GABRIEL IBARRA BERASTEGUI
- Knowledge area
- Fluid Mechanics
- Department
- Centre
- Faculty of Engineering - Bilbao
- Electronic mail
- gabriel.ibarra@ehu.eus
I work as a teacher and researcher at the Department of Energy ENgineering in the University of the Basque Country and since 2011 I also coordinate the activities of EOLO research group www.ehu.es/eolo whose focus is the analysis of geophysical fluids. In this area, I have led several research projects in the fields of wave energy, renewable energies, air pollution and climate change. I am/have been (co)advisor of five PhD thesis in these research lines.
My research work involves the application of techniques like analogues, random forests and neural networks for classification, downscaling, long-term trend detection, climate analysis and short-term forecasting purposes. The target variables are two groups of geophysical fluids:
i) Fluids associated with renewable energy like wind and ocean waves . This type of energy, like other renewable sources has the problem of intermittency which originates electricity-grid management problems. Being able to forecast with a reasonable accuracy the energy that waves will hold a few hours ahead, can contribute to address this problem.
ii) The variables involved in the atmospheric water cycle
The time scales range from short-term prediction and analysis of long-term changes associated to climate.
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