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The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall by Spracklen, D. V., Garcia-Carreras, L.

“…We completed a meta‐analysis of regional and global climate model simulations (n = 96) of the impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall…”
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A seamless assessment of the role of convection in the water cycle of the West African Monsoon by Birch, C. E., Parker, D. J., Marsham, J. H., Copsey, D., Garcia-Carreras, L.

“…A suite of 40 day UK Met Office Unified Model simulations over West Africa during summer 2006 are analyzed to investigate the causes of biases in the position…”
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The Effects of Tropical Vegetation on Rainfall by Spracklen, D.V, Baker, J.C.A, Garcia-Carreras, L, Marsham, J.H

“…Vegetation modifies land-surface properties, mediating the exchange of energy, moisture, trace gases, and aerosols between the land and the atmosphere. These…”
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An evaluation of mode-decomposed energy release rates for arbitrarily shaped delamination fronts using cohesive elements by Carreras, L., Lindgaard, E., Renart, J., Bak, B.L.V., Turon, A.

“…Computing mode-decomposed energy release rates in arbitrarily shaped delaminations involving large fracture process zones has not been previously investigated…”
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How does local tropical deforestation affect rainfall? by Garcia-Carreras, L., Parker, D. J.

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the potential impacts of vegetation‐breezes on locally‐generated rainfall and its distribution on the mesoscale…”
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The impact of convective cold pool outflows on model biases in the Sahara by Garcia-Carreras, L., Marsham, J. H., Parker, D. J., Bain, C. L., Milton, S., Saci, A., Salah-Ferroudj, M., Ouchene, B., Washington, R.

“…Radiosonde data from Fennec supersite‐1 in the remote central Sahara have been used to evaluate the impact of convectively generated cold pool outflows on…”
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A simulation method for fatigue-driven delamination in layered structures involving non-negligible fracture process zones and arbitrarily shaped crack fronts by Carreras, L., Turon, A., Bak, B.L.V., Lindgaard, E., Renart, J., Martin de la Escalera, F., Essa, Y.

“…Most of the existing methods for fatigue-driven delamination are limited to two-dimensional (2D) applications or their predictive capabilities have not been…”
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Point-wise evaluation of the growth driving direction for arbitrarily shaped delamination fronts using cohesive elements by Carreras, L., Bak, B.L.V., Turon, A., Renart, J., Lindgaard, E.

“…The identification of the delamination propagation direction in three-dimensional structures with arbitrarily shaped fronts is needed in many applications. In…”
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Robust Amazon precipitation projections in climate models that capture realistic land–atmosphere interactions by Baker, J C A, Garcia-Carreras, L, Buermann, W, Castilho de Souza, D, Marsham, J H, Kubota, P Y, Gloor, M, Coelho, C A S, Spracklen, D V

“…Abstract Land–atmosphere interactions have an important influence on Amazon precipitation (P), but evaluation of these processes in climate models has so far…”
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Effect of environment conditioning on mode II fracture behaviour of adhesively bonded joints by Abdel-Monsef, S., Renart, J., Carreras, L., Turon, A., Maimí, P.

“…•Effect of environmental conditions on mode II fracture behaviour.•An inverse procedure has been used to obtain the J-integral curve only from the…”
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Effect of environmental conditioning on pure mode I fracture behaviour of adhesively bonded joints by Abdel-Monsef, S., Renart, J., Carreras, L., Maimí, P., Turon, A.

“…•Effect of environmental changes on mode I fracture behaviour.•Inverse procedure used to obtain the cohesive law only from the load-displacement curve.•The…”
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Machine learning in the clinical and language characterisation of primary progressive aphasia variants by Matias-Guiu, Jordi A., Díaz-Álvarez, Josefa, Cuetos, Fernando, Cabrera-Martín, María Nieves, Segovia-Ríos, Ignacio, Pytel, Vanesa, Moreno-Ramos, Teresa, Carreras, José L., Matías-Guiu, Jorge, Ayala, José L.

“…Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical syndrome of neurodegenerative origin with 3 main variants: non-fluent, semantic, and logopenic. However, there…”
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A new testing device to simultaneously measure the mode I fatigue delamination behavior of a batch of specimens by Renart, J., Budhe, S., Carreras, L., Mayugo, J.A., Costa, J.

“…•A test device and a method to run 6 DCB fatigue tests in parallel are detailed.•The method allows testing at different levels of energy release rate and load…”
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An efficient methodology for the experimental characterization of mode II delamination growth under fatigue loading by Carreras, L., Renart, J., Turon, A., Costa, J., Essa, Y., Martin de la Escalera, F.

“…•A displacement-shedding mode II fatigue testing procedure is proposed.•The log-linear region of the crack growth rate curve is covered in a single test.•The…”
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The physical processes causing nocturnal rainfall over northwest Australia and their representation in high‐ and low‐resolution models with parametrized convection by Ackerley, D., Birch, C. E., Garcia‐Carreras, L., Lavender, S. L., Weller, E.

“…The diurnal cycle of precipitation in the Tropics is represented poorly in general circulation models (GCMs), which is primarily attributed to the…”
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Experimental methodology for obtaining fatigue crack growth rate curves in mixed-mode I-II by means of variable cyclic displacement tests by Jaeck, I., Carreras, L., Renart, J., Turon, A., Martin de la Escalera, F., Essa, Y.

“…•A variable cyclic displacement test methodology applied to MMB is presented.•The linear region of the crack growth rate curve is explored in one single…”
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CrAlN coatings deposited by cathodic arc evaporation at different substrate bias by Romero, J., Gómez, M.A., Esteve, J., Montalà, F., Carreras, L., Grifol, M., Lousa, A.

“…CrAlN is a good candidate as an alternative to conventional CrN coatings especially for high temperature oxidation-resistance applications. Different CrAlN…”
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The Impact of Parameterized Convection on the Simulation of Crop Processes by Garcia-Carreras, L., Challinor, A. J., Parkes, B. J., Birch, C. E., Nicklin, K. J., Parker, D. J.

“…Global climate and weather models are a key tool for the prediction of future crop productivity, but they all rely on parameterizations of atmospheric…”
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Thermal analysis of metal organic precursors for functional oxide preparation: Thin films versus powders by Roura, P., Farjas, J., Eloussifi, H., Carreras, L., Ricart, S., Puig, T., Obradors, X.

“…Decomposition of metal organic precursors often depends on one transport step. Since transport is easier in films than in powders, caution should be paid to…”
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Evaluation of an automated FDG dose infuser to PET-CT patients by Sánchez, Roberto M, Vano, Eliseo, Fernández, Jose M, Ginjaume, Mercè, Carreras, José L

“…An experience with an automated infuser device at a university hospital is presented in this paper. Occupational doses at operators' fingertips were measured…”
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