Urban development pattern's influence on extreme rainfall occurrences

L Yang, Y Yang, Y Shen, J Yang, G Zheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Growing urban population and the distinct strategies to accommodate them lead to diverse
urban development patterns worldwide. While local evidence suggests the presence of …

Building energy savings by green roofs and cool roofs in current and future climates

S Jia, Q Weng, C Yoo, H **ao, Q Zhong - npj Urban Sustainability, 2024 - nature.com
The global energy demand has greatly impacted greenhouse gas emissions and climate
change. Since buildings are responsible for a large portion of global energy consumption …

Globalmapper: Arbitrary-shaped urban layout generation

L He, D Aliaga - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Modeling and designing urban building layouts is of significant interest in computer vision,
computer graphics, and urban applications. A building layout consists of a set of buildings in …

Diffusion-based document layout generation

L He, Y Lu, J Corring, D Florencio, C Zhang - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
We develop a diffusion-based approach for various document layout sequence generation.
Layout sequences specify the contents of a document design in an explicit format. Our novel …

Coho: Context-sensitive city-scale hierarchical urban layout generation

L He, D Aliaga - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
The generation of large-scale urban layouts has garnered substantial interest across various
disciplines. Prior methods have utilized procedural generation requiring manual rule coding …

Urban cooling potential and cost comparison of heat mitigation techniques for their impact on the lower atmosphere

A Khan, L Carlosena, S Khorat, R Khatun… - Computational Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Cool materials and rooftop vegetation help achieve urban heating mitigation as they can
reduce building cooling demands. This study assesses the cooling potential of different …

Assessing impacts of environmental perturbations on urban biogenic carbon exchange in the Chicago region

P Li, A Sharma, ZH Wang… - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dioxide (CO2) quantification is critical for assessing city‐level carbon emissions and
sustainable urban development. While urban vegetation has the potential to provide …

Hyper‐local temperature prediction using detailed urban climate informatics

P Li, A Sharma - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The accurate modeling of urban microclimate is a challenging task given the high surface
heterogeneity of urban land cover and the vertical structure of street morphology. Recent …

Urbanization induced Urban Canopy Parameters enhance the heatwave intensity: A case study of Bei**g

T Chen, S Liu, X Li, L Pei, M Geng, G Yu, Z Shi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Urban morphology, characterized by Urban Canopy Parameters (UCPs), significantly
impacts the local climate. Presently, due to the absence of long-term UCP datasets, their …

Citytft: Temporal fusion transformer for urban building energy modeling

TY Dai, D Niyogi, Z Nagy - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.02375, 2023 - arxiv.org
Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) is an emerging method to investigate urban
design and energy systems against the increasing energy demand at urban and …