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  • Open Access
34 Citations
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27 July 2020

The evolution of groundwater levels is difficult to predict over medium and long term in the context of global climate change. Innovative trend analysis method (ITA) was used to identify these trends, and ITA index was calculated to measure their mag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Groundwater Resilience to Climate Change and High Pressure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,044 Views
25 Pages

3 March 2025

Detection of trends in hydrometeorological time series is essential for understanding the complex variability of hydrometeorological data. Although different types of methods have been proposed, accurately identifying trends and their statistical sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,884 Views
20 Pages

An Advanced Multipath Mitigation Method Based on Trend Surface Analysis

  • Zhiren Wang,
  • Wen Chen,
  • Danan Dong,
  • Chenglong Zhang and ,
  • Yu Peng and
  • Zhengqi Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2020

Among various ways to eliminate the multipath effect in high-precision global navigation satellite system positioning, the multipath hemispherical map (MHM) is a typical multipath correction method based on spatial domain repeatability, which is suit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,620 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of Variability in Hydrological Droughts Using the Improved Innovative Trend Analysis Method

  • Muhammad Shehzad Ashraf,
  • Muhammad Shahid,
  • Muhammad Waseem,
  • Muhammad Azam and
  • Khalil Ur Rahman

3 June 2023

The use of hydro-climatological time series to identify patterns is essential for comprehending climate change and extreme events such as drought. Hence, in this study, hydrological drought variability based on the standard drought index (SDI) using...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydro-Meteorology and Its Application in Hydrological Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,593 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2022

This paper presents a generic and unsupervised failure prognosis method which can be applied to wide scope of applications. The main contribution of the presented method is automatic relevant data identification based on signal smoothing and trendabi...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
10,644 Views
16 Pages

Innovative Trend Analysis of Precipitation in the Lake Issyk-Kul Basin, Kyrgyzstan

  • Yilinuer Alifujiang,
  • Jilili Abuduwaili,
  • Balati Maihemuti,
  • Bilal Emin and
  • Michael Groll

29 March 2020

The analysis of various characteristics and trends of precipitation is an essential task to improve the utilization of water resources. Lake Issyk-Kul basin is an upper alpine catchment, which is more susceptible to the effects of climate variability...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,385 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2021

The products of a batch process have high economic value. Meanwhile, a batch process involves complex chemicals and equipment. The variability of its operation leads to a high failure rate. Therefore, early fault diagnosis of batch processes is of gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyberphysical Sensing Systems for Fault Detection and Identification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
284 Citations
15,551 Views
17 Pages

5 September 2019

Trend analysis of streamflow provides practical information for better management of water resources on the eve of climate change. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the presence of possible trends in the annual, seasonal, maximum, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
528 Views
26 Pages

A Method for Predicting Arctic Sea Ice Concentration Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion and Temporal Trend Analysis

  • Liang Huang,
  • Jianhua Miao,
  • Haishao Chen,
  • Xiaojun Mei and ,
  • Zhongdai Wu,
  • Feng Wang and
  • Yuxuan Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The accurate prediction of Arctic sea ice concentration is essential for polar ecological protection and shipping safety. However, existing prediction methods suffer from insufficient feature representation, which limits their ability to capture the...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,142 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2021

Precipitation is a crucial component of the water cycle, and its unpredictability may dramatically influence agriculture, ecosystems, and water resource management. On the other hand, climate variability has caused water scarcity in many countries in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape, Water, Ground, and Society Sustainability under Global Change Scenarios)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,497 Views
27 Pages

22 October 2025

The fact that 2023 and subsequently 2024 were the hottest years in history makes it even more important to monitor temperature changes over time. In this study, trends in the mean, maximum, and minimum temperature data of 81 provinces in Türkiye...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,928 Views
23 Pages

10 August 2022

The aim of this paper is to analyze the temporal tendencies of monthly, seasonal, and annual rainfall and runoff in the Wadi Mina basin (north-western side of Africa) using data from five stations in the period from 1973–2012. With this aim, fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Papers of the Editorial Board Members of section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,382 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates the stability of trend management strategies under stochastic chaos conditions, with a focus on speculative trading in the Forex market. The primary aim is to evaluate the feasibility and robustness of these strategies for ass...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,059 Views
14 Pages

Trend Analysis of Climatic and Hydrological Variables in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia

  • Mohammed Gedefaw,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Denghua Yan,
  • Xinshan Song and ,
  • Dengming Yan,
  • Guaqiang Dong,
  • Jianwei Wang,
  • Abel Girma,
  • Babar Aijaz Ali and
  • Tianling Qin
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

1 November 2018

The Awash river basin has been the most extensively developed and used river basin in Ethiopia since modern agriculture was introduced. This paper investigated the annual precipitation, temperature, and river discharge variability using the innovativ...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,798 Views
22 Pages

