Projects
Modeling the heartbeat is a highly complex task that involves several scales and different tightly coupled problems. A large number of spatial orders of magnitude are linked, from the microscopic cell arrangement into a volumetric description, to the macroscopic shape of the cardiac chambers. In the same way, several temporal scales coexist, from...
The IOTWINS project will deliver large-scale industrial test-beds that leverage and combine data related to manufacturing and facility management optimization domains that come from diverse sources, such as data APIs, historical data, embedded sensors, and Open Data sources.The goal is to build a reference architecture for the development and deployment of distributed...
The IOTWINS project will deliver large-scale industrial test-beds leveraging and combining data related to the manufacturing and facility management optimization domains, coming from diverse sources, such as data APIs, historical data, embedded sensors, and Open Data sources. The goal is to build a reference architecture for the development and deployment of distributed and...
In the previous project, EPIC, we developed a consistent methodological framework for the exploration of disease comorbidity at the molecular level. EPIC provides a first overview of disease interactions from the general level to the one of individual patients. Particularly interesting is the network of patient-subgroups that matches, in a statistically significant manner,...
Organic aerosols (OA) affect climate forcing and human health, but still large uncertainties exist in their sources and evolution. A large fraction of submicron particulate matter, 20%90%, can be attributed to OA. Recent studies have shown that secondary organic aerosols (SOA) account for a large fraction of the OA burden. Most OA efficiently scatter visible radiation and...
Atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric composition, air pollution, Climatology and climate change, Physical geography, Earth observations from space/remote sensing, Dust aerosols; Mineralogy; Physics of emission; Climate; Modelling; Spectroscopy Soil dust aerosols are mixtures of different minerals, whose relative abundances, particle size distribution (PSD), shape, surface...
The recent COP21 Paris agreement on climate ties the participating countries (Spain and the whole EU among them) to take actions to reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions in order to contain global warming within 2o C by the end of this century. This translates into the necessity to precisely estimate the compatible CO2 emissions well ahead of time to make sure targets are met. However,...
The recent COP21 Paris agreement on climate ties the participating countries (Spain and the whole EU among them) to take actions to reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions in order to contain global warming within 2o C by the end of this century. This translates into the necessity to precisely estimate the compatible CO2 emissions well ahead of time to make sure targets are met. However,...
The main goal of this research project is the improvement of near-term (i.e. seasonal to decadal) predictions of Net Primary Production (NPP) in the Atlantic Ocean. NPP is the rate of production of phytoplankton biomass, the primary source of food for marine animal life and thus a fundamental environmental variable to be taken into account in fishery management strategies....
The overall objective of INTAROS is to develop an integrated Arctic Observation System (iAOS) by extending, improving and unifying existing systems in the different regions of the Arctic. INTAROS will have a strong multidisciplinary focus, with tools for integration of data from atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and terrestrial sciences, provided by institutions in Europe, North...