Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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Chemical Denudation Rates in the Humid Tropics of East Africa and Comparison with 10Be-Derived Erosion Rates
Abstract Based on 2 years of hydrochemical monitoring of 15 rivers in the western East African Rift, together with the geochemistry of soils, river sediments, and bedrocks, we calculated chemical denudation rates and tracked shifts of major cation...
2013 / Matthias Hinderer, Dorthe Pflanz, Sandra Schneider -
Sampling and characterization of resuspended and respirable road dust
Abstract Urban air quality is severely affected by traffic related particulate matter, including direct emissions from exhaust, brake pad, tire wear and road dust resuspended by vehicular motions. Deposited road dust can also be resuspended by wind...
2013 / Beatrix Jancsek-Turóczi, András Hoffer, Ilona Nyírő-Kósa, András Gelencsér -
Radionuclide Contents in Suspended Sediments in Relation to Flood Types in the Lower Rhone River
Abstract The aim of this work was to study the influence of watershed heterogeneity on the radionuclide contents of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in a large Mediterranean river. As the Rhone River catchment is characterized by a high climatic...
2013 / Mathilde Zebracki, Frédérique Eyrolle-Boyer, Anne De Vismes-Ott, Christelle Antonelli, Xavier Cagnat, et al. -
Fire Gas Detection
Abstract Most but not all fires emit smoke aerosols at some point during the combustion process. Therefore most conventional fire detectors are based on the detection of smoke by light scattering. As every fire is emitting specific gases it is...
2012 / Ulrich Hoefer, Daniel Gutmachera -
Estimation of Natural Carbon Sequestration in Eastern Thailand: Preliminary Results
Abstract We estimated carbon sequestration in Pará rubber tree plantations using a remote sensing approach and then compared the results to known figures for carbon sequestration resulting from soil-water interaction. The preliminary zone...
2013 / K. Charoenjit, P. Zuddas, P. Allemand -
Simulating Corrective Maintenance: Aggregating Component Level Maintenance Time Uncertainty at the System Level
Abstract The corrective maintenance process can be decomposed into failure and repair processes. Creating a model to capture the corrective maintenance process then requires an accurate estimate of the behavior of these constituent processes. For...
2013 / Elizabeth A. Saltmarsh, Dimitri N. Mavris -
Towards a global regionally varying allowance for sea-level rise
Abstract Allowances have been developed for future rise of relative sea-level (i.e. sea level relative to the land) based on the projections of regional sea-level rise, its uncertainty, and the statistics of tides and storm surges (storm tides). An...
2013 / J.R. Hunter, J.A. Church, N.J. White, X. Zhang -
Origins and Processes of Salinization of a Plio-Quaternary Coastal Mediterranean Multilayer Aquifer: The Roussillon Basin Case Study
Abstract Salinization of coastal aquifers represents a threat to groundwater resources, especially in Mediterranean regions. We report geochemical and isotopic vertical variability in the Quaternary and Pliocene aquifer of the Roussillon Basin (S...
2013 / Emmanuelle Petelet-Giraud, Philippe Négrel, Catherine Guerrot, Bertrand Aunay, Nathalie Dörfliger -
New constraints on crustal structure and Moho topography in Central Tibet revealed by SinoProbe deep seismic reflection profiling
Abstract From October 2009 to May 2010, through the support of the SinoProbe project a series of deep seismic reflection profiles were conducted. In order to image deep crustal structure of central Tibet, these profiles extend from the northern...
2013 / Rui Gao, Chen Chen, Zhanwu Lu, Larry D. Brown, Xiaosong Xiong, et al. -
Nonlinear Rhizosphere Dynamics Yields Synchronized Oscillations of Microbial Populations, Carbon and Oxygen Concentrations, Induced by Root Exudation
Abstract Numerical modeling of a system of 4 ordinary differential equations [1] demonstrated synchronized patterns of temporal oscillations of competing microbial populations along with carbon and oxygen concentrations in the rhizosphere, as...
2013 / B. Faybishenko, F. Molz -
A simulated bird gastric mill and its implications for fossil gastrolith authenticity2009 / Oliver Wings
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Stochastic Dynamics of a Parametrically base Excited Rotating Pendulum
Abstract This paper studies the rotational motion of a parametrically excited pendulum, dynamics of which is governed by a stochastic nonlinear Mathieu equation. The interest to this problem is based on the fact that this motion may be used to...
2013 / Daniil Yurchenko, Panagiotis Alevras -
Characterizing and predicting short term performance for the In Salah Krechba field CCS joint industry project
Abstract In 2006, the CO2ReMoVe project funded by the European Commission was launched with the objectives of developing new and common methodologies and technologies to improve site based R&D for the monitoring, measurement and verification of...
2011 / Yusuf Pamukcu, Suzanne Hurter, Laurent Jammes, Dat Vu-Hoang, Larry Pekot -
Dual-track CCS stakeholder engagement: Lessons learned from FutureGen in Illinois
Abstract FutureGen, as originally planned, was to be the world’s first coal-fueled, near-zero emissions power plant with fully integrated, 90% carbon capture and storage (CCS). From conception through siting and design, it enjoyed strong support...
2011 / Gretchen Hund, Sallie E. Greenberg -
Leakage risk assessment of the In Salah CO2 storage project: Applying the certification framework in a dynamic context
Abstract The Certification Framework (CF) is a simple risk assessment approach for evaluating CO2 and brine leakage risk at geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) sites. In the In Salah CO2 storage project assessed here, five wells at Krechba produce...
2011 / Curtis M. Oldenburg, Preston D. Jordan, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Alberto Mazzoldi, Abhishek K. Gupta, et al. -
Analysis of sensitivity of the environmental value of wind power
Abstract The wind can be one kind of clean renewable energy, and plays an important role in this short-energy time. To analysis of sensitivity of the environmental value of wind power, firstly calculates the emission rate of the majority pollutants...
2011 / Li Hongze, Guo Sen, Wang Bao -
LUCI: A facility at DUSEL for large-scale experimental study of geologic carbon sequestration
Abstract LUCI, the Laboratory for Underground CO2 Investigations, is an experimental facility being planned for the DUSEL underground laboratory in South Dakota, USA. It is designed to study vertical flow of CO2 in porous media over length scales...
2011 / Catherine A. Peters, Patrick F. Dobson, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Joseph S.Y. Wang, Tullis C. Onstott, et al. -
Household energy demand of China towards a well-off society by 2020
Abstract As one of the world's top energy consumers and carbon emitters, China attracts extensive attention to its energy issues. Based on the hybrid energy input-output model, this paper forecasts the direct and indirect household energy demand...
2011 / Xing Lu, Shi Lei -
In Salah CO2 storage JIP: Carbon dioxide plume extension around KB-502 well–New insights into reservoir behaviour at the In Salah storage site
Abstract Surface uplift has been detected over all three of the In Salah CO2 injection wells with corresponding subsidence also observed over the gas production area. In particular, it has been noted that the surface uplift over KB-502 displays two...
2011 / Sevket Durucan, Ji-Quan Shi, Caglar Sinayuc, Anna Korre -
Impact of injected CO2 on reservoir mine ralogy during CO2 -EOR
Abstract An investigation of the impact of injected CO2 on reservoir mineralogy was completed as part of the geochemical monitoring and modelling of the Pembina Cardium CO2 Monitoring Project southwest of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada. Oil...
2009 / M. Nightingale, G. Johnson, M. Shevalier, I. Hutcheon, E. Perkins, et al.