Sentences with phrase «of model grid»

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And of course smart grids and the changes our energy utility - centered model is undergoing can both cut carbon emissions and generate new revenue opportunities.

«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

Akuapem Ridge Eco-City is a new visionary model for the development of off - grid, integrated and resilient eco-villages that can power and feed self - reliant families around the world.

Pictured here is close to what the final product will look like; this particular model includes a 24 - by - 38 grid of one - square - millimeter pixels.

«This discrepancy between 1D - and 3D - based calculations of the 1989 storm demonstrates the importance of realistic data, rather than relying on previous 1D models, to determine the impact that a geomagnetic storm has on power grids,» Lucas said.

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

Because their goal was to simulate social phenomena on ordinary desktop computers, they pared agent - based modeling down to its essence: a set of simple agents that moved around a grid in search of «sugar» — a foodlike resource that was abundant in some places and scarce in others.

The authors speak of new, higher - resolution weather models that use horizontal grids.

Grid operators create computer simulations of their grids and systematically rerun the models, taking out each element in turn, and confirm that the flows are stable.

After the human error that kicked off the 2011 Southwest blackout, myriad elements of the system did not behave according to the grid operators» models.

Electrical engineers reviewing grid research proposals questioned the trio's stripped - down, low - resolution power model and took a dim view of their interdisciplinary efforts.

Future experiments can test this model using grids of light sensors with holes in them to see if they actually can catch as many sunflecks as grids without holes.

The lab's more agile model grid could do the rebalancing almost as quickly as electricity moves, at the speed of light.

By using smaller grids — with spacing of just a few kilometers rather than several tens of kilometers as in conventional current models — they were able to show that they could more realistically model the amount of black carbon aerosols, mitigating the underestimation in more coarse - grained models.

The model accounted for factors such as the number of cars that will be in use, the type of plants producing power, and the improvement of power grids.

After dividing and mapping out tweets and crime records onto a grid and identifying common topics of discussion (e.g., sports, restaurants, and entertainment) appearing in tweets, Gerber combined conclusions from this analysis with older forecasting models to predict crimes over the next month.

This illustrates the need for complex modeling of the grid's vulnerabilities, he added.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

His engineering research encompasses control systems theory and applications, smart grid and renewable energy, semiconductor manufacturing, and modeling and control of neural systems.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Randall's team is addressing this problem by creating an ocean model constructed with a grid identical to that of the atmosphere model.

The higher resolution was particularly helpful in mountainous areas since the models take an average of the altitude in the grid (25 square km for high resolution, 200 square km for low resolution).

The study establishes a method for estimating UHI intensities using PRISM — Parameter - elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model — climate data, an analytical model that creates gridded estimates by incorporating climatic variables (temperature and precipitation), expert knowledge of climatic events (rain shadows, temperature inversions and coastal regimes) and digital elevaModel — climate data, an analytical model that creates gridded estimates by incorporating climatic variables (temperature and precipitation), expert knowledge of climatic events (rain shadows, temperature inversions and coastal regimes) and digital elevamodel that creates gridded estimates by incorporating climatic variables (temperature and precipitation), expert knowledge of climatic events (rain shadows, temperature inversions and coastal regimes) and digital elevation.

«We ran five years of ocean circulation in the model, and we measured the damping of energy at every grid point to see what the statistics are,» Fox - Kemper said.

Using a computer model that fused air pollution and atmospheric chemistry data, they estimated what annual average levels of ozone (a key smog ingredient) and fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) were in 2010 within 100 - km - by -100-km grid squares across the world.

For example, grids of just one mile square would enable models to simulate the small - scale conditions that catapult a routine thunderstorm or hurricane into a monster.

«Using this model, we found that SSTs can greatly enhance the functionalities of tomorrow's power grid,» Chakrabortty says.

The cost advantages of thermal storage over electrochemical storage also make a TPV with thermal energy storage (TES) system attractive for converting and storing energy for use on the grid, said Hamid Reza Seyf, a graduate research assistant who did the system modeling.

With a Department of Energy grant awarded to General Motors, Bill Boyce, supervisor for electric transportation with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said his utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to charge.

Climate models are virtual representations of Earth split into grids.

This year's milestone shows that renewables are becoming a major source of electricity in the U.S. and can no longer be considered «alternative» energy, said Christopher Clack, CEO of the power grid modeling firm Vibrant Clean Energy and a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher.

This kind of grid self - modeling, or self - consciousness, would avoid disturbances by performing what - if analyses.

To predict hail storms, or weather in general, scientists have developed mathematically based physics models of the atmosphere and the complex processes within, and computer codes that represent these physical processes on a grid consisting of millions of points.

If only we can figure out the right kind of grid and the right rule, says Fredkin, we should be able to model the universe, and all of physics.

They allowed the model to «spin - up» for 10 days ahead of Sandy's approach, then another 5 days forward in time once the storm had entered the model grid, adding data on wind speed, wind direction, and air pressure in 6 - minute time steps.

Researchers mapped the brain's connections as one would analyze a large - scale network such as the U.S electrical grid, global flight patterns or Linkedin professional connections, creating a model of the brain's «connectome.»

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

«We named it the «domino model» because the breeding and winter ranges of species were coded in 3x2 grids of binary values, like dots on domino pieces.

The team tested how parameters such as the flow of goods to and from relief centers evolved in two different model networks: a grid lattice common in cities and a «scale - free» road network that represents a mix of urban hubs and rural spokes.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

The principle crops in the region uncovered include cereals such as corn, rice, and spring wheat in a region known to be the main grain area of China (26)[Fig. 1, with brown dots in denoting at least 50 % total coverage by crops according to the land cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).].

Using a numerical model developed by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Weather Service, the team created two simulations of convectional organization over a 312,000 - square - kilometer grid with 1 - kilometer spacing.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

PNNL will tap into its extensive experience in fundamental and applied sciences, including advanced materials synthesis, characterization and modeling, as well as electrical grid infrastructure, grid storage and management, to help improve the performance, reliability and life - span of batteries.

What is the predictability of Hurst at single grid boxes even within models?

We use previous observations of the brown dwarf disk ISO - Oph 102 to inform a fiducial model around which we build a small grid of brown dwarf disk models, in order to explore the structure of CO isotopologue, HCN, and HCO + lines.

By comparison, other biogeochemical models divide the entire ocean into a two - dimensional grid of no more than five regions.

Methods: Scientists at PNNL developed a new aerosol - climate model as an extension of a multi-scale modeling framework model that embeds a cloud - resolving model (CRM) within each grid column of a global climate model.

One promising alternative is to represent clouds using models with grids that capture the cloud updrafts and downdrafts based on principles of conservation of momentum and energy.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaModels of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glamodels used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.