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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,990 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2020

Observations show that the Sun, which is the primary source of energy for the Earth’s climate system, is a variable star. In order to understand the influence of solar variability on the Earth’s climate, knowledge of solar variability and solar–terre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
3,606 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2020

The intensity and frequency of droughts in Poyang Lake Basin have been increasing due to global warming. To properly manage water resources and mitigate drought disasters, it is important to understand the long-term characteristics of drought and its...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,867 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2018

In this paper, a novel method with cross-wavelet singular entropy (XWSE)-based feature extractor and support vector machine (SVM) is proposed for analog circuit fault diagnosis. Primarily, cross-wavelet transform (XWT), which possesses a good capabil...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,174 Views
24 Pages

1 April 2022

Soil organic matter (SOM) plays pivotal roles in characterizing dryland structure and function; however, remotely sensed spatially-detailed SOM mapping in these regions remains a challenge. Various digital soil mapping approaches based on either sing...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,215 Views
22 Pages

Investigating the Causal Linkages among Inflation, Interest Rate, and Economic Growth in Pakistan under the Influence of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Wavelet Transformation Approach

  • Muhammad Azmat Hayat,
  • Huma Ghulam,
  • Maryam Batool,
  • Muhammad Zahid Naeem,
  • Abdullah Ejaz,
  • Cristi Spulbar and
  • Ramona Birau

This research is the earliest attempt to understand the impact of inflation and the interest rate on output growth in the context of Pakistan using the wavelet transformation approach. For this study, we used monthly data on inflation, the interest r...

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  • Open Access
195 Views
19 Pages

7 January 2026

Regional precipitation patterns are influenced by a combination of global climatic drivers and local environmental conditions. This study takes Henan Province, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, as a case study. Using wavele...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
21,549 Views
15 Pages

The main aim of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationship between the three pillars of the economy: unemployment, inflation, and GDP in Ethiopia using the cross-wavelet transform (XWT) analysis, the multivariate Student-t generalized autoregr...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,427 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2021

LST (Land surface temperature) is an important indicator for monitoring dynamic changes in the earth’s resources and environment. However, the complexity of obtaining long-term, continuous LST data hinders the development of research on LST res...

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  • Open Access
101 Views
29 Pages

17 January 2026

The advance and delay of the rainy season is among the most frequently cited effects of climate change in the central Ecuadorian Andes. However, its assessment is not feasible using the indicators recommended by the standardized indices of the Expert...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
740 Views
20 Pages

Analysis of Evolutionary Characteristics and Prediction of Annual Runoff in Qianping Reservoir

  • Xiaolong Kang,
  • Haoming Yu,
  • Chaoqiang Yang,
  • Qingqing Tian and
  • Yadi Wang

26 June 2025

Under the combined influence of climate change and human activities, the non-stationarity of reservoir runoff has significantly intensified, posing challenges for traditional statistical models to accurately capture its multi-scale abrupt changes. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,745 Views
28 Pages

18 October 2024

As the global climate changes and droughts become more frequent, understanding the characteristics and propagation dynamics of drought is critical for monitoring and early warning. This study utilized the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,825 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2021

Profiling the hydrological response of watershed precipitation and streamflow to large-scale circulation patterns and astronomical factors provides novel information into the scientific management and prediction of regional water resources. Possible...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,461 Views
14 Pages

3 June 2020

This paper presents a wavelet analysis technique together with support vector machines (SVM) to discriminate partial discharges (PD) from external disturbances (electromagnetic noise) in a GIS PD measuring system based on magnetic antennas. The techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,018 Views
20 Pages

Identifying the response of runoff changes to extreme climate evolution was of great scientific significance for the rational regulation of watershed water resources and the prevention of hydrological disasters. However, the time–frequency resp...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,954 Views
22 Pages

Evaluation of Karst Spring Discharge Response Using Time-Scale-Based Methods for a Mediterranean Basin of Northern Algeria

  • Bilel Zerouali,
  • Mohamed Chettih,
  • Mamdooh Alwetaishi,
  • Zaki Abda,
  • Ahmed Elbeltagi,
  • Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos and
  • Enas E. Hussein

20 October 2021

Understanding of behavior, variability, and links between hydrological series is a key element for successful long-term water resources planning and management. In this study, various time-scale-based methods such as correlation and spectral analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
8,891 Views
17 Pages

Regional Land Subsidence Analysis in Eastern Beijing Plain by InSAR Time Series and Wavelet Transforms

  • Mingliang Gao,
  • Huili Gong,
  • Beibei Chen,
  • Xiaojuan Li,
  • Chaofan Zhou,
  • Min Shi,
  • Yuan Si,
  • Zheng Chen and
  • Guangyao Duan

26 February 2018

Land subsidence is the disaster phenomenon of environmental geology with regionally surface altitude lowering caused by the natural or man-made factors. Beijing, the capital city of China, has suffered from land subsidence since the 1950s, and extrem...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,842 Views
31 Pages

10 August 2022

Identifying the impacts of climatic factors on runoff change has become a central topic in climate and hydrology research. This issue, however, has received minimal attention in karst watersheds worldwide. Multi-resolution analysis (MRA), continuous...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,594 Views
19 Pages

12 November 2021

Analyzing the interaction between land use patterns (LUPs) and socioeconomic factors (SEFs) could provide a basis for regional land spatial planning and management decisions in the future. In this study, population, gross domestic product (GDP) and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,264 Views
11 Pages

Thermal Investigations on Carbon Nanotubes by Spectroscopic Techniques

  • Maria Teresa Caccamo,
  • Giuseppe Mavilia and
  • Salvatore Magazù

18 November 2020

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) thanks to their unique physical properties have been employed in several innovative applications particularly for energy storage applications. Certain technical features of carbon nanotubes, such as their remarkable specific s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,584 Views
20 Pages

2 January 2020

Climate change poses potential challenges to sensitive areas, such as high-elevation regions. The Yarlung Zangbo River (YLZR) basin is located in the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. It contains large amounts of snow and numerous glaciers th...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,168 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Influencing Factors of SST in Tropical West Indian Ocean Based on COBE Satellite Data

  • Chaoli Tang,
  • Dewei Hao,
  • Yuanyuan Wei,
  • Fengmei Zhao,
  • Han Lin and
  • Xin Wu

The time-frequency domain analysis of the sea surface temperature (SST) in the tropical western Indian Ocean was conducted using wavelet analysis, cross wavelet transform (XWT), the Mann–Kendall (MK) test, and other methods based on COBE-SST da...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,929 Views
18 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis of Environmental Loading Effects on Vertical GPS Time Series in Yunnan, Southwest China

  • Shunqiang Hu,
  • Kejie Chen,
  • Hai Zhu,
  • Changhu Xue,
  • Tan Wang,
  • Zhenyu Yang and
  • Qian Zhao

7 June 2022

Seasonal variations in the vertical Global Positioning System (GPS) time series are mainly caused by environmental loading, e.g., hydrological loading (HYDL), atmospheric loading (ATML), and nontidal oceanic loading (NTOL), which can be synthesized b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,289 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2021

With the aggravation of the ocean–atmosphere cycle anomaly, understanding the potential teleconnections between climate indices and drought/flood conditions can help us know natural hazards more comprehensively to better cope with them. This study ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,062 Views
23 Pages

7 August 2022

Drought events cause ecological problems, including reduced water resources and degraded vegetation. Quantifying vegetation responses to drought is essential for ecological management. However, in existing research, the response relationships (correl...