Published in Open Geosciences
The phenomenon of urbanization has led to an increase in residential land and other economic activities that resulted in the conversion of undeveloped land into developed and settled lands. Thus, it has an impact on limited water absorption, and eventually, a flood occurs when extreme rainfall happens. The Kedurus watershed is a flood-prone area wh...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Time series mapping of snow volume in the mountains at global scales and at resolutions needed for water resource management is an unsolved challenge to date. Snow depth mapping by differencing surface elevations from airborne lidar is a mature measurement approach filling the observation gap operationally in a few regions, primarily in mountain he...
Published in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Montane meadows are highly productive ecosystems that contain high densities of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). However, anthropogenic disturbances that have led to channel incision and disconnected floodplain hydrology have altered the C balance of many meadows, converting them from net C sinks to net sources of C to the atmosphere. Restoration ...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Winters in snow-covered regions have warmed, likely shifting the timing and magnitude of nutrient export, leading to unquantified changes in water quality. Intermittent, seasonal, and permanent snow covers more than half of the global land surface. Warming has reduced the cold conditions that limit winter runoff and nutrient transport, while cold s...
Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
The availability of land cover in the form of forest is very important in the watershed system (DAS). The decrease in forest cover and the carbon content stored in a watershed also shows a decline in the quality of the watershed. The research aims to examine changes in land cover that occurred during the last twenty years in the Pengabuan Watershed...
Published in Sustainability
Riparian buffer zones (RBZs) have been shown to be effective best management practices (BMPs) in controlling non-point source pollutants in waterbodies. However, the holistic sustainability assessment of individual RBZ designs is lacking. We present a methodology for evaluating the holistic sustainability of RBZ policy scenarios by integrating envi...
Published in Physics in Medicine & Biology
Objective. This paper proposes an automatic breast tumor segmentation method for two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound images, which is significantly more accurate, robust, and adaptable than common deep learning models on small datasets. Approach. A generalized joint training and refined segmentation framework (JR) was established, involving a joint tra...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Ecosystem service flow plays a vital role in the formation, transportation, transformation, and maintenance of ecosystem services. For ecosystem services with spatiotemporal mismatch of supply and demand, ecosystem service flow explains the integrated process of ‘supply-flow-demand’ of ecosystem services. The present study evaluates the supply and ...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
As an important ecological environmental factor, the lake water surface temperature (LSWT) has an important impact on the ecological diversity of lakes and watersheds. With the acceleration of urbanization in China, the impact of urban expansion on LSWT can not be ignored. In this study, we introduced the spatial influence(G) equation, selected MOD...
Published in Frontiers in Water
Economic models and watershed models provide useful results, but when seeking to integrate these systems, the temporal units typically utilized by these models must be reconciled. A hydrologic-economic modeling framework is built to couple the Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF), representing the watershed system, with the Rectangular Ch...
