scholarly journals Toward Better Characterization of Global Warming Impacts in the Environment through Climate Classifications with Improved Global Models

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Navarro ◽  
Andrés Merino ◽  
José Luis Sánchez ◽  
Eduardo García‐Ortega ◽  
Raúl Martín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Global Models

Landscape Biodiversity Characterization in Ecoregion 29 Using MODIS

2013 ◽  
pp. 815-831
Author(s):  
Nitin Kumar Tripathi ◽  
Aung Phey Khant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Forest Type ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Modis Data ◽  
Moderate Resolution ◽  
Landscape Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation is a challenging task due to ever growing impact of global warming and climate change. The chapter discusses various aspects of biodiversity parameters that can be estimated using remote sensing data. Moderate resolution satellite (MODIS) data was used to demonstrate the biodiversity characterization of Ecoregion 29. Forest type map linked to density of the study area was also developed by MODIS data. The outcome states that remote sensing and geographic information systems can be used in combination to derive various parameters related to biodiversity surveillance at a regional scale.

scholarly journals Study and Development of a Complete System for Recovery, Recycle, and Disposal of Refrigerant Gas from Existent Plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corrado Genta ◽  
Carmine Marotta ◽  
Fortunato Migliardini
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ozone Depletion ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Complete System ◽  
International Community ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
Complete Plant ◽  
Concentration Levels

The increasing attention of international community towards ozone depletion control and global warming issues has encouraged the development of strategies for emission reduction of fluoridate refrigerant gases. In this context innovative industrial plants able to recover, recycle, and dispose the refrigerant gases need to be developed. In this paper the different phases of design, realization, and characterization of a complete plant for used refrigerant gas recovery are described. The analysis of the pollutants present in the refrigerant stream has supported the design and realization of equipment able to control these emissions and to restore the concentration levels compatible with AHRI standards.

Kelly Reichardt

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Fusco ◽  
Nicole Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
First Century ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Independent Cinema ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
Everyday Experiences

Kelly Reichardt is the first book-length study of contemporary filmmaker Kelly Reichardt. This book argues that Reichardt’s process-based slow cinema captures the “emergent” quality of contemporary, neoliberal emergencies such as global warming and economic precarity. The book positions Reichardt’s filmmaking in relation to contemporary American independent cinema, the international slow cinema movement, and the tradition of European neorealism. Drawing from these lineages, Reichardt’s cinema emphasizes the local effects of global catastrophes and represents crises as everyday experiences that are slow in unfolding. In this way, the book argues that Reichardt challenges the cinema’s tendency to spectacularize disaster. She makes this critique both through her films’ pacing and her tendency to work with the traditions of genre film, only to deflate their most thrilling elements to reveal what has been termed the slow violence of our postindustrial moment. Additionally, the book considers Reichardt’s frequently thin characterization of her protagonists, arguing that the underdrawn and often unlikeable characters work to challenge audience identification and the expectations that victims of emergency should be especially deserving or empathetic. In chapters that examine Reichardt’s earliest film, her four Oregon-centric films, and her experimental short films, Kelly Reichardt establishes Reichardt as a crucial voice in American independent film, one committed to documenting the challenges of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals On the Identification and Characterization of Drought and Aridity in Postglacial Paleoenvironmental Records from the Northern Great Plains

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 229-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alwynne B. Beaudoin
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Northern Great Plains ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Instrumental Data ◽  
Proxy Records ◽  
Identification And Characterization

Abstract The Northern Great Plains region is especially sensitive to drought and is likely to be even more drought-prone under projected global warming. Drought has been invoked as an explanatory factor for changes seen in postglacial paleoenvironmental records. These proxy records may extend drought history derived from instrumental data. Moreover, in the last decade, some paleoenvironmental studies have been expressly undertaken for the examination of long-term drought history. Nevertheless, few such studies explicitly define drought. This makes it difficult to compare results or to understand what the results mean in terms of the operational drought definitions that are used in resource management. Operational drought is defined as usually short-term; longer sustained dry intervals reflect a shift to aridity. Therefore, high resolution paleoenvironmental proxies (annual or subdecadal) are best for the investigation of drought history. Such proxies include tree rings and some lake records. However, most lake-based records are sampled at lower resolution (decadal or subcentury) and are therefore providing aridity signals.

Carbon Dioxide Adsorbent Preparation by Coating Amine-Functionalized Pectin onto Zeolites

2019 ◽  
Vol 801 ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
John Andrew Kane P. Jovellana ◽  
B. Pajarito
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Capture ◽  
Amine Functionalization ◽  
Amine Functionalized ◽  
Adsorption Capacities ◽  
First Time

Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere caused by excessive greenhouse gas emissions is strongly associated to global warming and climate change. This study aims to prove the feasibility of using pectin as the backbone for amine functionalization with application as coating on zeolites for carbon dioxide capture. Characterization of the solutions using FTIR and of the adsorbents using SEM demonstrated the successful modification of pectin using NH3 and TETA as alternative amine-functionalized coating for adsorbent. It has been reported for the first time that the polysaccharide pectin can be aminated and modified for CO2 capture upon coated on substrates such as zeolites. The adsorption capacities at 5% breakthrough of the adsorbents coated with the modified pectin are 2.24 mmol/CO2 g adsorbent and 2.28 mmol/CO2 g adsorbent, when coated with NH3-modified and TETA-modified pectin, respectively. It is recommended for further study to synthesize substrates with higher surface area, and optimize the formulations of the pectin modification.

