Montornès Torrecillas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-02-09)
The radiative transfer cannot be explicitly resolved in the atmospheric models for two reasons: i) a full treatment of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) requires a high amount of computational ...
Altube Vázquez, Patricia (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
Weather radar data and its downstream products are essential elements in weather surveillance and key parameters in the initialisation and validation of hydrological and meteorological models, among ...
Casellas Masana, Enric (Date of defense: 2022-05-20)
Precipitation phase discrimination at ground level constitutes a fundamental variable in many meteorological and hydrological applications, including avalanche hazards, winter road safety, and flooding ...
Cortés Simó, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-21)
Flooding is one of the main natural hazard in the world causing huge economic and human impacts. Assessing the flood damage in the Mediterranean region is of great importance, mainly due to its pronounced ...
Padullés Rulló, Ramon (Date of defense: 2017-06-22)
In 2009, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation approved a proposal to modify the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and to allocate a Polarimetric (Pol) Radio Occultation (RO) antenna in ...
Rodríguez i Ballester, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-05-06)
Tornadoes are the meteorological phenomenon which can produce the strongest surface wind on Earth, causing damage, injuries and fatalities. Several studies show that severe storm environments could be ...