Daniel Peláez-Zapata

Physical oceanographer studying ocean surface waves and air-sea interactions

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About me



My research involves the analysis of in-situ and remote sensing ocean wave data as well as the use of numerical models to better understand wave dynamics. I am particularly fascinated by the intricate role of ocean waves in energy transfer, momentum exchange, and mass fluxes between the ocean and the atmosphere.

B.Sc. Civil Engineering Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín
M.Eng. Water Resources Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín
M.Sc. Physical Oceanography CICESE, Ensenada, México
PhD. Applied Mathematics University College Dublin, Ireland
PhD. Mathématiques aux interfaces Université Paris-Saclay, France

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Skills

Ocean waves

Generation, propagation and influence on the marine boundary layer.

Sea observations

In-situ and remote sensing of the ocean surface and subsurface.

Programming

Data science and data-driven programming. Python and OSS.

Maths & Stats

Numerical modelling, data analysis and machine learning

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Featured publications

Dynamics of bubble plumes produced by breaking waves

  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata
  • Vikram Pakrashi
  • Frédéric Dias

Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2024

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Ocean wave directional distribution from GPS buoy observations off the west coast of Ireland: Assessment of a wavelet-based...

  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata
  • Vikram Pakrashi
  • Frédéric Dias

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2024

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Improving the sea state forecasts by using local wave observations and the ensembleBMA software

  • Tatjana Kokina
  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata
  • Brendan Murphy
  • Frédéric Dias

Environmental Data Science, 2022

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Meteotsunamis and other anomalous “tidal surge” events in Western Europe in Summer 2022

  • Emiliano Renzi
  • Claire Bergin
  • Tatjana Kokina
  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata
  • Daniel Giles
  • Frédéric Dias

Physics of Fluids, 2023

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Ecosystem management tools to study natural habitats as wave damping structures and coastal protection mechanisms

  • Juan David Osorio-Cano
  • Andrés Osorio
  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata

Ecological Engineering, 2019

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Numerical Study of Run-up Oscillations over Fringing Reefs

  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata
  • Rubén Darío Montoya
  • Andrés Osorio

Journal of Coastal Research, 2018

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Occurrence of energetic extreme oceanic events in the Colombian Caribbean coasts and some approaches to assess their impact...

  • Gladys Bernal
  • Andrés Osorio
  • Ligia Urrego
  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata
  • Eliana Molina
  • Sven Zea
  • Rubén Montoya
  • Nancy Villegas

Journal of Marine Systems, 2016

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Construction of synthetic ocean wave series along the Colombian Caribbean Coast: A wave climate analysis

  • Andrés F. Osorio
  • Rubén Darío Montoya
  • Juan Carlos Ortiz
  • Daniel Peláez-Zapata

Applied Ocean Research, 2016

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Blog

April 04, 2020

Installation of WAVEWATCH III model in a Docker container

Docker is an open source project that makes extremely easy the deployment of software and applications through the...

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July 23, 2019

Spectrum reconstruction from IOWAGA partitions

Sometimes is quite useful to have the information of the frequency-direction wave spectrum instead of only the bulk...

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April 20, 2017

Wave run-up over fringing reefs

In this work we presented a numerical study of run-up oscillations over a typical fringing reef profile at...

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