Hernan Arango
Physical Oceanographer Ocean Modeler at Rutgers University
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolHernan Arango is a physical oceanographer and ocean modeler with 22+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining community ocean models for scientific and operational applications. Based at Rutgers University, he is a long-time developer of the widely used ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System) framework and previously contributed to Harvard’s HOPS and real-time ocean forecasting efforts. His technical strengths include numerical and adjoint algorithms, 4DVar variational data assimilation, model coupling, and nested-grid implementations that bridge research and operational forecasting. Known for translating advanced theory into robust, production-ready code, he also brings hands-on experience in satellite SST processing and ensemble forecasting stability analysis.
22 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Ph.D., Physical Oceanography at Texas A&M University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (20)
weather10
forecast10
meteorology9
simulation9
noaa9
fortran8
atmospheric-modelling7
forecasting7
weather-data6
ocean6
atmosphere6
react5
ice4
ufs4
toolbox3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
myroms/roms
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
Contributions:1 release, 91 PRs, 333 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ChuningWang/roms-iceplume
Jun 2003 - Dec 2022
Rutgers ROMS coupled with Buoyant Plume Theory (BPT)
Contributions:859 commits in 19 years 9 months
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