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Matas Casado, Gerard (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-04)
The fragmentation process in rockfalls is a complex phenomenon that is not well understood and only a few rockfall simulation models consider it explicitly. Fragmentation significantly affects the ...
Benavides, Jaime (Fecha de defensa: 2020-02-18)
Air pollution is known to cause detrimental health effects in cities and specially on the most vulnerable population. Having access to reliable air pollutant concentration data at street-level in urban ...
Bernal Granados, Gabriel Andrés (Fecha de defensa: 2014-11-09)
In the assessment of seismic risk, hazard is one of its main components, given that, from a probabilistic perspective, provides the annual rates of exceedance of the intensities of strong motion in the ...
Dandar, Enkhbayar (Fecha de defensa: 2017-06-23)
Groundwater withdrawals are growing in most developing countries, including Mongolia, where freshwater resources are limited and unevenly distributed, and most surface waters are frozen during winter. ...
Egido Egido, Alejandro (Fecha de defensa: 2013-07-05)
Soil moisture and vegetation biomass are two essential parameters from a scienti c and economical point of view. On one hand, they are key for the understanding of the hydrological and carbon cycle. On ...
Mohammed, Ali Jasim (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-03)
The occurrence of heat waves and cold spells has received special attention in recent years due to their impact on human health, ecosystems and economy. In the context of climate change, there is evidence ...
Al-Nassar, Ali Raheem Tuaimah (Fecha de defensa: 2018-09-25)
Precipitation is one of the most important, and also difficult to predict, elements of climate. This difficulty is associated with the transport of moisture through weather fronts that change their ...
Henri, Christopher (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-09)
Human impact on groundwater resources has led to a rapid growth of social concerns worldwide owing to an increasing presence of toxic chemicals released in the subsurface. Risk assessment provides the ...
Obón Estrada, Eleonora (Fecha de defensa: 2019-11-27)
The rare earth elements (REEs) are essential ingredients for the development of modern industry and the transition to a more sustainable economy model. The unique physicochemical features of these ...
Ortega Gelabert, Olga (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-18)
This thesis presents an efficient methodology to couple Model Order Reduction techniques within the framework of geophysical probabilistic inversion problems. Accurate models of the interaction between ...