A5029434893- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Climate variability and models
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Water resources management and optimization
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Noise Effects and Management
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
2016-2025
Research Applications (United States)
2013-2024
Research Applications Laboratory
2011-2023
University of Colorado Boulder
2018
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
2018
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2007
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2005
Climate change is predicted to increase the intensity and negative impacts of urban heat events, prompting need develop preparedness adaptation strategies that reduce societal vulnerability extreme heat. Analysis events requires an interdisciplinary approach includes information about weather climate, natural built environment, social processes characteristics, interactions with stakeholders, assessment community at a local level. In this letter, we explore relationships between people...
Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society environment, affecting cities’ sustainability resilience in complex ways at alarming rates. Over last decades, have become key concepts aimed understanding existing dynamics responding to challenges of creating livable futures. Sustainability also moved now core analytic normative for many scholars, transnational networks communities practice. Yet, even with this elevated scholarly attention, strategies...
The magnitude of flood damage in the United States, combined with uncertainty current estimates risk, suggest that society could benefit from improved scientific information about risk. To help address this perceived need, a group researchers initiated an interdisciplinary study climate variability, uncertainty, and hydrometeorological for flood-risk decision making, focused on Colorado's Rocky Mountain Front Range urban corridor. We began by investigating research directions were likely to...
Despite hazard mitigation efforts and scientific technological advances, extreme weather events continue to cause substantial losses. The impacts of result from complex interactions among physical human systems across spatial temporal scales. This article synthesizes current interdisciplinary knowledge about weather, including temperature extremes (heat cold waves), precipitation (including floods droughts), storms severe tropical cyclones). We discuss hydrometeorological aspects weather;...
Drought events across the United States since 1995 illustrate country's continuing vulnerability to drought. Officials are beginning recognize need for enhanced mitigation actions reduce increasing economic, environmental, and social impacts of droughts. One way better understand a region's drought identify appropriate take is conduct risk analysis. However, can be confusing concept many planners. For this reason, simplified, flexible framework conducting analysis presented. This based on...
Introduction: An ongoing Zika virus pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean has raised concerns that travel-related introduction of could initiate local transmission United States (U.S.) by its primary vector, mosquito Aedes aegypti.Methods: We employed meteorologically driven models for 2006-2015 to simulate potential seasonal abundance adult aegypti fifty cities within or near margins known U.S. range.Mosquito results were analyzed alongside travel socioeconomic factors are proxies...
Recent reports and scholarship suggest that adapting to current climate variability may represent a ‘no regrets’ strategy for change. Addressing ‘adaptation deficits’ other approaches target existing vulnerabilities are helpful responding variability, but we argue they not be sufficient Through review unique synthesis of the natural hazards adaptation literatures, identify why dynamics vulnerability matter efforts. We draw on theory literatures outline how combined with shifting societal...
Abstract Climate change is projected to increase the number of days producing excessive heat across southwestern United States, increasing population exposure extreme events. Extreme currently main cause weather-related mortality in where negative health effects are disproportionately distributed among geographic regions and demographic groups. To more effectively identify vulnerability heat, complementary local-level studies adaptive capacity within a needed augment census-based data...
Three practical sampling methods are proposed and compared
Abstract During the last few decades, scientific capabilities for understanding and predicting weather climate risks have advanced rapidly. At same time, technological advances, such as Internet, mobile devices, social media, are transforming how people exchange interact with information. In this modern information environment, risk communication, interpretation, decision-making rapidly evolving processes that intersect across space, society. Instead of a linear or iterative process in which...
In this paper we examine current policies to combat drought in urban areas the United States illuminate lessons learned for building climate adaptive capacity. We conducted interviews with practitioners involved management at water utilities across U.S. understand: 1) both short- and long-term actions taken response drought; 2) perceptions of what constitutes an 'effective' whether how was measured; 3) limitations response. apply criteria from a theoretical framing capacity then 'reason by...
Abstract Heat is the number one weather-related killer in United States and indoor exposure responsible for a significant portion of resulting fatalities. Evolving construction practices combined with urban development harsh climates has led building occupants many cities to rely on air conditioning (AC) degree that their health well-being are compromised its absence. The risks substantial if loss AC coincides hot weather episode (henceforth, heat disaster). Using simulations, we found...
Abstract This article investigates the dynamic ways that people communicate, assess, and respond as a weather threat evolves. It uses social media data, which offer unique records of what convey about their real-world risk contexts. Twitter narratives from 53 who were in mandatory evacuation zone New York City neighborhood during Hurricane Sandy 2012 qualitatively analyzed. The study provides rich insight into complex, information behaviors assessments at risk, it illustrates how data can be...
Abstract Urban areas are increasingly affected by extreme heat in the face of climate change, while size and vulnerability exposed populations shifting due to economic development, demographic urbanization. In addition need assess future urban heat-related health risks, there is also an increasing design adaptation strategies that will be effective under varying levels socioeconomic development change. We use case study Houston, Texas, develop demonstrate a scenario-based approach explore...