Cruz García, Rubén (Date of defense: 2020-07-01)
Arctic sea ice plays a central role in the Earth’s climate. Changes in the sea ice on seasonal-to-interannual timescales impact ecosystems, populations and a growing number of stakeholders. A prerequisite ...
Matas Casado, Gerard (Date of defense: 2020-11-04)
The fragmentation process in rockfalls is a complex phenomenon that is not well understood and only a few rockfall simulation models consider it explicitly. Fragmentation significantly affects the ...
Benavides, Jaime (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Air pollution is known to cause detrimental health effects in cities and specially on the most vulnerable population. Having access to reliable air pollutant concentration data at street-level in urban ...
Dandar, Enkhbayar (Date of defense: 2017-06-23)
Groundwater withdrawals are growing in most developing countries, including Mongolia, where freshwater resources are limited and unevenly distributed, and most surface waters are frozen during winter. ...
Perez Fonseca, Lazaro J. (Date of defense: 2019-05-17)
Reactive transport modeling is an important tool for the analysis of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes in Earth systems. Observed reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media shows ...
Ràfols Bundó, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
The water currents and the wave field at the Catalan coast (in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea) are investigated. However, the main research is focused at the northern margin of the Ebro Shelf, where ...
Salazar Guiral, Guillem (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)
The dark ocean contains about 70% of the ocean’s microbial cells and 60% of its heterotrophic activity, which is mainly fueled by the flux of organic particles produced in the surface ocean and exported ...
Toprak, Erdem (Date of defense: 2018-05-02)
The main objective of this thesis is to achieve an improved understanding of the thermo-hydro-mechanical processes and material properties that affect how the gaps and canister) behave during and after ...
Barba Ferrer, Carme (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Worldwide water demand has been increasing over time, mainly due to population growth and society development. In addition, climate change is causing a significant alteration of the periodicity and ...
Pallarès López, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-07-25)
It is widely known that wind and wave predictions in the nearshore are less precise for semi enclosed domains than in the open ocean. The Catalan coast is a clear example of this situation, with a wave ...