Complementarity of Brazil׳ s hydro and offshore wind power

AR Silva, FM Pimenta, AT Assireu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The operation of hydroelectric plants in Brazil depends on the hydrological regime, which is
subject to significant seasonal fluctuations and faces critical levels of storage in certain …

New improved Brazilian daily weather gridded data (1961–2020)

AC Xavier, BR Scanlon, CW King… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The demand for meteorological gridded datasets has increased within the last few years to
inform studies such those in climate, weather, and agriculture. These studies require those …

[PDF][PDF] Precipitation and air temperature extremes in the Amazon and northeast Brazil

PE Da Silva, CM Santos e Silva… - International Journal …, 2019 - researchgate.net
It is possible to observe the occurrence of extreme climate events (ECEs) such as heat and
cold waves, extended droughts, floods and torrential rains throughout the world (Kirch et al …

Analysis of the urban heat island under different synoptic patterns using local climate zones

M Anjos, AC Targino, P Krecl, GY Oukawa… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Characterising the spatio-temporal variability of the Urban Heat Island intensity (UHII) is of
utmost importance to understand processes related to air pollution dispersion and thermal …

Environmental quality assessment in a marine coastal area impacted by mining tailing using a geochemical multi-index and physical approach

CM Longhini, SK Rodrigues, ES Costa… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mining has been described as an important source of contaminants to the coastal zone
worldwide, which is greatly intensified in the case of tailing dam ruptures. This study …

Forecast for surface solar irradiance at the Brazilian Northeastern region using NWP model and artificial neural networks

FJL Lima, FR Martins, EB Pereira, E Lorenz… - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
There has been a growing demand on energy sector for short-term predictions of energy
resources to support the planning and management of electricity generation and distribution …

Assessment of climate change impacts on hydrology and water quality of large semi-arid reservoirs in Brazil

JBS Raulino, CS Silveira… - Hydrological Sciences …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates climate change impacts on the hydrology and water quality of
Brazilian semi-arid reservoirs. An integrated approach coupling climate, hydrological and …

The effects of a tailing dam failure on the sedimentation of the eastern Brazilian inner shelf

VS Quaresma, AC Bastos, MD Leite, A Costa Jr… - Continental Shelf …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the past several decades, anthropogenic changes throughout drainage basins have
threatened physical, hydrological and ecological river-to-ocean continuum balances. Dams …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme precipitation events and their relationship with ENSO and MJO phases over northern South America

MH Shimizu, T Ambrizzi, B Liebmann - Int. J. Climatol, 2017 - researchgate.net
Several droughts and floods in Amazonia and Northeast Brazil have occurred in recent
years and projections from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicate an …

Influence of the WRF model and atmospheric reanalysis on the offshore wind resource potential and cost estimation: A case study for Rio de Janeiro State

LF de Assis Tavares, M Shadman, LP de Freitas Assad… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing increase of offshore wind implementations has been made this modality
subject to many resource assessment works. However, the variety of available wind datasets …