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Water, Volume 16, Issue 22

November-2 2024 - 182 articles

Cover Story: In the Northern Chihuahua Desert, dune fields may hold important volumes of water, often unquantified, that could augment regional groundwater resources but also be compromised by anthropogenic activity. Despite semi-arid conditions, the Kermit and Monahans dune fields contain >0.32 km3 of water and may contribute up to 18% of the annual recharge to the regional Pecos Valley Aquifer. Recharge happens through the infiltration of rainfall on the bare active dunes and groundwater flows towards the SW parallel to a Pliocene aquitard. Radiocarbon and δ13C analyses on dissolved inorganic carbon reveal possible groundwater contamination from hydrocarbons (up to 24%) downflow from the recharge zone in the Kermit dune field, and in the Pecos Valley Aquifer, associated with oil and gas activity in the Permian Basin, TX. View this paper
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Articles (182)

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  • Open Access
1,576 Views
34 Pages

Unveiling the Intra-Annual and Inter-Annual Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Sediment Inflow to Rivers and Driving Factors in Cloud-Prone Regions: A Case Study in Minjiang River Basin, China

  • Xiaoqin Wang,
  • Zhichao Yu,
  • Lin Li,
  • Mengmeng Li,
  • Jinglan Lin,
  • Lifang Tang,
  • Jianhui Chen,
  • Haihan Lin,
  • Miao Chen and
  • Shilai Jin
  • + 2 authors

20 November 2024

Accurately delineating sediment export dynamics using high-quality vegetation factors remains challenging due to the spatio-temporal resolution imbalance of single remote sensing data and persistent cloud contamination. To address these challenges, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,022 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2024

Being tidal-sensitive, the river channel in the Longjin Yangqi area of Cangshan, Fuzhou City, is challenged further because of rapid urbanization. Thus, resultant remediation efforts are crucial. This study aims analyzes hydrodynamic characteristics...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,670 Views
19 Pages

A Stable Isotope Analysis to Quantify the Contribution of Basal Dietary Sources to Food Webs of Drinking Water Reservoirs

  • Feng Huang,
  • Wen Zhao,
  • Xingye Qiao,
  • Changge Xia,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Jie Wei,
  • Dongpeng Yin and
  • George Arhonditsis

20 November 2024

This study investigates the food web structure of the Xinlicheng Reservoir, a drinking water source of critical importance in Changchun, China, by employing stable isotope analysis (SIA) to quantify the contribution ratios of four basal dietary sourc...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,200 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2024

Forestry operations and climate variability affect hydrologic response and sediment transport. Management of forested catchments under intense forestry activity in areas under climatic stress is critical. This study analyzes the impact of forest oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,041 Views
18 Pages

Improving Hydrological Simulations with a Dynamic Vegetation Parameter Framework

  • Haiting Gu,
  • Yutai Ke,
  • Zhixu Bai,
  • Di Ma,
  • Qianwen Wu,
  • Jiongwei Sun and
  • Wanghua Yang

20 November 2024

Many hydrological models incorporate vegetation-related parameters to describe hydrological processes more precisely. These parameters should adjust dynamically in response to seasonal changes in vegetation. However, due to limited information or met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,209 Views
16 Pages

Impacts of Drought Severity and Frequency on Natural Vegetation Across Iran

  • Atefeh Torkaman Pary,
  • Pejvak Rastgoo,
  • Christian Opp,
  • Dirk Zeuss and
  • Temesgen Alemayehu Abera

20 November 2024

Drought recurrence is increasing in arid and semi-arid regions, and its effects are becoming more complicated due to climate change. Despite the increasing frequency of drought events, the sensitivity of natural vegetation to different levels of drou...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,276 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2024

Flash floods are one of the most hazardous natural events globally, characterized by their rapid onset and unpredictability, often overwhelming emergency preparedness and response systems. In the arid environment of Saudi Arabia, Wadi Al-Lith watersh...

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  • Open Access
1,116 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2024

The present study addresses the issue of transporting pharmaceuticals via microplastics in aquatic environments. For this purpose, the adsorption and desorption of metformin hydrochloride (MET), a hydrophilic compound, on polyethylene microspheres (P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,409 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2024

Climate change, through more frequent extreme weather events, and urban sprawl, by increasing runoff, are two critical threats to drainage networks, impacting both public health and property. Augmenting drainage networks to withstand additional stres...

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  • Open Access
1,035 Views
13 Pages

The Landsat Data-Based Monitoring of Groundwater Depth and Its Influencing Factors in the Oasis Area of the Weigan River

  • Bohao Zeng,
  • Tian Liu,
  • Dandan Wang,
  • Xiaodong Wu,
  • Zhifan Gui,
  • Yaqiao Zhu,
  • Wenjing Huang and
  • Peng Wang

19 November 2024

Using the Weigan River oasis as the research area and based on Landsat and measured groundwater depth data, the temperature vegetation drought index (TVDI) was calculated, and the groundwater depth that was measured in the field was used to establish...

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