Rozprawy doktorskie: „Wind direction”

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Claus, Jean M. "Wind direction effects on urban flows". Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560582.

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In the research on urban flows, two trends can be distinguished: some studies based on real urban environments, either in the field or on reproductions; and some on simplified models. One such model, a staggered cube array, has been investigated extensively, both experimentally in wind tunnels and numerically using LES and DNS, but always with a flow direction normal to the faces of the cubes. We are here investigating the effects of different wind directions on the flow within and above the cube array. As no other study has been published on the subject, both numerical and experimental investigation methods have been used. For the numerical side, large-eddy simulations were conducted using the finite volume method implemented in commercial software (StarCD, CD-adapco). The half-channel flow simulated was driven by a momentum source equiva- lent to a pressure gradient. The results are shown to agree well with those of wind-tunnel experiments conducted in parallel. For the experimental side, the boundary layer flow is measured in two dimensions using particle-image velocimetry and the drag using pressure tapped cubes and a drag balance. The results show that the mean flow field within the canopy is only weakly dependent on the direction of the flow above. Above the canopy, the mean velocity profile, time av- eraged and spatially averaged in horizontal layers, is shown to include an inertial sublayer where a logarithmic profile can be fitted. The fit proves to be best by considering for zero-plane displacement the height at which the mean drag acts and points arguably in the direction of a flow dependent value of the Von Karman constant. At the top of the numerical domain, the mean flow is also deviated from the direction of the forcing. We show that this deviation is directly related to previously unseen lift forces applied on the cubes. On balancing the different forces in the numerical domain, the viscous contribu- tions to both the lift and the drag forces are shown to be larger than anticipated from previous studies. Although these results could not be validated by the experiments as the viscous forces remain small compared to the experimental errors, such contributions raise concerns with regards to the Reynolds number independence of the flow and to the need for more complex wall conditions for LES. Overall, the variations of the flow pa- rameters are not negligible and prove to be non-linear and non-monotonic with the flow angle which highlights the importance of considering the flow direction when studying or parameterising urban landscapes. 1.

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Nielsen, Emil. "Real-time Wind Direction Filtering for Sailboat Race Tracking". Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119976.

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In this paper, an algorithm that calculates the direction of the wind from the directions of sailors during fleet races is proposed. The algorithm is based on a 1-D spatial convolution and it is named Convolution Based Direction Filtering (CBDF). The CBDF-algorithm is used in the TracTrac race client that broadcasts sailboat races in real-time. The fact that the proposed algorithm is polynomial makes it suitable, to be used as a real-time application inside TracTrac, even for large fleets. More concretely, we show that the time complexity of the CBDF-algorithm is O(n2), in the worst-case, where n > 0 is the number of boats in competition. It is also shown that in more realistic sailing scenarios, the CBDF-algorithm is in fact a linear algorithm.

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彭運佳 i Wan-kai Pang. "Time series analysis of meteorological data: wind speed and direction". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30425979.

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Pang, Wan-kai. "Time series analysis of meteorological data : wind speed and direction /". [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13456933.

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Abohela, Islam Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed. "Effect of roof shape, wind direction, building height and urban configuration on the energy yield and positioning of roof mounted wind turbines". Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1686.

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The increasing interest among architects and planners in designing environmentally friendly buildings has led to a desire to explore and integrate renewable sources of energy within the built environment. Roof mounted wind turbines is a technology that presents a high potential for integration within the built environment. However, there is a state of uncertainty regarding the viability of these wind turbines. This thesis argues that part of this uncertainty is attributed to uninformed decisions about positioning and locating urban wind turbines. This is underpinned by lack of consideration to the wind accelerating effect of different roof shapes, buildings’ heights and surrounding urban configurations. This thesis aims to investigate the effect of different roof shapes on wind acceleration and positioning of roof mounted wind turbines covering different buildings’ heights within different urban configurations under different wind directions. To achieve the aim of the thesis, the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code Fluent 12.1, implementing the Realizable k-ε turbulence model, is used to simulate wind flow around different roof shapes, different buildings’ heights and different urban settings. Predictions are comparatively analysed to identify the optimum roof shape for mounting wind turbines. Simulation results indicate that the barrel vaulted roof has the highest wind accelerating effect. The barrel vaulted roof shape case was carried further to investigate the effect of building height and surrounding urban configurations on the energy yield and positioning of roof mounted wind turbines. The optimum mounting location for each of the investigated roof shapes namely: flat, domed, gabled, pyramidal, barrel vaulted and wedged roofs is identified. Results from the investigation predict a possible increase up to 56.1% in energy yield in the case of a barrel vaulted roof if an informed wind assessment above buildings’ roofs is carried out. However, changing the building height and surrounding urban configuration had an effect on choosing the optimum mounting location and the energy yield at that location.

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Mölders, Nicole. "On the influence of the geostrophic wind direction on the atmospheric response to landuse changes". Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-213350.

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Simulations alternatively assuming a landscape with and without urbanization plus open-cast mining were performed with a non-hydrostatic model. lt is examined whether the atmospheric response to landuse changes is sensitive to the direction of the geostrophic wind. The results of simulations with the same geostrophic wind direction show that except for the cloud and precipitating particles the daily domain-averages of the variables of state hardly differ for the different landscapes. Nevertheless, the local weather may be affected appreciably over and downwind of the altered surfaces. The significant differences in the cloud and precipitating particles, however, are not bound to the environs of the landuse changes. Generally, the most significant differences occur for the cloud and precipitation particles, the soil wetness factors and the vertical component of the wind vector. The latter changes strongly influence the cloud and precipitation formation by the interaction cloud microphysics-dynamics. The results also indicate that for most of the quantities the local magnitude of the atmospheric response changes for the various directions of the geostrophic wind. However, the differences of the domain-averaged 24h-accumulated evapotranspiration are similar for all geostrophic wind directions
Um zu untersuchen, ob die atmosphärische Antwort auf Landnutzungsänderungen sensitiv zur Richtung des geostrophischen Windes ist, wurden Simulationen durchgeführt, bei denen alternativ eine Landschaft mit und ohne Urbanisierung plus Tagebauten angenommen wurde. Die Simulationsergebnisse zeigen, daß - außer für Wolken- und Niederschlagspartikel - die täglichen Gebietsmittelwerte der Zustandsvariablen sich kaum für die beiden Landschaften unterscheiden. Trotzdem kann das lokale Wetter merklich über und im Lee der Oberflächen mit veränderter Landnutzung beeinflußt werden. Die signifikanten Differenzen in den Wolken- und Niederschlagspartikeln sind jedoch nicht an die unmittelbare Nähe der Landnutzungsänderungen gebunden. Generell treten die signifikanten Unterschiede bei den Wolkenund Niederschlagspartikeln, der Bodenfeuchte und der Vertikalkomponente des Windvektors auf. Letztere beeinflussen stark die Wolken- und Niederschlagsbildung durch die Wechselwirkung Wolkenmikrophysik-Dynamik. Die Ergebnisse zeigen außerdem, daß lokal der Grad der atmosphärischen Reaktion für die meisten Größen bei unterschiedlicher Richtung des geostrophischen Windes anders ausfällt. Die Differenzen der Gebietsmittelwerte der 24h-akkumulierten Evapotranspiration gleichen sich jedoch für alle Richtungen des geostrophischen Windes

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Hibbert, Michael Patrick. "The development of a solid state wind velocity and direction indicator, suitable for data logging". Thesis, Cape Technikon, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1117.

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Thesis (Masters Diploma (Electrical Engineering)) -- Cape Technikon, Cape Town,1992
This thesis describes the development of a free standing, maintenance free anemometer which has no rotating parts. The principle of operation is based on the \-vind drag/force around a hollow P.V.c. pipe. The aim is to demonstrate how the strain occurring in the P.V.C. pipe, due to wind drag/force acting on it, can generate an electrical signal which can be mathematically manipulated to determine wind velocity and wind bearing.

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Mölders, Nicole. "On the influence of the geostrophic wind direction on the atmospheric response to landuse changes". Universität Leipzig, 1998. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15076.

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Simulations alternatively assuming a landscape with and without urbanization plus open-cast mining were performed with a non-hydrostatic model. lt is examined whether the atmospheric response to landuse changes is sensitive to the direction of the geostrophic wind. The results of simulations with the same geostrophic wind direction show that except for the cloud and precipitating particles the daily domain-averages of the variables of state hardly differ for the different landscapes. Nevertheless, the local weather may be affected appreciably over and downwind of the altered surfaces. The significant differences in the cloud and precipitating particles, however, are not bound to the environs of the landuse changes. Generally, the most significant differences occur for the cloud and precipitation particles, the soil wetness factors and the vertical component of the wind vector. The latter changes strongly influence the cloud and precipitation formation by the interaction cloud microphysics-dynamics. The results also indicate that for most of the quantities the local magnitude of the atmospheric response changes for the various directions of the geostrophic wind. However, the differences of the domain-averaged 24h-accumulated evapotranspiration are similar for all geostrophic wind directions.
Um zu untersuchen, ob die atmosphärische Antwort auf Landnutzungsänderungen sensitiv zur Richtung des geostrophischen Windes ist, wurden Simulationen durchgeführt, bei denen alternativ eine Landschaft mit und ohne Urbanisierung plus Tagebauten angenommen wurde. Die Simulationsergebnisse zeigen, daß - außer für Wolken- und Niederschlagspartikel - die täglichen Gebietsmittelwerte der Zustandsvariablen sich kaum für die beiden Landschaften unterscheiden. Trotzdem kann das lokale Wetter merklich über und im Lee der Oberflächen mit veränderter Landnutzung beeinflußt werden. Die signifikanten Differenzen in den Wolken- und Niederschlagspartikeln sind jedoch nicht an die unmittelbare Nähe der Landnutzungsänderungen gebunden. Generell treten die signifikanten Unterschiede bei den Wolkenund Niederschlagspartikeln, der Bodenfeuchte und der Vertikalkomponente des Windvektors auf. Letztere beeinflussen stark die Wolken- und Niederschlagsbildung durch die Wechselwirkung Wolkenmikrophysik-Dynamik. Die Ergebnisse zeigen außerdem, daß lokal der Grad der atmosphärischen Reaktion für die meisten Größen bei unterschiedlicher Richtung des geostrophischen Windes anders ausfällt. Die Differenzen der Gebietsmittelwerte der 24h-akkumulierten Evapotranspiration gleichen sich jedoch für alle Richtungen des geostrophischen Windes.

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Schachterle, Gregory Dallin. "Improved Analysis Techniques for Scatterometer Wind Estimation". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9218.

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In this thesis, three improved analysis techniques for scatterometer wind estimation are presented. These techniques build upon previous methods that help validate scatterometer data. This thesis examines the theory connecting the 1D and 2D kinetic energy spectra and uses QuikSCAT data to measure the 2D kinetic energy spectrum of ocean winds. The measured 2D kinetic energy spectrum is compared to the traditional 1D kinetic energy spectrum. The relationship between the 2D kinetic energy spectra and the 1D kinetic energy spectra confirms findings from previous studies that ocean winds modeled in 2D are isotropic and nondivergent. The 1D and 2D kinetic energy spectra also confirm the known conclusion that the zonal and meridional components of ocean winds are uncorrelated. Through simulation, the wind response function (WRF) is calculated for three different QuikSCAT processing algorithms. The WRF quantifies the contribution that the wind at each point of the surface makes to a given wind estimate. The spatial resolution of the different processing algorithms is estimated by their WRFs. The WRFs imply that the spatial resolution of ultrahigh resolution (UHR) processing is finer than the spatial resolution of conventional drop-in-the-bucket (DIB) processing; the spatial resolution of UHR processing is ~5-10 km while the spatial resolution of DIB slice processing is ~12-15 km and the spatial resolution of coarse resolution DIB egg processing is ~30 km. Simulation is used to analyze the effectiveness of various wind retrieval and ambiguity selection algorithms. To assist in the simulation, synthetic wind fields are created through extrapolating the 2D Fourier transform of a numerical weather prediction wind field. These synthetic wind fields are sufficiently realistic to evaluate ambiguity selection algorithms. The simulation employs the synthetic wind fields to compare wind estimation with and without direction interval retrieval (DIR) applied. Both UHR and DIB wind estimation processes are performed in the simulation and UHR winds are shown to resolve finer resolution wind features than DIB winds at the cost of being slightly noisier. DIR added to standard QuikSCAT UHR wind estimation drops the wind direction root-mean-squared error by ~10° to ~24.74° in the swath sweet spot.

