Finance Minister of India, in 2007 Government of India launched the Dug Well Recharge Scheme as a national program with an outlay of Rs. 1800 crore. Its aim was to educate and incentivize farmers in 100 hard rock districts of the country to modify their open dug wells for groundwater recharge. However, after around 3 years of operation of the scheme, our review found that it failed to achieve m...

Abstract This paper, based on a novel hybrid techno-economic model for geothermal power plants with endogenized plant lifetime, investigates the economic feasibility of sustainable exploitation resources electricity generation. To this end, standard terminology and classifications from literature are reviewed, such as “sustainability”, “sustainable operation”, “renewability”, “recovery”, “recha...

Energy harvesting is the process of capturing energy existing in the environment of a wireless device in order to power its electronics without the need to manually recharge the battery. By replenishing on-board energy storage autonomously, the need to recharge or replace the battery can be eliminated altogether, enabling devices to be placed in difficult-toreach areas. Vibration-based energy h...

Groundwater recharge estimates are required for the management of river basin districts under the new Water Framework Directive. Different recharge estimation techniques are described in this paper according to the following categories: inflow estimation, aquifer response analysis, outflow estimation and catchment water balance. Examples of their application in Ireland are provided. All estimat...

Basinwide very low-frequency (VLF) modes with zonal uniformly deepening and shoaling of the equatorial thermocline are found as solutions of linear shallow-water equations with the meridional basin boundaries under an equatorial b plane. They can be understood as the free heat-content recharge oscillations. The interannual VLF modes had been recognized as the essential part of the coupled recha...

Recently, special attention has been paid to artificial groundwater recharge in water resource management in arid and semi-arid regions. Water resources distribution in these regions is extremely uneven, both in spatial and temporal forms and groundwater is the only water resource and is a major constraint on economic and social development. Artificial groundwater recharge is considered an appr...

Abstract. The biophysical processes occurring in the unsaturated zone have a direct impact on water table dynamics. Representing these through application of models different complexity has an estimates volumes flowing between and aquifer. These fluxes, known as net recharge, are often used shared variable that couples to groundwater models. However, recharge always affected by degree uncertain...

[1] Eastern Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) and mean equatorial Pacific thermocline depth are key variables in El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A linear fit to observations leads to a remarkably simple picture: ENSO can be represented by a classical damped oscillator, with SST and thermocline depth playing the roles of momentum and position, respectively. An independent fit of observe...