An Enhanced Innovative Triangular Trend Analysis of Rainfall Based on a Spectral Approach

  • Bilel Zerouali,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari,
  • Mohamed Chettih,
  • Mesbah Mohamed and ,
  • Zaki Abda,
  • Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos,
  • Bilal Zerouali and
  • Ahmed Elbeltagi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 March 2021

The world is currently witnessing high rainfall variability at the spatiotemporal level. In this paper, data from three representative rain gauges in northern Algeria, from 1920 to 2011, at an annual scale, were used to assess a relatively new hybrid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Sustainable Water Resources Management and Planning under Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
147 Citations
11,974 Views
10 Pages

Innovative Trend Analysis of Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Variability in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

  • Mohammed Gedefaw,
  • Denghua Yan,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Tianling Qin and ,
  • Abel Girma,
  • Asaminew Abiyu and
  • Dorjsuren Batsuren
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2018

This study investigated the annual and seasonal rainfall variability at five selected stations of Amhara Regional State, by using the innovative trend analysis method (ITAM), Mann-Kendall (MK) and Sen’s slope estimator test. The result showed t...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,571 Views
23 Pages

16 July 2023

Climate change is having an increasing effect on the water cycle, hindering the proper management of water resources for different purposes. Veneto, Northern Italy, is a region characterized by various climatic conditions, ranging from the coastal ar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,227 Views
23 Pages

25 June 2023

This paper aims to explore the development of ICHD (intangible cultural heritage design), provide insights into its global trends, and foster its growth and advancement. The objectives are achieved through a mixed-methods approach that combines bibli...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,054 Views
17 Pages

28 March 2022

One of the most important measures taken in reducing the impact of climate change resulting from global warming is the production of energy from clean and renewable resources. Hydroelectric power plants are leading renewable energy sources. In this s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Role of Hydropower for Sustainable Future Energy System: Synergies, Challenges and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,004 Views
18 Pages

Trend Analysis of Hydro-Meteorological Variables in the Wadi Ouahrane Basin, Algeria

  • Mohammed Achite,
  • Tommaso Caloiero,
  • Andrzej Wałęga,
  • Alessandro Ceppi and
  • Abdelhak Bouharira

In recent decades, a plethora of natural disasters, including floods, storms, heat waves, droughts, and various other weather-related events, have brought destruction worldwide. In particular, Algeria is facing several natural hydrometeorological and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,008 Views
23 Pages

Exploring Tourism Experiences: The Vision of Generation Z Versus Artificial Intelligence

  • Ioana-Simona Ivasciuc,
  • Adina Nicoleta Candrea and
  • Ana Ispas

Generation Z, known for its digital fluency and distinct consumer behaviors, is an increasingly influential demographic in the tourism industry. As a sustainability-focused generation, their preferences and behaviors are shaping the future of travel....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Sustainable Tourism: Shaping the Future of Destinations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,294 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2021

Energy security is of key importance for states and international organizations. An important issue in energy security is the assessment of current and future energy security methods. While the assessment of the current methods is relatively easy, si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy―History and Time Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,113 Views
16 Pages

An Improved Version of the Prewhitening Method for Trend Analysis in the Autocorrelated Time Series

  • Rahul Sheoran,
  • Umesh Chandra Dumka,
  • Rakesh K. Tiwari and
  • Rakesh K. Hooda

27 September 2024

Nonparametric trend detection tests like the Mann–Kendall (MK) test require independent observations, but serial autocorrelation in the datasets inflates/deflates the variance and alters the Type-I and Type-II errors. Prewhitening (PW) techniqu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerosols Pollution: Characteristics, Impacts, Projections and Mitigation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,747 Views
23 Pages

Bibliometric Insights into Car Wash Wastewater Treatment Research: Trends and Perspectives

  • Motasem Y. D. Alazaiza,
  • Tharaa Mahmoud Alzghoul,
  • Salem Abu Amr,
  • Madhusudhan Bangalore Ramu and
  • Dia Eddin Nassani

18 July 2024

Car wash wastewater (CWW) poses a significant environmental danger due to its high chemical oxygen demand (COD), heavy metals, and anionic surfactant complex composition, all of which can have an adverse effect on the environment. Even with the exten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Removal of Heavy Metals and Other Pollutants from Aqueous Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
865 Views
32 Pages

26 May 2026

The article examines forecasts of electromobility development across seven European countries over a ten-year horizon (until 2035). The introduction provides a characterization and statistical analysis of the electromobility market within the framewo...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,097 Views
18 Pages

25 December 2017

This study aims to reveal rainfall anomalies and changes over the Yellow River Basin due to the fragile ecosystem and rainfall-related disasters. Common trend analyses relate to overall trends in mean values. Therefore, we used two graphical methods:...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,301 Views
41 Pages

