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Oriol Jorba is affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. Their research spans various domains within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on atmospheric processes and related topics.

The primary fields of study for Oriol Jorba include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study cover:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering

The main topics addressed in Oriol Jorba's research are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Key recent publications include:

  • Meteorology-normalized impact of the COVID-19 lockdown upon NO 2 pollution in Spain, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Time-resolved emission reductions for atmospheric chemistry modelling in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdowns, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service TEMPOral profiles (CAMS-TEMPO): global and European emission temporal profile maps for atmospheric chemistry modelling, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Lessons from the COVID-19 air pollution decrease in Spain: Now what?, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Estimating lockdown-induced European NO 2 changes using satellite and surface observations and air quality models, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors in Oriol Jorba's publications include:

  • Carlos Pérez García-Pando
  • Marc Guevara
  • Hervé Petetin
  • Dene Bowdalo
  • Carles Tena

Major publication venues for their work are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Oriol Jorba has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Springer International Publishing titled "Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVIII" in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Med-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

    Paolo M. Ruti;Samuel Somot;F. Giorgi;Clotilde Dubois

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Meteorology-normalized impact of the COVID-19 lockdown upon NO2 pollution in Spain

    Hervé Petetin;Dene Bowdalo;Albert Soret;Marc Guevara

  • 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

  • Time-resolved emission reductions for atmospheric chemistry modelling in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdowns

    Marc Guevara;Oriol Jorba;Albert Soret;Hervé Petetin

  • Development towards a global operational aerosol consensus: basic climatological characteristics of the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction Multi-Model Ensemble (ICAP-MME)

    W. R. Sessions;J. S. Reid;A. Benedetti;P. R. Colarco

  • An annual assessment of air quality with the CALIOPE modeling system over Spain.

    J.M. Baldasano;M.T. Pay;O. Jorba;S. Gassó;S. Gassó

  • 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

  • Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service TEMPOral profiles (CAMS-TEMPO): global and European emission temporal profile maps for atmospheric chemistry modelling

    Marc Guevara;Oriol Jorba;Carles Tena;Hugo Denier van der Gon

  • 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

  • Lessons from the COVID-19 air pollution decrease in Spain: Now what?

    Xavier Querol;Jordi Massagué;Andrés Alastuey;Teresa Moreno

  • 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

  • Mediterranean intense desert dust outbreaks and their vertical structure based on remote sensing data

    Antonis Gkikas;Sara Basart;Nikos Hatzianastassiou;Eleni Marinou

  • Current state of the global operational aerosol multi-model ensemble: An update from the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP).

    Peng Xian;Jeffrey S. Reid;Edward J. Hyer;Charles R. Sampson

  • A full year evaluation of the CALIOPE-EU air quality modeling system over Europe for 2004

    M.T. Pay;M. Piot;O. Jorba;S. Gassó;S. Gassó

  • The use of a modelling system as a tool for air quality management: annual high-resolution simulations and evaluation.

    Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero;Oriol Jorba;José M. Baldasano;José M. Baldasano;Santiago Gassó

  • Estimating lockdown-induced European NO 2 changes using satellite and surface observations and air quality models

    Jérôme Barré;Hervé Petetin;Augustin Colette;Marc Guevara

Frequent Co-Authors

José María Baldasano
José María Baldasano Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Sara Basart
Sara Basart World Meteorological Organization
Carlos Pérez
Carlos Pérez Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Xavier Querol
Xavier Querol Spanish National Research Council
Dominik Brunner
Dominik Brunner Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Renate Forkel
Renate Forkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michaël Sicard
Michaël Sicard Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Donald Dabdub
Donald Dabdub University of California, Irvine
Marco Pandolfi
Marco Pandolfi Spanish National Research Council

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