In Central Aragón (NE Spain), where strong and dry winds are frequent all year round, fallow lands are susceptible to wind erosion due to insufficient crop residues on the surface and loose, finely divided soils by multiple tillage operations. Effects of conventional tillage (CT — mouldboard ploughing followed by a compacting roller) and reduced tillage (RT — chisel ploughing) on soil surface p...

Wind energy has become a main challenge of conventional relic fuel energy, chiefly with the flourishing operation of multi-megawatt sized wind turbines. Though, wind with sensible speed is not sufficiently sustainable all over to construct an inexpensive wind farm. The probable site has to be systematically investigated at least with respect to wind speed profile and air density. Modelling and ...

Our paper discusses the unique capability of the SMAP L-band radiometer to measure strong winds in tropical and extratropical cyclones. There is no significant degradation in rain. INTRODUCTION AND OUTLINE The Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission SMAP (Entekhabi et al., 2010) was launched in January 2015 and has been providing science data since April 2015. Though designed to measure soil moist...

dust storms are known as hazardous problems in western part of iran. iraq is one of the main sources for dust storm arriving to the western part of iran. the radial basis function network model (rbfn) has been used to assess wind erosion hazards in the source area of dust storms over several western iranian cities. normalized difference salinity index (ndsi) was used to determine the changes in...

The determination of soil texture and organic carbon across agricultural areas provides important information to derive soil condition. Precise digital soil maps can help to till agricultural fields with more accuracy, greater cost-efficiency and better environmental protection. In the present study, the laboratory analysis of sand, silt, clay and soil organic carbon (SOC) content was combined ...

In recent years, there has been introduction of alternative energy sources such as wind energy. However, wind speed is not constant and wind power output is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. In order to control the power output for wind power generators as accurately as possible, a method of wind speed estimation is required. In this paper, a technique considers that wind speed in the...

A wind farm is a collection of wind turbines built in an area to provide electricity. Wind power is a renewable energy resource and an alternative to non-renewable fossil fuels. In this paper impact of wind farms in power system reliability is investigate and a new procedure for reliability assessment of wind farms in HL1 level is proposed. In proposed procedure, application of Fuzzy – Markov f...

in order to restrain the potential of wind energy, the first step is to determine the wind energy potential. in this study the wind data was used from the three-hour frequency recording of 10-year period (2002-2011). to predict the occurrence probability of each wind speed, the two-parameter weibull function was used. the goodness of fit test by chi-square test showed that the wind speed distri...

In wind farms, individual turbines disturb the wind field by generating wakes that influence other turbines in the farm. From a control point of view, there is an interest in dynamic optimization of the balance between fatigue and production, and an understanding of the relationship between turbines manifested through the wind field is hence required. This paper develops models for this relatio...

Histosols (also known as organic soils, mucks, or peats) are soils that are dominated by organic matter (OM > 20%) in half or more of the upper 80 cm. Forty two states have a total of 21 million ha of Histosols in the United States. These soils, when intensively cropped, are subject to wind erosion resulting in loss of crop productivity and degradation of soil, air, and water quality. Estimatin...