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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
13349
World Ranking
1634
National Ranking
40

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

José María Baldasano is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to a range of topics within environmental and engineering disciplines. Their main areas of work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Maritime Ports and Logistics
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Baldasano has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Atmosphere
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
  • PLoS ONE

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • "COVID-19 lockdown effects on air quality by NO2 in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Atmospheric Emissions in Ports Due to Maritime Traffic in Mexico," 2021, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • "Review of Top-Down Method to Determine Atmospheric Emissions in Port. Case of Study: Port of Veracruz, Mexico," 2022, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • "Comparison of Methodologies for Assessing Desert Dust Contribution to Regional PM10 and PM2.5 Levels: A One-Year Study Over Portugal," 2020, Atmosphere
  • "Estimation of atmospheric emissions from maritime activity in the Veracruz port, Mexico," 2021, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

Frequent collaboration partners include Gilberto Fuentes García, Rodolfo Sosa Echeverría, Jonathan D. W. Kahl, Rafael Esteban Antonio Durán, and E. Hernández, with multiple co-authored works reflecting a sustained research partnership in related topics.

Best Publications

  • EC-Earth A Seamless Earth-System Prediction Approach in Action

    Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Tido Semmler;Simona Ştefănescu

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

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

  • COVID-19 lockdown effects on air quality by NO2 in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)

    José M. Baldasano

  • Air quality data from large cities.

    J M Baldasano;E Valera;P Jiménez

  • Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects

    A. Baklanov;K. Schlünzen;P. Suppan;J. Baldasano

  • 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

  • Sensitivity of boundary-layer variables to PBL schemes in the WRF model based on surface meteorological observations, lidar, and radiosondes during the HygrA-CD campaign

    Robert F. Banks;Robert F. Banks;Jordi Tiana-Alsina;José María Baldasano;José María Baldasano;Francesc Rocadenbosch

  • 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

  • Soil Dust Aerosols and Wind as Predictors of Seasonal Meningitis Incidence in Niger

    Carlos Perez Garcia Pando;Michelle C. Stanton;Peter J. Diggle;Sylwia Trzaska

  • 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

  • The Potential impacts of electric vehicles on air quality in the urban areas of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)

    A. Soret;M. Guevara;J.M. Baldasano;J.M. Baldasano

  • Optimizing CALIPSO Saharan dust retrievals

    V. Amiridis;U. Wandinger;E. Marinou;E. Giannakaki

  • Using NOAA AVHRR and SPOT VGT data to estimate surface parameters: application to a mesoscale meteorological model

    N. Pineda;O. Jorba;J. Jorge;J. M. Baldasano

  • 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

  • Life cycle assessment of two biowaste management systems for Barcelona, Spain

    Leonor Patricia Güereca;Santiago Gassó;José María Baldasano;Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero

  • Comparison of photochemical mechanisms for air quality modeling

    Pedro Jimenez;Jose M. Baldasano;Donald Dabdub

Frequent Co-Authors

Oriol Jorba
Oriol Jorba Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Sara Basart
Sara Basart World Meteorological Organization
Carlos Pérez
Carlos Pérez Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Michaël Sicard
Michaël Sicard Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Emilio Cuevas
Emilio Cuevas International Agency For Research On Cancer
Xavier Querol
Xavier Querol Spanish National Research Council
Lucas Alados-Arboledas
Lucas Alados-Arboledas University of Granada
Alexandros Papayannis
Alexandros Papayannis National Technical University of Athens
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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