Modelling Flow, Water Quality, and Sediment Transport Processes in Coastal, Estuarine, and Inland Waters

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, there has been increasing concern about global water security, particularly with regard to flow and water quality processes in rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. The impact of climate change has led to a higher number of floods and droughts, and population growth and urbanisation have led to growing demand for water, food, and energy, leading to increasing diffuse and point source pollution. Increasing global wealth has also led to changes in food habits and demand for commodities, leading to a rise in virtual water demand and, as a consequence, increasing pollution and more challenging hydro-ecosystems management. To address these challenges, together with the importance of complying with ever-growing regulatory standards (such as the EU Bathing Water Directive), an improved understanding of hydrodynamics, water quality (including contaminents of emerging concern), sediment transport, and morphological processes is required together with improved predictive models, associated with new numerical schemes, increasing field data, large-scale laboratory data, higher-performance computing facilities and improved bathymetric data and visual representation, etc. This Special Issue aims to bring together recent pure and applied research on a wide range of topics related to flow and water quality processes in modelling river and coastal basin systems from catchments to the coast. We encourage submissions on: Hydrodynamic processes (including: Roughness, turbulence, data acquisition and analysis, boundary conditions, etc.), particularly for extreme events; water quality processes (including: Diffusion and dispersion, dynamic decay, bed and surface interactions, constituent interactions (such as nutrients), field data and analysis, etc.); sediment transport and morphological processes (including: Cohesive and noncohesive sediments, adsorption and desorption water quality constituents (such as faecal indicator organisms—FIOs) and trace metals, flux of water quality indicators in the oxic and anoxic sediment layers, and transport of FIOs via the sediments; rapid sediment flux reduction and water temperature changes (due to building large dams and conservation), etc. We especially welcome submissions that explore the extension of these processes to predict health risk assessments, such as gastroentiritis, for the river, estuarine, and coastal water columns.

Prof. Roger Falconer
Dr. Reza Ahmadian
Prof. Binliang Lin
Guest Editors

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