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Water, Volume 7, Issue 8

2015 August - 31 articles

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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,102 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2015

Flooding’s impact on shallow groundwater is not well investigated. In this study, we analyzed changes in the depth and quality of a regional shallow aquifer in the 10.9 × 104 km2 Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China, following a large flood in the summer...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,444 Views
23 Pages

21 August 2015

Evaporation from bare sandy soils is the core component of the hydrologic cycle in arid environments, where vertical water movement dominates. Although extensive measurement and modeling studies have been conducted and reported in existing literature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,165 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2015

Habitat simulation models heavily rely on monitoring data, which can have serious effects on the success of a physical habitat simulation. However, if data monitored in a study reach are not available or insufficient, then data from neighboring strea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,590 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2015

Nutrient inputs from rivers play an important role in lake eutrophication. To compare the forms characteristics of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) in rivers flowing through rural and urban areas, water samples were collected seasonally from five urba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,000 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2015

Reservoir monthly inflow is rather important for the security of long-term reservoir operation and water resource management. The main goal of the present research is to develop forecasting models for the reservoir monthly inflow. In this paper, arti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,097 Views
15 Pages

17 August 2015

Field monitoring of a stormwater treatment train has been underway between November 2013 and May 2015 at a townhouse development located at Ormiston, southeast Queensland. The research was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of a 200 micron mesh...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,588 Views
12 Pages

17 August 2015

Ecosystem deterioration in small lowland agricultural rivers that results from river dredging entails a significant threat to the appropriate ecohydrological conditions of these water bodies, expressed as homogenization of habitats and loss of biodiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,731 Views
31 Pages

13 August 2015

A model for simulating vertical water level fluctuations with coupled liquid and gas phases is presented. The Preissmann implicit scheme is used to linearize the governing equations for one-dimensional transient flow for both liquid and gas phases, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,707 Views
24 Pages

Fractal Dimension of Cohesive Sediment Flocs at Steady State under Seven Shear Flow Conditions

  • Zhongfan Zhu,
  • Jingshan Yu,
  • Hongrui Wang,
  • Jie Dou and
  • Cheng Wang

12 August 2015

The morphological properties of kaolin flocs were investigated in a Couette-flow experiment at the steady state under seven shear flow conditions (shear rates of 5.36, 9.17, 14, 24, 31, 41 and 53 s−1). These properties include a one-dimensional (1-D)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,180 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2015

Understanding and defining the spatial distribution of sediment deposited in reservoirs is essential not only at the design stage but also during the operation. The majority of research concerns the distribution of sediment deposition in medium and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
172 Citations
14,975 Views
19 Pages

12 August 2015

Understanding the relationship between land use and surface water quality is necessary for effective water management. We estimated the impacts of catchment-wide land use on water quality during the dry and rainy seasons in the Dongjiang River basin,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,418 Views
23 Pages

Warning Model for Shallow Landslides Induced by Extreme Rainfall

  • Lien-Kwei Chien,
  • Chia-Feng Hsu and
  • Li-Chung Yin

11 August 2015

In this study, the geophysical properties of the landslide-prone catchment of the Gaoping River in Taiwan were investigated using zones based on landslide history in conjunction with landslide analysis using a deterministic approach based on the TRIG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,096 Views
19 Pages

Spatiotemporal Distribution of Soil Moisture and Salinity in the Taklimakan Desert Highway Shelterbelt

  • Yuan Huang,
  • Yongdong Wang,
  • Ying Zhao,
  • Xinwen Xu,
  • Jianguo Zhang and
  • Congjuan Li

6 August 2015

Salinization and secondary salinization often appear after irrigation with saline water. The Taklimakan Desert Highway Shelterbelt has been irrigated with saline ground water for more than ten years; however, soil salinity in the shelterbelt has not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,788 Views
22 Pages

5 August 2015

Breaching of earthen or sandy dams/dunes by overtopping flow and waves is a complicated process with strong, unsteady flow, high sediment transport, and rapid bed changes in which the interactions between flow and morphology should not be ignored. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,295 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating Groundwater Management Sustainability under Limited Data Availability in Semiarid Zones

  • Javier Senent-Aparicio,
  • Julio Pérez-Sánchez,
  • José Luis García-Aróstegui,
  • Alicia Bielsa-Artero and
  • Juan Carlos Domingo-Pinillos

5 August 2015

In recent years, many researchers have devoted their efforts to finding an objective measurement of sustainability by developing evaluation tools based on sustainability indices. These indexes not only reveal the current state of water resources in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,800 Views
20 Pages

A New Spatiotemporal Risk Index for Heavy Metals: Application in Cyprus

  • Christos G. Karydas,
  • Ourania Tzoraki and
  • Panos Panagos

5 August 2015

The main aim of this research was to improve risk mapping of heavy metals by taking account of erosion effects. A new spatiotemporal index, namely the G2met index, is introduced, with integration of pre-existing methodologies (Hakanson, EPM, and G2)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,789 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2015