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Kunkee, David Bryan. "Polarimetric millimeter-wave thermal emission from anisotropic water surfaces : application to remote sensing of ocean surface wind direction". Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14689.

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Leishman, Natalie. "Model Sensitivity, Performance and Evaluation Techniques for The Air Pollution Model in Southeast Queensland". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16148/1/Natalie_Leishman.pdf.

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One important component for successful air quality modelling is the utilisation of a reliable meteorological simulator. Evaluating the model with respect to its overall performance in predicting natural processes is no easy task. The problem is twofold, firstly there is the availability and suitability of field data with which to compare a model with and secondly there is the method of evaluation. The Air Pollution Model (TAPM), developed by the CSIRO was used to simulate the winds in Southeast Queensland (SEQ). The complex nature of the airshed makes it difficult to compare modelled data with observational data as the observational data may be influenced by local phenomena. Evaluation of the model through the use of standard statistics and monthly and seasonal statistics illustrated that overall the model predicted the annual average wind speeds and temperatures well. Through the use of synoptic clustering, more detail on model performance was gained and it was found that TAPM predicted sea breezes that occurred on high pollution days. The sensitivity of the model to the selection of input parameters such as soil type, land use, vegetation, and rain processes was also investigated.

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Leishman, Natalie. "Model Sensitivity, Performance and Evaluation Techniques for The Air Pollution Model in Southeast Queensland". Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16148/.

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One important component for successful air quality modelling is the utilisation of a reliable meteorological simulator. Evaluating the model with respect to its overall performance in predicting natural processes is no easy task. The problem is twofold, firstly there is the availability and suitability of field data with which to compare a model with and secondly there is the method of evaluation. The Air Pollution Model (TAPM), developed by the CSIRO was used to simulate the winds in Southeast Queensland (SEQ). The complex nature of the airshed makes it difficult to compare modelled data with observational data as the observational data may be influenced by local phenomena. Evaluation of the model through the use of standard statistics and monthly and seasonal statistics illustrated that overall the model predicted the annual average wind speeds and temperatures well. Through the use of synoptic clustering, more detail on model performance was gained and it was found that TAPM predicted sea breezes that occurred on high pollution days. The sensitivity of the model to the selection of input parameters such as soil type, land use, vegetation, and rain processes was also investigated.

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Johnson, M. E., i n/a. "The application of statistics to the mesoscale study of wind speed and direction in the Canberra region". University of Canberra. Information Sciences, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060802.154807.

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The temporal and spatial variability in wind speed and direction was investigated in a study of the mesoscale wind fields in the Canberra region. The statistical description of the winds was based on twelve months of three-hourly data at seventeen sites obtained in a joint program carried out by the Division of Land Use Research, CSIRO, the National Capital Development Commission, and the Bureau of Meteorology. The statistical analysis proceeded in stages. The first two stages were concerned with the determination and examination of averages and measures of dipersion. Information on the temporal variability in regional wind, defined as the average of the winds at the seventeen collection sites, provided the first insight into the important determinants of winds in the region. The data were then categorized on the basis of the information thus obtained, and the averages over time for each site were analysed in each category. The variation between sites revealed the extent of the spatial variability in the region. For each category, for each site, there were perturbations around the average state, and in the last stage of the study, the analysis examined how the perturbations were related across sites using correlation coefficients. Generalized Procrustes Analysis was used, followed by the extensive use of cluster analysis. Linear modelling techniques were used at all stages of the study, not only for wind speed, but also for wind direction which is an angular variate and thus required different modelling procedures. The models related the variables of interest to terrain features such as position, elevation and surface roughness. These models allowed an informed judgement to be made on the likelihood of accurately estimating the winds at other locations in the region using interpolation techniques.

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Viertel, René, Michael Wilsdorf i Armin Raabe. "Ein Bewertungsverfahren für Schallimmissionen unter Einbeziehung des Atmosphärenzustandes". Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-223227.

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Es wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, welches im Rahmen einer Projektbearbeitung für die Bundeswehr entwickelt wurde und die Einbeziehung des meteorologischen Einflusses auf die Schallausbreitung in die Schallimmissionsprognose auf relativ einfache Weise ermöglicht. Zunächst wurden alle denkbaren meteorologischen Situationen (Unterscheidung nach Temperatur, Windgeschwindigkeit und Windrichtung) klassifiziert. Für die verschiedenen Klassen wurden Verteilungen der Schalldruckpegeldämpfung mit dem Schallausbreitungsmodell SMART (Sound Propagation Model for the Atmosphere using Ray Tracing) berechnet. Die Ergebnisse wurden in einer Datenbank zusammengefasst. Die Analyse und Bewertung dieser Prognosen, sowie der Zugriff auf die Datenbank erfolgt über das Visualisierungstool MetaVIS (Meteorological attenuation visualization). Damit ist eine schnelle Schallimmissionsprognose für aktuelle Schallausbreitungssituationen möglich. Im Rahmen dieses Verfahrens ist die Regionalisierung eines Gesamtgebietes in schallklimatologisch ähnliche Teilgebiete möglich. Eine solche Untersuchung erfolgte durch die Analyse von Schalldruckpegeldämpfungskarten für eine Vielzahl von Atmosphärenstrukturen. Im Ergebnis konnte eine Karte zur Neustrukturierung der Beratungsräume der Bundeswehr, unter Berücksichtigung meteorologischer Einflüsse auf die Schallausbreitung, erarbeitet werden
A procedure is described, which has been developed within the framework of a project for the Bundeswehr. This method provides a relatively simple way to include meteorological influences on the sound propagation for forecasting sound immission. Therefore, at first, different meteorological situations (differentiation regarding temperature, wind speed, wind direction) have been classified. For the different classes the spatial distribution attenuation of sound level have been calculated using a model of sound propagation SMART (Sound propagation model of the atmosphere using ray-tracing). The results are stored in a database. The analysis and evaluation of this forecasts as well as the access to the database is realized using the visualization tool MetaVIS (Meteorological attenuation visualization). Therewith fast forecasts of sound immission for present meteorological situations are enabled. Moreover, with this procedure a regionalization of an entire territory in areas with a similar sound climatology is possible. Such an estimation has been done by analysing maps of sound level attenuation for different atmospheric structures. As a result, a map for restructuring the consulting areas of the Bundeswehr, considering meteorological influences on the sound propagation, could be acquired

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Leite, Gladeston da Costa. "AnÃlise de campos de ventos oceÃnicos em imagens SAR". Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2011. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7498.

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FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico
Esta tese introduz uma nova metodologia para determinar a direÃÃo do vento sobre a superfÃcie dos oceanos utilizando tÃcnicas de processamento das imagens de Radar de Abertura SintÃtica (SAR, do inglÃs Synthetic Aperture Radar). A literatura relacionada demonstra um crescente interesse no processamento dessas imagens para detecÃÃo de alvos, classificaÃÃo de regiÃes, extraÃÃo de campos de ventos, monitoramento de derrames de Ãleo, aplicaÃÃes geofÃsicas e meteorolÃgicas. A extraÃÃo de campos de ventos em imagens SAR Ã uma tarefa desafiadora devido Ã contaminaÃÃo das mesmas por um ruÃdo oriundo do sistema de aquisiÃÃo, denominado speckle, que dificulta tarefas de processamento e interpretaÃÃo das mesmas. Portanto, esta tese propÃe metodologias de extraÃÃo da direÃÃo do vento por transformada de Fourier, transformadas wavelets e mÃtodos baseados em textura. As transformadas wavelets utilizadas para esta tarefa sÃo Gabor, ChapÃu Mexicano e o algoritmo Ã trous. Com relaÃÃo Ã anÃlise de textura utilizada, esta se baseia na informaÃÃo espacial da matriz de co-ocorrÃncia dos nÃveis de cinza para estimar a direÃÃo de padrÃes lineares em imagens contaminadas com speckle. Os experimentos foram realizados em imagens de textura sintÃticas, imagens do Ãlbum de Brodatz e imagens SAR sintÃticas e reais. Foi observado que os mÃtodos propostos foram capazes de estimar direÃÃes de padrÃes lineares e extrair campos de streaks de vento visÃveis em imagens SAR reais. As principais contribuiÃÃes desta tese sÃo: o mÃtodo proposto para estimaÃÃo de direÃÃo de ventos na superfÃcie do oceano e a extensÃo de tÃcnica jÃ existente na literatura, possibilitando assim a estimaÃÃo da velocidade dos ventos na faixa de 4 a 10 m/s. Os melhores resultados obtidos nesta tese foram alcanÃados utilizando o mÃtodo proposto que combina transformada wavelet e anÃlise de textura.
This thesis introduces a new methodology to determine the wind direction over the ocean surface using image processing techniques on SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images. Related literature demonstrates a growing interest in processing these images for target detection, region classification, wind field extraction, oil spill monitoring, geophysical and meteorological applications. Wind field extraction in SAR images is a challenging task due to contamination acquisition system by speckle noise, which makes difficult processing and interpretation tasks. Thus, this thesis proposes methods for wind direction estimation by applying image transforms, such as Fourier and wavelets and furthermore texture-based methods. The wavelet transforms used for this task are Gabor, Mexican Hat and the Ã trous algorithm. Concerning the texture approach, it is based on the co-occurrence matrix to estimate direction of linear patterns in speckled images. The experiments were performed on synthetic texture, Brodatz album, synthetic and real SAR images. It was observed that the proposed methods were able to estimate directions of linear patterns and extract wind fields from visible wind-induced streaks on SAR images. The main contributions of this thesis are: to propose methods for wind direction estimation on the ocean surface and to extend existing techniques in the literature in order to provide wind vector estimation in the range of 4 to 10 m/s. The best results of this tese were achieved with the proposed method that combines wavelet transform and texture analysis.

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Viertel, René, Michael Wilsdorf i Armin Raabe. "Ein Bewertungsverfahren für Schallimmissionen unter Einbeziehung des Atmosphärenzustandes". Universität Leipzig, 2007. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15573.

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Es wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, welches im Rahmen einer Projektbearbeitung für die Bundeswehr entwickelt wurde und die Einbeziehung des meteorologischen Einflusses auf die Schallausbreitung in die Schallimmissionsprognose auf relativ einfache Weise ermöglicht. Zunächst wurden alle denkbaren meteorologischen Situationen (Unterscheidung nach Temperatur, Windgeschwindigkeit und Windrichtung) klassifiziert. Für die verschiedenen Klassen wurden Verteilungen der Schalldruckpegeldämpfung mit dem Schallausbreitungsmodell SMART (Sound Propagation Model for the Atmosphere using Ray Tracing) berechnet. Die Ergebnisse wurden in einer Datenbank zusammengefasst. Die Analyse und Bewertung dieser Prognosen, sowie der Zugriff auf die Datenbank erfolgt über das Visualisierungstool MetaVIS (Meteorological attenuation visualization). Damit ist eine schnelle Schallimmissionsprognose für aktuelle Schallausbreitungssituationen möglich. Im Rahmen dieses Verfahrens ist die Regionalisierung eines Gesamtgebietes in schallklimatologisch ähnliche Teilgebiete möglich. Eine solche Untersuchung erfolgte durch die Analyse von Schalldruckpegeldämpfungskarten für eine Vielzahl von Atmosphärenstrukturen. Im Ergebnis konnte eine Karte zur Neustrukturierung der Beratungsräume der Bundeswehr, unter Berücksichtigung meteorologischer Einflüsse auf die Schallausbreitung, erarbeitet werden.
A procedure is described, which has been developed within the framework of a project for the Bundeswehr. This method provides a relatively simple way to include meteorological influences on the sound propagation for forecasting sound immission. Therefore, at first, different meteorological situations (differentiation regarding temperature, wind speed, wind direction) have been classified. For the different classes the spatial distribution attenuation of sound level have been calculated using a model of sound propagation SMART (Sound propagation model of the atmosphere using ray-tracing). The results are stored in a database. The analysis and evaluation of this forecasts as well as the access to the database is realized using the visualization tool MetaVIS (Meteorological attenuation visualization). Therewith fast forecasts of sound immission for present meteorological situations are enabled. Moreover, with this procedure a regionalization of an entire territory in areas with a similar sound climatology is possible. Such an estimation has been done by analysing maps of sound level attenuation for different atmospheric structures. As a result, a map for restructuring the consulting areas of the Bundeswehr, considering meteorological influences on the sound propagation, could be acquired.

