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Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Models for Assessment of Education Quality in Water Resources Engineering
Ghorbani, Mohammad Kazem; Talebbeydokhti, Nasser; Hamidifar, Hossein; Samadi, Mehrshad; Nones, Michael; Rezaeitavabe, Fatemeh; Heidarifar, Shabnam (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2025-01-02)Assessing and improving the quality of education in universities can play a prominent role in developing countries. This study aims to demonstrate an extensive methodology with a related algorithm for assessing the quality ... -
Applying ADCPs for long term monitoring of SSC in rivers
Aleixo, Rui; Guerrero, Massimo; Nones, Michael; Ruther, Nils (American Geophysical Union, 2019-12)The flow rate and the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) of two different rivers draining into the Adriatic Sea basin, the Secchia in Italy and the Devoll in Albania, were analysed by processing the data collected in ... -
Assessment of Human-Induced Effects on Sea/Brackish Water Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Ha Long Bay of Vietnam with Google Earth Engine
Quang, Nguyen Hong; Nguyen, Minh Nguyen; Paget, Matt; Anstee, Janet; Viet, Nguyen Duc; Nones, Michael; Tuan, Vu Anh (MDPI, 2022-09-27)Chlorophyll-a is one of the most important water quality parameters that can be observed by satellite imagery. It plays a significant function in the aquatic environments of rapidly developing coastal cities such as Ha ... -
Assessment of meteorological, hydrological and groundwater drought in the Konya closed basin, Türkiye
Kartal, Veysi; Nones, Michael (Springer, 2024-05-02)Water scarcity, and drought in particular, is a major challenge worldwide, causing direct and indirect negative effects on ecological systems and water resources, as well as social and economic aspects of life. Climate ... -
Can sediments play a role in river flood risk mapping? Learning from selected European examples
Nones, Michael; Guo, Yiwei (Springer Nature, 2023-09-28)Background: Climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure are two of the major drivers of increasing extreme events like droughts and floods. To deal with the increasing number of flooding events hitting Europe in ... -
Comparison of different techniques in determining groundwater levels trends in Türkiye
Kartal, Veysi; Nones, Michael; Topcu, Emre; Ariman, Sema (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024)Groundwater represents one of the largest resources of freshwater in the world. Thus, investigations of groundwater level variations due to climate change and increasing human activities are of great importance, especially ... -
Concept-based Integration of project management and strategic management of rubber dam projects using the SWOT–AHP method
Ghorbani, Mohammad Kazem; Hamidifar, Hossein; Skoulikaris, Charalampos; Nones, Michael (MDPI, 2022-02)The utilization of rubber dams for water supply and irrigated agriculture is becoming an emerging practice in developing countries. In this study, based on the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis, ... -
Dealing with sediment transport in flood risk management
Nones, Michael (Springer, 2019-03-04)Flooding events are rising across European watercourses because of changing climatic conditions and anthropogenic pressure. To deal with these events, the European Floods Directive requires the development of flood risk ... -
Deriving Planform Morphology and Vegetation Coverage From Remote Sensing to Support River Management Applications
Boothroyd, Richard J.; Nones, Michael; Guerrero, Massimo (2021-05-04)With the increasing availability of big geospatial data (e.g., multi-spectral satellite imagery) and access to platforms that support multi-temporal analyses (e.g., cloud-based computing, Geographical Information Systems, ... -
Hydrological responses to land use land cover changes in the Fincha'a watershed, Ethiopia
Kenea, Urgessa; Adeba, Dereje; Regasa, Motuma Shiferaw; Nones, Michael (MDPI, 2021-08-31)Land use land cover (LULC) changes are highly pronounced in African countries, as they are characterized by an agriculture-based economy and a rapidly growing population. Understanding how land use/cover changes (LULCC) ... -
Leveraging the GEV Model to Estimate Flood Due to Extreme Rainfall in Ungauged Dry Catchments of the Gobi Region
Bat-Erdene, Myagmarsuren; Zorigt, Munkhtsetseg; Dambaravjaa, Oyunbaatar; Dechinlkhundev, Dorjsuren; Sumiya, Erdenesukh; Nones, Michael (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2025-03-12)Extreme high flows can have negative economic, social, and ecological effects and are expected to become more severe in many regions due to climate change. Knowledge of maximum flow regimes and estimation of extreme rainfall ... -
Modelling the Effects of Dam Reservoir Backwater Fluctuations on the Hydrodynamics of a Small Mountain Stream
Liro, Maciej; Nones, Michael; Mikuś, Paweł; Plesiński, Karol (MDPI, 2022-10-08)The water depth and flow velocity of a river may be temporarily disturbed by the water level fluctuations connected with the operation of artificial dam reservoirs located downstream (so-called backwater fluctuations (BF)). ... -
Modelling the impact of historical and future Land Use Land Cover changes on the hydrological response of an Ethiopian watershed
Regasa, Motuma Shiferaw; Nones, Michael (Springer, 2024-01-10)Land Use Land Cover (LULC) is generally considered one of the key factors influencing the hydrological processes and sediment output in arid and semi-arid watersheds. Focusing on the Ethiopian Fincha watershed, the current ... -
Numerical modeling of the hydro-morphodynamics of a distributary channel of the Po River Delta (Italy) during the spring 2009 flood event
Nones, Michael; Maselli, Vittorio; Varrani, Arianna (MDPI, 2020-05-30)One-dimensional (1D) numerical models generally provide reliable results when applied to simulate river hydraulics and morphodynamics upstream of the tidal influence, given the predominantly unidirectional flow conditions. ... -
Numerical modelling as a support tool for river habitat studies: An Italian case study
Nones, Michael (MDPI, 2019-03-07)Numerical modelling is becoming a major tool for supporting environmental studies at different scales, thanks to the ability of up-to-date codes to reproduce the complex mechanisms of the natural environment in quite a ... -
On the main components of landscape evolution modelling of river systems
Nones, Michael (Springer, 2020-01-23)Currently, the use of numerical models for reproducing the evolution of river systems and landscapes is part of the day-by-day research activities of fuvial engineers and geomorphologists. However, despite landscape evolution ... -
Past and Future Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Ethiopian Fincha Sub-Basin
Regasa, Motuma Shiferaw; Nones, Michael (MDPI, 2022-08-04)The increasing human pressure on African regions is recognizable when looking at Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change maps, generally derived from satellite imagery. Using the Ethiopian Fincha watershed as a case study, the ... -
Remote sensing as a support tool to map suspended sediment concentration over extended river reaches
Nones, Michael; Guo, Chao (Springer, 2025-07-01)Spatiotemporal variations of sediments transported along rivers play a crucial role in a wide spectrum of uses, such as navigation, recreation, habitats or river environmental protection. The advancement in technology has ... -
A Review on Land Use and Land Cover Change in Ethiopian Basins
Regasa, Motuma Shiferaw; Nones, Michael; Adeba, Dereje (MDPI, 2021-06-01)Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes analysis is one of the most useful methodologies to understand how the land was used in the past years, what types of detections are to be expected in the future, as well as the driving ... -
Spatiotemporal variations of riverine flood fatalities: 70 years global to regional perspective
Hamidifar, Hossein; Nones, Michael (IWHR Wiley, 2023-05-14)Floods are among the most devastating natural hazards worldwide. While rainfall is the primary trigger of floods, human activities and climate change can exacerbate the impacts of floods and lead to more significant economic ...