Member Since 2013
Lei Zhao
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Associate Editor, Earth's Future
Professional Experience
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor
2019 - Present
Education
Yale University
Doctorate
Nanjing University
Bachelors
Honors & Awards
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Received December 2023
Publications
Urban Land Expansion Amplifies Surface Warming More in Dry Climate than in Wet Climate: A Global Sen...
Urbanization changes Earth's climate by contributing to the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases and altering surface biophysical properties. In...
February 24, 2025
Improving Urban Climate Adaptation Modeling in the Community...
December 15, 2024
Partitioning of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes in Different...
November 02, 2022
Estimating Submicron Aerosol Mixing State at the Global Scal...
February 04, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Disagreements in estimates of urban land from global maps for the past, present, and future across scales
MULTISECTOR DYNAMICS: ADVANCES IN GLOBAL-TO-REGIONAL LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE MODELING II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
TC Chakraborty, Zander Venter, Matthias Demuzere, ...
The rise in high-resolution satellite technology and computational advancements has enabled the development of global urban land cover datasets, cruci...
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Understanding urbanization-climate interactions: mechanism and challenges
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING LAND SYSTEM CHANGE I ORAL
biogeosciences | 13 december 2024
Lei Zhao
Urbanization represents one of the most significant anthropogenic changes to the Earths surface, with profound climatic effects across scales through ...
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Building the scientific foundation for climate solutions in cities
URBAN AREAS AND GLOBAL CHANGE II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
Andrew D. Jones, Negin Nazarian, Angel Hsu, Christ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has announced a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, which is set for release in early 20...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2027
Associate Editor
Earth's Future
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