Recently, the University of Missouri (UM) moved its SuomiNet station from the roof of a building near downtown Columbia, Missouri, USA, to the University’s rural South Farm. Comparisons of Columbia Regional Airport (KCOU) data and SuomiNet data are presented both prior to and after the latter’s relocation. Analysis reveals an elevation of mean temperature by ∼1.5 ◦C at the downtown location, bu...

the present sought to draw a comparison between model predictive control performance and two other controllers named simple pi and selective pi in controlling large-scale natural gas transport networks. a nonlinear dynamic model of representative gas pipeline was derived from pipeline governing rules and simulated in simulink® environment of matlab®. control schemes were designed to provide a s...

Multidisciplinary research into statistical and soft computing models is detailed that analyses data on inmissions of atmospheric pollution in urban areas. The research analyzes the impact on atmospheric pollution of an extended bank holiday weekend in Spain. Levels of atmospheric pollution are classified in relation to the days of the week, seeking to differentiate between working days and non...

gasoline filling station workers Ansari-Lari et al reported that the sex ratio (proportion male) of offspring of men exposed to petroleum fuel is significantly low as contrasted with controls. If confirmed, this is an important result. It is in contrast with reports of significantly high offspring sex ratios in communities exposed to active seepages of natural gas and oil and to petrochemical a...

This paper presents summaries of five research and development activities in intelligent distributed simulation and control of power plants which were presented in a panel session of the same name at the IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting on February 6, 1997 in New York City. Each of the panelists discussed methods of how they have incorporated intelligent systems techniques into the...

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Lin—Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; StohL—Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway; DraxLer—NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, Maryland; KonopKa—Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich, Germany; anDrewS—NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado; Brunner—Laboratory for Air P...