51 Cristina L. Archer College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 USA www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-people/ profiles/carcher
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Cristina L. Archer
University of Delaware
Cristina Archer is Associate Professor for Physical Ocean Sci-ence and Engineering at the University of Delaware and Asso-ciate Professor for Geography. She is Adjunct Professor, De-partment of Geological and Environmental Sciences, California State University, Chico.
Education:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford Universi-ty, 2004.
M.S., Meteorology, San Jose State University, 1998. M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di MI-lano (Italy), 1995.
Besides other publications related to Airborne Wind she pub-lished in 2009 together with Ken Caldeira the “Global Assess-ment of High-Altitude Wind Power”: The available wind pow-er resource worldwide at altitudes between 500 and 12,000 m above ground is assessed for the first time. Twenty-eight years of wind data from the reanalyses by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy are an-alyzed and interpolated to study geographical distributions and persistency of winds at all altitudes. Furthermore, intermitten-cy issues and global climate effects of large-scale extraction of energy from high-altitude winds are investigated.
