Lei Zhao

2025

Asymmetric influence of urban morphology changes on land surface temperature between daytime and nighttime

Zhao, J., Yu, L., Zhao, L., Fu, H. & Gong, P., Apr 15 2025, In: Sustainable Cities and Society. 124, 106307.

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Enhancing Urban Thermal Environment and Energy Sustainability With Temperature-Adaptive Radiative Roofs

Zhang, K., Zhao, L., Oleson, K., Li, X. “. & Lee, X., Jan 2025, In: Earth's Future. 13, 1, e2024EF005246.

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Significant contribution of urban morphological diversity to urban surface thermal heterogeneity

Zhao, J., Yu, L., Zhao, L., Fu, H. & Gong, P., Jun 2025, In: Urban Climate. 61, 102383.

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Unraveling climate change-induced compound low-solar-low-wind extremes in China

Wang, L., Liu, Y., Zhao, L., Lu, X., Huang, L., Jin, Y., Davis, S. J., Aghakouchak, A., Huang, X., Zhu, T. & Qin, Y., Jan 1 2025, In: National Science Review. 12, 1, nwae424.

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Urban Land Expansion Amplifies Surface Warming More in Dry Climate than in Wet Climate: A Global Sensitivity Study

Zhang, K., Fang, B., Oleson, K., Zhao, L., He, C., Huang, Q., Liu, Z., Cao, C. & Lee, X., Feb 28 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 130, 4, e2024JD041696.

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2024

Different explanations for surface and canopy urban heat island effects in relation to background climate

Yang, L., Li, Q., Li, Q., Zhao, L., Luo, Z. & Liu, Y., Mar 15 2024, In: iScience. 27, 3, 108863.

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Elevated urban energy risks due to climate-driven biophysical feedbacks

Li, X. ‘., Zhao, L., Qin, Y., Oleson, K. & Zhang, Y., Oct 2024, In: Nature Climate Change. 14, 10, p. 1056-1063 8 p.

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Enhancing Urban Climate-Energy Modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Explicit Representation of Urban Air-Conditioning Adoption

Li, X., Zhao, L., Oleson, K., Zhou, Y., Qin, Y., Zhang, K. & Fang, B., Apr 2024, In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16, 4, e2023MS004107.

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High-Precision Intracity Temperature Estimation Based on Generated Point Clouds

Huang, G. J., He, K. Q., Lyu, X., Zang, Y., Shu, H., Zhao, L., Li, J. & Wang, C., 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62, 5705615.

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Improving Urban Climate Adaptation Modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Transient Urban Surface Albedo Representation

Sun, Y., Fang, B., Oleson, K. W., Zhao, L., Topping, D. O., Schultz, D. M. & Zheng, Z., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16, 12, e2024MS004380.

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Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications

Chakraborty, T. C., Venter, Z. S., Demuzere, M., Zhan, W., Gao, J., Zhao, L. & Qian, Y., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 9165.

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2023

A global dataset on subgrid land surface climate (2015–2100) from the Community Earth System Model

Zhang, K., Lee, X., Schultz, N. M., Zhao, L., He, C., Huang, Q., Liu, Z., Chu, H. & Zhao, J., Apr 2023, In: Geoscience Data Journal. 10, 2, p. 208-219 12 p.

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AttentionFire_v1.0: Interpretable machine learning fire model for burned-Area predictions over tropics

Li, F., Zhu, Q., Riley, W. J., Zhao, L., Xu, L., Yuan, K., Chen, M., Wu, H., Gui, Z., Gong, J. & Randerson, J. T., Feb 3 2023, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 16, 3, p. 869-884 16 p.

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Global mapping of urban thermal anisotropy reveals substantial potential biases for remotely sensed urban climates

Du, H., Zhan, W., Liu, Z., Scott Krayenhoff, E., Chakraborty, T. C., Zhao, L., Jiang, L., Dong, P., Li, L., Huang, F., Wang, S. & Xu, Y., Aug 30 2023, In: Science Bulletin. 68, 16, p. 1809-1818 10 p.

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Impacts of climate change on global total and urban runoff

Gray, L. C., Zhao, L. & Stillwell, A. S., May 2023, In: Journal of Hydrology. 620, 129352.

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Increased heat risk in wet climate induced by urban humid heat

Zhang, K., Cao, C., Chu, H., Zhao, L., Zhao, J. & Lee, X., May 25 2023, In: Nature. 617, 7962, p. 738-742 5 p.

