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Analyse de tendance des précipitations et de la température de l'air sur l'île d'Hispaniola (Haïti et la République Dominicaine)
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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Dans la mer des Caraïbes, en dessous de l’Amérique du Nord, se trouve une entre le Cuba et la Jamaïque, une île (Hispaniola) qui fait 77 650 km² de superficie. Elle est la plus peuplée des Antilles, soit de plus de 20 millions d’habitants. Cette île est divisée en deux pays, qui selon Théodat (2004) « sont les deux seules îles qui ne sont pas entourées d’eau de tous les côtés, tant ils sont différents ». Leurs indicateurs de développement et environnementaux sont étonnamment différents. L’un, la République Dominicaine a le plus fort taux de croissance économique de la Caraïbe, l’autre (Haïti) a le plus faible taux dans tout l’hémisphère. Le premier a un Indice de Développement humain (IDH) élevé, il est la première destination touristique de la Caraïbe, il a un taux de couvert forestier qui avoisine les 40% selon la base de donnée de la FAO. L’autre, a le plus faible indice de la région, très mal classé comme destination touristique, et son couvert forestier est estimé à 4% FAO (2010). Mais sont-ils vraiment deux îles en termes climatiques ? Leur occupation de sol a-t-elle entrainé des microclimats qui évoluent différemment au moins pour les quatre dernières décennies passées ? Ce sont ces questions qui ont amené à faire une analyse de tendance des variables climatiques (précipitation et température) sur tout le territoire de l’île. Les données utilisées proviennent des réanalyses ERA5. Elles ont une résolution spatiale 30km*30km, et fournissent les valeurs journalières des variables sur 40 années (1979-2019). Les tests Mann Kendall, Sen’s Slope et Pettitt ont été réalisés sur les valeurs annuelles des variables qui ont été moyennisées pour chaque pays, ensuite pour chaque grille du modèle. Pour tout Haïti, il n’y a pas de tendance dans la moyenne des précipitations annuelles pour la série chronologique (1979-2019), mais la tendance est significative et positive pour les données de températures moyennes annuelles mais avec des pentes très faibles de l’ordre de 0,023 ; Pour les différentes grilles couvrant Haïti (40 au total), deux d’entre elles présentent une tendance positive significative pour la variable pluviométrique et toutes les grilles témoignent d’une augmentation de température. Pour la République Dominicaine, pour les données annuelles de pluviométrie, il y a une tendance à la baisse non significative pour tout le territoire, et quinze sur 69 grilles présentent une tendance significative de diminution ; pour la température, la tendance générale est à la hausse. La position spatiale des grilles avec une tendance paraît plus être liée à la topographie générale et l’impact du mouvement d’oscillation des mers plutôt que l’occupation des sols. Ces résultats vont dans le même sens que ceux obtenus par (Moron et al., 2015) et le rapport de la BID (2015).


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Mise en évidence des premiers impacts des changements climatiques sur les ressources en eau souterraine de la Région wallonne
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Year: 2024 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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Les impacts des changements climatiques sont observés et étudiés dans le monde entier. En plus d'avoir des effets sur de nombreux écosystèmes, ils impactent nos réserves en eau souterraine. La Wallonie est dépendante de ses ressources en eau souterraine pour assurer la distribution publique. Il est nécessaire de surveiller avec rigueur l'évolution de nos réserves en eau. Ce mémoire explore l'impact des changements climatiques récents sur la recharge des aquifères en Wallonie. L’objectif est d’identifier et de quantifier l’impact des variations de recharge sur le niveau des masses d’eau souterraine wallonnes, en distinguant les contributions climatiques des contributions anthropiques.&#13;Pour ce faire, des analyses statistiques rigoureuses telles que le test de Mann-Kendall, le test de pente de Sen et la régression linéaire sont employées sur des chroniques temporelles hydrologiques et météorologiques s’étendant sur une période allant de 20 à 23 ans. Les données hydrologiques s'étendent sur une période allant de 2000 à 2023 et les données météorologiques de 2000 à 2020. Six masses d’eau souterraine wallonnes sont étudiées.&#13;Pour la période étudiée, les résultats montrent une diminution significative de l'eau utile pour les masses d’eau RWE051, RWE030, RWM041 et RWM103 et une diminution des niveaux piézométriques dans les masses d’eau RWE051, RWM040, RWM041 et RWRM092. Les diminutions des niveaux piézométriques des masses d’eau RWE051, RWM040 et RWRM041 sont très probablement causées par la diminution de la recharge. Ce travail contribue à la compréhension des effets climatiques sur les ressources en eau souterraine et met en lumière la nécessité de mettre en place une gestion durable de ces ressources.


