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Climate Change and Damage from Extreme Weather Events [PDF]
The risks of extreme weather events are typically being estimated, by federal agencies and others, with historical frequency data assumed to reflect future probabilities.
Robert Easton, Robert Repetto
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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Modeling wheat development under extreme weather with WOFOST-EW v1 [PDF]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentExtreme weather events pose significant challenges to crop production, making their assessment essential for developing effective climate adaptation strategies.
J. Zheng +6 more
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Simulating Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Urban Transport Infrastructure in the UK [PDF]
, 2015 Urban areas face many risks from future climate change and their infrastructure will be placed under more pressure due to changes in climate extremes.
Barr, S. +5 more
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Adapting to extreme weather events
, 2019 This presentation was given on the 23 Jan 2019 at the Arctic frontiers side event on "Improved safety and environmentally sound operations in the Arctic Ocean - how to move forward?" in Trømso (NO)
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a robotic control method for human–robot collaborative assembly based on a biomechanics‐constrained digital human model. Reinforcement learning is used to generate physiologically plausible human motion trajectories, which are integrated into a virtual environment for robot control learning.
Bitao Yao +4 more
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European extreme events climate index (E3CI): a climate service for weather induced hazard
Frontiers in ClimateIn recent years, Europe has experienced a notable increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires.
Giuseppe Giugliano +12 more
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Weather and Climate Extremes, 2015 Gaining a better understanding of rare weather events is a major research challenge and of crucial relevance for societal preparedness in the face of a changing climate.
Sebastian Sippel +6 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Fiber energy harvesters offer unprecedented flexibility and a unique capacity for integration into commercial textiles, overcoming the limitations of bulky and rigid conventional devices. This review summarizes recent advances in fiber‐based energy harvesting and provides strategic outlooks to accelerate technological progress in the field. ABSTRACT As
Hanhwi Jang +8 more
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The Effect of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events on Tourism [PDF]
Tourism is an industry of primary importance for the world economy. For some countries, tourism is the first source of income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism.
Alessandra Goria +3 more
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