Millán M. Millán

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a summary of the documented, as well as the postulated, processes involved in the MECAPIP and RECAPMA projects, and show that stacked layer systems form along the Spanish Mediterranean coasts, 2-3 km deep and more than 300 km wide, with the most recent layers at the top and the older ones near the sea.

TL;DR: The MECAPIP project of EC has served to document the summer atmospheric circulations and related air pollution dynamics over Spain and the Western Mediterranean as mentioned in this paper, and experimental evidence indicates that during the day the sea breezes can transport ozone 60 to 100, or more, km inland, during the afternoon, photo-oxidants are injected 3 to 5 km into the mid-troposphere over the Spanish Central plateau, and stratified reservoir layers, stacked up to ≈2-3 km high, build up along the Mediterranean coast.

TL;DR: In this paper, the representativeness of any station is determined by the (fore)knowledge of the processes affecting the site, at proper timescales and space scales within its region.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mesoscale model is used to reproduce the diurnal cycle of winds and stability/layering over the Western Mediterranean Basin (WMB), at a sufficient space/temporal resolution, under a typical recursive synoptic condition during the warm season: data from the flight tracks of the European Project (Regional Cycles of Air Pollution in the West Central Mediterranean Area) are used to substantiate the model results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results from a novel procedure to disaggregate the precipitation series in the Valencia region on the basis of their meteorological origin, finding significant differences between inland areas, with a trend toward decreasing precipitation and thus increasing aridity, and coastal areas with increasing precipitation that tends to be progressively more torrential.