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Water, Volume 10, Issue 12

December 2018 - 180 articles

Cover Story: Reservoir sedimentation is a major concern in the operational management of dams and its appurtenant structures. This paper presents a methodology to characterize the annual sediment balance of reservoirs and to assess the effects of climate warming on the annual sediment yield. The methodology is tested on a case study, which consists of a cascade of hydropower reservoirs in the Swiss Alps. The results show that at present, the hydropower cascade formed by Oberaar, Grimsel and Räterichsboden retains about 92% of the annual sediment yield, of which only part of the finest suspended fraction reaches the river network downstream. Under a climate warming scenario with glacier retreat, both sediment yield and runoff will increase on annual average. Therefore, managing the likely greater annual inputs of sediments to the cascade is vital for the perennial use of the water storage facilities. View Paper here.
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Articles (180)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,388 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2018

Broken wave characteristics in front of a vertical seawall were modeled and studied using a shock-capturing Boussinesq wave model FUNWAVE-TVD. Validation with the experimental data confirmed the capability of FUNWAVE-TVD in predicting the wave charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,983 Views
17 Pages

19 December 2018

Identifying what, when, and how much adaptation is needed to account for increased pluvial flood risk is inherently uncertain. This presents a challenge to decision makers when trying to identify robust measures. This paper presents an integrated unc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,229 Views
16 Pages

19 December 2018

To better predict long-term performance of a remediation system, parameters of a numerical model should be constrained with care by calibrating with reliable experimental data. This study conducted sensitivity analyses for model parameters, which wer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,536 Views
22 Pages

Flood Inundation Assessment Considering Hydrologic Conditions and Functionalities of Hydraulic Facilities

  • Yuan-Heng Wang,
  • Yung-Chia Hsu,
  • Gene Jiing-Yun You,
  • Ching-Lien Yen and
  • Chi-Ming Wang

19 December 2018

This study proposed a two-phase risk analysis scheme for flood management considering flood inundation losses, including: (1) simplified qualitative-based risk analysis incorporating the principles of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) to identi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
13,118 Views
16 Pages

Prospects for Improving Irrigated Agriculture in Southern Africa: Linking Water, Energy and Food

  • Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi,
  • Sylvester Mpandeli,
  • Luxon Nhamo,
  • Vimbayi G. P. Chimonyo,
  • Charles Nhemachena,
  • Aidan Senzanje,
  • Dhesigen Naidoo and
  • Albert T Modi

19 December 2018

Increasing agricultural productivity has always been a prominent feature on the regional agenda due to a high incidence of food and nutrition insecurity. This review assessed the current status of irrigated agriculture in southern Africa from a water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,362 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2018

There is a necessity to assess water resources sustainability for its development and management. However, achievements in water resources and sustainability assessment and specific assessment indicators are limited in current research. A comprehensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,555 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2018

The potential evapotranspiration (PET) is an important input to the hydrological model and its compatibility has an important influence on the model applications. The applicability of the Hargreaves-Samani (HS) PET estimation method in Coupled Routin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,568 Views
19 Pages

Swimming Pool Evaporative Water Loss and Water Use in the Balearic Islands (Spain)

  • Angela Hof,
  • Enrique Morán-Tejeda,
  • Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz and
  • Macià Blázquez-Salom

19 December 2018

The Balearic Islands are a major Mediterranean tourist destination that features one of the greatest swimming pool densities within Europe. In this paper, standard meteorological data were combined with a diachronic swimming pool inventory to estimat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,092 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Estimates in the Yellow River Basin against the Water Balance Method

  • Guojie Wang,
  • Jian Pan,
  • Chengcheng Shen,
  • Shijie Li,
  • Jiao Lu,
  • Dan Lou and
  • Daniel F. T. Hagan

19 December 2018

Evapotranspiration (ET), a critical process in global climate change, is very difficult to estimate at regional and basin scales. In this study, we evaluated five ET products: the Global Land Surface Evaporation with the Amsterdam Methodology (GLEAM,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,878 Views
26 Pages

A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexities of Flood Mitigation Options in Urban–Rural Catchments

  • Mehdi Khoury,
  • Michael J. Gibson,
  • Dragan Savic,
  • Albert S. Chen,
  • Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia,
  • Harry Langford and
  • Sarah Wigley

19 December 2018

Flood prevention in mixed urban–rural environments has become a greater concern due to climate change. It is a complex task requiring both efficient management of resources and the involvement of multiple stakeholders from diverse backgrounds. As Ser...

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