Browsing by Author "Jorba, Oriol"
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A Review of Element-Based Galerkin Methods for Numerical Weather Prediction: Finite Elements, Spectral Elements, and Discontinuous Galerkin
(Springer, 2015-05-19)
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Open AccessNumerical weather prediction (NWP) is in a period of transition. As resolutions increase, global models are moving towards fully nonhydrostatic dynamical cores, with the local and global models using the same governing ... -
Aerosol-radiation interaction in atmospheric models: Idealized sensitivity study of simulated short-wave direct radiative effects to particle microphysical properties
(Elsevier, 2018-01)
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Open AccessWe assessed the impact of the microphysical parameterization of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on simulated short-wave radiative effects due to Aerosol-Radiation Interaction (ARI). Layer radiative properties (optical ... -
Aerosol-radiation interaction in atmospheric models: Idealized sensitivity study of simulated short-wave direct radiative effects to particle microphysical properties
(Elsevier, 2018-01)
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Open AccessWe assessed the impact of the microphysical parameterization of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on simulated short-wave radiative effects due to Aerosol-Radiation Interaction (ARI). Layer radiative properties (optical ... -
Assimilation of MODIS Dark Target and Deep Blue observations in the dust aerosol component of NMMB-MONARCH version 1.0
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-03-10)
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Open AccessA data assimilation capability has been built for the NMMB-MONARCH chemical weather prediction system, with a focus on mineral dust, a prominent type of aerosol. An ensemble-based Kalman filter technique (namely the local ... -
CAMP first GPU solver: a solution to accelerate chemistry in atmospheric models
(Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2022-05)
Conference report
Open AccessAtmospheric models are a representation of dynamical, physical, chemical, dynamical, and radiative processes in the atmosphere [1]. The load of these models is often spread across multiple processes in HPC environments. ... -
Chemistry Across Multiple Phases (CAMP) version 1.0: an integrated multiphase chemistry model
(Copernicus Publications, 2022-05)
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Open AccessA flexible treatment for gas- and aerosol-phase chemical processes has been developed for models of diverse scale, from box models up to global models. At the core of this novel framework is an “abstracted aerosol ... -
Data fusion uncertainty-enabled methods to map street-scale hourly NO2 in Barcelona: a case study with CALIOPE-Urban v1.0
(Copernicus Publications, 2023-04)
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Open AccessComprehensive monitoring of NO2 exceedances is imperative for protecting human health, especially in urban areas with traffic. However, an accurate spatial characterization of the exceedances is challenging due to the ... -
Description and evaluation of the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (NMMB-MONARCH) version 1.0: gas-phase chemistry at global scale
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-02-10)
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Open AccessThis paper presents a comprehensive description and benchmark evaluation of the tropospheric gas-phase chemistry component of the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (NMMB-MONARCH), formerly known ... -
Direct radiative effects during intense Mediterranean desert dust outbreaks
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2018-06-21)
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Open AccessThe direct radiative effect (DRE) during 20 intense and widespread dust outbreaks, which affected the broader Mediterranean basin over the period March 2000–February 2013, has been calculated with the NMMB-MONARCH model ... -
Gas-phase chemistry in the online multiscale NMMB/BSC Chemical Transport Model: Description and evaluation at global scale
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2016-06-13)
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Open AccessThis paper presents a comprehensive description and benchmark evaluation of the tropospheric gas-phase chemistry component of the NMMB/BSC Chemical Transport Model (NMMB/BSC-CTM), an online chemical weather prediction ... -
Ground-level ozone simulations improved by updating land cover databases
(Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2022-05)
Conference report
Open AccessTropospheric ozone (O3) is one of the pollutants which raises great concern to the World Health Organization (WHO) because of the health effects associated with its exposure. It is formed in the atmosphere through non-linear ... -
HERMESv3, a stand-alone multi-scale atmospheric emission modelling framework – Part 1: global and regional module
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2019-05-14)
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Open AccessAbstract Back to top We present the High-Elective Resolution Modelling Emission System version 3 (HERMESv3), an open source, parallel and stand-alone multi-scale atmospheric emission modelling framework that computes ... -
Impact of aerosol microphysical properties on mass scattering cross sections
(Elsevier, 2017-10)
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Open AccessHighlights • Aerosol scattering simulated under variable microphysical properties (visible range). • Sensitivity of scattering to microphysical properties depends on particle mean size. • Scattering spectral dependence ... -
Mediterranean intense desert dust outbreaks and their vertical structure based on remote sensing data
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2016-07-15)
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Open AccessThe main aim of the present study is to describe the vertical structure of the intense Mediterranean dust outbreaks, based on the use of satellite and surface-based retrievals/measurements. Strong and extreme desert dust ... -
Model output statistics (MOS) applied to Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) O3 forecasts: trade-offs between continuous and categorical skill scores
(Copernicus Publications, 2022)
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Open AccessAir quality (AQ) forecasting systems are usually built upon physics-based numerical models that are affected by a number of uncertainty sources. In order to reduce forecast errors, first and foremost the bias, they are ... -
Modelling of pollen dispersion in the atmosphere: evaluation with a continuous 1β+1δ lidar
(EDP Sciences, 2018-04-13)
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Open AccessPollen allergenicity plays an important role on human health and wellness. It is thus of large public interest to increase our knowledge of pollen grain behavior in the atmosphere (source, emission, processes involved ... -
Ozone source apportionment during peak summer events over southwestern Europe
(European Geosciences Union, 2019-04-25)
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Open AccessIt is well established that in Europe, high O3 concentrations are most pronounced in southern/Mediterranean countries due to the more favourable climatological conditions for its formation. However, the contribution of the ... -
Volcanic ash modeling with the online NMMB-MONARCH-ASH v1.0 model: model description, case simulation, and evaluation
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-03-24)
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Open AccessTraditionally, tephra transport and dispersal models have evolved decoupled (offline) from numerical weather prediction models. There is a concern that inconsistencies and shortcomings associated with this coupling strategy ... -
Volcanic ash modeling with the online NMMB-MONARCH-ASH v1.0 model: model description, case simulation, and evaluation
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-03-24)
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Open AccessTraditionally, tephra transport and dispersal models have evolved decoupled (offline) from numerical weather prediction models. There is a concern that inconsistencies and shortcomings associated with this coupling strategy ...
