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The new method combines, for the first time in this pilot phase, the forecast of the CALIOPE-Urban air quality model, developed at the BSC and unique in Spain, with an extensive database of the city of Barcelona. The aim of this innovative methodology is to improve air quality management in urban areas by obtaining hourly maps of NO2 concentrations at the street level. More than 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas where the WHO recommended limits for air pollutants are often exceeded, with adverse health and economic effects. 99% of the w

The new method combines, for the first time in this pilot phase, the forecast of the CALIOPE-Urban air quality model, developed at the BSC and unique in Spain, with an extensive database of the city of Barcelona. The aim of this innovative methodology is to improve air quality management in urban areas by obtaining hourly maps of NO2 concentrations at the street level. More than 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas where the WHO recommended limits for air pollutants are often exceeded, with adverse health and economic effects.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has obtained 5 million euros this year from European funds in competition with other international institutions to finance five new research projects aimed at studying processes related to climate change and its effects on health, society and the environment. The projects will be managed by the BSC's Earth Sciences Department, an international reference in the study of climate prediction and evolution, atmospheric composition and the development of climate and air quality services.

Feb. 15, 2022 -- Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have won the second prize in the Challenge

Feb. 4, 2022 -- Two researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have been appointed ICREA Research