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Missing water from the Qiangtang Basin on the Tibetan Plateau
David Andrew Barry, Tao Wang, Jiaqi Chen
The Qiangtang Basin is a large endorheic basin in the inner part of the Tibetan Plateau and has been thought to be a dry region in contrast with its wet surrounding outer region that feeds all the major Asian rivers. Combining surface hydrological data wit ...
2021Groundwater recharge in the Bekaa : insights for enhanced water management
water scarcity, millions of people are subject to insufficient access to safe drinking water and sanitation services in Lebanon. Too often, water scarcity is interpreted as a natural phenomena or the result of technical failures, neglecting the fact that i ...
2021Footprint of SO2 in China's international trade and the interregional hotspot analysis
SO2, which is one of key components that can deteriorate the environment, can be relocated by international trade. Based on the EORA, the EDGAR databases and input-output model, this study calculated China's SO2 emissions caused by import and export, and p ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020Synthesis and Testing of Minimum Energy Adaptive Structures
This paper presents the formulation of a new methodology to design adaptive structures. This design method synthesises structuralconfigurations that are optimum hybrids between a passive and an active structure. An optimisation scheme searches for an optim ...
2019Synthesis of minimum energy adaptive structures
This paper presents the formulation of a new methodology to design adaptive structures. This design method synthesises structural configurations that are optimum hybrids between a passive and an active structure. An optimisation scheme searches for an opti ...
2019Model of crop growth, water flow, and solute transport in layered soil
David Andrew Barry, Jiancheng Yang
Agro-ecohydrological models are essential for managing scarce water resources and ensuring crop productivity. Here, a one-dimensional agro-ecohydrological model, LAWSTAC, capable of simulating water and solute transport in layered soil coupled with crop gr ...
2019Stepwells: Reviving India’s Cultural and Traditional Water Storage Systems
Water has been foreseen to be the cause of the next great global crisis. India has 18% of the world population but only 4% of the world’s water resources. This brings us to the important issue that India may lack overall long-term availability of replenish ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019Atomistic Simulations of The Structure of Calcium Silicate Hydrates: Interlayer Positions, Water Content And A General Structural Brick Model
Portland cement has been in use by human civilization for over a century. Yet, we do not fully understand its hydration reaction mechanisms due to the complexity of the system and its continued reaction over time making it hard to study it experimentally. ...
EPFL2018Effects of Lake–Reservoir Pumped-Storage Operations on Temperature and Water Quality
Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid, Ulrike Kobler
Pumped-storage (PS) hydropower plants are expected to make an important contribution to energy storage in the next decades with growing market shares of new renewable electricity. PS operations affect the water quality of the connected water bodies by exch ...
2018Molecular-level characterization of curved water interfaces with sum frequency and second harmonic scattering
Aqueous interfaces are omnipresent in nature. Some of them are visible: droplets in clouds, aerosols, and surfaces of oceans, lakes, and rivers. Many more surfaces are hidden: water in contact with cell membranes, proteins, and the surface of droplets in e ...
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