Departament d'Enginyeria del Terreny, Cartogràfica i Geofísica (fins octubre 2015): Enviaments recents

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    • Gb-SAR interferometry displacement measurements during dewatering in construction works : case of La Sagrera railway station in Barcelona, Spain 

      Serrano Juan, Alejandro; Vázquez Suñé, Enric; Montserrat, Oriol; Crosetto, Michele; Hoffmann Jauge, Christian; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto; Criollo, Rotman; Pujades, E; Velasco Mansilla, Domitila Violeta; García Gil, Alejandro; García Alcaraz, María del Mar (2016-04-29)
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      Construction processes require monitoring to ensure safety and to control the new and existing structures. Traditional monitoring is based on land surveys and geotechnical instruments and only allows for point-like ...

    • Highly expansive granular mixtures 

      Alonso Pérez de Agreda, Eduardo; Pinyol Puigmartí, Núria Mercè; Hoffmann Jauge, Christian (CRC Press, 2014)
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      The paper describes the behavior of mixtures of highly compacted bentonite pellets. They are considered as a suitable impervious and tight barrier for nuclear waste disposal. Laboratory experiments aimed at identifying the ...

    • Carbon dioxide and helium dissolved gases in groundwater at central Tenerife Island, Canary Islands: chemical and isotopic characterization 

      Marrero Díaz, Rayco; Lopez, Dina; Pérez Rodriguez, Nemesio M.; Custodio Gimena, Emilio; Sumino, Hirochika; Melian, Gladys V.; Padron, Eleazar; Calvo, David; Barrancos, Jose; Padilla, German; Sortino, Francesco (2015-10)
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      Seismic-volcanic unrest was detected between 2004 and 2005 in the central and northwest zones of Tenerife Island (Canary Islands, Spain). With the aim of strengthening the program of geochemical and seismic-volcanic ...

    • Evaluation of two carbon sources for inducing denitrification: batch and column experiments 

      Grau_Martínez, Alba; Carrey, Raul; Torrentó, Clara; Folch Sancho, Albert; Soler, Albert; Otero, Neus (Elsevier, 2015-08-21)
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      Artificial recharge improves several water quality parameters. Denitrification is a good example of water treatment process that could be achieved through artificial recharge. To improve the removal of nitrate and other ...

    • The great Colorado flood of September 2013 

      Gochis, David; Rutledge, Steven A.; Sempere Torres, Daniel; Steiner, Matthias; Chandrasekar, V. (2015-09-01)
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      During the second week of September 2013, a seasonally uncharacteristic weather pattern stalled over the Rocky Mountain Front Range region of northern Colorado bringing with it copious amounts of moisture from the Gulf of ...

    • Conceptualización y desarrollo de un sistema para el soporte a la decisión espacial colectiva: el sistema geoespacial de inteligencia colectiva 

      Castillo Rosas, Juan Daniel; Jiménez Vélez, Álex Fernando; Monguet Fierro, José María; Núñez Andrés, María Amparo (2015)
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      In this paper we present the progress of a research that focuses on validating an intelligent geospatial system aimed to support decision-making in complex geographic scenarios, whereby current and prospective geospatial ...

    • Estimating natural recharge by means of chloride mass balance in a volcanic aquifer: northeastern Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain) 

      Naranjo, Gema; Cruz Fuentes, Tatiana; Cabrera Santana, Maria del Carmen; Custodio Gimena, Emilio (2015-06)
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      The chloride mass balance method was used to estimate the average diffuse groundwater recharge on northeastern Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), where the largest recharge to the volcanic island aquifer occurs. Rainwater was ...

    • Comments on uncertainty in groundwater governance in the volcanic Canary islands, Spain 

      Custodio Gimena, Emilio; Cabrera Santana, Maria del Carmen; Cruz Fuentes, Tatiana; Naranjo, Gema; Puga de Miguel, Luis Olavo (2015-06)
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      The uncertainty associated with natural magnitudes and processes is conspicuous in water resources and groundwater evaluation. This uncertainty has an essential component and a part that can be reduced to some extent by ...

    • Field and laboratory analysis of the runout characteristics of hillslope debris flows in Switzerland 

      Hurlimann Ziegler, Marcel; McArdell, Brian, W.; Rickli, Christian (2015-03)
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      Hillslope debris flows are unconfined flows that originate by shallow failures in unconsolidated material at steep slopes. In spite of their significant hazard for persons and infrastructure in mountainous regions, research ...

    • Environmental and economic assessment of a pilot stormwater infiltration system for flood prevention in Brazil 

      Petit Boix, Anna; Sevigné-Itoiz, Eva; Rojas-Gutierrez, L. A.; Paceli Barbassa, Ademir; Josa Garcia-Tornel, Alejandro; Rieradevall, J.; Gabarrell, Xavier (2015-11)
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      Green and grey stormwater management infrastructures, such as the filter, swale and infiltration trench (FST), can be used to prevent flooding events. The aim of this paper was to determine the environmental and economic ...

    • A water availability prediction system for water management 

      Llort Pavon, Xavier; Rodríguez, Álvaro; Sancho, David; Sánchez-Diezma Guijarro, Rafael; Cangròs Alonso, Arnau; Muñoz Morillo, Esteban; Berenguer Ferrer, Marc; Sempere Torres, Daniel (2015)
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      In this work we present a Water Availability Prediction System [WAPS] developed and implemented within two EU-FP7 projects: UrbanWater and WatERP. The aim of the WAPS is to provide information for management purposes, and ...

    • Real losses compared with modelled ones using probabilistic approaches : the Lorca 2011 case 

      Salgado Gálvez, Mario Andrés; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Carreño Tibaduiza, Martha Liliana; Cardona Arboleda, Omar Dario (2015)
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      A loss assessment was performed for the buildings of Lorca, Spain, considering an earthquake hazard scenario with similar characteristics to those of the real event which occurred on May 11th 2011, in terms of epicentre, ...