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Water, Volume 12, Issue 3

2020 March - 308 articles

Cover Story: The study reconstructs the amount of vertical ground movements occurred in the archaeological area of Portus Julius (Gulf of Pozzuoli) and the morpho-evolution of this ancient coastal sector during the last 2.1 ky BP. By measuring the submersion of structural elements belonging to a former fish tank, several roman pilae and ancient floors, two different relative sea levels of -3.10 m and -4.7/-5.20 m were detected, respectively related to the beginning and the end of the 1st century BCE. Additionally, a photogrammetric survey of the fish tank was carried out in order to produce a 3D model of the most reliable sea level marker. View this paper.
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Articles (308)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,182 Views
19 Pages

Spatial Changes in Invertebrate Structures as a Factor of Strong Human Activity in the Bed and Catchment Area of a Small Urban Stream

  • Robert Czerniawski,
  • Łukasz Sługocki,
  • Tomasz Krepski,
  • Anna Wilczak and
  • Katarzyna Pietrzak

24 March 2020

The threats to small urban streams lead to a decrease in their water quality and dysregulate their ecological balance, thereby affecting the biodiversity and causing degradation of indicators that determine the ecological potential. The aim of our st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,225 Views
13 Pages

Study on the Ecological Operation and Watershed Management of Urban Rivers in Northern China

  • Guangyi Deng,
  • Xiaohan Yao,
  • Haibo Jiang,
  • Yingyue Cao,
  • Yang Wen,
  • Wenjia Wang,
  • She Zhao and
  • Chunguang He

24 March 2020

Small- and medium-sized rivers are facing a serious degradation of ecological function in water resource-scarce regions of Northern China. Reservoir ecological operation can restore the damaged river ecological environment. Research on reservoir ecol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,347 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2020

Given the increasingly worsening ecology issues in the lower Yellow River, the Xiaolangdi reservoir is chosen as the regulation and control target, and the single and multi-objective operation by ecology and power generation in the lower Yellow River...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,329 Views
26 Pages

Interplay between Fingering Instabilities and Initial Soil Moisture in Solute Transport through the Vadose Zone

  • Luis Cueto-Felgueroso,
  • María José Suarez-Navarro,
  • Xiaojing Fu and
  • Ruben Juanes

24 March 2020

Modeling water flow and solute transport in the vadose zone is essential to understanding the fate of soil pollutants and their travel times towards groundwater bodies. It also helps design better irrigation strategies to control solute concentration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,231 Views
25 Pages

24 March 2020

At the present time, one of the most relevant challenges in marine and ocean engineering and practice is the development of a mathematical modeling that can accurately replicate the interaction of water waves with porous coastal structures. Over the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,852 Views
23 Pages

Seepage Characteristics of a Single Ascending Relief Well Dewatering an Overlying Aquifer

  • Wenxue Wang,
  • Boris Faybishenko,
  • Tong Jiang,
  • Jinyu Dong and
  • Yang Li

24 March 2020

The application of groundwater relief, i.e., dewatering, ascending wells, drilled upward from the mining tunnel into the overlying aquifer, is common in underground mining engineering. In this study, the seepage characteristics of single ascending pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,523 Views
16 Pages

Microphysical Characteristics of Winter Precipitation in Eastern China from 2014 to 2019

  • Kang Pu,
  • Xichuan Liu,
  • Hongbing He,
  • Yu Sun,
  • Shuai Hu and
  • Yi Wu

24 March 2020

To improve solid precipitation monitoring in the hydrology and meteorology field, 1-min precipitation data observed by the PARticle SIze VELocity (PARSIVEL) disdrometer in Nanjing, eastern China, from February 2014 to February 2019 for all days with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,978 Views
16 Pages

Hydrologic and Pollutant Removal Performance of Media Layers in Bioretention

  • Feikai Yang,
  • Dafang Fu,
  • Shuang Liu,
  • Chris Zevenbergen and
  • Rajendra Prasad Singh

24 March 2020

The current study was aimed to investigate the filler layer structure in modified bioretention systems. Three different structural layers in bioretention were proposed to evaluate their hydrologic performance and pollutant removal efficiency under di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,289 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Procedures for Water Demand Reconstruction

  • Diana Fiorillo,
  • Enrico Creaco,
  • Francesco De Paola and
  • Maurizio Giugni

24 March 2020

This paper presents a comparison between two procedures for the generation of water demand time series at both single user and nodal scales, a top-down and a bottom-up procedure respectively. Both procedures are made up of two phases. The top-down pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,050 Views
12 Pages

Sensitivity Analysis of a Groundwater Infiltration Model and Sea-Level Rise Applications for Coastal Sewers

  • Elise Budd,
  • Roger W Babcock,
  • Daniele Spirandelli,
  • Suwan Shen and
  • Adrienne Fung

