Publications

Divergent humidity-driven growth in urban air-conditioning energy demand under climate change

Xinchang ‘Cathy’ Li, Lei Zhao, Zhiwen Luo, Keith Oleson, Yifan Cheng, Xiaoxiong Xie, Alvin C. G. Varquez, Mitsuna Sekiya

Divergent surface urban heat island responses to background aerosol mitigation

Shu Liu, Yuyu Zhou, Lei Zhao, Gerald Mills, Xinchang “Cathy” Li, Hongsheng Zhang, Karen C. Seto, Peng Gong

Mitigating urban climate–energy feedback with citywide building-integrated photovoltaics implementation

Liutao Chen, Shihong Zhang, Xinchang “Cathy” Li, Ting Fong May Chui, Jiachuan Yang, Wei Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Zhe Wang

U-Surf: A global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling

Yifan Cheng, Lei Zhao, TC Chakraborty, Keith Oleson, Matthias Demuzere, Xiaoping Liu, Yangzi Che, Weilin Liao, Yuyu Zhou, Xinchang “Cathy” Li

Enhancing urban thermal environment and energy sustainability with temperature-adaptive radiative roofs

Keer Zhang, Lei Zhao, Keith Oleson, Xinchang “Cathy” Li, Xuhui Lee

Elevated urban energy risks due to climate-driven biophysical feedbacks

Xinchang ‘Cathy’ Li, Lei Zhao, Yue Qin, Keith Oleson, Yiwen Zhang

Cover article · October 2024

Enhancing urban climate–energy modeling in the Community Earth System Model through explicit representation of urban air-conditioning adoption

Xinchang “Cathy” Li, Lei Zhao, Keith Oleson, Yuyu Zhou, Yue Qin, Keer Zhang, Bowen Fang

Editor’s Highlight · Featured by IAUC

Analysis of radiation-induced cooling and growth of mist and cloud droplets

M. Brewster, X. Li

Radiation-induced condensational growth and cooling of cloud-sized mist droplets

M. Q. Brewster, X. Li, K. K. Roman, E. O. McNichols, M. J. Rood