Evangelia-Anna Kalognomou's research while affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and other places

... The rainfall variability patterns obtained from the NCEP reanalysis are also reproducible from the ERA5 reanalysis (not shown) that exist at a higher horizontal resolution, and the GPCP rainfall data, which combines observations and satellite measurements (cf Figure A3). Moreover, studies have reported the good performance of satellite products (e.g., Pfeifroth et al., 2016), and climate models in capturing observed rainfall variability in southern Africa and beyond (e.g., Pohl et al., 2014;Williams et al., 2010) though with biases (e.g., Favre et al., 2016). From Figure A3, notable portions of the rainfall variability patterns from NCEP ( Figure 2) were produced by GPCP data and the general circulation models (exemplified with the CMCC-CMS climate model) though with biases in the spatial configuration of the patterns. ...

... Finally, there are different indicators of sustainable development developed, that play a crucial role in terms of measuring the level of welfare from social, economic, environmental, institutional spheres etc., and in terms of the possibilities to sustain development processes (see e.g. United Nations, 2007; EUROSTAT a; Mannis;Borys, 2005;Borys, 1999). Examples of such sets of indicators are inter alia Sustainable Development Indicators (SDI), developed and used by the European Union to monitor the realisation of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (Commission Communication, 2001), Happy Planet Index (HPI) developed by the New Economics Foundation, extensive and detailed sets of general and in some cases sectoral indicators of sustainable development developed by Borys (1999Borys ( , 2005 and others. ...

... Shongwe, et al. [146] performed a study to evaluate the capability of CORDEX RCM in simulating variation, timing, and frequency of events in monthly summer rainfall over southern Africa. The study observed that majority of CORDEX RCMs were able to simulate the progression, extent, start, and cessation of precipitation over southern Africa, despite the presence of biases in some models. ...

... Therefore, it is critical to identify the appropriate parameterization schemes for a given study area to optimize model performance. In East Asia Kang and Hong, 2008;Bao, 2013;Huang et al., 2013;Kang et al., 2014), Southeast Asia (Juneng et al., 2016;Ngo-Duc et al., 2017), South Africa (Kalognomou et al., 2013;Llopart et al., 2017), and South America (Reboita et al., 2014), numerous sensitivity tests have been conducted on physical parameters to identify the optimal schemes, and some research has improved the simulation performance of the RegCM by introducing or modifying the parameters of the current physical parameterization schemes (Chow et al., 2006;Gianotti and Eltahir, 2014;Zou et al., 2014). ...

... Cities in the Mediterranean area are frequently experiencing elevated levels of air pollution [29] under the additional pressure of the climate crisis. Thessaloniki, Greece, is particularly impaired with respect to the air pollution, especially due to PM 10 and O 3 levels [28,39]. Although some recent studies have quantified the impact of temperature on mortality [84,85], there is insufficient evidence concerning air quality, thus pointing a gap in relevant knowledge. ...

... Although regional and urban scale actions to reduce air pollution have been implemented across Europe (e.g. Giannouli et al. 2011;Miranda et al. 2015;Borrego et al. 2016), there are still problems that need to be addressed (Thunis et al. 2019). Air pollution hotspots remain in the Po-valley region and Eastern Europe for PM and in most European big cities for NO 2 (EEA 2019). ...

... Funding Agency [87] Italian MURST-FIRB Project [52] MOSTI and RMC University Technology Malaysia [88] German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology [89] Australian Research Council [90] AVANTSSAR Project of European Commission FP7 [91] Ministry of Knowledge and Economy Korea [92] CASCADAS Project of European Commission [93] ESPRIT V-CENNET Project of European Commission [94] EuropeAid [95] PRISM Center at Purdue University [44] PEOPLE Project of European Commission [96] SYNERGY, Project of European Commission [40] Access eGov Project of European Commission [18] Swedish agency for innovation systems VINNOVA [97] French National Research Agency [98] European Union and Greek National Funds [48] Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development [67] Services Innovation Research Program (SIRP)-QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology [99] DORAL S.A. windows and glasspanes manufacturer [100] NIMO (Nordic Interaction and Mobility Research Platform) project funded by the EU Interreg IVA North program [101] UNITE Project by European Commission [102] Romanian Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Protection [103] Regional Council of Basse-Normandy [104] Australian Research Council [105] EU Structural Funds [106] National Natural Science Foundation of China [107] SPES (Support Patients through E-services Solutions) of Central Europe Program [108] European Project CHOReOS 109] ECOLEAD project funded by the European Commission [110] National Science Council of the Republic of China, National Science Council of Taiwan [111] German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology [76] Malmsten foundation [54] Science Foundation, MOSTI Malaysia [37] Egyptian Institute of National Planning Partially Funded Studies Funding Agency [65] Semicolon project of Norwegian Research Council [112] FEDER MES project of French Rhone-Alpes Region [113] Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China framework, experiment, focus groups, proof of concept, prototype, scenario, simulation, and surveys. Research type was classified according to the classification proposed by Wierenga et al. [115]. ...