Change of the environment, namely climate change and human activities, is influencing hydrological cycles globally. Nonstationary changes have been widely detected in precipitation series, which has significantly increased flood risk various areas. Taking Taihu Basin as typical study area, nonstationary characteristics are analyzed through Mann-Kendall trend test, Pettitt abrupt Sen’s slope est...

The number of households and businesses using HFC cable networks for Internet access is rapidly approaching 40 million in the United States. The cable industry has standardized on a single MAC and physical layer standard, the Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS). The emerging IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access MAC protocol is based on DOCSIS. We have implemented a simulati...

Through the Water Framework Directive (WFD) the European countries started producing integrated river basin management plans with the basic objective to achieve “good status” of water bodies by 2015. The main aims of these plans are to identify procedures for combating the deterioration or overexploitation of water resources in the territory of each member state. In the first phase of this init...

As the largest irrigation area in northwest China, middle and lower reaches of Yarkant River basin are limited economic development by shortage surface water resources increasing demand for groundwater from agriculture industry, phenomenon over-exploitation is becoming increasingly serious, which not line with concept sustainable development. Therefore, improving efficiency resource utilization...

The layouts for the three proposed sites for the Saaremaa Island deep harbour were designed at Corson Consulting. The layouts were designed on the basis of geological, hydrometeorological, and wave and current conditions. Emphasis was given to the impact of the future harbour on nature. The layouts were used as the basis for wave and velocity field calculations using program MIKE 21. Wave and v...