24 March 2020

Groundwater elevations in coastal cities will be affected by climate-change-induced sea level rise (SLR) and wastewater collection systems will experience increased groundwater infiltration (GWI) due to greater submergence of sewer pipes. Commercial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,192 Views
14 Pages

Image-Based Bed Material Mapping of a Large River

  • Alexander A. Ermilov,
  • Sándor Baranya and
  • Gergely T. Török

24 March 2020

The composition or bed material plays a crucial role in the physical hydromorphological processes of fluvial systems. However, conventional bed material sampling methods provide only pointwise information, which can be inadequate when investigating l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,158 Views
20 Pages

Pipeline Scour Rates Prediction-Based Model Utilizing a Multilayer Perceptron-Colliding Body Algorithm

  • Mohammad Ehteram,
  • Ali Najah Ahmed,
  • Lloyd Ling,
  • Chow Ming Fai,
  • Sarmad Dashti Latif,
  • Haitham Abdulmohsin Afan,
  • Fatemeh Barzegari Banadkooki and
  • Ahmed El-Shafie

23 March 2020

In this research, the advanced multilayer perceptron (MLP) models are utilized to predict the free rate of expansion that usually occurs around the pipeline (PL) because of waves. The MLP model was structured by integrating it with three optimization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,721 Views
13 Pages

Detection of Cyanotoxin-Producing Genes in a Eutrophic Reservoir (Billings Reservoir, São Paulo, Brazil)

  • Matheus S. F. Ribeiro,
  • Andrea Tucci,
  • Matheus P. Matarazzo,
  • Cristina Viana-Niero and
  • Cristina S. F. Nordi

23 March 2020

CyanoHABs (cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms) are blooms of cyanobacteria capable of producing cyanotoxins, a large group of secondary metabolites that are toxic to most eukaryotes. In this work, the main aim was to evaluate the presence of multipl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,212 Views
20 Pages

Removal of Ciprofloxacin with Aluminum-Pillared Kaolin Sodium Alginate Beads (CA-Al-KABs): Kinetics, Isotherms, and BBD Model

  • Yuying Hu,
  • Cheng Pan,
  • Xiaohuan Zheng,
  • Susu Liu,
  • Fengping Hu,
  • Li Xu,
  • Gaoping Xu and
  • Xiaoming Peng

23 March 2020

In recent years, the problem of water pollution caused by antibiotics has attracted wide attention. The common use of antibiotics represents a threat to both human health and environmental safety. The modification of kaolin clay is promising due to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,761 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2020

The treatment of landfill leachate could be challenging for the biological wastewater treatment systems due to its high toxicity and the presence of poorly biodegradable contaminants. In this study, the bioaugmentation technology was successfully app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,563 Views
23 Pages

23 March 2020

The hydrologic nonstationarity and uncertainty associated with climate change requires new decision-making methods to incorporate climate change impacts into flood frequency and flood risk analyses. To aid decision-making under climate change, we dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,133 Views
26 Pages

What Controls the Flushing Efficiency and Particle Transport Pathways in a Tropical Estuary? Cochin Estuary, Southwest Coast of India

  • Sebin John,
  • K.R. Muraleedharan,
  • C. Revichandran,
  • S. Abdul Azeez,
  • G. Seena and
  • Pierre W. Cazenave

23 March 2020

Estuaries with poor flushing and longer residence time retain effluents and pollutants, ultimately resulting in eutrophication, a decline in biodiversity and, finally, deterioration of water quality. Cochin Estuary (CE), southwest coast of India, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,310 Views
19 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Unstable Preferential Flow during Water Infiltration into Heterogeneous Dry Soil

  • Luis Cueto-Felgueroso,
  • María José Suarez-Navarro,
  • Xiaojing Fu and
  • Ruben Juanes

23 March 2020

Water infiltration and unsaturated flow through heterogeneous soil control the distribution of soil moisture in the vadose zone and the dynamics of groundwater recharge, providing the link between climate, biogeochemical soil processes and vegetation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,904 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2020

Excessive phosphorus is the main problem of water pollution in the main stream of the Yangtze River, while it is not clear about the distribution characteristics and spatial differences of phosphorus in the urban river stretches of the middle and low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,276 Views
19 Pages

23 March 2020

Continental-scale river forecasting platforms forecast streamflow at reaches that can be used as boundary conditions to drive a local-scale flood inundation model. Uncertainty accumulated during this process stems not only from any part of the foreca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,942 Views
19 Pages

23 March 2020

As a revolutionary tool leading to substantial changes across many areas, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have obtained growing attention in the field of hydrology due to their potentials to forecast time series. Moreover, a subfield of ML, Deep Lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,154 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2020

