Udina Sistach, Mireia (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)
The atmospheric boundary layer in stably-stratified conditions and over non-homogeneous terrain becomes a complex system with many interactions of physical processes occurring in a wide range of different ...
Zabalza de Torres, Victor (Date of defense: 2011-05-13)
Gamma-ray binaries are systems that comprise a young, massive star and a compact object that can be either a young pulsar or a black hole. They emit radiation from radio up to tens of TeV and show flux ...
Rodríguez Gasén, Rosa (Date of defense: 2011-05-06)
Gradual SEP events is one of the greatest hazards in space environment, particularly for the launch and operation of spacecraft and for manned exploration. Predictions of their occurrence and intensity ...
Fortuny, Didac (Date of defense: 2015-07-13)
According to climate projections for the end of the twenty-first century, regional responses to global warming include a strong and widespread drying over the northern Mediterranean, particularly intense ...
Antoja Castelltort, M. Teresa (Date of defense: 2010-04-30)
One of the most intriguing features of the stellar velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood is the existence of moving groups. At present, the origin of these kinematic structures is far from ...
Marcos Matamoros, Raül (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
This thesis studies the benefits of different calibration approaches on seasonal forecasting and the improvement of seasonal prognosis of water resources and forest fires. Droughts and wildfires are an ...
Shinde, Mahesh (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The investigation of climate variability in different timescales such as daily, monthly, seasonal and inter-annual has utmost importance for managing the socio-economic processes on regional to global ...
Czekaj, Maria A. (Date of defense: 2012-10-22)
The understanding of the origin and evolution of the Milky Way is one of the primary goals of the Gaia mission (ESA, launch autumn 2013). In order to study and analyse fully the Gaia data it will be ...
Munar i Adrover, Pere (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)
The high energy astrophysics, specifically the gamma-ray astrophysics, studies the processes that cannot be caused by hot matter but by other mechanisms colled non thermaland processes, which involve ...
Paredes Fortuny, Xavier (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
Gamma-ray binaries are systems that comprise a compact object orbiting a companion star and display the maximum of the non-thermal Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) in gamma rays. Currently we know ...