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Water, Volume 13, Issue 5

March-1 2021 - 166 articles

Cover Story: Exemplary for Central Asian water management challenges, the data-scarce Ili-Balkhash basin shared between China and Kazakhstan is confronted with climate change and shifts in water demand as a result of land use changes under the Belt and Road Initiative. This study assesses reliability of environmental flows of the Ili river to Lake Balkhash using a scenario-based modeling approach. The results suggest that the basin is historically vulnerable to environmental shortages, and potentially growing competition for water resources between domestic and up- and downstream users may be exacerbated by climatic conditions. The modeling tool and outcomes support transboundary management and local decision making. View this paper
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Articles (166)

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,416 Views
25 Pages

Means and Extremes: Evaluation of a CMIP6 Multi-Model Ensemble in Reproducing Historical Climate Characteristics across Alberta, Canada

  • Badrul Masud,
  • Quan Cui,
  • Mohamed E. Ammar,
  • Barrie R. Bonsal,
  • Zahidul Islam and
  • Monireh Faramarzi

9 March 2021

This study evaluates General Circulation Models (GCMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) for their ability in simulating historical means and extremes of daily precipitation (P), and daily maximum (Tmax), and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,514 Views
16 Pages

Setting the Phosphorus Boundaries for Greek Natural Shallow and Deep Lakes for Water Framework Directive Compliance

  • Ifigenia Kagalou,
  • Chrysoula Ntislidou,
  • Dionissis Latinopoulos,
  • Dimitra Kemitzoglou,
  • Vasiliki Tsiaoussi and
  • Dimitra C. Bobori

9 March 2021

Eutrophication caused by nutrient enrichment is a predominant stressor leading to lake degradation and, thus, the set-up of boundaries that support good ecological status, the Water Framework Directive’s main target, is a necessity. Greece is one of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,727 Views
13 Pages

9 March 2021

Fertilizer application during sugarcane cultivation is a main source of nitrogen (N) loads to groundwater on small islands in southwestern Japan. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of reducing the N fertilizer application rate on sugarc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,627 Views
19 Pages

Development of Fragility Curves for Piping and Slope Stability of River Levees

  • Nicola Rossi,
  • Mario Bačić,
  • Meho Saša Kovačević and
  • Lovorka Librić

9 March 2021

The design code Eurocode 7 relies on semi-probabilistic calculation procedures, through utilization of the soil parameters obtained by in situ and laboratory tests, or by the means of transformation models. To reach a prescribed safety margin, the in...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,418 Views
32 Pages

Quaternary Evolution of the Lower Calore and Middle Volturno Valleys (Southern Italy)

  • Francesca Filocamo,
  • Natalia Leone,
  • Carmen Maria Rosskopf,
  • Vittoria Scorpio,
  • Santiago Giralt and
  • Pietro Patrizio Ciro Aucelli

9 March 2021

The lower Calore and middle Volturno valleys preserve stratigraphical and morphological evidence and tephrostratigraphic markers particularly suitable for reconstructing the long-term geomorphological evolution of the central-southern Apennines. Aim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,111 Views
21 Pages

A Parametric Approach for Determining Fishway Attraction Flow at Hydropower Dams

  • Patrick Heneka,
  • Markus Zinkhahn,
  • Cornelia Schütz and
  • Roman B. Weichert

9 March 2021

High discharges at hydropower plants (HPP) may mask fishway attraction flows and, thereby, prevent fishes from locating and using fishways critical for their access to upstream spawning and rearing habitats. Existing methods for determining attractio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,312 Views
26 Pages

Distributed-Framework Basin Modeling System: II. Hydrologic Modeling System

  • Gang Chen,
  • Wenjuan Hua,
  • Xing Fang,
  • Chuanhai Wang and
  • Xiaoning Li

9 March 2021

A distributed-framework hydrologic modeling system (DF-HMS) is a primary and significant component of a distributed-framework basin modeling system (DFBMS), which simulates the hydrological processes and responses after rainfall at the basin scale, e...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,408 Views
10 Pages

On the Power of Microwave Communication Data to Monitor Rain for Agricultural Needs in Africa

  • Noam David,
  • Yanyan Liu,
  • Kingsley K. Kumah,
  • Joost C. B. Hoedjes,
  • Bob Z. Su and
  • H. Oliver Gao

8 March 2021

Over the last two decades, prevalent technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) systems have been found to have potential for carrying out environmental monitoring. The data generated from these infrastructures are readily available and have the poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,806 Views
17 Pages

Stratigraphic Analysis of Firn Cores from an Antarctic Ice Shelf Firn Aquifer

  • Shelley MacDonell,
  • Francisco Fernandoy,
  • Paula Villar and
  • Arno Hammann

8 March 2021

In recent decades, several large ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula region have experienced significant ice loss, likely driven by a combination of oceanic, atmospheric and hydrological processes. All three areas need further research, however, i...

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