Research & Development Activities

- Financing: EDIA, S.A. (Portugal)

- Objectives: This project focuses on developing a decision support system to explore various planning and management water quality scenarios in the Alqueva (Guadiana river) sub-basin. The decision support system integrates several databases, geographic information systems, various models, computer technology, and meaningful user-model interfaces.

- Participation: co-ordinator.

- Financing: FCT (Portugal)

- Objectives: The main objective of this project is to obtain a long-term (10-year) time series of 12-hourly directional surface wave spectra in deep-water in Portuguese coastal areas. The second objective is to characterize sea state conditions area under the viewpoint of wave grouping and to understand and evaluate its influence on the design and performance of wave energy power plants. The third objective is to investigate the influence of wave breaking on the phytoplankton primary production.

- Participation: co-ordinator of the University of Minho group.

- Financing: Singapore-Delft Water Alliance Research Projects

- Objectives: The participation of the University of Minho research group in this project focused in two major working tasks: model emulation for multi-reservoir control and optimisation; and multi-objective operational management of reservoirs. Marina Bay (Singapore) and Alqueva (Portugal) constitute case studies for this research work.

- Participation: co-ordinator of the University of Minho group.

- Financing: Portuguese Environmental Protection Agency

- Objectives: The overall scientific co-ordination of the river basin management plans for the northern region of Portugal. The project also included the thematic area of the coastal water resources.

- Participation: co-ordinator.

- Financing: Portuguese Environmental Protection Agency

- Objectives: Characterize the river Mondego hydrodynamic conditions that caused the catastrophic floods near the city of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2016, applying hydroinformatic tools in modelling the morphodynamic conditions and the hydraulic structures influencing the river flows.

- Participation: co-ordinator.

- Financing: INTERREG (European Union)

- Objectives: Risk assessment in coastal zones under climate change scenarios (flooding, extreme events intensification, toxic algae blooms, coastal erosion)

- Participation: member of the University of Minho group.

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- Duarte, A.A.L.S.; Vieira, J.M.P. (2009) Mitigation of Estuarine Eutrophication Processes by Controlling Freshwater Inflows. Journal of on Ecology & the Environment (ISSN: 1743-3541), WIT Press, 124, pp. 339-350.

- Antunes do Carmo, J.S.; Pinho, J.L.S.; Vieira, J.M.P. (2010) Oil Spills in Coastal Zones: Predicting Slick Transport and Weathering Processes, The Open Ocean Engineering Journal, Vol 3., pp. 129-142.

- Lindim, C.; Pinho, J.L.S.; Vieira, J.M.P. (2011) Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in a Large Reservoir using Water Quality and Hydrodynamic Modeling. Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, 222, pp. 2485-2494.

- Pinho, J.L.S.; Vieira, J.M.P.; Rui Pinho; José Araújo (2011) Web-based decision support framework for water resources management at river basin scale. Current Issues of Water Management, pp: 43-66, (ISBN: 978-953-307-413-9), InTech, London, 2011.

- Vieira, J.M.P. (2011) A Strategic Approach for Water Safety Plans Implementation in Portugal. Journal of Water and Health, IWA Publishing, 09.1, pp. 107-116.

- Vieira, J.M.P.; Breach, B.; and Hirata R. (2011) Developing a Catchment Water Safety Plan. In Bob Breach (Ed.) Drinking Water Quality Management from Catchment to Consumer. IWA  Publishing, ISBN: 9871843393863, pp. 51-89.

- Vieira, J.M.P.; Pinho, J.L.S; Pinho, R.; Araújo, J. (2012) A web based decision support system for water quality management in a large multipurpose reservoir. 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, HIC 2012, Hamburg, Germany.

- Vieira, J.M.P.; Calheiros, A.; Pinho, J.L.S; Van den Boogaard, H.F.P.; Schwanenberg, D. (2012) Data Analysis for Understanding Eutrophication Trends in a Large Reservoir. IWA World Water Congress, Busan, Korea.

- Almeida, G.; Vieira, J.M.P.; Marques, A.S.; Kiperstok, A.; Cardoso, A. (2013) Estimating the potential water reuse based on fuzzy reasoning. Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, Vol.128, pp. 883-892. - Vieira, J.M.P.; Pinho, J.L.S; Dias, N.; Van den Boogaard, HFP; Schwanenberg, D. (2013) Parameter estimation for eutrophication models in reservoirs. Water Science and Technology, Vol. 68, n.º 2, pp. 319-327, IWA Publishing.

- Vieira J.M.P.; Pinho J. (2014) River water quality modelling in developing a catchment water safety plan. 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, HIC 2014, New York City, USA.

- Almeida, G., Vieira J.M.P., Sá Marques, A., Cardoso, A., and Ludwig, O. (2015) Identifying Household Water Use through Transient Signal Classification. J. Comput. Civ. Eng., 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000476, 04015007.

- Almeida G.; Vieira J.; Sá Marques A.; Cardoso A.; Ludwig O. (2016) Identifying Household Water Use through Transient Signal Classification. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 30(2).