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Ümit Yildirim
This study aimed to investigate groundwater vulnerability to pollution in the Upper Kelkit Valley (NE Turkey). For this purpose, vulnerability index maps were created using the generic DRASTIC and AHP-DRASTICLu models. The latter model was suggested by a...
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Ahsen Maqsoom, Bilal Aslam, Umer Khalil, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Hassan Ashraf, Rana Faisal Tufail, Danish Farooq and Thomas Blaschke
Land use types and anthropogenic activities represent considerable threats to groundwater pollution. To effectively monitor the groundwater quality, it is vital to measure pollution levels before they become severe. In our research area, located in Gilgi...
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Ying Huang, Rui Zuo, Jiao Li, Jin Wu, Yuanzheng Zhai and Yanguo Teng
This study aimed to analyze the variations in groundwater quality, vulnerability and potential health risk from 2006 to 2016 in the Limin District, Harbin, China. Groundwater geochemical characteristics were described using statistical analysis and Piper...
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Xiaojing Hu, Chuanming Ma, Xu Guo, Yonggang Li, Hanxiang Xiong, Yang Qiu and Hao Cui
Groundwater function zoning is an important means to ensure that groundwater plays its various functions, which can provide a scientific basis for the protection and development of groundwater resources. Water resources are scarce in the Central Plains U...
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Nadha Gowrish Narisetty, Gaurav Tripathi, Shruti Kanga, Suraj Kumar Singh, Gowhar Meraj, Pankaj Kumar, Bojan Ðurin and Hrvoje Matijevic
Groundwater pollution in Rajasthan, India, poses significant challenges due to the region?s heavy reliance on this resource for drinking and irrigation. Given the increasing water scarcity and overexploitation, this study assesses the susceptibility of g...
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Benjamin Burrichter, Julian Hofmann, Juliana Koltermann da Silva, Andre Niemann and Markus Quirmbach
This study presents a deep-learning-based forecast model for spatial and temporal prediction of pluvial flooding. The developed model can produce the flooding situation for the upcoming time steps as a sequence of flooding maps. Thus, a dynamic overview ...
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Ling Zeng, Hongwei Bi, Yu Li, Xiulin Liu, Shuai Li and Jinfeng Chen
Recent evidence of the impact of watershed underlying conditions on hydrological processes have made the assumption of stationarity widely questioned. In this study, the temporal variations of frequency distributions of the annual maximum flood were inve...
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Pranita Patil and Kevin Purcell
Although deep learning has proven to be tremendously successful, the main issue is the dependency of its performance on the quality and quantity of training datasets. Since the quality of data can be affected by biases, a novel deep learning method based...
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Cuiping Kuang, Xuejian Han, Jiabo Zhang, Qingping Zou and Boling Dong
Beach nourishment, a common practice to replenish an eroded beach face with filling sand, has become increasingly popular as an environmentally friendly soft engineering measure to tackle coastal erosion. In this study, three 200 m long offshore submerge...
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Antonio Ricchi, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Francesco Barbariol, Alvise Benetazzo, Andrea Bergamasco, Davide Bonaldo, Claudio Cassardo, Francesco Marcello Falcieri, Giancarlo Modugno, Aniello Russo, Mauro Sclavo and Sandro Carniel
In November 2011, an Atlantic depression affected the Mediterranean basin, eventually evolving into a Tropical-Like Cyclone (TLC or Mediterranean Hurricane, usually designated as Medicane). In the region affected by the Medicane, mean sea level pressures...
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Diana De Padova, Antonella Di Leo and Michele Mossa
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic socio-economic impact on mankind; however, the COVID-19 lockdown brought a drastic reduction of anthropic impacts on the environment worldwide, including the marine?coastal system. This study is concentrated on th...
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Guoyan Li, Kaixin Li, Yi Liu and Yuheng Pan
Static multi-controller deployment architecture cannot adapt to the drastic changes of network traffic, which will lead to a load imbalance between controllers, resulting in a high packet loss rate, high latency, and other network performance degradation...
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Sbargoud Saida, Hartani Tarik, Aidaoui Abdellah, Herda Farid and Bachir Hakim
The DRASTIC model was tested on the Mitidja aquifer to assess vulnerability to nitrate pollution. Vulnerability indexes were obtained from classic DRASTIC (MDC) and pesticide DRASTIC (MDP) coupled with a geographic information system in which the weights...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Pedro Gabriel Almeida, Luís Ferreira Gomes and Victor Cavaleiro
The risk of aquifer contamination is determined by the interaction between the pollutant load and the vulnerability of an aquifer. Owing to the decomposition of bodies and degradation of artefacts, cemeteries may have a negative impact on groundwater qua...
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Zhipeng Liang, Huawei Zhou, Chunju Zhao, Fang Wang and Yihong Zhou
With the influence of intense solar radiation heat and the greater temperature difference between day and night, surface concrete with a drastic temperature change can easily experience a great nonlinear temperature difference, which increases the risk o...
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Sérgio Mateus Chilaule, Mercedes Vélez-Nicolás, Verónica Ruiz-Ortiz, Ángel Sánchez-Bellón and Santiago García-López
The degradation of groundwater quality due to nitrate is a widespread issue in heavily agricultural areas and a major concern for public health. Improving knowledge of the intrinsic vulnerability of aquifers with respect to the actual contamination is cr...
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Mohd Afifi Jusoh, Zulkifli Mohd Yusop, Aliashim Albani, Muhamad Zalani Daud and Mohd Zamri Ibrahim
The power take-off (PTO) stability is one of the most important concerns for wave energy converters (WECs). The PTO unit converts the mechanical energy produced by the wave absorber (WA) unit into useful electrical energy. Due to the drastic input energy...
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Josette Garnier, Philippe Riou, Romain Le Gendre, Antsiva Ramarson, Gilles Billen, Philippe Cugier, Mathilde Schapira, Sylvain Théry, Vincent Thieu and Alain Ménesguen
The continental coastal waters of the Eastern Channel, from Normandy to Hauts-de-France, are subject to the major influence of unbalanced nutrient inputs from inflowing rivers. Several episodes of harmful algal blooms (HABs) compromising fishing and shel...
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Clément Bouvier, Bruno Castelle and Yann Balouin
Coastal defense strategies based on structures are increasingly unpopular as they are costly, leave lasting scars on the landscape, and sometimes have limited effectiveness or even adverse impacts. While a clear improvement concerning aesthetic considera...
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M. Anil Kizilaslan, Ender Demirel and Mustafa M. Aral
Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to evaluate the effect of porous baffles on the efficiency of water treatment contact tanks. A second-order accurate numerical model is employed for the solutions of unsteady flow and tracer transport...
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