Understanding the interaction of surface water and groundwater affected by anthropogenic activities is of great importance for water resource and water quality management. The Xiong’an New Area, located in the North China Plain, has been design...
Water is one of the most precious resources. However, industrial development has made water pollution a critical problem today and thus water quality monitoring and surface cleaning are essential for water resource protection. In this study, we have...
Sanmenxia Dam, one of the most controversial water conservancy projects in China, has seriously impacted the lower Weihe River of the Yellow River Watershed since its operation. At the Huaxian Station, the dam operation controls the surface water lev...
Climate change, increasing population and changes in land use are all rapidly driving the need to be able to better understand surface water dynamics. The targets set by the United Nations under Sustainable Development Goal 6 in relation to freshwate...
Surface water extent (SWE) is a key indicator of the regional water balance in dryland environments. However, the hydrological processes regulating SWE responses remain poorly constrained. Focusing on the Mu Us Sandy Land (MUSL), this study integrate...
The Tarim River Basin (TRB), located in an arid region, is facing the challenge of increasing water pressure and uncertain impacts of climate change. Many water body identification methods have achieved good results in different application scenarios...
The Ugii Nuur Lake is not only one of the small hydrologically closed lakes located in the Orkhon River Basin in Central Mongolia but also the most vulnerable area for global climate change. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impacts of re...
We have carried out an experimental study of the turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rate (
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a non-enveloped single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus, belonging to the Hepeviridae family, resistant to environmental conditions, and transmitted by the consumption of contaminated water. This virus is responsible for b...
Integrated surface water–groundwater (SW–GW) models could be used to assess the impacts of climate change or variability on the hydrological cycle. However, the damping effects of the hydrological system have rarely been explored via inte...
Rotor-type cross-media vehicles always induce considerably complex mixed air–water flows when approaching the water surface, resulting in relative thrust loss and structural damage on rotor. The interactions between a water surface and rotor wa...
Perfluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are among the synthetic chemicals employed by various industries since the 1950s and the most critical persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that led to emerging concerns due to high persistency, t...
Increasing water withdrawals and changes in land cover/use are critically altering surface water bodies, often causing a noticeable reduction in their area. Such anthropogenic modification of surface waters needs to be thoroughly examined to recogniz...
To reduce the size and cost of an integrated infrared (IR) and green airborne LiDAR bathymetry (ALB) system, and improve the accuracy of the green ALB system, this study proposes a method to accurately determine water surface and water bottom heights...
Open surface water bodies play an important role in agricultural and industrial production, and are susceptible to climate change and human activities. Remote sensing data has been increasingly used to map open surface water bodies at local, regional...
Recent climate change has resulted in the reduction of several surface water bodies (SWBs) all around the globe. These SWBs, such as streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, reservoirs, and creeks have a positive impact on the cooling of the surrounding cli...
The normalized difference water index (NDWI) has been extensively used for different purposes, such as delineating and mapping surface water bodies and monitoring floods. However, the assessment of this index (based on multispectral remote sensing da...
Spatial and temporal characteristics of surface water resources (e.g., extension, connectivity, seasonality) are key elements in water allocation, climate and hydrological regulation, ecosystem functioning, and the food-energy-water nexus. Changes in...
Hydroclimatic variability and intensive human regulation have reshaped surface water dynamics in plain river network regions (PRNs), altering both water extent and stability. Unraveling the frequency structure of surface water and its nonlinear assoc...
Surface water is an important component of urban land-cover systems, but its relationship with land surface temperature (LST) is difficult to interpret in lake-rich urban agglomerations where water bodies, shorelines, vegetation, built-up land, and t...
Understanding the law of surface water–groundwater conversion in the face of high-intensity human activities is still a challenge. In this study, we employed statistical and system dynamics methods to investigate the surface water–groundw...
Qingtu Lake is located between Tengger Desert and Badain Jilin Desert, Gansu Province, Northwest China. It is the terminal lake of Shiyang River. In recent years, Qingtu lake has maintained a certain area of water surface and vegetation by artificial...
Surface water is an important parameter for water resource management and terrestrial water circulation research that is closely related to human production and livelihood. With the rapid development of remote sensing technology and cloud computing p...
Water scarcity poses a significant challenge for people living in arid areas. Despite the effectiveness of many bioinspired surfaces in promoting vapor condensation, their water-harvesting efficiency is insufficient. This is often exacerbated by over...
The surface water quality issue in arid regions is becoming increasingly severe and has become a significant challenge for global environmental protection and water resource management. By continuously collecting surface water samples (2000~2024) and...
