Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP Award 2025
ACP Award 2025 goes to Hermenia Torell'o i Sentelles, UNIL
At the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, held in Bern in December 2025, the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Award was presented to Hermenia Torell'o i Sentelles for her doctoral thesis “Exploring the effects of urban areas on the space time properties of heavy rainfall.” Her research investigates how cities of varying sizes and climatic settings modify precipitation patterns. Using remote-sensing data, particularly weather radar observa-tions, she analysed storm behaviour in space and time with a storm tracking algorithm. Building on these findings, she applied convection resolving numerical modelling to uncover the dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms that drive the urban influence on extreme precipitation.
