Background The new coronavirus disease COVID-19 began in December 2019 and has
spread rapidly by human-to-human transmission. This study evaluated the transmissibility of …

Mankind has long been fascinated by emergence in complex systems. With the rapidly
accumulating big data in almost every branch of science, engineering, and society, a golden …

Abstract The Heihe River Basin is located in the arid and semi-arid regions of Northwest
China. Here, the terrestrial ecosystem is vulnerable, making it necessary to identify the …

Peatlands are a key carbon sink and play an important role in the global carbon cycle and
climate change. Understanding the process of peatland initiation is essential to understand …

The aim of this research is to identify an efficient model to describe the fluctuations around
the trend of the soil temperatures monitored in the volcanic caldera of the Campi Flegrei …

Complex geographical spatial sampling usually encounters various multi-objective
optimization problems, for which effective multi-objective optimization algorithms are much …

The investigation of methods to evaluate the performance of hydrological models has never
stopped. This study explores an innovative application, called joint multifractal spectra (JMS) …

Joint multifractal spectrum analysis (JMS) is an effective approach for investigation of
relationship among hydrological variables and is regarded as one potential way to reveal …

Vegetation is an important part of the ecological environment, and the Heihe River Basin
(HHRB) is typical of the inland river basin of Northwest China. Analyzing the changes in the …

Analyses of the soil moisture evolution trend and the influence of different types of radiation
on soil moisture are of great significance to the simulation and prediction of soil moisture. In …