Francisco Salamanca Palou
Assistant Research Professor, Urban Climate Research Center, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
PO Box 875302
Tempe, AZ 85287-5302
Titles
- Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Assistant Research Professor, Urban Climate Research Center, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Francisco Salamanca is currently an assistant research professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University. Francisco was born in the wonderful and touristic island of Mallorca (Spain) in the Mediterranean Sea. Always motivated by how nature works, Francisco studied physics at the Universitat de las Illes Balears, and afterwards moved to Madrid (Spain) where he completed his Ph.D. in 2010.
After a year as a postdoctoral research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he came to Arizona State University as a postdoctoral research scientist in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in 2012. His research focuses on how air-urban interactions affect the weather and climate at local and regional scales. The tasks to investigate these topics include parameterizing the physical interactions, running atmospheric models in supercomputers, and analyzing meteorological observations.
Education
- PhD, Physical Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Licenciado, Physical Sciences, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Expertise
Journal Articles
2024
Salamanca Palou, F., B. M. Svoma, J. Walter, D. Insua-Costa, G. Miguez-Macho, J. Karanja and M. Georgescu. 2024. Modeling Salt-Verde Watershed winter precipitation using convection-permitting WRF-simulations with water vapor tracers. JGR Atmospheres 129(12):e2024JD041029. DOI: 10.1029/2024JD041029. (link )
2021
Gaur, A., M. Lacasse, M. Armstrong, H. Lu, C. Shu, A. Fields, F. Salamanca Palou and Y. Zhang. 2021. Effects of using different urban parametrization schemes and land-cover datasets on the accuracy of WRF model over the City of Ottawa. Urban Climate 35(Jan):Art 100737. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100737. (link )
2019
Salamanca Palou, F. and A. Mahalov. 2019. Summer- and wintertime variations of the surface and near-surface urban heat island in a semiarid environment. Weather and Forecasting 34(5):. DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-19-0054.1. (link )
Tewan, M., J. Yang, H. Kusaka, F. Salamanca Palou, C. Watson and L. Treinish. 2019. Interaction of urban heat islands and heat waves under current and future climate conditions and their mitigation using green and cool roofs in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. Environmental Research Letters 14(3):034002. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf431. (link )
2018
Hunt, J. C., Y. D. Aktas, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui, F. Salamanca Palou and M. Georgescu. 2018. Climate change and growing megacities: Hazards and vulnerability. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 171(6):314-326. DOI: 10.1680/jensu.16.00068. (link )
Salamanca Palou, F., Y. Zhang, M. Barlage, A. Mahalov and S. Miao. 2018. Evaluation of the WRF-urban modeling system coupled to Noah and Noah-MP land surface models over a semiarid urban environment. Journal of Geophsical Research: Atmospheres 123(5):2387-2408. DOI: 0.1002/2018JD028377. (link )
2017
Tewari, M., F. Salamanca Palou, A. Martilli, A. Treinish and A. Mahalov. 2017. Impacts of projected urban expansion and global warming on cooling energy demand over a semiarid region. Atmospheric Science Letters 18(11):419-426. DOI: 10.1002/asl.784. (link )
2016
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui and A. Martilli. 2016. Citywide impacts of cool roof and rooftop solar photovoltaic deployment on near-surface air temperature and cooling energy demand. Boundary Layer Meteorology DOI: 10.1007/s10546-016-0160-y.
