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31 Citations
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Analysis of GNSS Displacements in Europe and Their Comparison with Hydrological Loading Models

  • Alexandre Michel,
  • Alvaro Santamaría-Gómez,
  • Jean-Paul Boy,
  • Félix Perosanz and
  • Sylvain Loyer

10 November 2021

Thanks to the increasing number of permanent GNSS stations in Europe and their long records, we computed position solutions for more than 1000 stations over the last two decades using the REPRO3 orbit and clock products from the IGS CNES-CLS (GRGS) A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,389 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2021

The displacement of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) station contains the information of surface elastic deformation caused by the variation of land water reserves. This paper selects the long-term coordinate series data of 671 International...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,079 Views
11 Pages

14 June 2022

Large uncertainties exist in the available hydrology loading prediction models, and currently no consensus is reached on which loading model is superior or appears to represent nature in a more satisfactory way. This study discusses the noise charact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,708 Views
14 Pages

28 April 2024

The non-tectonic deformation caused by hydrological loads is an important influencing factor in GNSS vertical displacement. Limited by the temporal and spatial resolution of global models and model errors, the hydrological load results calculated by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,044 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2020

This study employed a convolution neural network (CNN) model, hitherto used only for solving classification problems, with two-dimensional input data to predict the pollution loads and evaluate the CNN model’s applicability. A CNN model general...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,537 Views
22 Pages

29 January 2020

The spatiotemporal distribution of critical source areas (CSAs) will change with hydrological conditions. In this study, the CSAs of nitrogen load under different hydrological conditions in the Chaohe River watershed were identified using the cumulat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,262 Views
14 Pages

Response of Sediment Load to Hydrological Change in the Upstream Part of the Lancang-Mekong River over the Past 50 Years

  • Yanhu He,
  • Zihan Gui,
  • Chengjia Su,
  • Xiaohong Chen,
  • Dongwei Chen,
  • Kairong Lin and
  • Xiaoyan Bai

3 July 2018

Sediment load and its response to the variations of the hydrological elements are important for the healthy utilization of a river. In this study, the response of sediment load to hydrological change was explored in the upstream part of the Lancang-M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,700 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2024

Controlled irrigation and drainage technology for rice is crucial water management that has been widely promoted in northeastern China. It is of great significance to clarify the response mechanism of the drainage volume and nitrogen loss load in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,893 Views
22 Pages

Hydrologic alternation of river systems is an essential factor of human activity. Cascade-dammed waters are characterized by the disturbed outflow of material from the catchment. Changes in sediment, dissolved load and nutrient balance are among the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,937 Views
29 Pages

Improved Hydrological Loading Models in South America: Analysis of GPS Displacements Using M-SSA

  • Joëlle Nicolas,
  • Jérôme Verdun,
  • Jean-Paul Boy,
  • Louis Bonhomme,
  • Ayoub Asri,
  • Adélie Corbeau,
  • Antoine Berthier,
  • Frédéric Durand and
  • Peter Clarke

21 April 2021

Environmental loading, in particular from continental water storage changes, induces geodetic station displacements up to several centimeters for the vertical components. We investigate surface deformation due to loading processes in South America us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,764 Views
16 Pages

Spatial-Temporal Dynamic Evolution of Land Deformation Driven by Hydrological Signals around Chaohu Lake

  • Tingye Tao,
  • Ju Dai,
  • Zichen Song,
  • Shuiping Li,
  • Xiaochuan Qu,
  • Yongchao Zhu,
  • Zhenxuan Li and
  • Mingming Zhu

12 February 2024

The frequent occurrence of extreme climate events has a significant impact on people’s lives. Heavy rainfall can lead to an increase of regional Terrestrial Water Storage (TWS), which will cause land subsidence due to the influence of hydrologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,633 Views
18 Pages

10 June 2020

Addressing seasonal water uncertainties and increased power generation demand has sparked a global rise in large-scale hydropower projects. To this end, the Blue Nile impoundment behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will encompass an are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,170 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2021

