Models are essential in a decision support system for river basin management. In a decision support system for integrated planning and management, the use of appropriate models is important to avoid models being either too simple or too complex. In this paper, appropriate models refer to models that are good-enough-but-not-more-than-that to obtain an acceptable ranking of river engineering meas...

Kano river basin, which serves as the main source of water supply to metropolitan Kano, is also used as receiving body for industrial wastes from Sharada and Challawa industrial estates. Of the three major rivers in this basin, the Salanta river was found to receive the highest pollution from the industrial discharges with COD of 8,557.4mg/l, total solids of 16,934.6mg/l, hardness of 1,349.6mg/...

Effects of watershed and riparian zone characteristics on nutrient concentrations in the River Scheldt Basin J. Meynendonckx, G. Heuvelmans, B. Muys, and J. Feyen Ecosystem Management Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Ecorem consultants nv, Kontichsesteenweg 38, 2630 Aartselaar, Belgium Department of Land Management and Economics, Faculty of Bioscience En...

State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China Institute of Shandong River Wetlands, Laiwu 271100, China State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China College of Biology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China The Collab...

Experimental Study of Mobility and Kinetic Characterization of Trace Elements in Contaminated Sediments from a River Basin in Northern Peru Cristina Yacoub, Nuria Miralles, and César Valderrama Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Address correspondence to César Valderrama, Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Politècnica de Catalun...

A time delay artificial neural network approach for flow routing in a river system M. J. Diamantopoulou, P. E. Georgiou, and D. M. Papamichail Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece Department of Hydraulics, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessal...

Ice breakup forecast in the reach of the Yellow River: the support vector machines approach H. Zhou, W. Li, C. Zhang, and J. Liu School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China Received: 21 March 2009 – Accepted: 23 March 2009 – Published: 9 April 2009 Correspondence to: W. Li ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf o...

1 water yields in the world's largest river basins 2 Lu Liu, Simon Parkinson, Matthew Gidden, Edward Byers, Yusuke Satoh, Keywan 3 Riahi, and Barton Forman 4 5 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College 6 Park, MD, USA 7 2. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria 8 3. Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, University ...

Bacillus cereus is a gram positive bacterium with sporulation capacity. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of two native B. cereus strains (#25 and #29) isolated from intestinal tract of the crab Ucides sp. from Pacoti River in the State of Ceará, Brazil. The findings of this study might increase the molecular information for Bacillus strains. The data can be used in comparative analy...

Jianguo Lu, Peixian Luan, Xiaofeng Zhang, Shuqun Xue, Lina Peng, Shahid Mahbooband, and Xiaowen Sun Heilongjiang River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Harbin, Peoples Republic of China; School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China; National and Local United Engineering Lab for Freshwater Fish Breeding, Harbin, People...