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Environment & climate

It is extremely important for us to understand our environment, how human activities may affect it, and how we can reduce the damage. Environmental problems are often complex, having many interacting parts and stakeholders. Below are a few of the interesting and important models created to help illuminate issues around climate change.

Integrated environmental modeling

Real-world problems are interrelated and complex: getting to workable solutions means holistic thinking and collaboration. This is a basic premise of integrated environmental ...

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Keeping long term environmental modeling credible

Environmental modeling typically requires consideration of longer periods of time than in other domains. Whereas a data center might be modeled for five years, the environment ...

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Cost of energy analysis with wind turbines

Finding out how much energy generation costs with wind turbines is essential for calculating the overall investment and return, compared with other sources of energy.

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Renewable energy analysis and the bottom line

Sun, wind and biomass are the renewable energy sources that often come to mind, with geothermal, tidal and hydropower as further choices. The fear about fossil fuels running ...

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Green decision analysis & the long tailpipe

Going green is held to be ecologically sound and financially advantageous; and in many cases, it is. In many cases however, it’s also a decision involving a number of ...

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The role of sensitivity analysis in energy & environmental modeling

Energy and environmental models are often complex. Sensitivity analysis is a natural choice to improve understanding of such models and to see which input parameters have ...

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