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  • Open Access
12 Citations
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Mike 21 Model Based Numerical Simulation of the Operation Optimization Scheme of Sedimentation Basin

  • Jun Yan,
  • Meng Chen,
  • Linjuan Xu,
  • Qingyan Liu,
  • Hongling Shi and
  • Na He

1 April 2022

The sedimentation basin is an important part of hydraulic engineering. Because the prototype size is too large and not easy to analyze, Mike 21 has the advantages of easy input, conversion, analysis, and demonstration of data results, which are flexi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,028 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2024

The phenomenon of global climate change has led to an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events, an acceleration in the melting of glaciers and snow cover, and an elevation of the risk of flooding. In this study, the DB-IWHR model was...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,044 Views
20 Pages

29 June 2023

Inadequate hydrodynamics can cause deterioration of the water environment within rivers. Regulating water conservancy projects can effectively improve the state of the water environment of rivers and promote sustainable regional development. The rive...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,229 Views
19 Pages

24 September 2021

Domestic urban streams face insufficient base flow and consequently become dry streams in drought season, and vulnerable to water quality deterioration and ecological impairment, due to contaminants introduced from the urban pollutants. Many efforts...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,145 Views
14 Pages

A Systematic Study on Berthing Capacity Assessment of Sanya Yazhou Fishing Port by Typhoon Prediction Model

  • Hongli Ge,
  • Zhenlu Wang,
  • Bingchen Liang,
  • Zhaozi Zhang,
  • Zhiduo Yan and
  • Ziwang Li

4 December 2021

This paper sheds light on the effect of combination modes on the evaluation of berthing capacity for Sanya Yazhou Fishing Port (SYFP) under hypothetical typhoon conditions. By statistically analysing the maximum probability of moving speeds and direc...

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  • Open Access
1,165 Views
23 Pages

Construction and Comparative Analysis of a Water Quality Simulation and Prediction Model for Plain River Networks

  • Yue Lan,
  • Cundong Xu,
  • Lianying Ding,
  • Mingyan Wang,
  • Zihao Ren and
  • Zhihang Wang

13 October 2025

In plain river networks, a sluggish flow due to the flat terrain and hydraulic structures significantly reduces water’s capacity for self-purification, leading to persistent water pollution that threatens aquatic ecosystems and human health. De...

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  • Open Access
836 Views
21 Pages

26 September 2025

This study presents a methodology for extracting precise insights on sediment transport in the minor bed of a watercourse using MIKE 21 hydrodynamic modelling software. By integrating geotechnical, geomorphological, and hydrological datasets with a g...

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  • Open Access
390 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2025

This study investigates the causes and consequences of shoreline erosion at Kkotji Beach, a prominent tourist destination on the west coast of South Korea, where the degradation of the coastal environment has increasingly threatened the local tourism...

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  • Open Access
1,370 Views
22 Pages

Investigating the Compound Influence of Tidal and River Floodplain Discharge Under Storm Events in the Brisbane River Estuary, Australia

  • Usman Khalil,
  • Mariam Sajid,
  • Muhammad Zain Bin Riaz,
  • Umair Iqbal,
  • Essam Jnead,
  • Shu-Qing Yang and
  • Muttucumaru Sivakumar

21 May 2025

Effective flood management requires a comprehensive understanding of interactions between multiple flooding sources. This study investigates compound flooding in the Brisbane River Estuary (BRE), Australia, using the MIKE 21 hydrodynamic model to ass...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,594 Views
22 Pages

In coastal waters, wave propagation is often affected by rivers and tides. The wave current interaction increases the complexity of the wave propagation. In this study, we consider the Boussinesq type equation with an improved dispersion term as the...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,661 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2023

In this paper, a numerical method is employed to assess tidal current energy resources in the Pearl River Estuary, China. The numerical model for tidal current simulation in the estuary is developed based on the MIKE 21 model, which enables numerical...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,930 Views
22 Pages

Investigating an Innovative Sea-Based Strategy to Mitigate Coastal City Flood Disasters and Its Feasibility Study for Brisbane, Australia

