@article{KrassakisKaraviasZygourietal.2023,
  author    = {Krassakis, Pavlos and Karavias, Andreas and Zygouri, Evangelia and Roumpos, Christos and Louloudis, Georgios and Pyrgaki, Konstantina and Koukouzas, Nikolaos and Kempka, Thomas and Karapanos, Dimitris},
  title     = {GIS-based assessment of hybrid pumped hydro storage as a potential solution for the clean energy transition},
  series = {Sensors},
  volume    = {23},
  journal   = {Sensors},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {1424-8220},
  doi       = {10.3390/s23020593},
  pages     = {24},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Planned decommissioning of coal-fired plants in Europe requires innovative technical and economic strategies to support coal regions on their path towards a climate-resilient future. The repurposing of open pit mines into hybrid pumped hydro power storage (HPHS) of excess energy from the electric grid, and renewable sources will contribute to the EU Green Deal, increase the economic value, stabilize the regional job market and contribute to the EU energy supply security. This study aims to present a preliminary phase of a geospatial workflow used to evaluate land suitability by implementing a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique with an advanced geographic information system (GIS) in the context of an interdisciplinary feasibility study on HPHS in the Kardia lignite open pit mine (Western Macedonia, Greece). The introduced geospatial analysis is based on the utilization of the constraints and ranking criteria within the boundaries of the abandoned mine regarding specific topographic and proximity criteria. The applied criteria were selected from the literature, while for their weights, the experts' judgement was introduced by implementing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), in the framework of the ATLANTIS research program. According to the results, seven regions were recognized as suitable, with a potential energy storage capacity from 1.09 to 5.16 GWh. Particularly, the present study's results reveal that 9.27\% (212,884 m(2)) of the area had a very low suitability, 15.83\% (363,599 m(2)) had a low suitability, 23.99\% (550,998 m(2)) had a moderate suitability, 24.99\% (573,813 m(2)) had a high suitability, and 25.92\% (595,125 m(2)) had a very high suitability for the construction of the upper reservoir. The proposed semi-automatic geospatial workflow introduces an innovative tool that can be applied to open pit mines globally to identify the optimum design for an HPHS system depending on the existing lower reservoir.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{JonesArpWhitmanetal.2017,
  author    = {Jones, Benjamin M. and Arp, Christopher D. and Whitman, Matthew S. and Nigro, Debora and Nitze, Ingmar and Beaver, John and Gadeke, Anne and Zuck, Callie and Liljedahl, Anna and Daanen, Ronald and Torvinen, Eric and Fritz, Stacey and Grosse, Guido},
  title     = {A lake-centric geospatial database to guide research and inform management decisions in an Arctic watershed in northern Alaska experiencing climate and land-use changes},
  series = {AMBIO},
  volume    = {46},
  journal   = {AMBIO},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {0044-7447},
  doi       = {10.1007/s13280-017-0915-9},
  pages     = {769 -- 786},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Lakes are dominant and diverse landscape features in the Arctic, but conventional land cover classification schemes typically map them as a single uniform class. Here, we present a detailed lake-centric geospatial database for an Arctic watershed in northern Alaska. We developed a GIS dataset consisting of 4362 lakes that provides information on lake morphometry, hydrologic connectivity, surface area dynamics, surrounding terrestrial ecotypes, and other important conditions describing Arctic lakes. Analyzing the geospatial database relative to fish and bird survey data shows relations to lake depth and hydrologic connectivity, which are being used to guide research and aid in the management of aquatic resources in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Further development of similar geospatial databases is needed to better understand and plan for the impacts of ongoing climate and land-use changes occurring across lake-rich landscapes in the Arctic.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SirockoDietrichVeresetal.2013,
  author    = {Sirocko, Frank and Dietrich, Stephan and Veres, Daniel and Grootes, Pieter M. and Schaber-Mohr, Katja and Seelos, Klemens and Nadeau, Marie-Josee and Kromer, Bernd and Rothacker, Leo and Roehner, Marieke and Krbetschek, Matthias and Appleby, Peter G. and Hambach, Ulrich and Rolf, Christian and Sudo, Masafumi and Grim, Stephanie},
  title     = {Multi-proxy dating of Holocene maar lakes and Pleistocene dry maar sediments in the Eifel, Germany},
  series = {Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal},
  volume    = {62},
  journal   = {Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0277-3791},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.011},
  pages     = {56 -- 76},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {During the last twelve years the ELSA Project (Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive) at Mainz University has drilled a total of about 52 cores from 27 maar lakes and filled-in maar basins in the Eifel/Germany. Dating has been completed for the Holocene cores using 6 different methods (Pb-210 and Cs-137 activities, palynostratigraphy, event markers, varve counting, C-14) In general, the different methods consistently complement one another within error margins. Event correlation was used for relating typical lithological changes with historically known events such as the two major Holocene flood events at 1342 AD and ca 800 BC. Dating of MIS2-MIS3 core sections is based on greyscale tuning, radiocarbon and OSL dating, magnetostratigraphy and tephrochronology. The lithological changes in the sediment cores demonstrate a sequence of events similar to the North Atlantic rapid climate variability of the Last Glacial Cycle. The warmest of the MIS3 interstadials was GI14, when a forest with abundant spruce covered the Eifel area from 55 to 48 ka BP, i.e. during a time when also other climate archives in Europe suggested very warm conditions. The forest of this "Early Stage 3 warm phase" developed subsequently into a steppe with scattered birch and pine, and finally into a glacial desert at around 25 ka BP. Evidence for Mono Lake and Laschamp geomagnetic excursions is found in two long cores. Several large eruptions during Middle and Late Pleistocene (Ulmener Maar - 11,000 varve years BP, Laacher See - 12,900 varve years BP, Mosenberg volcanoes/Meerfelder Maar 41-45 cal ka BP, Dumpel Maar 116 ka BP, Glees Maar - 151 ka BP) produced distinct ash-layers crucial for inter-core and inter-site correlations. The oldest investigated maar of the Eifel is Ar-40/Ar-39 dated to the time older than 520 ka BP.},
  language  = {en}
}