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Trabajo final presentado por Iris Rubio Polán para el grado de Física de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB), realizado bajo la dirección del Dr. Marcos Portabella del Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC).-- 5 pages, 6 figures, This business internship project aims to get a general idea of how scatterometers, i.e., spaceborne real aperture radars that provide sea-surface wind information, work. Using a wind divergence calculation Matlab code, a quality flag control option has been optimized and wind divergence plots and probability distribution functions have been obtained. Moreover, the code has been adapted to ingest scatterometer data from different systems. The results show that in the time period under study, the wind divergence distributions depend on the data sources, the regions, and the quality flags used. Moreover, the rain-induces dynamics appears to be well resolved by scatterometers. Overall, the work has been satisfactory, improving and optimizing the code while acquiring experience on research work at the Institute of Marine Sciences

Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2021, Tutor: Jordi Soriano Fradera, The aim of this thesis is to investigate the impact of localized laser ablation on the activity in neuronal cultures. We analyzed neuronal network’s behaviour before and after the ablation, centering the study in a time window of about 10 minutes after damage. The results show that the global activity and functional connectivity decrease after the applied damage, together with the emergence of functional communities that indicate a fragmentation of the network. In addition, it seems that new functional links appear in the neighborhood of the targeted area, suggesting the strengthening of the surviving connections and hints at the fight of the culture against damage. The results could be interesting to model damage in the brain