  • Usman Khalil,
  • Shu-Qing Yang,
  • Muttucumaru Sivakumar,
  • Keith Enever,
  • Mariam Sajid and
  • Muhammad Zain Bin Riaz

30 September 2020

This study examines an innovative Coastal Reservoir (CR) technique as a feasible solution for flood adaptation and mitigation in the Brisbane River Estuary (BRE), Australia, which is vulnerable to coastal flooding. The study analysed the operation of...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,306 Views
22 Pages

30 September 2022

Sea surface currents are often modeled using numerical models without adequately addressing the issue of model calibration at the regional scale. The aim of this study is to calibrate the MIKE 21 numerical ocean model for the Persian Gulf and the Oma...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,828 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2021

Spatiotemporal modeling of wetland environments’ hydrodynamics and water quality characteristics is key to understanding and managing these ecologically important areas’ physical and environmental properties. We developed a two-dimensional numerical...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,200 Views
19 Pages

Improving Water Quality in a Sea Bay by Connecting Rivers on Both Sides of a Harbor

  • Yuning Chi,
  • Wenming Zhang,
  • Yanling Liu,
  • Xiaoyu Zhang,
  • Wanqing Chi and
  • Bing Shi

Improving water quality is imperative for many sea bays, including Laizhou Bay, China, to achieve sustainable marine development. In 2010, two 17.3 km long sand-retaining embankments were built in southwestern Laizhou Bay, which weakened the nearshor...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,556 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2022

Dahuofang Reservoir is an important drinking water source for Shenyang, Fushun, Anshan, Liaoyang, and other cities. The water quality of the upstream inflow river directly affects the water supply safety. When a sudden water pollution accident occurs...

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  • Open Access
1,363 Views
24 Pages

The Eastern Huang–Huai region of China is a representative mining area with a high groundwater level. High-intensity underground mining activities have not only induced land cover and land use changes (LUCC) but also significantly changed the w...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,432 Views
22 Pages

Estuarine Salinity Intrusion and Flushing Time Response to Freshwater Flows and Tidal Forcing Under the Constricted Entrance

  • Usman Khalil,
  • Mariam Sajid,
  • Muhammad Zain Bin Riaz,
  • Shuqing Yang and
  • Muttucumaru Sivakumar

27 February 2025

Coastal waters, particularly in micro-tidal estuaries, are highly vulnerable to water quality changes driven by salinity intrusion. Effective coastal water management requires a detailed understanding of the dynamic processes in estuaries to mitigate...

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  • Open Access
80 Citations
9,365 Views
20 Pages

Numerical simulation is an important method used in studying the evolution mechanisms of lake water quality. At the same time, lake water quality inversion technology using the characteristics of spatial optical continuity data from remote sensing sa...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,424 Views
16 Pages

On the Hydrodynamic Geometry of Flow-Through versus Restricted Lagoons

  • Nikolaos Th. Fourniotis,
  • Georgios M. Horsch and
  • Georgios A. Leftheriotis

25 February 2018

The classification of a lagoon as a restricted lagoon is shown to depend not solely on its geometry but also on the tidal hydraulics. By numerically simulating the tidal exchange of two lagoons of similar geometrical dimensions, the Nidova lagoon and...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,883 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Algal Control Measures in Eutrophic Reservoirs Based on Aquatic Ecosystem Models

  • Zhen Zheng,
  • Tingting Liao,
  • Yafeng Lin,
  • Xueyi Zhu and
  • Haobin Meng

24 May 2024

The frequency of freshwater cyanobacterial blooms is increasing globally due to climate change and eutrophication, particularly in reservoirs. Reservoir ecosystems exhibit unique characteristics, and there is a complex relationship between factors su...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,336 Views
15 Pages

Modelling the Present and Future Water Level and Discharge of the Tidal Betna River

  • M. M. Majedul Islam,
  • Nynke Hofstra and
  • Ekaterina Sokolova

Climate change, comprising of changes in precipitation patterns, higher temperatures and sea level rises, increases the likelihood of future flooding in the Betna River basin, Bangladesh. Hydrodynamic modelling was performed to simulate the present a...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,322 Views
19 Pages

