26 December 2022
Due to Pakistan’s complex hydro-climatic and topographical features, drought is a severe problem. It is necessary to regionalize various topographical and hydrometeorological occurrences into uniform zones. The regionalization of clusters acros...
Regionalized lumped rainfall-runoff (RR) models have been widely employed as a means of predicting the streamflow of an ungauged watershed because of their simple yet effective simulation strategies. Parameter regionalization techniques relate the pa...
At present, population mobility for the purpose of tourism has become a popular phenomenon. As it becomes easier to capture big data on the tourist digital footprint, it is possible to analyze the respective regional features and driving forces for b...
This paper evaluates the regionalization of soil and water conservation in China, decades after its widespread implementation across the country. The authors mainly address two questions. First, to what extent could achievements in soil erosion and w...
For biodiversity conservation and the development of protected areas, it is essential to create strategic plans that ensure the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Biogeography plays a crucial role in supporting these efforts by id...
The Hengduan Mountains region (HMR) is vulnerable to flash flood disasters, which account for the largest proportion of flood-related fatalities in China. Flash flood regionalization, which divides a region into homogeneous subdivisions based on flas...
Mexico is a diverse country in terms of culture and natural environments. For this reason, the delimitation of homogeneous basins with similar environmental, social, and economic attributes is important in order to facilitate the elaboration of high-...
The increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events that cause severe damage is considered a clear sign of climate change. Therefore, analyzing these events and gaining a better understanding of the circulation patterns that form precipitation regime...
Precipitation data from 104 meteorological stations in Inner Mongolia from 1960 to 2018 were analyzed to examine the regionalization and characteristics of precipitation variations. Using rotated empirical orthogonal function (REOF) analysis and K-me...
Topographic and hydro-climatic features of South Korea are highly heterogeneous and able to influence the drought phenomena in the region. The complex topographical and hydro-climatic features of South Korea need a statistically accurate method to fi...
Carrying out mountain-hazards developing environment research is helpful for understanding the spatial characteristics of the mountain hazards so as to contribute to mountain-hazards prevention and mitigation and the safety of infrastructures and maj...
The purpose of this paper is to examine how existing regionalizations in the Republic of Croatia differ in their criteria for region separation, to identify their similarities and differences, and to outline the key characteristics of each defined re...
Tropical coastal regions exhibit pronounced spatial and temporal variability in rainfall driven by seasonal atmospheric circulation and coastal–orographic interactions. Accurate representation of the temporal distribution of rainfall is essenti...
Estimating surface runoff in ungauged basins is important for planning and managing water resources, as well as for developing civil and environmental projects. Within the estimation of surface runoff are the minimum flows, which are important for as...
With the extreme changes of the global climate, winter freezing injury has become an important limiting factor for the development of the global grape industry. Therefore, there is a significant need for the screening of cold-resistant wine grape ger...
To prevent potentially unsuitable activities during vegetation restoration, it is important to examine the impact of historical restoration activities on the target ecological system to inform future restoration policies. Taking the Loess Plateau of...
The optimal power flow (OPF) problem plays an important role in power system operation and control. The problem is nonconvex and NP-hard, hence global optimality is not guaranteed and the complexity grows exponentially with the size of the system. Th...
A physical–biological ocean model was employed to investigate characteristics of the Beibu Gulf in the northwest South China Sea (SCS) from 2011 to 2015. We adopted the spatially constrained multivariate clustering method to determine the refined mar...
Ten years after the Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB) initiative was put forward, known as the post-PUB era (2013 onwards), reducing uncertainty in hydrological prediction in ungauged basins still receives considerable attention. This integration...
The accurate estimation of low flow is necessary for effective water resource management, especially in regions with limited hydrological data. This study aims to enhance low-flow prediction by developing regional regression models based on climatolo...
Agricultural nonpoint source pollution has been a serious problem in China; however, currently a lack of basic data and quantitative analysis hinders control and reduction of agricultural nonpoint source pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to explo...
In the past decade, more than 300 people have died per year on average due to mountain torrents in China. Mountain torrents mostly occur in ungauged small and medium-sized catchments, so it is difficult to maintain high accuracy of flood prediction....
This study aims to explore the impacts of climate change on potato planting in Gansu Province so as to be able to adjust potato planting pattern scientifically and rationally. (1) Air precipitation and temperature time-series datasets were obtained f...
The monthly CHIRPS ver. 2 gridded rainfall dataset from 1981 to 2016 was employed to analyze distinct precipitation variability patterns and regimes in semi-arid Botswana. An S-mode eigen analysis was performed on the correlation matrix of the rainfa...
In this study, we extend our previous work on a two-dimensional convolutional neural network (2DCNN) for spatial prediction of groundwater nitrate, focusing on improving uncertainty quantification. Our enhanced model incorporates a fully probabilisti...
