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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Saleem A. Salman, Mohammed Magdy Hamed, Shamsuddin Shahid, Kamal Ahmed, Ahmad Sharafati, Md Asaduzzaman, Ghaith Falah Ziarh, Tarmizi Ismail, Xiao-Jun Wang, Ashraf Dewan, Eun-Sung Chun
Summary: This study attempted to estimate the spatiotemporal changes in precipitation and temperature in Iraq and found that precipitation will decrease in the north and increase in the south, while temperature will increase overall. The study also highlighted the higher uncertainty in future projections.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gunnar Myhre, Bjorn Samset, Piers M. Forster, Oivind Hodnebrog, Marit Sandstad, Christian W. Mohr, Jana Sillmann, Camilla W. Stjern, Timothy Andrews, Olivier Boucher, Gregory Faluvegi, Trond Iversen, Jean-Francois Lamarque, Matthew Kasoar, Alf Kirkevag, Ryan Kramer, Longbo Liu, Johannes Muelmenstaedt, Dirk Olivie, Johannes Quaas, Thomas B. Richardson, Dilshad Shawki, Drew Shindell, Chris Smith, Philip Stier, Tao Tang, Toshihiko Takemura, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Duncan Watson-Parris
Summary: This article reports the main scientific values and results from General Circulation Models (GCMs) in the Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project. The simulations of these models enhance our understanding of the impact of greenhouse gases, aerosols, and incoming solar radiation on the Earth's radiation balance and climate response, particularly in terms of temperature and precipitation changes. The article also provides instructions on how to extract files from the dataset.
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Environmental Sciences
A. Fournier, A. Martinez, G. Iglesias
Summary: According to the latest climate change scenarios, wind energy potential will undergo significant changes, especially in Southeast Asia and Australasia. This study found that although there is little change in average wind power density by the end of the 21st century, there are remarkable changes in certain areas and seasons. The changes are greater in the high emissions scenario, but the seasonal variability is more pronounced in the moderate emissions scenario. These changes will impact the energy production and economic viability of wind farms.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Jonathan Spinoni, Paulo Barbosa, Edoardo Bucchignani, John Cassano, Tereza Cavazos, Alessandro Cescatti, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, Ole Bossing Christensen, Erika Coppola, Jason Evans, Giovanni Forzieri, Beate Geyer, Filippo Giorgi, Daniela Jacob, Jack Katzfey, Torben Koenigk, Rene Laprise, Christopher John Lennard, M. Levent Kurnaz, Delei Li, Marta Llopart, Niall McCormick, Gustavo Naumann, Grigory Nikulin, Tugba Ozturk, Hans-Jurgen Panitz, Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha, Silvina Alicia Solman, Jozef Syktus, Fredolin Tangang, Claas Teichmann, Robert Vautard, Jurgen Valentin Vogt, Katja Winger, George Zittis, Alessandro Dosio
Summary: This study predicts the impact of global warming on population and land-use exposure to drought risk, showing that even at low global warming levels, the frequency and severity of drought will significantly increase, requiring extensive mitigation and adaptation efforts to avoid the severe impacts of climate change.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Thermodynamics
A. Martinez, G. Iglesias
Summary: The study examined the evolution of wind energy resources under different climate change scenarios in Europe, predicting significant reductions in wind power density in Northern Continental Europe and the Central Mediterranean, while an increase is projected in West Finland. The overall trend in other regions depends on the SSP scenario, with considerable growth in Central Europe in the intermediate emissions scenario but some reduction in the highest emissions scenario.
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Richard A. Rosen
Summary: Suggestions have been made to improve the effectiveness of climate change mitigation scenarios based on the SSP framework, but the main issues lie in the inconsistency of input variables among different modeling teams using the same SSP, as well as the varied structures and functions of different IAMs used to analyze mitigation policies. Developing more detailed and improved IAMs focusing on the critical next 10-20 years for mitigating climate change can help address these challenges.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Kyuhyun Byun, Ashish Sharma, Jiali Wang, Jennifer L. Tank, Alan F. Hamlet
Summary: Comparing the downscaled simulations from different methods, it is found that the HD statistical downscaling approach performs reasonably well in reproducing extreme precipitation and maximum temperature, while raw historical WRF simulations show significant bias in extremes. The projected changes in future summer extreme precipitation differ between downscaling methods, with the WRF simulations showing substantial increases and the HD approach exhibiting moderate decreases overall. The WRF simulations at 4 km also suggest a decoupling effect between seasonal totals and extreme daily precipitation for summer, indicating the possibility of more intense summer extremes at different time scales in the late twenty-first century.
JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Hao Guo, Shanfeng He, Min Li, Anming Bao, Tao Chen, Guoxiong Zheng, Philippe De Maeyer
Summary: Projected increases in precipitation and potential evapotranspiration across Central Asia suggest a future trend of more frequent, longer, and more severe drought events in semiarid and arid regions. Comparisons between different scenarios highlight the importance of climate change mitigation strategies in avoiding worsening drought occurrences.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Ralf Doscher, Mario Acosta, Andrea Alessandri, Peter Anthoni, Thomas Arsouze, Tommi Bergman, Raffaele Bernardello, Souhail Boussetta, Louis-Philippe Caron, Glenn Carver, Miguel Castrillo, Franco Catalano, Ivana Cvijanovic, Paolo Davini, Evelien Dekker, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, David Docquier, Pablo Echevarria, Uwe Fladrich, Ramon Fuentes-Franco, Matthias Groger, Jost Hardenberg, Jenny Hieronymus, M. Pasha Karami, Jukka-Pekka Keskinen, Torben Koenigk, Risto Makkonen, Francois Massonnet, Martin Menegoz, Paul A. Miller, Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Lars Nieradzik, Twan van Noije, Paul Nolan, Declan O'Donnell, Pirkka Ollinaho, Gijs van den Oord, Pablo Ortega, Oriol Tinto Prims, Arthur Ramos, Thomas Reerink, Clement Rousset, Yohan Ruprich-Robert, Philippe Le Sager, Torben Schmith, Roland Schrodner, Federico Serva, Valentina Sicardi, Marianne Sloth Madsen, Benjamin Smith, Tian Tian, Etienne Tourigny, Petteri Uotila, Martin Vancoppenolle, Shiyu Wang, David Warlind, Ulrika Willen, Klaus Wyser, Shuting Yang, Xavier Yepes-Arbos, Qiong Zhang
Summary: EC-Earth3 is a Earth system model contributing to CMIP6, featuring a flexible coupling framework, various model configurations, ensuring simulations comparability across different HPC systems, and demonstrating improved physical and dynamic features. It represents a clear step forward for European community ESM with improved physical performance compared to CMIP5 version.
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Laura J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen, Bjorn H. Samset, Massimo A. Bollasina, Paul T. Griffiths, James Keeble, Marianne T. Lund, Risto Makkonen, Joonas Merikanto, Declan O'Donnell, David J. Paynter, Geeta G. Persad, Steven T. Rumbold, Toshihiko Takemura, Kostas Tsigaridis, Sabine Undorf, Daniel M. Westervelt
Summary: Changes in anthropogenic aerosol emissions have had a strong impact on global and regional temperature, precipitation, and climate characteristics, particularly on Asian and African precipitation decadal trends. The uncertainties in emission pathways, radiative forcing, and dynamic response make anthropogenic aerosol a key factor in near-future climate projections, especially on regional scales. The Regional Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (RAMIP) aims to quantify the role of regional aerosol emissions changes in near-term projections and provide insights for climate policies.
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Zixuan Qi, Yanpeng Cai, Jingyu Lin, Yulei Xie, Linlin Yao, Pan Zhang, Yongyang Wang, Hongjiang Guo
Summary: This study proposes an integrated analysis framework to address the issue of neglecting high-resolution climate and land use data downscaled in current projection frameworks. The findings suggest that future land use changes will have a stronger impact on watershed ecosystem services (ESs) than climate change, due to the coupling effects of climate change, land use change, and socio-economic development. This research provides valuable insights for future water and land resource planning.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yann Quilcaille, Fulden Batibeniz, Andreia F. S. Ribeiro, Ryan S. Padron, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Summary: Human-induced climate change is increasing the incidence of fire events and associated impacts on livelihood, biodiversity, and nature across the world. Understanding current and projected fire activity together with its impacts on ecosystems is crucial for evaluating future risks and taking actions to prevent such devastating events.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Z. Nicholls, M. Meinshausen, J. Lewis, M. Rojas Corradi, K. Dorheim, T. Gasser, R. Gieseke, A. P. Hope, N. J. Leach, L. A. McBride, Y. Quilcaille, J. Rogelj, R. J. Salawitch, B. H. Samset, M. Sandstad, A. Shiklomanov, R. B. Skeie, C. J. Smith, S. J. Smith, X. Su, J. Tsutsui, B. Vega-Westhoff, D. L. Woodard
Summary: Climate science has rapidly evolved over multiple domains, where both complex fully coupled Earth System Models (ESMs) and reduced complexity models (RCMs) play key roles in capturing state-of-the-art knowledge. The need to constrain projection uncertainties of RCMs is paramount for achieving the international goal of limiting global warming.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andy Jones, Jim M. Haywood, Adam A. Scaife, Olivier Boucher, Matthew Henry, Ben Kravitz, Thibaut Lurton, Pierre Nabat, Ulrike Niemeier, Roland Seferian, Simone Tilmes, Daniele Visioni
Summary: This study compared the results of a numerical experiment called G6sulfur, which used geoengineering technique to reduce temperatures, with the impacts on natural variability modes. The experiment showed that while the technique successfully decreased global mean temperature, it also exacerbated the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation and caused precipitation reductions in southern Europe. The impact on the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation was less consistent, but there is a risk of it stalling and causing permanent westerly winds in the lower stratosphere.
