By Associate Professor Negin Nazarian

Journal articles

Parchami M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Liu S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Can your smartwatch measure ambient air temperature?', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add6b5

Naserikia M; Hart M; Asadi Shamsabadi E; Bechtel B; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Advancing urban air temperature mapping with machine learning', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-243

Fazeli M; Nazarian N; Evans J; Gabeiras Penas J; Sharma S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Are high-resolution urban datasets necessary for accurate heat exposure modelling in cities?', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-104

Sismanidis P; Bechtel B; Naserikia M; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Are Urban Surface Temperatures Warming Faster Than Rural?', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-924

Martilli A; Krayenhoff ES; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Beyond UHI – how to build and use relevant indicators for heat mitigation studies', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-839

Parchami M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Liu S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Can your Smartwatch Measure Ambient Air Temperature? ', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-244

Lu J; Li W; Hobeichi S; Azad S; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Machine Learning Predicts Pedestrian Wind Flowfrom Urban Morphology and Prevailing WindDirection', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-101

Parchami M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Liu S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Machine-learning approach for predicting individual's thermal comfort and thermal sensation in outdoor environments', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-246

Crank P; Huang X; Karanja J; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Meet the AMS Board on Urban Environment', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-814

Nazarian N; Anand A; Hobeichi S; Naserikia M; Abram N; Slater L; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Meissner KJ, 2025, 'Predicting lethal humidity and associated excess mortality using machine learning and high-resolution datasets ', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-1109

Jiang T; Krayenhoff S; Martilli A; Nazarian N; Stone, Jr. B; Voogt J, 2025, 'Prioritizing urban heat adaptation infrastructure based on multiple outcomes: Comfort, health and energy', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-328

Naserikia M; Nazarian N; Hart M; Sismanidis P; Bechtel B, 2025, 'Surface urban heat growth and population exposure across global cities', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-242

Yang J; Zhao L; Nazarian N; Seto K, 2025, 'Toward heat-resilient cities: Identifying global urban heat futures shaped by characteristics of extreme heat and urban form', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-461

Jiang T; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A; Nazarian N; Stone B; Voogt JA, 2025, 'Prioritizing urban heat adaptation infrastructure based on multiple outcomes: Comfort, health, and energy', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2411144122

Lu J; Li W; Hobeichi S; Azad SA; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Machine learning predicts pedestrian wind flow from urban morphology and prevailing wind direction', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc148

Naserikia M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Sismanidis P; Kittner J; Bechtel B, 2024, 'Multi-city analysis of satellite surface temperature compared to crowdsourced air temperature', Environmental Research Letters, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8be4

Martilli A; Nazarian N; Krayenhoff S; Lachapelle J; Lu J; Rivas E; Rodriguez-Sanchez A; Sanchez B; Santiago JL, 2024, 'Assessing heat stress with a mesoscale model. An application of WRF-comfort to Madrid', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-1136

Nazarian N; Bechtel B; Mills G; Hart MA; Middel A; Scott Krayenhoff E; Langendijk GS; Zhao L; Pitman A; Chow W, 2024, 'Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse', Plos Climate, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000473

Martilli A; Nazarian N; Scott Krayenhoff E; Lachapelle J; Lu J; Rivas E; Rodriguez-Sanchez A; Sanchez B; Santiago JL, 2024, 'WRF-Comfort: simulating microscale variability in outdoor heat stress at the city scale with a mesoscale model', Geoscientific Model Development, 17, pp. 5023 - 5039, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5023-2024

Lu J; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A, 2024, 'A one-dimensional urban flow model with an eddy-diffusivity mass-flux (EDMF) scheme and refined turbulent transport (MLUCM v3.0)', Geoscientific Model Development, 17, pp. 2525 - 2545, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2525-2024

Lu J; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A, 2024, 'Representing the effects of building height variability on urban canopy flow', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150, pp. 46 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.4584

Hart M; Nazarian N, 2024, 'Season’s mis-greetings: why timing matters in global academia', Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03245-0

Lu J; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A, 2023, 'Novel Geometric Parameters for Assessing Flow Over Realistic Versus Idealized Urban Arrays', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003287

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Nazarian N; Bechtel B; Lipson M; Nice KA, 2023, 'Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality', The Science of The Total Environment, 905, pp. 167306 - 167306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167306

, 2023, 'Urban climate informatics', , http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-83251-592-1

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Nazarian N; Bechtel B, 2022, 'Background climate modulates the impact of land cover on urban surface temperature', Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19431-x

Pantelic J; Nazarian N; Miller C; Meggers F; Lee JKW; Licina D, 2022, 'Transformational IoT sensing for air pollution and thermal exposures', Frontiers in Built Environment, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2022.971523

Nice KA; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Seneviratne S; Thompson J; Naserikia M; Godic B; Stevenson M, 2022, 'Isolating the impacts of urban form and fabric from geography on urban heat and human thermal comfort', Building and Environment, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109502

Nazarian N; Krayenhoff ES; Bechtel B; Hondula DM; Paolini R; Vanos J; Cheung T; Chow WTL; de Dear R; Jay O; Lee JKW; Martilli A; Middel A; Norford LK; Sadeghi M; Schiavon S; Santamouris M, 2022, 'Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life', Earth S Future, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002682

