VII. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF PARTICULAR RELEVANCE WITH PRIVATE COMPANIES/GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

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CONTRACT: Assessment of the wind energy resource in southern Uruguay

FUNDING AGENCY: UTE (National utility company)

FROM: December 1990 TO: April 1988

PRINCIPAL(S) RESEARCHER(S): Agustín Cisa, Rafael Guarga, César Briozzo, Carlos López, José Cataldo

ACTIVITIES: In charge of the development and testing of the wind field numerical model. Also pre and post processing of the measured and calculated time series.

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CONTRACT: Development of an hydrological model for the Río Negro basin

FUNDING AGENCY: UTE

FROM: April 1989 TO: July 1991

PRINCIPAL(S) RESEARCHER(S): Luis Silveira, Carlos López, José Luis Genta, Rosario Curbelo, Carlos Anido

ACTIVITIES: In charge of the computer team of the project. Development and testing of the quality control (outlier detection) and missing values imputation algorithms required.

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CONTRACT: Assessment of the wind energy resource in northern Uruguay

FUNDING AGENCY: UTE

FROM: April 1992 TO: April 1993

PRINCIPAL(S) RESEARCHER(S): José Cataldo, César Briozzo, Ventura Nunes, Carlos López

ACTIVITIES: In charge of the development and testing of the wind field numerical model. Also pre and post processing of the measured and calculated time series.

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CONTRACT: Assessment of the wind energy resource for autonomous generation

FUNDING AGENCY: UTE

FROM: April 1992 TO: April 1993

PRINCIPAL(S) RESEARCHER(S): José Cataldo, César Briozzo, Ventura Nunes, Carlos López

ACTIVITIES: Same as before

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CONTRACT: Assessment of the pollution levels due to a cement plant in Montevideo

FUNDING AGENCY: Montevideo's City Council

FROM: 1990 TO: 1991

PRINCIPAL(S) RESEARCHER(S): Uri Groisman, José Cataldo, Carlos López

ACTIVITIES: Selection and definition of the numerical model and general supervision of the work.

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CONTRACT: Constant for the implementation of a national cartographic database for use with a GIS

FUNDING AGENCY: National Statistics Institute

FROM: February 1995 TO: August 1995

PRINCIPAL(S) RESEARCHER(S): Roberto Oliveira-Mattos

ACTIVITIES: General coordination