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Jorge Duarte

Jorge Duarte

Jorge Duarte.

Research Scientist

jduarte@ou.edu
jorge.duarte@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 4372

Education

  • PhD, Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma
  • MSc, Data Science & Analytics, University of Oklahoma
  • BSc, Systems Engineering, Universidad El Bosque

Affiliated CIWRO Team

  • Severe Convective Probabilities and Impacts

About

Dr. Duarte develops data-driven tools, products, and solutions using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computational statistics. He designs, builds, implements, and refines these systems by combining high-performance and parallel computing with large, diverse, complex geospatial datasets to support real‑time or near‑real‑time decision-making.

His work focuses on applied machine-learning systems for weather and water, including hydroinformatics, remote-sensing applications, hazard-warning systems, and flash‑flood impact prediction. He currently co-leads the development of AI-based emulators for numerical weather prediction for the Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS).

Research Focus

  • Applied Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
  • AI/ML for Numerical Weather Prediction
  • Hazard impacts modeling and prediction
  • Hydroinformatics
  • High-performance computing
  • Software engineering

CIWRO Research Themes

  • Forecast Applications Improvements R&D
Honors and awards
  • Recognition for Contributions to Organizing Committee (14th International Precipitation Conference, Norman, OK, 2023)
  • Gallogly College of Engineering Scholarship 2023-2024 (The University of Oklahoma, 2023)
  • Amateur Radio Digital Communications Scholarship 2022-2023 (Amateur Radio Relay League Foundation, 2022)
  • Bachelor’s degree awarded with honors for outstanding thesis: “A Predictive Model for Students’ Academic Performance” (Universidad El Bosque, Dec., 2016)
Publications
  • Duarte, J. A., J. J. Gourley, H. J. Vergara, P.-E. Kirstetter, C. D. Nicholson, and M. Adamiak, 2025: Large Language Model-Based Classification of Flash Flood Impacts Across the United States. Artif. Intell. Earth Syst.
  • Woods, D., P.-E. Kirstetter, H. Vergara, J. A. Duarte, and J. Basara, 2024: Hydrologic Evaluation of the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission over the U.S.: Effect of Spatial and Temporal Scales. Journal of Hydrology, 635, 131134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131134.
  • Woods, D., P.-E. Kirstetter, H. Vergara, J. A. Duarte, and J. Basara, 2023b: Hydrologic Evaluation of the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission over the U.S.: Error Budget Analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 626, 130212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130212. 
  • Woods, D., P.-E. Kirstetter, H. Vergara, J. A. Duarte, and J. Basara, 2023a: Hydrologic evaluation of the global precipitation measurement mission over the U.S.: Flood peak discharge and duration. Journal of Hydrology, 617, 129124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129124.
  • Duarte García, J., 2023: Machine Learning for Impact-Based Flash Flood Warnings: Hazard Report Operationalization for Impact Predictions. https://shareok.org/items/dbf009d4-09ce-4622-9cb3-2a58fb8bf81e
  • Duarte, J. A., A. D. González, and J. J. Gourley, 2021: Wildfire burn scar encapsulation - Subsetting common spatial domains for post-wildfire debris flow predictions over the United States. Optim Lett, 16, 789–819, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-021-01800-6.
  • Rahman Khan, M., J. J. Gourley, J. A. Duarte, H. Vergara, D. Wasielewski, P.-A. Ayral, and J. W. Fulton, 2021: Uncertainty in remote sensing of streams using noncontact radars. Journal of Hydrology, 603, 126809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126809.
  • Duarte García, J. A., 2019: Probabilistic Characterization of Floods from Catchment-Scale Precipitation Moments. https://shareok.org/items/db78802f-598c-4f60-aa38-2381c1007dc0 
  • Merchan Rubiano, S. M., and J. A. Duarte Garcia, 2016: Analysis of data mining techniques for constructing a predictive model for academic performance. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 14, 2783–2788. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2015.7344047 
  • Duarte García, J. A., 2016: Software defined radio for wi-fi jamming. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23772.90240
Professional organizations
  • American Meteorological Society
  • Amateur Radio Relay League
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Updated 11/25/2025 by Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO): ciwro@ou.edu