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2013-2014 Severo Ochoa : Research Seminar Lectures at BSC : book of abstracts
(Barcelona Super Computer Center. Education & Training team, 2014-08-05)
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A coupled macroscopic traffic and pollutant emission modelling system for Barcelona
(2021-03)
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Open AccessWe present a coupled macroscopic traffic and emission modelling system tailored to the Barcelona metropolitan area that allows estimating hourly road transport emissions at road link level. We use the developed system to ... -
A full year evaluation of the CALIOPE-EU air quality modeling system over Europe for 2004
(2010-09-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe CALIOPE-EU high-resolution air quality modeling system, namely WRF-ARW/HERMES-EMEP/CMAQ/ BSC-DREAM8b, is developed and applied to Europe (12 km 12 km, 1 h). The model performances are tested in terms of air quality ... -
A global catalogue of CO2 emissions and co-emitted species from power plants, including high-resolution vertical and temporal profiles
(Copernicus Office, 2024-01-15)
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Open AccessWe present a high-resolution global emission catalogue of CO2 and co-emitted species (NOx, SO2, CO, CH4) from thermal power plants for the year 2018. The construction of the database follows a bottom-up approach, which ... -
A new NMVOC speciated inventory for a reactivity-based approach to support ozone control strategies in Spain
(Elsevier, 2023-04-01)
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Open AccessOzone (O3) pollution is a persistent problem in many regions of Spain, so understanding O3 precursor emissions and trends is essential to design effective control strategies. We estimated the impact of Non-Methane Volatile ... -
A variational multiscale stabilized finite element method for the solution of the Euler equations of nonhydrostatic stratified flows
(2013-03-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyWe present a compressible version of the variational multiscale stabilization (VMS) method applied to the finite element (FE) solution of the Euler equations for nonhydrostatic stratified flows. This paper is meant to ... -
Accelerating atmospheric models using GPUs
(Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2020-05)
Conference report
Open AccessEnvironmental models are simplified representations of an object or a process [1]. These models provide valuable information on the nature of real-world phenomena and systems [2], with many applications in science and ... -
Actividades de estimación de emisiones especiadas de COVNM enfocadas al diseño de recomendaciones preliminares para la mitigación del ozono en España
(2022)
Research report
Open AccessLa contaminación por ozono (O3) es un problema persistente en muchas regiones de España, por lo que comprender las emisiones y tendencias de los precursores de O3 es fundamental para diseñar estrategias de control eficaces. ... -
Actividades de modelización de emisiones y calidad del aire enfocadas al diseño de recomendaciones preliminares para la mitigación del ozono en España
(2022)
Research report
Open AccessEl Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITERD) está elaborando las bases para un nuevo Plan Nacional de Ozono que aborde medidas específicas que reduzcan las concentraciones en superficie del ... -
Adapting atmospheric chemistry components for efficient GPU accelerators
(Springer, 2023)
Conference report
Open AccessAtmospheric models demand a lot of computational power, and solving the chemical processes is one of its most computationally intensive components. This work shows how to improve the computational performance of the ... -
Aerosols in the CALIOPE air quality modelling system: evaluation and analysis of PM levels, optical depths and chemical composition over Europe
(2012-04-10)
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Open AccessThe CALIOPE air quality modelling system is developed and applied to Europe with high spatial resolution (12 km × 12 km). The modelled daily-to-seasonal aerosol variability over Europe in 2004 is evaluated and analysed. ... -
Application of a Galerkin finite element scheme to atmospheric buoyant and gravity driven flows
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe application of a new finite element (FE) technique for the solution of stratified, non-hydrostatic, low-Mach number flows is introduced in the context of mesoscale atmospheric modeling. In this framework, a Compressible ... -
Assessing ozone abatement scenarios in the framework of the Spanish ozone mitigation plan
(Elsevier, 2023-12-01)
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Open AccessTropospheric ozone (O3) is a secondary air pollutant that affects human health, vegetation and climate, especially in Mediterranean countries such as Spain. In order to tackle this long-standing issue, the Spanish government ... -
Assimilating spaceborne lidar dust extinction can improve dust forecasts
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2022-01-14)
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Open AccessAtmospheric mineral dust has a rich tri-dimensional spatial and temporal structure that is poorly constrained in forecasts and analyses when only column-integrated aerosol optical depth (AOD) is assimilated. At present, ... -
Atmospheric dust modeling from meso to global scales with the online NMMB/BSC-Dust model - Part 2: Experimental campaigns in Northern Africa
(2012-03-23)
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Open AccessThe new online NMMB/BSC-Dust model is intended to provide short to medium-range weather and dust forecasts from regional to global scales. The companion paper Pérez et al., 2011 develops the dust model parameterizations ... -
Atmospheric dust modeling from meso to global scales with the online NMMB/BSC-Dust model – Part 1: model description, annual simulations and evaluation
(2011-06-01)
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Open AccessAbstract. We describe and evaluate the NMMB/BSC-Dust, a new dust aerosol cycle model embedded online within the NCEP Non-hydrostatic Multiscale Model (NMMB). NMMB is a further evolution of the operational Nonhydrostat ... -
Bias-adjustment method for street-scale air quality models
(Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2021-05)
Conference report
Open AccessAir quality (AQ) is a growing concern, especially in urban areas where high-density populated regions are exposed to frequent exceedances of regulated pollutants. To take action in reducing citizen exposure to pollution, ... -
CALIOPE-Urban v1.0: coupling R-LINE with a mesoscale air quality modelling system for urban air quality forecasts over Barcelona city (Spain)
(Copernicus Publications, 2019)
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Open Accesshe NO2 annual air quality limit value is systematically exceeded in many European cities. In this context, understanding human exposure, improving policy and planning, and providing forecasts requires the development of ... -
Caliope: sistema de pronóstico operacional de calidad del aire para Europa y España
(2012)
Conference report
Open AccessEn las últimas décadas Europa ha presentado un claro progreso en la reducción de las emisiones antropogénicas. Sin embargo, la contaminación atmosférica continúa siendo un problema para la salud, especialmente en ... -
Cluster analysis of 4-day back trajectories arriving in the Barcelona Area, Spain, from 1997 to 2002
(2004-06)
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Open AccessStructural parameters for chemisorption of atomic carbon above a Si(100) surface have been obtained through a Si35H 32 cluster model and a MINDO/3 hamiltonian. The most stable position has been found to be the bridge one ...
