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

Pranab K. Roy Chowdhury  Jeanette E. Weaver  Eric M. Weber  Dalton Lunga  St. Thomas M. LeDoux  Amy N. Rose 《International Journal of Digital Earth》2020,13(1):119-135

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.  相似文献   

中国强震动观测展望   总被引：15，自引：1，他引：14  

李山有  金星  刘启方  孔戈 《地震工程与工程振动》2003,23(2):1-7

强震动观测是震灾预防与地震应急的重要基础。本在系统总结强震动观测的国际现状与发展趋势的基础上,结合我国的防震减灾实际需要和经济实力,提出了我国未来十年强震动观测的发展规划。  相似文献   

南海西北部珊瑚礁记录所反映的新构造运动^*   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

詹文欢  朱照宇  姚衍桃  孙宗勋  孙龙涛 《第四纪研究》2006,26(1):77-84

珊瑚礁是发育于热带海洋环境中由生物作用和地质作用共同形成的地质体,具有独特的新构造运动意义。南海西北部珊瑚礁记录所反映的新构造运动主要有火山活动、地壳升降运动和地震活动等。珊瑚礁区第四纪火山活跃,到现代已停止活动,部分火山构成珊瑚礁的基座,个别出露海面为火山岛;地壳升降运动差异较大,雷州半岛西南部珊瑚礁呈上升趋势,上升率为0.02~0.05mm/a;西沙群岛等岛礁地壳运动则呈下降趋势,下降率为-0.07~-0.10mm/a,岛礁中的造礁石珊瑚生长率、礁顶和灰沙岛的堆积率均相当于或大于地壳下降率与现代海平面上升率的总和;南海西北部珊瑚礁区内地震活动较强,尤其是1994年12月31日和1995年1月10日在雷州半岛西南部海域发生了6.1级和6.2 级地震,这两次地震对该区珊瑚礁的发育有较大的影响。  相似文献   

在改革中求发展--《干旱气象》改革的基本思路与措施   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

吴喜峰 《干旱气象》2006,24(2):60-62,77

以《甘肃气象》改为《干旱气象》后所采取的一系列思路和措施为重点,论述了由技术类期刊向学术类期刊发展的过程和改刊后的成果以及所存在的问题,提出了以干旱气象为中心,将期刊办出特色、办出新意的理念,同时也对该刊今后的努力方向提出要求。  相似文献   

环境与工程地球物理的发展趋势   总被引：3，自引：16，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

胡祥云  杨迪坤  刘少华  胡正旺 《地球物理学进展》2006,21(2):598-604

2006年6月在武汉召开了第二届环境与工程地球物理国际会议.会议围绕近年来兴起的近地表探测问题展开，涉及方法原理、仪器采集、资料处理等各个环节，反映出国内外环境与工程探测领域的若干前沿热点和发展动态.结合本次会议，可以看出该学科主要趋势为：应用领域不断扩宽，方法技术灵活多样，重视基础理论研究，开发新型（特种）仪器，通过高精度测量、延时测量、先进的数据处理技术和信息技术等手段改善探测质量.我国对环境与工程地球物理有很大的需要，应根据我国实际情况，吸收国外先进经验，积极开展自主创新.  相似文献   

地质学在旅游资源调查评价与开发中的应用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

叶新才 《地质灾害与环境保护》2006,17(3):98-101

旅游资源范畴随着旅游产业的发展而在不断扩大,生态旅游和地质科学考察旅游成为旅游的重要发展方向。从分析旅游资源的形成和演化与地质学关系出发,探讨目前旅游资源调查评价与开发中对地质学的应用及其不足,提出以地质遗迹保护为基础建设地质公园是旅游资源开发的一个新发展方向,强调了地质学理论与地质资料在旅游资源保护及可持续利用中的作用。这是提高旅游资源调查与评价水平,开拓旅游新领域,为旅游经济发展服务的最佳切入点。  相似文献   

Change of Gas Hydrate Reservoir and Its Effect on the Environment in Xisha Trough since the Last Glacial Maximum     

