The Coastal Urban Environmental Research Group (CUERG) intends to exercise the elaboration of research proposals, either observational and modeling studies of coastal physical phenomenon and their practicality on climate modification. It also seeks to provide results through publications in different international media about climate science.

COASTAL NORTHEAST US REGION

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Montoya-Rincon, J.P., Mejia-Manrique, S.A., Azad, S. et al. A socio-technical approach for the assessment of critical infrastructure system vulnerability in extreme weather events. Nat Energy 8, 1002–1012 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01315-7
  2. Gamarro, H., and González-Cruz, J. E. (October 5, 2023). “On the Electrification of Winter Season in Cold Climate Megacities—The Case of New York City.” https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063377
  3. Z.S. Han, J.E. González-Cruz, H.N. Liu, D. Melecio-Vázquez, H. Gamarro, Y.H. Wu, F. Moshary, R. Bornstein. Observed sea breeze life cycle in and around NYC: Impacts on UHI and ozone patterns, Urban Climate, Volume 42, 2022, 101109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101109.
  4. L. Ortiz, H. Gamarro, J.E.Gonzalez, T. McPhearson. (2021). Energy burden and air conditioning adoption in New York City under a warming climate. Sustainable Cities and Society, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103465
  5. Jorge E. González, Prathap Ramamurthy, Robert D. Bornstein, Fei Chen, Elie R. Bou-Zeid, Masoud Ghandehari, Jeffrey Luvall, Chandana Mitra, Dev Niyogi. (2021). Urban climate and resiliency: A synthesis report of state of the art and future research directions, Urban Climate, 38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100858
  6. González, J. E., and Krarti, M. (March 12, 2021). Reflecting on impacts of COVID19 on sustainable buildings and cities. ASME. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. February 2021; 2(1): 010201. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4050374
  7. Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, P., Melecio-Vázquez, D., and Gonzalez, J.E. (2021). Spatiotemporal variability of heat storage in major U.S. cities—A Satellite-based analysis. Remote Sensing, 13(1), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010059
  8. Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, and Gonzalez, J.E. (2021). Estimating heat storage in urban areas using multispectral satellite data and machine learning. Remote Sensing of Environment 252 (2021) 112125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112125
  9. H. Gamarro, L. Ortiz, and J.E. González. (2020). Adapting to Extreme Heat: Social, Atmospheric, and Infrastructure Impacts of Air Conditioning in Megacities-The Case of New York City. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities (August 2020). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048175
  10. Daniel Comarazamy, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Yiannis Andreopoulos.(2020). Projections of Wind Gusts for New York City under a Changing Climate. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048059.
  11. Christopher Beale, Hamid Norouzi , Zahra Sharifnezhadazizi, Abdou Rachid Bah, Peng Yu, Yunyue Yu, Reginald Blake, Anna Vaculik, and Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz. (2019). Comparison of Diurnal Variation of Land Surface Temperature From GOES-16 ABI and MODIS Instruments. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (99), pp.1-5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8792962.
  12. L. Ortiz, J. E. González, R. Horton, W. Lin, W. Wu, P. Ramamurthy, M. Arend, R. Bornstein. (2019). High‐resolution projections of extreme heat in New York City. Int. Journal of Climatology. doi.org/10.1002/joc.6102.
  13. Jorge E. González, Luis Ortiz, Brianne K. Smith, Naresh Devineni, Brian Colle, James F. Booth, Arun Ravindranath, Luis Rivera, Radley Horton, Katie Towey, Yochanan Kushnir, Danielle Manley, Daniel A. Bader, and Cynthia Rosenzweig. (2019). New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 2: New Methods for Assessing Extreme Temperatures, Heavy Downpours, and Drought. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Special Issue: Advancing Tools and Methods for Flexible Adaptation Pathways and Science Policy Integration. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. ISSN 0077-8923.
  14. Gamarro, H., Gonzalez J.E., and Ortiz, L.E. (2019). On the Assessment of a Numerical Weather Prediction Model for Solar Photovoltaic Power Forecasts in Cities. ASME J. of Energy Resources Technology 141(6). doi: 10.1115/1.4042972.
