From Corsica to Britain: new outdoor records of Ocnerodrilidae (Annelida: Clitellata) in western Europe by Emilia Rota

“…The present new records comprise the first ever from England (River Thames, central London) and from France (River Golo, northern Corsica) and the northernmost occurrences in Italy (Liguria and Veneto). …”
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Dynamic modelling of multiple phytoplankton groups in rivers with an application to the Thames river system in the UK by Bussi, G, Whitehead, P, Bowes, M, Read, D, Hutchins, M, Elliott, J, Dadson, S

“…It was implemented in five reaches of the River Thames (UK), and the results compared to a novel dataset of cytometric data which includes concentrations of chlorophytes, diatoms, cyanobacteria and picoalgae. …”

Dynamic modelling of multiple phytoplankton groups in rivers with an application to the Thames river system in the UK by Whitehead, P, Bussi, G, Bowes, M, Read, D, Hutchins, M, Elliott, J, Dadson, S

“…It was implemented in five reaches of the River Thames (UK), and the results compared to a novel dataset of cytometric data which includes concentrations of chlorophytes, diatoms, cyanobacteria and picoalgae. …”

Evidence-based requirements for perceptualising intercatchment groundwater flow in hydrological models by L. D. Oldham, J. Freer, J. Freer, J. Freer, G. Coxon, G. Coxon, N. Howden, J. P. Bloomfield, C. Jackson

“…</p> <p>In this study, national meteorological, hydrological, hydrogeological, geological and artificial influence (characterising abstractions and return flows) datasets are used to infer a perceptual model of intercatchment groundwater flow (IGF) and how it varies across the river Thames, United Kingdom (UK). We characterise the water balance, presence of gaining/losing river reaches and intra-annual dynamics in 80 subcatchments of the river Thames, taking advantage of its wealth of data, densely gauged river network and geological variability.…”
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Atkinson Grimshaw, Reflections on the Thames (1880) by Sayer, Karen

“…In this painting, situated within a long history of nocturnes and landscapes, we also see an heterogenous interplay of reflected artificial (gas, oil, electric arc) light, each consumed simultaneously within metropolitan culture, itself seen as the apogee of civilisation for the time, all cut through by the tidal river Thames and (natural) moon light. In this painting, we see how a Victorian genre artist, reflecting on the Thames, created a narrative of London as an unsleeping, working Capital, framed by nature, dependent on its forces, illuminated, yet shady, multifaceted, effortful. …”
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Dockers in Poplar: The Legacy of the London County Council’s Replanning of Poplar, East London by Rosamund Lily West

“…After the Second World War, the London County Council assumed the River Thames would continue to be the heartbeat of Britain’s industry. …”
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The fractionation of the elements in river waters with respect to the continental crust: a UK perspective based on a river enrichment factor approach by C. Neal, C. Neal

“…</p> <p style='line-height: 20px;'><b>Keywords: </b>Elements; major elements; trace elements; nutrients; river; hydrochemistry; enrichment factor; river enrichment factor; LOIS; Plynlimon; River Severn; Afon Hafren; River Tweed; River Aire; River Thames</p>…”
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A comparison of artificial neural networks used for river forecasting by C. W. Dawson, C. W. Dawson, R. L. Wilby, R. L. Wilby, R. L. Wilby

“…All models were trained using 15 minute rainfall-runoff data for the River Mole, a flood-prone tributary of the River Thames, UK. The models were then used to forecast river flows with a 6 hour lead time and 15 minute resolution, given only antecedent rainfall and discharge measurements. …”
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An analysis of Cotswold topography: insights into the landscape response to denudational isostasy by Lane, N, Watts, A, Farrant, A

“…Such a relief is consistent with an early extension of the River Thames, through the Vale of Moreton, to the north of the present-day Cotswold Hills.…”

A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire by Barclay, A, Bello, S, Bradley, P, Harding, P, Higbee, L, Manning, A, Powell, J, Macphail, R, Roberts, AJ, Stewart, M, Barton, RN

“…Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries in the Colne Valley on the western edge of Greater London, north of the River Thames. An exceptionally well-preserved open-air site was discovered in 2014 as part of a wider project of archaeological investigation and excavation carried out by Wessex Archaeology (2015), on behalf of CEMEX UK. …”