More attention has been paid to saltwater-intrusion-related problems in recent years. In this research study, a saltwater intrusion function in the Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) was constructed based on the theory of the interactions between energy acc...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,067 Views
15 Pages

Nearshore Wave Dynamics at Mangalia Beach Simulated by Spectral Models

  • Iulia Alina Anton,
  • Liliana Rusu and
  • Catalin Anton

The objective of this paper is to present an integrated picture of the relationship between the waves and the modifications induced by them in the Romanian shoreline. Thus, the hydrodynamic processes at the Mangalia beaches, located in the southern s...

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  • Open Access
61 Citations
10,689 Views
21 Pages

6 July 2018

Salinity intrusion in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) has been exacerbated significantly in recent years by the changing upstream inflows, sea level rise resulting from climate change, and socioeconomic development activities. Despite significant d...

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  • Open Access
387 Views
21 Pages

Wind–Wave and Swell Separation and Typhoon Wave Responses on the Dafeng Shelf (Northern Jiangsu)

  • Zhenzhou Yuan,
  • Jingren Zhou,
  • Wufeng Cheng,
  • Hongfei Li and
  • Yuyang Shao

29 December 2025

This study analyzes wave data from Typhoons Hinnamnor and Muifa in 2022, improves the traditional one-dimensional wind–wave and swell separation method (PM method), and proposes a wind–wave and swell separation strategy suitable for the D...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,034 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2020

While rapid urbanization promotes social and economic development, it poses a serious threat to the health of rivers, especially the small and medium-scale rivers. Flood control for small and medium-scale rivers in highly urbanized areas is particula...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,596 Views
20 Pages

Flood Modelling and Risk Analysis of Cinan Feizuo Flood Protection Area, Huaihe River Basin

  • Umar Farooq,
  • Abubakr Taha Bakheit Taha,
  • Fuchang Tian,
  • Ximin Yuan,
  • Muhammad Ajmal,
  • Irfan Ullah and
  • Mahmood Ahmad

3 April 2023

This study evaluated multiple aspects of flood risks and effects on the Cinan Feizuo flood protection area in the Huaihe River basin. Flooding remains a leading problem for infrastructure, especially in urban, residential areas of the region. Effecti...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,257 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of Waves Generated by Tropical Cyclone Kyarr in the Arabian Sea: An Application of ERA5 Reanalysis Wind Data

  • Aliasghar Golshani,
  • Masoud Banan-Dallalian,
  • Mehrdad Shokatian-Beiragh,
  • Majid Samiee-Zenoozian and
  • Shahab Sadeghi-Esfahlani

17 November 2022

In this study, the wave conditions in the Arabian Sea induced by tropical cyclone Kyarr (2019) have been simulated by employing the 3rd generation wave model MIKE 21 SW. The model was run from 24 October to 1 November 2019, a total of 8 days. The MIK...

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  • Open Access
1,665 Views
24 Pages

A Prediction of Estuary Wetland Vegetation with Satellite Images

  • Min Yang,
  • Bin Guo,
  • Ning Gao,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Xiaoli Song and
  • Yanfeng Gu

Estuarine wetlands are the transition zone between marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems and are more ecologically fragile. In recent years, the spread of exotic vegetation, specifically Spartina alterniflora, in the Yellow River estuary wet...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,141 Views
15 Pages

Study of the Effect of an Environmentally Friendly Flood Risk Reduction Approach on the Oman Coastlines during the Gonu Tropical Cyclone (Case Study: The Coastline of Sur)

  • Masoud Banan-Dallalian,
  • Mehrdad Shokatian-Beiragh,
  • Aliasghar Golshani,
  • Alireza Mojtahedi,
  • Mohammad Ali Lotfollahi-Yaghin and
  • Shatirah Akib

15 April 2021

Tropical cyclones may be destructive in the coastal region, such as the Gonu tropical cyclone, which affected the Arabian Peninsula and parts of southern Iran in 2007. In this study, a coupled MIKE 21/3 HD/SW (hydrodynamic/spectral wave) model was us...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,739 Views
15 Pages

