DOE CROCUS (Urban Heat Island) Project

• DOE CROCUS (Urban Heat Island) Project (2022-27)
• PIs: Y.-L. Lin, J. Zhang and M. L. Kaplan
  
• Dr. Lin's research: see MesoLab Web (ylin@ncat.edu)
  
• Dr. Zhang's research: click here (jzhang1@ncat.edu)
• Dr. Kaplan's research: click here (mike.kaplan@dri.edu)
  

• DOE CROCUS Program (led by Argonne National Laboratory)

• Research Focus @ NCAT

            (A)   Idealzied Modeling of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Impacts on Airflow and Mesoscale Convective Systems
Y.-L. Lin, M. L. Kaplan, Md S. Hasan
            (B)   Effects of Chicago UHI and Lake Michigan on Precipitation Associated with Incoming Precipitating Systems
M. L. Kaplan, Y. L. Lin, Md S. Hasan, J. T. Wiles, L. Shumpert
            (C)   Impacts of Blowing Snow on Lake-Induced Snow and Surface-Air Interaction over Lake Michigan Area
J. Zhang, J. Wang (ANL), M. Akinsola