Francisco Salamanca’s research is mainly focused on understanding how the urban areas interact and modify the weather and climate at regional and local scales. Using atmospheric models and huge computational resources, Salamanca examines how the land-surface interacts with the overlay atmosphere (i.e., the atmospheric layer that covers the first 1-2 kilometers above the ground), paying special attention to the urban areas. The use of atmospheric models is essential to understand these interactions and permits us to develop and evaluate reliable strategies to mitigate negative climate consequences of for example, urban expansion. This modern and interdisciplinary area of research encompasses many subareas of the mathematical and physical sciences but especially relevant are scientific computing, numerical methods, and data analysis. In addition to many papers on the subject of atmospheric sciences, Salamanca developed and implemented a new urban scheme on the worldwide-used Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and is available for the scientific community since 2010.