The western basin of Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Laurentian Great Lakes in North America, is now plagued by harmful algal blooms annually due to nutrient discharges primarily from its basin. Water quality was impacted so significantly by toxic c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,660 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2020

While seasonal hydrological mass loading, derived from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) measurements, shows coherent spatial patterns and is an important source for the common mode error (CME) in continuous global positioning system (c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,607 Views
20 Pages

19 June 2023

The variation of river hydrologic process can reflect the impact of not only natural factors, but also human activities. The purpose of this study is to reveal the change in the hydrologic regime of the Yellow River and its response to ecological pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,571 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2015

Saturation excess is a major runoff process in humid regions such as the US Northeast. Topographic index (TI) is used to simulate the pattern of runoff-contributing areas following a saturation excess runoff process. Although TI is useful to delineat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,318 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2021

The transport of agricultural nonpoint source (NPS) pollutants in water pathways is affected by various factors such as precipitation, terrain, soil erosion, surface and subsurface flows, soil texture, land management, and vegetation coverage. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,012 Views
14 Pages

Seasonal Hydrological Loading in Southern Tibet Detected by Joint Analysis of GPS and GRACE

  • Rong Zou,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Jeffrey T. Freymueller,
  • Markku Poutanen,
  • Xuelian Cao,
  • Caihong Zhang,
  • Shaomin Yang and
  • Ping He

4 December 2015

In southern Tibet, ongoing vertical and horizontal motions due to the collision between India and Eurasia are monitored by large numbers of global positioning system (GPS) continuous and campaign sites installed in the past decade. Displacements meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,962 Views
20 Pages

Seasonal Variability and Hydrological Patterns Influence the Long-Term Trends of Nutrient Loads in the River Po

  • Edoardo Cavallini,
  • Pierluigi Viaroli,
  • Mariachiara Naldi,
  • Mattia Saccò,
  • Alessandro Scibona,
  • Elena Barbieri,
  • Silvia Franceschini and
  • Daniele Nizzoli

16 September 2024

This study investigates the long-term trends (1992–2022) of nitrogen and phosphorus loadings exported by the River Po to the Adriatic Sea, to better analyse how changes in hydrology are affecting the timing and magnitude of river nutrient loads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,351 Views
22 Pages

19 January 2021

River monitoring and predicting analysis for establishing pollutant loads management require numerous budgets and human resources. However, it is general that the number of government officials in charge of these tasks is few. Although the government...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,190 Views
15 Pages

28 December 2016

The extreme variation in the amount of annual precipitation and rainfall during single events is typical of the East Asian monsoon climate and may greatly influence the characteristics of the suspended sediment load. The turbidity in Lake Imha which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,789 Views
19 Pages

9 February 2015

A three-step method for the identification of the main sources of fecal coliforms (FC) in urban waters and for the analysis of remedial actions is proposed. The method is based on (1) The statistical analysis of the relationship between rainfall and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,322 Views
27 Pages

Prospects for Imaging Terrestrial Water Storage in South America Using Daily GPS Observations

  • Vagner G. Ferreira,
  • Christopher E. Ndehedehe,
  • Henry C. Montecino,
  • Bin Yong,
  • Peng Yuan,
  • Ahmed Abdalla and
  • Abubakar S. Mohammed

21 March 2019

Few studies have used crustal displacements sensed by the Global Positioning System (GPS) to assess the terrestrial water storage (TWS), which causes loadings. Furthermore, no study has investigated the feasibility of using GPS to image TWS over Sout...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,781 Views
26 Pages

NutSpaFHy—A Distributed Nutrient Balance Model to Predict Nutrient Export from Managed Boreal Headwater Catchments

  • Annamari (Ari) Lauren,
  • Mingfu Guan,
  • Aura Salmivaara,
  • Antti Leinonen,
  • Marjo Palviainen and
  • Samuli Launiainen

