Prospects for Developing Compressed Air Energy Storage in Saudi Arabia
IET Smart Energy Systems, EarlyView.Under Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, this paper analyses the supporting role of Compressed Air Energy Storage in high‐penetration renewable energy systems and, in light of the local geological resources and grid conditions, demonstrates its feasibility for deployment and future development prospects.
Mingzhong Wan +6 more
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Studying Africa's hydroclimate history over the last 2000 years [PDF]
, 2016 Water-resource availability is one of the most important environmental factors on which Africa’s agricultural societies are reliant. However, our knowledge of the natural background variability of rainfall and drought over Africa is currently still ...
De Cort, Gijs
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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Classification and hydrocarbon distribution of passive continental margin basins
Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2016 Sixty-six passive continental margin basins around the world were compared comprehensively from the aspect of seismogeology on the basis of plate tectonics.
Zhixin WEN +6 more
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Tectono-stratigraphic evolution and crustal architecture of the Orphan Basin during North Atlantic rifting [PDF]
, 2016 The Orphan Basin is located in the deep offshore of the Newfoundland margin, and it is bounded by the continental shelf to the west, the Grand Banks to the south, and the continental blocks of Orphan Knoll and Flemish Cap to the east.
A Vauchez +60 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This study reports two isolated feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation in northeastern China. Morphological analyses identified them as the earliest known feathered theropods (potentially including avian) in the Jehol Biota. This finding reveals a complex ecosystem at the dawn of the Jehol Biota, bridging the temporal and faunal ...
Qian Wu +2 more
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Research on WASH sector, environment and water resources in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2008 Peer ReviewedPostprint (published ...
Fantaye, D. +3 more
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The missing piece of the South Atlantic jigsaw: when continental break-up ignores crustal heterogeneity [PDF]
, 2017 Crustal heterogeneity is considered to play a critical role in the position of continental break-up, yet this can only be demonstrated when a fully constrained pre-break-up configuration of both conjugate margins is achievable.
Hodgson, N +3 more
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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The Terceira Rift, Azores: a melt inclusion study of submarine lavas [PDF]
, 2012 The Azores plateau, a bathymetric high, is seated on an anomalous mantle domain located in the Azores Triple Junction where the American, EUR and AFR lithospheric plates meet.
Conceição, Patrícia +5 more
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