Canary Islands
Special Regulation of Isolated Power Systems: The Canary Islands, Spain
... the Canary Islands represent isolated electricity systems with their own peculiarities, derived mainly from their ...of islands have been intrinsically higher than those on the mainland, above all in ...
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Solutions to Marine Pollution in Canary Islands’ Ports: Alternatives and Optimization of Energy Management
... the Canary Islands [1], some interesting aspects should be pointed ...Balearic Islands and the Canaries is needed, that does not only focus on the context of the Spanish ...the Canary ...
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Geotechnical analysis of large volcanic landslides: The La Orotava events on Tenerife,Canary Islands
... In contrast to sedimentary soils, the residual soils are not well studied and the understanding of volcanic residual soils is even less known. In this study, a residual soil which has been formed above a phonolitic ...
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Gymnopus Beltraniae, a new species of section Vestipedes (Agaricales) from the Canary Islands (Spain)
... Collecting fungi for an exhibition at the 5th and 16th ‘Jornadas Micológicas’ of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, respectively, we discovered an interesting Gymnopus species in mixed monteverde/Canary pine forest as ...
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MicroPulse Lidar and Ceilometer inter-comparison during Saharan dust intrusions over the Canary Islands
... This study was performed in the Santa Cruz Observatory (SCO). SCO is a coastal urban background station (28.5ºN, 16.2ºW, 52 m a.s.l.) in Tenerife (Canary Islands), within the marine boundary layer (MBL). ...
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An Efficient Waste-To-Energy Model in Isolated Environments. Case Study: La Gomera (Canary Islands)
... Abstract: Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is a controversial aspect of isolated environments, not only because the production of waste grows exponentially, but also because in these isolated regions the ...
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MARPOL issues in Canary Islands ports: alternatives and optimization of energy management
... In Canary Islands ports, it is necessary to propose sustainable management systems in the sphere of port waste, as well as to make the authorities aware that such improvements are based on the new models of ...
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Origin and SEM analysis of aerosols in the high mountain of Tenerife (Canary Islands)
... The Canary Islands lay 96 km off the west of the lar- gest dust source on Earth, the Sahara desert (> 9 million square kilometres), being comprised within the “dust- belt”, where the atmospheric dust ...
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Optical validation and characterization of Planck PSZ1 sources at the Canary Islands observatories: I First year of ITP13 observations
... Acknowledgements. This article is based on observations made with a) the Gran Telescopio Canarias operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, b) the Isaac Newton Telescope, and the William Herschel Telescope ...
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Elasmobranch Bycatch on Artisanal Trammel Net Fishery in the Canary Islands
... It was noted throughout the study that most of the discarded elasmobranchs were still alive. In some instances, the fishermen exterminated elasmobranchs in order to sell them or due to the cultural belief that reducing ...
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Forest Hydrology, Soil Conservation and Green Barriers in Canary Islands
... volcanic islands, the rain regime and the morphology and topography of these environ- ...in Canary Islands, it is common the occurrence of torrential events, which involve noticeably erosion ...
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Terrestrial Biota Checklist of the Chinijo Archipelago and Lobos (Canary Islands)
... from Canary Islands (Roque del Este, Roque del Oeste, Montaña Clara, Alegranza, La Graciosa and Lobos) is- provided as a result of a wide bibliographic and database ...main islands, Lanzarote and ...
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Scaling properties of rainfall and desert dust in the Canary Islands
... the Canary Islands and the intrinsic complexity of these phenomena, the main goal of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of their temporal scaling properties, as well as their spatial ...
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Hydrogeology of La Gomera (Canary Islands): contributions to conceptual models of volcanic island aquifers
... No important landslide episode was previously mentioned in La Gomera until Ancochea et al. (2004) defined a old destructive phase between the Lower Old Edifice and the Upper Old Edifice in which, as specified by the ...
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Inferring the wintering distribution of the mediterranean populations of European storm petrels (Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis) from stable isotope analysis and observational field data
... turisation of tracking devices. However, tracking methodologies have remained impractical for the smallest pelagic species and so important gaps in knowledge still exist. In the case of the European Storm-petrel ...
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Los cambios en el sector vinícola de las Islas Canarias y sus implicaciones: un estudio longitudinal.
... allowed Canary Islands’ wine regions, as well as other Spanish wine regions to create new wine labels and therefore a geographical wine iden- tity (Martínez-Carrasco et ...seven islands (Pérez-Maga- ...
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Next generation DNA sequencing technology delivers valuable genetic markers for the genomic orphan legume species, "Bituminaria bituminosa"
... Results: 432,306 mRNA molecules were sampled from a leaf transcriptome of a single B. bituminosa plant using Roche 454 pyrosequencing, resulting in an average read length of 345 bp (149.1 Mbp in total). Sequences were ...
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INM/AEMET Short Range Ensemble Prediction System: Tropical Storm Delta
... • Tropical Storm Delta has been developed during 22 - 28 November 2005 Delta was a late-season tropical storm of subtropical origin. After losing tropical characteristics, the cyclone caused casualties and storm- to ...
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Diaspore syndromes in longdistance dispersal across oceanic islands: evidence from floristic and genomic analyses
... of islands) in the Canary Islands and the Azores than plants nonspecialized towards LDD (Arjona et ...on islands does not mean that the species are not able to disperse and maintain a ...
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Macroevolución y microevolución en sistemas insulares: el patrón Rand Flora en el género Canarina
... the islands in the Canarian Archipelago where the species is present: Gran Canaria (GC), La Gomera (GO), La Palma, and El Hierro (EH) and Tenerife, with the latter divided into two areas: eastern Tenerife (TFE) ...
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