Josep Calbó

Josep Calbó

Keywords : Caspian Sea Aral Sea Black Sea Climatology Total cloud cover Trends Variability

Organization : University of Girona

Department :

ResearchGate profile : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josep_Calbo

Google scholar profile : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pTPjZ7kAAAAJ&hl=en

Biography :

Place of work:

Group of Environmental Physics 
Department of Physics 
University of Girona

Professional experience:

1999-2004: Head of the Institute of the Environment, Girona.

2005-2006: Coordinator of the Phd program on Environment, Girona.

2006-2008: Coordinator of the Masters Degree Programme on Environment, Girona. 

2008-present: Vice-Chancellor of Research and Knowledge Transfer.

Topics of interest:

Clouds and radiation; cloud observation from the ground; solar radiation and cloud climatology; UV radiation; infrared radiation; atmospheric aerosol;climate change at local and regional scales.

Active research projects:

Clouds and climate change: trends and variability of cloudiness and sunshine duration in the Iberian peninsula, and measurement and modeling of cloud radiative effects at the surface (NUCLIEREX).

Representative publications:

Long CN, JM Sabburg, J. Calbó D. Pagès.Retrieving cloud characteristics from ground-based all-sky color daytime images.Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23 (5) .2006.633-652.

MV Toro, L. Burns, J. Between Calbó.Relationship And VOC Emissions NOx and Chemical Production of Tropospheric Ozone in the Aburrá Valley (Colombia) .Chemosphere, 65 (5) .2006 doi: 10.1016 / j.chemosphere.2006.03.013 (online May 2006) .881-888. 
J. Badosa RL McKenzie, M. Kotkamp, ​​J. Calbó, JA Gonzalez PV Johnston, M. O'Neill, DJ Anderson.Towards closure between Measured and UV modelled under clear skies at four diverse sites.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics .2007 ( 7) .2817-2837.

Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo; Michele Brunetti; Josep Calbó; Javier Martin-Vide.Recent spatial and temporal variability and trends of sunshine duration over the Iberian Peninsula from a homogenized dataset.Journal of Geophysical Research.2007 VOL. 112 D20115.doi: 10.1029 / 2007JD008677.

Calbó J., JM Sabburg.Feature extraction from whole-sky images for ground-based cloud type recognition.Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.2008 (25.1) .3-14 DOI: 10.1175 / 2007JTECHA959.1.

A. Sanchez-Lorenzo J. bald J. Martin-Vide, A. Garcia-Manuel G. García-Soriano, and C. Beck.Winter '' weekend effect '' in southern Europe and its connections with regularity in atmospheric Dynamics Research Letters.2008.VOL .Geophysical. 35, L15711, doi: 10.1029 / 2008GL034160.

A. Sanchez-Lorenzo J. Martín-Vide, J. Calbó.Time evolution of sunshine duration in Western Europe (1930-2004) .Journal of Climate.2008 (21) .6089-6098, DOI: 10.1175 / 2008JCLI2442.1 .

Calbó, J .; Sanchez-Lorenzo, A.Cloudiness climatology in the Iberian Peninsula from three global gridded datasets (ISCCP, CRU TS 2.1, ERA-40) and Applied Climatology.2009 .Theoretical. 96 (1-2) .105-115, DOI: 10.1007 / s00704-008-0039-z.

C. Molina-Azorín, A. Sanchez-Lorenzo J. Calbó.A climatological study of sea breeze clouds in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula (Alicante, Spain) .Atmosfera.2009 22 (1) .33-49.

A. Sanchez-Lorenzo J. Calbó Michele Brunetti; Clara Deser .Variation in cloudiness and sunshine duration over the Iberian Peninsula and their relations with atmospheric circulation .Journal of Geophysical Research.2009, 114 D00D09.doi: 10.1029 / 2008JD011394 17 pp.

Sabburg J., J. Calbó.Five years of enhanced cloud surface UV radiation measurements at two sites (in the Northern ad Southern Hemispheres) .Atmospheric Research (93) .2009.doi: 10.1016 / j.atmosres.2009.05.003 11 pp. 902-912.

Widowhood-Mora, A., J. Calbo, JA Gonzalez, MA Jiménez.Modeling and atmospheric longwave radiation at the surface under cloudless skies.Journal of Geophysical Research.2009.doi: 10.1029 / 2009JD011885.