  15. Ortiz, L., González, J.E., and Lin, W. (2018). Climate change impacts on peak building cooling energy demand in a coastal megacity. Environmental Research Letters, 13, http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad8d0
  16. X. Liang, S. Miao, J. Li, R. Bornstein, X. Zhang, Y. Gao, X. Cao, F. Chen, Z. Cheng, C. Clements, W. Dabberdt, A. Ding, D. Ding, J. J. Dou, J. X. Dou, Y. Dou, C. S. B. Grimmond, J. Gonzalez-Cruz, J. He, M. Huang, X. Huang, S. Ju, Q. Li, D. Niyogi, J. Quan, J. Sun, J. Z. Sun, M. Yu, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Zhao, Z. Zheng, M. Zhou. 2018. SURF: Understanding and predicting urban convection and haze, Bulleting of the American Society of Meteorology (early release). https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0178.1
  17. David Melecio-Vázquez, Prathap Ramamurthy, Mark Arend, Jorge E. González-Cruz (2018). Thermal Structure of a Coastal–Urban Boundary Layer.  Boundary-Layer Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-018-0361-7
  18. Xiaoyu Xu, Jorge E. González, Shuanghe Shen, Shiguang Miao, and Junxia Dou (2018). Impacts of urbanization and air pollution on building energy demands-Beijing case study.  Applied Energy 225 (2018) 98–109.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.04.120
  19. E. Ortiz, J.E. Gonzalez, W. Wu, M. Schoonen, J. Tongue, and R. Bornstein.  (2018).  New York City impacts on a regional heat wave.  J.  of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.  https://doi/pdf/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0125.1
  20. Liang, S. Miao, J. Li, R. Bornstein, X. Zhang, Y. Gao, X. Cao, F. Chen, Z. Cheng, C. Clements, W. Dabberdt, A. Ding, D. Ding, J. J. Dou, J. X. Dou, Y. Dou, C. S. B. Grimmond, J. Gonzalez-Cruz, J. He, M. Huang, X. Huang, S. Ju, Q. Li, D. Niyogi, J. Quan, J. Sun, J. Z. Sun, M. Yu, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Zhao, Z. Zheng, M. Zhou. 2018. SURF: Understanding and predicting urban convection and haze, Bulleting of the American Society of Meteorology (early release).  https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0178.1
  21. Ramamurthy, P., González, J., Ortiz, L., Arend, M., and Moshary, F. (2017). Impact of heatwave on a megacity: an observational analysis of New York City during July 2016. Environmental Research Letters, 12, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6e59.
  22. Wang, N., P. Phelan, J.E. Gonzalez, C. Harris, G.P. Henze, R. Hutchinson, J. Langevin, M.A. Lazarus, B. Nelson, C. Pyke, K. Roth, D. Rouse, K. Sawyer, and S. Selkowitz. (2017). Ten questions concerning future buildings beyond zero energy and carbon neutrality. Buildings and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.04.006.
  23. Krarti, A., L. Ortiz, L., and J.E. González. (2017). On the Spatio-Temporal End-User Energy Demands of a Dense Urban Environment. J. of Solar Energy Engineering, http://doi:10.1115/1.4036545
  24. Ortiz, L., J.E. González, E. Gutierrez, and M. Arend. (2017). Forecasting Building Energy Demands with a Coupled Weather-Building Energy Model in a dense urban environment. J. of Solar Energy Engineering, 139 (1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4034909.
  25. E. Gutierrez, J.E. González, M. Arend, R. Bornstein, and A. Martilli (2015). On the anthropogenic heat fluxes using an air conditioning evaporative cooling parameterization for mesoscale urban canopy models. J. of Solar Energy Engineering, 137; doi: 10.1115/1.4030854.
  26. E. Gutiérrez, A. Martilli, J. L. Santiago & J. E. González. A Mechanical Drag Coefficient Formulation and Urban Canopy Parameter Assimilation Technique for Complex Urban Environments.  Boundary-Layer Meteorolgy, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0051-7.
  27. E. Gutiérrez, J.E. González, A. Martilli,R. Bornstein, M. Arend. Simulations of aHeat-WaveEvent in New York City Usinga Multilayer Urban Parameterization. Journal of Applied Meteorology And Climatology. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0028.1
  28. E. Gutierrez, J.E. González, M. Arend, A. Martilli, and R. Bornstein.  A new modeling approach to forecast building energy demands during extreme heat events in complex cities.  J. of Solar Energy Engineering, 135, DOI: 10.1115/1.4025510.
