Scientific Results

This catalogue is obtained by conducting a systematic literature review of scientific studies and reviews related to monitoring, forecasting, and simulating the inland water cycle. The analysis maps scientific expertise across research groups and classifies findings by the type of inland water studied, application focus, and geographical scope. A gap analysis will identify missing research areas and assess their relevance to policymaking.

ID â–Č Type Year Authors Title Venue/Journal DOI Research type Water System Technical Focus Abstract Link with Projects Link with Tools Related policies ID
publications-1941 Peer reviewed articles 2022 Mirko HĂ€nel, Darja Istenič, Hans Brix and Carlos A. Arias Wastewater-Fertigated Short-Rotation Coppice, a Combined Scheme of Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Production: A State-of-the-Art Review Forest 10.3390/f13050810 AI & Machine Learning Uncategorized Vegetated filters based on short-rotation coppice (SRC) can be used to treat various industrial and municipal wastewater while producing valuable biomass in an economical and sustainable way, showing potential in the field of pollution control and bio-based circular economy. This study provides an overview of the state of the art in wastewater-fertigated SRC systems (wfSRCs) worldwide. Different designs, wastewater sources, tree species and varieties, planting schemes, geographic locations, and climates for wfSRC implementation were identified after conducting a literature review. The performance review includes standard water quality parameters, BOD5, COD, nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium, as well as the extent of pathogen and emergent contaminant removal and biomass production rates. Identified knowledge gaps and important factors to support the practical implementation of wfSRCs are highlighted. Europe leads the research of wfSRC, followed by North America and Australia. The available publications are mainly from developed countries (73%). The most applied and studied tree species in wfSRC systems are willows (32%), followed by eucalyptus (21%) and poplars (18%). Most of the reviewed studies used domestic wastewater (85%), followed by industrial wastewater (8%) and landfill leachate (7%). Most data show high BOD5 and COD removal efficiencies (80%). There are large differences in the documented total nitrogen and total phosphorus removal efficiencies (12%–99% and 40%–80%, respectively). Enhanced biomass growth in wfSRC systems due to wastewater fertigation was reported in all reviewed studies, and biomass production varied from 3.7 to 40 t DM/ha/yr. WfSRCs seem to have high potential as viable and cost-effective wastewater treatment alternatives to conventional treatment technologies. 821410
publications-1942 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Marco A. Rodriguez-Dominguez, Patrick Biller, Pedro N. Carvalho, Hans Brix and Carlos A. Arias Treatment wetlands using Salix viminalis as a source of biomass for biocrude production and as a treatment technology for the residual aqueous phase of the hydrothermal liquefaction reaction Water Uncategorized Uncategorized No abstract available 821410
publications-1943 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Marco A. Rodriguez-Dominguez, Patrick Biller, Pedro N. Carvalho, Hans Brix and Carlos A. Arias Potential use of plant biomass from treatment wetland systems for producing biofuels through a biocrude green-biorefining platform. Energy 10.3390/en14238157 Control Systems Uncategorized The potential of using the biomass of four wetland plant species (Iris pseudacorus, Juncus effusus, Phragmites australis and Typha latifolia) grown in treatment wetland systems and under natural conditions were tested to produce high-value materials using hydro-thermal liquefaction (HTL). The results show that the wetland plants biomass is suitable for biocrude and biochar production regardless of the origin. The hydrothermal liquefaction products’ (biocrude, biochar, aqueous and gaseous phase) yields vary according with the specific biomass composition of the species. Furthermore, the results show that the biomass composition can be affected by the growing condition (treatment wetland or natural unpolluted conditions) of the plants. None of the single components seems to have a determinant effect on the biocrude yields, which reached around 30% for all the analyzed plants. On the contrary, the biochar yields seem to be affected by the composition of the biomass, obtaining different yields for the different plant species, with biochar yields values from around 12% to 22%, being that Phragmites australis is the one with the highest average yield. The obtained aqueous phase from the different plant species produces homogeneous compounds for each plant species and each growing environment. The study shows that biomass from treatment wetlands is suitable for biocrude production. The environmental value of this biomass lies on the fact that it is considered a residual product with no aggregated value. The treatment wetland biomass is a potential sustainable source for biofuel production since these plants do not need extra land or nutrients for growing, and the biomass does not compete with other uses, offering new sources for enhancing the bioeconomy concepts. 821410
