Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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Electric Grid Vulnerabilities to Rising Air Temperatures in Arizona
Abstract Ambient air temperatures are expected to increase in the US desert southwest by 1-5 °C mid-century which will strain the electric power grid through increased loads, reduced power capacities, efficiencies, and material lifespans. To better...
2016 / Daniel Burillo, Mikhail Chester, Benjamin Ruddell -
Energy Saving Technology Screening within the EU-project “School of the Future”
Abstract The objective of this work is to develop an overview on the available building and system retrofit technologies for energy efficient school buildings including their impact on the energy performance and indoor environment quality. The...
2014 / Ove C. Mørck, Anton J. Paulsen -
Petrogenesis of the crater-facies Tokapal kimberlite pipe, Indrāvati Basin, Central India
Abstract New geochemical data of the crater-facies Tokapal kimberlite system sandwiched between the lower and upper stratigraphic horizons of the Mesoproterozoic Indrāvati Basin are presented. The kimberlite has been subjected to extensive and...
2013 / N.V. Chalapathi Rao, B. Lehmann, B.K. Panwar, Alok Kumar, D. Mainkar -
Potentials of Demand Side Management Using Heat Pumps with Building Mass as a Thermal Storage
Abstract Within this work, load-shifting possibilities of heat pumps in residential buildings as well as its influencing and limiting factors are displayed. The intermediate storage is achieved by using the thermal mass of the building so the heat...
2014 / Charlotte Ellerbrok -
Developing CCS into a Realistic Option in a Country's Energy Strategy
Abstract The CARMA project investigated the potential of Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) in Switzerland and the country-specific difficulties on the way to implementation. CCS may play a major role in the future Swiss energy scenario as a...
2013 / Daniel Sutter, Mischa Werner, Alba Zappone, Marco Mazzotti -
Water Resource Assessment on Maghreb Using Global Satellite Products
Abstract The aim of this paper is to show an inter-comparison between three main precipitation products (GPCP, 3B42, GSMaP). Their biases will be analyzed according to their estimation algorithm design and to the relative weight of primary...
2014 / Gérard Beltrando, Jean - Claude Berges -
Applications of Non-linear Elastic Wavefield Inversion for 4D Seismic Data to Characterize the Injected Carbon Dioxide
Abstract Elastic parameters are fundamental in estimating rock properties, fluid saturation and pore pressure in carbon dioxide injection and 4D seismic survey efficiently provides spatial changes of elastic parameters as well as baseline...
2013 / Akio Sakai -
Numerical Study on the Thermal Environment of UFAD System with Solar Chimney for the Data Center
Abstract To improve the thermal environment in the data center, a solar chimney was integrated with Under-floor Air Distribution (UFAD) system in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software Airpak. By using the validated model, three types of...
2014 / Kai Zhang, Xiaosong Zhang, Shuhong Li, Geng Wang -
Fluid expulsion from overpressured basins: Implications for Pb–Zn mineralisation and dolomitisation of the East Midlands platform, northern England
Abstract Our understanding of burial diagenesis within carbonates is often limited by poor constraints on available fluid volumes and geochemistry. However, regional stratigraphic and burial history data are often readily available. Using these data ...
2014 / Miles Frazer, Fiona Whitaker, Cathy Hollis -
Modeling of synchrotron-based laboratory simulations of Titan’s ionospheric photochemistry
Abstract The APSIS reactor has been designed to simulate in the laboratory with a VUV synchrotron irradiation the photochemistry occurring in planetary upper atmospheres. A ...
2014 / Z. Peng, N. Carrasco, P. Pernot -
A global extent site-level analysis of land cover and protected area overlap with mining activities as an indicator of biodiversity pressure
Abstract The need to ensure environmental sustainability is a critical challenge for humanity. The forces driving increased environmental pressure are world population growth, economic growth, and increasing urbanization. As a result, demand for...
