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View article: Sustaining CyberWater-VisTrails: A Case Study in Software Upgrades and Reengineering
Sustaining CyberWater-VisTrails: A Case Study in Software Upgrades and Reengineering Open
This study focuses on the process of updating and upgrading a large-scale legacy software system to ensure its compatibility with modern computing environments. The evolution and maintenance of legacy software pose significant challenges i…
View article: A Corpus-based Comparative Analysis of the English Translation of Terms Related to Tonifying Methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine
A Corpus-based Comparative Analysis of the English Translation of Terms Related to Tonifying Methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine Open
TCM, as a traditional medical system, has attracted an increasing number of international attention for its unique therapeutic methods and theoretical system. To promote the international dissemination of TCM knowledge and technology, and …
View article: Impacts of Anthropogenic Emission Change Scenarios on U.S. Water and Carbon Balances at National and State Scales in a Changing Climate
Impacts of Anthropogenic Emission Change Scenarios on U.S. Water and Carbon Balances at National and State Scales in a Changing Climate Open
The U.S. water supply and carbon sequestration are increasingly threatened by future climate change and air pollution. This study investigates the ecohydrological responses to the individual and combined impacts of climate change and anthr…
View article: Stomatal Conductance Modeling from the Perspective of a Land Surface Model
Stomatal Conductance Modeling from the Perspective of a Land Surface Model Open
View article: Coupling Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport Processes With the Variable Infiltration Capacity Model (VIC‐SED) for Applications Suitable With Coarse Spatial and Temporal Resolutions
Coupling Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport Processes With the Variable Infiltration Capacity Model (VIC‐SED) for Applications Suitable With Coarse Spatial and Temporal Resolutions Open
Understanding soil erosion and sediment transport from the hillslope scale to the regional scale is crucial for studies on water quality, soil‐water conservation, the lateral carbon cycle, environmental zoning and vulnerability. However, m…
View article: Roles of Hydrology and Transport Processes in Denitrification at Watershed Scale
Roles of Hydrology and Transport Processes in Denitrification at Watershed Scale Open
Rainfall runoff and leaching are the main driving forces that nitrogen, an important non‐point source (NPS) pollutant, enters streams, lakes, and groundwater. Hydrological and transport processes thus play a pivotal role in NPS nitrogen po…
View article: Facilitating Open Data and Open Model Integration: Generic Parameter Input File Generators in the Cyberwater Framework
Facilitating Open Data and Open Model Integration: Generic Parameter Input File Generators in the Cyberwater Framework Open
View article: CyberWater: Making Water Science Open Science
CyberWater: Making Water Science Open Science Open
View article: A Catchment-Scale Hydro-Biogeochemical Model for Studying Non-Point Source Nitrate transport and Denitrification Process
A Catchment-Scale Hydro-Biogeochemical Model for Studying Non-Point Source Nitrate transport and Denitrification Process Open
Rainfall runoff and leaching are the main driving forces that nitrogen, an important non-point source (NPS) pollutant, enters streams, lakes and groundwater. Hydrological processes thus play a pivotal role in NPS pollutant transport. Howev…
View article: Rainfall Patterns From Multiscale Sample Entropy Analysis
Rainfall Patterns From Multiscale Sample Entropy Analysis Open
Precipitation is a manifestation of many interacting complex processes. How to grasp its temporal pattern that would reveal underlain dominant contributing factors is the key objective of the study. For this, we explored the application of…
View article: A framework fusing multiple representations of same processes from different 2 perspectives for robust modeling of plant interaction with hydrological processes
A framework fusing multiple representations of same processes from different 2 perspectives for robust modeling of plant interaction with hydrological processes Open
A modeling framework is presented for hydrological modeling to more accurately describe the water, energy, and carbon cycles and their interactions with participating processes. This framework extends the modeling strategy presented in Luo…
View article: Feasibility of Harvesting Solar Energy for Self-Powered Environmental Wireless Sensor Nodes
Feasibility of Harvesting Solar Energy for Self-Powered Environmental Wireless Sensor Nodes Open
Energy harvesting has a vital role in building reliable Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSNs), without needing to replace a discharged battery. Solar energy is one of the main renewable energy sources that can be used to efficient…
View article: A calibration framework for high-resolution hydrological models using a multiresolution and heterogeneous strategy
A calibration framework for high-resolution hydrological models using a multiresolution and heterogeneous strategy Open
Increasing spatial and temporal resolution of numerical models continues to propel progress in hydrological sciences, but, at the same time, it has strained the ability of modern automatic calibration methods to produce realistic model par…
View article: Estimation of daily streamflow from multiple donor catchments with Graphical Lasso
Estimation of daily streamflow from multiple donor catchments with Graphical Lasso Open
A novel algorithm is introduced to improve estimations of daily streamflow time series at sites with incomplete records based on the concept of conditional independence in graphical models. The goal is to fill in gaps of historical data or…
View article: Smart Phone Based Mobile Code Dissemination for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
Smart Phone Based Mobile Code Dissemination for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks Open
Low-power Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being widely used in various outdoor applications including environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and smart cities. WSN is a distributed network of sensor devices where the software …
View article: Hybridizing Bayesian and variational data assimilation for high-resolution hydrologic forecasting
Hybridizing Bayesian and variational data assimilation for high-resolution hydrologic forecasting Open
The success of real-time estimation and forecasting applications based on geophysical models has been possible thanks to the two main existing frameworks for the determination of the models' initial conditions: Bayesian data assimilation a…
View article: Network Dynamics Analysis and Benchmarking on an Outdoor Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network
Network Dynamics Analysis and Benchmarking on an Outdoor Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network Open
We present an empirical study on network dynamics in an outdoor heterogeneous multi-hop WSN deployment for long-term environmental monitoring. We analyze the network dynamics in three aspects, the link level characteristics, the routing le…
View article: Hydroclimatic variability and predictability: a survey of recent research
Hydroclimatic variability and predictability: a survey of recent research Open
Recent research in large-scale hydroclimatic variability is surveyed, focusing on five topics: (i) variability in general, (ii) droughts, (iii) floods, (iv) land–atmosphere coupling, and (v) hydroclimatic prediction. Each surveyed topic is…
View article: A Networked Sensor System for the Analysis of Plot-Scale Hydrology
A Networked Sensor System for the Analysis of Plot-Scale Hydrology Open
This study presents the latest updates to the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania (ASWP) testbed, a $50,000 USD, 104-node outdoor multi-hop wireless sensor network (WSN). The network collects environmental data from over 240 sensors, i…
View article: Plant transpiration and groundwater dynamics in water‐limited climates: Impacts of hydraulic redistribution
Plant transpiration and groundwater dynamics in water‐limited climates: Impacts of hydraulic redistribution Open
The role of groundwater in sustaining plant transpiration constitutes an important but not well‐understood aspect of the interactions between groundwater, vegetation, the land surface, and the atmosphere. The effect of the hydraulic redist…
View article: Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R's of next-generation land-surface modelling
Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R's of next-generation land-surface modelling Open
Land-surface models (LSMs) are increasingly called upon to represent not only the exchanges of energy, water and momentum across the land–atmosphere interface (their original purpose in climate models), but also how ecosystems and water re…