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Lei Zhao
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Enhancing Urban Climate‐Energy Modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Explicit Representation of Urban Air‐Conditioning Adoption
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
12 april 2024
Xinchang Li, Lei Zhao, Keith W. Oleson, Yuyu Zhou,...
Improved representation of urban processes in Earth System Models (ESMs) is a pressing need for climate modeling and climate‐driven urban ene...
Urban heat under climate change: mechanism, impacts, and adaptation
THE EFFECT OF EXTREME HEAT, HEAT WAVES, AND URBAN HEAT ISLANDS ON PUBLIC HEALTH: VULNERABILITY, IMPACTS, ADAPTION, AND MITIGATION II ORAL
geohealth | 15 december 2023
Lei Zhao
Cities are where major human-perceived climate change impacts occur. The uniqueness of local urban climates such as urban heat island (UHI), a common ...
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Urban Climate Modeling to Examine Local Hydroclimatic Impacts of Rain Garden Implementation in 30 U.S. Cities
URBAN CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY: INTERACTIONS AND IMPACTS ON SOCIETY I POSTER
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Laura Gray, Lei Zhao, Ashlynn S. Stillwell
Climate change affects urban environments as built infrastructure continues to age and worldwide urban populations increase. Urban flooding and runoff...
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Large underestimation of urban surface emissivities in an Earth system model
REPRESENTING URBAN PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MODELS ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
global environmental change | 13 december 2023
Bowen Fang, TC Chakraborty, Keith W. Oleson, Lei Z...
Urbanization induces local warming and other climatic effects through modification of the biophysical properties of the surface, which are usually ass...
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Increased Heat Risk in Wet Climate Induced by Urban Humid Heat
URBAN AREAS AND GLOBAL CHANGE II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2023
Keer Zhang, Chang Cao, Haoran Chu, Lei Zhao, Jiayu...
Cities usually experience higher temperatures compared to adjacent rural areas, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI). Besides, urban area...
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Humidity Metric Choice is Central to Understanding the Role of Humidity in Shaping Urban Humid Heat
URBAN AREAS AND GLOBAL CHANGE II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2023
Joyce Yang, Lei Zhao, Bowen Fang
Heat stress is an increasing threat to the livability of cities under climate change and has long-lasting consequences for society and the health and ...
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The Impacts of Urban Size and Vegetation Cover on Urban Heat Islands: A Global Scale Quantification
URBAN AREAS AND GLOBAL CHANGE I ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2023
Song Jiang, Yongling Zhao, Lei Zhao, Dominik Streb...
The urban heat island (UHI) effect, which manifests itself as cities being warmer than the surrounding rural areas, is a global phenomenon that poses ...
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Global High-resolution Urban Surface Representation for Earth System Models
REPRESENTING URBAN PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MODELS ACROSS SCALES II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2023
Yifan Cheng, TC Chakraborty, Lei Zhao
Despite the acknowledged importance of urban areas in investigating city-scale climatic risks and exposures, the state-of-art Earth System Models (ESM...
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