Impact of Preceding El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Southern China Precipitation in Early Summer by Yan Li, Yafei Wang, Lin Mu, Qingyuan Wang, Jun Song, Guosong Wang

“…Three indexes in boreal autumn were positively well correlated with the rainfall over the Yangtze River and its southern area (rain-YRBS) in next June. …”
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Morphometric and Morphotectonic characteristics of Sürgü and Çardak Faults (East Anatolian Fault Zone) by Musa Balkaya, Hüsnü Serdar Akyüz, Suha Ozden

“…Investigations along the Holocene river valleys along the approximately E–W trending Sürgü and Çardak faults evidently indicate that these faults represent sinistral active fault morphology. …”
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Variations in Stable Carbon Isotope Composition and Leaf Traits of Picea schrenkiana var. tianschanica along an Altitude Gradient in Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China by Huiwen Zhang, Jianying Ma, Wei Sun, Fahu Chen

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Characterization of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes on an Ecological Farm System by Songhe Zhang, Ju Gu, Chao Wang, Peifang Wang, Shaojun Jiao, ZhenLi He, Bing Han

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Uncertainty of Flood Forecasting Based on Radar Rainfall Data Assimilation by Xinchi Chen, Liping Zhang, Christopher James Gippel, Lijie Shan, Shaodan Chen, Wei Yang

“…Using data from White Lotus River of Hubei Province, China, five methods were used to assimilate radar rainfall data transformed from the classified Z-R relationship, and the postassimilation data were compared with precipitation measured by rain gauges. …”
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Application of Chitosan Composite Flocculant in Tap Water Treatment by Awa Kangama, Defang Zeng, Xu Tian, Jinfu Fang

“…As raw water, we used water from the Han River, which is used as raw water at Zonguan Waterworks. …”
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Natural Background Level and Contamination of Shallow Groundwater Salinity in Various Aquifers in a Coastal Urbanized Area, South China by Pan Bi, Dongya Han, Chunyan Liu, Liquan Xiao, Heqiu Wu, Meng Zhang

“…The present study assessed the NBL of total dissolved solids (TDS) in various groundwater units in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) where urbanization is a large scale and discussed factors controlling groundwater salinity contamination in the PRD. …”
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Vegetation structure and composition in the semi-arid Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape by P. Gandiwa, J. Finch, T. Hill

“…The results suggest alluvial floodplain flanking the Limpopo River is a biodiversity hotspot with high plant species diversity (H’=1.8-2.2) 1/ha, taller trees (P…”
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Cause and consequences of Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) space use specialization in a subtropical riverscape by Rolando O. Santos, Mack White, W. Ryan James, Natasha M. Viadero, Jordan A. Massie, Ross E. Boucek, Jennifer S. Rehage

“…Here, we used long-term tracking of Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) movement and trophic dynamics in the Shark River, Everglades National Park from 2012 to 2023 to test how specialization in the space use of individuals (i.e., Eadj) changes seasonally, how it is influenced by yearly hydrological conditions, and its relationship to the between individual trophic niche. …”
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Multiphase Calcite Cementation and Fluids Evolution of a Deeply Buried Carbonate Reservoir in the Upper Ordovician Lianglitag Formation, Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin, NW China by Jiaqing Liu, Zhong Li, Lijuan Cheng, Jiawei Li

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A cooperative search algorithm-based flood forecasting framework: application across diverse Chinese catchments by Jinhai Yang, Lei Wen, Junliang Guo, Yiru Chen, Yongchen Zhu, Yun Wang, Meihong Ma, Meihong Ma

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Inheritance patterns of male asexuality in hybrid males of a water frog Pelophylax esculentus by Marie Doležálková-Kaštánková, Dmitrij Dedukh, Veronika Labajová, Eleonora Pustovalova, Lukáš Choleva

“…We hypothesize that the reproductive variability of males producing two kinds of sperm is an adaptive mechanism to reproduce in mixed populations with P. ridibundus and may explain the extensive distribution of the all-male lineage across the European River Basin.…”
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GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Information, Frequency Ratio, and Artificial Neural Network Methods in Qinghai Province, Northwestern China by Bin Li, Nianqin Wang, Jing Chen

“…Through field investigations, 100 landslide disaster locations in the study area were selected, and 11 influencing factors including elevation, slope, aspect, plane curvature, profile curvature, road distance, river distance, fault distance, stratum rock property, vegetation coverage index, and terrain humidity index were selected as the influencing factors of landslide disaster based on GIS. …”
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Characteristics of the South China Sea Monsoon from the Onset to Withdrawal before and after 1993/94 by Zhao Xiaofang, Wang Lijuan

“…In addition, the rain-belt in the Yangtze River basin persisted much longer during summer. …”
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Is your medical device “easy to use”? Supplemental oxygen patients’ experiences and tradeoffs around portable oxygen concentrators and tanks by Marc Egeth, Naomi Cherne, Nichole Breeland, Samantha Sye, Jennifer Soosaar, Frederic Seifer, Stanislav Glezer

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Time series predictions in unmonitored sites: a survey of machine learning techniques in water resources by Jared D. Willard, Charuleka Varadharajan, Xiaowei Jia, Vipin Kumar

“…Yet, the need to have widespread predictions of hydrological variables such as river flow and water quality has become increasingly urgent due to climate and land use change over the past decades, and their associated impacts on water resources. …”
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Autonomous decision-making method for ship maneuvering in complex waters of estuarine multi-class ships routeing system by HE Yixiong, ZHANG Huwei, LIU Jiaorun, ZHAO Xingya, XIANG Shouyuan, WANG Bing

“…In order to solve the autonomous decision-making for ship manoeuvring in complex waters of estuarine multi-class ships routeing system, key scientific issues such as digital environment, navigation rule integration, ship manoeuvrability constraints, and collision avoidance mechanism under special waters were investigated by taking the waters from the mouth of Liu River to the North Trough as an example. The requirements of analytical rules were summarized and quantified in the digital traffic environment. …”
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Ambient Atmospheric Aerosol Extinction Coefficient Reconstruction from PM2.5 Mass Concentrations and Application to Haze Identification in China by Lina Gao, Peng Yan, Jietai Mao, Xiaochun Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yongxue Wu, Junshan Jing, Jianming Xu, Xuejiao Deng, Wenxue Chi

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Study and Application of Similar Material Ratio in Collapsible Loess by Bingchao Zhao, Yunxiang Ma, Yaxin Guo, Hao Sun, Jingbin Wang, Hailong Wang

“…The orthogonal experiment is used to make up similar material with different proportions using river sand and barite powder as aggregate, clay and gypsum as cementing material, and diatomite as adjusting material. …”
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Identification and investigation of the area under cultivation in Lenjanat using Landsat 8 satellite images by Vahid Riahi, Parviz Zeaiean Firouzabadi, Farhad Azizpour, Parastoo Darouei

“…Investigation of land use and cropping pattern of this area indicate a high centralization of agricultural lands with high water requirements and industries on the proximity of Zayanderud River which necessitates the spatial analysis of land use in this area.…”
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