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Carlos Pérez is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on atmospheric phenomena and global environmental changes.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work covers several interconnected topics such as Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Aeolian processes and effects, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Carlos Pérez has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoscientific model development, The Science of The Total Environment, and Earth system science data.

Some of the recent scientific papers authored or coauthored by Carlos Pérez are:

  • GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Contribution of the world's main dust source regions to the global cycle of desert dust (2021), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance (2021), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system (2022), Aeolian Research
  • Meteorology-normalized impact of the COVID-19 lockdown upon NO 2 pollution in Spain (2020), Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scientist often collaborates with coauthors such as Oriol Jorba, Marc Guevara, Martina Klose, Hervé Petetin, and Marı́a Gonçalves Ageitos, highlighting an extensive network within the atmospheric and environmental research communities.

Best Publications

  • Theta map: Edge detection in magnetic data

    Christopher Wijns;Carlos Perez;P. Kowalczyk

  • Interactive dust‐radiation modeling: A step to improve weather forecasts

    Carlos Pérez;Slobodan Nickovic;Slobodan Nickovic;Goran Pejanovic;José María Baldasano

  • Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust over Europe in the frame of EARLINET (2000-2002)

    A. Papayannis;V. Amiridis;L. Mona;G. Tsaknakis

  • A long Saharan dust event over the western Mediterranean: Lidar, Sun photometer observations, and regional dust modeling

    C. Pérez;S. Nickovic;S. Nickovic;J. M. Baldasano;M. Sicard

  • Development and evaluation of the BSC-DREAM8b dust regional model over Northern Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East

    Sara Basart;Carlos Pérez;Slodoban Nickovic;Emilio Cuevas

  • Aerosol characterization in Northern Africa, Northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Basin and Middle East from direct-sun AERONET observations

    S. Basart;C. Pérez;C. Pérez;E. Cuevas;J. M. Baldasano;J. M. Baldasano

  • Atmospheric dust modeling from meso to global scales with the online NMMB/BSC-Dust model - Part 1: Model description, annual simulations and evaluation

    C. Pérez;C. Pérez;K. Haustein;Z. Janjic;O. Jorba

  • Mixed-Layer Depth Determination in the Barcelona Coastal Area From Regular Lidar Measurements: Methods, Results and Limitations

    M. Sicard;C. Pérez;F. Rocadenbosch;J. M. Baldasano

  • Cluster Analysis of 4-Day Back Trajectories Arriving in the Barcelona Area, Spain, from 1997 to 2002

    Oriol Jorba;Carlos Perez;Francesc Rocadenbosch;José M. Baldasano

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: An intercomparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad

    M. C. Todd;D. Bou Karam;C. Cavazos;C. Bouet

  • Climate Change in the High Andes:implications and adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers

    Carlos Perez;Claire Nicklin;Olivier Dangles;Steven Vanek

  • Saharan dust and heterogeneous ice formation : Eleven years of cloud observations at a central European EARLINET site

    P. Seifert;A. Ansmann;I. Mattis;U. Wandinger

  • Can carbon sequestration markets benefit low-income producers in semi-arid Africa? Potentials and challenges

    Carlos Perez;Carla Roncoli;Constance Neely;Jean L. Steiner

  • Summertime re-circulations of air pollutants over the north-eastern Iberian coast observed from systematic EARLINET lidar measurements in Barcelona

    Carlos Pérez;Michaël Sicard;Oriol Jorba;Adolfo Comerón

  • Atmospheric Dust Modeling from Meso to Global Scales with the Online NMMB/BSC-Dust Model Part 2: Experimental Campaigns in Northern Africa

    K. Haustein;K. Haustein;C. Perez;C. Perez;J.M. Baldasano;J.M. Baldasano;O. Jorba

  • Impact of surface roughness and soil texture on mineral dust emission fluxes modeling

    Laurent Menut;Carlos Pérez;Carlos Pérez;Karsten Haustein;Karsten Haustein;Bertrand Bessagnet

  • Potential significance of photoexcited NO2 on global air quality with the NMMB/BSC chemical transport model

    O. Jorba;D. Dabdub;Christopher S. Blaszczak-Boxe;C. Pérez;C. Pérez

  • Spatial and temporal variability of PM levels and composition in a complex summer atmospheric scenario in Barcelona (NE Spain)

    M. Viana;C. Pérez;X. Querol;A. Alastuey

  • Aerosols in the CALIOPE air quality modelling system: evaluation and analysis of PM levels, optical depths and chemical composition over Europe

    S. Basart;M. T. Pay;O. Jorba;C. Pérez

  • Caliope: an operational air quality forecasting system for the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands – first annual evaluation and ongoing developments

    J. M. Baldasano;J. M. Baldasano;P. Jiménez-Guerrero;O. Jorba;C. Pérez

  • Trend changes of African airmass intrusions in the marine boundary layer over the subtropical Eastern North Atlantic region in winter

    S. Alonso-Perez;E. Cuevas;C. Perez;X. Querol

Frequent Co-Authors

José María Baldasano
José María Baldasano Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Oriol Jorba
Oriol Jorba Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Sara Basart
Sara Basart World Meteorological Organization
Michaël Sicard
Michaël Sicard Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Emilio Cuevas
Emilio Cuevas International Agency For Research On Cancer
Detlef Müller
Detlef Müller University of Hertfordshire
Alexandros Papayannis
Alexandros Papayannis National Technical University of Athens
Dimitris Balis
Dimitris Balis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service

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