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Francisco Salamanca Palou

Assistant Professor | College of Engineering and Science: Department of Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences

Assistant Professor of Meteorology

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Planetary Boundary-Layer Dynamics, Surface-Atmosphere Exchange, Urban Climatology, Climate Change and Adaptation, Modeling and Simulation

Personal Overview

Dr. Salamanca is an Assistant Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences at Florida Tech. His research interests include studying ocean-land-atmosphere interactions; investigating planetary boundary-layer dynamics; modeling impacts of urban expansion and global warming on cooling/heating energy demand and thermal comfort; developing mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce heat stress in urban areas; and, recently, characterizing moisture-source contributions to total precipitation. Francisco’s research uses in-situ observations, satellite remote sensing data, coding development for data analysis, and massive computational resources to perform numerical weather-prediction simulations.