Water, 7(8) - August 2015: Special Issues + Groundwater, Footprints, Ag, Modeling, Runoff, Urban Water and More! (Open Access)

Now available! Water, Volume 7, Issue 8 (August 2015), Pages 4026-4592

All articles are freely downloadable. If you cannot download the articles here, visit the issue's WWW site.

Special Issues. You'll note there are several 'Special Issues' in this issue, some with
  just one or a few papers and some of which have appeared before. Water has many special issues in progress at any given time. What happens is that when a special issue paper is accepted, it immediately goes into the next online issue of Water. If you click on the special issue title, it should take you to all the current papers in that special issue. 

Enjoy!

Table of Contents 

Special Issue Sustainable Water Management and Decision Making under limited Data Availability

Article: Spatiotemporal Correlations between Water Footprint and Agricultural Inputs: A Case Study of Maize Production in Northeast China
by Peili Duan, Lijie Qin, Yeqiao Wang and Hongshi He
Water 2015, 7(8), 4026-4040; doi:10.3390/w7084026

Article: Evaluating Groundwater Management Sustainability under Limited Data Availability in Semiarid Zones
by Javier Senent-Aparicio, Julio Pérez-Sánchez, José Luis García-Aróstegui, Alicia Bielsa-Artero and Juan Carlos Domingo-Pinillos
Water 2015, 7(8), 4305-4322; doi:10.3390/w7084305

Special Issue Use of Meta-Heuristic Techniques in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling

Article: Daily Runoff Forecasting Model Based on ANN and Data Preprocessing Techniques
by Yun Wang, Shenglian Guo, Lihua Xiong, Pan Liu and Dedi Liu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4144-4160; doi:10.3390/w7084144

Article: Daily Reservoir Runoff Forecasting Method Using Artificial Neural Network Based on Quantum-behaved Particle Swarm Optimization
by Chun-tian Cheng, Wen-jing Niu, Zhong-kai Feng, Jian-jian Shen and Kwok-wing Chau
Water 2015, 7(8), 4232-4246; doi:10.3390/w7084232

Article: Heuristic Methods for Reservoir Monthly Inflow Forecasting: A Case Study of Xinfengjiang Reservoir in Pearl River, China
by Chun-Tian Cheng, Zhong-Kai Feng, Wen-Jing Niu and Sheng-Li Liao
Water 2015, 7(8), 4477-4495; doi:10.3390/w7084477

 

Special Issue Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins

Article: Transferable Principles for Managing the Nexus: Lessons from Historical Global Water Modelling of Central Asia
by Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Matti Kummu, Stephanie Eisner and Olli Varis
Water 2015, 7(8), 4200-4231; doi:10.3390/w7084200

 

Special Issue Study, Development and Management of Water in Volcanic Areas

Communication: Influence of Policy Making in the Profitability of Forage Production Irrigated with Reclaimed Water
by María del Pino Palacios-Diaz, Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón and Alberto Del Villar Garcia
Water 2015, 7(8), 4274-4282; doi:10.3390/w7084274

 

Special Issue Water Resources Assessment and Management in Drylands

Article: Spatiotemporal Distribution of Soil Moisture and Salinity in the Taklimakan Desert Highway Shelterbelt
by Yuan Huang, Yongdong Wang, Ying Zhao, Xinwen Xu, Jianguo Zhang and Congjuan Li
Water 2015, 7(8), 4343-4361; doi:10.3390/w7084343

 

Special Issue Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems

Article: Field Evaluation of a Stormwater Treatment Train with Pit Baskets and Filter Media Cartridges in Southeast Queensland
by Darren Drapper and Andy Hornbuckle
Water 2015, 7(8), 4496-4510; doi:10.3390/w7084496

Communication: Agricultural Rivers at Risk: Dredging Results in a Loss of Macroinvertebrates. Preliminary Observations from the Narew Catchment, Poland
by Mateusz Grygoruk, Magdalena Frąk and Aron Chmielewski
Water 2015, 7(8), 4511-4522; doi:10.3390/w7084511

Article: Transferability of Monitoring Data from Neighboring Streams in a Physical Habitat Simulation
by Byungwoong Choi, Sung-Uk Choi and Hojeong Kang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4537-4551; doi:10.3390/w7084537

 

Special Issue Hydrologic System Analysis, Patterns, and Predictions for Arid and Semi-arid Environment

Review: Vapor Flow Resistance of Dry Soil Layer to Soil Water Evaporation in Arid Environment: An Overview
by Xixi Wang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4552-4574; doi:10.3390/w7084552

 

Further Publications

Article: Simulation of Summer Hourly Stream Flow by Applying TOPMODEL and Two Routing Algorithms to the Sparsely Gauged Lhasa River Basin in China
by Dingzhi Peng, Ji Chen and Jing Fang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4041-4053; doi:10.3390/w7084041

