Development of technologies, materials, support systems, and coatings has made the integration of solar thermal systems into the building envelope increasingly possible. Solar thermal collectors can either be directly integrated, substituting convent...
Climate data derived from long-term, multisource altimeter significant wave height (SWH) measurements are more valuable than those obtained from a single altimeter source. Such data facilitate exploration of long-term air–sea momentum transfer...
The interferometric imaging radar altimeter (InIRA) aboard the Chinese Tiangong-2 space laboratory is the first spaceborne imaging radar working at low incidence angles. This study focuses on the retrieval of significant wave heights (SWHs) from InIR...
Accurately understanding the impact of Significant Wave Height (SWH) on mariculture productivity is crucial for developing a sustainable blue economy and mitigating the effects of increasing marine extreme events under climate change. However, a sign...
Integrating a solar water heater (SWH) with a phase change material (PCM)-based latent heat storage is an attractive method for transferring load from peak to off-peak hours. This transferring load varies as the physical parameters of the PCM change....
High-rise buildings have a significant impact on the surrounding environment. Building-integrated solar water heating (SWH) systems are effective ways to use renewable energy in buildings. Impediments, such as security concerns, aesthetics and functi...
Significant Wave Height (SWH) is a crucial parameter in ocean wave dynamics, impacting coastal safety, maritime transportation, and meteorological research. Building upon the TimesNet neural network, a recent advancement in the realm of time series p...
Among the renewable energy resources, solar thermal is one of the technologies that significantly contribute to energy supply and reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Solar water heating (SWH) contributes a large proportion of the global sol...
Calculating the significant wave height (SWH) in a given location as a function of the return time is an essential tool of coastal and ocean engineering; such a calculation can be carried out by making use of the now widely available weather and wave...
The sustainable management of brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is critical for advancing circular bioeconomy strategies in the brewing industry; however, its efficient conversion to bioenergy remains limited by lignocellulosic recalcitrance. In this...
Typhoons cause significant losses and pose substantial threats every year, with an increasing trend observed in recent years. This study evaluates significant wave height (SWH) hindcasts for typhoons affecting Taiwan using optimized wind field config...
Significant Wave Height (SWH) is a crucial parameter in oceanographic research, essential for understanding various marine and atmospheric processes. Traditional methods for obtaining SWH, such as ship-based and buoy measurements, face limitations li...
Predicting sea wave parameters such as significant wave height (SWH) has recently been identified as a critical requirement for maritime security and economy. Earth observation satellite missions have resulted in a massive rise in marine data volume...
Accurate modeling and partitioning of forest evapotranspiration (ET) are essential for understanding water cycle processes in forest ecosystems. This study develops an improved three-source ET model by integrating a physically based canopy intercepti...
Accurate observation of nearshore waves is crucial for coastal safety. In this study, the feasibility of extracting wave information from wave video images captured by shore-based cameras using deep learning methods was explored, focusing on invertin...
China invests more in renewable energy than any other countries, such as in solar energy. The traditional literature maintains that these government-supported industries are more innovative than grassroots industries such as solar or thermal, which l...
In recent years, wave energy has gained attention for its sustainability and cleanliness. As one of the most important parameters of wave energy, significant wave height (SWH) is difficult to accurately predict due to complex ocean conditions and the...
Significant Wave Height (SWH) is a critical parameter for ocean observation. SWH retrieval using GNSS-R data faces challenges including difficult feature selection, insufficient temporal dependency modeling, and limitations due to single-modality dat...
The synergistic interactions between nitrogen doses and microbial inoculation in crops indicate the potential for integrated nutrient management strategies in plant cultivation. Therefore, this study investigated the interactive effects of nitrogen d...
Solar Water Heating Systems (SWHS) are increasingly recognized as vital technologies for reducing dependence on conventional energy sources and supporting sustainable thermal energy solutions. This study reviews recent advancements in the numerical m...
Satellite altimeters provide global observations of significant wave height (SWH, in m), yet buoy-based validation is affected by representativeness errors and sampling mismatches. This study develops a consistent framework for validating and scaling...
The three-dimensional fast Fourier transform (3D FFT) spectral analysis approach is the mainstream technique for retrieving significant wave height (SWH) from X-band marine radar image sequences by using the extracted wave signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)...
In response to the impact of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developing and using renewable energy sources and technologies have become vital for managing energy supply and demand in Taiwan. The long-term subsidy programs (...
This study proposes a novel causality-structured matrix long short-term memory (C-mLSTM) model for significant wave height (SWH) forecasting. The framework incorporates a two-stage causal feature selection methodology using cointegration testing and...
This paper presents a strategical project for the new version of the Moroccan energy policy. It highlights the technology of solar water heaters (SWH), studying energy, economic and environmental gains of SWH generalization to satisfy the total resid...
In dense, energy-demanding urban areas, the effective utilization of solar energy resources, encompassing building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems and solar water heating (SWH) systems inside buildings, holds paramount importance for addressin...
Accurate multi-horizon Significant Wave Height (SWH) forecasting is vital for offshore safety and efficiency. Beyond scheduling maintenance windows, reliable lead-time predictions provide critical early warnings to protect personnel and high-value as...
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), the prevailing global governance paradigm for sustainable ocean development, confronts the critical challenge of integrating climatic uncertainty into its core processes. Reliance on the stationarity assumption compromi...
Accurate prediction of significant wave height (SWH) is essential for ocean engineering safety, maritime transportation, and wave energy utilization. To address the nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics of SWH time series, this paper proposes...
In early 2025, the Jason-3 satellite’s orbit shifted from an “interleaved” to a tandem configuration with Sentinel-6A, and its Geophysical Data Records (GDR) were upgraded from Version F to G. This study evaluated GDR-G via eight pr...
Accurate forecasting of significant wave height (SWH) during tropical cyclones (TCs) is important for coastal risk management. This study develops a multi-horizon TC-aware sequence-to-sequence (MH-TCSeq2Seq) framework for 12 and 24 h lead time foreca...
Accurate meteorological visibility estimation is vital for transportation safety and environmental monitoring. However, modeling the inherent nonlinear spatial and spectral degradations in hazy environments remains challenging. While recent Large Vis...
The primary contribution of this study lies in analyzing the dynamic drivers during two anomalous sea level rise events in the Bohai Sea through coupled numeric modeling using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the Finite-Volume Com...
Extreme sea conditions caused by tropical cyclones pose significant risks to coastal safety, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Although existing models have advanced in predicting Significant Wave Height (SWH), their performance in predicting Maximum W...
Coastal communities and marine ecosystems face increasing risks due to changing ocean conditions, yet effective wave monitoring remains limited in many low-resource regions. This study investigates the use of seismic data to predict significant wave...
Accurate retrieval of ocean wave spectra from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is important for understanding wave energy distribution and supporting large-scale ocean-wave monitoring. However, existing SAR-based wave retrieval methods often foc...
Ocean wave evolution reflects delayed wind forcing, nonlinear wind–wave interactions, and wave persistence, which complicate multi-horizon significant wave height (SWH) forecasting. This study analyzes wind–wave lag relationships and wave...
The Beibu Gulf is an important offshore region in the South China Sea for the fishing industry and other human activities. In 2017, typhoons Doksuri and Khanun passed the Beibu Gulf in two paths, at maximum wind speeds of up to 50 m/s. Typhoon Doksur...