  29. Nathan Hosannah and Jorge E. González.  Impacts of Aerosol Particle Size Distribution and Land Cover Land Use on Precipitation in a Coastal Urban Environment using a Cloud-Resolving Mesoscale Model.  Advances in Meteorology Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 904571, 17 pages.
PUERTO RICO & CARIBBEAN REGION

Peer-Review Articles

  1. Keneshia Hibbert,Equisha Glenn,Thomas M. Smith and Jorge E. González-Cruz. Changes to Sea Surface Temperatures and Vertical Wind Shear and Their Influence on Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Caribbean and the Main Developing Region. Atmosphere 2023, 14(6), 999. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14060999.
  2. Rabindra Pokhrel, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Prathap Ramamurthy, Daniel Comarazamy. Impact of Building Energy Mitigation Measures on Future Climate. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 463. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14030463.
  3. J. P. Montoya-Rincon, S. Azad, R. Pokhrel, M. Ghandehari, M. P. Jensen and J. E. Gonzalez, “On the Use of Satellite Nightlights for Power Outages Prediction,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 16729-16739, 2022, https://doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3149485.
  4. Juan P. Montoya-Rincon, Shams Azad, Rabindra Pokhrel, Masoud Ghandehari, Michael P. Jensen, Jorge E. Gonzalez. (2022). On the Use of Satellite Nightlights for Power Outages Prediction. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9706181
  5. Said A. Mejia Manrique,Eric W. Harmsen,Reza M. Khanbilvardi, Jorge E. González. (2021). Flood Impacts on Critical Infrastructure in a Coastal Floodplain in Western Puerto Rico during Hurricane María. Hydrology 2021, 8(3), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8030104
  6. Rabindra Pokhrel, Salvador del Cos, Juan Pablo Montoya Rincon, Equisha Glenn, Jorge E. González. (2021). Observation and modeling of Hurricane Maria for damage assessment, Weather and Climate Extremes, 33, 2021, 100331, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100331
  7. Pokhrel, R., and González-Cruz, J. E. (2021). Mitigation options to reduce peak air temperature and air- conditioning demand in the context of a warming climate for a tropical coastal city. ASME. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. 2: 021004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051160
  8. Glenn, E., Smith, T.M., Gálvez, J.M., Davison, M., Hibbert, K.; González, J.E. Tropical Convection in the Caribbean and Surrounding Region during a Regional, Warming Sea-Surface Temperature Period, 1982–2020. Hydrology 2021, 8, 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8020056
    Hosannah, N., Ramamurthy, P., Marti, J, Muñoz, J., and González, J. E. (2021). Impacts of Hurricane Maria on Land and Convection Modification Over Puerto Rico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032493
  9. R. Pokhrel, A. Walker, and J.E. González. (2019). A new methodology to assess building integrated roof top PV installations at city scales: The tropical coastal city case. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities (February 2020). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045347
  10. Hosannah, N., González, J. E., Lunger, C., & Niyogi, D. (2019). Impacts of local convective processes on rain on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 6009–6026. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029825
  11. Nazario Ramirez, Cesar M. Salazar, Joan M. Castro Sánchez, and Jorge E. González. (2019). A satellite algorithm for estimating relative humidity, based on GOES and MODIS satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2019.1629715
  12. M Moknatian, M Piasecki, F Moshary, J Gonzalez. (2019). Development of digital bathymetry maps for Lakes Azuei and Enriquillo using sonar and remote sensing techniques. Transactions in GIS doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12532
  13. Pokhrel, R., Ramirez-Beltran, N., González, J. 2018. On the assessment of alternatives for building cooling load reductions for a tropical coastal city. Energy and Buildings. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.10.023
  14. Pokhrel, R., Ramirez-Beltran, N., González, J. On the Climate Variability and Energy Demands for Indoor Human Comfort Levels in a Tropical-Coastal Urban Environment. ASME J. of Solar Energy Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4041401
  15. Moises Angeles-Malaspina, Jorge E. González-Cruz, and Nazario Ramírez-Beltran (2018). Projections of Heat Waves Events in the Intra-Americas Region Using Multimodel Ensemble. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/2018/7827984/
  16. Nazario Ramirez-beltran, Jorge E. Gonzalez, Joan M. Castro, Moises Angeles, Eric W. Harmsen, and Cesar M. Salazar. (2017). Analysis of the Heat Index in the Mesoamerica and Caribbean Region. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0167.1
  17. Angeles, M.E., González, J.E. & Ramírez, N. (2017). Impacts of climate change on building energy demands in the intra-Americas region. Theor Appl Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2175-9
  18. N. Hosannah, J. Gonzalez, R. Rodriguez, H. Parsiani, F. Moshary, L. Aponte, R. Armstrong, E. Harmsen, N. Ramirez, L. Leon, P. Ramamurthy, M. Angeles, D. Niyogi, and R. Bornstein. (2017). The convection, aerosol, and synoptic-effects in the tropics (CAST) experiment: Building an understanding of multi-scale impacts on Caribbean weather via field campaigns. BAMS (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0192.1).