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Sea Surface Temperature: From Observation to Applications
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book covers a broad range of sea surface temperature studies from very different points of view and scales; the SST is observed from very local to regional and oceanic scales. The chapters of this book move from local and remote data sensing validation to local and regional trend analysis, and also give some insight into marine heatwaves and future climate scenarios.


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Sea Surface Temperature: From Observation to Applications
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book covers a broad range of sea surface temperature studies from very different points of view and scales; the SST is observed from very local to regional and oceanic scales. The chapters of this book move from local and remote data sensing validation to local and regional trend analysis, and also give some insight into marine heatwaves and future climate scenarios.


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Satellite and UAV Platforms, Remote Sensing for Geographic Information Systems
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ISBN: 3036553622 3036553614 Year: 2022 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The present book contains ten articles illustrating the different possible uses of UAVs and satellite remotely sensed data integration in Geographical Information Systems to model and predict changes in both the natural and the human environment. It illustrates the powerful instruments given by modern geo-statistical methods, modeling, and visualization techniques. These methods are applied to Arctic, tropical and mid-latitude environments, agriculture, forest, wetlands, and aquatic environments, as well as further engineering-related problems. The present Special Issue gives a balanced view of the present state of the field of geoinformatics.

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Research & information: general --- Geography --- mosaicking --- urban image --- seamline determination --- deep learning --- D-LinkNet --- climate change --- evergreen plants --- extreme events --- flavonol and chlorophyll sensor (Dualex) --- greenness indices --- mosses --- near-remote sensing active and passive NDVI sensors --- Sentinel-2 --- subarctic vegetation damage --- crop growth --- reflectance saturation --- crop model --- assimilation --- crop growth stage --- method combinations --- sentinel-2A image --- UAV image --- remote sensing --- soil salinity --- Love/Shida numbers --- satellite laser ranging (SLR) --- Yarragadee station --- Mount Stromlo station --- LAGEOS --- STELLA --- STARLETTE satellites --- SLR stations coordinates --- ITRF2014 --- Lake Ladoga --- CMEMS GlobColour CHL-OC5 --- eutrophication --- water quality assessment --- pulp and paper mill --- ecological status --- phytoplankton and chlorophyll-a --- chemical wastewater pollution --- ArcGIS --- big data --- blueberries --- image analysis --- orthomosaics --- segmentation refinement --- UAVs --- HAPS --- UAV --- monitoring --- constrained multiple objective optimization --- temporal hierarchical task planning --- GNSS stations --- tectonic plate motion parameters --- ITRF --- vegetation monitoring --- drivers of deforestation --- Zambezi region --- land degradation --- vegetation cover change --- wildlife management --- TSS-RESTREND --- greening and browning --- MODIS --- Mann–Kendall --- n/a --- Mann-Kendall


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Drought Risk Management in Reflect Changing of Meteorological Conditions
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Droughts are one of the main extreme meteorological, and hydrological phenomena, which influence both the functioning of ecosystems, and many important sectors of human economic activity. Throughout the world, various direct changes in meteorological, and climatic conditions, such as: air temperature, humidity, and evapotranspiration can be observed. They have a significant influence upon the shaping of the phenomenon of drought. Land cover and land use can also be indirect factors influencing evapotranspiration, and, by the same token, the water balance in the water catchment area. They can also influence the course of the process of the drought. The observed climate change, manifested mainly by increases in temperature, in turn, influencing evapotranspiration, may cause intensification in terms of both the degree and frequency of droughts. Droughts related to changes in the hydrological regime, and to the decrease in water resources. Its results can be observed in various sectors, related, among others, to a demand for water for people, agriculture and the Industry. It can also prove problematic for water ecosystems. To reflect the aforementioned information, a reasonable drought risk management is indispensable in order to ease the water demand related problems in various sectors of human activity. This book presents original research on various drought indicators, modern measurement techniques used, among others, for monitoring and predicting droughts, drought indicator trends, the impact of insufficient precipitation on human activity in the context of climate change, and examples of modern solutions devised to prevent water shortages.


