Anthropogenic heating of the urban environment: An investigation of feedback dynamics between urban micro-climate and decomposed anthropogenic heating from buildings

Pouya Vahmani, Xuan Luo, Andrew Jones, Tianzhen Hong DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.108841 Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Program Acknowledged Support: No, other Non-DOE EESM source of support Abstract Cities consume 2/3 of global energy and consequently release a large amount of anthropogenic heat into urban environments, which are…

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Revised monthly energy generation estimates for 1,500 hydroelectric power plants in the United States

Sean Turner, Nathalie Voisin & Kristian Nelson DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01748-x Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Program Acknowledged Support: Yes, Multisector Dynamics Program Abstract The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) conducts a regular survey (form EIA-923) to collect annual and monthly net generation for more than ten…

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Projecting Future Energy Production from Operating Wind Farms in North America. Part I: Dynamical Downscaling

S. C. Pryor, J. J. Coburn, R. J. Barthelmie, and T. J. Shepherd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-22-0044.1 Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Progam Acknowledged Support: Yes, Multisector Dynamics, and Regional and Global Modeling Analysis Programs Abstract New simulations at 12-km grid spacing with the Weather and Research…

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Anthropogenic contributions to the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave

Emily Bercos-Hickey, Travis A. O’Brien, Michael F. Wehner, Likun Zhang, Christina M. Patricola, Huanping Huang, Mark D. Risser DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099396 Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Progam Acknowledged Support: Yes, Regional and Global Modeling Analysis Program Abstract Daily maximum temperatures during the 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest United States and Canada…

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tell: a Python package to model future total electricity loads in the United States

Casey R. McGrath, Casey D. Burleyson, Zarrar Khan, Aowabin Rahman, Travis Thurber, Chris R. Vernon, Nathalie Voisin, andJennie S. Rice DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04472 Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Progam Acknowledged Support: Yes, Multisector Dynamics Program Abstract The purpose of the Total ELectricity Load (tell) model is…

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post-MORDM: Mapping policies to synthesize optimization and robustness results for decision-maker compromise

Nathan Bonham, Joseph Kasprzyk, Edith Zagona DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105491 Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Program Acknowledged Support: No, other Non-DOE EESM source of support Abstract This paper introduces post-MORDM, a decision-support framework that augments Many Objective Robust Decision Making (MORDM). MORDM often creates an intractable number of…

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Generative Adversarial Networks for Ensemble Projections of Future Urban Morphology

Melissa R. Allen-Dumas, Abigail R. Wheelis, Levi T. Sweet-Breu, Joshua Anantharaj, and Kuldeep R. Kurte DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3557916.3567819 Department of Energy, Office of Science, Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Progam Acknowledged Support: Yes, Multisector Dynamics Program Abstract As city planners design and adapt cities for future resilience and intelligence, interactions among neighborhood…

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