To investigate the monitoring history and long-term change trends in surface water quality in China since the reform and opening up, the history of surface water environment monitoring is summarized, including monitoring scope, monitoring methods, an...
Capturing high frequency water surface dynamics via optical remote sensing is important for understanding hydro-ecological processes over seasonally flooded wetlands. However, it is a difficult task due to the presence of clouds on satellite images....
Direct comparisons of MnO2 polymorphs in synthetic benzylic oxidation remain limited, particularly regarding the combined effects of crystallinity, morphology, surface area, and surface-associated water. In this study, α-, β-, and γ-...
Inland water bodies play a crucial role in both ecological and sociological contexts. The distribution of these water bodies can change over time due to natural or human-induced factors. Monitoring the extent of surface water is vital to understand e...
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the quality of a reservoir’s surface water through the application of fuzzy-logic methodologies. Specifically, fuzzy-clustering (Fuzzy C-Means) and fuzzy-regression techniques are employed to classify...
Lake Chad, located in the middle of the African Sahel belt, underwent dramatic decreases in the 1970s and 1980s leaving less than ten percent of its 1960s surface water extent as open water. In this paper, we present an extended record (dry seasons 1...
Irrigation is a useful crop enhancement procedure up to the point where free surface water appears. However, over-irrigation can lead to an accumulation of free water on the soil surface, which in turn results in overland flow and a high risk of cont...
Against the background of global climate change, the warming water temperature of Antarctic surface water (<500 m) is worthy of study. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate short-term variations in the water temperature of Antarc...
Urban surface water networks are closely associated with the urban land surface thermal environment, but the spatial non-stationarity of their relationships with land surface temperature (LST) remains insufficiently understood. This study examined re...
Accurately quantifying surface water extent in wetlands is critical to understanding their role in ecosystem processes. However, current regional- to global-scale surface water products lack the spatial or temporal resolution necessary to characteriz...
Assessing surface water quality for drinking use in developing countries is important since water quality is a fundamental aspect of surface water management. This study aims to improve surface water quality assessments and their controlling mechanis...
Excess nitrogen and phosphorus in surface water can degrade water quality and increase eutrophication risk. However, how surface-water nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations vary across mixed land- and water-use settings remains poorly understood in...
As surface irrigation systems are one of the most used water management techniques in the world, often working with high water losses, there is an urgency to their improvement. Modern methods that provide water savings and labour reduction require ad...
Modelling of water flow in the hyporheic zone and calculations of water exchange between groundwater and surface waters are important issues in modern environmental research. The article presents the Analytical Hyporheic Flux approach (AHF) permittin...
With the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin rising to China’s national strategy, the Yellow River Delta is facing a historic development opportunity, and the surface water problems in this region are be...
Turbulent free-surface flows are encountered in several engineering applications and are typically characterized by the entrainment of air bubbles due to intense mixing and surface deformation. The resulting complex multiphase structure of the air&nd...
Surface water is a crucial part of terrestrial ecosystems and is crucial to maintaining ecosystem health, ensuring social stability, and promoting high-quality regional economic development. The surface water in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) has a hig...
As a typical grain base with a dense population and high-level urbanization, the North China Plain (NCP) faces a serious threat to its sustainable development due to water shortage. Surface water area (SWA) is a key indicator for continuously measuri...
A method for estimating river water surface elevation (WSE) from Landsat imagery using the river inundation area–water surface elevation (RIA-WSE) rating curve constructed from the U.S. Geological Survey Topobathymetric Elevation Model (TEM) da...
Due to the gradual increase in the concentration of algae, in general, in continental surface water reservoirs, it is necessary to incorporate advanced technologies in drinking water treatment plants with a view to reduce/eliminate the algae present....
The study utilizes a dataset with seven critical constraints and creates models that are estimated based on various metrics. The goal is to categorize and properly predict the water quality index (WQI) using the suggested models. The outcomes show th...
Surface water extraction from remote sensing imagery has been a very active research topic in recent years, as this problem is essential for monitoring the environment, ecosystems, climate, and so on. In order to extract surface water accurately, we...
Surface passivation engineering is an imperative way to improve photoelectrode performance for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. To the best of our knowledge, it has never been systematically reviewed in a feature article. In this review, w...
The Dongting Lake Plain is a major ecological reserve for river and lake wetlands in the Yangtze River Basin, with complex river and lake relationships and frequent water flow exchange. Studies on the hydrochemical characteristics and the mechanism o...
The poor condition of surface water is still a problem in many countries, including Lithuania. To assess the impact of organic agricultural production on groundwater and surface water quality in Lithuania, surface water samples from rivers and other...
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