Tirthankar Chakraborty, an earth scientist in the Atmospheric, Climate and Earth Sciences Division of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will give the talk, “Modeling Spatial Variability of Urban Microclimate,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 11, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.
In his talk, Chakraborty will give an overview of this spatial variability and its importance, the current limitations in capturing this variability, and potential ways forward by leveraging current-generation satellite observations. Of note, the talk will cover both process-based numerical models as well as data-driven models with a focus on distributional inequality in urban heat exposure based on recently published and upcoming papers. The lessons learned from these multiple past studies can hopefully guide future urban model development efforts to enable them to more accurately inform neighborhood-scale climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
The talk is part of the EarthTalks spring 2024 series, “Urban Systems Science,” which is exploring complex urban systems including interactions between tightly connected human and natural systems both within city boundaries and between cities and the surrounding rural environment.