  19. González, J. E., M. Georgescu, M. C. Lemos, N. Hosannah, and D. Niyogi. (2017), Climate change’s pulse is in Central America and the Caribbean, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO071975. Published on 27 April 2017.
  20. Equisha Glenn, Daniel Comarazamy, Jorge E. González, and Thomas Smith,. (2015).  Detection of recent regional sea surface temperature warming in the Caribbean and surrounding region.  Geophysical Research-Letters. DOI: 1002/2015GL065002.  Selected as Research Spotlight of the Year.
  21. Nathan Hosannah, Hamed Parsiani, and Jorge E. Gonzalez (2015).  The role of aerosols in convective processes during the midsummer drought in the Caribbean.  Advances in Meteorology. Vol. 2015.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/261239.
  22. Comarazamy, D. E., González, J. E., Moshary, F., and Piasecki, M., (2015). On the hydro-meteorological changes of a tropical water basin in the Caribbean and its sensitivity to changes in regional climate. Hydrometeorology, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0083.1
  23. D.E. Comarazamy, J.E. González, and J.C. Luvall (2013), Quantification and Mitigation of Long-Term Impacts of Urbanization and Climate Change in the Tropical Coastal City of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Int. J. Low-Carbon Tech.,Special Issue on Mitigation Alternatives.  doi: 10.1093/ijlct/ctt059.
  24. D. Comarazamy, J.E. González, J. Luvall, D. Rickman, and R. Bornstein.  2013.  Climate impacts of land cover and land use changes in tropical islands under conditions of global climate change. J. of Climate, doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00087.1
  25. D. Comarazamy and J.E. González.  2011.  Regional Long-Term Climate Change (1950-2000) in the Mid Tropical Atlantic and its Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle of Puerto Rico.  J. Geophysical. Res.-Atmosphere, 116, D00Q05, doi:10.1029/2010JD015414.
  26. D. Comarazamy, J.E. González, J. Luvall, D. Rickman, and P.J. Mulero. 2010.  A land-atmospheric interaction study in the coastal tropical city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Earth Interactions Journal, 14, 1–24. doi: 10.1175/2010EI309.1.
  27. Moisés E. Angeles, Jorge E. González, Nazario D. Ramírez-Beltrán, Craig A. Tepley, Daniel E. Comarazamy, Origins of the Caribbean Rainfall Bimodal Behavior, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D11106, (17 pages), 2010, doi:10.1029/2009JD012990 .
  28. Moises Angeles, J. E. Gonzalez, D. J. Erickson, III, and J. Hernandez-Figueroa, The impacts of climate changes in the renewable energy resources in the Caribbean region. ASME J. of Solar Energy Engineering, August 2010, 132, 031009 (13 pages), doi:10.1115/1.4001475.
  29. Daniel E. Comarazamy and Jorge E. González. On the validation of the simulation of Early Season precipitation in the Island of Puerto Rico Using a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 3, doi: 10.1175/2007JHM804.1).
  30. I. Torres, J. E. González, and D. E. Comarazamy. Impacts of a changing climate and low land use on a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest. WIT Press. 2008. 10.2495/CENV080061.
  31. Velazquez-Lozada, A., J.E. Gonzalez, A. Winter, and P.J. Mulero, Urban heat island studies for San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Journal of Atmospheric Environment. 40, pp. 1731-1741.
