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Article
Air quality plan for ozone: an urgent need for North Portugal
Each summer period, ozone concentrations surpass the legislation limits in the north of Portugal, more precisely at the Douro Norte monitoring station. To solve/mitigate this air pollution problem, and respond...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extensive Comparison Between a Set of European Dust Regional Models and Observations in the Western Mediterranean for the Summer 2012 Pre-ChArMEx/TRAQA Campaign
The present analysis focuses on the model capability to properly simulate long-range Saharan dust transport for summer 2012 in the Western Mediterranean. The present contribution shows an intercomparison of a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical Modelling of the Extratropical Storm Delta Over Canary Islands: Importance of High Resolution
The tropical storm “Delta” was formed on November 23, 2005 in a sea zone of the subtropical Atlantic south of the Azores. After days with an erratic movement, the day 27 the storm reinforced their intensity an...
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Article
Projections of temperature and precipitation extremes in the North Western Mediterranean Basin by dynamical downscaling of climate scenarios at high resolution (1971–2050)
The North Western Mediterranean basin (NWMB) is characterised by a highly complex topography and an important variability of temperature and precipitation patterns. Downscaling techniques are required to captu...
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Seasonal to yearly assessment of temperature and precipitation trends in the North Western Mediterranean Basin by dynamical downscaling of climate scenarios at high resolution (1971–2050)
The complex topography and high climatic variability of the North Western Mediterranean Basin (NWMB) require a detailed assessment of climate change projections at high resolution. ECHAM5/MPIOM global climate ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling the Weekend Effect in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
The chemistry of ozone (O3) and its two main precursors, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) represents one of the major fields of uncertainty in atmospheric chemistry. The ozone weeken...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling Photochemical Pollution in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
The Western Mediterranean Basin (WMB) is surrounded by high coastal mountains and is influenced by the Mediterranean sea. In summer it becomes isolated from the traveling lows and their frontal systems. The me...
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Article
Mixed-Layer Depth Determination in the Barcelona Coastal Area From Regular Lidar Measurements: Methods, Results and Limitations
Regular aerosol backscatter measurements using an elastic-backscatter lidar were performed between May 2000 and December 2002 in Barcelona (Spain), within the framework of the European project EARLINET (Europe...
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Chapter
Wind Flow over Rolling Terrain: A Comparison of Three Recent Models and Full-Scale Observations
Results from three recently developed wind flow models: MCM (Hernández et al., 1995), L (Santabàrbara et al., 1994) and PROMETEO (Calbó and Baldasano, 1995) are compared with data from the Sep.1992 MADONA experim...
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Chapter
Influence of the Traffic Conditions on the Air Quality of Barcelona During the Olympic Games ‘82
During the last Olympic Games ‘82 in Barcelona (July 25th - August 9th), 1) the city council of Barcelona adopted special traffic restriction measures in some areas (several streets were closed and there were par...