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Laura C. Jackson, Eduardo Alastrue de Asenjo, Katinka Bellomo, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Helmuth Haak, Aixue Hu, Johann Jungclaus, Warren Lee, Virna L. Meccia, Oleg Saenko, Andrew Shao, Didier Swingedouw
Summary: The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a crucial component of the climate system, and it is predicted to weaken under climate change. However, it may have a tipping point beyond which recovery is difficult, demonstrating quasi-irreversibility (hysteresis). This study outlines experiments exploring AMOC hysteresis and sensitivity to additional freshwater input, revealing that while the AMOC weakens in all models due to freshening, it recovers in half of the models once the freshening stops.
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Christopher Jung, Laura Demant, Peter Meyer, Dirk Schindler
Summary: High wind speed is one of the most dangerous natural hazards in North America and Europe, and spatially explicit, statistical estimation of extreme wind speed is important for many sectors. This study developed a high spatial resolution model for monthly mapping of maximum hourly wind speed in North America and Europe. The study found that Europe exhibits a more pronounced annual cycle of wind speed compared to North America, and identified certain regions in the USA and Western Europe with the highest wind speed.
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler
Summary: Previous estimations of global onshore wind energy potential have shown a wide range of values. This study compares estimates from different wind speed data resolutions and hub heights, and highlights the importance of spatial resolution for wind resource assessment at local and global scales.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler
Summary: There are concerns that climate change and rapid wind development could decrease wind power efficiency. However, with appropriate technological advancements and climate adaptation measures, the future wind power capacity factor may increase.
Article
Thermodynamics
Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler
Summary: Minimizing residual load is crucial in countries with high shares of variable renewable energies (VRE). A new high-spatiotemporal resolution wind speed model (WiCoMo) is developed to adjust wind turbine site selection to residual load, considering the national residual load in Germany. The model maps the suitability of wind turbine sites, showing higher suitability in southern Germany compared to other regions.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tobias Walter Miller, Dominik Florian Stangler, Elena Larysch, Harald Honer, Heike Puhlmann, Dirk Schindler, Christopher Jung, Thomas Seifert, Andreas Rigling, Hans -Peter Kahle
Summary: This study investigates the impact of drought events on tree growth, specifically addressing the delayed growth onset and reduced growth rate in the post-drought year. The findings reveal that tree rings become smaller as a legacy effect of drought, and Douglas fir exhibits a superior recovery potential compared to other species.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler
Summary: Assessing the wind climate involves various wind speed models, including wind atlases, reanalysis products, regional climate, and global climate models. This study evaluated 68 wind speed models of different types for their predictive power on mean wind speed, wind speed distribution, and temporal variability. Ensembles of models were found to improve model accuracy compared to individual models, with wind atlases showing the best performance at mountainous locations. It is concluded that individual models should be validated before use, and ensembles are recommended for better predictive power.
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Thorsten Zeppenfeld, Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler, Holger Sennhenn-Reulen, Marie Josefin Ipsen, Matthias Schmidt
Summary: Winter storms in Central Europe pose a major threat to forest management, causing significant losses in timber. Statistical modelling is a valuable tool in assessing the vulnerability of forests to winter storms. This study used forest inventory data before and after a severe storm in Germany to develop models that relate storm damage probability to various tree and environmental factors. The models incorporating gust speed information led to a higher degree of transparency and usability.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Konstantin Ilgen, Dirk Schindler, Stefan Wieland, Jens Lange
Summary: This study investigates the effects of floating photovoltaic systems on the thermal characteristics of a lake in Germany. The research suggests that the presence of these systems can lead to a reduction in water temperature and changes in thermal stratification during the summer months. The study also finds that the extent of these effects is non-linear and depends on the coverage of the photovoltaic systems.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler
Summary: Based on the study of Germany as a case, turbine site selection, turbine technology, hub height, and curtailed wind energy are the main drivers for wind capacity and capacity factor development. Specifically, increasing hub heights and improved turbine technology resulted in 10.4% and 7.3% higher capacity factors, respectively.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)