Estimation of Residence Time and Transport Trajectory in Tieshangang Bay, China

  • Changbo Jiang,
  • Yizhuang Liu,
  • Yuannan Long and
  • Changshan Wu

2 May 2017

The pollutant residence time and transport trajectory in Tieshangang Bay are considered to have significant effects on deteriorating water quality. To understand the pollutant transport behaviors in Tieshangang Bay, we developed a combination model (...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,230 Views
18 Pages

Using Coupled Hydrodynamic Biogeochemical Models to Predict the Effects of Tidal Turbine Arrays on Phytoplankton Dynamics

  • Pia Schuchert,
  • Louise Kregting,
  • Daniel Pritchard,
  • Graham Savidge and
  • Björn Elsäßer

The effects of large scale tidal energy device (TED) arrays on phytoplankton processes owing to the changes in hydrodynamic flows are unknown. Coupled two-dimensional biogeochemical and hydrodynamic models offer the opportunity to predict potential e...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,487 Views
14 Pages

A Landscape Connectivity Approach for Determining Minimum Ecological Lake Level: Implications for Lake Restoration

  • Dan Liu,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Yun-long Zhang,
  • Sheng-jun Yan,
  • Bao-shan Cui and
  • Zhi-feng Yang

26 October 2019

We proposed a new approach to determine the minimum ecological lake level using a landscape connectivity approach. Using MIKE 21 and ArcGIS software, we simulated the water landscape and corresponding connectivity of Baiyangdian Lake on the North Chi...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,285 Views
17 Pages

23 April 2024

Future global sustainability depends heavily on the development of renewable energy. The object of this study is a system of two plants (Kaunas hydropower plant (HP) and Kruonis pumped-storage hydropower plant) and upper and lower reservoirs. A possi...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,905 Views
20 Pages

28 January 2014

Hydrodynamic models are a powerful tool that can be used by a wide range of end users to assist in predicting the effects of both physical and biological processes on local environmental conditions. This paper describes the development of a tidal mod...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,238 Views
18 Pages

Storm Surge Hazard Assessment of the Levee of a Rapidly Developing City-Based on LiDAR and Numerical Models

  • Qingrong Liu,
  • Chengqing Ruan,
  • Jingtian Guo,
  • Jian Li,
  • Xihu Lian,
  • Zhonghui Yin,
  • Di Fu and
  • Shan Zhong

12 November 2020

Rapidly developing cities could require an urgent hazard assessment to ensure the protection of their economy and population against natural disasters. However, these cities that have rapidly developed should have historical records of observations t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,102 Views
20 Pages

6 April 2025

As the largest inland river in China, the Tarim River’s flood events significantly influence its riverbed formation. This paper took the Alar to Xinquman section of the Tarim River as the study area. The study area’s digital elevation mod...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,381 Views
16 Pages

Flood Mitigation Using an Innovative Flood Control Scheme in a Large Lake: Dongting Lake, China

  • Yizhuang Liu,
  • Shu-Qing Yang,
  • Changbo Jiang,
  • Muttucumaru Sivakumar,
  • Keith Enever,
  • Yuannan Long,
  • Bin Deng,
  • Usman Khalil and
  • Lingshi Yin

17 June 2019

A large lake plays an important role in mitigating flood disasters in its nearby regions during the flooding period; however, the effect is limited, because most of its storage capacity becomes dead storage prior to the arrival of the flood wave. In...

