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Environmental monitoring and assessment
Nov 8, 2018
Water resources planning, development, and management need reliable forecasts of river flows. In past few decades, an important dimension has been introduced in the prediction of the hydrologic phenomenon through artificial intelligence-based modelin...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Nov 7, 2018
River water temperature is a key control of many physical and bio-chemical processes in river systems, which theoretically depends on multiple factors. Here, four different machine learning models, including multilayer perceptron neural network model...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Sep 23, 2018
Identifying priority zones for river restoration is important for biodiversity conservation and catchment management. However, limited data due to the difficulty of field collection has led to research to better understand the ecological status withi...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Sep 21, 2018
In this study, we design an intelligent model to predict chlorophyll-a concentration, which is the primary indicator of algal blooms, using extreme learning machine (ELM) models. Modeling algal blooms is important for environmental management and eco...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Jun 24, 2018
Harmful algal blooms are an annual phenomenon that cause environmental damage, economic losses, and disease outbreaks. A fundamental solution to this problem is still lacking, thus, the best option for counteracting the effects of algal blooms is to ...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
May 2, 2018
The water quality index (WQI) is an important tool for water resource management and planning. However, it has major disadvantages: the generation of chemical waste, is costly, and time-consuming. In order to overcome these drawbacks, we propose to s...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Apr 29, 2018
Earth-rock dams make up a large proportion of the dams in China, and their failures can induce great risks. In this paper, the risks associated with earth-rock dam failure are analyzed from two aspects: the probability of a dam failure and the result...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Apr 25, 2018
The Yellow River Delta (YRD), located in Yellow River estuary, is characterized by rich ecological system types, and provides habitats or migration stations for wild birds, all of which makes the delta an ecological barrier or ecotone for inland area...
Water research
Apr 7, 2018
The aim of the study was to develop predictive models of the ecological status of rivers by using artificial neural networks. The relationships between five macrophyte indices and the combined impact of water pollution as well as hydromorphological d...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Jan 18, 2018
Resettlement affects not only the resettlers' production activities and life but also, directly or indirectly, the normal operation of power stations, the sustainable development of the resettlers, and regional social stability. Therefore, a scientif...