Extreme heat waves in urban areas are much more likely than previously thought, according to a new modeling approach designed by researchers including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) assistant professor Lei Zhao and alumnus Zhonghua Zheng. Their paper with co-author Keith W. Oleson of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, “Large model structural uncertainty in global projections of urban heat waves,” is published in the journal Nature Communications.
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