2022
JULY 8, 2022
Mitchell Lazarow from Ohio State University accepts the graduate program at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and joins our group! Welcome!
Our high-school student intern Tanish Khadse got accepted into the Computer Science program at UIUC. Many congratulations!!!
FEB 25, 2022
Our high-school student intern Tanish Khadse got accepted into the Computer Science program at UIUC. Many congratulations!!!
FEB 23, 2022
National Science Foundation funds project to improve weather forecasts for cities
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7447/588593230
JAN 18, 2022
Peiyuan Li, a fresh Ph.D. graduate from Arizona State University joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher to work on urban numerical modeling!!
2021
DEC 16, 2021
Tanish Khadse, a Central High School student from Champaign presented an oral talk on “Impact of photovoltaic rooftops in the Chicago metro area” at the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/901521
NOV 18, 2021
ILLINOIS NEWS BUREAU: How can cities help accelerate climate action to meet COP26 goals?
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1668083379
OCT 22, 2021
ISWS researcher contributes to award-winning Chicago Regional Climate Action Planning Partnership
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7447/2040698152
AUG 14, 2021
Journal article on numerical modeling of coastal fog in the Canadian Atlantic accepted in the Boundary Layer Meteorology.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10546-021-00662-w
JUL 29, 2021
Margareth Viecco successfully defending Ph.D.! Yay!!!
JUL 15, 2021
Climate studies focus on a new priority: urban areas
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7784/1542861218
JUL 8, 2021
Margareth Viecco, a visiting Ph.D. student from Santiago Chile published her journal article on the role of green roofs and green walls to improve urban air quality in the “Building and Environment” journal.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132321005217
JUNE 15, 2021
Contributed to the first climate action plan for the Chicago region led by Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. Report released to public.
https://mayorscaucus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RegionalCAP_primary_and_appendices_062321-02.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3o6V_n0VoiuOeSpc7Sq12rF9TUKIji3zW7UWfhucRSB10g3J6AehW6S9A
MAY 17, 2021
Testimony to the City of Chicago Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy on “Urban Heat and its Impacts and Solutions”
https://vimeo.com/548975471
APR 21, 2021
Contributed with more than 40 scientists and technical experts contributing to the Illinois Climate Assessment Report; PRI experts help assess climate change impact on Illinois
https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/illinois-climate-assessment/
JAN 27, 2021
Our article “The need for urban-resolving climate modeling across scales” in 𝐀𝐆𝐔 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 was featured as an editor’s highlight in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Eos.
https://eos.org/editor-highlights/modeling-interactions-between-cities-and-climate-across-scales
JAN 26, 2021
Our comment article in AGU Advances on the need for urban resolving climate modeling across scales published.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000271
JAN 10, 2021
Converging on Solutions to Plan Sustainable Cities
https://atmos.illinois.edu/news/2021-01-10/converging-solutions-plan-sustainable-cities
JAN 2021
Joined the editorial board of the Frontiers in Environmental Science journal’s new section on Atmosphere and Climate.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/sections/atmosphere-and-climate