Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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Fractal space-scale unfolding mechanism for energy-efficient turbulent mixing2012 / S. Laizet, J. C. Vassilicos
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Measurements of atmospheric dimethylsulfide, hydrogen sulfide,and carbon disulfide during GTE/CITE 32008 / David J. Cooper, Eric S. Saltzman
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Design of a Library of Components for Autonomous Photovoltaic System under Matlab/Simulink
Abstract This paper presents a library of components for PV systems under Matlab/Simulink, named “PV Systems Toolbox”. This toolbox allows analyzing the behavior of a PV system. It also estimates the power produced by the PV generator according to...
2014 / A. Chermitti, O. Boukli-Hacene, A. Meghebbar, N. Bibitriki, A. Kherous -
Utility-scale Power Tower Solar Systems: Performance Acceptance Test Guidelines
Abstract Prior to commercial operation, large solar systems in utility-size power plants need to pass performance acceptance tests conducted by the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor or owners. In lieu of the present absence ...
2014 / D. Kearney -
Dumas Relationships Applied to Two Italian Sites. A Comparison among Various Solar Energy Estimating Formulas
Abstract In this paper different methods for a predictive estimation of solar radiation are compard. The timeframe is 2007-2009. The comparison has been made on two sites, Manfredonia and Portici, both located in the south of Italy. Even if these...
2014 / Andrea Andrisani, Mauro Madonia, Michele Trancossi -
Development of Management Information System of Geo-drilling Construction
Abstract The development of computer and network technology provides a possibility for informationization of geo-drilling design and construction management. At the same time, with drilling technology development, drilling production information...
2014 / Tian Min, Hu Yuanbiao, Liu Zhiguo, Zhu Wenjian -
Computed reconstruction of spatial ammonoid-shell orientation captured from digitized grinding and landmark data
Abstract The internal orientation of fossil mass occurrences can be exploited as useful source of information about their primary depositional conditions. A series of studies, using different kinds of fossils, especially those with elongated shape...
2013 / Susanne Lukeneder, Alexander Lukeneder, Gerhard W. Weber -
Field test of optical and electrical fire detectors in simulated fire scenes in a cable tunnel2014 / Dian Fan, Hongjun Ding, Dorothy Y. Wang, Desheng Jiang
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Shear-velocity structure of the Tyrrhenian Sea: Tectonics, volcanism and mantle (de)hydration of a back-arc basin
Abstract The Tyrrhenian Sea in the Mediterranean formed as the result of roll-back of the Adriatic and Ionian subducting plates. It is mostly underlain by strongly thinned continental lithosphere, but contains two small oceanic basins in the...
2014 / Sonja Greve, Hanneke Paulssen, Saskia Goes, Manfred van Bergen -
Weibull-k Revisited: “Tall” Profiles and Height Variation of Wind Statistics2014 / Mark Kelly, Ib Troen, Hans E. Jørgensen
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Land use/land cover changes and regional climate over the Loess Plateau during 2001–2009. Part I: observational evidence2014 / Xingang Fan, Zhuguo Ma, Qing Yang, Yunhuan Han, Rezaul Mahmood, et al.
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The Geological Factor Analysis of Influenced Tianchi Coal Mine Gas Occurrence
Abstract The article is based on the Tianchi high-gas coal mine. The theory that plate tectonics, district tectonic evolution and gas occurrence tectonic gradually is applied, it is based on gas geological data of geological period and the gas...
2012 / Wei Wang, Jiangwei Yan -
Early Forest Fire Detection and Verification using Optical Smoke, Gas and Microwave Sensors
Abstract The research project “International Forest Fire Fighting” (iWBB) was funded by the Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A group of companies, research institutes and universities have...
2012 / Wolfgang Krüll, Robert Tobera, Ingolf Willms, Helmut Essen, Nora von Wahl -
Insights on the upper mantle beneath the Eastern Alps
Abstract Analyses of Ps and Sp receiver functions from datasets collected by permanent and temporary seismic stations, image a seismic discontinuity, due to a negative velocity contrast across the entire Eastern Alps. The receiver functions show the ...
2014 / Irene Bianchi, Meghan S. Miller, Götz Bokelmann -
Oxyfuel Combustion: Technical and Economic Considerations for the Development of Carbon Capture from Pulverized Coal Power Plants
Abstract Oxyfuel has been hoped by many to provide the “step-change” in performance needed to drive down the avoidance cost of carbon capture from pulverized coal plants. To investigate this possibility, a techno- economic oxyfuel model was...
2013 / Kyle J. Borgert, Edward S. Rubin -
Deep Discharge Failure in an Automated Supply Integrating PV Storage and Grid Connection
Abstract In the first part of this contribution, we present the technical choices done for a realization designed to supply, with a large part of renewable electricity, a greenhouse dedicated to biology teaching in a high school in Region Lorraine,...
2013 / Jean-Paul Sawicki, Pierre Petit, Michel Aillerie -
Seal Integrity of the Rousse Depleted Gas Field Impacted by CO2 Injection (Lacq Industrial CCS Reference Project France)
Abstract The depleted Rousse field (Lacq, France) has proven its integrity while holding a gas accumulation at a pressure of 480bar, and has now been converted to a pilot for CO2 injection. The objective of the studies presented is to describe the...
2013 / Dominique Pourtoy, Atef Onaisi, Marc Lescanne, Sylvain Thibeau, Claire Viaud -
The Coolsun Triple-technology Approach to Reach High Solar Fractions for Space Heating, Space Cooling and Domestic Hot Water
Abstract Within the framework of the COOLSUN project a triple-technology approach to reach high solar fractions for space heating, space cooling and domestic hot water preparation is being developed. The three core components are a thermo fluid with ...
2014 / Jorge Facão, António Lobato, Catherine Baldo -
Lake dwellers occupation gap in Lake Geneva (France–Switzerland) possibly explained by an earthquake–mass movement–tsunami event during Early Bronze Age
Abstract High-resolution seismic and sediment core data from the ‘Grand Lac’ basin of Lake Geneva reveal traces of repeated slope instabilities with one main slide-evolved mass-flow (minimum volume 0.13 km3) that originated from the northern lateral ...
2013 / Katrina Kremer, François Marillier, Michael Hilbe, Guy Simpson, David Dupuy, et al. -
Evidence Collection of a Tooth Mark in a Crime Scene: Importance of the Dental Materials in Forensic Dentistry
Abstract The forensic dentistry is commonly required to identify tooth marks from a crime scene. The methodology is unique according to the guidelines of American Board of Forensic Sciences (ABFO) and International Organization of Forensic...
2012 / Cristiana Pereira, Jorge Costa Santos, Tore Solheim