Monthly Archives: July 2007
Sun in 3D
Have you ever seen Sun in 3D? NASA’s Stereo mission is taken picture in 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light from two different satellites to build 3-D solar shape by using stereo reconstruction. Main purpose is to reveal the … Continue reading
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Chemical Weather Forecast
This is really cool: a forecasting system of Chemical Weather! CETEMPS center of University of Aquila (Italy) developed an integrated system that mounts a chemistry-transport model over a meteorological model (Chemical Weather Forecast). The result is the 48-h forecast of … Continue reading
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MATLAB DFS interface
DHI released the new MATLAB DFS interface library. This is a major extension compared to the previous version (2004). The new version supports e.g. read and write of flexible mesh data (dfsu 2D and 3D). From DHIgroup website, I see … Continue reading
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Atlas of Springs of the Veneto Region
Just a brief post, especially for (but not only) Venetian friends interested in water resources: ARPAV (Environmental Protection Agency of the Veneto Region) has published its Atlas of Springs of the Veneto Region (in Italian only), an interesting collection of … Continue reading
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Water level Forecast for Venice Safeguard Project
I have already posted on Oceanographic Modelling. My primary interest is in coupling meteorological and hydrodynamical mathematical models to forecast storm surges and wave conditions in near-shore areas. Venetian MOSE project involves knowledge, among others, of tides in Venice Lagoon … Continue reading
Posted in environment&life, hydro, oceanography, public administration
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Stereo measurement of water surface waves
Image Analysis techniques are used for retrieving water surface wave field spatially and temporally from CCD-images and CCD-image-sequences. The technique developed utilizes binocular stereogrammetry to recover topographic information from a sequence of synchronous, overlapping video images. The complete geometrical method … Continue reading
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Dam removal
These days dam removal is a hot subject. Even Wired News talks about it. First, some data: about 800000 dams in the world, and 45000 higher than 15m; a majority of them has been built after world war II, i.e. … Continue reading
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Child labour
Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of child labour worldwide. Every day 132 million children 5-14 years of age are forced to work the land, often in unhealthy and hazardous conditions. A FAO report reveals it. I’m a Brand New Dad, … Continue reading
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looking for jobs?
If you are tired of Italian burocracy, or if your boss shout more than necessary, and you want to change place and country, don’t forget to visit www.jobs.ac.uk All about academic vacancy in UK and commonwealth. I found it an … Continue reading
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Oceanographic modelling
Waves forecasting is a quite recent issue in mathematical modelling and forecasting. Integrating meterological models (global and locals) to forecast wind and pressure maps, wave models can predict the waves heights, waves directions, and wave periods. An interesting contribution is … Continue reading
Posted in hydro, numerical, oceanography
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