Matei Georgescu

Biographic Data

ID6081692
NAMEMatei Georgescu
GIVEN NAMESMatei
FAMILY NAMEGeorgescu
SIGNATUREGEORGESCU M
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
ORCID0000-0001-7321-2483
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR25
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Structural inequality shapes spatiotemporal patterns of heat-related emergency calls

    Open AccessJoseph Karanja, Amy E Frazier et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026

    Discrepancies between projected and observed impacts of heat hazard underscore the need to understand how heat exposure interacts with sociodemographic and environmental factors to shape health outcomes. However, current methodological approaches overlook unobserved spatial and temporal heterogeneity, limiting their policy relevance. This study examines how advances in heat vulnerability assessment can reveal key predictors of heat-related emerge…

  • How fine is fine enough? - Impacts of temperature data resolution on heat-aware pedestrian routing

    Open AccessSneha Roy, Katia Lamer et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2026

  • A cumulative perspective reveals urbanization exacerbates compound extreme heat-air pollution events in China

    Open AccessJiayu Li, Weiqi Zhou et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2026

  • The effect of climate on current and future urban vegetation outdoor surface cooling during periods of extreme heat

    Open AccessG Darrel Jenerette, Peter Ibsen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Vegetation is increasingly viewed as an important component of enhancing the heat resilience of cities. However, the amount of cooling vegetation can provide varies both geographically and temporally in ways that may depend on weather conditions. Within a city the distribution of vegetation can often exhibit patterns of inequality with high income and primarily white neighborhoods having the most vegetation and cooler temperatures, a clear indica…

  • Evaluating the effects of different tree species on enhancing outdoor thermal comfort in a post-industrial landscape

    Open AccessMehran Vatani, Kamyab Kiani et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    A frequently emphasized strategy to reduce the burden of heat in cities across the world is the implementation of street trees. Here, we examine the effects of deciduous and coniferous tree deployment on meteorological variables and pedestrian thermal comfort through analysis of the new dynamic thermal comfort (dPET) index, using the latest version of the computational fluid dynamics model ENVI-met. We performed on site observational measurements…

  • Southwest US winter precipitation variability

    Open AccessJoseph Karanja, Bohumil M Svoma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    The current drought plaguing the Southwest US (SWUS) underscores the need for long-term precipitation predictability to inform sustainable planning of future ecological and economic systems. Precipitation predictability requires understanding the teleconnections and intercorrelations of a suite of climate indices that are known to impact the SWUS. However, decision criteria about the selection of El Niño and southern oscillation (ENSO) and non-EN…

  • Sustainable land use and viability of biojet fuels

    Open AccessNazli Uludere Aragon, Nathan Parker et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022References: 2

  • Are global cities homogenizing? An assessment of urban form and heat island implications

    Open AccessMichelle Stuhlmacher, Matei Georgescu et al.ARTICLECities2022Cited by: 3References: 86

  • Precipitation response to climate change and urban development over the continental United States

    Open AccessMatei Georgescu, Ashley M Broadbent et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Appropriately characterizing future changes in regional-scale precipitation requires assessment of the interactive effect owing to greenhouse gas-induced climate change and the physical growth of the built environment. Here we use a suite of medium resolution (20 km grid spacing) decadal scale simulations conducted with the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled to an urban canopy parameterization to examine the interplay between end-of-c…

  • Focus on sustainable cities

    Open AccessMatei Georgescu, Mazdak Arabi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

  • Identifying the need for locally-observed wet bulb globe temperature across outdoor athletic venues for current and future climates in a desert environment

    Open AccessHaven Elizabeth Guyer, Haven Guyer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Exertional heat illness and stroke are serious concerns across youth and college sports programs. While some teams and governing bodies have adopted the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), few practitioners use measurements on the field of play; rather, they often rely on regionally modeled or estimated WBGT. However, urban development-induced heat and projected climate change increase exposure to heat. We examined WBGT levels between various athl…

  • Cooling hot cities

    Open AccessE Scott Krayenhoff, Ashley M Broadbent et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Infrastructure-based heat reduction strategies can help cities adapt to high temperatures, but simulations of their cooling potential yield widely varying predictions. We systematically review 146 studies from 1987 to 2017 that conduct physically based numerical modelling of urban air temperature reduction resulting from green-blue infrastructure and reflective materials. Studies are grouped into two modelling scales: neighbourhood scale, buildin…

  • The co-production of sustainable future scenarios

    Open AccessDavid M Iwaniec, Elizabeth M Cook et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020

    Scenarios are a tool to develop plausible, coherent visions about the future and to foster anticipatory knowledge. We present the Sustainable Future Scenarios (SFS) framework and demonstrate its application through the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) urban site. The SFS approach emphasizes the co-development of positive and long-term alternative future visions. Through a collaboration of practitioner and academic …

