2026 Alfredo Peña: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	40	8163	7847	113	112	153	5203

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

259
Citations
Offshore wind profiling using light detection and ranging measurements

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

231
Citations
Wind climate estimation using WRF model output: method and model sensitivities over the sea

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

219
Citations
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

194
Citations
Measurements and Modelling of the Wind Speed Profile in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer

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

179
Citations
Complex terrain experiments in the New European Wind Atlas.

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

166
Citations
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

152
Citations
Lidar Scanning of Momentum Flux in and above the Atmospheric Surface Layer

J. Mann;A. Peña;F. Bingöl;R. Wagner

139
Citations
SAR-Based Wind Resource Statistics in the Baltic Sea

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

134
Citations
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

133
Citations
Ten Years of Boundary-Layer and Wind-Power Meteorology at Høvsøre, Denmark

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

129
Citations
Offshore wind climatology based on synergetic use of Envisat ASAR, ASCAT and QuikSCAT

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

128
Citations
On the length-scale of the wind profile

Alfredo Peña;Sven-Erik Gryning;Jakob Mann

123
Citations
Remote Sensing Observation Used in Offshore Wind Energy

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

118
Citations
Atmospheric stability‐dependent infinite wind‐farm models and the wake‐decay coefficient

Alfredo Peña;Ole Rathmann

116
Citations
The Wind Profile in the Coastal Boundary Layer: Wind Lidar Measurements and Numerical Modelling

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

109
Citations
Comparing mixing-length models of the diabatic wind profile over homogeneous terrain

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

100
Citations
Charnock's Roughness Length Model and Non-dimensional Wind Profiles Over the Sea

Alfredo Peña;Alfredo Peña;Sven-Erik Gryning

87
Citations
Remote Sensing for Wind Energy

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

86
Citations
Wind characteristics in the North and Baltic Seas from the QuikSCAT satellite

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

86
Citations
Using Satellite SAR to Characterize the Wind Flow around Offshore Wind Farms

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

83
Citations
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

25
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte Bay Hasager Technical University of Denmark

Sven-Erik Gryning Technical University of Denmark

Jakob Mann Technical University of Denmark

Ole Raaschou-Nielsen Aarhus University

Jørgen Brandt Aarhus University

Matthias Ketzel University of Surrey

Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark

Morten Nielsen Technical University of Denmark

Sara C. Pryor Cornell University

Gunner Chr. Larsen Technical University of Denmark

External Links

Personal website of Alfredo Peña

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