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Large humidity effects on urban heat exposure and cooling challenges under climate change

Yang, J., Zhao, L. & Oleson, K., Apr 1 2023, In: Environmental Research Letters. 18, 4, 044024.

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2022

Building a machine learning surrogate model for wildfire activities within a global Earth system model

Zhu, Q., Li, F., Riley, W. J., Xu, L., Zhao, L., Yuan, K., Wu, H., Gong, J. & Randerson, J., Mar 8 2022, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 15, 5, p. 1899-1911 13 p.

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Contrasting impacts of forests on cloud cover based on satellite observations

Xu, R., Li, Y., Teuling, A. J., Zhao, L., Spracklen, D. V., Garcia-Carreras, L., Meier, R., Chen, L., Zheng, Y., Lin, H. & Fu, B., Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 670.

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DeepUrbanDownscale: A physics informed deep learning framework for high-resolution urban surface temperature estimation via 3D point clouds

Chen, L., Fang, B., Zhao, L., Zang, Y., Liu, W., Chen, Y., Wang, C. & Li, J., Feb 2022, In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 106, 102650.

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Divergent responses of maize yield to precipitation in the United States

Xu, R., Li, Y., Guan, K., Zhao, L., Peng, B., Miao, C. & Fu, B., Jan 2022, In: Environmental Research Letters. 17, 1, 014016.

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Effect of carbon market on air pollution: Firm-level evidence in China

Zhu, J., Li, X., Fan, Y., Shi, H. & Zhao, L., Jul 2022, In: Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 182, 106321.

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Environmental Consequences of Potential Strategies for China to Prepare for Natural Gas Import Disruptions

Qin, Y., Zhou, M., Pan, D., Klimont, Z., Gingerich, D. B., Mauzerall, D. L., Zhao, L., He, G. & Bielicki, J. M., Jan 18 2022, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 56, 2, p. 1183-1193 11 p.

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Intracity Temperature Estimation by Physics Informed Neural Network Using Modeled Forcing Meteorology and Multispectral Satellite Imagery

Wu, D., Liu, W., Fang, B., Chen, L., Zang, Y., Zhao, L., Wang, S., Wang, C., Marcato, J. & Li, J., 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60, 5411815.

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Partitioning of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes in Different Vegetation Types and Their Spatiotemporal Variations Based on 203 FLUXNET Sites

Lin, H., Li, Y. & Zhao, L., Nov 16 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127, 21, e2022JD037142.

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2021

A generic risk assessment framework to evaluate historical and future climate-induced risk for rainfed corn and soybean yield in the U.S. Midwest

Zhou, W., Guan, K., Peng, B., Wang, Z., Fu, R., Li, B., Ainsworth, E. A., DeLucia, E., Zhao, L. & Chen, Z., Sep 2021, In: Weather and Climate Extremes. 33, 100369.

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Deforestation reshapes land-surface energy-flux partitioning

Yuan, K., Zhu, Q., Zheng, S., Zhao, L., Chen, M., Riley, W. J., Cai, X., Ma, H., Li, F., Wu, H. & Chen, L., Feb 1 2021, In: Environmental Research Letters. 16, 2, p. 024014 024014.

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Estimating Submicron Aerosol Mixing State at the Global Scale With Machine Learning and Earth System Modeling

Zheng, Z., Curtis, J. H., Yao, Y., Gasparik, J. T., Anantharaj, V. G., Zhao, L., West, M. & Riemer, N., Feb 2021, In: Earth and Space Science. 8, 2, e2020EA001500.

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Global multi-model projections of local urban climates

Zhao, L., Oleson, K., Bou-Zeid, E., Krayenhoff, E. S., Bray, A., Zhu, Q., Zheng, Z., Chen, C. & Oppenheimer, M., Feb 2021, In: Nature Climate Change. 11, 2, p. 152-157 6 p.

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Large model structural uncertainty in global projections of urban heat waves

Zheng, Z., Zhao, L. & Oleson, K. W., Dec 1 2021, In: Nature communications. 12, 1, 3736.

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Machine Learning-Based Modeling of Spatio-Temporally Varying Responses of Rainfed Corn Yield to Climate, Soil, and Management in the U.S. Corn Belt

Xu, T., Guan, K., Peng, B., Wei, S. & Zhao, L., May 28 2021, In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 4, 647999.

