The UPC coordinates an international project to form to scientists of elite instead climatic

The project Learning About Interacting Network in Climate (LINC) will form to 15 young pertinent researchers of all the world, distributed between the nine centres of investigation and international companies that participate in the project, so that they apply methodologies no linear, own of networks and complex systems, to the study of climatological phenomena as for example, The Boy. The first of these scientific youngsters already works in a group of investigation of the Campus of Terrassa of the Universitat Politècnica of Catalonia·BarcelonaTech (UPC), from where coordinates the project. Of 4 years of length and endowed with more than 3,7 million euros, this project freamers in the program Marie Curie of the seventh Program mark of the EU.

A roguewave (giant wave) is an extreme phenomenon that produces of unpredictable way, in the middle of the ocean, and raises tens of metres on the mar. This phenomenon is able to carry by in front an oil platform in few seconds. Anybody knows when goes to occur, but occurs. Cristina Masoller, in collaboration with other researchers, has aimed in some scientific articles of recent publication that the nature and the origin of this phenomenon could have similarities with the behaviour of the chaotic light that originates in a laser.

Cristina Masoller is doctor in Physics by the Bryn Mawr College of Pensylvania (United States) and one of the researchers of the group of Dynamics no Linear, Optics no Linear and Lasers (DNOLL) of the UPC in the Campus of Terrassa.