Projects

To guide climate change adaptation and mitigation, reliable information on the regional and local impacts of climate change is needed. The Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative responds to this need by developing Digital Twins (DTs) of the Earth. In particular, DestinE Climate DT provides climate information at regional and local scales over multiple decades. However, the...

The rapidly evolving political information environment poses significant challenges to democratic citizenship through e.g. the spread of disinformation, rise of hate speech, and lack of cross-cutting information. Methodological challenges, including proprietary data, limited external validity of experiments, and the inability to use societies as experimental playgrounds,...

During the last decades, the wind energy produced in Europe has reached up to 11% and is expected to keep growing, reducing the CO2 yearly produced and the usage of non-renewable energy. One crucial factor for wind energy to reach this relevance is the improvement ofsimulation tools in the early stages of the wind farm design. Simulation has allowed the enhancement of the...

RAPIDO (Un modelo rápido para el mantenimiento predictivo de estructuras de material compuesto con distintos escenarios de daño producidos por impacto) aims to provide a rapid predictive tool for safe and intelligent vehicles for civil or defense applications. Continuous monitoring of the structure's health by employing sensors guarantees the structure's safety...

The world is experiencing a pivotal era marked by technological developments and breakthrough advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). One such development is the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), which will be a disruptive force that profoundly reshapes industries and society. Notwithstanding, the slow down in transistor miniaturization and clock frequency increases...

A number of European leading Research Organizations (referred as RTOs hereafter) and research supporting organizations, with a long history of scientific and technology collaboration with Japan, are building a consortium for a proposal focusing on the development of joint High Performance Computing (HPC) applications for future generations of supercomputing...

The INSPEnCaT project aims:

• To develop a regional climate-chemistry modeling system in order.
• To assess this impact of climate change on air pollution in Catalonia with respect to other European regions.
• To quantify the associated effect on policy-related metrics for human and vegetation exposure, and corresponding...

Cloud, aerosols and their interactions are key regulators of climate. However, uncertainties in the magnitude of the net cooling impact of aerosols on climate and in the cloud response to evolving anthropogenic emissions and climate change induced feedbacks on natural emissions are major challenges that limit our understanding of how global and regional climate, including...

Aerosols constitute an important component in the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, and concretely of the atmospheric radiative balance and cloud formation, and yet the uncertainties about aerosols concentrations and distributions, and about their life cycle are considerable.

The recent advances in numerical modeling developments, observational...

A key target of ecological transition towards the zero-pollution vision for 2050 is the prevention and control of pollutants. Transportation is a key source of urban air pollution, being the main responsible of NO2 and PM emissions, with a heavy toll on public health and wellbeing. This pressing need to monitor and reduce traffic-related emissions in urban areas calls for...