publications-1944 Peer reviewed articles 2022 Marco A. Rodriguez-Dominguez*, Pablo H Sezerino, Carlos Alberto Arias The Pan-American Treatment Wetland Network, brief sketch of the treatment wetland research groups in the Latin-American and Caribbean region Wetland Science and Practice Data Management & Analytics Precipitation & Ecological Systems No abstract available 821410
publications-1945 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Alena Bartosova, Berit Arheimer, Alban de Lavenne, René Capell, Johan Strömqvist Large-Scale Hydrological and Sediment Modeling in Nested Domains under Current and Changing Climate Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 10.1061/(asce)he.1943-5584.0002078 Data Management & Analytics River Basins No abstract available 870504
publications-1946 Peer reviewed articles 2022 Erica Matta, Marina Amadori, Gary Free, Claudia Giardino, Mariano Bresciani A Satellite-Based Tool for Mapping Evaporation in Inland Water Bodies: Formulation, Application, and Operational Aspects Remote Sens. 2022, Remote Sensing in Water Resources Management Models 10.3390/rs14112636 Data Management & Analytics Groundwater With the increase of evaporation projected for water bodies worldwide, there is a growing need for flexible and low data-demanding tools enabling the monitoring and management of water resources. This study presents a simple satellite-based tool named LakeVap specifically designed for mapping evaporation from lakes and reservoirs. LakeVap requires a small amount of potentially available data with a global coverage. The tool follows a Dalton-type approach and produces instantaneous (i.e., hourly) and daily evaporation maps from satellite-derived Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) maps and single-point/gridded meteorological data. The model is tested on Lake Garda, Italy, by using a long time series of LSWT (ESA CCI-Lakes) and different sources of meteorological forcing. The accuracy of LakeVap evaporation outputs is checked by comparison with those from a hydro-thermodynamic model (Delft3D) specifically set up and validated for the case study. Results are consistent and sensitive to the representativeness of the meteorological forcing. In the test site, wind speed is found to be the most spatially variable parameter, and it is significantly underestimated by the ERA5 meteorological dataset (up to 100%). The potential application of LakeVap to other case studies and in operational contexts is discussed. 870504
publications-1947 Peer reviewed articles 2021 Stelios Andreadis, Gerasimos Antzoulatos, Thanassis Mavropoulos, Panagiotis Giannakeris, Grigoris Tzionis, Nick Pantelidis, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Anastasios Karakostas, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris A social media analytics platform visualising the spread of COVID-19 in Italy via exploitation of automatically geotagged tweets Online Social Networks and Media 10.1016/j.osnem.2021.100134 Uncategorized River Basins No abstract available 883484
publications-1948 Peer reviewed articles 2024 Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri The political: A view from Jakarta’s <i>kampungs</i> Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 10.1177/0308518x231203479 Data Management & Analytics River Basins This article is a response to Leitner and Sheppard’s recent publications on Jakarta. I argue that Jakarta’s kampungs and the eviction of their communities is a topic that needs to be situated in the realm of social reproduction. The multidimensional problems in kampungs fall within capitalism’s wider ‘crisis of care’. From this methodological position, we can access the political domain of the kampung, from which a new political agency emerges as collective bodies beyond merely the sum of individual survival tactics. 101029193
publications-1949 Peer reviewed articles 2023 Papadimos, Thomas, Stelios Andreadis, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris Flood-Related Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation: Challenges, Results and a Novel GNN Approach Sensors 10.3390/s23073767 Data Management & Analytics Precipitation & Ecological Systems This paper discusses the importance of detecting breaking events in real time to help emergency response workers, and how social media can be used to process large amounts of data quickly. Most event detection techniques have focused on either images or text, but combining the two can improve performance. The authors present lessons learned from the Flood-related multimedia task in MediaEval2020, provide a dataset for reproducibility, and propose a new multimodal fusion method that uses Graph Neural Networks to combine image, text, and time information. Their method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches and can handle low-sample labelled data. 883484
publications-1950 Peer reviewed articles 2023 Eliades, Demetrios G.; Vrachimis, Stelios G.; Moghaddam, Alireza; Tzortzis, Ioannis; Polycarpou, Marios M. Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review Annual Reviews in Control 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2023.03.011 Uncategorized Uncategorized No abstract available 883484