Gonzalo Hernandez
  Research Professor
  Office: JHN-251
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-543-9055, 543-7277
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: hernandez @ u.washington.edu
  Homepage: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/hernandez

  Research Groups: Space Physics

Areas of Interest:
Aeronomy, Optics

Education:
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1962

Current Research Interests:
Global circulation dynamics of, but not limited to, the Earth's upper atmosphere. The experimental investigations consist of optical remote-sensing using very high-resolution spectroscopic techniques, while the analysis and interpretation include modeling methods developed with colleagues. At present, operating ground-based observing stations are located at South Pole, Antarctica, Mt. John, New Zealand, and Poker Flat, Alaska. The aeronomic investigations are, in turn, supported by both theoretical and laboratory studies of novel optical interference devices.

Selected Publications:

Hernandez, G., Fabry-Perot Interferometers, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986).

Hernandez, G., R. W. Smith, G. J. Fraser and W. L. Jones,  Large-scale waves in the upper-mesosphere at Antarctic high-latitudes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1347-1350, (1992)

Hernandez, G.,  Zonal wavenumber determination of oscillations in the midlatitude upper atmosphere from single-station optical measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2037 - 2040, (1995)

Hernandez, G.,  Time series, periodograms and significance, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 10355-10368, (1999)

Hernandez, G.,  Winter mesospheric temperatures above South Pole (90°S) and their relationship to the springtime ozone hole size. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(7), L071109, doi:10.1029/2004GL019414, (2004)

Drob, D. P., J. T. Emmert, G. Crowley, J. M. Picone, G. G. Shepherd, W. Skinner, P. Hays, R. J. Niciejewski, M. Larsen, C. Y. She, J. W. Meriwether, G. Hernandez, M. J. Jarvis, D. P. Sipler, C. A. Tepley, M. S. O'Brien, J. R. Bowman, Q. Wu, Y. Murayama, S. Kawamura, I. M. Reid byand R. A. Vincent (2008), An  Empirical model of the Earth's horizontal wind fields: HWM07, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A12304, doi:10.1029/2008JA013668, (2008)

Hernandez, G. and M. P. McCarthy, Long-term instrumental parameter
investigation of a Fabry-Perot spectrometer at an isolated field
station. Appl. Opt., 50, 1951-1957, (2011).