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2014 |
Francisco Suárez , José Muñoz , Bonifacio Fernández , Jean-Marc Dorsaz , Christian Hunter , Christos Karavitis , Jorge Gironás |
Integrated Water Resource Management and Energy Requirements for Water Supply in the Copiapó River Basin, Chile |
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10.3390/w6092590 |
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Population and industry growth in dry climates are fully tied to significant increase in water and energy demands. Because water affects many economic, social and environmental aspects, an interdisciplinary approach is needed to solve current and future water scarcity problems, and to minimize energy requirements in water production. Such a task requires integrated water modeling tools able to couple surface water and groundwater, which allow for managing complex basins where multiple stakeholders and water users face an intense competition for limited freshwater resources. This work develops an integrated water resource management model to investigate the water-energy nexus in reducing water stress in the Copiapó River basin, an arid, highly vulnerable basin in northern Chile. The model was utilized to characterize groundwater and surface water resources, and water demand and uses. Different management scenarios were evaluated to estimate future resource availability, and compared in terms of energy requirements and costs for desalinating seawater to eliminate the corresponding water deficit. Results show a basin facing a very complex future unless measures are adopted. When a 30% uniform reduction of water consumption is achieved, 70 GWh over the next 30 years are required to provide the energy needed to increase the available water through seawater desalination. In arid basins, this energy could be supplied by solar energy, thus addressing water shortage problems through integrated water resource management combined with new technologies of water production driven by renewable energy sources. |
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PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE |
2014 |
Marius Heinen |
Compensation in Root Water Uptake Models Combined with Three-Dimensional Root Length Density Distribution |
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10.2136/vzj2013.08.0149 |
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Natural Water Bodies |
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Because root water uptake is a considerable component in the soil water balance, a lot of attention has been paid to defining and applying root water uptake models. These models can be grouped into empirical vs. mechanistic root uptake models. Intermodel comparisons are valuable in understanding the different concepts used. Such a comparison is sometimes difficult because the level of information required by the models is different, for example, information on the root length density distribution. Here a three‐dimensional root length density distribution function is introduced that makes it possible to compare two empirical uptake models with a more mechanistic uptake model. Adding a compensation component to the more empirical model results in prediction of root water uptake distributions in the root zone similar to those predicted by the more complex model. |
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ARTICLE |
2013 |
Tiberi U., Fischione C., Johansson K.H., Di Benedetto M.D. |
Energy-efficient sampling of networked control systems over IEEE 802.15.4 wireless networks |
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10.1016/j.automatica.2012.11.046 |
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Water Distribution Networks |
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No abstract available |
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Park P., Di Marco P., Fischione C., Johansson K.H. |
Delay distribution analysis of Wireless Personal Area Networks |
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10.1109/cdc.2012.6426060 |
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Water Distribution Networks |
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No abstract available |
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| publications-805 |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Jakobsson M., Fischione C. |
A comparative analysis of the Fast-Lipschitz convergence speed |
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10.1109/cdc.2012.6426117 |
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No abstract available |
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| publications-806 |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Erdozain A., Crespo P.M., Beferull-Lozano B. |
Optimum distortion exponent in parallel fading channels by using analog joint source-channel coding schemes |
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10.1109/dcc.2012.35 |
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No abstract available |
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| publications-807 |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Insausti X., Crespo P.M., Beferull-Lozano B. |
In-network computation of the transition matrix for distributed Subspace Projection |
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10.1109/dcoss.2012.11 |
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Water Distribution Networks |
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No abstract available |
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| publications-808 |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Insausti X., Crespo P.M., Beferull-Lozano B. |
Distributed subspace projection in wireless sensor networks using computational codes |
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10.1109/dcoss.2012.13 |
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Water Distribution Networks |
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No abstract available |
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| publications-809 |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Shah S., Beferull-Lozano B. |
In-network iterative distributed estimation for power-constrained wireless sensor networks |
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10.1109/dcoss.2012.18 |
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Water Distribution Networks |
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No abstract available |
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| publications-810 |
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING |
2012 |
Shah S., Beferull-Lozano B. |
Power-aware joint sensor selection and routing for distributed estimation: A convex optimization approach |
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10.1109/dcoss.2012.19 |
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Water Distribution Networks |
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No abstract available |
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