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Priscila Esposte Coutinho and Marcio Cataldi
Brazil has a large availability of natural resources, and its economy was historically built around their exploitation. Changes in climate trends are already causing several environmental impacts, which affect the economic and social organization of the ...
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Leifu Zhang, Wenqi Zhang, Yong Li, Benbiao Song, Dawang Liu, Ya Deng, Jiacheng Xu and Yuning Wang
The Cenomanian?Early Turonian Mishrif Formation is a great contributor to oil production in Iraq. Integrating petrographic, mineralogical, and wireline logging data from 52 wells, this study provides an improved understanding of the sequence stratigraphy...
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Marie Sorella Bella Atangana, Jules Rémy Ndam Ngoupayou and Jean-François Deliege
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining activities have an impact on natural resources and human health. This study addresses the assessment of surface water quality in the Lom gold basin. A combined approach of water quality index calculation, multivariat...
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Bashar Bashir and Abdullah Alsalman
An investigation into tectonics and erosion reveals that they play an important role in causing uplifting, valley incision, and soil erosion. The analysis of drainage basins at different scales is irreplaceable in the development of sustainable plans, pa...
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Marco Delle Rose
On the one hand, Sinkhole Flooding (SF) is an essential hydrological process to recharge karst aquifer in arid to dry sub-humid regions. On the other hand, the increase of rain extremes is one of the major consequences of global warming, together with th...
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Stanislav Jacko, Zdenka Babicová, Alexander Dean Thiessen, Roman Farka?ovský and Vladimír Budinský
The exploration of the geothermal potential of a geological unit has multiple aspects. The most important elements are the geological structure, the hydrogeological conditions, and heat flow. The analysis of the above-mentioned elements attempts to help ...
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Sophia Mitkidou, Nikolaos Kokkinos, Elissavet Emmanouilidou, Yusuf Yohannah, Thomas Spanos, Christina Chatzichristou and Antoaneta Ene
The oil and gas industry is definitely considered the main contributor in the energy sector, acting as the lifeblood of our planet. However, environmental contamination by crude oil and petroleum products due to anthropogenic activities is of great conce...
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Joan Cuxart, Maja Telisman Prtenjak and Blazenka Matjacic
Under high-pressure systems, the nocturnal atmospheric boundary layer in the Pannonian Basin is influenced by gravity flows generated at the mountain ranges and along the valleys, determining the variability of wind and temperature at a local scale and t...
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Esteban Salazar,Paulina Vásquez,Daniela Vallejos,Christian Creixell,Verónica Oliveros,Mihai N. Ducea
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Triassic rock units of northern Chile (28-29° S) record the transition, both in time and space, between two major orogenies that affected the southwestern margin of South America, the Gondwanian and Andean orogenies. The geodynamic configuration of the m...
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Doan Thi Thu Ha, Seon-Ho Kim and Deg-Hyo Bae
The transboundary river basin is a great challenge for water management and disaster reduction due to its specific characteristics. In this study, upstream impacts from natural and artificial sources on the downstream discharge on the Imjin river basin, ...
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Getachew Tegegne, Assefa M. Melesse, Dereje H. Asfaw and Abeyou W. Worqlul
The frequency and intensity of flood quantiles and its attendant damage in agricultural establishments have generated a lot of issues in Ethiopia. Moreover, precise estimates of flood quantiles are needed for efficient design of hydraulic structures; how...
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Ranran Liu, Xiaobin Dong, Peng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xiaowan Wang and Ya Gao
Due to the differences in the contributions of land use types to ecosystem health and human wellbeing, there is a trade-off and a coordinating relationship between ecosystem health and human wellbeing, which affects the sustainable development of a river...
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Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Shahid and Saad Ahmed Jamal
Climatic data archives, including grid-based remote-sensing and general circulation model (GCM) data, are used to identify future climate change trends. The performances of climate models vary in regions with spatio-temporal climatic heterogeneities beca...
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Ansoumana Bodian, Alain Dezetter, Lamine Diop, Abdoulaye Deme, Koffi Djaman and Aliou Diop
This research investigated the effect of climate change on the two main river basins of Senegal in West Africa: the Senegal and Gambia River Basins. We used downscaled projected future rainfall and potential evapotranspiration based on projected temperat...
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Maureen Papas
Effective regulation of freshwater remains one of the biggest challenges facing our societies. In times of record-breaking weather extremes spurred by a changing climate, decision makers are increasingly aware of the need to formulate more effective gove...
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Iguniwari Thomas Ekeu-wei, George Alan Blackburn and Philip Pedruco
In developing regions missing data are prevalent in historical hydrological datasets, owing to financial, institutional, operational and technical challenges. If not tackled, these data shortfalls result in uncertainty in flood frequency estimates and co...
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Batsuren Dorjsuren, Denghua Yan, Hao Wang, Sonomdagva Chonokhuu, Altanbold Enkhbold, Xu Yiran, Abel Girma, Mohammed Gedefaw and Asaminew Abiyu
Mongolia?s Selenga sub-basin of the Lake Baikal basin is spatially extensive, with pronounced environmental gradients driven primarily by precipitation and air temperature on broad scales. Therefore, it is an ideal region to examine the dynamics of the c...
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Yury G. Chendev, Jason A. Hubbart, Edgar A. Terekhin, Anthony R. Lupo, Tom J. Sauer and C. Lee Burras
Afforestation trends were compared between two continentally-distinct, yet similar ecoregions to characterize similarities or differences in forest advancement due to natural and anthropogenic forcings. Temporal changes in forest cover were analyzed usin...
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Lakkana Suwannachai, Krit Sriworamas, Ounla Sivanpheng and Anongrit Kangrang
In addition to changes in the amount of rain, changes in land use upstream are considered a factor that directly affects the maximum runoff flow in a basin, especially in areas that have experienced floods and flash floods. This research article presents...
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Yuning Feng, Shihong Du, Klaus Fraedrich and Xiuyuan Zhang
The Qaidam Basin is a sensitive climate transition zone revealing a wide spectrum of local climates and their variability. In order to obtain an objective and quantitative expression of local climate regions as well as avoid the challenge to pre-define t...
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