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Alfredo Peña publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfredo Peña sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 153 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Alfredo Peña D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfredo Peña sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alfredo Peña is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research themes explored by Peña focus largely on wind and air flow behavior, wind energy development, and meteorological phenomena. Key topics covered in their publications include:

  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Energy Load and Power Forecasting
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds

Peña has published numerous papers in several well-known venues. The most frequent publication journals and series are:

  • Wind energy science
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Renewable Energy
  • Applied Energy
  • Remote Sensing

Recent representative publications by Alfredo Peña include:

  • The space-time structure of turbulence for lidar-assisted wind turbine control, 2022, Renewable Energy
  • Rossby number similarity of an atmospheric RANS model using limited-length-scale turbulence closures extended to unstable stratification, 2020, Wind energy science
  • Current and future wind energy resources in the North Sea according to CMIP6, 2022, Wind energy science
  • Wind turbine load validation in wakes using wind field reconstruction techniques and nacelle lidar wind retrievals, 2021, Wind energy science
  • Characterization of offshore vertical wind shear conditions in Southern New England, 2020, Wind Energy

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jakob Mann, Andrea N. Hahmann, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Alessandro Sebastiani, and Oscar García-Santiago.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of the wind direction uncertainty and its impact on wake modeling at the Horns Rev offshore wind farm

    M. Gaumond;Pierre-Elouan Réthoré;Søren Ott;Alfredo Peña

  • Offshore wind profiling using light detection and ranging measurements

    Alfredo Peña;Charlotte Bay Hasager;Sven-Erik Gryning;Michael Courtney

  • Wind climate estimation using WRF model output: method and model sensitivities over the sea

    Andrea N. Hahmann;Claire Louise Vincent;Alfredo Peña;Julia Lange

  • Evaluating winds and vertical wind shear from Weather Research and Forecasting model forecasts using seven planetary boundary layer schemes

    Caroline Draxl;Andrea N. Hahmann;Alfredo Peña;Gregor Giebel

  • Measurements and Modelling of the Wind Speed Profile in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    Alfredo Peña;Alfredo Peña;Sven-Erik Gryning;Charlotte B. Hasager

  • Complex terrain experiments in the New European Wind Atlas.

    J. Mann;N. Angelou;J. Arnqvist;D. Callies

  • Comparison of the atmospheric stability and wind profiles at two wind farm sites over a long marine fetch in the North Sea

    Ameya Sathe;Sven-Erik Gryning;Alfredo Peña

  • Lidar Scanning of Momentum Flux in and above the Atmospheric Surface Layer

    J. Mann;A. Peña;F. Bingöl;R. Wagner

  • SAR-Based Wind Resource Statistics in the Baltic Sea

    Charlotte B. Hasager;Merete Badger;Alfredo Peña;Xiaoli Guo Larsén

  • On the application of the Jensen wake model using a turbulence‐dependent wake decay coefficient: the Sexbierum case

    Alfredo Peña;Pierre-Elouan Réthoré;M. Paul van der Laan

  • Ten Years of Boundary-Layer and Wind-Power Meteorology at Høvsøre, Denmark

    Alfredo Peña;Rogier Floors;Ameya Sathe;Sven-Erik Gryning

  • Offshore wind climatology based on synergetic use of Envisat ASAR, ASCAT and QuikSCAT

    Charlotte Bay Hasager;Alexis Mouche;Merete Badger;Ferhat Bingöl

  • On the length-scale of the wind profile

    Alfredo Peña;Sven-Erik Gryning;Jakob Mann

  • Remote Sensing Observation Used in Offshore Wind Energy

    C.B. Hasager;A. Pena;M.B. Christiansen;P. Astrup

  • Atmospheric stability‐dependent infinite wind‐farm models and the wake‐decay coefficient

    Alfredo Peña;Ole Rathmann

  • The Wind Profile in the Coastal Boundary Layer: Wind Lidar Measurements and Numerical Modelling

    Rogier Floors;Claire Louise Vincent;Sven-Erik Gryning;Alfredo Peña

  • Comparing mixing-length models of the diabatic wind profile over homogeneous terrain

    Alfredo Peña;Alfredo Peña;Sven-Erik Gryning;Charlotte Bay Hasager

  • Charnock's Roughness Length Model and Non-dimensional Wind Profiles Over the Sea

    Alfredo Peña;Alfredo Peña;Sven-Erik Gryning

  • Remote Sensing for Wind Energy

    Alfredo Peña;Charlotte Bay Hasager;Julia Lange;Jan Anger

  • Wind characteristics in the North and Baltic Seas from the QuikSCAT satellite

    Ioanna Karagali;Alfredo Peña;Merete Badger;Charlotte Bay Hasager

  • Using Satellite SAR to Characterize the Wind Flow around Offshore Wind Farms

    Charlotte Bay Hasager;Pauline Vincent;Jake Badger;Merete Badger

  • Evaluation of the Wind Direction Uncertainty And Its Impact on Wake Modelling at the Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm

    Pierre-Elouan Réthoré;Mathieu Gaumond;Andreas Bechmann;Kurt Schaldemose Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte Bay Hasager
Charlotte Bay Hasager Technical University of Denmark
Sven-Erik Gryning
Sven-Erik Gryning Technical University of Denmark
Jakob Mann
Jakob Mann Technical University of Denmark
Ole Raaschou-Nielsen
Ole Raaschou-Nielsen Aarhus University
Jørgen Brandt
Jørgen Brandt Aarhus University
Matthias Ketzel
Matthias Ketzel University of Surrey
Søren Ejling Larsen
Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark
Morten Nielsen
Morten Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Sara C. Pryor
Sara C. Pryor Cornell University
Gunner Chr. Larsen
Gunner Chr. Larsen Technical University of Denmark

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