Enhancing Urban Thermal Environment and Energy Sustainability With Temperature‐Adaptive Radiative Roofs

K Zhang, L Zhao, K Oleson, XC Li, X Lee - Earth's Future, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Urban overheating presents significant challenges to public health and energy
sustainability. Conventional radiative cooling strategies, such as cool roofs with high albedo …

SLUCMBEM (v1.0): a simple parameterisation for dynamic anthropogenic heat and electricity consumption in WRF-Urban (v4.3.2)

Y Takane, Y Kikegawa, K Nakajima… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
We propose a simple dynamic anthropogenic heat (QF) parameterisation for the Weather
Research and Forecasting (WRF) single-layer urban canopy model (SLUCM). The SLUCM …

Elevated urban energy risks due to climate-driven biophysical feedbacks

XC Li, L Zhao, Y Qin, K Oleson, Y Zhang - Nature Climate Change, 2024 - nature.com
Climate-driven impacts on future urban heating and cooling (H&C) energy demand are
critical to sustainable energy planning. Existing global H&C projections are predominantly …

Improving urban climate adaptation modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) through transient urban surface albedo representation

Y Sun, B Fang, KW Oleson, L Zhao… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the albedo of urban surfaces, through strategies like white roof installations, has
emerged as a promising approach for urban climate adaptation. Yet, modeling these …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing Urban Climate-Energy Modeling in CESM through Explicit Representation of Urban Air-conditioning Adoption

LZ **nchang'Cathy'Li, K Oleson, Y Zhou, Y Qin… - 2024 - cesm.ucar.edu
Enhancing Urban Climate-Energy Modeling in CESM through Explicit Representation of Urban
Air-conditioning Adoption Page 1 **nchang ‘Cathy’ Li1, Lei Zhao1,2,3, Keith Oleson4, Yuyu …