Trend Analysis of Climatic Variables in the Cross River Basin, Nigeria

  • Ndifon M. Agbiji,
  • Jonah C. Agunwamba and
  • Kenneth Imo-Imo Israel Eshiet

There have been several incidences of flood recently, which are believed to be aggravated by increased climatic variables as a result of perceived changes in climatic conditions (due to climate change) in the Cross River Basin. The basin is the most...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,487 Views
18 Pages

20 March 2022

As one of the most severe and high-impact weather phenomena, tornadoes and their long-term frequency trends have received lots of attention from both the scientific community and the public. Here, we show that over the last six decades (1954–20...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,802 Views
18 Pages

31 July 2023

This study analyzed long-term extreme precipitation indices using 4 × 4 km gridded data obtained from the National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia between 1981 and 2018. The study examined trends in extreme precipitation over three districts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Importance of Long Climate Records)
  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
16,611 Views
51 Pages

28 July 2025

Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, imposes growing clinical and socioeconomic burdens worldwide. Despite landmark discoveries in dopamine biology and α-synuclein pathology, translating mechanistic insights...

(This article belongs to the Section Cellular Aging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,583 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2024

This study investigates the stability of hydrological drought trends in the Euphrates Basin from 1960 to 2020 using three-dimensional (3D) graphical representations based on innovative trend analysis (ITA) and triple Wilcoxon test (WT) methods. Unlik...

(This article belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,160 Views
18 Pages

Tendency of Runoff and Sediment Variety and Multiple Time Scale Wavelet Analysis in Hongze Lake during 1975–2015

  • Yu Duan,
  • Guobin Xu,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Yijun Liu and ,
  • Shixiong Zhao and
  • Xianlu Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 April 2020

Hongze Lake plays a key role in flood and waterlogging prevention, analyzing the variation process and characteristics of multi-time scales will have a great practical significance to water resources management and regulation in the Huaihe River basi...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
375 Views
20 Pages

Rigorous Statistical Testing Reveals Consistent Global Greening but Divergent Regional Trends Across Multiple Remote Sensing Products

  • Cuiyutong Yang,
  • Ziming Cheng,
  • Kaixuan Liu,
  • Zizhen Dong and ,
  • Rui Huang and
  • Likai Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 October 2026

The availability of multiple remote sensing-based vegetation index products provides unprecedented power to monitor vegetation dynamics. Accurately quantifying global vegetation trends remains challenging due to inconsistencies among products and the...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,486 Views
23 Pages

Applying Bibliometrics and a RoBERTa Transformer in the Circular Bioeconomy: A PRISMA 2020 Systematic Review

  • Gary Christiam Farfán-Chilicaus,
  • Alexander Fernando Haro-Sarango,
  • Angela Fremiot Rodriguez-Armas,
  • César Augusto Herrera-Asmat and ,
  • Silvia Mabel Cachay-Salcedo,
  • Rosa Amable Salcedo-Dávalos,
  • Violeta Claros-Aguilar de Larrea and
  • Emma Verónica Ramos-Farroñán
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

This exploratory methodological study demonstrates an integrated workflow that combines systematic evidence collection Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA 2020), bibliometric mapping, and Transformer-based natur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,172 Views
21 Pages

Attributing the Evapotranspiration Trend in the Upper and Middle Reaches of Yellow River Basin Using Global Evapotranspiration Products

  • Zhihui Wang,
  • Zepeng Cui,
  • Tian He,
  • Qiuhong Tang and ,
  • Peiqing Xiao,
  • Pan Zhang and
  • Lingling Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 December 2021

Climate variation and underlying surface dynamics have caused a significant change in the trend of evapotranspiration (ET) in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) over the last two decades. Combined with the measured rainfall, runoff and gravity recovery and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Climate Extremes and Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,457 Views
9 Pages

4 August 2022

Analyzing monitoring data efficiently is a classic problem in structural health monitoring. A nonparametric test method, the Mann–Kendall (MK) method, was implemented in this study, which is commonly used to detect monotonic trends in a series...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earthquake Engineering and Urban Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,255 Views
13 Pages

Decomposition of Dynamical Signals into Jumps, Oscillatory Patterns, and Possible Outliers

  • Elena Barton,
  • Basad Al-Sarray,
  • Stéphane Chrétien and
  • Kavya Jagan

16 July 2018

In this note, we present a component-wise algorithm combining several recent ideas from signal processing for simultaneous piecewise constants trend, seasonality, outliers, and noise decomposition of dynamical time series. Our approach is entirely ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chaos and Randomness of Discrete Dynamical Systems: Their Use in Applied Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,034 Views
12 Pages

Fragmented Riverine Habitats in Taiwan Have Spatio-Temporal Consequences, Re-Distributing Caprimulgus affinis into Urban Areas Leading to a Human–Wildlife Conflict