Global Climate Models (GCMs) can provide essential meteorological data as inputs for simulating and assessing the impact of climate change on catchment hydrology. However, downscaling of GCM outputs is often required due to their coarse spatial and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,841 Views
15 Pages

Study on Aeration Optimization and Sewage Treatment Efficiency of a Novel Micro-Pressure Swirl Reactor (MPSR)

  • Shengshu Ai,
  • Shuangshi Dong,
  • Zebing Nie,
  • Suiyi Zhu,
  • Qingkai Ren and
  • Dejun Bian

22 March 2020

This study developed a new type of micro-pressure swirl reactor (MPSR) for treating rural domestic sewage with variable water volume in northern China. The transformation of a traditional aeration tank to MPSR was mainly divided into three steps. Fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,446 Views
24 Pages

A New Framework to Model Hydraulic Bank Erosion Considering the Effects of Roots

  • Eric Gasser,
  • Paolo Perona,
  • Luuk Dorren,
  • Chris Phillips,
  • Johannes Hübl and
  • Massimiliano Schwarz

22 March 2020

Floods and subsequent bank erosion are recurring hazards that pose threats to people and can cause damage to buildings and infrastructure. While numerous approaches exist on modeling bank erosion, very few consider the stabilizing effects of vegetati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,526 Views
24 Pages

22 March 2020

The mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has implications for global sea level rise, and surface meltwater is an important factor that affects the mass balance. Supraglacial lakes (SGLs), which are representative and identifiable hydrologic fe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,256 Views
21 Pages

Emerald Growth: A New Framework Concept for Managing Ecological Quality and Ecosystem Services of Transitional Waters

  • Davide Tagliapietra,
  • Ramūnas Povilanskas,
  • Artūras Razinkovas-Baziukas and
  • Julius Taminskas

22 March 2020

The aim of the present paper is to propose and elaborate on the concept of Emerald Growth as a new framework concept for managing ecological quality and ecosystem services of transitional waters. The research approach combines the longstanding experi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,085 Views
17 Pages

Floodwater Utilization Based on Reservoir Pre-Release Strategy Considering the Worst-Case Scenario

  • Lijuan Hua,
  • Xinyu Wan,
  • Xianhui Wang,
  • Fangzheng Zhao,
  • Ping’an Zhong,
  • Moyang Liu and
  • Qingyan Yang

22 March 2020

Utilizing floodwater resources is important in relieving water shortages, and dynamic control of the flood limited water level (FLWL) for reservoir operation in a flood season is an effective method to achieve this objective. Based on the capacity-co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,293 Views
16 Pages

22 March 2020

The paper presents results of investigation of the local resistance coefficient ζ in welded polypropylene T-junctions with the internal diameter 13.2 mm. The investigations were performed on an independently constructed test rig. The scope of in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,381 Views
29 Pages

22 March 2020

A high-resolution soil water retention data set (81 repacked soil samples with 7729 observations) measured by the HYPROP system was used to develop and evaluate the performance of regression parametric pedotransfer functions (PTFs). A total of sixtee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,041 Views
14 Pages

22 March 2020

The calibration of hydrological models is often complex in regions with scarce data, and generally only uses site-based streamflow data. However, this approach will yield highly generalised values for all model parameters and hydrological processes....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,912 Views
16 Pages

Hydraulic Conductivity Estimation Using Low-Flow Purging Data Elaboration in Contaminated Sites

  • Francesco Maria De Filippi,
  • Silvia Iacurto,
  • Flavia Ferranti and
  • Giuseppe Sappa

22 March 2020

Hydrogeological characterization is required when investigating contaminated sites, and hydraulic conductivity is an important parameter that needs to be estimated. Before groundwater sampling, well water level values are measured during low-flow pur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,206 Views
20 Pages

22 March 2020

This study focuses on the reliable parametrization of the full Soil Water Retention Curve (SWRC) from saturation to oven-dryness using high resolution but limited range measured water retention data by the Hydraulic Property Analyzer (HYPROP) system....

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
11,158 Views
17 Pages

22 March 2020

Data-driven models using an artificial neural network (ANN), deep learning (DL) and numerical models are applied in flood analysis of the urban watershed, which has a complex drainage system. In particular, data-driven models using neural networks ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,894 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2020

The effects of microwave (MW) pretreatment were investigated by six anaerobic digesters operated under thermophilic and mesophilic conditions at high organic loading rates (4.9–5.7 g volatile solids/L/d). The experiments and analyses were mainl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,728 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2020

Issues surrounding water infrastructure, access, and quality are well documented in the Central Appalachian region of the United States. Even in cases where residents have in-home piped point-of-use (POU) water, some rely on alternative drinking wate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,986 Views
13 Pages

Experimental Evidence of the Influence of Recurves on Wave Loads at Vertical Seawalls

  • Dimitris Stagonas,
  • Rajendran Ravindar,
  • Venkatachalam Sriram and
  • Stefan Schimmels

21 March 2020

The role of recurves on top of seawalls in reducing overtopping has been previously shown but their influence in the distribution and magnitude of wave-induced pressures and forces on the seawall remains largely unexplored. This paper deals with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,948 Views
13 Pages

What Triggers the Annual Cycle of Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. in an Extreme Environmental Sulfide-Rich Spa?

