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Julie K. Lundquist is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields with a primary focus on environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences. These main fields are further refined through subfields that include atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and computational mechanics.

The core topics within their research include meteorological phenomena and simulations, wind and air flow studies, wind energy research and development, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and fluid dynamics and turbulent flows.

Lundquist's publication record covers a variety of venues, with a notable presence in the following:

  • Wind energy science
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Their recent papers include:

  • Continued results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm - Part 2, 2020, Wind energy science
  • Overcoming the disconnect between energy system and climate modeling, 2022, Joule
  • Turbulent kinetic energy over large offshore wind farms observed and simulated by the mesoscale model WRF (3.8.1), 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • The effect of wind direction shear on turbine performance in a wind farm in central Iowa, 2020, Wind energy science
  • The Importance of Weather and Climate to Energy Systems: A Workshop on Next Generation Challenges in Energy-Climate Modeling, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent collaborators contributing to joint work with Lundquist are:

  • Miguel Sanchez Gomez
  • Daniel Zalkind
  • Nicola Bodini
  • Patrick Moriarty
  • Raghavendra Krishnamurthy

Their body of work addresses critical challenges related to energy systems, climate modeling, and the physical dynamics of wind energy through both observational and simulation-based approaches. This research contributes to a multidisciplinary understanding of atmospheric processes relevant to renewable energy development and environmental impacts.

Best Publications

  • Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

    Paul Veers;Katherine Dykes;Eric Lantz;Stephan Barth

  • An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer

    Robert J. Beare;Malcolm K. Macvean;Albert A.M. Holtslag;Joan Cuxart

  • CASES-99: A Comprehensive Investigation of the Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer

    Gregory S. Poulos;William Blumen;David C. Fritts;Julie K. Lundquist

  • Local and mesoscale impacts of wind farms as parameterized in a mesoscale NWP model

    Anna C. Fitch;Joseph B. Olson;Julie K. Lundquist;Jimy Dudhia

  • Nocturnal Low-Level Jet Characteristics Over Kansas During Cases-99

    R.M. Banta;R. K. Newsom;J. K. Lundquist;Y. L. Pichugina

  • Atmospheric stability affects wind turbine power collection

    Sonia Wharton;Julie K Lundquist

  • Costs and consequences of wind turbine wake effects arising from uncoordinated wind energy development

    J. K. Lundquist;J. K. Lundquist;K. K. DuVivier;D. Kaffine;J. M. Tomaszewski

  • Initial results from a field campaign of wake steering applied at a commercial wind farm – Part 1

    Paul Fleming;Jennifer King;Katherine Dykes;Eric Simley

  • Southward shift of the global wind energy resource under high carbon dioxide emissions

    Kristopher B. Karnauskas;Kristopher B. Karnauskas;Julie K. Lundquist;Lei Zhang

  • Implementation of a Nonlinear Subfilter Turbulence Stress Model for Large-Eddy Simulation in the Advanced Research WRF Model

    J. D. Mirocha;J. K. Lundquist;B. Kosović

  • Quantifying Wind Turbine Wake Characteristics from Scanning Remote Sensor Data

    Matthew L. Aitken;Robert M. Banta;Yelena L. Pichugina;Julie K. Lundquist

  • Crop Wind Energy Experiment (CWEX): Observations of Surface-Layer, Boundary Layer, and Mesoscale Interactions with a Wind Farm

    Daniel A. Rajewski;Eugene S. Takle;Julie K. Lundquist;Steven Oncley

  • Mesoscale Influences of Wind Farms throughout a Diurnal Cycle

    Anna C. Fitch;Julie K. Lundquist;Joseph B. Olson

  • Assessing atmospheric stability and its impacts on rotor-disk wind characteristics at an onshore wind farm

    Sonia Wharton;Julie K. Lundquist;Julie K. Lundquist

  • The Perdigão: Peering into Microscale Details of Mountain Winds

    H. J. S. Fernando;J. Mann;J. M. L. M. Palma;Julie K. Lundquist

  • Development of a Coupled Groundwater–Atmosphere Model

    Reed M. Maxwell;Julie K. Lundquist;Jeffrey D. Mirocha;Steven G. Smith

  • Implementation of a generalized actuator disk wind turbine model into the weather research and forecasting model for large-eddy simulation applications

    J. D. Mirocha;B. Kosovic;M. L. Aitken;J. K. Lundquist

  • An Immersed Boundary Method for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model

    Katherine A. Lundquist;Fotini Katopodes Chow;Julie K. Lundquist

  • Overcoming the disconnect between energy system and climate modeling

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  • Improving Wind Energy Forecasting through Numerical Weather Prediction Model Development

    Joseph B. Olson;Jaymes S. Kenyon;Irina Djalalova;Laura Bianco

  • Quantifying error of lidar and sodar Doppler beam swinging measurements of wind turbine wakes using computational fluid dynamics

    J. K. Lundquist;J. K. Lundquist;M. J. Churchfield;S. Lee;A. Clifton

  • An Immersed Boundary Method Enabling Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow over Complex Terrain in the WRF Model

    Katherine A. Lundquist;Fotini Katopodes Chow;Julie K. Lundquist

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Wilczak
James M. Wilczak National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Patrick Moriarty
Patrick Moriarty National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Larry K. Berg
Larry K. Berg Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Robert M. Banta
Robert M. Banta National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eugene S. Takle
Eugene S. Takle Iowa State University
Daniel E. Wolfe
Daniel E. Wolfe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William J. Shaw
William J. Shaw Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Matthew J. Churchfield
Matthew J. Churchfield National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Stefan Emeis
Stefan Emeis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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