Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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2D Sediment Transport Modelling in High Energy River – Application to Var River, France
Abstract Specific environments such as the French Mediterranean coastline are characterized by steep catchments associated to a climate affected by high intensity rainfall events (over 1000mm/hour). In such costal catchments, development of human...
2016 / Elodie Zavattero, Mingxuan Du, Qiang Ma, Olivier Delestre, Philippe Gourbesville -
Two Applications of Soil Water Balance in Unsaturated Pyroclastic Soils
Abstract Evaluation of the monthly soil water balance (SWB) provides a tool for understanding and predicting the effects of seasonal and long-term changes in soil water conditions within many geotechnical problems. In this paper, two applications of ...
2016 / Marianna Pirone, Guido Rianna, Alfredo Reder, Luca Pagano, Gianfranco Urciuoli -
Threatened by mining, polymetallic nodules are required to preserve abyssal epifauna2016 / Ann Vanreusel, Ana Hilario, Pedro A. Ribeiro, Lenaick Menot, Pedro Martínez Arbizu
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Multi-scale Coupling between Monte Carlo Molecular Simulation and Darcy-Scale Flow in Porous Media
Abstract In this work, an efficient coupling between Monte Carlo (MC) molecular simulation and Darcy- scale flow in porous media is presented. The cell centered finite difference method with non- uniform rectangular mesh were used to discretize the...
2016 / Ahmed Saad, Ahmad Kadoura, Shuyu Sun -
Ocean Acidification Education: Educational Resource Analysis
Abstract This article aims to establish synergies between Science Education, Environmental Education and Marine Science (Campus do Mar), which has already begun, in order to provide ocean acidification education resources for Primary School teachers ...
2016 / María Lorenzo-Rial, Azucena Arias-Correa, José F. Serrallé-Marzoa, María M. Álvarez-Lires -
Research on Water-sediment Numerical Simulation of Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River and Estuary
Abstract Base on 1D-2D water-sediment transportation numerical algorithm, the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River simulation model is established form Yichang city of the Middle Yangtze To Liuxiao Town site on Yangtze river estuary. The...
2016 / Zhenyu Luan, Qiu Jin -
Airport Ground-traffic Surveillance Systems Data Feed Innovative Comprehensive Analysis
Abstract The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the interest of the use of airport ground-traffic surveillance systems (also known as surface movement surveillance systems), combined with technical expertise, to respond efficiently to airport ...
2016 / Julie Roudet, Paul-Emmanuel Thurat, Nicolas Turcot -
The ecological problems of rivers of Georgia (the Caspian Sea basin)
Abstract The increasing demands of fresh water in the world threaten the biodiversity and the supply of water for food production and other vital human needs. Providing adequate quantities of pure, fresh water for humans and their diverse activities ...
2016 / Zurab Lomsadze, Ketevan Makharadze, Rusudan Pirtskhalava -
Application of unmanned aerial systems for high throughput phenotyping of large wheat breeding nurseries2016 / Atena Haghighattalab, Lorena González Pérez, Suchismita Mondal, Daljit Singh, Dale Schinstock, et al.
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Planning for assisted colonization of plants in a warming world2016 / Alessandro Ferrarini, Alberto Selvaggi, Thomas Abeli, Juha M. Alatalo, Simone Orsenigo, et al.
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A high-resolution time-depth view of dimethylsulphide cycling in the surface sea2016 / S.-J. Royer, M. Galí, A. S. Mahajan, O. N. Ross, G. L. Pérez, et al.
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Spatiotemporal patterns of non-point source nitrogen loss in an agricultural catchment
Abstract Non-point source nitrogen loss poses a risk to sustainable aquatic ecosystems. However, non-point sources, as well as impaired river segments with high nitrogen concentrations, are difficult to monitor and regulate because of their...
2016 / Jian-feng Xu, Wei Yin, Lei Ai, Xiao-kang Xin, Zhi-hua Shi -
Sensitivity-based upscaling for history matching of reservoir models2016 / Saad Mehmood, Abeeb A. Awotunde
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Reservoir formation mechanism analysis and deep high-quality reservoir prediction in Yingcheng Formation in Longfengshan area of Songliao Basin, China
Abstract Although commercial gas flow was produced in several wells with recent years' exploration of Longfengshan area in Changling fault sag, the formation mechanism and controlling factors for high-quality reservoirs still remained undefined....
2016 / Yongmei Zhang, Xiaoqi Ding, Peng Yang, Yan Liu, qi Jiang, et al. -
Reducing Data Uncertainty in Surface Meteorology Using Data Assimilation: A Comparison Study
Abstract Data assimilation in weather forecasting is a well-known technique used to obtain an improved estimation of the current state of the atmosphere (analysis). The Meteorological Service of Catalunya (SMC) is seeking for a real time high...
2016 / A. Farguell, J. Moré, A. Cortés, J.R. Miró, T. Margalef, et al. -
Development of a baseline-temperature correction methodology for electrochemical sensors and its implications for long-term stability
Abstract Recent studies have shown that (three-electrode) electrochemical sensors can be utilised for air quality monitoring and exposure assessment. The long-term performance of these sensors is however, often limited by the effects of ambient...
2016 / Olalekan A.M. Popoola, Gregor B. Stewart, Mohammed I. Mead, Roderic L. Jones -
Possibilities for Real-time DFA Based Injury Detection and Skill Level Differentiation
Abstract Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is applied to running stride time series for the detection of long range correlations. However, there is no concurrent real-time data collection and DFA feedback mechanism. We aimed to verify a running...
2016 / M. Norris, I.C. Kenny, R. Healy, R. Anderson -
Status and Plan for The Upgrade of The CMS Pixel Detector
Abstract The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracking system and plays a crucial role in the all-silicon CMS tracker. While the current pixel tracker is designed for and performing well at an instantaneous luminosity of...
2016 / Rong-Shyang Lu -
Evaluation of atmospheric corrections on hyperspectral data with special reference to mineral mapping
Abstract Hyperspectral images have wide applications in the fields of geology, mineral exploration, agriculture, forestry and environmental studies etc. due to their narrow band width with numerous channels. However, these images commonly suffer...
2016 / Nisha Rani, Venkata Ravibabu Mandla, Tejpal Singh -
Performance Analysis of a Flat Plate Solar Field for Process Heat
Abstract For a demonstration site realized within the European project InSun, we present the monitoring results of a solar thermal field providing process heat for a meat factory. The field uses flat plate collectors, with an overall gross area of...
2016 / Marco Cozzini, Mauro Pipiciello, Roberto Fedrizzi, Ilyes Ben Hassine, Dirk Pietruschka, et al.