Publications

In Preparation

1. Lee, J., Wadhwa, A., Park, S. Y. (TBD), (2025) Crowdsourced Data for Detecting Urban Natural Hazards: A Review of Applications to Extreme Heat and Flooding. Urban Climate [In Prep]
2. Gingerich, M., Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M. (2025) Fixed and Dynamically-forced ELM Simulations to Investigate the Impact of Vegetation- and Impervious- induced Microclimate Effects on Urban Plant Behavior. Geophysical Research Letters [In Prep]
3. Berkelhammer, M., Lee, J., Vincent, A. E. S., Cho, A., Kaludi, B., Gonzalez-Meler, M., McNicol, G., Packman, A., Sullivan, R., Matamala, R., Miller, W., Gala, T., Nesbitt, S., Pal, S., Sagi, C. J., Anderson, G., Cintron, R. (2025) Amplification of the Urban Heat Island Effect via Persistently Dry Urban Soils. Nature Climate Change [In Prep]
4. McNicol, G., Lee, J., Packman, A., Muradyan, P., Raut, B., Tuftedal, M., Park, S. Y., Jaludi, B., Pal, S. (2025) Improved Forecasting of Urban Soil Moisture and Dynamic Flood Thresholds using Knowledge Guided Machine Learning. Earth's Future [In Prep]
5. Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., McNicol, G., Packman, A., Kaludi, B., Pal, S., Nesbitt, S., Drewniak, B., Vincent, A. E. S., Tuftedal, M., Muradyan, P., Park, S. Y., Cho, A., Gonzalez-Meler, M., Miller, W. (2025) Characterizing Soil Moisture Response to Precipitation in Heterogeneous Urban Environment. Geophysical Research Letters [In Prep]
6. Nesbitt, S., Park, S. Y., Lee, J., Wadhwa, A., O'Brien, J. R., Tuftedal, M. E., Muradyan, P., Miller, W., Packman, A., Vincent, A. E. S. (2025) CROCUS Urban Flooding Campaign: Observing Coupled Atmospheric and Land Surface Heterogeneity in Chicago. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society [In Prep]
7. Vincent, A. E. S., Packman, A., Miller, W., Larson, S., Suzukovich, E., Cho, A., Dietzen, S., Gonzalez-Meler, M., Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., Kaludi, B., Anderson, G. (2025) Patterns in Maple Sapflow and Biogeochemical Linkages in an Urban Setting. Ecological Applications [In Prep]

Under Review

1. Muradyan, P., Collis, S., O'Brien, J., Tuftedal, M., Jackson, R., Bhupendra, A, R., Grover, M., Kaludi, B., Vincent, A. E. S., Wagner, T, J., Sankaran, R., Cho, A., Sullivan, R. C., Weart, B., Pal, S., Anderson, G., Berkelhammer, NB., Conrad, N., DuMerer, D., Fytanidis, D. K., Gala, T., Gonzalez-Meler, M. A., Hence, D., Hill, S., Lee, J., Lozano, F., Michnick, J., Miller, W. M., Nestbitt, S., Packman, A. I., Park, S. Y., Saari, C., Shahkarami, S., Wang, J., Wawrzyniak, E., Yocca, D., Zvolanek, E., Beaudry, S., Kotamarthi, R., Negri, C. (2025) CROCUS Micronet: A Distributed, AI-Enabled Urban Observation Network in Chicago. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society [Under Review]
2. Lee, J., & Berkelhammer, M (2025). Environmental Controls and Climate Sensitivity of Contemporary and Future Urban Bike-Sharing Programs Across the United States. Journal of Environmental Management, [Under Review]
3. Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., O'Brien, J., McNicol, G., Vincent, A.E.S., Grover, M., Kaludi, B., Gonzalez-Meler, M., Cho, A., Packman, A. I. (2025) Gap-Filling of Urban Soil Sensor Measurements Using Gated Attention Bidirectional LSTM (GA-BiLSTM): Methods, Findings, and Implications. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, [Under Review]
4. Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., Vincent, A.E.S., Grover, M., Cho, A., Packman, A.I., Kaludi, B., Gonzalez-Meler, M., McNicol, G (2025). Quality Assessment and Control of Urban Environmental Sensors using Physical Thresholding and Machine Learning-based Probabilities. Big Earth Data, [Under Review]

