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Representativeness of the particulate matter pollution assessed by an official monitoring station of air quality in Santiago, Chile: projection to human health
(Springer, 2022)
Santiago, capital city of Chile, presents air pollution problems for decades mainly by particulate matter, which significantly affects population health, despite national authority efforts to improve air quality. Different ...
Beyond petroleum: a look at the impact of electric cars in the three main cities of Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017-01)
The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of changing private
vehicles in Ecuador’s three main cities from combustion engines to
their electric counterparts, and to assess whether the newly created
electricity ...
Aerosol effects on the uv irradiance in santiago de chile
(SPRINGER, 2014)
Santiago de Chile (33 degrees 27' S-70 degrees 41' W) is a mid-latitude city of 6 million inhabitants with a complicated surrounding topography. Aerosol extinction in Santiago is determined by the semi-arid local climate, ...
Crown size and growing space requirement of common tree species inurban centres, parks, and forests
(Elsevier, 2015)
Tree crown size determines among others tree’s growth, carbon sequestration, shading, filtering of fineair particulates, and risk of wind-breaking. The dependence of crown size on species, resource supply,and tree age ...
Operating conditions effect over the coupling strength for urban aerial ropeways
(Silesian University of Technology, 2014-01-01)
The present work is aimed to assess the operating conditions effect for urban aerial ropeways with a commercial usage, based on measurements obtained from an arrangement of sensors that record the coupling assembly behavior ...
Análisis espacial multicriterio para la ubicación de parques eólicos y granjas solares en Colombia
(Universidad Nacional de ColombiaMedellín - Minas - Maestría en Medio Ambiente y DesarrolloDepartamento de Geociencias y Medo AmbienteFacultad de MinasMedellínUniversidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín, 2021-05-08)
En Colombia para el 2030 se espera que el 15% de la energía eléctrica se genere a partir de fuentes renovables no convencionales, pero no se tiene certeza de la forma en que se alcanzará dicha meta y cuáles son las ubicaciones ...
Tree-root anchorage: stability of trees based on real tree-root architecture
(Medellín - Minas - Maestría en Ingeniería - GeotecniaDepartamento de Ingeniería CivilUniversidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín, 2019-12-19)
Climate change impact on tree stability is often associated with higher risk of wind-throw due to higher frequency and magnitudes of the extremes of climate. Higher lateral loads due to increase in maximum wind and rainfall ...
Mega-urbanisation On The Coast: Global Context And Key Trends In The Twenty-first Century
(Taylor and Francis, 2014)
Análise dos efeitos do albedo no microclima de cânions urbanos
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáCuritibaBrasilPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia CivilUTFPR, 2015-08-12)
Urban canyons, i.e. urban structures formed by a street flanked continuously by buildings, are responsible for their own microclimate, which is very diverse from the microclimate conditions found in open fields. Several ...
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE FOREST FRAGMENTS OF RIBEIRAO DAS PEDRAS WATERSHED - CAMPINAS, SAO PAULO STATE
(Univ Federal VicosaVicosaBrasil, 2013)