  • Bai-You Cheng,
  • Guey-Shin Shyu,
  • Shi-Ching Wu,
  • Hsiao-Hsien Lin and ,
  • Chia-Hsuan Hsu,
  • Ben A. LePage and
  • Wei-Ta Fang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2019

Caprimulgus affinis is an endemic species commonly known as the Taiwan nighthawk, forest nighthawk, or South Asian nighthawk. In recent years, the C. affinis population has gradually moved outward from river habitats into the metropolitan areas of Ta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Wildlife Ecology and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,000 Views
14 Pages

8 August 2019

With the convening of the annual global climate conference, the issue of global climate change has gradually become the focus of attention of the international community. As the largest carbon emitter in the world, China is facing a serious situation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon Emission Reduction—Carbon Tax, Carbon Trading, and Carbon Offset)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,327 Views
24 Pages

A Combined Seasonal Mann–Kendall and Innovative Approach for the Trend Analysis of Streamflow Rate in Two Croatian Rivers

  • Mehmet Berkant Yıldız,
  • Fabio Di Nunno,
  • Bojan Đurin,
  • Quoc Bao Pham and ,
  • Giovanni de Marinis and
  • Francesco Granata
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 May 2024

Climate change profoundly impacts hydrological systems, particularly in regions such as Croatia, which is renowned for its diverse geography and climatic variability. This study examined the effect of climate change on streamflow rates in two Croatia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hydrology: Flow and Velocity Analysis in Rivers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,171 Views
50 Pages

Research Progress of Carbon-Neutral Design for Buildings

  • Rui Liang,
  • Xichuan Zheng,
  • Po-Hsun Wang,
  • Jia Liang and
  • Linhui Hu

10 August 2023

The construction industry has become one of the main drivers of the increase in carbon emissions and subsequent climate change. In this study, we focused on building carbon neutrality design and used CiteSpace V.6.2.R2 to conduct bibliometric analysi...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
708 Views
7 Pages

23 October 2019

The lakes selected for the analysis are situated in the Kashubian Lakeland which is a proper research area as there is a benchmark lake with a long data series within the region. This lake is located in the central part of the lakeland, in the upper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,262 Views
23 Pages

The Sustainable Development Path of Ecological Treatment Technology for Rural Sewage: A Bibliometric Perspective

  • Yingying Kou,
  • Fan Liu,
  • Tianyi Li,
  • Chenling Yan and ,
  • Jinggang Wang,
  • Chen Wang and
  • Donghai Yuan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 April 2025

Due to the promotion of sustainable development goals and rapid economic development, the problem of rural sewage treatment is becoming increasingly severe. In order to understand the research hotspots, progress, and trends of ecological treatment te...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
468 Views
39 Pages

Non-Destructive Testing in Architectural Heritage: A 25-Year Bibliometric Review and Research Trends (2000–2025)

  • Jorge Leal-Carmona,
  • María Paz Sáez-Pérez and
  • Jorge Alberto Durán-Suárez

24 September 2026

This study presents a systematic bibliometric review of non-destructive testing (NDT) applied to architectural heritage between 2000 and 2025. Unlike previous reviews focused on specific techniques, materials, or applications, it provides a transvers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights on the Intelligent Preservation of Architectural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,112 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2021

In response to the problems of large computational volume and tedious computational process of fuzzy integrated evaluation, and general neural network models without clear water quality training criteria, this paper organically combines fuzzy rules,...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
506 Views
27 Pages

19 July 2026

The aim of this study was to estimate trends and multiscale variability in sea level along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea based on tide gauge and altimetry data, using Harmonic Analysis (HA) and Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). Particular co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,177 Views
30 Pages

7 October 2024

Since their creation, geoparks have been among the fastest growing natural environments. Their attractiveness is one of the most important factors for the success of this natural destination. Despite their importance, a bibliometric analysis on geopa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Heritage: Geomorphology, Geoheritage and Geoparks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,988 Views
24 Pages

30 January 2022

Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are natural toxins produced by different plants, mainly from the Solanaceae family. The interest in TAs analysis is due to the serious cases of poisoning that are produced due to the presence of TA-producing plants in a variet...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Toxicology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,665 Views
24 Pages

16 August 2023

Effective product design strategies play a crucial role in promoting sustainable production, consumption, and disposal practices. In the literature, many such practices have been proposed by various researchers; however, it is challenging to understa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resources Conservation, Recycling and Waste Management)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,138 Views
5 Pages

10 February 2020

Implantology, prosthodontics, and orthodontics in all their variants, are medical and rehabilitative medical fields that have greatly benefited from bioengineering devices of investigation to improve the predictability of clinical rehabilitations. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dental Implants and Materials)

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