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Wang, Weili. "Remote sensing of swell and currents in coastal zone by HF radar". Thesis, Toulon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOUL0011/document.

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L’environnement maritime du littoral implique de nombreux processus complexes, mais le manque de données en haute résolution couvrant une large zone sur une longue période est souvent l’obstacle principal à des recherches plus approfondies. Le radar haute-fréquence (HF) est un moyen de faire de la télédétection afin d’obtenir pratiquement en temps réel de l’information sur la surface de la mer et sur une large zone. Ainsi l’étude de l’inversion des paramètres marins à partir de données issues de radars HF est réellement porteuse de sens. Cette thèse fait l’usage d’un jeu de données collectées durant 13 mois par deux réseaux de radar HF à commande de phase pour étudier les caractéristiques de signaux d’échos de la mer, étudier les données à traiter et les méthodes d’inversion, calculer les paramètres de la surface de la mer et évaluer la précision de l’inversion radar des paramètres de la houle.Cette thèse se réfère à l’onde de sol radar HF, dont les ondes radio interagissent avec l’océan du fait de la diffraction de résonance de Bragg. Nous passons en revue l’historique et les applications du radar HF. Nous rappelons les bases de la théorie des ondes électromagnétiques. Nous décrivons les principes d’inversion des courants de surface de la mer, direction du vent et paramètres de houles. La faisabilité de l’inversion de paramètres de houle est examinée. A partir de l’analyse théorique et des études statistiques de nombreux échantillons de données, cette thèse propose une série de méthodes sur le traitement du signal brut et le contrôle de qualité, ce qui inclut la détermination du niveau de bruit, le moyennage des données dans l’espace et le temps, l’identification correcte des pics spectraux, le seuil de largeur de pic, etc. Respectant les caractéristiques de différents processus physiques, les inversions de courant et de vent utilisent des spectres collectés toutes les 20 minutes ; l’inversion des paramètres de houle utilise des spectres moyennés sur 1 heure. Les statistiques des spectres utilisés pour le calcul des paramètres de houle sont présentées pour chacune des stations. Un ensemble de programme efficaces de calculs automatiques avec une complexité algorithme réduite sont développés pour réaliser le traitement et en tirer les paramètres marins.Les vitesses de courants radiales sont obtenues à partir d’une unique station radar. Les champs de vecteurs de courants sont obtenus en combinant chaque station. On montre une année de débit moyen dans la mer d’Iroise, ainsi que le calcul de la vorticité et de la divergence. On étudie un ensemble de données d’un mois du radar SeaSonde de Qingdao. Les schémas de débit moyen, ainsi que la vorticité et la divergence sur un mois sont présentés.La direction relative du vent par rapport à la direction de visée du radar est mesurée à travers le ratio des amplitudes des pics de Bragg. Différents modèles empiriques sont employés pour obtenir la vitesse relative du vent par inversion radar. Les résultats présentés sont en accord avec les estimations prédites par le modèle. Différents modèles de distribution directionnelle sont utilisés pour mesurer le facteur de diffusion pour la mer d’Iroise.Cette thèse se concentre sur l’étude des paramètres de houle. Les résultats sont validés à l’aide de bouées et de données du modèle de vagues (Wavewatch III). L’estimation montre que la précision de la fréquence de houle est très bonne, la précision sur la hauteur significative de houle est très raisonnable et la précision sur la direction absolue de la houle est faible. La cohérence des mesures par chacune des stations radars est vérifiée par comparaison entre les deux. L’utilisation conjointe des échantillons est également prise en charge pour réaliser l’inversion. L’utilisation de deux radars n’améliore pas seulement la précision, mais résout aussi l’ambiguïté de direction relative de houle à partir d’une unique station et donne la direction absolue de vague avec une certaine précision
Nearshore marine environment contains many complex processes, but the lack of high-resolution data over a large area during a long time is often the primary obstacle to further research. High-frequency (HF) radar is a mean of remote sensing which obtains continuous near-real time sea surface information over a large area. Thus the study of inversion of marine parameters from HF radar data is very meaningful. Thisthesis makes use of a 13-month-long dataset collected by two phased array HF radar to investigate the characteristics of the sea echo signals, study the data processing and inversion methods, compute sea surface parameters and evaluate the accuracy of radarinversion of swell parameters.The thesis refers to the ground wave HF radar, whose radio waves interact with ocean by Bragg resonance scattering. The development history and applications of HF radar is introduced. The basic theory of electromagnetic wave is reviewed. The principles of inversion of sea surface current, wind direction and swell parameters are described. The feasibility of the swell parameter inversion is investigated. Based on theoretical analysis and statistical studies of a large number of samples, the thesis proposes a series of methods on raw signal processing and quality control, including the determination of the noise level, data averaging in space and time, the proper identification of spectral peaks, the peak width threshold, etc. Respecting the characteristics of different physical processes, inversions of current and wind use spectra collected every 20 min; inversion of swell parameters uses one-hour averaged spectra. The statistics of qualified spectra for swell parameter calculations are presented for both stations. A set of efficient, with a reduced computational cost, automatic computing programs are developed to do the processing and derive marine parameters. Radial current velocities are derived from single radar station. Current vector fields are obtained by combination of both stations. One-year mean flow field in the Iroise Sea is shown, together with the computation of vorticity and divergence. A one-month SeaSonde radar dataset off Qingdao is studied. One-month mean flow pattern together with vorticity and divergence are presented.Relative wind direction with respect to radar look direction is measured through ratio of Bragg peaks amplitudes. Different empirical models are employed to derive radar-inverted relative wind direction. Results show reasonable agreement with model estimations. Different directional distribution models are used to measure the spreading factor for the Iroise Sea. The thesis focuses on the study of swell parameters. Results are validated by buoy and wave model (WAVEWATCH III) data. The assessments show that the accuracy of swell frequency is very good, the accuracy of swell significant waveheight is reasonable, and the accuracy of relative swell direction is low.Consistency of measurements by both radar stations is verified by comparison between the two. This also supports the use of double samples to do the inversion. Use of two radars not only further improves the accuracy but also solves the ambiguity of relative swell direction from single station and gives the absolute wave direction to a certain precision. The thesis proposes a constant relative directionmethod to derive swell significant waveheight, based on the studies of radar integral equation and the inverted results of relative swell direction. This proposal is demonstrated to improve the agreement of radar inversion and buoy/model provided significant waveheight and increases significantly the number of samples. The thesis investigates the accuracy of swell parameters obtained by HF radar. Contributions of random errors in radar observations are quantified. Comparing the differences between radar and buoy/model estimations gives assessments of the contribution of radar intrinsic uncertainty and contribution of other factors

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Chesley-Preston, Tara Lea. "Patterns of natural avalanche activity associated with new snow water equivalance and upper atmospheric wind direction and speed in the mountains surrounding Gothic, Colorado". Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/chesley-preston/Chesley-PrestonT0510.pdf.

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Snowfall, temperature and wind are three factors that quickly change avalanche conditions. Ridge-top winds have been used to assess avalanche conditions with mixed success due to high variability. Few analyses have tested the effect upper atmospheric winds have on avalanche conditions. This study attempts to quantify the effect upper atmospheric wind direction and speed have on the spatial pattern of natural avalanching in the mountains near Gothic, Colorado. The Gothic dataset consists of over 3,300 natural avalanches spanning a time period of 33 years. These data are associated with daily new snow water equivalence (SWE) collected at Gothic, as well as 500mb wind direction and speed from the National Centers for Environmental Protection/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) gridded reanalysis project. I hypothesize that prevailing 500mb winds are more likely to be associated with natural avalanches in avalanche paths with a starting zone aspect lee to the prevailing free air winds. In addition, I hypothesize that the odds of a natural avalanche occurring increases with increasing new SWE, increasing 500mb wind speeds, and 500mb wind direction. These hypotheses are tested using simple probability analysis as well as a two-component hurdle model. As expected, avalanche paths lee to the 500mb wind direction have an increased probability of avalanching in relation to paths facing in other directions. However, exceptions do occur, some of which can be explained by cross-loading. The hurdle model results indicate that after accounting for new SWE, 500mb wind speed is significant in determining whether or not a day will be considered an avalanche day. Once a day is determined to be an avalanche day, 500mb wind direction is an important determinant for the daily avalanche hazard after accounting for new SWE. These results have practical significance. They give avalanche forecasters confidence that upper air wind direction is a useful predictor of the pattern of avalanche activity at the valley or mountain range scale, and the exceptions observed show that such predictions cannot be applied at the path scale. These scale issues demonstrate the general nature of backcountry advisories and why they cannot be applied at the scale of individual slopes.

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Park, Jeonghwan. "Investigations of GNSS-R for Ocean Wind, Sea Surface Height, and Land Surface Remote Sensing". The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512095954817037.

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Drbohlav, Lukáš. "Vyhodnocení spotřeby osobní lodi". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-219883.

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This thesis is focused on a design and an implementation of a power consumption computation for a passenger vessel using the industrial automation system Siemens Simatic S7-200 and the touch panel Weintek Easy View MT8150X. A part of the thesis represents a theoretical summary of features and parametres of the programmable logic controllers (PLC) and a way how they are programmed. The work includes a description of a computational algorithm, a block diagram of interconnections and a visualization software for testing. A greater part of this publication is devoted to a detailed decription of a program in the PLC and its visualization, especially the power consumption computation, a distance, an average speed and a wind speed and a direction. At the end, the thesis shows a procedure for an implementation and a measurement on the passenger ships at the Brno dam, including an evaluation of downloaded data.

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Helmersson, Irene. "Uppskattning av vindklimat : – Implementering och utvärdering även metod för normalårskorrektion". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-303977.

