Current and future developments

  • Update of the meteorological core to Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) software framework.
  • Use of the High Elective Resolution Modelling Emission System (HERMES), emission model developed at BSC, for the domain of the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands.
  • Increase of the horizontal and vertical resolution of the forecasts up to 4 km for the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and extension to Canary Islands; and 1 km for hot-spot regions.
  • Operational forecast validation.
  • Improvement of aerosols predictions (secondary organic aerosols, natural dust, re-suspension processes, etc.).
  • Regional Climate Modeling.


Related air quality modelling references of the group

Publications in peer-reviewed magazines in the last five years:

Barros, N., Toll, I., Soriano, C., Jiménez, P., Borrego, C., Baldasano, J.M., 2003. Urban Photochemical Pollution in the Iberian Peninsula: the Lisbon and Barcelona Airsheds. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 53, 347-359.  

Jiménez, P., Dabdub, D., Baldasano, J.M., 2003. Comparison of photochemical mechanisms for air quality modeling. Atmospheric Environment, 37, 4179-4194.  

Jiménez, P., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Ozone response to precursor controls in very complex terrains: Use of photochemical indicators to assess O3-NOx-VOC sensitivity in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D20309, doi: 10.1029/2004JD004985.  

Jiménez, P., Parra, R., Gassó, S., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Modeling the ozone weekend effect in very complex terrains: a case study in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. Atmospheric Environment, 39, 429-444.  

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Influence of high-model grid resolution on photochemical modeling in very complex terrains. International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 24, Nos. 1/2/3/4, 180-200.  

Jiménez, P., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Control of ozone precursors in a very-complex industrial terrain by using multiscale-nested air quality models with fine spatial resolution (1 km2). Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 55, 1085-1099.  

Parra, R., Jiménez, P., Baldasano, J.M., 2006. Development of the high spatial resolution EMICAT2000 emission model for air pollutants from the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula (Catalonia, Spain). Environmental Pollution, 140, 200-219. 

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2006. Evaluation of MM5-EMICAT2000-CMAQ performance and sensitivity in very complex terrains: high-resolution application to the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. Atmospheric Environment, 40, 5056-5072.

Pérez, C., Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Sicard, M., Baldasano, J.M., 2006. Influence of the PBL scheme on high resolution photochemical simulations in an urban coastal area over the Western Mediterranean. Atmospheric Environment, 40, 5274-5297.

Jiménez P., J. Lelieveld and J.M. Baldasano. Multi-scale Modelling of air pollutants Dynamics in the North-Western Mediterranean Basin during a typical summertime episode. Journal of Geophysical Research, September 2006.

Proceedings of International Congresses:

Jiménez, P., Baldasano, J.M., 2002. Validation of a semiempirical ozone model. In: Air Pollution 2002. Edited by C.A. Brebbia and J.F. Martín-Duque. Wit Press, UK, pp. 3-13.

Jiménez, P., Pérez, C., Rodríguez, A., Baldasano, J.M., 2003. Correlated levels of particulate matter and ozone in the Western Mediterranean Basin: air quality and lidar measurements. In: American Association for Aerosol Research 2003 22nd Annual Conference, October 2003. Anaheim, California.
Pérez, C., Jiménez, P., Rocadenbosch, F., Baldasano, J.M., 2003. Lidar observations of Saharan dust and regional pollution events over the northeastern Iberian Peninsula in the frame of EARLINET. In: American Association for Aerosol Research 2003 22nd Annual Conference, October 2003. Anaheim, California.

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Influence of horizontal model grid resolution on tropospheric ozone levels. In: Harmonisation 2004. 9th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes. Garmish-Partenkircher, Germany, June 1-4, 2004.

Jiménez, P., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Ozone response to precursor controls: the use of photochemical indicators to assess ozone-NOx-VOC sensitivity in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. In: Quadrennial Ozone Symposium QOS 2004. Kos, Greece, 1-8 June 2004.

Jiménez, P., Pérez, C., Sicard, M., Rocadenbosch, F., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Aloft regional pollution over the Western Mediterranean Basin: photochemical modelling and aerosol optical properties through scanning lidar. In: American Association for Aerosol Research 2004 23nd Annual Conference. Atlanta, USA, October 2004.

Parra, R., Jiménez, P., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. EMICAT2000: development of a high spatial resolution emission model from the northeastern Iberian Peninsula used within the Models-3/CMAQ framework. In: 2004 Models-3 Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. October 18-20, 2004.

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Evaluation of Models-3/CMAQ in Very Complex Terrains: High-Resolution Application to the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula. In: 2004 Models-3 Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. October 18-20, 2004.

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Modeling photochemical pollution in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. In: 27th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application. Banff, Canada. October 24-29, 192-199.

Jiménez, P., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2004. Modeling the weekend effect in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. In: 27th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application. Banff, Canada. October 24-29, 200-207.

Jiménez, P., Parra, R., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Importance of initial and boundary conditions for tropospheric ozone modeling in very complex terrains. In: Air Pollution Modeling and Simulation (APMS.05). Paris, France, February 2005.

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Parra, R., Pérez, C., Viana, M., Alastuey, A., Querol, X., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. High-resolution modeling of gaseous photochemical pollution and particulate matter in Barcelona air basin. In: Urban Air Quality 2005. Valencia, Spain, March 28-April 1, 2005.

Pérez, C., Jorba, O., Sicard, M., Jiménez, P., Rodríguez, A., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Evaluation of MM5 PBL schemes in an urban coastal site over the western Mediterranean by LIDAR and meteorological data. European Geosciences Union EGU 2005. April 2005, Vienna, Austria.

Jiménez, P., Pérez, C., Jorba, O., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Influence of the PBL scheme on MM5-EMICAT2000-CMAQ high-resolution photochemical simulations over a coastal urban site. European Geosciences Union EGU 2005. April 2005, Vienna, Austria.

Baldasano, J.M., Jiménez, P., Pérez, C., 2005. Influence of the boundary layer parameterization on ozone and particulate matter high-resolution modeling in a urban coastal site. In: 1st ACCENT Symposium, Urbino, Italy, 12-16 September 2005.

Jorba, O., Jiménez, P., Pérez, C., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Characterization of ozone and particulate matter levels in a coastal urban site with the application of a trajectory clustering correlation methodology. In: 10th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes. Sissi (Malia), Crete, Greece, October 2005.

Jiménez, P., Arévalo, G., Baldasano, J.M., 2005. Modeling of gaseous photochemical pollution and particulate matter in the Western Mediterranean Basin (Spanish Levantine coast) by using high-resolution. In: 2005 Models-3 Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. September 26-28, 2005.

Jiménez, P., Baldasano, J.M., Jorba, O., Parra, R., Arévalo, G., López, E., Pérez, C., Gassó, S., Gonçalves, M., Gracia, P., Benoiston, E., Monroy, O., Passola, O., 2006. High-resolution air quality modeling in the Iberian Peninsula: applications and developments in a supercomputing framework. In: Advanced Atmospheric Pollution Modelling Workshop, Hatfield, UK. March 22, 2006.

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Baldasano, J.M, 2006. Modeling the dynamics of air pollutants over the Iberian Peninsula under typical meteorological situations. In: 28th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application, Leipzig, Germany, May 15-19, 2006, pp. 282-290.

Jiménez, P., Jorba, O., Gonçalves, M., Baldasano, J.M., 2006. High-resolution modeling of atmospheric pollution by aerosols in the Iberian Peninsula: annual cycle simulations. In: Seventh International Aerosol Conference (IAC), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. September 10-15, 2006.