Data from a meta-analysis of 3279 articles on hydrogeodesy published during 1991⁠ – ⁠2023

Fernando Jaramillo

This dataset contains results from a comprehensive meta-analysis studying the coevolution of hydrogeodesy and its application for water resources, covering more than 3000 articles and expert elicitation.

The meta-analysis evaluates the use of these hydrogeodetic technologies and identifies their trends of use, combinations, main applications, and the water resources of interest for their usage.

This meta-analysis of hydrogeodesy encompasses geodetic technologies such as altimetry, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), mass gravimetry, and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). During the last 32 years, these technologies have contributed to quantifying changes in surface and groundwater resources locally, regionally, and globally. The expert elicitation includes responses from 29 coauthors on the potential and limitations of hydrogeodesy to solve each unsolved problem of hydrology (UPH).

Citation

Fernando Jaramillo (2024) Data from a meta-analysis of 3279 articles on hydrogeodesy published during 1991⁠ – ⁠2023. Dataset version 1. Bolin Centre Database. https://doi.org/10.17043/jaramillo-2024-hydrogeodesy-1

References

Jaramillo F, Aminjafari S, Castellazzi P, et al. (2023) The potential of hydrogeodesy to address water-related problems and sustainability challenges. ESS Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.170379692.29590839/v1

Blöschl G, Bierkens MFP, Chambel A, et al. (2019) Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective. Hydrological Sciences Journal 64:1141–1158. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507

Data description

The dataset contains two tables, both provided as csv files with semicolon as value separator.

• Table 1 — list of the 3279 articles included in the meta-analysis
• Table 2 — expert elicitation

Table 1

jaramillo-2024-hydrogeodesy-table-1.csv contains the following columns:

1. title Title of the article
2. year Year of publication
3. doi DOI of the article
4. authors List of authors
5. publication_title Journal of publication
6. q_journal Qrank of the journal
7. hydrogeodesy_technology Hydrogeodesy tool(s) used in the article. Either:
   • ALTIMETRY Altimetry
   • INSAR Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)
   • GRACE Mass gravimetry
   • GNSS Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)
   • COMBINED Combination of the tools.
8. journal_category Category of the journal by discipline:
   • Water Resources
   • Glaciology
   • Remote Sensing
   • Multidisciplinary
9. Columns 9⁠ – ⁠18 (I⁠ – ⁠R): Water resource words included in the title and keywords of the study. If the word is not included, there is a NA flag. The words are given in the column headers:
   • river
   • watershed
   • wetland
   • snow
   • glacier
   • lake
   • groundwater
   • soilmoisture
   • permafrost
   • waterstorage
10. Column 19: objective_category Main objective of the study. Categories are:
    • Technical
    • Hydrovariable
    • Modelling
    • Processes
    • Management

Table 2

jaramillo-2024-hydrogeodesy-table-2.csv contains the following columns:

1. Column A: Unsolved problem of hydrology (UPH) according to Blöschl et al. (2019).
2. Columns ⁠2 – 59⁠ (B⁠ – ⁠BG): Responses from 29 respondents on the potential and limitations of hydrogeodesy. Each respondent filled one column per each of these, filling in text for the UPH (rows) they consider of their expertise.

Comments

Increasing climatic and human pressures are changing the world’s water resources and hydrological processes at unprecedented rates. These changes require monitoring water resources from ground and space at different temporal and spatial scales. This monitoring can be achieved with hydrogeodesy, the science that measures the Earth’s solid and aquatic surfaces, gravity field, and their changes over time. Hydrogeodesy encompasses geodetic technologies such as altimetry, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), mass gravimetry, and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). During the last thirty years, these technologies have contributed to quantifying changes in surface and groundwater resources locally, regionally, and globally. Yet, to our knowledge, the evolution and combination of these technologies and their role within current hydrological, sustainability science, and management frameworks remain unaddressed.