  • Efficacy of cool roofs at reducing pedestrian-level air temperature during projected 21st century heatwaves in Atlanta, Detroit, and Phoenix (USA)

    Open AccessAshley M Broadbent, E Scott Krayenhoff et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The air temperature cooling impacts of infrastructure-based adaptation measures in expanding urban areas and under changing climatic conditions are not well understood. We present simulations conducted with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, coupled to a multi-layer urban model that explicitly resolves pedestrian-level conditions. Our simulations dynamically downscale global climate projections, account for projected urban growth, …

  • Passive survivability of buildings under changing urban climates across eight US cities

    Open AccessAmir Baniassadi, David J Sailor et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    In the US, more than 80% of fatal cases of heat exposure are reported in urban areas. Notably, indoor exposure is implicated in nearly half of such cases, and lack of functioning air conditioning (AC) is the predominant cause of overheating. For residents with limited capacity to purchase, maintain, and operate an AC system, or during summertime power outages, the ability of buildings to maintain safe thermal conditions without mechanical cooling…

  • Urban agriculture’s bounty

    Open AccessNazli Uludere Aragon, Michelle Stuhlmacher et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    With over half of the world’s population living in cities, there is mounting evidence indicating that investments in urban sustainability can deliver high returns on socioeconomic and environmental fronts. Current scholarship on urban agriculture (UA) reports a wide range of benefits which have been shown to vary with the scale and type of benefit examined. Notably, most city-scale studies do not align benefits of UA with locally meaningful goals…

  • Clarifying the Connections Between Green Space, Urban Climate, and Heat-Related Mortality

    David M Hondula, Robert E Davis et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2018References: 7

  • Urban resilience efforts must consider social and political forces

    Open AccessHallie Eakin, Luis Tapia et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2017

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  • A sweet deal? Sugarcane, water and agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessTim Hess, T M Hess et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 4References: 9

    Globally, the area of sugarcane is rising rapidly in response to growing demands for bioethanol and increased sugar demand for human consumption. Despite considerable diversity in production systems and contexts, sugarcane is a particularly “high impact” crop with significant positive and negative environmental and socio-economic impacts. Our analysis is focused on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is a critical region for continued expansion, due …

  • Prioritizing urban sustainability solutions

    Open AccessMatei Georgescu, Winston Chow et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

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  • Impacts of land use and land cover change on regional climate

    Open AccessQian Cao, Deyong Yu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Assessing the impacts of land use and land cover change (LUCC) on regional climate is essential for understanding land–atmosphere interactions and for designing climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. Using the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model, we examined how different land use and land cover patterns affect regional climate in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of North China, whose environmental and socioeconomic conditions …

  • Urban adaptation can roll back warming of emerging megapolitan regions

    Open AccessMatei Georgescu, Philip E Morefield et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2014

    Significance Conversion to urban landforms has consequences for regional climate and the many inhabitants living within the built environment. The purpose of our investigation was to explore hydroclimatic impacts of 21st century urban expansion across the United States and examine the efficacy of commonly proposed urban adaptation strategies in context of long-term global climate change. We show that, in the absence of any adaptive urban design, …

  • Achieving accurate simulations of urban impacts on ozone at high resolution

    Open AccessJia Li, Matei Georgescu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    The effects of urbanization on ozone levels have been widely investigated over cities primarily located in temperate and/or humid regions. In this study, nested WRF-Chem simulations with a finest grid resolution of 1 km are conducted to investigate ozone concentrations [O[subscript 3]] due to urbanization within cities in arid/semi-arid environments. First, a method based on a shape preserving Monotonic Cubic Interpolation (MCI) is developed and …

  • Assessing summertime urban air conditioning consumption in a semiarid environment

    Open AccessFrancisco Salamanca, Matei Georgescu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Evaluation of built environment energy demand is necessary in light of global projections of urban expansion. Of particular concern are rapidly expanding urban areas in environments where consumption requirements for cooling are excessive. Here, we simulate urban air conditioning (AC) electric consumption for several extreme heat events during summertime over a semiarid metropolitan area with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupl…

  • Seasonal hydroclimatic impacts of Sun Corridor expansion

    Open AccessMatei Georgescu, Alex Mahalov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    Conversion of natural to urban land forms imparts influence on local and regional hydroclimate via modification of the surface energy and water balance, and consideration of such effects due to rapidly expanding megapolitan areas is necessary in light of the growing global share of urban inhabitants. Based on a suite of ensemble-based, multi-year simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, we quantify seasonally varying hy…