Publications
Feddema, J. and W. Liu (2014). Seasonal and Diurnal Characteristics of Land Surface Temperature and Major Explanatory Factors in Harris County, Texas. Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers 2014 Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida
Hart, H., Gower S., Wilhelmi, O., and Yagouti A. (2014). Integrated Models for Heat-Health Decision Making: Linking Complex Science to Policy for Heat-Health Decision Making. SIMMER Workshop Report, Toronto (Canada), 40 pp. online at: http://ral.ucar.edu/csap/events/heat-health-decision-making/
Hayden, M., O. Wilhelmi, J. Cavanaugh, T. Greasby, D. Banerjee, and V. Nepal, (2015). Is Air- Conditioning the Answer? Understanding adaptive capacity to extreme heat: Results from a household survey in Houston, TX. To be submitted Climate Risk Management in January 2015
Heaton, M.J., Sain, S.R., Greasby, T.A., Uejio, C.K., Hayden, M.H., Monaghan, A.J., Boehnert, J., Sampson, K., Banerjee, D., Nepal, V, and Wilhelmi, O.V. (2014). Characterizing urban vulnerability to heat stress using a spatially varying coefficient model. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 8, pp 23-33.
Heaton, M.J., Sain, S.R., Monaghan, A.J., Wilhelmi, O.V., and Hayden, M.H. (2015). An analysis of an incomplete marked point pattern of heat-related 911 calls. Journal of the American Statistical Association, in press DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.983229.
Hu, L., and Brunsell, N.A., (2013). The impact of temporal aggregation of land surface temperature data for the surface urban heat island (SUHI) monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment, 134, 162-174.
Hu, L., Brunsell, N.A., Monaghan, A.J., Barlage, M., Wilhelmi, O.V. (2014) How can we use MODIS land surface temperature to validate long-term urban model simulations? Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119(6): 3185–3201
Monaghan, A.J., Hu, L., Brunsell, N.A., Barlage, M.P., and Wilhelmi, O.V. (2014). Evaluating the impact of urban morphology configurations on the accuracy of urban canopy model temperature simulations with MODIS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, conditionally accepted.
Oleson, K.W., Monaghan, A., Wilhelmi, O., Barlage, M., Brunsell, N., Feddema, J., Hu, L., and Steinhoff, D.F. (2013). Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate change, Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0936-8.
Wilhelmi, O.V., and Hayden, M.H. (2010). Connecting people and place: a new framework for reducing urban vulnerability to extreme heat. Environmental Research Letters, 5, 014021.
Wilhelmi, O. and M. Hayden (2015) Reducing Vulnerability to Extreme Heat: Science-Policy Interface. Chapter in: Extreme Weather, Health and Communities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Engagement Strategies, Springer Press.
Demuzere, M., K.W. Oleson, A.M. Coutts, G. Pigeon, and N.P.M. Van Lipzig, 2013: Simulating the surface energy balance over two contrasting urban environments using the Community Land Model Urban (CLMU), Int. J. Clim., DOI:10.1002/joc.3656.
Fischer, E.M., K.W. Oleson, and D.M. Lawrence, 2012: Contrasting urban and rural heat stress responses to climate change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L03705, DOI:10.1029/2011GL050576.
Lauper, U. 2014. Risk Factors for Heat-Related Health Symptoms among Older Adults in
Houston: A Cross-Sectional Study. MPH Capstone Final Report. Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado. 15 pp.
Monaghan, A.J., M. Barlage, J. Boehnert, C.L. Phillips, and O.V. Wilhelmi, (2013). Overlapping interests: The impact of geographic coordinate assumptions on limited-area atmospheric model simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 2120-2127. DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-12-00351.1.
Wilhelmi, O., de Sherbinin, A., and Hayden, M. (2012). Exposure to heat stress in urban environments: Current status and future prospects in a changing climate. Chapter 12 in Ecologies and Politics of Health, B. King and K. Crews, Eds., Routledge Press.
Zhao, L., X. Lee, R.B. Smith, and K.W. Oleson, 2014: Significant contributions of local background climate to urban heat island, Nature, 511, 216–219, doi:10.1038/nature13462