Lipson MJ; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Nice KA; Conroy B, 2022, 'A Transformation in City-Descriptive Input Data for Urban Climate Models', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.866398

Middel A; Nazarian N; Demuzere M; Bechtel B, 2022, 'Urban Climate Informatics: An Emerging Research Field', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.867434

Blunn LP; Coceal O; Nazarian N; Barlow JF; Plant RS; Bohnenstengel SI; Lean HW, 2022, 'Turbulence Characteristics Across a Range of Idealized Urban Canopy Geometries', Boundary Layer Meteorology, 182, pp. 275 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10546-021-00658-6

Nazarian N, 2021, 'Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life', Earth's Future, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10508877.2

Ulpiani G; Nazarian N; Zhang F; Pettit CJ, 2021, 'Towards a Living Lab for Enhanced Thermal Comfort and Air Quality: Analyses of Standard Occupancy, Weather Extremes, and COVID-19 Pandemic', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, pp. 725974, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.725974

Potgieter J; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Ulpiani G; Morrison W; Benjamin K, 2021, 'Combining High-Resolution Land Use Data With Crowdsourced Air Temperature to Investigate Intra-Urban Microclimate', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, pp. 720323, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.720323

Liu S; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Niu J; Xie Y; de Dear R, 2021, 'Dynamic thermal pleasure in outdoor environments - temporal alliesthesia', Science of the Total Environment, 771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144910

Nazarian N; Lee JKW, 2021, 'Personal assessment of urban heat exposure: A systematic review', Environmental Research Letters, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd350

Nazarian N; Liu S; Kohler M; Lee JKW; Miller C; Chow WTL; Alhadad SB; Martilli A; Quintana M; Sunden L; Norford LK, 2021, 'Project Coolbit: Can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?', Environmental Research Letters, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd130

Moradi M; Dyer B; Nazem A; Nambiar MK; Nahian MR; Bueno B; Mackey C; Vasanthakumar S; Nazarian N; Krayenhoff ES; Norford LK; Aliabadi AA, 2021, 'The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v1.3.2)', GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT, 14, pp. 961 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-961-2021

Moradi M; Dyer B; Nazem A; Nambiar MK; Rafsan Nahian M; Bueno B; Mackey C; Vasanthakumar S; Nazarian N; Scott Krayenhoff E; Norford LK; Aliabadi AA, 2021, 'The vertical city weather generator (vcwg v1.3.2)', Geoscientific Model Development, 14, pp. 961 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-961-2021

Moradi M; Dyer B; Nazem A; Nambiar MK; Nahian MR; Bueno B; Mackey C; Vasanthakumar S; Nazarian N; Krayenhoff ES; Norford LK; Aliabadi AA, 2021, 'The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v1.3.2)', Geoscientific Model Development, 14, pp. 961 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-961-2021

Moradi M; Dyer B; Nazem A; Nambiar MK; Nahian MR; Bueno B; Mackey C; Vasanthakumar S; Nazarian N; Krayenhoff ES; Norford LK; Aliabadi AA, 2021, 'The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v1.3.2)', Geoscientific Model Development, 14, pp. 961 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-961-2021

Moradi M; Dyer B; Nazem A; Nambiar MK; Nahian MR; Bueno B; Mackey C; Vasanthakumar S; Nazarian N; Krayenhoff ES; Norford LK; Aliabadi AA, 2021, 'The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v1.0.0)', Geoscientific Model Development, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-176

Liu S; Nazarian N; Niu J; Hart MA; de Dear R, 2020, 'From thermal sensation to thermal affect: A multi-dimensional semantic space to assess outdoor thermal comfort', Building and Environment, 182, pp. 107112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107112

Martilli A; Roth M; Chow WTL; Demuzere M; Lipson M; Krayenhoff ES; Sailor D; Nazarian N; Voogt J; Wouters H; Middel A; Stewart ID; Bechtel B; Christen A; Hart MA, 2020, 'Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction', Open Science Framework (OSF), http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/8gnbf

Krayenhoff ES; Jiang T; Christen A; Martilli A; Oke TR; Bailey BN; Nazarian N; Voogt JA; Giometto MG; Stastny A; Crawford BR, 2020, 'A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate', Urban Climate, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100590

Nazarian N; Scott Krayenhoff E; Martilli A, 2020, 'A one-dimensional model of turbulent flow through "urban" canopies (MLUCM v2.0): Updates based on large-eddy simulation', Geoscientific Model Development, 13, pp. 937 - 953, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-937-2020

Martilli A; Krayenhoff ES; Nazarian N, 2020, 'Is the Urban Heat Island intensity relevant for heat mitigation studies?', Urban Climate, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100541

Jayathissa P; Quintana M; Sood T; Nazarian N; Miller C, 2019, 'Is your clock-face cozie? A smartwatch methodology for the in-situ collection of occupant comfort data', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012145

Nazarian N; Dumas N; Kleissl J; Norford L, 2019, 'Effectiveness of cool walls on cooling load and urban temperature in a tropical climate', Energy and Buildings, 187, pp. 144 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.01.022

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