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  • Open Access
874 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Sea Level Rise on Tidal Waves of the Yangtze River Estuary

  • Kai Yu,
  • Wei Ding,
  • Yunlin Ni,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Mingtao Jiang and
  • Zili Dai

24 September 2025

In order to study the influence of sea level rise (SLR) on tidal wave in tidal reach, a hydrodynamic numerical model of the Yangtze River Estuary was established using MIKE 21. The verified model was used to simulate tidal wave changes from Wuhu to t...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,705 Views
19 Pages

Wave Power Assessment in the Middle Part of the Southern Coast of Java Island

  • Addy Wahyudie,
  • Tri Bagus Susilo,
  • Fatima Alaryani,
  • Cuk Supriyadi Ali Nandar,
  • Mohammed Abdi Jama,
  • Abdulrahman Daher and
  • Hussain Shareef

21 May 2020

An assessment of the wave power at the southern coast of the middle part of Java Island (Indonesia) was conducted based on a 15-year hindcast spectral wave model using the MIKE 21 Spectral Wave software. The model was forced with wind data with a 0.1...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,707 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Bridge Piers on Flood Hazards: A Case Study on the Jialing River in China

  • Wen Wang,
  • Kaibo Zhou,
  • Haixiao Jing,
  • Juanli Zuo,
  • Peng Li and
  • Zhanbin Li

5 June 2019

Bridge piers on river channels can cause obstacles for flood flow by reducing the cross-sectional area and inducing local eddy currents and high flow velocities, which may destroy hydraulic structures. A two-dimensional numerical model was used to in...

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  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,149 Views
22 Pages

30 April 2015

Most biochemical processes and associated water quality in lakes depends on their flushing abilities. The main objective of this study was to investigate the transport time scale in a large floodplain lake, Poyang Lake (China). A 2D hydrodynamic mode...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,561 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Distribution of the Baltic Sea Near-Shore Wave Power Potential along the Coast of Klaipėda, Lithuania

  • Egidijus Kasiulis,
  • Jens Peter Kofoed,
  • Arvydas Povilaitis and
  • Algirdas Radzevičius

19 December 2017

Wave power is an abundant source of energy that can be utilized to produce electricity. Therefore, assessments of wave power resources are being carried out worldwide. An overview of the recent assessments is presented in this paper, revealing the gl...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,694 Views
21 Pages

Ocean energy, e.g., waves, tidal current, and thermal and salinity gradient, can be used to produce electricity. These marine-based renewable energy technologies are at relatively early stages of development and potentially deployed at various sea co...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,119 Views
22 Pages

The number of tidal flood events has been increasing in Indonesia in the last decade, especially along the north coast of Java. Hydrodynamic models in combination with Geographic Information System applications are used to assess the impact of high t...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,654 Views
21 Pages

Predicting Crenulate Bay Profiles from Wave Fronts: Numerical Experiments and Empirical Formulae

  • Mariano Buccino,
  • Sara Tuozzo,
  • Margherita C. Ciccaglione and
  • Mario Calabrese

For crenulate-shaped bays, the coastal outline assumes a specific shape related to the predominant waves in the area: it generally consists of a tangential zone downcoast and a curved portion upcoast. Many coastal engineers have attempted to derive a...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,795 Views
19 Pages

A Simple Model for a Fast Forewarning System of Brown Tide in the Coastal Waters of Qinhuangdao in the Bohai Sea, China

  • Jie Wang,
  • Cuiping Kuang,
  • Linjian Ou,
  • Qingchun Zhang,
  • Rufu Qin,
  • Jiadong Fan and
  • Qingping Zou

26 June 2022

Qinhuangdao, a famous coastal resort city in northeastern China, has been affected by the rapid growth of harmful algae. The brown tide induced by Aureococcus anophagefferens (A. anophagefferens) first occurred along Qinhuangdao’s coastline in...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,300 Views
21 Pages

28 September 2015

The biochemical processes and associated water quality in many lakes mainly depend on their transport behaviors. Most existing methodologies for investigating transport behaviors are based on physically based numerical models. The pollutant transport...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,105 Views
14 Pages

Hydrological Drought in Dongting Lake Area (China) after the Running of Three Gorges Dam and a Possible Solution

  • Yizhuang Liu,
  • Shu-Qing Yang,
  • Changbo Jiang,
  • Yuannan Long,
  • Bin Deng and
  • Shixiong Yan

28 September 2020

Dongting Lake is located at the downstream of Three Gorges Dam (TGD) and the hydrological drought is intensified after the impoundment of TGD as the dry period has been extended from 123 days/year before the operation of TGD (1981–2002) to 141 days/y...

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