Electricity consumption patterns within cities: application of a data-driven settlement characterization method

ABSTRACT

Urban areas presently consume around 75% of global primary energy supply, which is expected to significantly increase in the future due to urban growth. Having sustainable, universal energy access is a pressing challenge for most parts of the globe. Understanding urban energy consumption patterns may help to address the challenges to urban sustainability and energy security. However, urban energy analyses are severely limited by the lack of urban energy data. Such datasets are virtually non-existent for the developing countries. As per current projections, most of the new urban growth is bound to occur in these data-starved regions. Hence, there is an urgent need of research methods for monitoring and quantifying urban energy utilization patterns. Here, we apply a data-driven approach to characterize urban settlements based on their formality, which is then used to assess intra-urban urban energy consumption in Johannesburg, South Africa; Sana’a, Yemen; and Ndola, Zambia. Electricity is the fastest growing energy fuel. By analyzing the relationship between the settlement types and the corresponding nighttime light emission, a proxy of electricity consumption, we assess the differential electricity consumption patterns. Our study presents a simple and scalable solution to fill the present data void to understand intra-city electricity consumption patterns.     

Excel在约旦18号死海海堤沉降监测中的应用

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基于非等间距泊松曲线在沉降预测中的应用

泊松曲线是一种精度较高的沉降预测方法，但是它只能在等时距数据条件下方能使用，在工程实际中很难满足这一要求。本文采用插值法将非等时距数据转化成等时距数列，并结合高层建筑沉降监测工程实例分析，结果表明，用泊松曲线模型预测建筑物沉降量与实际沉降量比较接近，具有较高的应用价值。     

地图数字化中基于点位坐标的统一平差模型

探讨了地图数字化过程中采用平差方法来建立坐标计算的统一模型。将测得的角度、边长等数据化为方向、距离观测值列立误差方程，通过调用统一的平差迭代计算程序来计算未知点坐标及精度。详细给出了基于平差的11种常用坐标计算方法，并通过实例进行了说明。     

Excess in precipitation as a cause for settlement decline along the Israeli coastal plain during the third millennium BC

Although the relations between climate and settlement are not straightforward, there is a general agreement that arid conditions are less favorable for human settlement in the semiarid Near East than humid conditions. Here we show that humid conditions resulted in the abandonment of settlements along the Israeli coastal plain. We first present archaeological evidence for a drastic decline in settlement along the Israeli coast during most of the third millennium BC (Early Bronze Age II-III). Then, based on archaeological and climatic evidence, we link this decline to an environmental change occurring at that time. We propose that increased precipitation intensified the already existing drainage problems and resulted in flooding, which led to the transformation of arable land into marshes and to the spread of diseases, gradually causing settlement decline and abandonment.     

Airborne gravimetry used in precise geoid computations by ring integration

Two detailed geoids have been computed in the region of North Jutland. The first computation used marine data in the offshore areas. For the second computation the marine data set was replaced by the sparser airborne gravity data resulting from the AGMASCO campaign of September 1996. The results of comparisons of the geoid heights at on-shore geometric control showed that the geoid heights computed from the airborne gravity data matched in precision those computed using the marine data, supporting the view that airborne techniques have enormous potential for mapping those unsurveyed areas between the land-based data and the off-shore marine or altimetrically derived data. Received: 7 July 1997 / Accepted: 22 April 1998     

Taylor定理余项中θ的渐近性和拓广

给出带有m-1项断裂项n+m阶Taylor定理余项中θ的渐近估计,其估计式为 .利用该估计式将Taylor定理推广为 ,其中余项 .最后举例说明该推广在近似计算中的优越性。     

基于Web的地下管网溯源分析算法研究

利用.NetCore的并行运算机制,实现基于Web的高性能地下管网的溯源分析功能。实践证明当某点管网数据监测出现异常时,能够快速分析所有可能流经该点源头管网信息,并在地图上动态展示分析结果,达到快速定位查询管网源头的区域管理目的。     

纯球坐标系内各项重力校正值计算方案和计算过程

在国内,首次阐述了"纯球坐标系内各项重力校正值的计算方案和计算过程"。该计算方案有如下优点:①以观测点P为中心,以球面距离am=am-1+Δa.bm-1(m=2,3,…,M)为半径将计算区划分为M个环带,再以Δλ0为由P点出发射线的角度间隔将所有环带等分为N(整数)份的计算区划分方案是最严密拼接,因而校正值的计算精度相当高。②在地形复杂和相对高差大的情况下,通过减小Δa、b和Δλ0数值,可进一步提高计算精度。③可以直接采用带有经、纬度坐标的高程数据,进行大面积测区的各项重力校正值计算,而不受6°带和标准图幅限制。     

煤储层渗透率动态预测模型适用性评价

基于比较理论推导建立的4个煤层渗透率计算模型,对我国煤层气盆地已有物性参数进行计算,以预测其煤储层渗透率。将模型预测结果与现场试井渗透率数据进行对比分析,得出了4个模型的预测精度,在此基础上研究了煤储层渗透率动态预测模型对我国煤层气部分区块的适用性。计算结果表明:在煤层气开发后期,汪-张模型的适用性较好,预测结果与现场数据基本一致,对煤层气开采有一定指导意义。