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Dan Li
Associate Professor, Boston University
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The Role of Vapor Pressure Deficit in the CLM Simulated Interaction Between Urban Heat Islands and Heat Waves Over CONUS
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
10 march 2025
Linying Wang, Dan Li, Xing Yuan

Although both urban and rural temperatures are expected to increase under heat waves (HWs), whether the urban heat island (UHI) intensity becomes s...

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Flux Convergence and Divergence Linked to Asymmetric Transport by Large Turbulent Eddies in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
31 december 2024
Zhongming Gao, Lei Li, Heping Liu, Dan Li, Bai Yan...

It is well‐established that large eddies significantly influence the turbulent transport of heat and scalars in the atmospheric surface layer...

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Neighborhood-Scale WRF-LES Urban Heat Island Modeling: Applicability And Sensitivity Analysis
ADVANCING REPRESENTATION OF URBAN PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MODELS ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
global environmental change | 12 december 2024
Mahdad Talebpour, Elie Bou-Zeid, Claire Welty, Ben...
Urban heat islands (UHIs) combined with unprecedented heatwaves more frequent, intense, and prolonged influenced by climate change lead to extremely...
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Assessing Future Droughts Under Dynamic Climate, Urban, and Land System Over the Contiguous United States
DROUGHT RISK IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: DIAGNOSIS, MODELING, AND MANAGEMENT V POSTER
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Lili Yao, Ning Sun, Eva Sinha, Travis Thurber, Kan...
Understanding the complex interactions between climate change, urbanization, land use and land cover change (LULCC), and drought is essential for addr...
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Structural uncertainty in the sensitivity of urban temperatures to anthropogenic heat flux
ADVANCING REPRESENTATION OF URBAN PROCESSES AND DYNAMICS IN MODELS ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
global environmental change | 12 december 2024
Dan Li, Ting Sun, Jiachuan Yang, Ning Zhang, Pouya...
Weather and climate models must simplify or approximate complex physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in the real world, which gives...
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Does LES help reduce nighttime temperature biases in weather simulations over mountainous terrain?
BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES AND TURBULENCE IV POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Dan Li, Yue Qin
Accurately predicting surface and near-surface air temperatures over mountainous terrain has many implications (e.g., local weather forecasting, air q...
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A Non-dimensional Index for Characterizing the Transition of Turbulence Regimes in Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers
BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES AND TURBULENCE IV POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 10 december 2024
Xin Shao, Ning Zhang, Dan Li, Jianning SUN
In stable atmospheric boundary layers, turbulence can be categorized into two regimes: a moderate turbulence regime where turbulence is relatively pro...
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On the Size of Dominant Momentum Transporting Eddies in Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
28 november 2024
Xin Shao, Ning Zhang, Dan Li, Jianning SUN

The size of dominant momentum transporting eddies Lmt ${L}_{mt}$ in stable atmospheric boundary layers is poorly understood. This study demonstrate...

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