scholarly journals Detecting Wind Farm Impacts on Local Vegetation Growth in Texas and Illinois Using MODIS Vegetation Greenness Measurements

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geng Xia ◽  
Liming Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm ◽  
Vegetation Growth ◽  
Vegetation Greenness

scholarly journals Elevational Movement of Vegetation Greenness on the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from the Landsat Satellite Observations during the Last Three Decades

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Liheng Lu ◽  
Xiaoqian Shen ◽  
Ruyin Cao
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Vertical Movement ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Upward Movement ◽  
Vegetation Growth ◽  
Vegetation Greenness ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Vegetation Activities

The Tibetan Plateau, the highest plateau in the world, has experienced strong climate warming during the last few decades. The greater increase of temperature at higher elevations may have strong impacts on the vertical movement of vegetation activities on the plateau. Although satellite-based observations have explored this issue, these observations were normally provided by the coarse satellite data with a spatial resolution of more than hundreds of meters (e.g., GIMMS and MODIS), which could lead to serious mixed-pixel effects in the analyses. In this study, we employed the medium-spatial-resolution Landsat NDVI data (30 m) during 1990–2019 and investigated the relationship between temperature and the elevation-dependent vegetation changes in six mountainous regions on the Tibetan Plateau. Particularly, we focused on the elevational movement of the vegetation greenness isoline to clarify whether the vegetation greenness isoline moves upward during the past three decades because of climate warming. Results show that vegetation greening occurred in all six mountainous regions during the last three decades. Increasing temperatures caused the upward movement of greenness isoline at the middle and high elevations (>4000 m) but led to the downward movement at lower elevations for the six mountainous regions except for Nyainqentanglha. Furthermore, the temperature sensitivity of greenness isoline movement changes from the positive value to negative value by decreasing elevations, suggesting that vegetation growth on the plateau is strongly regulated by other factors such as water availability. As a result, the greenness isoline showed upward movement with the increase of temperature for about 59% pixels. Moreover, the greenness isoline movement increased with the slope angles over the six mountainous regions, suggesting the influence of terrain effects on the vegetation activities. Our analyses improve understandings of the diverse response of elevation-dependent vegetation activities on the Tibetan Plateau.

scholarly journals Continuously Vegetation Greening over Inner Mongolia for the Past Three Decades

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2446
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Yi Shang ◽  
Giri Kattel ◽  
Lijuan Miao
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Climatic Impact ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Vegetation Growth ◽  
Vegetation Greenness ◽  
Northern Inner Mongolia

The warming climate has rapidly altered vegetation growth in drylands, and consequently, has put great pressure on sustainable livelihoods. Various datasets have been applied from local to global scale to study vegetation dynamics and there is a lack of solid comparison among multiple datasets. Note that vegetation growth might shift over time and the greening and browning components over a long-time span might be masked by a linear trend. Here, we aim to monitor the long-term and nonlinear dynamics in vegetation greenness for Inner Mongolia (an important part of dryland Asia). As a useful tool that indicates vegetation greenness, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and LAI (Leaf Area Index) integrals derived from the GIMMS (Global Inventory Modelling and Mapping Studies) NDVI3g and the GIMMS LAI3g products are applied. During the period of 1982-2016, NDVI/LAI integrals have an overall acceptable consistency in characterizing the trends of vegetation greenness, with NDVI large/small integrals and LAI large/small integrals increase at a rate of 0.96, 1.72, 2.23, and 3.13 per decade, respectively. Inner Mongolia experienced a noticeable greening process (71% and 82% greening area in NDVI large/small integrals, 67% and 73% greening area in LAI large/small integrals), despite the fragmentally distributed browning trends in eastern and partial northern Inner Mongolia. As inferred from nonlinear trend analysis, we found the greening process is still prevalent. The browning of eastern Inner Mongolia under the linear analysis was actually transferring from browning to greening, while the greening trend in northern Inner Mongolia was changing to browning. Increased occurrences in the frequency of breakpoints after 1999 suggest that previously stable vegetation ecology is more sensitive to external disturbances such as altered climatic impact and anthropogenic intervention.

Evaluating Community Engagement and Benefit-Sharing Practices in Australian Wind Farm Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Lansbury Hall ◽  
Jarra Hicks ◽  
Taryn Lane ◽  
Emily Wood
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Delphi Panel ◽  
Government Organizations

The wind industry is positioned to contribute significantly to a clean energy future, yet the level of community opposition has at times led to unviable projects. Social acceptance is crucial and can be improved in part through better practice community engagement and benefit-sharing. This case study provides a “snapshot” of current community engagement and benefit-sharing practices for Australian wind farms, with a particular emphasis on practices found to be enhancing positive social outcomes in communities. Five methods were used to gather views on effective engagement and benefit-sharing: a literature review, interviews and a survey of the wind industry, a Delphi panel, and a review of community engagement plans. The overarching finding was that each community engagement and benefit-sharing initiative should be tailored to a community’s context, needs and expectations as informed by community involvement. This requires moving away from a “one size fits all” approach. This case study is relevant to wind developers, energy regulators, local communities and renewable energy-focused non-government organizations. It is applicable beyond Australia to all contexts where wind farm development has encountered conflicted societal acceptance responses.

Hexagram-Converter Based Statcom for Integrating Twelve Bus Sytem with Wind Farm

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 315-317
Author(s):  
Mohanraj.M Mohanraj.M ◽  
◽  
Dr.Rani Thottungal ◽  
Jaganraj.K Jaganraj.K
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm

Virtual Synchronous Generator Control of Power System including Large-scale Wind Farm by Cooperative Operation between Battery and LFC Hydro Power Plant

2020 ◽  
Vol 140 (6) ◽  
pp. 531-538
Author(s):  
Kotaro Nagaushi ◽  
Atsushi Umemura ◽  
Rion Takahashi ◽  
Junji Tamura ◽  
Atsushi Sakahara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Power System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Synchronous Generator ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Virtual Synchronous Generator

Electromagnetic Analysis of Interconnected Groundings at Wind Farm

2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (7) ◽  
pp. 684-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Raju Ahmed ◽  
Masaru Ishii
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm ◽  
Electromagnetic Analysis

Relation between Meteorology and Lightning Charge Transfer Observed at Nikaho Wind Farm in Winter

2018 ◽  
Vol 138 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minoru Furukawa ◽  
Koji Michishita ◽  
Shigeru Yokoyama ◽  
Nobuyuki Honjo ◽  
Michihiro Matsui
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Wind Farm

Damping of Frequency Fluctuations of Hybrid Power System by Variable Deloaded Operation of PMSG Based Offshore Wind Farm

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-268
Author(s):  
Effat Jahan ◽  
Md. Rifat Hazari ◽  
Mohammad Abdul Mannan ◽  
Atsushi Umemura ◽  
Rion Takahashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Farm ◽  
Hybrid Power System ◽  
Hybrid Power ◽  
Frequency Fluctuations

Modelling of Safety Distance Between Ships' Route and Wind Farm

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryszard Wawruch ◽  
Tadeusz Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Wind Farm ◽  
Safety Distance
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