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The expected technical lifetime for a wind turbine is 20-25 years (Wizelius, 2007). In the process of planning a wind farm on a site an estimation of the average wind speed and the energy yield is required from the site. Due to large fluctuations in wind velocity from one year to another it is, from a climatologically point of view, not sufficient to measure the wind for a short period of time, e.g. one year. The year measured may have uncommonly high or uncommonly low winds and thereby generate an average not representative of the wind climate on the site. In the same time it is neither practical nor economically desirable to measure for a longer time period. Instead the measured data collected for a short period of time is scaled into a normal year before it is used to calculate the energy content. This normal year correction can be preformed using different methods. Principally, the methods relate the short time series, measured on the site, to one or more variables of a long time reference series. As a long time reference series the geostrophic wind on the site or a series of measured wind nearby can be used. If the correlation between the two series is sufficiently high a normal year correction may be done using the relation. Normal year correction has foremost been done using the relation between the velocities of the measured wind and a reference wind. The purpose in this study is to evaluate and implement a part of an algorithm for normal year correction considering additional variables besides wind velocity. The relationships studied are between measured wind speed and geostrophic wind speed, geostrophic wind direction and time of the year. For the purpose of evaluating the algorithm two wind data series from Näsudden, on the Swedish island of Gotland, for a period of 15 years has been used. Measured wind on 75 meters and geostrophic wind on 850hPa. Where the geostrophic wind has been used as a long time reference and the measured wind for one year at the time has been related to this reference. The relation has then been used together with the geostrophic wind data to create an estimation of the wind climate on Näsudden in three steps. Step one establishes the estimation due to the relation of geostrophic wind speed. Step two corrects the estimation due to the relation of geostrophic wind direction and step three corrects the estimation due to the relation of time of year. The conclusions from this study showed that with the method used for implementing the algorithm the normal year correction using only the relation between the velocities of the measured wind and the geostrophic wind gives the best estimation of the climatically mean wind speed. The standard deviation gives a 5 % risk for more than 0.436 m/s error for estimation of the mean wind on the site, which is comparable to earlier studies. The introduction of the wind direction dependence overestimates the mean wind on the site and amplifies the error. The introduction of the season dependence amplifies the error further and overestimates the mean wind additionally.
En vindturbin har en planerad livslängd på 20-25 år (Wizelius, 2007). Vid planering av en vindkraftspark behöver en estimering av medelvinden och energiutvinningen utföras för platsen man är intresserad av. På grund av stora fluktuationer av vindhastighet från år till år är det ur klimatologisk synpunkt inte tillräckligt att mäta under en kort period, exempelvis ett år. Det år man mäter kan ha ovanligt starka eller ovanligt svaga vindar och ge en icke representativ bild av vindklimatet på platsen. Samtidigt är det inte praktiskt eller ekonomiskt önskvärt att mäta under en längre tidsperiod. Istället kan den korta mätserie som insamlats korrigeras till ett normalår med hjälp av en långtidsreferens innan den används för att beräkna energiinnehållet. I princip går normalårskorrigering ut på att relatera den korta mätserien till en eller flera variabler i långtidsreferensen. Som långtidsreferensdata kan den geostrofiska vinden på platsen eller en lång mätserie från en närliggande plats användas. Om korrelationen mellan de två serierna är tillräckligt hög kan en normalårskorrigering göras med hjälp av relationen. Tidigare har man vid normalårskorrigering främst sett till relationen mellan vindhastigheterna för den uppmätta vinden och en referensvind. Syftet i detta arbete är att utvärdera en del av en algoritm för normalårskorrigering där hänsyn tas till fler variabler än endast vindhastighet. Samband som studeras är mellan uppmätt vindhastighet och geostrofisk vindhastighet, geostrofisk vindriktning och tid på året. För utvärderingen av algoritmen har två vinddataserier från Näsudden på Gotland använts för en period av 15 år med uppmätt vind på 75m och geostrofisk vind på 850hPa. Där den geostrofiska vinden fått representera långtidsreferensen och den uppmätta vinden för ett år i taget har relaterats till denna. Efter normalårskorrigeringen har den uppmätta vinden för 15 år fått representera vindklimatet på platsen som jämförelse. Enligt algoritmen har uppskattning av vindklimatet på Näsudden skapats i tre steg. Steg 1 är en uppskattning av vinden från sambandet för geostrofisk vindhastighet. Steg 2 är en korrektion av uppskattningen genom sambandet till geostrofisk vindriktning och steg 3 en korrektion av uppskattningen genom sambandet till tid på året. Efter vart steg skickas det aktuella estimatet vidare till nästa steg där det korrigeras med avseende på nästa samband. Slutsatserna från undersökningen visade att med den metod som använts ger normalårskorrigeringen med enbart sambandet till hastighet bäst uppskattning av den klimatologiska medelvinden. Standardavvikelsen för estimatet ger 5 % risk för mer än 0,436 m/s fel vid uppskattning av klimatologisk medelvind vilket är jämförbart med tidigare studier. Vidare överskattar införandet av vindriktningsberoendet den uppskattade medelvindhastigheten samt ökar osäkerheten. Även införandet av säsongsberoendet överskattar medelvindhastigheten ytterligare samt även osäkerheten.

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Suzuki, Takeharu, i n/a. "Integrated, Intelligent Sensor Fabrication Strategies for Environmental Monitoring". Griffith University. School of Microelectronic Engineering, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040813.131206.

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The humidity, temperature, wind speed/direction micro sensors can be manufactured individually, resulting in three individual substrates. The integration of the three sensors into a single substrate is a vital challenge to achieve an integrated intelligent sensor so called a multiple sensor. This requires the integration of process flows and is a major challenge because adequate sensor performance must be maintained. Polyimide was selected as a humidity sensing material for its compatibility with conventional integrated circuit fabrication technology, negligible temperature dependence and good resistance against contamination. Nickel was selected for the temperature and wind speed/direction sensor because of its useful temperature coefficient and the advantage of its cost. Since the known wet etchant for nickel requires hard-baked photoresist, a method which does not attack the polyimide while removing the photoresist must be developed. The method developed for etching nickel employs hard-bake-free photoresist. Other challenge was ensuring good thermal isolation for the wind speed/direction sensor fabricated on a silicon nitride layer preformed on top of a silicon wafer. Since silicon acts as a good heat sink, the silicon under the sensor was etched entirely away until the silicon nitride layer was reached. This structure achieved good thermal isolation resulting in small power consumption. This low power feature is essential for sensors deployed in fields where power access or replacement of power sources is restricted. This structure was compared with the structure created by polyimide plateau on a silicon nitride layer coated on a silicon substrate as a function of power consumption. Based on the examination of thermal isolation, the multiple sensor utilizing a MEMS technique was fabricated with a single-sided mask aligner. The characteristics of humidity sensors fabricated with polyimide were examined in detail with respect to variations of electrode structures, improvement of sensitivity, effect of process temperature, temperature and frequency dependence, and stability. The humidity sensor constructed with O2 plasma treated polyimide resulted an improvement in sensitivity and hysteresis. The investigation using XPS, FTIR and AFM concluded the chemical modification of polyimide played an important role in this improvement. The design, fabrication and results of a series of humidity sensors are quantified. There is always no unique packaging solution for sensors because of the application-specific nature of the sensors. This intelligent environmental monitoring system was designed to accommodate both an environmental sensor and its signal conditioning electronics circuitry (SICONEC) into a single package. The environmental sensors need direct exposure to the environment while SICONEC needs a sealed encapsulation to avoid environmental damage. A new style of packaging addressing these requirements was demonstrated using a hot embossing machine. The hot embossing machine was used to embed an integrated circuit (IC) in a bare die condition into a polycarbonate (PC) sheet. In this case, the IC was flipped down against the PC, which protects the front side of the IC from the environmental damages. In a test phase, a die containing operational amplifiers was embossed into the PC. A humidity sensor and surface mount resisters were placed on the same surface of the PC to test the validity of this new technique. Interconnection between the embossed die and the humidity sensor was established using bonding wires. Copper tracks were also used to ensure all electrical connections for the die, the humidity sensor and the resistors. The results clarified the method developed. Details of process methods, issues and further potential improvement are reported.

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Beneděla, Pavel. "Meteostanice". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-220133.

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This thesis deals with conception of proposal and implementation of a weather station. Weather station is composed of three main parts which are measuring station, showing station and USB wireless receiving module. Measuring station measures basic meteorologic variables and sends measured variables through wireless communication. Showing station is designed to present measured data with graphics user interface and generate data for a web server.

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Suzuki, Takeharu. "Integrated, Intelligent Sensor Fabrication Strategies for Environmental Monitoring". Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367295.

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The humidity, temperature, wind speed/direction micro sensors can be manufactured individually, resulting in three individual substrates. The integration of the three sensors into a single substrate is a vital challenge to achieve an integrated intelligent sensor so called a multiple sensor. This requires the integration of process flows and is a major challenge because adequate sensor performance must be maintained. Polyimide was selected as a humidity sensing material for its compatibility with conventional integrated circuit fabrication technology, negligible temperature dependence and good resistance against contamination. Nickel was selected for the temperature and wind speed/direction sensor because of its useful temperature coefficient and the advantage of its cost. Since the known wet etchant for nickel requires hard-baked photoresist, a method which does not attack the polyimide while removing the photoresist must be developed. The method developed for etching nickel employs hard-bake-free photoresist. Other challenge was ensuring good thermal isolation for the wind speed/direction sensor fabricated on a silicon nitride layer preformed on top of a silicon wafer. Since silicon acts as a good heat sink, the silicon under the sensor was etched entirely away until the silicon nitride layer was reached. This structure achieved good thermal isolation resulting in small power consumption. This low power feature is essential for sensors deployed in fields where power access or replacement of power sources is restricted. This structure was compared with the structure created by polyimide plateau on a silicon nitride layer coated on a silicon substrate as a function of power consumption. Based on the examination of thermal isolation, the multiple sensor utilizing a MEMS technique was fabricated with a single-sided mask aligner. The characteristics of humidity sensors fabricated with polyimide were examined in detail with respect to variations of electrode structures, improvement of sensitivity, effect of process temperature, temperature and frequency dependence, and stability. The humidity sensor constructed with O2 plasma treated polyimide resulted an improvement in sensitivity and hysteresis. The investigation using XPS, FTIR and AFMconcluded the chemical modification of polyimide played an important role in this improvement. The design, fabrication and results of a series of humidity sensors are quantified. There is always no unique packaging solution for sensors because of the application-specific nature of the sensors. This intelligent environmental monitoring system was designed to accommodate both an environmental sensor and its signal conditioning electronics circuitry (SICONEC) into a single package. The environmental sensors need direct exposure to the environment while SICONEC needs a sealed encapsulation to avoid environmental damage. A new style of packaging addressing these requirements was demonstrated using a hot embossing machine. The hot embossing machine was used to embed an integrated circuit (IC) in a bare die condition into a polycarbonate (PC) sheet. In this case, the IC was flipped down against the PC, which protects the front side of the IC from the environmental damages. In a test phase, a die containing operational amplifiers was embossed into the PC. A humidity sensor and surface mount resisters were placed on the same surface of the PC to test the validity of this new technique. Interconnection between the embossed die and the humidity sensor was established using bonding wires. Copper tracks were also used to ensure all electrical connections for the die, the humidity sensor and the resistors. The results clarified the method developed. Details of process methods, issues and further potential improvement are reported.
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Caixeta, Daniel Ferreira. "Dispersão de machos de Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) (Leipdoptera: Crambidae) em cana-de-açúcar /". Jaboticabal : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91389.

