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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Weather data"”.
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Use of weather data in supply chain management
… and losing consumers due to inventory shortage. Weather inherently affects people and their behavior, and thus, weather influences product demand. With new technologies and increased knowledge, meteorologists have improved their ability to predict the weather, and it is reasonable to try to take …
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Integrating Multi-Source Weather Data for Deep Learning
<p>Big Data has been playing a major role in the domain of Deep Learning applications as many companies and institutions continue to find solutions and extract certain trends in fields of climate change, weather forecasting and meteorology. This project extracts weather events data from multiple …
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Determination of building cooling loads using real weather data.
… the other hand, the application of using daily weather data in calculating the cooling load as well as the dynamic internal and external environmental factors is difficult to carry out manually because of the tediousness of the repetitive calculation which can deter designers from attempting …
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Backcasting and Forecasting Boreal Wetland Water Balances Using Weather Data in Reclaimed Landscapes
… by water balances reflecting prevailing weather conditions. Precipitation and evapotranspiration data that have been collected from six weather stations in three reclaimed landscapes were used to backcast and forecast meteorological trends. An autoregressive integrated moving average …
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Development of a Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System with Application to the Economic Optimization of Aircraft Based Weather Data Collection
… of the Troposherical Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR), an aircraft-based meteorological data collection system. In the envisioned TAMDAR system, meteorological data collected by the onboard sensors of selected aircraft are transmitted to the ground as aircraft fly their …
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Analysis of Historical Cooperative Observation Program (COOP) Climate Data Through Trend and Correlation Determination for Selected South Dakota Sites and Comparisons of COOP Sensors with the Automated Weather Data Network (AWDN) Remote Sensors
… water. This dissertation studies COOP and AWDN weather observation data to increase the understanding of climate at several locations in South Dakota. In the first study, frozen soil temperatures were studied for Cottonwood, SD. The timing of when soil was considered frozen and thawed each year …
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Comparison of simplified models of urban climate for improved prediction of building energy use in cities
… of low-energy buildings, yet, definition of weather boundary conditions during simulation of urban buildings suffers from a lack of data that accounts for the UHI effect. To overcome barriers preventing the use of more representative climate data in building thermal simulations, this thesis …
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Development and Evaluation of Contrail Models
… and relative magnitudes of errors due to weather data uncertainty and errors due to modeling assumptions have not been extensively studied, despite many studies relying on the CoCiP model and the ERA5 weather data for their analyses. This thesis addresses these gaps. The APCEMM model is …
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Adapting Transformer Encoder Architecture for Continuous Weather Datasets with Applications in Agriculture, Epidemiology and Climate Science
This work introduces WeatherFormer, a transformer encoder-based model designed to robustly represent weather data from minimal observations. It addresses the challenge of modeling complex weather dynamics from small datasets, which is a bottleneck for many prediction tasks in agriculture, …
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Computer simulation of stand-alone photovoltaic systems with battery storage
… conditions of the system. These require hourly weather data as input. Typical meteorological years, which constitute a suitable form of input weather data, have been generated for those weather stations in Southern Africa which contain sufficient data. The energy flows within the system are …
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Measuring and Forecasting Environmental Conditions From the Perspective of Rocky Intertidal Organisms
… gradients determined by tides, waves, and weather. Models that incorporate these parameters can be used to predict and understand the distributions of organisms on both local and latitudinal scales. Intertidal organisms oscillate between marine and terrestrial conditions, a phenomenon …
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Blockchain-enabled weather index crop insurance for smallholder farmers
Weather index crop insurance is an innovative approach to protect farmers against financial losses incurred due to adverse weather events that reduce crop yield. This type of insurance has the potential to be more affordable to underprivileged communities in emerging economies as it incurs lower …
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A standard simulation testbed for the evaluation of control algorithms & strategies related to variable air volume HVAC systems
… of sub-one-hour solar and collateral weather data. Historically, data in this frequency has been collected, but, not reported. A relatively new program called the Automated Surface Observing System (AS OS) and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will …
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Model based assessment of potential impacts of climate change on the flow of the main headwaters of the Nile River: Equatorial Lakes Region and Blue Nile Basins
… change scenarios (SCCS).</p> <p>The lack of weather data is the main hindrance for hydrologic research in the Nile River basin. The distribution of the available weather and discharge observation stations is quite uneven. Moreover, the quality of the data is not reliable, and there are often …
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Improving Watershed Models to Achieve a Better Prediction of Water Quantity and Quality
… modeling; 1) model calibration in the areas with data limitations; 2) acquiring complete weather data that accurately reflect watershed model responses; 3) accurate representation of manure operation in watershed models. This dissertation addresses each of the aforementioned challenges using new …
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Potential energy cost savings by use of building roofs as thermal storage of a multi-storied building
… in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA is analyzed with weather data of that locale. The electrical power consumption of such a system operating at milder conditions of evening or night hours is estimated by use of hourly weather data. The estimated electric power consumption is then compared to the …
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Regulatory benchmarking by machine learning: The case of climate resilience in electric utilities
… properties such as local optimality and data compression. To explore the synergy between ML and benchmarking, we review and discuss the literature from both sides in the context of government regulation. Then we dive into a case study of utility resilience, where the dual complexities of …
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Development of a ship weather routing system towards energy efficient shipping
… by the shipping industry. In this context, ship weather routing technique, as one of the effective energy efficiency improvement methods has attracted more and more interests from technical staff. A ship weather routing system towards energy efficiency is developed in this study. This system …
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A comprehensive optimization methodology for strategic environmental sensor station locations
Adverse weather poses a significant threat to transportation safety. Road weather information systems (RWIS) aim to mitigate the impact of adverse weather by detecting spatiotemporal variations of weather and/or road pavement conditions in real time. Due to the lack of a detailed, unified guideline …
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Analysis of atmospheric delays and asymmetric positioning errors in the global positioning system
… Current delay models used in analyzing GPS data from the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) are successful in achieving millimeter-level accuracy at most locations; however, at a subset of stations, the time series for position estimates contain an unusually large number of outliers. In many …
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