Model spin-up is an adjustment process where its internal stores move from an initial state of unusual conditions to one of equilibrium. Model outputs during this spin-up process are often unrealistic and misleading. This study investigates some prim...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,446 Views
9 Pages

Influence of Policy Making in the Profitability of Forage Production Irrigated with Reclaimed Water

  • María Del Pino Palacios-Diaz,
  • Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón and
  • Alberto Del Villar Garcia

4 August 2015

The limited availability of water at low prices and the current scheme for specific supply arrangements (SSA/REA), both determined at the political level, explain that the goal of being self-sufficient in terms of forage consumption is currently unat...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,856 Views
9 Pages

Traceability of pH to the Mole

  • Maria Filomena Camões and
  • Bárbara Anes

3 August 2015

Free acidity of aqueous solutions was initially defined in 1909 by Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen as pH = −lgcH+ (c/mol·dm−3 or m/mol·kg−1 of the free hydrogen ions in solution, H+) soon (1910) was changed to pH = paH+ = −lgaH+, integrating the new co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,664 Views
25 Pages

31 July 2015

Groundwater-fed lakes in northeastern Germany are characterized by significant lake level changes, but for only a few lakes are in situ water level measurements available. In this study, we test the potential of RapidEye satellite images for indirect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,460 Views
32 Pages

31 July 2015

The complex relationships within the water-energy-food security nexus tend to be place-specific, increasing the importance of identifying transferable principles to facilitate implementation of a nexus approach. This paper aims to contribute transfer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
9,274 Views
15 Pages

31 July 2015

Accurate daily runoff forecasting is of great significance for the operation control of hydropower station and power grid. Conventional methods including rainfall-runoff models and statistical techniques usually rely on a number of assumptions, leadi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,639 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of the Physical Properties of Showers that the Satisfaction of Shower Feeling among Users in Three Asian Countries

  • Minami Okamoto,
  • Ryohei Yaita,
  • Minoru Sato,
  • Masayoshi Kamijo,
  • Kanako Toyosada,
  • Yasutoshi Shimizu,
  • Kyosuke Sakaue,
  • Wan-Ju Liao,
  • Meng-Chieh Lee and
  • Cheng-Li Cheng

30 July 2015

The purpose of this study was to construct a scheme that makes it possible to compare the relationship between water usage, satisfaction, and physical properties in three countries. The physical properties of the shower were measured using physical p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,381 Views
15 Pages

28 July 2015

Drainage networks are essential compartments in an urban infrastructure system for the efficient collection and prompt drainage of flood water. In addition to the advances in numerical techniques on urban flood simulation, the topological characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,112 Views
17 Pages

Daily Runoff Forecasting Model Based on ANN and Data Preprocessing Techniques

  • Yun Wang,
  • Shenglian Guo,
  • Lihua Xiong,
  • Pan Liu and
  • Dedi Liu

28 July 2015

There are many models that have been used to simulate the rainfall-runoff relationship. The artificial neural network (ANN) model was selected to investigate an approach of improving daily runoff forecasting accuracy in terms of data preprocessing. S...

  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
17,380 Views
25 Pages

Urban Evolution: The Role of Water

  • Sujay S. Kaushal,
  • William H. McDowell,
  • Wilfred M. Wollheim,
  • Tamara A. Newcomer Johnson,
  • Paul M. Mayer,
  • Kenneth T. Belt and
  • Michael J. Pennino

27 July 2015

The structure, function, and services of urban ecosystems evolve over time scales from seconds to centuries as Earth’s population grows, infrastructure ages, and sociopolitical values alter them. In order to systematically study changes over time, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,431 Views
20 Pages

27 July 2015

Species distribution models (SDMs) are extensively used to project habitat suitability of species in stream ecological studies. Owing to complex sources of uncertainty, such models may yield projections with varying degrees of uncertainty. To better...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,172 Views
21 Pages

Seawater and Freshwater Circulations through Coastal Forested Wetlands on a Caribbean Island

  • Luc Lambs,
  • Félix Bompy,
  • Daniel Imbert,
  • Dov Corenblit and
  • Maguy Dulormne

27 July 2015

Structure and composition of coastal forested wetlands are mainly controlled by local topography and soil salinity. Hydrology plays a major role in relation with tides, seaward, and freshwater inputs, landward. We report here the results of a two-yea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,946 Views
9 Pages

24 July 2015

This research was conducted with the goal of clarifying the required conditions of water-saving showerheads. In order to this, the research analyzes the mutual relationship between water usage flow, the level of satisfaction and the physical properti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,535 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2015

To effectively manage water resources in agricultural production, it is necessary to understand the spatiotemporal variation of the water footprint (WF) and the influences of agricultural inputs. Employing spatial autocorrelation analysis and a geogr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,297 Views
13 Pages

23 July 2015

This paper develops a new routing algorithm for improving simulation capacity of physically-based hydrological models applied to sparsely-gauged river basins. The study area is the Lhasa River basin, a large plateau basin with an area of 26,225 km2 i...

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