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Quantifying the structural uncertainty of the aerosol mixing state representation in a modal model

Zheng, Z., West, M., Zhao, L., Ma, P. L., Liu, X. & Riemer, N., Dec 3 2021, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 21, 23, p. 17727-17741 15 p.

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2020

Converging on solutions to plan sustainable cities

Wuebbles, D. J., Sharma, A., Ando, A., Zhao, L. & Rigsbee, C., 2020, In: Eos. 101, p. 18-23 6 p.

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Large-scale point cloud contour extraction via 3D guided multi-conditional generative adversarial network

Zhang, W., Chen, L., Xiong, Z., Zang, Y., Li, J. & Zhao, L., Jun 2020, In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 164, p. 97-105 9 p.

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2019

Toward building a transparent statistical model for improving crop yield prediction: Modeling rainfed corn in the U.S

Li, Y., Guan, K., Yu, A., Peng, B., Zhao, L., Li, B. & Peng, J., Mar 15 2019, In: Field Crops Research. 234, p. 55-65 11 p.

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Using Information Theory to Evaluate Directional Precipitation Interactions Over the West Sahel Region in Observations and Models

Liu, B. Y., Zhu, Q., Riley, W. J., Zhao, L., Ma, H., Van Gordon, M. & Larsen, L., Feb 16 2019, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 124, 3, p. 1463-1473 11 p.

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2018

Global lake evaporation accelerated by changes in surface energy allocation in a warmer climate

Wang, W., Lee, X., Xiao, W., Liu, S., Schultz, N., Wang, Y., Zhang, M. & Zhao, L., Jun 1 2018, In: Nature Geoscience. 11, 6, p. 410-414 5 p.

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Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves

Zhao, L., Oppenheimer, M., Zhu, Q., Baldwin, J. W., Ebi, K. L., Bou-Zeid, E., Guan, K. & Liu, X., Mar 2018, In: Environmental Research Letters. 13, 3, 034003.

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Urban growth and climate adaptation

Zhao, L., Dec 1 2018, In: Nature Climate Change. 8, 12, p. 1034 1 p.

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2017

A wedge strategy for mitigation of urban warming in future climate scenarios

Zhao, L., Lee, X. & Schultz, N. M., Jul 27 2017, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 17, 14, p. 9067-9080 14 p.

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2016

Assessing the use of subgrid land model output to study impacts of land cover change

Schultz, N. M., Lee, X., Lawrence, P. J., Lawrence, D. M. & Zhao, L., 2016, In: Journal of Geophysical Research. 121, 11, p. 6133-6147 15 p.

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Influence of Leaf Area Index on the Radiometric Resistance to Heat Transfer

Zhao, L., Lee, X., Suyker, A. E. & Wen, X., Jan 1 2016, In: Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 158, 1, p. 105-123 19 p.

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Urban heat islands in China enhanced by haze pollution

Cao, C., Lee, X., Liu, S., Schultz, N., Xiao, W., Zhang, M. & Zhao, L., Aug 23 2016, In: Nature communications. 7, 12509.

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2014

Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

Zhao, L., Lee, X., Smith, R. B. & Oleson, K., 2014, In: Nature. 511, 7508, p. 216-219 4 p.

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2013

Correcting surface solar radiation of two data assimilation systems against FLUXNET observations in North America

Zhao, L., Lee, X. & Liu, S., Sep 16 2013, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 118, 17, p. 9552-9564 13 p.

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2011

Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

Lee, X., Goulden, M. L., Hollinger, D. Y., Barr, A., Black, T. A., Bohrer, G., Bracho, R., Drake, B., Goldstein, A., Gu, L., Katul, G., Kolb, T., Law, B. E., Margolis, H., Meyers, T., Monson, R., Munger, W., Oren, R., Paw U, K. T. & Richardson, A. D. & 4 others, Schmid, H. P., Staebler, R., Wofsy, S. & Zhao, L., Nov 17 2011, In: Nature. 479, 7373, p. 384-387 4 p.

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2008

Mineralogy and geochemistry of boehmite-rich coals: New insights from the Haerwusu Surface Mine, Jungar Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China

Dai, S., Li, D., Chou, C.-L., Zhao, L., Zhang, Y., Ren, D. Y., Ma, Y. & Sun, Y., May 7 2008, In: International Journal of Coal Geology. 74, 3-4, p. 185-202 18 p.

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