  • Andreas Reul,
  • Elena Martín-Clemente,
  • Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez,
  • Elena Bañares-España,
  • Antonio Flores-Moya and
  • María J. García-Sánchez

21 March 2020

A seasonal cycle of sulfide, nitrate, phosphate, ammonium, chlorophyll a (Chl a) and Oscillatoria sp. abundance (<100 μm), as well as the relative contribution of taxonomic phytoplanktonic groups (cyanobacteria, green algae, cryptomonads, diato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,449 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Water Resources Management in an Arid Area Using a Coupled Optimization-Simulation Modeling

  • Siamak Farrokhzadeh,
  • Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared,
  • Gholamreza Azizyan,
  • Ali Sardar Shahraki,
  • Maurits W. Ertsen and
  • Edo Abraham

21 March 2020

Severe water scarcity in recent years has magnified the economic, social, and environmental significance of water stress globally, making optimal planning in water resources necessary for sustainable socio-economic development. One of the regions tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,920 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2020

The nitrogen (N) loss associated with intensive agricultural activities is a significant cause of eutrophication and algal blooms in freshwater ecosystems. Taihu Lake has experienced serious surface water quality deterioration and eutrophication prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
10,717 Views
16 Pages

Flood Prediction and Uncertainty Estimation Using Deep Learning

  • Vinayaka Gude,
  • Steven Corns and
  • Suzanna Long

21 March 2020

Floods are a complex phenomenon that are difficult to predict because of their non-linear and dynamic nature. Therefore, flood prediction has been a key research topic in the field of hydrology. Various researchers have approached this problem using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,723 Views
15 Pages

Evaluating the Efficacy of Point-of-Use Water Treatment Systems Using the Water Quality Index in Rural Southwest China

  • Zejin Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Xi Hu,
  • Kexin Li,
  • Pengfei Luo,
  • Xin Li,
  • Wen Xu,
  • Shiyu Li and
  • Changqun Duan

20 March 2020

Rural China faces a shortage of safe drinking water. There are significant challenges associated with small centralized water supply systems and decentralized water supply systems. Many rural residents use point-of-use water treatment systems to ensu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,455 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2020

(1) Background: Cadmium (Cd) accumulated in vegetables not only affects their growth but can also enter the human body via food chains and lead to various illnesses. Plants can decrease the toxicity by changing the chemical forms of Cd, which include...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,748 Views
11 Pages

20 March 2020

The rapid economic development of river basins depends on the excessive use of water resources. China experienced a rapid development of hydropower projects in the last two decades and thus faces many ecological and environmental issues, especially i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,294 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2020

Farmers have an important role in problematizing and politicizing drought. Following the argumentative turn in policy analysis, the paper analyzes the process of problem definition by means of a framing analysis, zooming in on four major drought even...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,452 Views
14 Pages

20 March 2020

Mapping the distribution and persistence of surface water in a timely fashion has broad value for tracking dynamic events like flooding, and for monitoring the effects of climate and human activities on natural resource values and biodiversity. Tradi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,342 Views
19 Pages

20 March 2020

The monitoring of fluvial suspended sediment transport plays an important role in the assessment of morphological processes, river habitats, or many social activities associated with river management. However, establishing and operating a well-functi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,743 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2020

Adding a submerged zone (SZ) is deemed to promote denitrification during dry periods and thus improve NO3 removal efficiency of a bioretention system. However, few studies had investigated the variation of nitrogen concentration in the SZ duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,647 Views
16 Pages

Permeability and Groundwater Enrichment Characteristics of the Loess-Paleosol Sequence in the Southern Chinese Loess Plateau

  • Tianjie Shao,
  • Ruojin Wang,
  • Zhiping Xu,
  • Peiru Wei,
  • Jingbo Zhao,
  • Junjie Niu and
  • Dianxing Song

20 March 2020

To determine the permeability characteristics and the groundwater enrichment conditions of loess and paleosol layers, this article systematically investigated the permeability, magnetic susceptibility, porosity, and carbonate mass percentage of repre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,135 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2020

The paper analyses changes in potential evaporation E0 (mm) in north-western Poland in the years 1952–2018. E0 (mm) has been calculated according to Ivanov’s formula based on the monthly values of air temperature (t, °C) and relative...

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