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Orientador: Odair Aparecido Fernandes
Banca: José Alexandre Freitas Barrigossi
Banca: Leila Lucci Dinardo-Miranda
Resumo: A broca-da-cana, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.), é a uma das pragas mais importantes da cana-de-açúcar no Brasil. Para o sucesso na utilização de plantas geneticamente modificadas visando o controle deste inseto, faz-se necessário conhecer sua dispersão. Estudos da dinâmica de vôo também podem ajudar na compreensão do comportamento do inseto, e de suas interações ecológicas. O estudo da dispersão de D. saccharalis foi possível através da marcação, liberação e captura dos machos adultos. A marcação foi realizada por meio da incorporação de corante lipossolúvel à dieta das larvas. As armadilhas de feromônio foram dispostas nos talhões de cana-de-açúcar nos sentidos norte, sul, leste e oeste, circundando o ponto de liberação. Os resultados obtidos mostram que mais de 45 % dos machos marcados capturados permaneceram nas áreas mais próximas ao ponto de liberação. Fatores climáticos como a temperatura, umidade relativa, velocidade do vento e precipitação não interferem decisivamente na captura dos machos liberados e dos machos do campo. A direção do vento exerce um papel fundamental na dispersão de D. saccharalis, uma vez que a maioria dos insetos voou a favor do vento. O modelo mais adequado para explicar a relação entre a distância de vôo e o número de indivíduos capturados é dado por y = a2/(1+(2a1,8bx))2,6. Com isso, para o manejo de resistência de D. saccharalis em cultivos de cana-de-açúcar geneticamente modificada expressando proteínas de Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner, deve se manter no máximo 800 m de distância entre as áreas de refúgio
Abstract: The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.), is one of the most important sugarcane pests in Brazil. For a successful utilization of genetically modified crops aiming at the control of this insect, it is necessary to know its dispersal. Studies of flight dynamics can also help understand the insect's behavior and its ecological interactions. The study of D. saccharalis dispersal was possible through labeling, releasing and capturing adult males. Labeling was performed by incorporating oil soluble dyes into the larval diet. The pheromone traps were placed in a sugarcane field following the cardinal directions (North, South, East, West) around the release site. The results showed that more than 45 % of the labeled males were captured closer to the release site. Climatic factors such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and rain do not affect decisively in the release or wild males capture. The wind direction is important in D. saccharalis dispersal, once the majority of insects flew towards the wind. The most adequate model to explain the relationship between flight distance and number of captured insects is y = a2/(1+(2a1,8bx))2,6. Thus, for resistance management of D. saccharalis in genetically modified sugarcane expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner proteins, the refugia sites should be kept at most 800 m apart
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Silva, Juliane Kayse Albuquerque da. "Caracterização do vento e estimativa do potencial eólico para a região de tabuleiros costeiros (Pilar, Alagoas)". Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2007. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/859.

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The aim of this study was to characterize the wind behavior (velocity, direction, turbulence index and gust factor), as well as a preliminary estimate of the aeolian potential in coastal region close to Maceió. The wind data utilized was collected during the MICROMA project (Micrometeorologia da Mata Atlântica Alagoana) installed at Vilanova Farm, Pilar Alagoas State (9º36 12 S, 35º53 46 W, 170 m), from July/1996 to September/1999. The results showed that the local wind is influenced by micro and macro scale phenomenon. The wind velocity (8,29m height) decreases in the winter and increases in the summer. In the two seasons the wind velocity is faster during daytime. Almost in a half of the case (46%) the wind velocity is between zero and 2,0 m.s-1. The wind direction showed a little variability and the predominant flow is from ocean to continent felt (66%). The behavior of the atmospheric turbulence is inverse to the wind velocity. The wind velocity (estimated to 75m height) in 99,5% of the cases was superior to the initial velocity to start the aero generator (2,5 m.s-1). The simulated average wind power potential value was 110,27±106,51 W.m-2.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo a caracterização do comportamento do vento (velocidade, direção, índice de turbulência e fator de rajadas), bem como fazer uma estimativa preliminar do potencial eólico para a região de tabuleiros costeiros próximo a Maceió. Foram utilizados os dados de vento coletados durante a realização do projeto MICROMA (Micrometeorologia da Mata Atlântica Alagoana) montado na Fazenda Vilanova, Pilar AL (9º36 12 S, 35º53 46 W, 170 m), no período de julho de 1996 a setembro de 1999. Os resultados mostraram que o vento no local é influenciado pelos fenômenos locais e os de grande escala. A velocidade (8,29 m) diminui no inverno e aumenta no verão, e, em ambas as estações, é bem maior durante o dia. Quase metade (46%) dos casos são ventos na faixa de zero até 2,0 m.s-1. A direção apresenta pouca variabilidade e o fluxo predominante é no sentindo oceano-continente (66%). A turbulência atmosférica é inversamente proporcional a velocidade do vento. O vento estimado para 75m em 99,5% dos casos foi superior a velocidade de partida dos aerogeradores (2,5 m.s-1). O valor médio estimado para o potencial eólico foi de 110,27±106,51 W.m-2 com maior ocorrência na faixa entre 50-100 W.m-2 (38,6%).

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Caixeta, Daniel Ferreira [UNESP]. "Dispersão de machos de Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) (Leipdoptera: Crambidae) em cana-de-açúcar". Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91389.

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A broca-da-cana, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.), é a uma das pragas mais importantes da cana-de-açúcar no Brasil. Para o sucesso na utilização de plantas geneticamente modificadas visando o controle deste inseto, faz-se necessário conhecer sua dispersão. Estudos da dinâmica de vôo também podem ajudar na compreensão do comportamento do inseto, e de suas interações ecológicas. O estudo da dispersão de D. saccharalis foi possível através da marcação, liberação e captura dos machos adultos. A marcação foi realizada por meio da incorporação de corante lipossolúvel à dieta das larvas. As armadilhas de feromônio foram dispostas nos talhões de cana-de-açúcar nos sentidos norte, sul, leste e oeste, circundando o ponto de liberação. Os resultados obtidos mostram que mais de 45 % dos machos marcados capturados permaneceram nas áreas mais próximas ao ponto de liberação. Fatores climáticos como a temperatura, umidade relativa, velocidade do vento e precipitação não interferem decisivamente na captura dos machos liberados e dos machos do campo. A direção do vento exerce um papel fundamental na dispersão de D. saccharalis, uma vez que a maioria dos insetos voou a favor do vento. O modelo mais adequado para explicar a relação entre a distância de vôo e o número de indivíduos capturados é dado por y = a2/(1+(2a1,8bx))2,6. Com isso, para o manejo de resistência de D. saccharalis em cultivos de cana-de-açúcar geneticamente modificada expressando proteínas de Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner, deve se manter no máximo 800 m de distância entre as áreas de refúgio
The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabr.), is one of the most important sugarcane pests in Brazil. For a successful utilization of genetically modified crops aiming at the control of this insect, it is necessary to know its dispersal. Studies of flight dynamics can also help understand the insect’s behavior and its ecological interactions. The study of D. saccharalis dispersal was possible through labeling, releasing and capturing adult males. Labeling was performed by incorporating oil soluble dyes into the larval diet. The pheromone traps were placed in a sugarcane field following the cardinal directions (North, South, East, West) around the release site. The results showed that more than 45 % of the labeled males were captured closer to the release site. Climatic factors such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and rain do not affect decisively in the release or wild males capture. The wind direction is important in D. saccharalis dispersal, once the majority of insects flew towards the wind. The most adequate model to explain the relationship between flight distance and number of captured insects is y = a2/(1+(2a1,8bx))2,6. Thus, for resistance management of D. saccharalis in genetically modified sugarcane expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner proteins, the refugia sites should be kept at most 800 m apart

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De, Faria Luciano. "Airflow in the urban environment : an evaluation of the relationship between urban aspect ratios and patterns of airflow, wind velocity and direction in urban areas, and coefficient of pressure distribution on building envelopes". Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/45307/.

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This thesis addresses the relationship between the physical dimensions and aspect ratios of urban areas and the airflow below the urban canopy height. The aim is to investigate the link between these aspect ratios and the resulting airflow patterns, wind speed and direction, and pressure coefficients on the envelope of target buildings. The research method involves several steps which seek to explore the airflow in four urban scenarios, simplified simulation using two parallel bricks; several complex urban prototype scenarios; and two actual urban areas used as case studies situated on the Cardiff Cathays Campus and the Paulista Avenue - São Paulo. The research methods employed are: atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel (WT), steady-state standard k-e CFD simulation and field measurements (FM). Three prevailing wind directions were investigated: parallel, orthogonal and oblique. The outputs are guiven in terms of: Cp and ΔCp data displayed as graphs, tables and/ or contour plots; airflow patterns and velocity magnitude and direction, displayed as vertical profile graphs and visualized by means of CFD pathlines or WT helium bubble pathlines; and correlation displayed as scatter diagrams and matrices. A relationship was found between the urban aspect ratios and the ΔCp results. This was demonstrated by statistical methods using the data on the variables concerned, thus verifying the strength of the correlation between them. Strong correlation was found between the investigations into similar scenarios of the urban prototypes and the two case studies as regards both the aspect ratios and the ΔCp results. On the other hand, low correlation for the same variables were identified when contrasting dissimilar urban prototype scenarios. Moreover, good levels of comparison were found between the FM and the CFD simulations in Case Study 01 for both the decrease in wind velocity magnitude and direction in urban areas.

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Greenland, Christopher. "Meteorologiska mätningar med drönare". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-384951.

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Studien handlade om att belysa hur UAV:s kan komma till nytta i meteorologisk forskning och att ta reda på hur bra drönare är på att mäta meteorologiska storheter. Drönare, som också kallas UAV:s (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) är mindre obemmanade luftfartyg som kan flyga autonomt eller fjärrstyras. Idag används drönare alltmer i meteorologi vilket beror mycket på den tekniska utvecklingen. Exempel på meteorologiska applikationer är mätning av vindhastighet och koncentrationen av koldioxid i luften som kan användas för att studera de lägsta atmosfäriska skikten. Storheter som mättes i detta projekt var vindhastighet, vindriktning, temperatur och relativ fuktighet på olika höjder. Mätningarna gjordes två gånger i en mätstation i Marsta, som ligger utanför Uppsala. Efteråt jämfördes datan från drönaren med data från en instrumenterad mast vid väderstationen. Resultaten visade att drönarens vindprofiler stämde ganska väl överens med mastens vindprofiler och den logaritmiska vindlagen. Under den första fältmätningen uppskattade drönaren att vindhastigheten var 8.13 ± 1.33 m/s vid hovring på tio meters höjd medan masten angav 8.41 ± 0.958 m/s. Drönarens mätvärden för vindriktningen var ibland bra och ibland mindre bra. Mätvärdena för temperaturen och den relativa fuktigheten avvek med upp mot 1 ◦C respektive 10 procentenheter.
The aim of this report was to study how UAV:s can be applied in meteorological research and find out how good drones are at measuring meteorological parameters. A drone, also known as an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is a smaller unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously or under remote control. Today, drones are used more frequently in meteorology, mostly due to the recent technological development. Examples of meteorological applications include measurements of wind speed and the amount of carbon dioxide in the air which can be used to analyze the lower parts of the atmosphere. In this project, the wind speed and its direction, the temperature and the relative humidity were measured at different heights. The measurements took place twice in Marsta which is a field station outside Uppsala. Then, the data from the drone was compared to the data from a weather tower at the instrumented station. The results showed that the drone’s wind profiles were relatively similar to the profiles according to the tower and the logarithmic wind profiles. For instance, during the first flight the drone estimated the wind speed to be 8.13 ± 1.33 m/s while hovering ten metres above the ground. The tower measured 8.41 ± 0.958 m/s at the same height. The drone’s estimations of the wind direction were sometimes accurate and sometimes not accurate. The temperature and relative humidity however was different by 1 ◦C and ten percentage units respectively.

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Puhl, Patricia Roberta. "O campo de dunas transgressivo da barreira costeira holocênica no litoral norte do Rio Grande do Sul: possíveis controles do seu desenvolvimento". reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/164334.

