Land Cover Control on the Drivers of Evaporation and Sensible Heat Fluxes: An Observation-Based Synthesis for the Netherlands

Land cover controls the land-atmosphere exchange of water and energy through the partitioning of solar energy into latent and sensible heat. Observations over all land cover types at the regional scale are required to study these turbulent flux dynamics over a landscape. Here, we aim to study how the control of daily and midday latent and...

Risk-Aware Operating Regions for PV-Rich Distribution Networks Considering Irradiance Variability

This article proposes a framework to identify, visualize, and quantify risk of potential over/under voltage due to annual energy consumption and PV generation growth. The stochastic modeling considers the following: (i) Active and reactive power profiles for distribution transformers, dependent on annual energy consumption and activity in the...

On the Influence of Party Walls for Urban Energy Modelling

In the last 15 years semantic 3D city models have seen a steady growth in terms of creation and adoption. Many cities world-wide have now at least one city model which can be used for several applications. Energy- and sustainability-related topics are among those that have experienced a noteworthy increase of interest from the Geomatics...

Community energy storage operation via reinforcement learning with eligibility traces

The operation of a community energy storage system (CESS) is challenging due to the volatility of photovoltaic distributed generation, electricity consumption, and energy prices. Selecting the optimal CESS setpoints during the day is a sequential decision problem under uncertainty, which can be solved using dynamic learning methods. This...

The effect of deep learning reconstruction on abdominal CT densitometry and image quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective: To determine the difference in CT values and image quality of abdominal CT images reconstructed by filtered back-projection (FBP), hybrid iterative reconstruction (IR), and deep learning reconstruction (DLR). Methods: PubMed and Embase were systematically searched for articles regarding CT densitometry in the abdomen and the image...

Conditional Multivariate Elliptical Copulas to Model Residential Load Profiles from Smart Meter Data

The development of thorough probability models for highly volatile load profiles based on smart meter data is crucial to obtain accurate results when developing grid planning and operational frameworks. This paper proposes a new top-down modeling approach for residential load profiles (RLPs) based on multivariate elliptical copulas that can...

Calculations of the motions of a ship moored with Moormaster units

Container ships should only make very small horizontal movements at the berth for efficient (off loading of containers. This is especially a concern in ports directly facing the open ocean, where high swells at sea can cause harbour oscillations and low-frequency surge motions of the ship. Cavotec MSL has developed a new mooring unit, the...

Time-Domain Calculation of Moored Ship Motions in Nonlinear Waves

Behaviour of moored ships in harbours

Ports are more and more planned directly facing the ocean. Breakwaters are built to protect the berths against ocean waves. However, protection against long waves, mainly associated with wave groups at the ocean, is much more difficult. Calculations should be performed in the design stage of the port to verify whether the motions of the moored...

Moored ship motions due to passing ships

Behaviour of moored ships in Harbours

Numerical simulation of long-period waves and ship motions in Tomakomai Port, Japan

Hydrodynamics of a moored LNG carrier behind a detached breakwater

Long-Period wave forces on a moored ship in a Harbour using a strip theory approach

Institutional aspects of 3d cadastres

Unlike other geographical information systems where physical attributes to land are recorded, cadastres register rights to land and consequently are dependent on the institutions in which they have to operate. Without appropriate legal frameworks and transparent public-administrative structures, cadastres cannot operate properly. To perform the...

Personal locator beacons (PLB's) - A feasibility study

Arie Visser, a different view of cooperation between a lifeboat crew

Simulation of the taste receptor process in the blowfly