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Overview

Xuhui Lee is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Climate variability and models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Recent publications by Xuhui Lee include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms, 2021, Science Advances
  • Increased heat risk in wet climate induced by urban humid heat, 2023, Nature
  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Xuhui Lee has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Wei Xiao, Chang Cao, Mi Zhang, Yini Pu, and Haoran Chu.

The scientist's publications have appeared in key venues with frequent contributions to:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to articles, Xuhui Lee published a book titled Fundamentals of Boundary-Layer Meteorology in 2023 through Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

    Lei Zhao;Xuhui Lee;Xuhui Lee;Ronald B. Smith;Keith Oleson

  • Eddy covariance flux corrections and uncertainties in long-term studies of carbon and energy exchanges

    W. J. Massman;X. Lee

  • Handbook of micrometeorology : a guide for surface flux measurement and analysis

    Xuhui Lee;William Massman;Beverly Law

  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

    Xuhui Lee;Michael L. Goulden;David Y. Hollinger;Alan Barr

  • On micrometeorological observations of surface-air exchange over tall vegetation

    Xuhui Lee

  • Overview of ChinaFLUX and evaluation of its eddy covariance measurement

    Gui-Rui Yu;Xue-Fa Wen;Xiao-Min Sun;Bertrand D. Tanner

  • Annual cycles of water vapour and carbon dioxide fluxes in and above a boreal aspen forest

    T. A. Black;G. Hartog;H. H. Neumann;P.D. Blanken

  • Handbook of Micrometeorology

    Xuhui Lee;William Massman;Beverly Law

  • Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration

    Zhongwang Wei;Kei Yoshimura;Lixin Wang;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles

  • A simplified urban-extent algorithm to characterize surface urban heat islands on a global scale and examine vegetation control on their spatiotemporal variability

    T. Chakraborty;X. Lee

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Urban heat islands in China enhanced by haze pollution

    Chang Cao;Xuhui Lee;Xuhui Lee;Shoudong Liu;Natalie Schultz

  • Energy balance and canopy conductance of a boreal aspen forest: Partitioning overstory and understory components

    P. D. Blanken;T. A. Black;P. C. Yang;H. H. Neumann

  • Interaction between urban heat island and urban pollution island during summer in Berlin

    Huidong Li;Fred Meier;Xuhui Lee;Tirthankar Chakraborty

  • Rapid and transient response of soil respiration to rain

    Xuhui Lee;Hui-Ju Wu;Jeffrey Sigler;Christopher Oishi

  • Remotely sensing the cooling effects of city scale efforts to reduce urban heat island

    Christopher W. Mackey;Xuhui Lee;Ronald B. Smith

  • Global lake evaporation accelerated by changes in surface energy allocation in a warmer climate

    Wei Wang;Xuhui Lee;Xuhui Lee;Wei Xiao;Shoudong Liu

  • Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms.

    Zander S. Venter;Tirthankar Chakraborty;Xuhui Lee

  • Nitrous oxide emissions are enhanced in a warmer and wetter world

    Timothy J. Griffis;Zichong Chen;John M. Baker;John M. Baker;Jeffrey D. Wood;Jeffrey D. Wood

  • Intermittent Turbulence Associated with a Density Current Passage in the Stable Boundary Layer

    Jielun Sun;Sean P. Burns;Donald H. Lenschow;Robert Banta

  • Urban Heat Islands in China Enhanced by Haze Pollution

    C. Cao;X. Lee;S. Liu;K. W. Oleson

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Baker
John M. Baker United States Department of Agriculture
Timothy J. Griffis
Timothy J. Griffis University of Minnesota
Xuefa Wen
Xuefa Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianping Huang
Jianping Huang Lanzhou University
Ralf M. Staebler
Ralf M. Staebler Environment and Climate Change Canada
Rodney T. Venterea
Rodney T. Venterea Agricultural Research Service
Ronald B. Smith
Ronald B. Smith Yale University
Xiaomin Sun
Xiaomin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanlin Zhang
Yanlin Zhang Yale University
Dylan B. Millet
Dylan B. Millet University of Minnesota

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