Fernández López, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
Torrential flows have so far been studied less than have river flows, due to the difficulty of faithfully reproducing them in the laboratory, and the few field measurements available. For this reason, ...
Hernández Navarro, Olver Olfrey (Date of defense: 2018-02-22)
Rainfall nowcasting based on the extrapolation of most recent radar rainfall fields usually shows better skill than NWP models for short lead times, since it benefits from observations of the initial ...
Garikapati, Hasini (Date of defense: 2020-03-28)
Uncertainty quantification is important in assessing and predicting the performance of complex engineering systems and processes, especially in the absence of adequate experimental or real-world data. ...
Criollo Manjarrez, Rotman A. (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
The conceptualisation of a groundwater system involves continuous monitoring and evaluation of a large number of parameters (e.g., hydraulic parameters). Regarding hydraulic properties of the aquifers, ...
García Alcaraz, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
This thesis promotes an efficient use of shallow geothermal energy by means of an integrated management system to organize its exploitation. Shallow geothermal energy is a renewable resource based on ...
Maidana, Manuel Augusto (Date of defense: 2007-09-14)
En esta tesis se ha desarrollado y validado un modelo tridimensional de circulación costera en elementos finitos capaz de simular una región limitada del océano. La escala de longitud de las aplicaciones ...
Londoño-Linares, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
The available literature on Landslide Risk Assessment is less than the available on Hazard zonation topics. A reason is the inherent difficult to develop quantitative landslide risk assessment; this ...
Alvarado Bueno, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-04-23)
Risk associated with landslides of natural or man-made origin depends on the prediction of the post-failure behaviour of the mobilized mass. Numerical models capable of integrating the landslide geometry ...
Valverde Morales, Victor (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)
Atmospheric pollution causes large impacts on human health and societal economic interests and it is a threat for the ecosystems and the climate of the Earth. Improving the understanding of pollution ...
Shao, Yixie (Date of defense: 2019-02-25)
The research of this dissertation is studying the ionosphere by GPS radio occultation (RO) techniques. It is mainly divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the methodology in electron density ...