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15829
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National Ranking
172

Overview

James A. Voogt is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on areas including Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Building and Construction, and Speech and Hearing.

The main topics they investigate are:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Among recent scientific papers associated with their work are:

  • Urban Climates and Climate Change, 2020, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate, 2020, Urban Climate
  • Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Time Evolution of the Surface Urban Heat Island, 2021, Earth's Future

Frequent collaborators include:

  • E. Scott Krayenhoff
  • Leiqiu Hu
  • Wenfeng Zhan
  • Benjamin Bechtel
  • Fan Huang

James A. Voogt has published extensively in several scientific journals, notably:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Urban Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Building and Environment
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Thermal remote sensing of urban climates

    James A. Voogt;T. R. Oke

  • Urban Climates by T. R. Oke

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  • The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from Phase 1

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J. Barlow

  • BUBBLE - an urban boundary layer meteorology project

    Mathias Rotach;Mathias Rotach;Roland Vogt;Christian Bernhofer;E. Batchvarova

  • Complete urban surface temperatures

    James A. Voogt;Timothy R. Oke

  • Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J.J. Baik

  • Disaggregation of remotely sensed land surface temperature: Literature survey, taxonomy, issues, and caveats

    Wenfeng Zhan;Wenfeng Zhan;Wenfeng Zhan;Yunhao Chen;Ji Zhou;Jinfei Wang;Jinfei Wang

  • Effects of urban surface geometry on remotely-sensed surface temperature

    James A. Voogt;T. R. Oke

  • Climate and more sustainable cities: climate information for improved planning and management of cities (producers/capabilities perspective)

    C.S.B. Grimmond;Matthias Roth;Tim R. Oke;Y. C. Au

  • Urban Climates and Climate Change

    Valéry Masson;Aude Lemonsu;Julia Hidalgo;James Voogt

  • Urban Heat Island

    James A. Voogt

  • SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

    Benjamin Bechtel;Matthias Demuzere;Matthias Demuzere;Gerald Mills;Wenfeng Zhan

  • A microscale three-dimensional urban energy balance model for studying surface temperatures

    E. Scott Krayenhoff;James A. Voogt

  • Extracting urban vegetation characteristics using spectral mixture analysis and decision tree classifications.

    Thoreau Rory Tooke;Nicholas C. Coops;Nicholas R. Goodwin;James A. Voogt

  • Modeling Surface Sensible Heat Flux Using Surface Radiative Temperatures in a Simple Urban Area

    James A. Voogt;C. S. B. Grimmond

  • Simulation of surface urban heat islands under ‘IDEAL’ conditions at night part 1: Theory and tests against field data

    G. T. Johnson;T. R. Oke;T. J. Lyons;D. G. Steyn

  • Validation of modeled carbon-dioxide emissions from an urban neighborhood with direct eddy-covariance measurements

    A. Christen;N.C. Coops;B.R. Crawford;R. Kellett

  • The urban boundary-layer field campaign in marseille (ubl/clu-escompte): set-up and first results

    P. G. Mestayer;P. Durand;P. Augustin;Sophie Bastin

  • Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature

    E Scott Krayenhoff;E Scott Krayenhoff;Ashley M Broadbent;Lei Zhao;Matei Georgescu

  • The Canopy and Aerosol Particles Interactions in TOulouse Urban Layer (CAPITOUL) experiment

    Valéry Masson;Laurent Gomes;Grégoire Pigeon;Catherine Liousse

  • Enhancing Hydrologic Modelling in the Coupled Weather Research and Forecasting–Urban Modelling System

    Jiachuan Yang;Zhi-Hua Wang;Fei Chen;Shiguang Miao

  • Multi-temporal trajectory of the urban heat island centroid in Beijing, China based on a Gaussian volume model

    Jinling Quan;Yunhao Chen;Wenfeng Zhan;Wenfeng Zhan;Jinfei Wang;Jinfei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy R. Oke
Timothy R. Oke University of British Columbia
Andreas Christen
Andreas Christen University of Freiburg
Valéry Masson
Valéry Masson Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
C. S. B. Grimmond
C. S. B. Grimmond University of Reading
Alberto Martilli
Alberto Martilli Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Shiguang Miao
Shiguang Miao China Meteorological Administration
Nicholas C. Coops
Nicholas C. Coops University of British Columbia
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Denis M. O'Carroll
Denis M. O'Carroll University of New South Wales
Benjamin Bechtel
Benjamin Bechtel Ruhr University Bochum

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