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Research

I am interested in the atmosphere and the environment, and therefore I am an environmental engineer, a meteorologist, and a modeler.
I use numerical models to study a variety of phenomena, which include: the formation of the Santa Cruz Eddy over the Monterey Bay; the origins of ozone pollution in California; the effect of global climate change on the jet streams; mesoscale effects of wild fires.
I am also actively involved in wind power research, on topics such as: evaluation of global wind power potential; development of methodologies for vertical wind speed extrapolations; offshore and high-altitude wind power; interconnecting wind farms.
I am organizing the world's first High Altitude Wind Power (HAWP) conference, on 5-6 November 2009 in Chico and Oroville, California.

Global climate change

Wind speed and temperature trends (from ERA-40 and NCEP/DOE reanalyses)

Wind power

The wind power page of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University

A Google Earth map showing the best wind sites in North America from our study

MM5

A description of the MM5 vertical coordinate system