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Earth, Volume 4, Issue 3

2023 September - 16 articles

Cover Story: A new inventory of transverse structures (small dams and dykes) for flow lamination and water retention through river basins has recently been conducted for the Spanish territory by the MITERD Ministry, with 27,680 units. Adopting this inventory as a starting point, through GIS-based algebra operations using thematic layers, such as lithology, permeability, elevation, transverse structures’ wetted area, etc., two analytical formulas to compute their infiltration of water were tested. The resulting volume of unintentional recharge from these constructions ranges between 812.5 and 1234.8 Mm3/year, what exceeds by more than four times the volume infiltrated from intentional managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems (between 150 and 280 Mm3/year) in Spain. These figures are, therefore, relevant. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,310 Views
24 Pages

Predicting Future Land Use Utilizing Economic and Land Surface Parameters with ANN and Markov Chain Models

  • Ankush Rani,
  • Saurabh Kumar Gupta,
  • Suraj Kumar Singh,
  • Gowhar Meraj,
  • Pankaj Kumar,
  • Shruti Kanga,
  • Bojan Đurin and
  • Dragana Dogančić

15 September 2023

The main aim of this study is to comprehensively analyze the dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) changes in the Bathinda region of Punjab, India, encompassing historical, current, and future trends. To forecast future LULC, the Cellular Automa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,228 Views
14 Pages

13 September 2023

Understanding how climatic variables impact the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is essential for water resource management, especially considering potential fluctuations due to climate change. Therefore, we used the Sobol’ method to analyze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,124 Views
16 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM), Statistical, and Machine Learning Models in the Aube Department, France

  • Abdessamad Jari,
  • Achraf Khaddari,
  • Soufiane Hajaj,
  • El Mostafa Bachaoui,
  • Sabine Mohammedi,
  • Amine Jellouli,
  • Hassan Mosaid,
  • Abderrazak El Harti and
  • Ahmed Barakat

9 September 2023

Landslides are among the most relevant and potentially damaging natural risks, causing material and human losses. The department of Aube in France is well known for several major landslide occurrences. This study focuses on the assessment of Landslid...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,519 Views
7 Pages

Edaphosphere: A Perspective of Soil Inside the Biosphere

  • Brian Herreño,
  • Federico De la Colina and
  • María José Delgado-Iniesta

8 September 2023

The integration of soil into ecology in the current climate crisis is essential for correct environmental management. Soil is a part of ecosystems; above all, it is a component of the biosphere. It is necessary to establish a definition of soil that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,755 Views
15 Pages

Mapping Is Caring: Fostering Forest Preservation through Young Orang Rimba Initiatives

  • Anang Widhi Nirwansyah,
  • Bianca Inez-Pedro,
  • Abdel Mandili,
  • Suwarno and
  • Elly Hasan Sadeli

7 September 2023

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12, states that young people should be able to participate in issues that affect them. In this study, the indigenous Orang Rimba community examines the natural resources of their area through mapp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,608 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2023

Groundwater availability in the Zakho Basin faces significant challenges due to political issues, border stream control, climate change, urbanization, land use changes, and poor administration, leading to declining groundwater quantity and quality. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,171 Views
29 Pages

Interpretation of Fluoride Groundwater Contamination in Tamnar Area, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India

  • Mirza Kaleem Beg,
  • Navneet Kumar,
  • S. K. Srivastava and
  • E. J. M. Carranza

22 August 2023

A high concentration of fluoride (F−) in drinking water is harmful and is a serious concern worldwide due to its toxicity and accumulation in the human body. There are various sources of fluoride (F−) and divergent pathways to enter into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,914 Views
20 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Rainfall over the Period 1981–2020 and Management of Surface Water Resources in the Nakanbe–Wayen Watershed in Burkina Faso

  • Wennepinguere Virginie Marie Yameogo,
  • You Lucette Akpa,
  • Jean Homian Danumah,
  • Farid Traore,
  • Boalidioa Tankoano,
  • Zezouma Sanon,
  • Oumar Kabore and
  • Mipro Hien

18 August 2023

Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall trends in a watershed is an effective tool for sustainable water resources management, as it allows for an understanding of the impacts of these changes at the watershed scale. The objective of the present study i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,556 Views
22 Pages

Unintentional Recharge of Aquifers from Small Dams and Dykes in Spain: A GIS-Based Approach to Determine a Fractional Volume

  • Enrique Fernández Escalante,
  • José David Henao Casas,
  • Carlos Moreno de Guerra Per,
  • María Dolores Maza Vera and
  • Carles Moreno Valverde

14 August 2023

Conducting an accurate hydrological water balance at the regional and country-wide scales is paramount to assessing available water resources and adequately allocating them. One of the main components of these balances is the anthropogenic recharge o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,972 Views
14 Pages

A Comparative Study for Provision of Environmental Flows in the Tapi River

  • Jaini Umrigar,
  • Darshan J. Mehta,
  • Tommaso Caloiero,
  • Hazi Md. Azamathulla and
  • Vijendra Kumar

12 August 2023

Environmental flows are defined as the flow required into a stream to maintain the river’s ecosystem. The notion of Environmental Flow Allocation (EFA) ensures that a sufficient amount of water is delivered to the stream to maintain ecological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,600 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2023

Climate classifications supply climate visualization with inference about general vegetation types. The Köppen classification system of thermal classes and an arid class is widely used, but options are available to strengthen climate change dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,733 Views
12 Pages

26 July 2023

Consumption of fish containing elevated levels of radionuclides can lead to undesirable health effects for consumers. People in the Singida Municipality harvest fish from lakes and ponds of granite rocks which are linked with hazardous radioisotopes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,531 Views
18 Pages

25 July 2023

In order to better understand the extent to which global climate variability is linked to the frequency and intensity of heat waves and overall changes in temperature throughout the United States (US), correlations between long-term monthly mean, min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
9,376 Views
19 Pages

10 July 2023

Amid global concerns regarding climate change and urbanization, understanding the interplay between land use/land cover (LULC) changes, the urban heat island (UHI) effect, and land surface temperatures (LST) is paramount. This study provides an in-de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,378 Views
42 Pages

30 June 2023

Lake Mead located in the Arizona–Nevada region of the Mohave Dessert is a unique and complex water system whose flow follows that of a warm monomictic lake. Although monomictic lakes experience thermal stratification for almost the entire year...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,185 Views
16 Pages

28 June 2023

The AquaCrop model is used to predict rice yield in response to different irrigation management in the Yanyun irrigation area in Yangzhou, China, and the constraints to rice production were identified to maximize water productivity based on model sim...

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