18 June 2021

Responsible forest management requires accounting for adverse environmental effects, such as increased nutrient export to water courses. We constructed a spatially-distributed nutrient balance model NutSpaFHy that extends the hydrological model SpaFH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
316 Views
33 Pages

Sediment Transport and Silting Rate in a Microtidal Estuary: Case Study of Osellino Canal (Venice Lagoon, Italy)

  • Roberto Zonta,
  • Janusz Dominik,
  • Jean-Luc Loizeau,
  • Simone Leoni,
  • Giorgia Manfè,
  • Giuliano Lorenzetti,
  • Gian Marco Scarpa,
  • Daniele Cassin and
  • Luca Zaggia

Riverbed siltation in estuaries affects ecosystem functioning, water quality, and navigation. This study investigates the flow-regulated Osellino Canal, a freshwater tributary of the Venice Lagoon that crosses a largely urbanized area and is undergoi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,567 Views
29 Pages

7 November 2021

Downstream of the confluence of rivers, complex hydrological and morphological processes control the flow and sediment transport. This study aimed to analyze the spatio-temporal dynamics of suspended sediment in the confluence area of the Tisza and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,392 Views
15 Pages

1 May 2018

Data on the hydrologic properties of aquifers are frequently not available or are spatially limited; additionally, their determination through aquifer tests is often logistically complicated and economically expensive. This study aimed to estimate aq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,883 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2022

We explored the driving factors of nonlinear signals in vertical coordinate sequences of stations in a Taiwan global navigation satellite system (GNSS) network, including atmospheric loading (ATML), hydrological loading (HYDL), and non-tidal ocean lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,534 Views
19 Pages

7 August 2025

The Amazon Basin plays a crucial role in the global hydrological cycle, where seasonal and interannual variations in terrestrial water storage (TWS) are essential for understanding climate–hydrology coupling mechanisms. This study utilizes data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,097 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2022

The Three Outlets Channel (TOC) consisting of three anabranching rivers formed due to natural avulsion by extremely high floods, is the primary water–sediment channel connecting the Jingjiang in the middle Yangtze River and Dongting Lake (the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,816 Views
18 Pages

2 October 2022

Under intensifying human activities and climate change, runoff and sediment load have changed significantly in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Daily discharge data at six hydrological stations and daily precipitation at 175 weather stations from 1961...

  • Article
  • Open Access
696 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2025

Within the context of global climate change, the hydrological and sediment load dynamics in the Huai River Basin are expected to continue evolving due to intensified human activities and environmental changes. Effective river management requires a cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,248 Views
14 Pages

9 June 2021

Porous asphalt pavement is a part of the permeable pavement system, which can be used to mitigate the negative impacts of urbanisation on the water hydrological cycle and environment. This study aims to assess the mechanical and hydrologic characteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,002 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2022

Assessing the impacts of land use and cover (LUCC) change and climate change on discharge and sediment load is beneficial for the regional management of water resources and the water environment. The Mann-Kendall test and soil and water assessment to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,426 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2024

The quality of freshwater input from tributaries of the Western Mississippi Sound (WMSS) impacts the quality of coastal water. Hydrological and hydrodynamic models can be coupled to assess the impact of freshwater inflow from coastal watersheds. This...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,915 Views
9 Pages

16 November 2017

Riverine concentrations and loads of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), in both dissolved and particulate fractions, are influenced by land cover and hydrologic variability. Previous studies on relationships between watershed characteristics and stream...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,010 Views
12 Pages

28 February 2020

The Volta River in West Africa is one of the most regulated rivers influenced by dams in the world, and the regulation has resulted in substantial impacts on the hydrological alteration and morphological evolution of the Volta River Delta. However, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,456 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2020

It is commonly believed that changes in the use of the catchment area have a direct impact on the quality of the water environment. Rivers with dams and reservoirs are characterized by a disturbed outflow of sediments and nutrients from the catchment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,159 Views
18 Pages

