Member Since 2013
Lei Zhao
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professional Experience
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor
2019 - Present
Education
Yale University
Doctorate
Nanjing University
Bachelors
Honors & Awards
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Received December 2023
Current Roles
Associate Editor
Earth's Future
Publications
Enhancing Urban Climate‐Energy Modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Explicit ...
Improved representation of urban processes in Earth System Models (ESMs) is a pressing need for climate modeling and climate‐driven urban ene...
April 12, 2024
Partitioning of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes in Different...
November 02, 2022
Estimating Submicron Aerosol Mixing State at the Global Scal...
February 04, 2021
Using Information Theory to Evaluate Directional Precipitati...
February 12, 2019
AGU Abstracts
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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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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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2027
Associate Editor
Earth's Future
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