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View article: Why Should Urban Debris Dynamics Be Considered in Urban Flood Management?
Why Should Urban Debris Dynamics Be Considered in Urban Flood Management? Open
Climate change, urbanization, and inadequate infrastructure exacerbate urban flood risks, yet one critical factor remains largely overlooked: hazardous debris such as cars, construction materials, wood, plastic containers among others. In …
View article: The role of sediment supply on fish habitat dynamics in river widenings
The role of sediment supply on fish habitat dynamics in river widenings Open
Flow and sediment regimes are key to aquatic and floodplain habitats. Natural hydro-morphological processes are essential in creating such habitats and sustaining their ecological functions. River morphological changes are known to influen…
View article: Patch-scale habitat dynamics: three metrics to assess ecological impacts of frequent hydropeaking
Patch-scale habitat dynamics: three metrics to assess ecological impacts of frequent hydropeaking Open
Human activities significantly alter natural river flows, impacting ecosystem functioning and biodiversity worldwide. Hydropeaking, resulting from intermittent on-demand hydropower generation, introduces sub-daily flow fluctuations exceedi…
View article: BASEveg: A python package to model riparian vegetation dynamics coupled with river morphodynamics
BASEveg: A python package to model riparian vegetation dynamics coupled with river morphodynamics Open
River morphology is closely linked with riparian vegetation dynamics, because of the interwoven interactions between plants, flow, and sediment transport. However, open-source tools that model such interactions are currently missing. Here …
View article: Modelling seed recruitment controls in an Alpine floodplain subject to hydropeaking
Modelling seed recruitment controls in an Alpine floodplain subject to hydropeaking Open
Hydropower production has different recognized impacts on river ecosystems. In particular, it alters the natural hydrological regime with extended low-residual flow conditions interrupted by rapid daily and sub-daily flow fluctuations, i.e…
View article: key questions to guide hydropeaking research
key questions to guide hydropeaking research Open
Hydropeaking has received increasing attention in the last years, but many knowledge gaps remain, potentially hampering effective policy and management efforts in rivers under such type of hydropower production. In this study, we collected…
View article: Systematic comparison of 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models for the assessment of hydropeaking alterations
Systematic comparison of 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models for the assessment of hydropeaking alterations Open
Numerical hydrodynamic models enable the simulation of hydraulic conditions under various scenarios and are thus suitable tools for hydropeaking related assessments. However, the choice of the necessary model complexity and the consequence…
View article: Integrating two‐dimensional water temperature simulations into a fish habitat model to improve hydro‐ and thermopeaking impact assessment
Integrating two‐dimensional water temperature simulations into a fish habitat model to improve hydro‐ and thermopeaking impact assessment Open
Storage hydropower plants, which are an important component of energy production in Switzerland, can lead to hydro‐ and thermopeaking, affecting river habitats and organisms. In this study, we developed an approach for integrating water te…
View article: Quantifying fluvial habitat changes due to multiple subsequent floods in a braided alpine reach
Quantifying fluvial habitat changes due to multiple subsequent floods in a braided alpine reach Open
During flood events, river topography and fluvial habitats can change drastically, potentially affecting the ecological status. In case of multiple floods, whether each single event modifies the habitat characteristics in the same directio…
View article: Introducing HyPeak: An international network on hydropeaking research, practice, and policy
Introducing HyPeak: An international network on hydropeaking research, practice, and policy Open
An increase in the demand for renewable energy is driving hydropower development and its integration with variable renewable energy sources. When hydropower is produced flexibly from hydropower plants, it causes rapid and frequent artifici…
View article: A flux‐vector splitting scheme for the shallow water equations extended to high‐order on unstructured meshes
A flux‐vector splitting scheme for the shallow water equations extended to high‐order on unstructured meshes Open
We present a flux vector splitting method for the one and two‐dimensional shallow water equations following the approach first proposed by Toro and Vázquez for the compressible Euler equations. The resulting first‐order schemes turn out to…
View article: BASEveg: A modelling framework integrating vegetation dynamics and river hydro-morphodynamic processes
BASEveg: A modelling framework integrating vegetation dynamics and river hydro-morphodynamic processes Open
<p>Riparian vegetation and river hydro-morphodynamic processes are strongly interconnected by feedback mechanisms that act at various spatial and temporal scales. Such feedbacks affect water and sediment fluxes along river channels a…
View article: Systematic comparison of 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models for the assessment of hydropeaking alterations
Systematic comparison of 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models for the assessment of hydropeaking alterations Open
Numerical hydrodynamic models enable the simulation of hydraulic conditions under various scenarios and are thus suitable tools for hydropeaking related assessments. However, the choice of the necessary model complexity and the consequence…
View article: Quantifying fluvial habitat changes due to multiple subsequent floods in a braided alpine reach
Quantifying fluvial habitat changes due to multiple subsequent floods in a braided alpine reach Open
During flood events, river topography and fluvial habitats can change drastically, potentially affecting the ecological status. In case of multiple floods, whether each single event modifies the habitat characteristics in the same directio…
View article: Correction: Reversible electrowetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces
Correction: Reversible electrowetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces Open
Correction for ‘Reversible electrowetting transitions on superhydrophobic surfaces’ by D. Vanzo et al. , Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. , 2021, 23 , 27005–27013, DOI:10.1039/D1CP04220C.
View article: Lake Modeling Reveals Management Opportunities for Improving Water Quality Downstream of Transboundary Tropical Dams
Lake Modeling Reveals Management Opportunities for Improving Water Quality Downstream of Transboundary Tropical Dams Open
Water quality in tropical rivers is changing rapidly. The ongoing boom of dam construction for hydropower is one of the drivers for this change. In particular, the stratification in tropical reservoirs induces oxygen deficits in their deep…
View article: A hierarchical approach linking hydraulic and ecological modeling for habitat predictions for riverine pioneer vegetation
A hierarchical approach linking hydraulic and ecological modeling for habitat predictions for riverine pioneer vegetation Open
<p>The distribution of sessile riparian plant species and their habitats along riverways are highly dependent on river dynamics and connectivity. River restoration and conservation of riparian plant species rely on expert knowledge a…
View article: Enhancing an unsupervised clustering algorithm with a spatial contiguity constraint for river habitat analysis
Enhancing an unsupervised clustering algorithm with a spatial contiguity constraint for river habitat analysis Open
The spread of two‐dimensional numerical hydrodynamic tools for ecohydraulic applications allowed for the development of automatic habitat detection methods, adopted as predicting tools for river habitat analysis. These automatic approaches…
View article: Macroinvertebrate Recovery to Varying Hydropeaking Frequency: A Small Hydropower Plant Experiment
Macroinvertebrate Recovery to Varying Hydropeaking Frequency: A Small Hydropower Plant Experiment Open
As the demand for hydroelectricity progresses worldwide, small hydropower operators are increasingly examining the feasibility of using existing infrastructure (e.g., settling basins) in run-of-the-river schemes for intermittent power prod…
View article: A pseudo-reservoir concept in SWAT model for the simulation of an alluvial floodplain in a complex tropical river system
A pseudo-reservoir concept in SWAT model for the simulation of an alluvial floodplain in a complex tropical river system Open
Study region: The new formulation was applied in a complex tropical river system of Luanginga sub-basin, western Zambia. Study focus: We propose a novel pseudo-reservoir concept (hereinafter PSRC) in the framework of the Soil and Water Ass…