Urban Air Project

Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

The Department of Earth Sciences of BSC-CNS, BSC-ES henceforth (bsc.es/earth-sciences) is one of the most active groups in air quality and atmospheric composition modeling, climate prediction and climate services in Europe. It is structured into five distinct but interacting research groups: Atmospheric Composition, Climate Prediction, Global Health Resilience, Computational Earth Sciences, and Earth System Services. In the latter group, important work is being done to co-produce climate and environmental services by integrating different knowledge sources to bridge the gap between science and society. This involves exploring societal needs, exchanging knowledge and developing and evaluating new knowledge, together with stakeholders to achieve user-cen

Role in the Project:

Tailoring UrbanAir service design to user needs and evaluating the UrbanAIR implemented services and their co-production processes.

Overseeing the development and evaluation of data-fusion and super-resolution methods for air quality and urban heat.

People involved:

Jan Mateu Armengol - Principal investigator

Sam Pickard - Senior researcher

Cristina Carnerero - Researcher

Alvaro Criado Romero - Researcher

Florence Gignac - Researcher

Arianna Cristiani - Project manager

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