
Environmental Flow Physics Lab
EFPL @ Columbia University
Our group explores fundamental and applied problems in fluid dynamics and turbulence, with an emphasis on environmental flows. We focus on challenges related to atmospheric boundary layer flow phenomena and wind engineering, using supercomputers and physics-data driven methods.
Our research spans various domains, encompassing turbulence and turbulent transport in urban and plant canopies, urban and complex-terrain meteorology, air-sea interaction, and hurricane boundary layer dynamics.

Recent News
Highlights
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We are excited to have Kytt MacManus join the EFPL team as the new Applied Science Lead! Welcome aboard, Kytt! Click here for more details.
January 12, 2025
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Greetings from Antarctica, where we’re unraveling the mysteries of katabatic winds as part of an NSF OPP field campaign! Click here for more details.
December 20, 2024
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Group dinner to kick off the semester and welcome Rushil Patel who is joining as a Master’s student!
September 17, 2024
More News
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Congratulations Gurpreet on your Physics of Fluids publication: Physics-informed data-driven reconstruction of turbulent wall-bounded flows from planar measurements.
January 22, 2025
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Congratulations Atharva on your first JFM paper: Impact of the numerical domain on turbulent flow statistics: scalings and considerations for canopy flows.
February 24, 2024
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Marco has been awarded an NSF CAREER award! CAREER: Characterization of Turbulence in Urban Environments for Wind Hazard Mitigation. Click here for more details.
February 18, 2024
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Our group has been awarded a NSF Physical & Dynamic Meteorology Program grant: Physics-Data Driven Surface Flux Parameterization for Flow in Complex Terrain.
January 16, 2024
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Welcome to Research Engineer Amos Fishman-Resheff! Amos will be leading our surveying and meteorological field deployment efforts.
January 1, 2024
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New Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Army Research Office: Light Detection and Ranging System for Land‐Atmosphere Interaction Research.
December 12, 2023
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In recognition of his excellence in teaching, PhD student Gurpreet Hora has been appointed as a Teaching Fellow at Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Congratulations Gurpreet!
July 31, 2023
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Welcome to Pierce Rubenstein from the College of New Jersey and Doyup Kwon from the University of Notre Dame who join our group as our Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Fellows.
June 5, 2023




Public and Private Partnerships
The Environmental Flow Physics Laboratory collaborates with governmental agencies and industry partners to address complex engineering challenges and drive discovery in the geosciences. We aim to advance the understanding of nature and our interaction with the environment. We are grateful for the generous support from the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Columbia University, and ACCESS (for high-performance computing resources).






Dr. Marco G. Giometto
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 638
500 W. 120th Steet, New York, NY 10027
Tel (212) 853-1799
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 610
500 W. 120th Steet, New York, NY 10027
Tel (212) 854-2993