.. _pubs: ************ Publications ************ .. _urban_climate_2025: | Muñoz-Esparza, D., J. Sauer, P.A. Jimenez, J. Boehnert, D. Hahn, and M. Steiner. | “Multiscale Weather Forecasting Sensitivities to Urban Characteristics and Atmospheric | Conditions During a Cold Front Passage Over the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex”. | *Urban Climate*, 60 (102334) 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102334 .. _wind_energy_2024: | Sanchez Gomez, M., D. Muñoz-Esparza, J.A. Sauer. "Implementation and Validation | of a Generalized Actuator Disk Parameterization for Wind Turbine Simulations | Within the FastEddy Model". *Wind Energy* (2024) | http://doi.org/10.1002/we.2941 .. _atmosphere_2024: | Welch, B.M.; Horel, J.D.; Sauer, J.A. "Application of the NCAR FastEddy\ :sup:`®` | Microscale Model to a Lake Breeze Front". *Atmosphere* 15, no.7 (2024) 809 | https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15070809 .. _geophysical_research_2022: | Muñoz-Esparza, D., C. Becker, J.A. Sauer, D.J. Gagne II, J. Schreck, B. Kosović. | "On the application of an observations-based machine learning parameterization | of surface layer fluxes within an atmospheric large-eddy simulation model". | *Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres*, vol. 127 (2022) | https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036214 .. _advances_modeling_earth_systems_2022: | Muñoz-Esparza, D., J.A. Sauer, A.A. Jensen, L. Xue, W.W. Grabowski. "The FastEddy® | resident-GPU accelerated large-eddy simulation framework: Moist Dynamics Extension, | Validation and Sensitivities of Modeling Non-Precipitating Shallow Cumulus Clouds". | *Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems*, vol. 14 (2022) | https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002904 .. _agu_advances_2021: | Muñoz-Esparza, D., H.H. Shin, J.A. M. Sauer, M. Steiner, P. Hawbecker, J. Boehnert, | J.O. Pinto, B. Kosovic, R.D. Sharman. "Efficient GPU modeling of street-scale | weather effects in support of aerial operations in the urban environment". | *AGU Advances*, vol. 2 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000432 .. _atmospheric_sciences_2021: | Shin, H.H., D. Muñoz-Esparza, J.A. Sauer, and M. Steiner. "Large-eddy simulations | of stability-varying atmospheric boundary layer flow over isolated buildings". | *Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences*, vol. 78 (2021) 1487–1501 | https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0160.1 .. _advances_modeling_earth_systems_2020: | Muñoz-Esparza, D., J.A. Sauer, H.H. Shin, R. Sharman, B. Kosović, S. Meech, | C. García-Sánchez, M. Steiner, J. Knievel, J. Pinto, S. Swerdlin. "Inclusion of | building-resolving capabilities into the FastEddy® GPU-LES model using an immersed | body force method". *Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems*, vol. 12 (2020) | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002141 .. _framework_advances_modeling_earth_systems_2020: | Sauer, J., and D. Muñoz-Esparza. "The FastEddy resident-GPU accelerated large-eddy | simulation framework: model formulation, dynamical-core validation and performance | benchmarks". *Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems*, vol. 12 (2020) | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002100