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Applications of Sugarcane by-products to mitigate climate change in Ethiopia

  • Habte, Lulit;Mulatu, Dure;Ahn, Ji Whan
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.36-40
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    • 2018
  • Climate change is one of the major issues in both the developed and developing world. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is one of the implications for climate change. It is increasing rapidly. Although the emission is much less when compared to the rest of the world, Ethiopia has also faced this global issue. The major source for GHG emission in Ethiopia is agriculture. Therefore, the agriculture sector has to be given more attention in Ethiopia. To overcome the problem, Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has been initiated. One way of executing this target is to create a sustainable and environmentally friendly pathway to use agricultural byproducts. Sugarcane is one of the major plants in Ethiopia. Its byproducts are bagasse, molasses, and press mud. Since it is a waste product, it is economical and creates a sustainable and green environment by reducing GHG emissions. Sugarcane byproducts have versatile applications like as fuel, as cement replacing material, as a mitigation for expansive soils, as biosorbent for the treatment of water and wastewater and also as a wood material. However, Ethiopia has not used this byproduct massively as it is readily available. This paper reviews the possible applications of sugarcane byproducts to mitigate climate change.

Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Nonstationary Oscillation Resampling (NSOR): II. Applications in Hydrology and Climate sciences

  • Lee, Tae-Sam;Ouarda, TahaB.M.J.;im, Byung-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.91-91
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    • 2011
  • In the present study, the proposed EMD and NSOR models has been applied in hydrology and climate sciences. Here, we present those applications as the following: (1) to extend future scenarios of Global Surface Temperature Anomaly including long-term oscillation component; (2) to extend the future evolution of the Eastern Canada winter precipitation; (3) to apply EMD in detecting climate change.

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Federated Named Data Networking Testbed for Climate Science

  • Ni, Alexander;Lim, Huhnkuk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.780-784
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    • 2017
  • Data discovery and distribution application that is utilized by climate, high energy physics, and other scientific communities are experiencing performance and large scale data managing problems, that are rooted from the shortcomings of IP architecture. To solve this problem, newly developed data managing applications based on NDN architecture were introduced. In this letter, we present the federated NDN testbed with an NDN-based climate science application and the set of experiments that reflect the performance of NDN based climate application in general with determined and applied optimization.

Development and Policy Applications of Integrated Information System for Climate Change Adaptation (기후변화 적응 정보 통합지원 체계구축 및 정책적 활용방안)

  • Kim, Geunhan;Lee, Moung-Jin;Jeon, Seong-Woo;Park, Songmi;Lee, Eunjin
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.3-20
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    • 2013
  • Recently, impacts and damages of extreme climate change have already affected on worldwide. Thus adaptation and action plan are essential concepts in minimizing the impacts of climate change. In order to introduce climate change adaptation decision-making measure, the need for high-quality and integrated information system within adaptation policy has increased enormously. However, most of adaptation information is based on different sources and various backgrounds. Currently, domestic climate change information is disseminated from about 132 internet sites and most of them are limited to general information of climate change, rather than information that are based on scientific evidence. Also, there are some difficulties in updating new resources. Reliable climate change information is provided from different agencies, which makes users difficult to locate right information they need. As a progress to overcome the limitations of these problems, we carried out a feasibility research on integrated information system for climate change adaptation. For the objectives, our solutions are as follows. First, we analyzed definition of climate change adaptation and climate change adaptation information. Second, we suggested integrating the information system for adaptation and phased implementation plan for establishing integrated information system for climate change. Finally, we verified the establishment of integrated support system based on policy applications of integrated information system. This system will provide an integrated climate change information and be a very useful tool to support the decision making process of effective climate change adaptation policies.

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Environment and Development of the Weather Monitoring Application in Kosovo

  • Shabani, Milazim;Baftiu, Naim;Baftiu, Egzon;Maloku, Betim
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.371-379
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    • 2022
  • The environment in Kosovo is a topic of concern for the citizens and the state because of the temperatures that affect the health of the citizens and the climate around the world. Kosovo's climate is related to its geographical position. Stretching in the middle latitude, Kosovo's climate depends on the amount of heat coming from the Sun, the proximity of the Adriatic Sea, the Vardar valley, the openness to the north. In order to better understand the climatic features of Kosovo, one must know the elements of the climate such as: sunshine, temperature, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, winds. The Meteorological Institute of Kosovo is responsible for measuring temperatures in Kosovo since 2014 and until now 12 meteorological stations have been operationalized with automatic measurement and real-time data transfer to the central system for data collection and archiving. The hydrometeorological institute lacks an application for measuring temperatures in all the countries of Kosovo. Software applications are generally built to suit the requirements of different governments and clients in order to enable easier management of the jobs they operate on. One of the forms of application development is the development of mobile applications based on android. The purpose of the work is to create a mobile application based on the Android operating system that aims to display information about the weather, this type of application is necessary and important for users who want to see the temperature in different places in Kosovo, but also the world. This type of application offers many options such as maximum temperature, minimum temperature, humidity, and air pressure. The built application will have real and accurate data; this will be done by comparing the results with other similar applications. Such an application is necessary for everyone, especially for those people whose daily work is dependent on the weather or even for those who decide to spend their vacations, such as summer or winter. In this paper, comparisons are also made within android applications for tablets, televisions and smart watches.

