Hidromod (Portugal)

Introdução: A lesão medular produz sequelas sobre a função urinária, e para estas existem poucas opções terapêuticas, dentre as quais a eletroestimulação vem emergindo como técnica promissora. Objetivo: investigar as possibilidades de tratamento das sequelas sobre a função urinária de pacientes com lesão medular por eletroestimulação. Método: Revisão eletrônica das bases de dados Pubmed, Lilacs e PEDro, buscando ensaios clínicos no período de 1980 a fevereiro de 2019, que trataram a bexiga neurogênica em indivíduos com lesão medular utilizando estimulação elétrica transcutânea ou intravesical. Resultados: Apenas cinco estudos preencheram os critérios de inclusão. Os parâmetros de eletroestimulação variaram enormemente, a boa parte dos estudos não alcançou significância estatística, mas de um modo geral apontaram uma tendência de que o tratamento melhorou os parâmetros urodinâmicos dos lesados medulares. Conclusões: são necessários mais estudos clínicos para o conhecimento dos parâmetros de eletroestimulação e dos efeitos da eletroestimulação sobre as estruturas do sistema urinário de lesados medulares.

Abstract. This paper presents the structure and application of a regional scale operational modelling tool for the West Iberian coast, and discusses its potential for products and services for both scientific and coastal management activities. The forecasting suite includes nested hydrodynamic models forced with up-to-date meteorological forecast data and large-scale model results. The present status of the system and its recent upgrades are reviewed, offering a general description of the main components of the system: the forcing data, the circulation model, the model outputs and the validation methodology of model results. Seasonal differences in temperature, salinity and current velocity fields are illustrated and show satisfactory reproduction of the top and deep layer thermodynamics. The system provides boundary forcing for a number of local-scale model applications via downscaling of the solution and enables potential products and services from which civil society will benefit.

Con base en el análisis de datos de precipitación de estaciones climatológicas locales y en información obtenida en entrevistas efectuadas en las comunidades, se analiza la relación del clima y las diferentes actividades socioeconómicas en el municipio del Medio Atrato. Se estableció que hay un patrón estacional en el desarrollo de las actividades (agricultura, pesca, caza, minería y navegación fluvial), el cual está asociado a la estacionalidad de la precipitación. Se identificaron las diversas formas de perturbación de tal patrón de actividades generadas recurrentemente por las anomalías climáticas (períodos de lluvias anormalmente abundantes o anormalmente deficitarias), que se convierte en impacto socioeconómico importante para las comunidades de este municipio.

Abstract. The paper presents the structure and application of a regional scale operational modelling tool for the West Iberian coast. The forecasting suite includes nested hydrodynamic models forced with up-to-date meteorological forecast data and large scale model results as lateral boundary conditions. The present status of the system and its recent upgrades are reviewed, offering a general description of the main components of the system: circulation model, qualitative and quantitative validation methodology and type of results. Seasonal differences in temperature, salinity and current velocity fields are illustrated with model results, and the validation shows a satisfactory reproduction of the top and deep layers thermodynamics. The system provides boundary forcing for a number of local scale model applications via downscaling of the solution, and its potential for products and services for both scientific and coastal management activities is discussed here.

In the framework of the Lenvis project, a web service infrastructure able to provide professional users with field data and model results in real time was developed.One of the web services developed (web service model) executes a particle tracking model to simulate the dispersion of sewage discharges.This web service is comprised of a web client with multiple features.The client allows users to explore hydrodynamic forecast results in a GIS environment and define sewer discharges.The web client using the web service model simulates (1 day simulation takes less than 5 minutes to run) the impact over the water quality.The tool was tested for the Estoril coastal area (Lisbon -Portugal), specifically for the Carcavelos, Torre and Oeiras beaches.

Abstract. The use of high resolution hydrodynamic modelling to simulate the potential effects of tsunami events can provide relevant information about the most probable inundation areas. Moreover, the consideration of complementary data such as the type of buildings, location of priority equipment, type of roads, enables mapping of the most vulnerable zones, computing of the expected damage on man-made structures, constrain of the definition of rescue areas and escape routes, adaptation of emergency plans and proper evaluation of the vulnerability associated with different areas and/or equipment. Such an approach was used to evaluate the specific risks associated with a potential occurrence of a tsunami event in the region of Setúbal (Portugal), which was one of the areas most seriously affected by the 1755 tsunami. In order to perform an evaluation of the hazard associated with the occurrence of a similar event, high resolution wave propagation simulations were performed considering different potential earthquake sources with different magnitudes. Based on these simulations, detailed inundation maps associated with the different events were produced. These results were combined with the available information on the vulnerability of the local infrastructures (building types, roads and streets characteristics, priority buildings) in order to impose restrictions in the production of high-scale potential damage maps, escape routes and emergency routes maps.

In this paper, we will showcase the main outcomes of the COASTALT project, including improved corrections (with special emphasis on the tropospheric effect) and novel re-tracking techniques built on established research results and the processing chain development with the generation and validation of ENVISAT test data sets over a selection of regional sites. We will also dive in further and explore how coastal altimetry might be exploited to its full potential in the coastal zone. This should be of interest to a broad range of data integrators that have an interest in using these improved altimeter data in their operational products or services.