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Guido Pirovano is affiliated with the World Meteorological Organization in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple scientific fields with a focus on environmental and atmospheric sciences. The main fields of study include Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to their work.

Their research subfields encompass Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Computational Mechanics. This diverse expertise supports investigations into complex environmental and engineering challenges.

Key research topics cover Air Quality and Health Impacts, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, and Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer.

Guido Pirovano has published in various scientific venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Atmosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Computer Physics Communications
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • "SPHERA v.9.0.0: A Computational Fluid Dynamics research code, based on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics mesh-less method" (2020), published in Computer Physics Communications
  • "Modeling the Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobility and NO2 Concentration in the Lombardy Region" (2020), published in Atmosphere
  • "European guide on air pollution source apportionment for particulate matter with source oriented models and their combined use with receptor models" (2020), published by the Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • "Simulations of Organic Aerosol with CAMx over the Po Valley during the Summer Season" (2022), published in Atmosphere
  • "Comparison of source apportionment approaches and analysis of non-linearity in a real case model application" (2021), published in Geoscientific Model Development

Frequent collaborators of Guido Pirovano consist of Valentina Agresti, Andrea Piccoli, Giovanni Lonati, Marco Bedogni, and Alessandra Balzarini, indicating sustained research partnerships across their publications.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation and intercomparison of Ozone and PM10 simulations by several chemistry transport models over four European cities within the CityDelta project

    R. Vautard;R. Vautard;P.H.J. Builtjes;P. Thunis;C. Cuvelier

  • CityDelta: A model intercomparison study to explore the impact of emission reductions in European cities in 2010

    C. Cuvelier;P. Thunis;R. Vautard;R. Vautard;M. Amann

  • Evaluation of operational on-line-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part I: Ozone

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • Evaluation of operational online-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part II: Particulate matter

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • Operational model evaluation for particulate matter in Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Guido Pirovano;Volker Matthias

  • Model evaluation and ensemble modelling of surface-level ozone in Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Robert Vautard;K. Wyat Appel

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, Part 1: Effects on weather

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;J. Milbrandt;C. Hogrefe

  • Presentation of the EURODELTA III intercomparison exercise-evaluation of the chemistry transport models' performance on criteria pollutants and joint analysis with meteorology

    Bertrand Bessagnet;Guido Pirovano;Mihaela Mircea;Cornelius Cuvelier

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, part 2: Effects on chemistry

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;C. Hogrefe;Y. Zhang

  • Analysis of the WRF-Chem contributions to AQMEII phase2 with respect to aerosol radiative feedbacks on meteorology and pollutant distributions

    Renate Forkel;Alessandra Balzarini;Rocio Baró;Roberto Bianconi

  • Source apportionment to support air quality planning: Strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches

    P. Thunis;A. Clappier;L. Tarrason;C. Cuvelier

  • Analysis of model responses to emission-reduction scenarios within the CityDelta project

    P. Thunis;Laurence Rouil;C. Cuvelier;R. Stern

  • Uncertainties of simulated aerosol optical properties induced by assumptions on aerosol physical and chemical properties: An AQMEII-2 perspective

    G. Curci;C. Hogrefe;R. Bianconi;U. Im

  • Comparative analysis of meteorological performance of coupled chemistry-meteorology models in the context of AQMEII phase 2

    Dominik Brunner;Nicholas Savage;Oriol Jorba;Brian Eder

  • Evaluation of receptor and chemical transport models for PM10 source apportionment

    C.A. Belis;D. Pernigotti;G. Pirovano;O. Favez

  • High-resolution air quality simulation over Europe with the chemistry transport model CHIMERE

    E. Terrenoire;B. Bessagnet;L. Rouïl;F. Tognet

  • Assessment and economic valuation of air pollution impacts on human health over Europe and the United States as calculated by a multi-model ensemble in the framework of AQMEII3

    Ulas Im;Jørgen Brandt;Camilla Geels;Kaj Mantzius Hansen

  • Evaluation and error apportionment of an ensemble of atmospheric chemistry transport modeling systems: multivariable temporal and spatial breakdown

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Christian Hogrefe;Gabriele Curci

  • WRF-Chem model sensitivity to chemical mechanisms choice in reconstructing aerosol optical properties

    A. Balzarini;G. Pirovano;L. Honzak;R. Žabkar

  • Analysis of meteorology-chemistry interactions during air pollution episodes using online coupled models within AQMEII Phase-2

    Xin Kong;Renate Forkel;Ranjeet S. Sokhi;Peter Suppan

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Renate Forkel
Renate Forkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gabriele Curci
Gabriele Curci University of L'Aquila
Bertrand Bessagnet
Bertrand Bessagnet École Normale Supérieure
Ulas Im
Ulas Im Aarhus University
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Dominik Brunner
Dominik Brunner Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Ranjeet S. Sokhi
Ranjeet S. Sokhi University of Hertfordshire
Efisio Solazzo
Efisio Solazzo European Food Safety Authority
Greg Yarwood
Greg Yarwood Business International Corporation

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