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Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The importance of evapotranspiration is well-established in different disciplines such as hydrology, agronomy, climatology, and other geosciences. Reliable estimates of evapotranspiration are also vital to develop criteria for in-season irrigation management, water resource allocation, long-term estimates of water supply, demand and use, design and management of water resources infrastructure, and evaluation of the effect of land use and management changes on the water balance. The objective of this Special Issue is to define and discuss several ET terms, including potential, reference, and actual (crop) ET, and present a wide spectrum of innovative research papers and case studies.


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Drought Risk Management in Reflect Changing of Meteorological Conditions
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Droughts are one of the main extreme meteorological, and hydrological phenomena, which influence both the functioning of ecosystems, and many important sectors of human economic activity. Throughout the world, various direct changes in meteorological, and climatic conditions, such as: air temperature, humidity, and evapotranspiration can be observed. They have a significant influence upon the shaping of the phenomenon of drought. Land cover and land use can also be indirect factors influencing evapotranspiration, and, by the same token, the water balance in the water catchment area. They can also influence the course of the process of the drought. The observed climate change, manifested mainly by increases in temperature, in turn, influencing evapotranspiration, may cause intensification in terms of both the degree and frequency of droughts. Droughts related to changes in the hydrological regime, and to the decrease in water resources. Its results can be observed in various sectors, related, among others, to a demand for water for people, agriculture and the Industry. It can also prove problematic for water ecosystems. To reflect the aforementioned information, a reasonable drought risk management is indispensable in order to ease the water demand related problems in various sectors of human activity. This book presents original research on various drought indicators, modern measurement techniques used, among others, for monitoring and predicting droughts, drought indicator trends, the impact of insufficient precipitation on human activity in the context of climate change, and examples of modern solutions devised to prevent water shortages.


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Rainfall Erosivity in Soil Erosion Processes
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ISBN: 3039288059 3039288040 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book gathers recent international research on the association between aggressive rainfall and soil loss and landscape degradation. Different contributions explore these complex relationships and highlight the importance of the spatial patterns of precipitation intensity on land flow under erosive storms, with the support of observational and modelling data. This is a large and multifaceted area of research of growing importance that outlines the challenge of protecting land from natural hazards. The increase in the number of high temporal resolution rainfall records together with the development of new modelling capabilities has opened up new opportunities for the use of large-scale planning and risk prevention methods. These new perspectives should no longer be considered as an independent research topic, but should, above all, support comprehensive land use planning, which is at the core of environmental decision-making and operations. Textbooks such as this one demonstrate the significance of how hydrological science can enable tangible progress in understanding the complexity of water management and its current and future challenges.


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Ozone Evolution in the Past and Future
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The stratospheric ozone is important for the protection of the biosphere from the dangerous ultraviolet radiation of the sun, forms the temperature and dynamical structure of the stratosphere, and, therefore, has a direct influence on the general circulation and the surface climate. The tropospheric ozone can damage the biosphere, impact human health, and plays a role as a powerful greenhouse gas. That is why the understanding of the past and future evolution of the ozone in different atmospheric layers, as well as its influence on surface UV radiation doses, and human health is important. The problems of preventing further destruction of the ozone layer, the restoration of the ozone shield in the future, and air quality remain important for society. The interest in these problems was recently enhanced by the unexpected discovery of a negative ozone trend in the lower stratosphere and the appearance of a large ozone hole over the Arctic in spring 2020. This book includes papers describing several aspects of the ozone layer’s state and evolution based on the recent experimental, statistical, and modeling works. The book will be useful for readers, scientists, and students interested in environmental science.

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