2015
Martilli, A., J. L. Santiago and F. Salamanca. 2015. On the representation of urban heterogeneities in mesoscale models. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 15(2):305-328. DOI: 10.1007/s10652-013-9321-4. (link )
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov and M. Moustaoui. 2015. Summertime response of temperature and cooling energy demand to urban expansion in a semiarid environment. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 54(8):1756–1772. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0313.1. (link )
2014
Chow, W. T., F. Salamanca, M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, J. M. Milne and B. L. Ruddell. 2014. A multi-method and multi-scale approach for estimating city-wide anthropogenic heat fluxes. Atmospheric Environment 99(December):64-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.09.053. (link )
Ruddell, B. L., F. Salamanca and A. Mahalov. 2014. Reducing a semiarid city's peak electrical demand using distributed cold thermal energy storage. Applied Energy 134(Dec):35-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.07.096. (link )
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui and M. Wang. 2014. Anthropogenic heating of the urban environment due to air conditioning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119(10):5949-5965. DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021225. (link )
2013
Salamanca, F., M. Georgescu, A. Mahalov, M. Moustaoui, M. Wang and B. M. Svoma. 2013. Assessing summertime urban air conditioning consumption in a semiarid environment. Environmental Research Letters 8(3):034022. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034022. (link )
2012
Roman-Cascon, C., C. Yague, M. Sastre, G. Maqueda, F. Salamanca and S. Viana. 2012. Observations and WRF simulations of fog events at the Spanish Northern Plateau. Advances in Science and Research 8:11-18. DOI: 10.5194/asr-8-11-2012. (link )
Salamanca, F., A. Martilli and C. Yague. 2012. A numerical study of the urban heat island over Madrid during the DESIREX (2008) campaign with WRF and an evaluation of simple migration strategies. International Journal of Climatology 32(5):2372-2386. DOI: 10.1002/joc.3398. (link )
Salamanca, F., S. Tonse, S. Menon, V. Garg, K. P. Singh, M. Naja and M. L. Fischer. 2012. Top-of-atmosphere radiative cooling with white roofs: Expermental verification and model-based evaluation. Environmental Research Letters 7(4):044007. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044007. (link )
Sastre, M., C. Yague, C. Roman-Cascon, G. Maqueda, F. Salamanca and S. Viana. 2012. Evening transitions of the atmospheric boundary layer: Characterization, case studies and WRF simulations. Advances in Science and Research 8:39-44. DOI: 10.5194/asr-8-39-2012. (link )
2011
Chen, F., H. Kusaka, R. Bornstein, J. Ching, C. B. Grimmond, S. Grossman-Clarke, T. Loridan, K. W. Manning, A. Martilli, S. Miao, D. Sailor, F. Salamanca Palou, H. Taha, M. Tewari, X. Wang, A. A. Wyszogrodzki and C. Zhang. 2011. The integrated WRF/urban modelling system: Development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems. International Journal of Climatology 31(2):273-288. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2158. (link )
Grimmond, C. B., M. Blackett, M. J. Best, J. Baik, S. E. Belcher, J. Beringer, S. I. Bohnenstengel, I. Calmet, F. Chen, A. Coutts, A. Dandou, K. Fortuniak, M. L. Gouvea, R. Hamdi, M. Hendry, M. Kanda, T. Kawai, Y. Kawamoto, H. Kondo, E. S. Krayenhoff, S. Lee, T. Loridan, A. Martilli, V. Masson, S. Miao, K. Oleson, R. Ooka, G. Pigeon, A. Porson, Y. Ryu, F. Salamanca, G. Steeneveld, M. Tombrou, J. A. Voogt, D. T. Young and N. Zhang. 2011. Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance comparison. International Journal of Climatology 31(2):244-272. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2227. (link )
Salamanca, F., A. Martilli, M. Tewari and F. Chen. 2011. A study of the urban boundary layer using different urban parameterizations and high-resolution urban canopy parameters with WRF. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50(1107-1128):. DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2538.1. (link )
2010
Grimmond, C. B., M. Blackett, M. J. Best, J. Barlow, J. Baik, S. E. Belcher, S. I. Bohnenstengel, I. Calmet, F. Chen, A. Dandou, K. Fortuniak, M. L. Gouvea, R. Hamdi, M. Hendry, T. Kawai, Y. Kawamoto, H. Kondo, E. S. Krayenhoff, S. Lee, T. Loridan, A. Martilli, V. Masson, S. Miao, K. Oleson, G. Pigeon, A. Porson, Y. Ryu, F. Salamanca, L. Shashua-Bar, G. Steeneveld, M. Tombrou, J. A. Voogt, D. Young and N. Zhang. 2010. The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First results from phase I. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 49:1268-1292. DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2354.1. (link )
Krpo, A., F. Salamanca, A. Martilli and A. Clappier. 2010. On the impact of anthropogenic heat fluxes on the urban boundary layer: A two-dimensional numerical study. Boundary Layer Meteorology 136(1):105-127. DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9491-2. (link )
Salamanca, F., A. Krpo, A. Martilli and A. Clappier. 2010. A new Building Energy Model coupled with an Urban Canopy Parameterization for urban climate simluations -- part I. Formulation, verification, and sensitivity analysis of the model. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 99:331-344. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0142-9. (link )
Salamanca, F. and A. Martilli. 2010. A new Building Energy Model coupled with an Urban Canopy Parameterization for urban climate simluations -- part II. Validation with one dimension off-line simulations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 99:345-356. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0143-8. (link )
2009
Salamanca, F., E. S. Krayenhoff and A. Martilli. 2009. On the derivation of material thermal properties representative of heterogeneous urban neighborhoods. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48:1725-1732. DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2176.1. (link )