Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling

J Ching, D Aliaga, G Mills, V Masson, L See… - Urban Climate, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The WUDAPT (World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools project goal is to
capture consistent information on urban form and function for cities worldwide that can …

Deep learning-based urban morphology for city-scale environmental modeling

P Patel, R Kalyanam, L He, D Aliaga, D Niyogi - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Herein, we introduce a novel methodology to generate urban morphometric parameters that
takes advantage of deep neural networks and inverse modeling. We take the example of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the landscape of toolkits, frameworks, and authoring tools for urban visual analytics systems

L Ferreira, G Moreira, M Hosseini, M Lage… - Computers & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the development of visual
analytics systems dedicated to addressing urban issues. These systems distill intricate …

Procedural generation of flood-sensitive urban layouts

A Mustafa, X Wei Zhang, DG Aliaga… - … and Planning B …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Aside from modeling geometric shape, three-dimensional (3D) urban procedural modeling
has shown its value in understanding, predicting and/or controlling effects of shape on …

3D design and modeling of smart cities from a computer graphics perspective

DG Aliaga - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling cities, and urban spaces in general, is a daring task for computer graphics,
computer vision, and visualization. Understanding, describing, and modeling the geometry …

Impact of city size on precipitation‐modifying potential

PE Schmid, D Niyogi - Geophysical Research Letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates how increasing city size affects local weather modification potential
using an innovative new method: the real atmosphere, idealized land‐surface (RAIL) …

A need to revisit hydrologic responses to urbanization by incorporating the feedback on spatial rainfall patterns

L Yang, F Tian, D Niyogi - Urban Climate, 2015 - Elsevier
This study highlights the changes in the hydrologic responses to urbanization under
idealized spatial heterogeneity in rainfall distribution. The study builds off recent …

When and where horizontal advection is critical to alter atmospheric boundary layer dynamics over land: The need for a conceptual framework

S Pal, NE Clark, TR Lee, M Conder, M Buban - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The thermodynamic properties of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) play an important
role in several atmospheric processes such as convection initiation, turbulence mixing, the …

Integrating SSPs and multi-model ensembles in exploring parameter relationships for vertical urban development using a 3D-UGM: A case study of Wuhan, China

X Huang, R Stouffs - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
As global urbanization accelerates, it exacerbates sustainability challenges across
environmental, economic, and social realms, underscoring the need for sophisticated urban …

Impact of green roofs on heavy rainfall in tropical, coastal urban area

P Patel, S Karmakar, S Ghosh… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Green Roofs (GRs) are one of the measures considered for Urban Heat Island
(UHI) mitigation. The cooling effects of GRs are well studied in the literature. However …