Adaptation thresholds and pathways for tidal flood risk management in London by Hall, J, Harvey, H, Manning, L

“…Two critical adaptation thresholds are identified: (i) when mechanical pumping has to be provided alongside the moveable tidal barrier in order to drain the River Thames and (ii) when a permanently closed barrier with pumping to remove all of the river flow becomes the only viable means of avoiding flooding. …”

Successful approaches to integrated water resources management : a mini review by Zuriyati Yusof, Noor Aida Saad

“…The main goal of this research is to identify and combine the main goals, concepts, effective practice examples and lesson learned of Integrated River Basin Management that emerged from the best practices management of River Thames in United Kingdom, European Unions’ Water Framework Directive, IWRM Canada and Malaysia. …”
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Uncertainty and sensitivity in optode-based shelf-sea net community production estimates by T. Hull, N. Greenwood, J. Kaiser, M. Johnson

“…Presented here is a thorough exploration and sensitivity analysis of an oxygen mass-balance-based NCP estimation technique applied to the Warp Anchorage monitoring station, which is a permanently well-mixed shallow area within the River Thames plume. We have developed an open-source software package for calculating NCP estimates and air–sea gas flux. …”
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Data Augmentation for a Virtual-Sensor-Based Nitrogen and Phosphorus Monitoring by Thulane Paepae, Pitshou N. Bokoro, Kyandoghere Kyamakya

“…The generation capacity of the model was verified using water-quality data from two tributaries of the River Thames in the United Kingdom. Compared to the current state of the art, our novel data augmentation—including proper experimental settings or hyperparameter optimization—improved the root mean squared errors by 23–63%, with the most significant improvements observed when up to three predictors were used. …”
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A nitrogen model for European catchments: INCA, new model structure and equations by A. J. Wade, A. J. Wade, P. Durand, V. Beaujouan, W. W. Wessel, K. J. Raat, P. G. Whitehead, D. Butterfield, K. Rankinen, A. Lepisto

“…</p> <p style='line-height: 20px;'><b>Keywords:</b> modelling, water quality, nitrogen, nitrate, River Kennet, River Thames</p>…”
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Adaptation thresholds and pathways for tidal flood risk management in London by Jim W. Hall, Hamish Harvey, Lucy J. Manning

“…Two critical adaptation thresholds are identified: (i) when mechanical pumping has to be provided alongside the moveable tidal barrier in order to drain the River Thames and (ii) when a permanently closed barrier with pumping to remove all of the river flow becomes the only viable means of avoiding flooding. …”
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Real-time water quality forecasting in rivers using satellite data and dynamic models: an online system for operational management, control and citizen science by Whitehead, PG, Edmunds, P, Bussi, G, O’Donnell, S, Futter, M, Groom, S, Rampley, C, Szweda, C, Johnson, D, Triggs Hodge, A, Porter, T, Castro, G

“…We demonstrate this new system using two case studies: the River Thames and the Essex Colne River (United Kingdom). …”

Intensive removal of signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) from rivers increases numbers and taxon richness of macroinvertebrate species by Moorhouse, T, Poole, A, Evans, L, Bradley, D, Macdonald, D

“…Crayfish were intensively trapped and removed from two tributaries of the River Thames to test the hypothesis that lowering signal crayfish densities would result in increases in macroinvertebrate numbers and taxon richness. …”

Assessment of risks to public water supply from low flows and harmful water quality in a changing climate by Mortazavi‐Naeini, M, Bussi, G, Elliott, J, Hall, J, Whitehead, P

“…The proposed method is tested on the River Thames catchment, in the South of England. The results show that, alongside the well‐known risks of rising water demand in the South of England and uncertain impacts of climate change, diffuse pollution from agriculture and effluent from upstream waste water treatment works potentially represents a threat to the reliability of public water supplies in London. …”

PERSiST: a flexible rainfall-runoff modelling toolkit for use with the INCA family of models by M. N. Futter, M. A. Erlandsson, D. Butterfield, P. G. Whitehead, S. K. Oni, A. J. Wade

“…Here, we apply PERSiST to the river Thames in the UK and describe a Monte Carlo tool for model calibration, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis.…”
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