2011 · 10.1029/2010wr009791

• Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress

  Water Resources Research · 2011 · 10.1029/2010wr009792

• Nonsustainable groundwater sustaining irrigation: A global assessment

  Water Resources Research · 2011 · 10.1029/2011wr010562

• Global depletion of groundwater resources

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gl044571

Current projects

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