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No Litoral Norte do Rio Grande do Sul, ao norte do balneário Xangri-lá, a barreira holocênica encontra-se parcialmente coberta pela fase moderna e relativamente ativa de um campo de dunas transgressivo, enquanto que, ao sul deste balneário, o campo de dunas cobre completamente a barreira. Este trabalho contribuiu para o conhecimento acerca desse comportamento diferenciado de desenvolvimento da fase moderna do campo de dunas transgressivo sobre a barreira holocênica. Foram utilizadas séries temporais de vento (direção e velocidade) e precipitação de estações meteorológicas localizadas ao sul e ao norte de Xangri-lá, bem como foram realizadas medições simultâneas de vento, por meio de anemômetros portáteis, imediatamente ao norte e ao sul desse balneário. Potenciais de transporte de areia foram calculados para ambas as estações meteorológicas. Os registros históricos da estação de Tramandaí (mais ao sul) indicaram maiores velocidades de vento e menores de precipitação em relação à estação de Torres (mais ao norte). Devido a maior velocidade dos ventos em Tramandaí, o potencial de transporte de areia nessa localidade foi superior a Torres, indicando o favorecimento da migração das dunas em suas proximidades. O comportamento desigual de desenvolvimento da fase moderna do campo de dunas transgressivo pode então estar relacionado a maior velocidade e frequência dos ventos NNE, NE, ENE e E em Tramandaí (ou seja, ao sul de Xangri-lá), além da menor precipitação que também favorece um transporte de areia mais eficiente ao sul de Xangri-lá.
In the north coast of Rio Grande do Sul, to the north of Xangri-lá beach, the Holocene barrier is partially covered by the modern and relatively active phase of a transgressive dune field, while to the south of this balneario the dune field completely covers the barrier. This work contributed to the knowledge about this differentiated development behavior of the modern phase of the transgressive dune field on the holocene barrier. Time series of wind (direction and speed) and precipitation of meteorological stations located to the south and north of Xangri-lá were used, as well as simultaneous wind measurements using portable anemometers, immediately to the north and south of this balneario. Sand transport potentials were calculated for both meteorological stations. Historical records of the Tramandaí station (further south) indicated higher wind speeds and lower precipitation relative to the Torres station (further north). Due to the greater speed of the winds in Tramandaí, the potential of sand transport in this locality was higher than Torres, indicating the favor of the migration of the dunes in its proximities. The uneven developmental behavior of the modern phase of the transgressive dune field can then be related to the higher speed and frequency of the NNE, NE, ENE and E winds in Tramandaí (ie, south of Xangri-lá), as well as the lower precipitation also favors more efficient sand transportation south of Xangri-lá.

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Filka, Tomáš. "Bezdrátová meteorologická stanice". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-318177.

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This diploma thesis deals with a draft of wireless weather station, whose task is to measure basic values inside and outside the home. Measured variables are for example temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction or concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2). These data will be transmitted to a web server for later processing. Possible technical solutions are described and the outcome is a designed printed circuit boards, which has been assembled and tested. Resulting system was tested in trial operation.

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Kwon, Sun Hong. "Directional growth of wind generated waves". Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49816.

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Jacko, Róbert. "Energeticky soběstačný bezdrátový modul pro senzorické aplikace". Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-220606.

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Masters thesis deals with design and practical implementation of wireless sensor module. The primary requirement for this module is its energy self-sufficiency. In this context, the work gets to the subject of "energy harvesting". Then, in terms of energy requirements, several wireless communication platforms which are favorable for the selected application, are compared. From mentioned technologies was chosen communication platform IQRF. The next parts deals with initial prototype of sensor module, which will be demonstrated as the application of measuring wind direction. This paper describes the hardware and software solution. Followed by a detailed analysis of its properties in terms of energy requirements. Based on the obtained measurements resource parameters are set.

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Abu-hamdeh, Muthanna S. "Modeling of Bi-directional Converter for Wind Power Generation". The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259684130.

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Link, Adam John. "Identifying Potential Patterns of Wildfires in California in Relation to Soil Moisture using Remote Sensing". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu158646328387007.

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Caeiro, Olaio Valente Maria Antonia. "Effects of directional wind shear on orographic gravity wave drag". Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325212.

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Guarino, Maria Vittoria. "Mountain wave breaking in atmospheric flows with directional wind shear". Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/75850/.

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In this thesis, mountain wave breaking triggered by directional wind shear is investigated using numerical simulations of idealized and semi-idealized orographic flows. Idealized simulations are used to produce a regime diagram to diagnose conditions for wave breaking in Richardson number-dimensionless mountain height parameter space. It is found that, in the presence of directional shear, wave breaking can occur over lower mountains than in a constant-wind case. Furthermore, the extent of regions within the simulation domain where Clear-Air Turbulence (CAT) is expected increases with terrain elevation and background wind shear intensity. Analysis of the model output, supported by theoretical arguments, suggest the existence of a link between wave breaking and the relative orientations of the incoming wind vector and the horizontal velocity perturbation vector. This condition provides a possible diagnostic for CAT forecast in directional shear flows. The stability of the flow to wave breaking in the transition from hydrostatic to nonhydrostatic mountain waves is also investigated. Wave breaking seems to be inhibited by non-hydrostatic effects for weak wind shear, but enhanced for stronger wind shear. In the second part of the thesis, a turbulence encounter observed over the Rocky Mountains (in Colorado, USA) is studied. The role of directional shear in causing wave breaking is isolated from other possible wave breaking mechanisms through various sensitivity tests. The existence of an asymptotic wake, as predicted by Shutts for directional shear flows, is hypothesized to be responsible for a significant downwind transport of unstable air detected in cross-sections of the flow. Finally, critical levels induced by directional shear are studied by spectral analysis of the horizontal velocity wave perturbations. This is done for a fully idealized flow and for the more realistic flow corresponding to the investigated turbulence encounter. In these 2D power spectra, a rotation of the most energetic wave modes with the background wind and their selective absorption can be found. Such behaviour is consistent with the mechanism leading to wave breaking in directional shear flows.

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Ayala, Monica. "Climate Variability from 1980 to 2018 and its Effect on Wind Directions, Wind Speeds, and Vog Dispersal in Hawaii". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3776.

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Wind patterns in the Pacific Ocean fluctuate seasonally, annually, and decadally, resulting in changes in the dispersal of volcanic smog (vog) across the Hawaiian Islands. A variety of synoptic-scale weather patterns can affect the Islands, creating variability in the direction and intensity of wind patterns. Recent changes in wind profiles were analyzed to identify possible patterns that could influence and increase the dispersion of vog over time on Hawai’i Island and the other Hawaiian Islands to the northwest. Historically, Northeast Trade Winds prevailed for much of the year, shifting vog into the Pacific Ocean southwest of Hawaii and away from the state’s principal population centers, but Northeast Trade Winds have shown a 20+% reduction over the past several decades. An increase in the southerly source of prevailing wind increased the frequency and intensity of vog and its impacts on the environment and health and well-being of people across the Islands.

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Maysonet, Joel R. "Wine & Beer". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4951/.

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Wine & Beer tells the story of childhood friends Brian and Vic who, after spending some time apart, deal with the tensions of sexual orientation after they attempt to renew their friendship. At the beginning it seems that Vic's sexuality will not be a problem, but after the two friends hang out in a local bar, Brian realizes his hometown is not as tolerant as he is. The couple is faced with family and social concerns, which goes from the argumentative to the violent. As the main characters try to mingle with the conservative town, they soon find themselves looked upon by a small town resistant to change. This 35-minute film explores homophobia and violence in small town USA.

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Cochrane, Brian. "A faithful interpretation of an unfaithful translation : directing Wild Honey". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37729.

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A Faithful Interpretation of an Unfaithful Translation: Directing Wild Honey examines the preparation, pre-production and rehearsal process involved in staging Wild Honey at the Frederick Wood Theatre in March 2011. My objective was to stage a viable, engaging production of Michael Frayn’s re-working of Chekhov’s untitled play. My methods included in-depth table rehearsals, impulse blocking, and working with a vocabulary of active language to best interpret the text with the actors. This play is a great challenge and we continued to unfold new truths from the script right through until closing night. The paper includes an essay on why Frayn is the ideal person to translate and adapt the works of Chekhov, a pre-production analysis of the script, a journal chronicling the entire process from project proposal until closing night, and a short reflection on the process concluding with final thoughts on the production.

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Lundmark, Linn. "(O)avsiktliga följder av vindkraft : - en tolkning av villkoret "avsiktligt" i artskyddsförordningen". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-265191.

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Wind turbines are a cleaner alternative to non-renewable energy, such as fossil fuels, and therefore help to decrease deleterious climate change.[1] Species protection is needed to preserve biodiversity, which is important to all species.[2] It is claimed, however, that between these interests there is a contradiction. Climate change kills birds, but so do wind turbines. According to some, the expansion of wind power is at risk, being hindered by the rules on protected birds, incorrectly interpreted in artskyddsförordningen[3], the Swedish counterpart to international species conventions and the EU Birds directive[4].[5] The Birds directive and artskyddsförordningen prohibits activities that deliberately kill, capture or disturb migratory birds in the EU (art. 5 Birds directive and 4 § artskyddsförordningen). Mark- och miljööverdomstolen has for some years made the assessment that the establishment and operation of wind turbines may be prohibited by reason of the protection of species, even though the purpose of wind power is to produce electricity and not to kill birds.[6] Due to the legal uncertainty, this essay seeks to find out whether wind energy can fall within artskyddsförordningens prohibitions and if so, when. This is done through a legal dogmatic method, complemented with a comparative section. The legal situation is not clear, but after a thorough examination of the origin of the Birds directive, previous case law, new disputed ruling by Mark- och miljööverdomstolen, Danish and German case law, ECJ rulings and guidance documents from the European Commission, in total it seems that an inappropriate placement of wind farms or plants can and sometimes should be seen as a deliberate act in respect of the Birds directive and consequently artskyddsförordningen. That is, unless it is possible to undertake precautionary measures, which neutralizes the act. It also appears that artskyddsförordningen still is to be applied within chapter 2 miljöbalken[7], in the case of species protection. [1] SOU 1999:75, s. 29 f. [2] SOU 2004:37, s. 189. [3] Artskyddsförordningen (2007:845). [4] Directive 2009/147/EC of the European parliament and of the council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds. [5] Mark- och miljööverdomstolen har klargjort att vindkraft inte innebär ett avsiktligt dödande eller störande enligt artskyddsförordningen – kommentar av Magnus Fröberg och Hedvig Ekdahl, 2015-01-23, JP Infonet. [6] Se exempelvis MÖD 2013:13. [7] Miljöbalken (1998:808).

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Wuttke, Brian C. "A Model Describing the Effects of Equipment, Instruction and Director and Student Attributes on Wind-Band Intonation". Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/564.

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The purpose of this study was to test a hypothesized model of wind-band intonation, using equipment, instruction and director and student attributes as components. Band directors (N= 5) and their students N= 200) were given a combination of published and researcher designed tests to measure equipment quality, experience, knowledge of instrument pitch tendencies and aural discrimination skills. In addition, each band was video recorded to observe their warm-up, tuning and rehearsal procedures and activities. Spectrum analysis using Praat phonetic analysis software (Boersma & Weenik, 2010) was used to measure wind-band intonation. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS (Arbuckle, 2008) was the method chosen to analyze and interpret the data. Although the hypothesized model could not be estimated, a model generating approach resulted in a three-factor model describing the effects of instruction and student attributes on wind-band intonation. Model fit was good (χ2 = 3.486, df = 7, p = .837, GFI = .994, CFI = 1.00, RMSEA = .000). The respecified model indicated that instruction and student attributes explain 99.3% of the variance in the dependent variable wind-band intonation. For each SD increase in the latent instruction variable, wind-band intonation increases by .95 a SD. Activities involving aural-based tuning strategies, tuning intervals and chords evidenced higher intonation scores. For each SD increase in the latent student attributes variable, wind-band intonation increases by .16 a SD. This suggests that instrument quality, experience in band and private lessons, and aural acuity combine to affect intonation scores, but these student attributes are less influential than instruction. A supplementary finding revealed that 72.5% of the students n = 145) made at least one error (M = 4.05, SD = 3.76) on the test measuring knowledge of their instrument’s pitch tendencies.

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Kumar, Manoj. "In-situ monitoring of an Omni directional roof vent on a low slope single ply roof to identify most efficient porous underlayment for maximum pressure propagation". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33115.

