Water Quality

Water quality [Selected]

Surface Water Quality Assessment & Monitoring

  1. Onwuka et al. (2023): “Dynamics of particles and phosphorus in canals of the lower everglades, Florida, USA.” Science of The Total Environment.
  2. Dersseh et al. (2022): “Water Quality Characteristics of a Water Hyacinth Infested Tropical Highland Lake: Lake Tana, Ethiopia.” Frontiers in Water 4:774710.
  3. Moncada et al. (2021): “Long-Term Assessment of Surface Water Quality in a Highly Managed Estuary Basin.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:9417.
  4. Tefera et al. (2021): “Groundwater quality evaluation of the alluvial aquifers using GIS and water quality indices in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.” Groundwater for Sustainable Development 14:100636.
  5. Hajigholizadeh et al. (2021): “Land–Lake Linkage and Remote Sensing Application in Water Quality Monitoring in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA.” Land 10(2):147.
  6. Melesse et al. (2020): “River Water Salinity Prediction Using Hybrid Machine Learning Models.” Water 12:2951.

Remote Sensing Applications for Water Quality

  1. Abbas et al. (2019): “Satellite Estimation of Chlorophyll-a Using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Sensor in Shallow Coastal Water Bodies: Validation and Improvement.” Water 11(1621).
  2. Gholizadeh & Melesse (2017): “Study on Spatiotemporal Variability of Water Quality Parameters in Florida Bay Using Remote Sensing.” Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS 6:207.
  3. Gholizadeh & Melesse (2017): “The Evaluation of Spatiotemporal Variations in Surface Water Quality of South Florida Using Discriminant Analysis and Cluster Analysis.” Catena 151:247–258.
  4. Gholizadeh et al. (2016): “A Comprehensive Review of Water Quality Assessment Using Remote Sensing Techniques.” Sensors 16:1298.
  5. Gholizadeh et al. (2016): “Water Quality Assessment and Apportionment of Pollution Sources using APCS-MLR receptor modeling technique in three major rivers of South Florida.” Science of the Total Environment 566-567:1552–1567.
  6. Blakey et al. (2015): “Toward connecting subtropical algal blooms to freshwater nutrient sources using a long-term, spatially distributed, in situ chlorophyll-a record.” CATENA 133:119-127.
  7. Chebud et al. (2012): “Water quality monitoring using a remote sensing and artificial neural network.” Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 223(8):4875-4887.

Sediment Transport & Erosion

  1. Khosravi et al. (2022): “Suspended sediment load modeling using advanced hybrid Rotation Forest based Elastic Network approach.” Journal of Hydrology 610:127963.
  2. Tao et al. (2021): “Artificial intelligence models for suspended river sediment prediction: state-of-the art, modeling framework appraisal, and proposed future research directions.” Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics 15(1):1585-1612.
  3. Ayele et al. (2021): “Sediment Yield and Reservoir Sedimentation in Highly Dynamic Watersheds: The Case of Koga Reservoir, Ethiopia.” Water 13:3374.
  4. Admas et al. (2023): “Impacts of Best Management Practices on Runoff, Soil Loss, and Sediment Yield in the Megech Watershed, Ethiopia.” Water 15:788.
  5. Gebreslassie et al. (2020): “Linear spectral unmixing algorithm for modeling suspended sediment concentration of flash floods, upper Tekeze River, Ethiopia.” International Journal of Sediment Research 35(1):79-90.
  6. Hajigholizadeh et al. (2018): “Erosion and Sediment Transport Modelling in Shallow Waters: A Review on Approaches, Models and Applications.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15:518.

Nutrients & Eutrophication

  1. Alemu et al. (2017): “Spatial and Temporal Trends of Recent Dissolved Phosphorus Concentrations in Lake Tana and its Four Main Tributaries.” Land Degradation & Development 28:1742–1751.
  2. Assegid et al. (2014): “Spatial relationship of groundwater–phosphorus interaction in the Kissimmee River basin, South Florida.” Hydrological Processes.
  3. Dersseh et al. (2020): “Dynamics of Eutrophication and Its Linkage to Water Hyacinth on Lake Tana, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia: Understanding Land-Lake Interaction and Process.” Advances of Science and Technology.
  4. Melesse et al. (2008): “Modeling Coastal Eutrophication at Florida Bay using neural networks.” Journal of Coastal Research 24:190–196.

Groundwater Quality

  1. Rahmati et al. (2018): “Groundwater spring potential modelling: comprising the capability and robustness of three different modeling approaches.” Journal of Hydrology 565:248-261.
  2. Kayhomayoon et al. (2022): “How does a combination of numerical modeling, clustering, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary algorithms perform to predict regional groundwater levels?” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 203:107482.

Books & Chapters on Water Quality

  1. Melesse et al. (2023): “Introduction to Soils and Sediments.” In: Remote Sensing of Soil and Land Surface Processes: Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling, Elsevier.
  2. Melesse & Scinto (2010): “Water degradation.” In: Encyclopedia of Geography, SAGE Publications.

Abtew & Melesse (2013): Multiple chapters in Evaporation and Evapotranspiration: Measurements and Estimations, Springer Science Publishers.