Enric Vázquez-Suñé's research while affiliated with Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research and other places

... In order to design a sediment-detention basin, it is necessary to know the volume knowledge [1,4,9,10,15,25,26]. However, although previous studies confirm the ability of CCD to detect surface changes [27], none of the mentioned approaches have yet resolved how to map surface changes using CCD with certainty [1]. ...

... In addition to the conventional and common contaminants in groundwater, new and emerging contaminants such as per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine-disrupting compounds, microplastics (MPs), and illicit drugs, are generating concern and interest among both the environmental sector and the general public (Khan et al., 2022;Lee, 2022;Lee and Kim, 2021;Viaroli et al., 2022;Labad et al., 2023). Concerns and interest regarding the impact of MPs on ecosystems and human health have recently increased significantly (Karbalaei et al., 2018;Sana et al., 2020;Elizalde-Velázquez and Gómez-Oliván, 2021;Lee et al., 2022a;Cha et al., 2023). ...

... It indicates water flow within fractured, low permeability, very old and altered lava of Jurassic age and intermediate intrusive bodies. Water recharged in recent occasional intense precipitation events, with known origin and isotopic characteristics (Jordan et al., 2019;Valdivielso et al., 2020;Valdivielso et al., 2021a;Valdivielso et al., 2021b;Gamboa et al., 2022). These waters discharge as low-saline spring water located at the highest parts of the Cordillera de la Costa. ...

... Conducting groundwater research requires a multidisciplinary approach, including hydrology, geology, climatology, ecology, and social sciences (Custodio et al., 2016;Martínez-Pérez et al., 2022;Vélez-Nicolás et al., 2020). Encouraging interdisciplinary research collaborations can facilitate the development of integrated solutions. ...

... The zigzag section cutting algorithm is studied based on geologic objects represented by the triangulated irregular network (TIN) data (Ming et al. 2008). In addition, there are various so-called automated systems or commercial software packages for mapping geologic cross-sections, including Geographical Information Systems (GIS), GeoMap, and EasyMap (Ichoku et al. 1994;Chunyan et al. 2004;Jingqiu et al. 2011;Miao et al. 2012;Wang et al. 2021b;Hassanzadeh et al. 2022). ...

... During the austral winter, minor, frontal and highly geographically irregular precipitation, often snowfall, reaches the basin pushed by the westerly humid cold winds from the Pacific Ocean [28]. In total, the annual precipitation ranges from 20 mm/year in the nucleus to 160 mm/year in the eastern summits, and since most of it occurs during the summer and is, therefore, controlled by the geographical barrier of the Andean Range, it presents a negative gradient from north to south and from east to west [30]. Thus, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification, the climate in the centre and west of the Salar de Atacama Basin is arid desert, and in the east, as altitude increases, the climate becomes semi-arid [30]. ...

... In total, the basin extends over some 17,000 km 2, and the salt pan in the nucleus covers some 3000 km 2 at an altitude of 2300 m.a.s.l. In its nucleus, Salar de Atacama hosts 40% of the world's reserves of lithium and large amounts of boron and potassium, among several other salts [28], as well as numerous lagoons and wetlands along its eastern marginal zone, several of which are classified as UNESCO-Ramsar sites that represent precious and highly sensitive ecological habitats for several migratory and endemic species of flora and fauna [29]. ...

... Furthermore, ketoprofen (42-133 ng L −1 ), IBU (73-126 ng L −1 ), DCF (199-469 ng L −1 ), mefenamic acid (8-13 ng L −1 ), and salicylic acid (54-109 ng L −1 ) were detected in the Besós river at urbanized areas of Barcelona (Spain). In addition, the approached drugs were also observed in the aquifer (Jurado et al., 2021). ...

... Differential InSAR (D-InSAR) utilizes the temporal baseline to monitor the ground deformation and to estimate such small deformation. However, the accuracy of D-InSAR measurement results is very sensitive to spatial-temporal decorrelation and is always affected by atmospheric delay [18,19]. To solve this problem, time-series InSAR techniques are widely employed in the monitoring of surface deformation. ...

... The interaction effect between the instrument and TLF values was used as an additional explanatory variable. From these models, the best-fit model was determined using the Akaike information criterion (AIC), which has been successfully used in studies involving water in karst media [51,52]. The AIC approach assigns a weight to how well each model fits the data while avoiding overfitting or underfitting by penalizing models that include extra predictive parameters [53]. ...