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Carvalho, A.C., Carvalho, A., Monteiro, A., Borrego, C., Miranda, A.I., Gelpi, I.R., Pérez-Muñuzuri, V., Méndez, M.R, and J.A. Souto, 2001:
Air quality study over the atlantic coast of Iberian Peninsula.
25^th Int. Tech. Meeting of NATO-CCMS on "Air Pollution Modelling and its application", Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 15-19 October, Eds. C. Borrego & G. Schayes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, ,pp. 59–68.
[Air quality evaluation in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula through the application of two numerical systems: meteorological model (MM5) and the air quality model (MARS) To analyse the photochemical production over the fine grid domain an interface between MM5 and MARS was built up]

Cucurull, L, 2001:
The use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP).
Ph.D. Thesis, edited by the Universitat de Barcelona, 147 pp.
[The aim of this PhD work is to use precise and continuous measurements of GPS-derived observations together with NWP models. Along the thesis it has been attempted to present what GPS provides to the meteorological community and how these data can be used to improve the prediction of moisture and precipitation fields]

Soriano, C., Jorba, O., and J.M Baldasano, 2001:
One-way nesting versus Two-way nesting: Does it really make a difference?.
25th Int. Tech. Meeting of NATO-CCMS on "Air Pollution Modelling and its application", Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 15-19 October, Eds. C. Borrego & G. Schayes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 177-185.
[Sensitivity study of nesting techniques within MM5. Simulations at 2 km of the Barcelona geographical area. Relevant differences observed, attributed to boundary placement]

Romero, R., 2001:
Sensitivity of a heavy rain producing Western Mediterranean cyclone to embedded potential vorticity anomalies.
Quart. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 127, 2559-2597.
[A piecewise Potential Vorticity (PV) inversion technique is applied for the design of sensitivity MM5 simulations after perturbing the model initial conditions]

Romero, R., C. A. Doswell III, and R. Riosalido, 2001:
Observations and fine-grid simulations of a convective outbreal in northeastern Spain: Importance of diurnal forcing and convective cold pools.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2157-2182.
[Using the MM5, the tragic and well-known Biescas event is simulated at high resolution (4 km gridlength), including two simulations with solar radiation and convective cold pools switched off]

Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., Vellinga, O.S., Holtslag, A.A.M., Bosveld, F.C. and H. Klein Baltink, 2001:
Observational evaluation of PBL parameterization modeled by MM5.
11th PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model Workshop Users’s workshop, 25-27 June Boulder, Colorado, 102-104.
[A clear convective boundary layer (CBL) developed over Cabauw (the Netherlands) during the 2nd and 3rd May 1995 is simulated by MM5. The CBL is used to intercompare the performance of four boundary layer schemes implemented at MM5. In particular the non-local schemes MRF and BLA and the local schemes ETA and BRT. Surface, upper air variables and the boundary layer depth calculated by MM5 are compared with detailed observations. It is shown that the non-local schemes (MRF and BLA) are in a better agreement with the observations]

Vilaclara, E., Sairouni, A., Moré, J. and J. Bech, 2001:
Numerical mesoscale forecast of a heavy rainfall event over Catalonia (NE Spain).
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 3, Oceans and Atmosphere, 26th General Assembly European Geophysical Society, ISSN 1029-7006
[The 10th June 2000 hevay rainfall event is studied using MASS model. The intensity and location of the maximum of precipitation forcasted by simulations at 15, 8 and 2 km horitzontal resolution are compared using different moist convection parametrization schemes]