Suspended Sediment Transport in Mediterranean Streams: Monitoring and Load Estimation

  • Anna Maria De Girolamo,
  • Giovanni Francesco Ricci,
  • Ossama M. M. Abdelwahab,
  • Antonio Lo Porto,
  • Fabio Milillo,
  • Addolorata Maria Netti and
  • Francesco Gentile

27 July 2023

The suspended sediment (SS) load provides valuable insights into soil loss magnitude, requiring comprehensive monitoring of streamflow (Q) and SS concentrations (SSC) across various hydrological conditions. The primary aim of this paper was to quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,875 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2020

The aims of the study were to quantify nutrient loads from point and diffuse pollution sources in the Rio Mannu stream and to simulate mitigation measures for reducing nutrient loads delivered to the Santa Gilla wetland. The Soil and Water Assessment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,038 Views
19 Pages

Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Variations of Water Quality for Agricultural Lands with Crop Rotation in China by Using a HYPE Model

  • Yunxing Yin,
  • Sanyuan Jiang,
  • Charlotta Pers,
  • Xiaoying Yang,
  • Qun Liu,
  • Jin Yuan,
  • Mingxing Yao,
  • Yi He,
  • Xingzhang Luo and
  • Zheng Zheng

Many water quality models have been successfully used worldwide to predict nutrient losses from anthropogenically impacted catchments, but hydrological and nutrient simulations with limited data are difficult considering the transfer of model paramet...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3,165 Views
14 Pages

2 September 2022

Watershed management must take into account both the quantity and quality of water. Therefore, many hydrological models have been developed for hydrological and water quality prediction for various purposes. The Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,257 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2014

Mass redistribution of the Earth causes variable loading that deforms the solid Earth. While most recent studies using geodetic techniques focus on regions (such as the Amazon basin and the Nepal Himalayas) with large seasonal deformation amplitudes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,148 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2021

Tropical countries are already experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change. This study presents projections of climate change-driven variations in hydrology and sediment loads in the Kalu River Basin, Sri Lanka. Bias-corrected climate projecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,718 Views
20 Pages

21 September 2022

Height variations caused by mass change make an important contribution to the tectonic uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). To study the deformation attributable to hydrological loading and real potential tectonic vertical motion, satellite gra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,556 Views
19 Pages

Carbonate rocks are widely distributed in southwest China, forming a unique karst landscape. The Lijiang River Basin provides a typical example of an area with concentrated karst. Research on the laws of hydrology and water quality migration in the L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,962 Views
13 Pages

Projection of Sediment Loading from Pearl River Basin, Mississippi into Gulf of Mexico under a Future Climate with Afforestation

  • Ying Ouyang,
  • Yanbo Huang,
  • Prem B. Parajuli,
  • Yongshan Wan,
  • Johnny M. Grace,
  • Peter V. Caldwell and
  • Carl Trettin

17 May 2023

Sediment load in rivers is recognized as both a carrier and a potential source of contaminants. Sediment deposition significantly changes river flow and morphology, thereby affecting stream hydrology and aquatic life. We projected sediment load from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,844 Views
19 Pages

26 July 2018

An integrated multi-model approach to predict future land cover in the Da River Basin in Vietnam was developed to analyze future impacts of land cover change on streamflow and sediment load. The framework applied a land cover change model and an ecol...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,937 Views
14 Pages

8 January 2022

GPS can be used to measure land motions induced by mass loading variations on the Earth’s surface. This paper presents an independent component analysis (ICA)-based inversion method that uses vertical GPS coordinate time series to estimate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,910 Views
33 Pages

16 September 2025

This study describes the challenges and solutions encountered when developing a high-resolution, process-based hydrological model of the Adige River Lowland Basin (ARLB), a flat, intensively managed agricultural region in northeastern Italy. The mode...

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