Published

2025

1. Lee, J. (2025) Online Signals of Vulnerability: Revealing City-Level Response to Extreme Heat Using Google Trends. Environmental Research Letters, [pdf].
2. Lee, J., Park, S, Y., Wadhwa, A., Packman, A., Nesbitt, S., Sharma, A., Berkelhammer, M., Garcia, M. H., Kotamarthi, R., Hence, D., & Miller, W (2025). Comparing Multi-Source Urban Flood Indicators: Satellite, Simulation, and Citizen-Reported Data. Environmental Research: Water, [pdf]
3. Kotamarthi, R., Wang, J., Stock, J., Fytanidis, D. K., Munson, T., Niyogi, D., Muradyan, P., Jackson, R., Collis, S., Gonzalez-Meler, M. A., Lee, J., Sharma, A., Wang, S., Kaludi, B., Kaplan, M., Nesbitt, S. W., Martilli, A., Jacob, R., Negri, C. (2025) Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Digital Twin for U.S. Cities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, [pdf]
4. Lee, J., & Berkelhammer, M (2025). Evaluating the Influence of Traffic Congestion on Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity. Geophysical Research Letters, [pdf].
5. Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., Park, S. Y., Wilson, M (2025). Analysis of Urban Flooding in Chicago Based on Crowdsourced Data: Drivers and the Need for Community-Based Mitigation Strategies. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, [pdf].
6. Cho, A, Love, N., Cintron, R., Nicholson, J., Xu, L., Nunez-Mir, G., Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., Gonzalez-Meler, M (2025). Plant Species Selection and Participatory Community Co-design are Essential in Balancing Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Urban Areas. Environmental Research Letters, [pdf].
7. Lee, J., & Park, S.Y. (2025). WGAN-GP-Based Conditional GAN (cGAN) with Extreme Critic for Precipitation Downscaling in a Key Agricultural Region of the Northeast U.S. IEEE Access–Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Section, [pdf]
8. Lee, J. (2025). Inferring Urban Air Temperatures from Land Surface Temperatures with the E3SM Land Model (uELM), Satellite Observations, and Measurement Campaign. IEEE Access–Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Section, 13, 32564-32573. [pdf]
9. Lee, J. (2025). Estimating Near-Surface Air Temperature from Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperature Using Temporal Deep Learning: A Comparative Analysis. IEEE Access–Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Section, 13, 28935-28945. [pdf]

2024

10. Lee, J., & Berkelhammer, M. (2024). Observational Constraints on the Spatial Effect of Greenness and Canopy Cover on Urban Heat in Major Midlatitude City. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(1), e2024GL110847. [pdf]
11. Cho, A, Dziedzic, N., Davis, A., Hanson, C., Lee, J., Nunez-Mir, G., Gonzalez-Meler, M. A. (2024). Leaf Functional Traits Highlight Phenotypic Variation of Two Tree Species in the Urban Environment. Frontiers in Plant Science Functional Plant Ecology, 15, 1450723. [pdf]
12. Lee, J. (2024). Assessment of U.S. Urban Surface Temperature using GOES-16 and 17 Data: Urban Heat Island and Temperature Inequality. Weather, Climate, and Society, 16(2), 315-329. [pdf]
13. Lee, J., Berkelhammer, M., Wilson, M. D., Love, N., & Cintron, R. (2024). Urban Land Surface Temperature Downscaling in Chicago: Addressing Ethnic Inequality and Gentrification. Remote Sensing, 16(9), 1639. [pdf]
14. Lee, J., & Hu, M. (2024). Effect of Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors on Increased Early Childhood Blood Lead Levels: A Case Study in Chicago. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21, 383. [pdf]
15. Lee, J., & Dessler, A. E. (2024). Improved Surface Urban Heat Impact Assessment Using GOES Satellite Data: A Comparative Study With ERA‐5. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(1), e2023GL107364. [pdf]

Prior to 2024

16. Lee, J., & Dessler, A. E. (2023). Future Temperature‐Related Deaths in the US: The Impact of Climate Change, Demographics, and Adaptation. GeoHealth, 7(8), e2023GH000799. [pdf] *Top Cited Article in GeoHealth (2023)
17. Lee, J., & Dessler, A. E. (2022). The Impact of Neglecting Climate Change and Variability on ERCOT’s Forecasts of Electricity Demand in Texas. Weather, Climate, and Society, 14(2), 499-505. [pdf]
18. Lee, J., Mast, J. C., & Dessler, A. E. (2021). The Effect of Forced Change and Unforced Variability in Heat Waves, Temperature Extremes, and Associated Population Risk in a CO2-Warmed World. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(15), 11889-11904. [pdf]
19. Lee, J., Shi, Y. R., Cai, C., Ciren, P., Wang, J., Gangopadhyay, A., & Zhang, Z. (2021). Machine Learning Based Algorithms for Global Dust Aerosol Detection from Satellite Images: Inter-Comparisons and Evaluation. Remote Sensing, 13(3), 456. [pdf]
20. Lee, J., & Kim, K. Y. (2018). Analysis of Source Regions and Meteorological Factors for the Variability of Spring PM₁₀ Concentrations in Seoul, Korea. Atmospheric Environment, 175, 199-209. [pdf]
21. Lee, J. (2017). Future Trend in Seasonal Lengths and Extreme Temperature Distributions over South Korea. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 53, 31-41. [pdf]