The expectation of future climate change in relation to buildings and renewable energy (건물 및 재생에너지에 관한 미래의 기후변화 예측)

  • Lee, Kwan-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2008
  • According to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) Working Group III, climate change is already in progress around the world, and it is necessary to execute mitigation in order to minimize adverse impacts. This paper suggests future climate change needs, employing IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios(SRES) to predict temperature rises over the next 100 years. This information can be used to develop sustainable architecture applications for energy efficient buildings and renewable energy. Such climate changes could also affected the resent supplies of renewable energy sources. This paper discusses one recent Fourth Assessment Report of IPPC (Mitigation of Climate Change) and the Hadley Centre climate simulation of relevant data series for South Korea.

Evaluation of Drought Monitoring Using Satellite Precipitation for Un-gaged Basins (미계측지역의 위성강우 기반 가뭄감시 평가)

  • Jang, Sangmin;Yoon, Sunkwon;Lee, Seongkyu;Lee, Taehwa;Park, Kyungwon
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2018
  • This study analyzed the applications of near real-time drought monitoring using satellite rainfall for the Korean Peninsula and un-gaged basins. We used AWS data of Yongdam-Dam, Hoengseong-Dam in Korea area, the meteorological station of Nakhon Rachasima, Pak chong for test-bed to evaluate the validation and the opportunity for un-gaged basins. In addition, we calculated EDI (Effective doought index) using the stations and co-located PERSIANN-CDR, TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission) TMPA (The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis), GPM IMERG (the integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM) rainfall data and compared the EDI-based station data with satellite data for applications of drought monitoring. The results showed that the correlation coefficient and the determination coefficient were 0.830 and 0.914 in Yongdam-dam, and 0.689 and 0.835 in Hoengseng-Dam respectively. Also, the correlation coefficient were 0.830, 0.914 from TRMM TMPA datasets and compasion with 0.660, 0.660 based on PERSIANN-CDR and TRMM data in nakhon and pakchong station. Our results were confirmed possibility of near real-time drought monitoring using EDI with daily satellite rainfall for un-gaged basins.

Impact of climate change scenarios in the Building Sector (기후변화 시나리오에 따른 건물부분의 영향)

  • Lee, Kwan-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.64-69
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    • 2013
  • According to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) Working Group III, climate change is already in progress around the world, and it is necessary to execute mitigation in order to minimize adverse impacts. This paper suggests future climate change needs, employing IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios(SRES) to predict temperature rises over the next 100 years. This information can be used to develop sustainable architecture applications for energy efficient buildings and renewable energy. Such climate changes could also affected the present supplies of renewable energy sources. This paper discusses one recent Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (Mitigation of Climate Change) and the Hadley Centre climate simulation of relevant data series for South Korea. Result of this research may improve consistency and reliability of simulation weather data or climate change in order to take advantage of SRES and PRECIS QUMP. It is expected that these calculated test reference years will be useful to the designers of solar energy systems, as well as those who need daily solar radiation data for South Korea. Also, those results may contribute zero carbon and design of sustainable architecture establishing future typical weather data that should be gone ahead to energy efficient building design using renewable energy systems.

Implementation of GrADS and R Scripts for Processing Future Climate Data to Produce Agricultural Climate Information (농업 기후 정보 생산을 위한 미래 기후 자료 처리 GrADS 및 R 프로그램 구현)

  • Lee, Kyu Jong;Lee, Semi;Lee, Byun Woo;Kim, Kwang Soo
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.237-243
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    • 2013
  • A set of scripts for GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System) and R was implemented to produce agricultural climate information using the future climate scenarios based on the Representative Concentration Pathways. The GrADS script was used to calculate agricultural climate indices including growing degree days and cooling degree days. The script generated agricultural climate maps of these indices, which are compatible with common Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. To perform a statistical analysis using the agricultural climate maps, a script for R, which is open source statistical software, was used. Because a large number of spatial climate data were produced, parallel processing packages such as SNOW, doSNOW, and foreach were used to perform a simple statistical analysis in the R script. The parallel script of R had speedup on workstations with multi-CPU cores.