2014 / Hideki Kobayashi, Hiroko Watando, Mitsuru Kakimoto -
Potential evapotranspiration-related uncertainty in climate change impacts on river flow: An assessment for the Mekong River basin
Summary Six MIKE SHE models of the Mekong are developed, each employing potential evapotranspiration (PET) derived using alternative methods: Blaney–Criddle (BC), Hamon (HM), Hargreaves–Samani (HS), Linacre (LN), Penman (PN) and Priestley–Taylor...
2013 / J.R. Thompson, A.J. Green, D.G. Kingston -
The Effect of Damage Functions on Urban Flood Damage Appraisal
Abstract Flooding damage appraisal can been obtained by interpolating real damage data caused by historical flooding events or accounting the effects of a flood in terms of the depreciation of assets. Most often, the expected damage is evaluated by...
2014 / V. Notaro, M. De Marchis, C.M. Fontanazza, G. La Loggia, V. Puleo, et al. -
Integrated Geothermal-CO2 Reservoir Systems: Reducing Carbon Intensity through Sustainable Energy Production and Secure CO2 Storage
Abstract Large-scale geologic CO2 storage (GCS) can be limited by overpressure, while geothermal energy production is often limited by pressure depletion. We investigate how synergistic integration of these complementary systems may enhance the...
2013 / Thomas A. Buscheck, Thomas R. Elliot, Michael A. Celia, Mingjie Chen, Yunwei Sun, et al. -
A probabilistic analysis of human influence on recent record global mean temperature changes
Abstract December 2013 was the 346th consecutive month where global land and ocean average surface temperature exceeded the 20th century monthly average, with February 1985 the last time mean temperature fell below this value. Even given these and...
2014 / Philip Kokic, Steven Crimp, Mark Howden -
Simulation Study of Density-Driven Natural Convection Mechanism in Isotropic and Anisotropic Brine Aquifers Using a Black Oil Reservoir Simulator
Abstract For simulation models of density-driven natural convection in brine aquifers gravitational instabilities are usually triggered by numerical round off errors. Using this method for initiating onset of convective flow, simulation results show ...
2013 / Amir Taheri, Dag Wessel-Berg, Ole Torsæter -
Particle-in-Cell algorithms for emerging computer architectures
Abstract We have designed Particle-in-Cell algorithms for emerging architectures. These algorithms share a common approach, using fine-grained tiles, but different implementations depending on the architecture. On the GPU, there were two different...
2013 / Viktor K. Decyk, Tajendra V. Singh -
Debris-covered Glaciers During Glacial and Interglacial Periods on the Taurus Mountains (Turkey)
Abstract The debris-covered glaciers are observed all over the glaciation regions of the world (Alps, Antarctica, Greenland, Andes, Cascades, Rocky Mountains and etc.). The debris covered glaciers are known as the formations which occur in the...
2014 / Onur Çalışkan, Gürcan Gürgen, Erkan Yılmaz, Serdar Yeşilyurt -
Protoliths of enigmatic Archaean gneisses established from zircon inclusion studies: Case study of the Caozhuang quartzite, E. Hebei, China
Abstract A diverse suite of Archaean gneisses at Huangbaiyu village in the North China Craton, includes rare fuchsite-bearing (Cr-muscovite) siliceous rocks – known as the Caozhuang quartzite. The Caozhuang quartzite is strongly deformed and locally ...
2013 / Allen P. Nutman, Ronni Maciejowski, Yusheng Wan -
Experimental Studies of Basalt-H2O-CO2 Interaction with a High Pressure Column Flow Reactor: the Mobility of Metals
Abstract Here, we report on the mobility of metals at the early stage of CO2 injection into basalt, before significant precipitation of secondary minerals. Short-lived pulses (50-100hours) of CO2-charged water were injected into a high pressure...
2013 / Iwona Galeczka, Domenik Wolff-Boenisch, Sigurdur Gislason