Landscape Biodiversity Characterization in Ecoregion 29 Using MODIS

2011 ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Nitin Kumar Tripathi ◽  
Aung Phey Khant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Forest Type ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Modis Data ◽  
Moderate Resolution ◽  
Landscape Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation is a challenging task due to ever growing impact of global warming and climate change. The chapter discusses various aspects of biodiversity parameters that can be estimated using remote sensing data. Moderate resolution satellite (MODIS) data was used to demonstrate the biodiversity characterization of Ecoregion 29. Forest type map linked to density of the study area was also developed by MODIS data. The outcome states that remote sensing and geographic information systems can be used in combination to derive various parameters related to biodiversity surveillance at a regional scale.

Preparation and Characterization of Nanofibrous Metal−Organic Frameworks as Efficient Catalysts for Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates in the Solvent Free Conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Mirzaei ◽  
Mehrnaz Bahadori ◽  
Reihaneh Kardanpour ◽  
Sara Rafiei ◽  
Shahram Tangestaninejad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Metal Organic Frameworks ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
Cyclic Carbonates ◽  
Solvent Free Conditions ◽  
Innovative Materials ◽  
Metal Organic

Environmental concerns particularly global warming represent serious threats to public health globally. Metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) are innovative materials with prominent features such as ultrahigh surface area, high porosity and tunable...

scholarly journals A unifying philosophy of governance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Sankarshan Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Engineering Economics ◽  
Concepts Of God

Bertrand Russell won Nobel Prize for arguing that science has triumphed over religion. Since religions are based on god, Russell’s argument implies that science has triumphed over both religion and god. But neither Russell nor anyone else has ever defined religion and god, rationally. The assertion about triumph of science (which is founded on rationality) over concepts such as religion and god (which are not defined rationally or scientifically in the extant literature) cannot be rational. This paper offers a novel rational philosophical foundation for the concepts of god, religion and science in which the claim that science triumphs over religion is redundant. This paper also presents substantial new insights about epistemic truths to help resolve current problems facing humanity like financial moral hazard and terrorism which have unnerved nations worldwide. The humanity now begs to answer a fundamental question of how we can govern ourselves. This paper offers a coherent set of credible answers. In particular, it offers a coherent unified philosophy about how humans have universally formed beliefs to govern themselves and how this philosophy could help resolve current problems. The universal rendering of beliefs articulated here subsumes the extant characterization of probability beliefs in mathematics, science, engineering, economics, religion and philosophy. The universal beliefs so articulated in this paper obviate the currently prevalent philosophical conflicts between religion and science or between theism and atheism and paves the way for optimal governance for prosperity amid stability. This philosophy also offers a rational characterization of the spiritual notion of Nirvana or salvation of the soul and the notion of epistemic truth. The unifying philosophy can help humanity achieve unity, stability and prosperity, sans financial moral hazard, antagonism, wars, nuclear proliferation, global warming and atmospheric pollution.

scholarly journals Annual Characterization of Regional Hydrological Drought using Auxiliary Information under Global Warming Scenario

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulfiqar Ali ◽  
Ijaz Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Faisal
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Standardized Precipitation Index ◽  
Auxiliary Information ◽  
Hydrological Drought ◽  
Precipitation Index ◽  
Monthly Precipitation ◽  
Warming Scenario ◽  
Global Warming Scenario ◽  
Precipitation Records

Abstract. Climate change and global warming scenario is likely to increase worsening drought across the World. Drought is a complex natural hazard, which is a composition of many factors such as hydrological, meteorological and agricultural. Accurate characterization of hydrological drought at regional level is challenging. Standardized Drought Indices (SDI) is commonly used method for drought characterization and monitoring. In this study, we proposed a hydrological drought index, which used improved monthly precipitation estimates under global warming scenario. As monthly precipitation records have significant role in regional drought characterization. Therefore, this research suggests auxiliary information as local weights to improve monthly precipitation records in terms of dependence characteristic of temperature with precipitation records under regression estimation settings. Consequently, we proposed a new method of hydrological drought assessment The Locally Weighted Standardized Precipitation Index (LWSDI). We assessed hydrological drought using LWSDI on 10 meteorological stations located in various climatological regions of Pakistan. We compared and evaluated performance of LWSDI with Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) at 12-month time scale based on Pearson correlation. We found high positive correlation between the LWSDI and existing methods (SPI and SPEI). In summary, improved estimates of precipitation can strengthen drought monitoring system.

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