As concerns about the greenhouse effect and the resulting increase in carbon dioxide levels
in the atmosphere continue to mount, there is an increasing need to curtail the use of fossil …

Sustainable management of water resources involves inventory, conservation, efficient
utilization, and quality management. Although, activities relating to quantity assessment and …

Heavy metal contamination in sediments poses serious threat to ecosystem and human
health through food web. In this study, surface sediment samples from Kavvayi estuary were …

Developing countries all over the world face numerous difficulties with regard to food
security. The purpose of this research is to develop a new approach for evaluating wheat's …

Very small glaciers (area< 0.1 km2) have received increased scientific attention during
recent years, both for their rapid responses to the climate forcing and because they are …

Groundwater level plays a significant role in coastal plains. Heavy pumping and excessive
use of near-coast groundwater can increase the intrusion of seawater into the aquifers. In …

Lack of soil data at the site is one of the most critical problems for a geotechnical engineer.
The design cannot be done without knowing the geotechnical characteristics of the area …

We propose novel metrics based on the Kolmogorov complexity for use in complex system
behavior studies and time series analysis. We consider the origins of the Kolmogorov …

The Earth is rapidly changing in both its climate and its land distribution. The numerous
methods from the literature show various possibilities to assess the crop evapotranspiration …

Spatial analysis of hydrological data often requires the interpolation of a variable from point
samples. Commonly used methods for solving this problem include Inverse Distance …