Xuhui Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6820830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xuhui Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xuhui |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1350-4446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tundra recovery post-fire in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
The extent of wildfires in tundra ecosystems has dramatically increased since the turn of the 21st century due to climate change and the resulting amplified Arctic warming. We simultaneously studied the recovery of vegetation, subsurface soil moisture, and active layer thickness (ALT) post-fire in the permafrost-underlain uplands of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta in southwestern Alaska to understand the interaction between these factors and their pote…
Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs
Accounting for temporal changes in carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) effluxes from freshwaters remains a challenge for global and regional carbon budgets. Here, we synthesize 171 site-months of flux measurements of CO 2 based on the eddy covariance method from 13 lakes and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere, and quantify dynamics at multiple temporal scales. We found pronounced sub-annual variability in CO 2 flux at all sites. By accounting for diel vari…
Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms
Satellites overestimate urban heat islands.
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island
The COVID-19 lockdowns drastically reduced human activity, emulating a controlled experiment on human–land–atmosphere coupling. Here, using a fusion of satellite and reanalysis products, we examine this coupling through changes in the surface energy budget during the lockdown (1 April to 15 May 2020) in the Indo-Gangetic Basin, one of the world’s most populated and polluted regions. During the lockdown, the reduction (>10%) in columnar air pollut…
A simplified urban-extent algorithm to characterize surface urban heat islands on a global scale and examine vegetation control on their spatiotemporal variability
Interaction between urban heat island and urban pollution island during summer in Berlin
Urban heat islands in China enhanced by haze pollution
The urban heat island (UHI), the phenomenon of higher temperatures in urban land than the surrounding rural land, is commonly attributed to changes in biophysical properties of the land surface associated with urbanization. Here we provide evidence for a long-held hypothesis that the biogeochemical effect of urban aerosol or haze pollution is also a contributor to the UHI. Our results are based on satellite observations and urban climate model ca…
Temporal Dynamics and Drivers of Ecosystem Metabolism in a Large Subtropical Shallow Lake (Lake Taihu)
With continuous measurements of dissolved oxygen, temperature, irradiance, and wind speed, as well as frequent measurements of pH, oxidation-reduction potential, and algal chlorophyll, temporal dynamics and drivers of ecosystem metabolism in a large nutrient-rich shallow lake (Lake Taihu) are tested in this study. The results show that the dissolved oxygen concentrations in the lake fluctuate annually. They increase in autumn and winter with a pe…
Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands
Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes
Climate models simulating continental scale deforestation suggest a warming effect of land clearing on the surface air temperature in the tropical zone and a cooling effect in the boreal zone due to different control of biogeochemical and biophysical processes. Ongoing land-use/cover changes mostly occur at local scales (hectares), and it is not clear whether the local-scale deforestation will generate temperature patterns consistent with the cli…
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Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands
Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes
Climate models simulating continental scale deforestation suggest a warming effect of land clearing on the surface air temperature in the tropical zone and a cooling effect in the boreal zone due to different control of biogeochemical and biophysical processes. Ongoing land-use/cover changes mostly occur at local scales (hectares), and it is not clear whether the local-scale deforestation will generate temperature patterns consistent with the cli…
Temporal Dynamics and Drivers of Ecosystem Metabolism in a Large Subtropical Shallow Lake (Lake Taihu)
With continuous measurements of dissolved oxygen, temperature, irradiance, and wind speed, as well as frequent measurements of pH, oxidation-reduction potential, and algal chlorophyll, temporal dynamics and drivers of ecosystem metabolism in a large nutrient-rich shallow lake (Lake Taihu) are tested in this study. The results show that the dissolved oxygen concentrations in the lake fluctuate annually. They increase in autumn and winter with a pe…
Urban heat islands in China enhanced by haze pollution
The urban heat island (UHI), the phenomenon of higher temperatures in urban land than the surrounding rural land, is commonly attributed to changes in biophysical properties of the land surface associated with urbanization. Here we provide evidence for a long-held hypothesis that the biogeochemical effect of urban aerosol or haze pollution is also a contributor to the UHI. Our results are based on satellite observations and urban climate model ca…
Interaction between urban heat island and urban pollution island during summer in Berlin
A simplified urban-extent algorithm to characterize surface urban heat islands on a global scale and examine vegetation control on their spatiotemporal variability
Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms
Satellites overestimate urban heat islands.
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island
The COVID-19 lockdowns drastically reduced human activity, emulating a controlled experiment on human–land–atmosphere coupling. Here, using a fusion of satellite and reanalysis products, we examine this coupling through changes in the surface energy budget during the lockdown (1 April to 15 May 2020) in the Indo-Gangetic Basin, one of the world’s most populated and polluted regions. During the lockdown, the reduction (>10%) in columnar air pollut…
Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs
Accounting for temporal changes in carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) effluxes from freshwaters remains a challenge for global and regional carbon budgets. Here, we synthesize 171 site-months of flux measurements of CO 2 based on the eddy covariance method from 13 lakes and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere, and quantify dynamics at multiple temporal scales. We found pronounced sub-annual variability in CO 2 flux at all sites. By accounting for diel vari…
Tundra recovery post-fire in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
The extent of wildfires in tundra ecosystems has dramatically increased since the turn of the 21st century due to climate change and the resulting amplified Arctic warming. We simultaneously studied the recovery of vegetation, subsurface soil moisture, and active layer thickness (ALT) post-fire in the permafrost-underlain uplands of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta in southwestern Alaska to understand the interaction between these factors and their pote…
Environmental Science (10 works) · Atmospheric sciences (9 works) · Climatology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Meteorology (6 works) · Urban heat island (6 works) · Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (5 works)