Water Resource Modeling and Computational Technologies. Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research Volume 7

Table of Contents

Section I Introduction 1. Artificial intelligence and machine learning in water resources engineering

Section II Application of Artificial Intelligence to Water Resources 2. Demystifying Artificial Intelligence amidst Sustainable Agricultural Water Management 3. Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Based Empirical Wavelet Transform: a New Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Model for Robust Prediction of Soil Moisture Content 4. Fuzzy logic modeling of groundwater potential in Marinduque, Philippines 5. Soft-computing approach to scour depth prediction under wall jets

Section III Image Processing Applications in Water Resources 6. Assessment of Water Resources using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques 7. Establishing Spatial Relationships Between Land Use and Water Quality Influenced by Urbanization 8. Satellite sensors, machine learning and river channel unit types: A review 9. Geospatial modeling in the assessment of environmental resources for sustainable water resource management in a semi-arid region: A GIS approach 10. Study of morphologic changes of Arvand River in the past and predicting its future changes 11. Rainfall runoff modelling using GIS: a case study of Gonbad Kavous, Iran 12. GIS-Based Hydrological Models for a Sustainable Groundwater Management: An Overview 13. Development of Rainfall-Runoff Model Using ANFIS with an Integration of GIS: A Case Study 14. Assessing the impact of land use and land cover changes on the water balances in an urbanized peninsular region of India

Section IV Advances in Hydroinformatics mitigation 15. Random Vector Functional Link Network based On Variational Mode Decomposition for Accurate Prediction of River Water Turbidity 16. Water Quality Management: Development of a Fuzzy based index in Hydroinformatics platform 17. Appraisal Of Multi-Gene Genetic Programming For Estimating Optimal Properties Of Lined Open Channels With Circular Shapes Incorporating Constant And Variable Roughness Scenarios 18. Geoinformatics based assessment of gross irrigation requirement of different crops grown in the south-western region of Haryana, India

Section V Advances in Watershed Modelling 19. Theorical background and application of numerical models to surface water resources 20. Prophecy of groundwater fluctuation through SVM-FFA hybrid approaches in arid watershed, India 21. Basin-scale Subsurface Hydrology: Modelling of a stressed and data-scarce aquifer using hillslope-based approach

Section VI Advances in Numerical Modelling in Water Resources 22. Multiphysics modelling of groundwater flow on the example of a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model of infiltration of water warmer or cooler than the surroundings. 23. Hydro-Salinity Modeling of Water and Salt Dynamics in Irrigated Soil Groundwater Systems

Section VII Optimization Techniques and Analytical Formulations in Water Resource 24. Multi-objective optimization techniques for urban water management: An Agent Modeling Approach 25. Hybrid Extreme Learning Machine Optimized Bat Algorithm based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition for Modelling Dissolved Oxygen in River 26. Application of machine learning models to side-weir discharge coefficient estimations in trapezoidal and rectangular open channels

Section VIII Advances in Sediment Transport Modelling and River Engineering 27. The hole size analysis of bursting events around mid-channel bar using the conditional method approach 28. Magnitude Frequency Analysis of Sediment Transport: Concept, Review and Application 29. Last Century Evolution of Local Scour Measuring Techniques

Section IX Computational Intelligence in Extreme Hydrology: Flood and Droughts 30. Understanding trends and its variability of rainfall and temperature over Patna (Bihar) 31. A review of climate change trends and scenarios (2011-2021) 32. Climate change and trend analysis of precipitation and temperature: a case study of Gilan, Iran 33. Innovative Triangular Trend analysis of monthly precipitation at Shiraz station, Iran 34. Understanding Rainfall Variability and Trends in Arid Region of Rajasthan, India 35. Flash Floods and their Impact on Natural Life Using Surface Water Model and GIS Technique at Wadi Degla Natural Reserve Area, Egypt 36. GLOF Early Warning System Computational Challenges and Solutions 37. Flood Forecasting using novel ANFIS-WOA approach in Mahanadi river basin, India

Authors

Mohammad Zakwan Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Dr. Mohammad Zakwan PhD is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Maulana Azad National University, Hyderabad, India. He has published numerous papers and has a demonstrated history of working in Water Resource Engineering. He has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer for various journals. His research interests include modelling of infiltration, modelling river water quality, sediment rating curves, stage discharge curves, computation of effective discharge and dominant discharge, climate change, trend analysis in water resources, river engineering, hydraulics, and hydrology of rivers. Dr. Mohammad Zakwan was a recipient of Gold medals during his M.Tech and B.Tech. He was awarded MHRD GATE scholarship and CSIR NET JRF scholarship for his M.Tech and PhD, respectively. Abdul Wahid Professor and Dean, School of Technology, Maulana Azad National University, Hyderabad, India. Prof. Abdul Wahid is presently serving as Professor and Dean of the School of Technology, Maulana Azad National University, Hyderabad, India. He has also served as Visiting Professor (Research) in National Defense University Malaysia. He has over 20 years of teaching experience. He has published numerous papers in Science Citation Indexed and Scopus Journals with a demonstrated history of working in Computational Intelligence. He has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer for various journals. He has been session chair and keynote speaker in many international conferences. His research interests include Computer Architecture, Artificial Neural Network, Computer Security and Reliability. Majid Niazkar Research assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran. Dr. Majid Niazkar received his BS degree in Civil Engineering (2012), MS degree in Hydraulic Structures (2014) and PhD degree in Water Resources (2019) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. He is currently a research assistant in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shiraz University. His research interests include hydrology (specifically: flood modeling and routing), open channel hydraulics, water resources management, artificial intelligence (AI) applications in water resources, parameter estimation, bed roughness prediction, water distribution networks, optimization, numerical modeling, river engineering and sediment transport, groundwater, assessing the impacts of climate change, and interdisciplinary topics like AI in medicine. He has published more than 60 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Uday Chatterjee Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Bhatter College (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University), Dantan, India. Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at Bhatter College in Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India, and an Applied Geographer with a Post-Graduate in Applied Geography from Utkal University and a Doctorate in Applied Geography from Ravenshaw University in Cuttack, Odisha. He has contributed to a number of research papers that have been published in reputable national and international publications, as well as edited book volumes. He has also organized (as the convener) a Faculty Development Program on "Modern ways of teaching and advanced research methods," which was funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Urban Planning, Social and Human Geography, Applied Geomorphology, Hazards & Disasters, Environmental Issues, Land Use and Rural Development are some of his research interests. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) of the Government of West Bengal, India, financed his research. He has worked as a reviewer for a number of international publications. Dr. Uday Chatterjee is currently the lead editor of the Springer Special Issue (S.I) on Urbanism, Smart Cities, and Modelling.