王淑红  颜文  宋海斌 《中国地质大学学报(英文版)》2007,18(1):39-48

In this article, Milkov and Sassen’s model is selected to calculate the thickness of the gas hydrate stable zone (GHSZ) and the amount of gas hydrate in the Xisha (西沙) Trough at present and at the last glacial maximum (LGM), respectively, and the effects of the changes in the bottom water temperature and the sea level on these were also discussed. The average thickness of the GHSZ in Xisha Trough is estimated to be 287 m and 299 m based on the relationship between the GHSZ thickness and the water depth established in this study at present and at LGM, respectively. Then, by assuming that the distributed area of gas hydrates is 8 000 km2 and that the gas hydrate saturation is 1.2% of the sediment volume, the amounts of gas hydrate are estimated to be ~2.76×1010 m3 and ~2.87×1010 m3, and the volumes of hydrate-bound gases are ~4.52×1012 m3 and ~4.71×1012 m3 at present and at LGM, re- spectively. The above results show that the thickness of GHSZ decreases with the bottom water tem- perature increase and increases with the sea level increase, wherein the effect of the former is larger than that of the latter, that the average thickness of GHSZ in Xisha Trough had been reduced by ~12 m, and that 1.9×1011 m3 of methane is released from approximately 1.1×109 m3 of gas hydrate since LGM. The released methane should have greatly affected the environment.  相似文献   

Microbialite of anoxic condition from Permian-Triassic transition in Guizhou,China   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：7  

WU YaSheng  JIANG HongXia  YANG Wan & FAN JiaSong Institute of Geology  Geophysics  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing  China  Department of Geology  Wichita State University  Fairmount  Wichita  KS  USA 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2007,50(7):1040-1051

Spherical microfossils are present in the Hindeodus parvus zone of the Lower Triassic in Ziyun,Guizhou Province. They generally range from 0.15 to 0.30 mm across,with micritic wall and filled by micro-sparry calcites,and are evenly scattered in micritic matrix. Their abundance makes the rock as-signed to microbialites. The accompanied organisms include ostracods and algal mat,but no gastro-pods or bivalves. Presence of small (<7 μm) pyrite framboids indicates that this bed formed in anoxic conditions. In some sections,this bed is overlain and underlain by tidal-flat micritic limestone with microgastropods and small burrows. Occurrence only in deposits on reef top indicates that the micro-bial organism was benthic,and needed sunlight in life. The size of the microbial fossil exceeds that of any bacteria or cyanobacteria. Thus,it does not belong to these two phyla. It may belong to lower green algae,and is assigned to a new species in a new genus,Ziyunosphaeridium sinensis gen. et sp. nov. Up to now,the rocks described as microbialites from the Permian-Triassic transition include six types: (1) porous micritic limestone such as that descried from Japan by Sano and Nakashima (1997),(2) limestone with rich globular microfossils such as that described from the Nanpanjiang Basin in China by Lehrmann (1999),(3) dendroidal limestone such as that described from the vicinity of Chongqing by Kershaw et al. (1999),(4) spherical microbial limestone adapted to anoxic environments described from Ziyun,Guizhou reported in this paper,(5) limestone with cyanobacterial fossils such as that described by Wang et al. (2005),and (6) stromatolites. All these microbialites are not reefs in the proper sense,and the argument that Permian reef ecosystems extended into the Mesozoic is incorrect.  相似文献   

山区综合开发试点贷款管理难点及对策     

江厚栋 《山地学报》1998,(2)

国家于1996年确定了全国35个贫困山区综合开发试点县,并建立了山区综合开发试点贷款这一新信贷种类.通过分析该工作在试点阶段遇到的一些问题和管理难点,提出了改进管理工作的指导思想和对策措施  相似文献   

二华平原区环境地质问题与地下水资源开发   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

张茂省  杨培养  徐金龙 《陕西地质》1998,(1)

本文从二华平原区地下水动态特征以及与地下水开采有关的环境地质问题入手,研究人类工程活动与地质环境之间的相互作用和相互制约关系,预测地下水资源开发过程中可能出现的环境地质问题,提出合理开发利用地下水资源的意见。  相似文献