  32. Moises Angeles, J. E. Gonzalez, P. Mulero, D. J. Erickson, III, and J. Hernandez-Figueroa, Assessment of PCM results for predictions of climate changes in the Caribbean. International Journal of Climatology. 27, pp. 555-569.
  33. González, J. E., J. C. Luvall, D. Rickman, D. E. Comarazamy, and A. J. Picón, Urban heat Island in a Coastal Tropical City: Case Study In The Metropolitan Area Of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Chapter 11 in Urban Remote Sensing, CRC Press, D. Quatrochi and Q. Weng Eds.  2006.
CALIFORNIA

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Sequera, J.E. González, K. McDonald, S. LaDochy, and D. Comarazamy.  (2016).  Improvements in land-use classification for estimating daytime surface temperatures and sea-breeze flows in Southern California.  Earth Interactions. DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-14-0034.1 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/EI-D-14-0034.1
  2. Sequera, J.E. González, K. McDonald, S. LaDochy, and D. Comarazamy.  (2016). Improvements in land-use classification for estimating daytime surface temperatures and sea-breeze flows in Southern California.  Earth Interactions. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/EI-D-14-0034.1?af=R
  3. Sequera, J.E. González, K. McDonald, R.D. Bornstein, and D. Comarazamy. (2015). Combined impacts of land-cover changes and large-scale forcing on Southern California summer daily maximum temperatures. J of Geophysical Res.-Atmosphere. DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023536. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023536/abstract
  4. Lebassi B., J.E. González, and R. Bornstein.  On the environmental sustainability of building integrated solar technologies in a coastal city.  J. of Solar Energy Engineering, 135, DOI: 10.1115/1.4025507
  5. Gonzalez Cruz, J., P. Sequera, Y. Molina, R. Picon, J. Pillich, A. T. Ghebreegziabhe, and B. Bornstein, 2013: Climate and Energy Vulnerability in Coastal Regions: The Case for US Pacific and Northeast Corridor Coastal Regions.Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources. Elsevier Inc., Academic Press, 3–35 pp.  ISBN: 9780123847034.
  6. Bereket Lebassi, Robert Bornstein, and Jorge Gonzalez.  Book title: Planet Earth 2011 – Global Warming Challenges and Opportunities for Policy and Practice.  Chapter title:  Reverse Reactions of Climate Changes on Coastal Regions.  InTech, On-Line Publisher. Ed. Elias Carayannis.  (ISBN 978-953-307-733-8).
  7. Lebassi B., J.E. González, and R. Bornstein.  2011.  Modeled Large-Scale Warming Impacts on Summer California Coastal-Cooling Trends, J. Geophysical. Res.-Atmosphere.  J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20114, doi:10.1029/2011JD015759.
  8. Lebassi B., J.E. González, D. Fabris, C. Milesi, N. L. Miller, P. Switzer, and R. Bornstein. 2009.  Observed 1970-2005 cooling of summer daytime temperatures in coastal California. J. of Climate. 22, pp. 3558-3573.
  9. Lebassi B., J.E. González, D. Fabris, and R. Bornstein. Impacts of climate change in degree days and energy demands in coastal California. ASME J. of Solar Energy Engineering, August 2010, 132, 031005 (9 pages) doi:10.1115/1.4001564.
OTHER

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Faiz, Q., and González, J. E. (December 2, 2021). Climatology and Trends of Heat Index, Human Discomfort Index, and Energy Per Capita for CONUS and Meso-America. ASME. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. November 2021; 2(4): 044501. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053022
  2. X. Xu, J.E. González, S. Miao, S Shen, and W. Guo. (2020). District-Level Summertime Air- Conditioning Electricity Consumption and the Sensitivity of Peak Cooling Loads to Urban Weather Conditions in Beijing. J. of Solar Energy Engineering, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046948
  3. Miao Yu, Jorge González & Shiguang Miao. (2020). Evaluation of a mechanical drag coefficient formulation in the complex urban area of Beijing. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-020-03354-6.
  4. Ning, A., Dou, J., González, J.E., Bornstein, R.D., Miao, S.G., and Li. L. (2020). An observational case study of synergies between an intense heatwave and the urban heat island in Beijing. J. of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0125.1
  5. M Yu, J González, S Miao, and P Ramamurthy. (2019). On the assessment of a cooling tower scheme for high resolution numerical weather modeling for urban areas. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0126.1
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