Article: Identifying the Physical Properties of Showers That Influence User Satisfaction to Aid in Developing Water-Saving Showers
by Minami Okamoto, Minoru Sato, Yoshihiko Shodai and Masayoshi Kamijo
Water 2015, 7(8), 4054-4062; doi:10.3390/w7084054

Review: Urban Evolution: The Role of Water
by Sujay S. Kaushal, William H. McDowell, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Tamara A. Newcomer Johnson, Paul M. Mayer, Kenneth T. Belt and Michael J. Pennino
Water 2015, 7(8), 4063-4087; doi:10.3390/w7084063

 

Article: Uncertainty in Various Habitat Suitability Models and Its Impact on Habitat Suitability Estimates for Fish
by Yu-Pin Lin, Wei-Chih Lin and Wei-Yao Wu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4088-4107; doi:10.3390/w7084088

Article: Seawater and Freshwater Circulations through Coastal Forested Wetlands on a Caribbean Island
by Luc Lambs, Félix Bompy, Daniel Imbert, Dov Corenblit and Maguy Dulormne
Water 2015, 7(8), 4108-4128; doi:10.3390/w7084108

Article: Analysis of Urban Drainage Networks Using Gibbs’ Model: A Case Study in Seoul, South Korea
by Yongwon Seo, Junshik Hwang and Seong Jin Noh
Water 2015, 7(8), 4129-4143; doi:10.3390/w7084129

Article: Comparison of the Physical Properties of Showers that the Satisfaction of Shower Feeling among Users in Three Asian Countries
by Minami Okamoto, Ryohei Yaita, Minoru Sato, Masayoshi Kamijo, Kanako Toyosada, Yasutoshi Shimizu, Kyosuke Sakaue, Wan-Ju Liao, Meng-Chieh Lee and Cheng-Li Cheng
Water 2015, 7(8), 4161-4174; doi:10.3390/w7084161

Article: Reconstruction of Lake Level Changes of Groundwater-Fed Lakes in Northeastern Germany Using RapidEye Time Series
by Iris Heine, Peter Stüve, Birgit Kleinschmit and Sibylle Itzerott
Water 2015, 7(8), 4175-4199; doi:10.3390/w7084175

Communication: Traceability of pH to the Mole
by Maria Filomena Camões and Bárbara Anes
Water 2015, 7(8), 4247-4255; doi:10.3390/w7084247

Article: Model Spin-Up Behavior for Wet and Dry Basins: A Case Study Using the Xinanjiang Model
by Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman and Minjiao Lu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4256-4273; doi:10.3390/w7084256

Article: Modeling of Breaching Due to Overtopping Flow and Waves Based on Coupled Flow and Sediment Transport
by Zhiguo He, Peng Hu, Liang Zhao, Gangfeng Wu and Thomas Pähtz
Water 2015, 7(8), 4283-4304; doi:10.3390/w7084283

Article: A New Spatiotemporal Risk Index for Heavy Metals: Application in Cyprus
by Christos G. Karydas, Ourania Tzoraki and Panos Panagos
Water 2015, 7(8), 4323-4342; doi:10.3390/w7084323

Article: Warning Model for Shallow Landslides Induced by Extreme Rainfall
by Lien-Kwei Chien, Chia-Feng Hsu and Li-Chung Yin
Water 2015, 7(8), 4362-4384; doi:10.3390/w7084362

Article: Fractal Dimension of Cohesive Sediment Flocs at Steady State under Seven Shear Flow Conditions
by Zhongfan Zhu, Jingshan Yu, Hongrui Wang, Jie Dou and Cheng Wang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4385-4408; doi:10.3390/w7084385

Article: Evaluation of an Empirical Reservoir Shape Function to Define Sediment Distributions in Small Reservoirs
by Bogusław Michalec
Water 2015, 7(8), 4409-4426; doi:10.3390/w7084409

Article: Impacts of Land Use on Surface Water Quality in a Subtropical River Basin: A Case Study of the Dongjiang River Basin, Southeastern China
by Jiao Ding, Yuan Jiang, Lan Fu, Qi Liu, Qiuzhi Peng and Muyi Kang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4427-4445; doi:10.3390/w7084427

Article: Simulation of Water Level Fluctuations in a Hydraulic System Using a Coupled Liquid-Gas Model
by Chao Wang, Jiandong Yang and Håkan Nilsson
Water 2015, 7(8), 4446-4476; doi:10.3390/w7084446

Article: Forms of Nutrients in Rivers Flowing into Lake Chaohu: A Comparison between Urban and Rural Rivers
by Lei Zhang, Shiguang Shao, Cheng Liu, Tingting Xu and Chengxin Fan
Water 2015, 7(8), 4523-4536; doi:10.3390/w7084523

Article: Impacts of the 2013 Extreme Flood in Northeast China on Regional Groundwater Depth and Quality
by Xihua Wang, Guangxin Zhang and Yi Jun Xu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4575-4592; doi:10.3390/w7084575

 

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