Development and Application of Computer Techniques to Environmental Studies: 8th

Keynote Address: Environmental data, software, information and resources on The Internet: a review. Section 1: Air Pollution - Multiple linear regression modelling for short-term real-time prediction of hourly ozone, NO2 and NO levels in the area of Bilbao; Prediction of ground level ozone concentration using artificial neural network modelling; A coupled boundary element-adaptive finite element model for species transport in atmospheric boundary layers; Experimental verification of 3D flow-dynamic computer code to be used for environmental pollution control; Some proposals about the vector and parallel implementations of STEM-II; Operational air pollution forecasting and management system over Bilbao; A software for an air quality modeling system. Section 2: Water and Soil Pollution - Predicting stream water quality using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN); Packed column flotation model for the selective separation of contaminated dredged sediment; Application of developed methodology for the study of non-stationary pollution of the river Vrbas (B&H); Development of a numerical model to predict pesticide volatilisation from agricultural soil; Environmental monitoring, modeling, and management and Bayesian Belief networks; An expert system aiding permit writers for point source discharges; Impact and control of urban wastewater disposed into the agricultural drainage system: a case study from Egypt; A prototype Bayesian belief network for the diagnosis of acidification in Welsh rivers. Section 3: Mathematical Modelling - Sensitivity analysis applied to a water quality model for dissolved oxygen. Application to an irrigation channel in a Valencian community, Spain; A study of the SP field produced by a polarized sphere in an electrically homogeneous and transversely anisotropic ground; Hydrodynamic and water quality river basin modeling using CE-QUAL-W2 version 3; Upscaling NAPL transport: Direct calculation of local properties on a network. Section 4: Environmental Sciences and Engineering - Design in nature; PRUS a DSS for multicriteria integrated solid waste management; Reservoir thermal modeling using CE-QUAL-W2; Kinetics of aerobic degradation of toluene by a tropical isolated soil bacterium. Section 5: Meteorology and Climatology - An atmosphere-ocean model: Code optimization and application to El Nino; An atmospheric water vapor cycle model for evaluating large-scale effects of Alpine land use changes on the atmospheric water cycle; Climate analysis routines using Python; Modelling solar radiation, evapotranspiration and soil water dynamics in tropical rainforest logging gaps in Guyana. Section 6: Surface and Groundwater Hydrology - Validation and calibration of a 3D tidal model of the Hauraki Gulf; Environmental management in a road information management system; Investigation of the barrier effect for stream-aquifer interaction; Water balance model development and application in a closed drainage basin. Section 7: Environmental Management and Decision Analysis - Example of application of the GeoEnviron Database for mapping of potentially contaminated sites and preliminary risk assessment in Slovak Republic; The power of EQuIS in environmental management and decision analysis: case studies in Colorado; Continuous stockpile management to reduce waste in the mining industry; Numerical analysis of the fate of nitrogen in the profile root zone of an agricultural field; Integrated modelling for waste management planning. Section 8: Databases - Marine environmental database of the Adriatic sea with application for managing and visualisation of data; Generation of a Test Reference Year of global solar radiation from a Test Reference Year of Temperature. Section 9: Satellite Data, Image Processing and Remote Sensing - Bogs: surface patterns and pattern classification; A software for agricultural and drought monitoring using NOAA-AVHRR images. Section 10: Software Models - Interfacing environmental models through World Wide Web; The evaluation of hydraulic effects of different pumping rates in the polluted aquifer by numerical modelling; Environmental management with VULCAN; Water budget software; Computer-based methods in environmental data organization and management; Contemporary software solutions in designing the real-time environmental information systems; EcoSSe - Eco Spatial Statistical evaluation; Towards the simulation of integrated urban drainage systems; Implementation of the multi-software solution for the on-the-fly calculation of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) as a drought indicator for South African environment; Atmospheric dispersion code and radioecologic and dosimetric impact code interfacing - Use of geographical information system software functions; Comparison of the SAFE_AIR code numerical results against wind tunnel measurements on a two-stack waste incinerator model.