Héctor A. Inda Díaz
I turn large-scale weather and climate data into models and tools that people — utilities, agencies, and fellow scientists — can act on.
Climate & weather modeling
About
I'm an atmospheric scientist at Eagle Rock Analytics, building cloud-based climate and weather data platforms for California's energy and government agencies.
My background spans atmospheric science and physical oceanography, and I work across the whole pipeline — numerical modeling, big-data analysis, QA/QC, and turning results into tools that non-scientists can actually use.
I'm especially drawn to extreme and compound events — atmospheric rivers, the North American Monsoon, extreme precipitation, heat waves, and wildfire-weather — and to the supercomputing and open-source software that make studying them at scale possible.
Selected work
Cal-Adapt & Analytics Engine
California's cloud climate-data platform — downscaled CMIP6 projections and open-source tools used by utilities, regulators, and the public.
Data platformHistorical Observations Platform
~15,900 weather stations from 27 networks across the Western U.S., with custom QA/QC for energy-relevant extremes.
ToolkitNY Storm & Compound Events
A Python toolkit that turns decades of messy NCEI storm records into compound-hazard analysis and stakeholder-ready summaries.
Interests
Away from the screen: volleyball · snowboarding · specialty coffee
Education
Other projects
Origen Tequepexpan Café
My family's specialty-coffee project. We grow, process, and roast our own micro-lots from Finca Origen in Tequepexpan, Nayarit — the village where our coffee tradition began — and serve them at our coffee bar in Tepic. I'm a co-founder and coffee producer; my brother Emilio leads roasting and cupping. Natural, honey, and experimental fermentations, with shipping across Mexico.
Other interests
Amateur barista.
Coffee is where the science and the family farm meet a craft. I spend a fair amount of time on espresso and pour-overs — chasing the same thing I chase at work: a small, controlled experiment with a delicious result.