Impacts of Coastal Breezes on the Environment and Human Life: The Case of Mallorca (Western Mediterranean)

Garau, Gabriel Alomar; Grimalt‐Gelabert, Miquel

doi:10.3390/coasts2010002

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“…The bays of Palma and Alcúdia are the areas where the sea breeze phenomenon is of greatest significance in Mallorca (Alomar-Garau and Grimalt-Gelabert 2022 ; Alomar Garau 2013 ; Ponce de León and Orfila 2013 ; Ramis et al 1990 ; Ramis and Romero 1995 ; Ramis Noguera 1998 ; Romero and Ramis 1996 ), with a prevalence of up to “ 80% of the days in July and 76% in August ” (Ramis and Romero 1995 , p. 5). The most important maize growing areas in the Balearic Islands are close to those bays (CAIB 2012 , 2013 ), and July and August are very relevant in terms of maize pollination in Northeastern Spain (Melé et al 2014b ; Nadal et al 2016 ) and the Balearic Islands.…”

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Coexistence field trials between MON810 and conventional maize in Mallorca as a basis for a regional regulatory proposal based on scientific evidence in the times of genome editing

Vives-Vallés,

Corujo,

Pla

et al. 2024

Transgenic Res

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This paper reports the first coexistence field trials between transgenic and conventional maize carried out under Mediterranean island conditions. Their purpose was to assess the local validity of pollen barriers and sowing delays as coexistence strategies as a basis for a regional regulation on the subject. Two field trials were performed in two agricultural states of Alcudia and Palma, in Mallorca (Spain). In the first one, two adjacent plots were synchronously sown with conventional and transgenic maize, respectively. In the second trial, the previous design was replicated, and two additional plots sown with GM maize were added, paired with their respective conventional recipient plots sown 2 and 4 weeks later. All conventional plots were located downwind from their respective GM plots. Of the two conventional plots in sowing synchrony, only one of them required a 2.25 m pollen barrier to meet the 0.9% labeling threshold. A 4-week sowing delay between GM and non-GM plots proved to be enough to keep the GM content of the recipient plots below the legal threshold. However, with a 2-week sowing delay additional coexistence measures such as pollen barriers might be needed, as suggested in the literature. Results are consistent with previous research conducted in the northeast of Spain, thus validating in the island’s agroclimatic conditions a model successfully tested in that peninsular region which allows to accurately estimate the need and width of pollen barriers. The results presented here could perhaps be extrapolated to other islands, coastal areas, and regions with stable prevailing winds during the maize flowering season.

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Coexistence field trials between MON810 and conventional maize in Mallorca as a basis for a regional regulatory proposal based on scientific evidence in the times of genome editing

Vives-Vallés,

Corujo,

Pla

et al. 2024

Transgenic Res

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The Agrivoltaic System Development in Baron Technopark, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Ahmad

Wijayanti

Subandriya

et al. 2022

2022 5th Asia Conference on Energy and Electrical Engineering (ACEEE)

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Simulation of Summer Rainfall in Thailand by IAP-AGCM4.1

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Thailand is located in the Southeast Asian region, where the summer rainfall exhibits strong interannual variability, and the successful simulation of rainfall variation in Thailand by current climate models remains a challenge. Therefore, this paper evaluates the capability of the state-of-the-art Atmospheric GCM of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP-AGCM) in simulating summer rainfall over Thailand by comparing the model’s results with ground-truth observation during 1981–2012. Generally, the model shows a certain skill in reproducing the observed spatial distribution of the summer rainfall climatology and its interannual variability over Thailand, although the model underestimated both rainfall amount and its variability. Using Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis, it is found that the IAP climate model reproduced creditably the spatial patterns of the first three dominant modes of summer rainfall in Thailand, whereas it underestimated the explained variance of the observed EOF-1 and overestimated the explained variance of the observed EOF-2 significantly. It was further found that the correlation between the observed rainfall anomalies in Thailand and the Niño3.4 index can be reproduced by the IAP model. However, the observed negative correlation is largely underestimated by the IAP climate model, and this could be the reason for the underestimation of explained variance of the EOF-1 by the IAP model. The evaluation results would be of great importance for further model improvement and thus potential application in seasonal prediction in the region.

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Impacts of Coastal Breezes on the Environment and Human Life: The Case of Mallorca (Western Mediterranean)

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Coexistence field trials between MON810 and conventional maize in Mallorca as a basis for a regional regulatory proposal based on scientific evidence in the times of genome editing

Coexistence field trials between MON810 and conventional maize in Mallorca as a basis for a regional regulatory proposal based on scientific evidence in the times of genome editing

The Agrivoltaic System Development in Baron Technopark, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Simulation of Summer Rainfall in Thailand by IAP-AGCM4.1

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