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Miami, FL 33149

Professional Interests

Javier Delgado is a senior research associate at the Hurricane Research Division (HRD) of AOML, working for the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS). He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Florida International University in 2012, where he focused on alternative job scheduling strategies for computationally intensive workloads. His interests include the performance optimization of scientific software, autonomic scientific workflow management, and cloud computing. He is currently applying these skill to the observing system simulation experiments project at HRD.
 
He is the developer and maintainer of the Data Assimilation Framework For You (DAFFY), which is being used to carry out observing system simulation experiments with minimal need for supervision of experiment progress. The system has been used for data assimilation experiments using real and simulated observations.
 
Javier is also involved in studying strategies to improve the performance of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) software. Such changes are crucial in order to run the next generation of hurricane simulations while satisfying strict timeliness constraints.

Current Research Projects

    Recently Published Peer-Reviewed Papers

    1. Aksoy, A. A Monte Carlo approach to understanding the impacts of initial-condition uncertainty, model uncertainty, and simulation variability on the predictability of chaotic systems: Perspectives from the one-dimensional logistic map. Chaos, 34(1):011102, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0181705 2024
    2. Alaka, G.J. Jr., J.A. Sippel, Z. Zhang, H.-S Kim, F. Marks, V. Tallapragada, A. Mehra, X. Zhang, A. Poyer, and S.G. Gopalakrishnan. Lifetime performance of the operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model for North Atlantic tropical cyclones. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0139.1 2024
    3. Alarcon, V.J., A.C. Linhoss, C.R. Kelble, P.F. Mickle, A. Fine, and E. Montes. Potential challenges for the restoration of Biscayne Bay (Florida, USA) in the face of climate change effects revealed with predictive models. Oceans & Coastal Management, 247:106929, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106929 2024

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