Optimization of Island Electricity System: Transition to a sustainable electricity supply system on islands through the implementation of a hybrid system including ocean energy technologies

Climate change without adequate countermeasures has become one of humanity's greatest threat. Energy production by means of renewable energy sources is therefore one of the crucial measures that will play a paramount role in reducing the pollutant emissions of fossil fuel dependency. Small islands in particular are an exemplary case of the...

Predicting Storm Surges: Chaos, Computational Intelligence, Data Assimilation, Ensembles

Accurate predictions of storm surge are of importance in many coastal areas. This book focuses on data-driven modelling using methods of nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory for predicting storm surges. A number of new enhancements are presented: phase space dimensionality reduction, incomplete time series, phase error correction, finding true...