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A Coupled Model for Forecasting Spatiotemporal Variability of Regional Drought in the Mu Us Sandy Land Using a Meta-Heuristic Algorithm

Land
Vegetation plays a vital role in terrestrial ecosystems, and droughts driven by rising temperatures pose significant threats to vegetation health.
Changfu Tong, Hongfei Hou, Hexiang Zheng, Ying Wang, Jin Liu   +4 more
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Identifying Capabilities and Potentials of System Dynamics in Hydrology and Water Resources as a Promising Modeling Approach for Water Management

Water, 2020
Agriculture is the most important sector with regard to water resources management due to its social, economic, hydrological, and environmental aspects, and many scholars and researchers have been driven to investigate the dynamic interrelationships ...
Ahmed F. Mashaly, A. Fernald
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Simulation and analysis of evapotranspiration from desert grasslands based on a random forest regression model

Scientific Reports
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a critical component of the water and energy cycles in desert grassland ecosystems. However, modeling ET in arid grasslands faces significant challenges due to data scarcity, high spatiotemporal heterogeneity, and complex ...
Haitao Chen, Nishi Chu, Aiqing Kang, Wenchuan Wang, Ji He   +4 more
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Research on Water and Fertilizer Use Strategies for Silage Corn Under Different Irrigation Methods to Mitigate Abiotic Stress

Plants
To reconcile the intensifying trade-off between chronic water scarcity and escalating forage demand in the Yellow River Basin, this study optimized integrated irrigation and fertilization regimes for silage maize. Leveraging the AquaCrop model, validated
Delong Tian, Yuchao Chen, Bing Xu, Guoshuai Wang, Lingyun Xu   +4 more
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Evaluating the Patterns of Maize Development in the Hetao Irrigation Region Using the Sentinel-1 GRD SAR Bipolar Descriptor

Sensors
Assessing maize yield is critical, as it is directly influenced by the crop’s growth conditions. Therefore, real-time monitoring of maize growth is necessary. Regular monitoring of maize growth indicators is essential for optimizing irrigation management
Hexiang Zheng, Hongfei Hou, Delong Tian, Changfu Tong, Ziyuan Qin   +4 more
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Chemometric analysis for pollution source identification and human health risk assessment of water resources in Ojoto Province, southeast Nigeria

Applied Water Science, 2020
This paper quantified the level of heavy metals contamination, identified possible sources of pollution, and assessed the human health risks associated with drinking water resources in Ojoto Province, Nigeria. The study’s gross findings revealed that the
J. C. Egbueri, C. Mgbenu
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Impacts of Climate Variability and Drought on Surface Water Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Remote Sensing: A Review

Remote Sensing, 2020
Climate variability and recurrent droughts have caused remarkable strain on water resources in most regions across the globe, with the arid and semi-arid areas being the hardest hit.
Trisha Deevia Bhaga, T. Dube, M. Shekede, C. Shoko   +3 more
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Climate Adaptation as a Control Problem: Review and Perspectives on Dynamic Water Resources Planning Under Uncertainty

Water Resources Research, 2020
Climate change introduces substantial uncertainty to water resources planning and raises the key question: when, or under what conditions, should adaptation occur? A number of recent studies aim to identify policies mapping future observations to actions—
J. Herman, J. Quinn, S. Steinschneider, M. Giuliani, S. Fletcher   +4 more
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Water resources in Egypt and their challenges, Lake Nasser case study

, 2020
Worldwide, water resources problems will be one of the most significant economic and social issues of the century. As there are limited water resources due to its fixed share of the Nile water, Egypt is one of the countries that will face great ...
R. G. Ellah
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Study on Water and Salt Transport Characteristics of Sunflowers under Different Irrigation Amounts in the Yellow River Irrigation Area

Agronomy
The control of irrigation volume is of significant importance in arid regions of northwest China. Particularly, it has a crucial impact on the salinization of shallow groundwater areas.
Changfu Tong, Rui He, Jun Wang, Hexiang Zheng   +3 more
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