Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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Measurement of fine-spatial-resolution 3D vegetation structure with airborne waveform lidar: Calibration and validation with voxelised terrestrial lidar
Abstract Vegetation structure controls habitat availability, ecosystem services, weather, climate and microclimate, but current landscape scale vegetation maps have lacked details of understorey vegetation and within-canopy structure at resolutions...
2016 / Steven Hancock, Karen Anderson, Mathias Disney, Kevin J. Gaston -
Preliminary Data on the Structure and Potential of the Tocomar Geothermal Field (Puna Plateau, Argentina)
Abstract This study presents new stratigraphic, structural and hydrogeological data on the Tocomar geothermal volcanic area (Puna plateau, Central Andes, NW Argentina), together with preliminary geochemical and magnetotelluric data. ...
2016 / G. Giordano, F. Ahumada, L. Aldega, W. Baez, R. Becchio, et al. -
Age and origin of fluorapatite-rich dyke from Baranec Mt. (Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians): a key to understanding of the post-orogenic processes and element mobility2016 / Aleksandra Gawęda, Krzysztof Szopa, David Chew, Urs Klötzli, Axel Müller, et al.
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Technical-economic study of cooled crystalline solar modules
Abstract Methods of cooling monocrystalline and polycrystalline solar modules with water vaporizing are analysed in the paper regarding the effects of temperature on performance and its economic relations. Since water usage may present a significant ...
2016 / Henrik Zsiborács, Béla Pályi, Gábor Pintér, József Popp, Péter Balogh, et al. -
Spatial heterogeneity of greening and browning between and within bioclimatic zones in northern West Siberia2016 / Victoria V Miles, Igor Esau
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The contribution of greenhouse gases to the recent slowdown in global-mean temperature trends2016 / R Checa-Garcia, K P Shine, M I Hegglin
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Uncertainty based assessment of dynamic freshwater scarcity in semi-arid watersheds of Alberta, Canada
Abstract Study region Alberta, Canada. Study focus The security of freshwater supplies is a growing concern worldwide. Understanding dynamics of water supply and...
2016 / Monireh Faramarzi, Karim C. Abbaspour, W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz, Wei Lu, Jon Fennell, et al. -
OC5 Project Phase Ib: Validation of Hydrodynamic Loading on a Fixed, Flexible Cylinder for Offshore Wind Applications
Abstract This paper summarizes the findings from Phase Ib of the Offshore Code Comparison, Collaboration, Continued with Correlation (OC5) project. OC5 is a project run under the International Energy Agency (IEA) Wind Research Task 30, and is...
2016 / Amy N. Robertson, Fabian Wendt, Jason M. Jonkman, Wojciech Popko, Michael Borg, et al. -
Microenvironmental air quality impact of a commercial-scale biomass heating system
Abstract Initiatives to displace petroleum and climate change mitigation have driven a recent increase in space heating with biomass combustion. However, there is ample evidence that biomass combustion emits significant quantities of health damaging ...
2016 / Zheming Tong, Bo Yang, Philip K. Hopke, K. Max Zhang -
Evaluating the capabilities of Sentinel-2 for quantitative estimation of biophysical variables in vegetation
Abstract The red edge position (REP) in the vegetation spectral reflectance is a surrogate measure of vegetation chlorophyll content, and hence can be used to monitor the health and function of vegetation. The Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) aboard...
2013 / William James Frampton, Jadunandan Dash, Gary Watmough, Edward James Milton -
The influence of natural factors on the spatio-temporal distribution of Oncomelania hupensis
Abstract Background We analyzed the influence of natural factors, such as temperature, rainfall, vegetation and hydrology, on the spatio-temporal distribution of Oncomelania hupensis and explored the leading factors influencing...
2016 / Gong Cheng, Dan Li, Dafang Zhuang, Yong Wang -
Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model2016 / A Sharma, P Conry, H J S Fernando, Alan F Hamlet, J J Hellmann, et al.
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Evaluation of the Lidar/Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) to determine microphysical properties of volcanic and desert dust2013 / J. Wagner, A. Ansmann, U. Wandinger, P. Seifert, A. Schwarz, et al.
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Artificial viscosity model to mitigate numerical artefacts at fluid interfaces with surface tension
Abstract The numerical onset of parasitic and spurious artefacts in the vicinity of fluid interfaces with surface tension is an important and well-recognised problem with respect to the accuracy and numerical stability of interfacial flow...
2016 / Fabian Denner, Fabien Evrard, Ricardo Serfaty, Berend G.M. van Wachem -
Predicting the effect of biofouling on ship resistance using CFD
Abstract This paper proposes a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based unsteady RANS model which enables the prediction of the effect of marine coatings and biofouling on ship resistance and presents CFD simulations of the roughness effects on the...
2016 / Yigit Kemal Demirel, Osman Turan, Atilla Incecik -
Longer thaw seasons increase nitrogen availability for leaching during fall in tundra soils2016 / Claire C Treat, Wilfred M Wollheim, Ruth K Varner, William B Bowden
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Kriging approach for local height transformations2015 / Marcin Ligas, Marek Kulczycki
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On the proportionality between global temperature change and cumulative CO 2 emissions during periods of net negative CO 2 emissions2016 / Kirsten Zickfeld, Andrew H MacDougall, H Damon Matthews
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Post-event analysis and flash flood hydrology in Slovakia2016 / Kamila Hlavčová, Silvia Kohnová, Marco Borga, Oliver Horvát, Pavel Šťastný, et al.
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The elasticity of global cropland with respect to crop production and its implications for peak cropland2016 / Deepak Rajagopal