Daily gridded rainfall data over Peninsular Malaysia are delineated using an objective clustering algorithm, with the objective of classifying rainfall grids into groups of homogeneous regions based on the similarity of the rainfall annual cycles. It...
Achieving universal access to water and sanitation services in developing countries requires a coherent legal, political, and institutional environment, along with a clear financial strategy. Regionalizing utilities may be crucial for addressing disp...
Reliable rainfall regionalization underpins hydrological design and the transfer of rainfall information to ungauged or short-record sites, yet it is especially difficult in arid regions with strong spatial and temporal variability and short, uneven...
A rainfall regionalization method based on variation coefficient was applied with a variant in the construction of flash flood hyetographs with several return periods using the flash flood shape of the historical event that occurred in September 2021...
Patients requiring complex treatments, such as pancreatic surgery, may need to travel long distances and spend extended periods of time away from home, particularly when healthcare provision is geographically dispersed. This raises concerns about equ...
Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves are essential tools in the design of stormwater management systems and are often used over long periods without frequent updates. However, the continuous collection of rainfall data and the expans...
A large-scale global canopy height map (GCHM) is essential for global forest aboveground biomass estimation. Four GCHMs have recently been built using data from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) sensor aboard the Ice, Cloud, and land Eleva...
The regionalization of input–output tables enables a granular understanding of economic systems, allowing for interregional and interindustry analysis for goods and services in a local economy. This paper details the construction of an intermun...
The Czech Republic uses a dual system of agricultural land prices, namely the formal/official price—for tax purposes—and the market price in the case of a standard sale or purchase of farmland. This paper focuses on the construction of an...
As the core area of human activities and economic development in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, the hilly oasis zone of Xinjiang directly affects the regional sustainable development and stability of the ecosystem. Understanding the effects of diffe...
The regulation and management of ecosystem services are fundamental for sustainable development in mountain areas. Although no obvious vertical band spectrum exists in Taihang Mountain region, vertical differentiation of ecological characteristics in...
The Tianshan–Pamir mountain region, serving as the core “water tower” for countries in Central Asia east of the Aral Sea, is a critical bulwark for sustaining downstream socioeconomic systems. However, constrained by complex topogra...
Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) equations are essential for hydraulic design but depend on pluviographic records that are scarce in Brazil. The Transformation of Maximum Daily Precipitation (TMDP) method addresses this scarcity by converting a rai...
Root-zone soil moisture (RZSM) plays a key role in the hydrologic cycle and regulates water–heat exchange. Although site observations can provide soil profile moisture measurements, they have a restricted representation. Satellites can determin...
This study explores the spatiotemporal variability of the onset, end, and duration of the rainy season in Senegal. These phenological parameters, crucial for agricultural planning in West Africa, exhibit high interannual and spatial variability linke...
29 August 2018
The relationships between land use patterns and water quality in trans-boundary watersheds remain elusive due to the heterogeneous natural environment. We assess the impact of land use patterns on water quality at different eco-functional regions in...
Land surface elements, such as land use, are in constant change and dynamically balanced, driving changes in global ecological processes and forming the regional differentiation of surface landscapes, which causes many ecological risks under multiple...
This paper develops a mathematically rigorous econometric framework for estimating the size and spatial distribution of the informal economy in Europe, contributing to the field of advanced mathematical economics and statistical modelling. A modified...
Surface soil moisture (SSM) plays a critical role in many hydrological, biological and biogeochemical processes. It is relevant to farmers, scientists, and policymakers for making effective land management decisions. However, coarse spatial resolutio...
Corn thrips do serious harm to the yield and quality of corn. In this paper, the Shandong Province of China was taken as the study area. Based on the data of the occurrence of corn thrips in Shandong Province, a risk regionalization model was establi...
Accurate land use and cover data are essential for effective land-use planning, hydrological modeling, and policy development. Since the Okavango Delta is a transboundary Ramsar site, managing natural resources within the Okavango Basin is undoubtedl...
Drought vulnerability analysis of crops can build a bridge between hazard factors and disasters and become the main tool to mitigate the impact of drought. However, the resulting disagreement about the appropriate definition of vulnerability is a fre...
The charging demand of electric passenger cars needs to be considered during the planning and operation of the electric power grid, especially at high penetration rates. It is not sufficient to simply quantify these additional loads, but rather time-...
This study applied regionalization techniques on future climate change scenarios for the precipitation over the Xingu River Basin (XRB) considering the 2021–2080 horizon, in order to assess impacts on the monthly flow rates and possible consequ...
The dried leaves of Turpinia arguta (Lindl.) Seem, a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, have been used for the treatment of tonsillitis, sore throat, throat arthralgia, and novel coronavirus pneumonia. This plant possesses significant medicinal, eco...
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