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An experimental study was carried out on a single-ply low-slope roof using a series of different underlayment layers to test and understand distributional characteristics of negative air pressure throughout the roof assembly, when subjected to suction pressure corresponding to different wind speeds. Various underlayments were tested at the Research & Demonstration Facility at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop design guidelines for the installation of recently developed omni-directional roof vent on low slope membrane roofing systems. The newly designed and patented low-pressure roof vent works on Bernoulli and Venturi air flow principals and helps prevent uplift and detachment of the roofing membrane during storm or high wind conditions by creating a negative pressure zone underneath the roof membrane. The objective of this research is to further develop the Pressure Equalizing Vent System by testing the wind vent in combination with different underlayments and to determine the appropriate tributary area of each vent under dynamic wind conditions. The determined area of influence of each wind vent therefore serves as a guideline for appropriate spacing of the vents on the roof. It will also suggest the wind speed at which the pressure is lowered and its ability to weather storm events. The pressure sensors permanently installed beneath the membrane will continuously monitor the pressures in and around the wind vent. An additional objective of the research project is to understand the distributional characteristics of negative pressure in various layers of roof assembly in combination with varying underlayment membranes under different suctionals pressure to further develop the Pressure Equalizing Vent System. The proposal seeks to develop a cost effective roof assembly method, which can withstand the effect of extreme wind through improved understanding of air movement through different layers of roof assembly. The study explores the effect of various underlayments on spatial and distributional character of pressure field on the single ply flat roof deck in combination with omni-directional roof vent system.
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Widmann, Thomas J. "The role of Dpp and Wingless signaling gradients in directing cell shape during Drosophila wing imaginal disc development". Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-27123.

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Animal morphogenesis is largely driven by concerted changes in the shape of individual cells. However, how cell shape changes are regulated and coordinated in developing animals is not well understood. Here we show that the two perpendicular signaling gradients of the morphogens Dpp, a TGF-β homologue, and Wingless, a Wnt family member, maintain tissue homoeostasis and control cell shape changes in the developing Drosophila wing. Clones of cells lacking Dpp or Wingless signaling invaginate apically, shorten apico-basally and subsequently extrude basally without disruption of the epithelium. During early larval development, the onset of Dpp and Wingless signaling correlates with the cuboidal-to-columnar cell shape transition of wing disc cells. Gradients in apical-basal length of columnar cells correlate during late larval development with the gradients of Dpp and Wingless signaling activities. Cells receiving high levels of Dpp and Wingless signaling are most elongated and apically constricted. Low levels of Dpp and Wingless signaling correlate with a shorter and apically wider cell morphology. Dpp and Wingless signaling is cell-autonomously required for maintaining the elongated columnar cell shape of late larval wing disc cells. Overactivation of these pathways results in precocious cell elongation during early larval development. These morphogenetic responses to Dpp and Wingless require the transcription factor complexes Mad and Tcf/β-catenin, respectively, indicating that they are mediated by changes in gene expression. The morphogenetic function of Wingless is in part mediated by one of its target genes, the transcription factor Vestigial. Wingless signaling promotes an enrichment of E-cadherin at the adherens junctions, and we show that E-cadherin is required to maintain apical-basal cell length. Dpp signaling controls the subcellular distribution of the activities of the small GTPase Rho1 and the regulatory light chain of non-muscle myosin II (MRLC). Alteration of Rho1 or MRLC activity has a profound effect on apical-basal cell length. Finally, we demonstrate that a decrease in Rho1 or MRLC activity rescues the shortening of cells with compromised Dpp signaling. Our results identify cell-autonomous roles for Dpp and Wingless signaling in promoting and maintaining the elongated columnar shape of wing disc cells. Furthermore, they suggest that Dpp and Wingless signaling control cell shape by regulating the actin-MyosinII/E-cadherin network
Morphogenese in Tieren wird in hohem Maße von konzertierten Zellformveränderungen einzelner Zellen bewirkt. Es ist jedoch noch nicht hinreichend verstanden, wie Zellformveränderungen in sich entwickelnden Tieren reguliert und koordiniert werden. Hier zeigen wir, dass die zwei zueinander senkrecht stehenden Signalgradienten der Morphogene Dpp, eines TGF-β Homologs, und Wingless, eines Mitglieds der Wnt Familie, im sich entwickelnden Drosophila-Flügel Gewebe-Homöostase aufrechterhalten und Zellformveränderungen kontrollieren. Klone von Zellen, denen Dpp oder Wingless Signalaktivität fehlt, invaginieren von ihrer apikalen Seite her, verkürzen sich in apiko-basaler Richtung und extruieren im Folgenden auf der basalen Seite des Epithels, ohne es zu zerstören. Während der frühen Larvalentwicklung korreliert das Anschalten der Dpp und Wingless Signale mit der Zellformveränderung der Flügelscheibenzellen von kuboidal zu kolumnar. Gradienten in der apiko-basalen Länge von kolumnaren Zellen korrelieren während der späten Larvalentwicklung mit den Gradienten der Dpp und Wingless Signalaktivitäten. Zellen, die hohe Werte an Dpp und Wingless Signalen empfangen, sind am meisten elongiert und apikal konstringiert. Niedrige Werte von Dpp und Wingless Signalen korrelieren mit kürzerer und apikal weiterer Zellmorphologie. Dpp und Wingless Signale werden zellautonom gebraucht für die Aufrechterhaltung der elongierten Zellform von späten larvalen Flügelscheibenzellen. Die Überaktivierung dieser Signalwege führt zu vorzeitiger Zellverlängerung während der frühen Larvalentwicklung. Diese morphogenetischen Antworten auf Dpp und Wingless benötigen die Transkriptionsfaktor-Komplexe Mad beziehungsweise Tcf/β-catenin, was darauf hindeutet, dass sie durch Änderungen in der Genexpression vermittelt werden. Die morphogenetische Funktion von Wingless wird teilweise durch eines seiner Zielgene, Vestigial, vermittelt. Wingless Signale fördern die Anreicherung von E-cadherin an den Adherensverbindungen. Wir zeigen hier, dass E-cadherin gebraucht wird, um apiko-basale Zelllänge aufrechtzuerhalten. Dpp Signale kontrollieren die subzelluläre Verteilung der Aktivitäten der kleinen GTPase Rho1 und der regulatorischen leichten Kette von nicht-muskulärem Myosin II (MRLC). Eine Änderung in der Rho1 oder MRLC Aktivität hat weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die apiko-basale Zelllänge. Schließlich zeigen wir noch, dass eine Verringerung der Rho1 oder MRLC Aktivitäten die Zellverkürzung von Dpp-Signal kompromittierten Zellen rettet. Unsere Resultate identifizieren zellautonome Rollen für Dpp und Wingless Signale in der Förderung und Aufrechterhaltung der elongierten kolumnaren Zellform von Flügelimaginalscheibenzellen. Darüber hinaus suggerieren sie, dass Dpp und Wingless Signale die Zellform durch die Regulierung des Aktin-MyosinII/E-cadherin-Netzwerks kontrollieren

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Widmann, Thomas J. "The role of Dpp and Wingless signaling gradients in directing cell shape during Drosophila wing imaginal disc development". Doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, 2009. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A25235.

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Animal morphogenesis is largely driven by concerted changes in the shape of individual cells. However, how cell shape changes are regulated and coordinated in developing animals is not well understood. Here we show that the two perpendicular signaling gradients of the morphogens Dpp, a TGF-β homologue, and Wingless, a Wnt family member, maintain tissue homoeostasis and control cell shape changes in the developing Drosophila wing. Clones of cells lacking Dpp or Wingless signaling invaginate apically, shorten apico-basally and subsequently extrude basally without disruption of the epithelium. During early larval development, the onset of Dpp and Wingless signaling correlates with the cuboidal-to-columnar cell shape transition of wing disc cells. Gradients in apical-basal length of columnar cells correlate during late larval development with the gradients of Dpp and Wingless signaling activities. Cells receiving high levels of Dpp and Wingless signaling are most elongated and apically constricted. Low levels of Dpp and Wingless signaling correlate with a shorter and apically wider cell morphology. Dpp and Wingless signaling is cell-autonomously required for maintaining the elongated columnar cell shape of late larval wing disc cells. Overactivation of these pathways results in precocious cell elongation during early larval development. These morphogenetic responses to Dpp and Wingless require the transcription factor complexes Mad and Tcf/β-catenin, respectively, indicating that they are mediated by changes in gene expression. The morphogenetic function of Wingless is in part mediated by one of its target genes, the transcription factor Vestigial. Wingless signaling promotes an enrichment of E-cadherin at the adherens junctions, and we show that E-cadherin is required to maintain apical-basal cell length. Dpp signaling controls the subcellular distribution of the activities of the small GTPase Rho1 and the regulatory light chain of non-muscle myosin II (MRLC). Alteration of Rho1 or MRLC activity has a profound effect on apical-basal cell length. Finally, we demonstrate that a decrease in Rho1 or MRLC activity rescues the shortening of cells with compromised Dpp signaling. Our results identify cell-autonomous roles for Dpp and Wingless signaling in promoting and maintaining the elongated columnar shape of wing disc cells. Furthermore, they suggest that Dpp and Wingless signaling control cell shape by regulating the actin-MyosinII/E-cadherin network.
Morphogenese in Tieren wird in hohem Maße von konzertierten Zellformveränderungen einzelner Zellen bewirkt. Es ist jedoch noch nicht hinreichend verstanden, wie Zellformveränderungen in sich entwickelnden Tieren reguliert und koordiniert werden. Hier zeigen wir, dass die zwei zueinander senkrecht stehenden Signalgradienten der Morphogene Dpp, eines TGF-β Homologs, und Wingless, eines Mitglieds der Wnt Familie, im sich entwickelnden Drosophila-Flügel Gewebe-Homöostase aufrechterhalten und Zellformveränderungen kontrollieren. Klone von Zellen, denen Dpp oder Wingless Signalaktivität fehlt, invaginieren von ihrer apikalen Seite her, verkürzen sich in apiko-basaler Richtung und extruieren im Folgenden auf der basalen Seite des Epithels, ohne es zu zerstören. Während der frühen Larvalentwicklung korreliert das Anschalten der Dpp und Wingless Signale mit der Zellformveränderung der Flügelscheibenzellen von kuboidal zu kolumnar. Gradienten in der apiko-basalen Länge von kolumnaren Zellen korrelieren während der späten Larvalentwicklung mit den Gradienten der Dpp und Wingless Signalaktivitäten. Zellen, die hohe Werte an Dpp und Wingless Signalen empfangen, sind am meisten elongiert und apikal konstringiert. Niedrige Werte von Dpp und Wingless Signalen korrelieren mit kürzerer und apikal weiterer Zellmorphologie. Dpp und Wingless Signale werden zellautonom gebraucht für die Aufrechterhaltung der elongierten Zellform von späten larvalen Flügelscheibenzellen. Die Überaktivierung dieser Signalwege führt zu vorzeitiger Zellverlängerung während der frühen Larvalentwicklung. Diese morphogenetischen Antworten auf Dpp und Wingless benötigen die Transkriptionsfaktor-Komplexe Mad beziehungsweise Tcf/β-catenin, was darauf hindeutet, dass sie durch Änderungen in der Genexpression vermittelt werden. Die morphogenetische Funktion von Wingless wird teilweise durch eines seiner Zielgene, Vestigial, vermittelt. Wingless Signale fördern die Anreicherung von E-cadherin an den Adherensverbindungen. Wir zeigen hier, dass E-cadherin gebraucht wird, um apiko-basale Zelllänge aufrechtzuerhalten. Dpp Signale kontrollieren die subzelluläre Verteilung der Aktivitäten der kleinen GTPase Rho1 und der regulatorischen leichten Kette von nicht-muskulärem Myosin II (MRLC). Eine Änderung in der Rho1 oder MRLC Aktivität hat weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die apiko-basale Zelllänge. Schließlich zeigen wir noch, dass eine Verringerung der Rho1 oder MRLC Aktivitäten die Zellverkürzung von Dpp-Signal kompromittierten Zellen rettet. Unsere Resultate identifizieren zellautonome Rollen für Dpp und Wingless Signale in der Förderung und Aufrechterhaltung der elongierten kolumnaren Zellform von Flügelimaginalscheibenzellen. Darüber hinaus suggerieren sie, dass Dpp und Wingless Signale die Zellform durch die Regulierung des Aktin-MyosinII/E-cadherin-Netzwerks kontrollieren.

