Browsing by Author "Mazón Bueso, Jordi"
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A low-cost experiment for determining raindrop size distribution
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2013-01-31)
Article
Open AccessPrecipitation is usually classified as convec- tive or stratiform. Convective precipitation is normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds within which a sig- nificant vertical velocity keeps the cloud droplets ... -
A WRF simulation of an episode of contrails covering the entire sky
(2016-07-20)
Article
Open AccessOn 21 September 2012 the entire sky was covered by contrails over the Gulf of Lyon (NW of the Mediterranean basin). These clouds were well recorded by ground observers as well as by Meteosat imagery. The atmospheric ... -
Aircraft clouds: from chemtrail pseudoscience to the science of contrails
(2018-04-03)
Article
Open AccessThe most frequent statements and arguments found in pseudoscience websites and forums supporting the existence of so-called aircraft chemtrails can be refuted with a scientific explanation of the processes resulting in the ... -
An assessment of the sea breeze energy potential using small wind turbines in peri-urban coastal areas
(2015-01-29)
Article
Open AccessFrom wind speed data recorded hourly at 2 m high during 18 years (1993-2010) in the Llobregat Delta (15 km south of Barcelona city; northeast of the Iberian Peninsula), wind speed distributions at 10 m high were computed ... -
Analysis of the convective timescale during the major floods in the NE Iberian Peninsula since 1871
(2016)
Conference lecture
Open AccessFloods are the most severe natural hazard in the western Mediterranean basin. They cause most of the damages and most of the victims. Some of the selected floods caused more than one hundred casualties each and a large ... -
Anàlisi de l’episodi de vent sever del 24 de gener del 2009 a Sant Boi del Llobregat
(2010)
Conference report
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Are the Pyrenees a barrier for the transport of birch (Betula) pollen from Central Europe to the Iberian Peninsula?
(2017-01-01)
Article
Open AccessThis work provides a first assessment of the possible barrier effect of the Pyrenees on the atmospheric transport of airborne pollen from Europe to the North of the Iberian Peninsula. Aerobiological data recorded in three ... -
El canvi climàtic a través dels informes de l’IPCC (1990-2014)
(Càtedra UNESCO de Sostenibilitat de la UPC, 2015-12)
Article
Open AccessDes de que l’any 1990 es va publicar el primer informe del Panell Intergovernamental del Canvi Climàtic (en anglès IPCC) quatre més han aparegut (els anys 1995, 2001, 2007 i 2014), els quals ens donen una visió de ... -
Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)
(2019-11-01)
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Open AccessThe Spanish Mediterranean river basin provides a good background for studying floods from documentary and bibliographical sources within the specialty of historical climatology. This study region's long history of human ... -
Climatic characteristics of floods from the PREDIFLOOD Project Database, Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), AD1033-2013
(2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessStudy of flood events in long historical chronologies is common in different European basins. The main objective of these kind of studies is to describe climatic variability related to hydrometeorological events, but also ... -
Climatic context and meteorological anomalies during 1783 in Eastern Iberian Peninsula. Atmospheric processes and impacts of a singular "Bad Year"
(2018)
Conference report
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Cold outbreaks at the mesoscale in the Western Mediterranean basin: from Raincells to rainbands
(2017-05-17)
Article
Open AccessThis paper investigates cold outbreaks that form offshore density currents within the whole mesoscale over the Western Mediterranean basin. Reflectivity radar and satellite images are used to detect clouds and precipitation ... -
Cold outbreaks from Mistral wind in the western mediterranean basin
(2017)
Conference report
Open AccessCold outbreaks over the western Mediterranean basin (WMB) associated to northern synoptic flows are investigated. Cold air entering into this region usually comes from the Gulf of Lion and is associated to synoptic northwesterly ... -
Determination of wind speed and associated loads over the sports facility collapsed during the severe windstorm of 24 January 2009 in Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona)
(ACAM, 2011-06-23)
Article
Open AccessThe severe windstorm of 24 January 2009, caused by an explosive cyclogenesis, affected coastal and precoastal areas of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, where damages were numerous and significant, both in urban areas ... -
Development of a low-cost meteorological station to measure Essential Climate Variables
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis work presents preliminary research on a low-cost meteorological station for measuring in situ Essential Climate Variables (ECV): solar irradiance, surface water vapour, surface air temperature, land surface wind ... -
Development of a low-cost meteorological station to measure Essential Climate Variables - poster
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis work presents preliminary research on a low-cost meteorological station for measuring in situ Essential Climate Variables (ECV): solar irradiance, surface water vapour, surface air temperature, land surface wind ... -
Development of a Low-Cost Weather Station to Measure in Situ Essential Climate Variables
(2014-11)
Article
Open AccessA weather station is proposed especially designed for developing countries, and to meet the standards of the international scientific community making research on the earth system. The station would measure in situ several ... -
Effect of a positive sea surface temperature anomaly on a Mediterranean tornadic supercell
(Macmillan Publishers, 2017-10-09)
Article
Open AccessExtreme events represent a topic of paramount importance and a challenge for modelling investigations. Due to the need of high-resolution models, the study of severe localized convective phenomena is even more critical, ... -
El canvi climàtic a través dels informes de l'IPCC (1990-2014)
(Càtedra UNESCO en Sostenibilitat., 2016-01-20)
Article
Open AccessDes de que l’any 1990 es va publicar el primer informe del Panell Intergovernamental del Canvi Climàtic (en anglès IPCC) quatre més han aparegut (els anys 1995, 2001, 2007 i 2014), els quals ens donen una visió de ... -
Final primavera 2018
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-06-11)
Exam
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