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Fish-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a business-to-business model offering monitoring services performed by a biomimetic fishlike drone. FaaS considers environmental, scientific, and business concerns when addressing marine monitoring, providing alternative methodology while preserving ocean resources. The key to FaaS is the ability to provide a low-cost, low-maintenance, high-endurance, agile sensor platform...
The cooperative marine autonomous system (MAS), a combination of an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), would provide researchers, governments, and conservationists unprecedented reach to study the marine environment and prepare for the effects of climate change. Ideally, these systems would be inexpensive and highly adaptable to build a network similar to...
Electricity system in Indonesia is still dominated by coal and this trend will remain to meet its electricity demand in the future. However, many of the power plants have been operating more than fifteen years. As means to cope with instability of power supply and reduce environmental issues, the Government of Indonesia is considering the upgrading and modernization of the existing coal power plants...
It becomes clear that climate changes increase the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, which may disrupt the normal operation of electrical facilities. In order to investigate the relationship between the climate changes and electrical facilities, it is necessary to assess the risk for climate changes in terms of major types of climate change hazards. From that purpose, a spider web chart...
Meeting environmental constraints represents a particularly important condition that energy systems are currently facing, especially with the emphasis on mitigating global warming process. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is therefore one of the main practices that can be used to achieve the objectives set by energy policies in this regard. This paper aims to assess the decrease of these emissions...
The country's food security is a strategic task. Going climate change exacerbates this task. The paper suggests one of the possible approaches to solving the problem of forecasting the yield of the main agricultural crops. Numerical experiments were carried out for the conditions of the irrigation system located in the zone of insufficient moisture.
The difficult task of recognising textual entailment aims to check if a natural language text T entails a smaller statement H. Current methods rely on machine learning and various lexical resources. Our aim is to include domain knowledge when searching for entailment or non-entailment. As most available knowledge comes in form of ontologies, we focused on translating description logic axioms into...
In this paper, the impact of global climate change, especially on distribution transformers, is addressed. A background on the effect of ambient temperature and operating temperature on distribution transformers is described. A case study using real data, corresponding to Chicago, Illinois, is implemented to investigate the effect of increasing ambient temperature on the lifetime of the transformer...
South Africa plans to implement a carbon tax as a greenhouse gas mitigation measure. Companies therefore need to prepare for the consequences which the proposed tax will have on their operations. At present, the landscape is overburdened by a large quantity of information intended to support the carbon tax, yet specific guidance is limited. This creates uncertainty for stakeholders. In this paper,...
In this paper we look into the climate change and its impact on different major sources of renewable energy, health, and food and survival life on earth. Statistical data of different major climatic parameters have been collected and studied for last thirty years to extrapolate and formulate the impact on this planet in near future.
The paper is devoted to a comprehensive modelling of the influence of the operation process and the climate-weather change process on the safety of a critical infrastructure. Particular models of critical infrastructure safety influenced by its inside among its components and subsystems dependences and by its outside operating environment threats and climate-weather hazards are created and a reasonable...
In general, aerosols influence the climate directly by scattering and absorbing the solar radiation and indirectly by acting as cloud condensation nuclei and ice nuclei, which modify the radiative properties of clouds. To estimate the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on the climate in future, we used earth system model simulations. The emission of anthropogenic aerosols can be decreased by controlling...
Temporally resolved, 3-dimensional surface elevation data provide valuable insight into glacier dynamics, e.g. glaciers surges: short periods of rapid acceleration and mass transport which can pose significant hazard potential. Particularly in remote locations, such hazards can develop unobserved by the downstream communities at risk. This paper demonstrates the relevance of single-pass InSAR missions...
The paper is devoted to the climate influence on the safety of a critical infrastructure defined as a complex system in its operating environment that in the case of its degradation have significant destructive influence on the health, safety and security, economics and social conditions of large human communities and territory areas. The method based on the joint model linking a multistate approach...
Changes in the world's weather due to human activities have already shown its negative impact on agriculture, food production, carbon neutrality initiatives and the environment. In order to support Costa Rica's commitment to becoming the first carbon neutral country by 2021, a local group of multidisciplinary researchers have proposed, developed and tested a general system with Internet of Things...
This work presents a new approach for assessing the climate system and for stabilizing the temperature and other climate parameters. FACTS, as we call it, is a fuzzy inference system that overview certain climate state, and is able to generate the CO2 emissions reduction needed to implement in order to stabilize the temperature. FACTS was constructed using a neural network optimization process along...
This work presents an alternative assessment of climate projections using FACTS (Bastien and Gay, 2016), based on possible future emissions pathways related to the Intended National Determined Contributions presented in 2015 as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Moreover it proposes emission reductions in order to stabilize the climate to the desired levels proposed by the international...
The reduction of production waste impact started to be an important subject in the context of industrial development. In the last years the authorities became to be interested in the reduction of impacts generated by the large amount of waste, by recycling or reuse in processes. In this context, the present study is developed to help decision makers to take the best decision regarding the management...
Carbon emission reduction is one of the most challenging issues in our emission-constrained world. However, a reduction may come into reality when enough information is available. Although the emissions are produced on the generation side as a result of fuel combustion, this generation is driven by demand, and consequently, the consumers are the prime responsible for carbon emissions in the electric...
This paper lays out the key features of the new modelling tool POTEnCIA (Policy Oriented Tool for Energy and Climate Change Impact Assessment) for the EU energy system. The model follows a hybrid partial equilibrium approach combining behavioural decision with detailed techno-economic data. Special features are introduced in order to appropriately reflect the implications of an uptake of novel energy...
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