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Eisazadeh, Moghaddam Arash. "Pocket beach wave processes and current systems investigated via field and numerical modelling studies: A case study of Okains Bay". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10478.

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Confined coasts in general, and pocket beach environments in particular, are under huge development pressures worldwide, not least due to their sheltered nature and perceived shoreline stability. However, understanding of their physical functioning is poor in comparison to that of open coast beaches. This study aims to improve understanding in terms of the existing gaps in knowledge of wave processes and nearshore currents, and also to examine the importance of local wind and tide factors in generating nearshore currents, in micro-tidal pocket beaches. The boundaries of embayments are generally recognized as important controls of their beach processes and responses, yet little detailed knowledge exists of how the exact embayment dimensions and characteristics influences these processes. One key embayment feature the influence of which is poorly understood is the downcoast headland. In this thesis, field observations plus Zanuttigh and Van der Meer’s (2008) approach, and the SWAN wave model were used to evaluate the downcoast headland effects on wave processes within Okains Bay, an example pocket beach environment. The results showed that incident wave heights and directions were significantly influenced by wave reflection processes from the downcoast headland inside the bay. The intensity of reflection effects on wave characteristics inside the pocket beach varied according to approaching wave direction. Reflection effects reduced when waves approached from angles close to parallel to the headlands, increasing towards headland-perpendicular wave approaches. Field observations and the XBeach model were used to examine whether or not tides can significantly influence nearshore currents within example and model pocket beach environments. Results indicated that tides can be the primary driver of nearshore currents close to the bed inside micro-tidal pocket beaches, depending on incident wave conditions. In areas of micro-tidal pocket beaches exposed to direct approaching waves, currents were wave driven, while in areas further into the bay that experienced headland filtering of their wave environment, currents were mainly tide generated. The results of this study demonstrated how the current circulation system within micro-tidal pocket beaches is related to the incoming directions of offshore waves. If high energy waves approach oblique or normal to the shoreline (with the assumption that the shoreline is at 90° to the headlands), the current system was found to consist of longshore currents influenced by headlands, plus a rip current in the center of the shoreline or a toporip in proximity to headlands. The location of the rip current or toporip was determined by the direction of approaching incident waves. This study also examined the behavior of local winds in a pocket beach environment and their consequent effects on nearshore currents. Results for Okains Bay show that local winds tended to blow in offshore and onshore directions, as the bay is located in a valley, so orographic effects channel and shift the wind directions to angles close to offshore and onshore directions inside the bay. Results also indicated that local winds influence the hydrodynamic currents of pocket beaches that are confined by elevated topography, producing semi-cross shore influences since the winds are topographically channelled to blow in predominantly offshore and onshore directions. This research significantly refines our understanding of micro-tidal pocket beach wave and current processes, including quantification of the filtering effects of headlands on their wave environments, revealing the various and variable influences of tides and winds compared to in open coast beaches; and, significantly, highlighting the role of downcoast headland wave reflection effects. With regard to the latter, this research elucidates some key process differences between pocket and embayed beaches and clarifies reasons why the application of embayed beach models that include refraction and diffraction but exclude reflection effects to the study of pocket beaches is inappropriate for studying pocket beaches. This research also provides methodological and topic suggestions for future research on pocket beach environments, including how to use the improved hydrodynamic knowledge of this study in future studies seeking to better understand pocket beach sediment systems, a topic that was beyond the scope of the current research.

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Villafañe, Roca Laura. "Experimental Aerothermal Performance of Turbofan Bypass Flow Heat Exchangers". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/34774.

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The path to future aero-engines with more efficient engine architectures requires advanced thermal management technologies to handle the demand of refrigeration and lubrication. Oil systems, holding a double function as lubricant and coolant circuits, require supplemental cooling sources to the conventional fuel based cooling systems as the current oil thermal capacity becomes saturated with future engine developments. The present research focuses on air/oil coolers, which geometrical characteristics and location are designed to minimize aerodynamic effects while maximizing the thermal exchange. The heat exchangers composed of parallel fins are integrated at the inner wall of the secondary duct of a turbofan. The analysis of the interaction between the three-dimensional high velocity bypass flow and the heat exchangers is essential to evaluate and optimize the aero-thermodynamic performances, and to provide data for engine modeling. The objectives of this research are the development of engine testing methods alternative to flight testing, and the characterization of the aerothermal behavior of different finned heat exchanger configurations. A new blow-down wind tunnel test facility was specifically designed to replicate the engine bypass flow in the region of the splitter. The annular sector type test section consists on a complex 3D geometry, as a result of three dimensional numerical flow simulations. The flow evolves over the splitter duplicated at real scale, guided by helicoidally shaped lateral walls. The development of measurement techniques for the present application involved the design of instrumentation, testing procedures and data reduction methods. Detailed studies were focused on multi-hole and fine wire thermocouple probes. Two types of test campaigns were performed dedicated to: flow measurements along the test section for different test configurations, i.e. in the absence of heat exchangers and in the presence of different heat exchanger geometries, and heat transfer measurements on the heat exchanger. As a result contours of flow velocity, angular distributions, total and static pressures, temperatures and turbulence intensities, at different bypass duct axial positions, as well as wall pressures along the test section, were obtained. The analysis of the flow development along the test section allowed the understanding of the different flow behaviors for each test configuration. Comparison of flow variables at each measurement plane permitted quantifying and contrasting the different flow disturbances. Detailed analyses of the flow downstream of the heat exchangers were assessed to characterize the flow in the fins¿ wake region. The aerodynamic performance of each heat exchanger configuration was evaluated in terms of non dimensional pressure losses. Fins convective heat transfer characteristics were derived from the infrared fin surface temperature measurements through a new methodology based on inverse heat transfer methods coupled with conductive heat flux models. The experimental characterization permitted to evaluate the cooling capacity of the investigated type of heat exchangers for the design operational conditions. Finally, the thermal efficiency of the heat exchanger at different points of the flight envelope during a typical commercial mission was estimated by extrapolating the convective properties of the flow to flight conditions.
Villafañe Roca, L. (2013). Experimental Aerothermal Performance of Turbofan Bypass Flow Heat Exchangers [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/34774
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Eric, MANIRAGUHA, NTAGWIRUMUGARA Etienne i Nenad GLODIC. "UTILIZATION OF WIND POWER IN RWANDA: Design and Production Option". Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240659.

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This Master Thesis is the research done in the country of Rwanda. The project leads to study the climate of this country in order to establish whether this climate could be used to produce energy from air and to implement the first wind turbine for serving the nation. After an introduction about the historical background of wind power, the thesis work deals with assessment of wind energy potential of Rwanda in focusing of the most suitable place for wind power plants. The best location with annual mean wind speed, the rate of use of turbine with hub height for an annual production per year, the mean wind speeds for 6 sites of Rwanda based on ECMWF for climatic data for one year at relief of altitude of 100m and coordinates are reported too. The result of energy produced and calculations were done based on power hitting wind turbine generator in order to calculate Kinetic energy and power available at the best location to the measurement over the period of 12 months, that could be hoped for long term. With help of logarithmic law, where wind speed usually increases with increasing in elevation and the desired wind speeds at all 6 sites were used. The annual energy production was taken into account at the best site with desired wind speed at the initial cost of turbine as well as the cost of energy (COE).However, with comparison of the tariff of EWSA, the price of Wind designed in this Research per kWh is cheaper and suitable for people of Rwanda.

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Nelson, Edward. "Hydropower in Scotland : linking changing energy and environmental agendas with sustainability outcomes". Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20282.

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As the UK energy sector moves to a greater contribution from low-carbon and renewable sources it faces significant challenges in delivering affordability, security of supply and sustainability. Although hydropower in Scotland emerged on a large scale in the mid-20th century against an influential, changing wider context of energy policy, environmental regulation and debate, it is now subject to an evolving renewables agenda. This further shapes the national and scheme level characteristics of hydropower and in turn outcomes for the water environment. Contingent upon these considerations, hydropower regulation must now deliver on EU obligations to protect and improve the ecological status of water bodies, whilst also supporting domestic efforts to meet high profile binding renewable energy targets. Yet, despite an acknowledged potential for energy policy to constrain the delivery of water policy objectives, there is little policy harmonisation between disciplines. As Scotland orientates itself as a leader in Europe on climate change, transitioning to increasing amounts of renewable generation across a handful of technologies, there is a gap in knowledge about how specific renewable policies and trends can influence hydropower sustainability outcomes and regulatory challenges. This thesis therefore contributes an innovative and timely critical examination of the effect a changing wider renewable energy and policy context has on hydropower sustainability in Scotland, at a scheme and national level. This research uses an interdisciplinary, temporal analysis to identify linkages and create dialogue between disciplines and scales, informing the pursuit of sustainable renewable energy through policy and regulation in a changing world. It finds firstly, that the changing national generation mix towards an increased contribution from renewable sources, including potentially intermittent technologies such as wind power, has contributed to an alteration in the operational characteristics and reservoir variability profile of Cruachan pumped-storage scheme, presenting positive outcomes for reservoir littoral habitats. Secondly, it finds that whilst not operating in isolation, renewable energy incentive policies, through their eligibility criteria, financial reward frameworks and timing, influence hydropower characteristics and sustainability challenges, providing trade-offs but also synergies for hydropower regulation. Finally, it finds that there is a degree of divergence in hydropower outcomes and challenges in Scotland and Norway, due to the characteristics and especially interaction of wider contextual elements such as topography, profile of precipitation input, national energy needs and the role of regional and municipal government. By highlighting these linkages, this thesis is of value to energy policy and environmental regulation in Scotland and across the EU, and is seen as a first step in addressing these uncertainties and supporting a more integrated and sustainable hydropower and renewables governance framework.

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Snyder, Mark Alan. "Long-Term Ambient Noise Statistics in the Gulf of Mexico". ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/595.

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Long-term omni-directional ambient noise was collected at several sites in the Gulf of Mexico during 2004 and 2005. The Naval Oceanographic Office deployed bottom moored Environmental Acoustic Recording System (EARS) buoys approximately 159 nautical miles south of Panama City, Florida, in water depths of 3200 meters. The hydrophone of each buoy was 265 meters above the bottom. The data duration ranged from 10-14 months. The buoys were located near a major shipping lane, with an estimated 1.5 to 4.5 ships per day passing nearby. The data were sampled at 2500 Hz and have a bandwidth of 10-1000 Hz. Data are processed in eight 1/3-octave frequency bands, centered from 25 to 950 Hz, and monthly values of the following statistical quantities are computed from the resulting eight time series of noise spectral level: mean, median, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis and coherence time. Four hurricanes were recorded during the summer of 2004 and they have a major impact on all of the noise statistics. Noise levels at higher frequencies (400-950 Hz) peak during extremely windy months (summer hurricanes and winter storms). Standard deviation is least in the region 100-200 Hz but increases at higher frequencies, especially during periods of high wind variability (summer hurricanes). Skewness is positive from 25-400 Hz and negative from 630-950 Hz. Skewness and kurtosis are greatest near 100 Hz. Coherence time is low in shipping bands and high in weather bands, and it peaks during hurricanes. The noise coherence is also analyzed. The 14-month time series in each 1/3- octave band is highly correlated with other 1/3-octave band time series ranging from 2 octaves below to 2 octaves above the band's center frequency. Spatial coherence between hydrophones is also analyzed for hydrophone separations of 2.29, 2.56 and 4.84 km over a 10-month period. The noise field is highly coherent out to the maximum distance studied, 4.84 km. Additionally, fluctuations of each time series are analyzed to determine time scales of greatest variability. The 14-month data show clearly that variability occurs primarily over three time scales: 7-22 hours (shipping-related), 56-282 hours (2-12 days, weather-related) and over an 8-12 month period.

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