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SW-IFL UPDATES JANUARY 2024
THIS ISSUE 2023 Annual Report Testbed News 2024 Discovery Fellows & Heatmappers
ANNOUCEMENTS Welcome to a brand new year!
UPCOMING EVENTS Jan 12: Oracle Test Bed Meeting Jan 17: DOE 2023 Q4 Report Jan 28-Feb 1: AMS Annual Meeting Feb 3: Southern Arizona Heat Summit Feb 9: Modeling Team Meeting Feb 14: Leadership Team Meeting Feb 16: Observations Team Meeting
2023 was a busy year and we’re excited to share our team’s accomplishments in our SW-IFL Annual Report, now live on our website (sw-ifl.asu.edu). A big thank you to all researchers and advisory board members who contributed to the report and its review. If you’d like a physical copy, please contact Shannon Zweig. We would like to extend warm welcomes to our new graduate research assistant, Sina Sedaghat, and our incoming Field Technician, Elijah Martin. Sina started with ASU on January 4th and will be joining the Resilient Solutions team. Elijah’s anticipated start is January 16th and he will be joining both the Observations and the Resilient Solutions teams. Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, may be visiting SW-IFL at ASU in Tempe in mid-February. More details to follow. You may notice that this month’s newsletter has changed format as this is our first public-facing edition. We will continue to publish monthly internal updates for the team, but moving forward, the information in our January, April, July, and October editions will be tailored to a public audience. These public editions will also be housed on our website. We heard your request for a one-stop collection of SW-IFL resources and it is currently under construction. Once it is finalized, we will share the link and necessary information with SW-IFL researchers and advisory board members.
RESILIENT SOLUTIONS TEAM TEAM LEADS Ladd Keith, UA Patricia Solis, ASU
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
TESTBEDS Initial testbeds sites have been selected and SW-IFL team members are in discussions and ongoing meetings with community partners to assess and coordinate activities. These testbed locations, to date, are: Oracle Road Corridor, Tucson, Arizona Jackson Street Site, Phoenix, Arizona Desert Wells, Mesa, Arizona Flagstaff, Arizona Oracle Rd.
Jackson St.
URBAN RESIDENTIAL DISCOVERY The team has identified and toured potential research sites in the Oracle Road Testbed corridor, and established relationships with the City of Tucson Department of Housing and Community Development. We have identified synergies between the summer 2024 data collection plans and funded housing projects in the Oracle Road Testbed. Creation of the Arizona Manufactured Housing Research Dataset that covers the Arizona urban corridor. This includes landcover data for assessment of heat vulnerability across housing types and tenure.
MOBILITY DISCOVERY Prepared post-processing analysis for National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data and received protected data storage. We’re proud to share that Ash Avila, UA undergraduate student, received a Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship aware for her prosed work linking travel behavior with heat. New combined Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS™) for Heat and Plan Quality Evaluation for Heat Resilience (Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience) is being deployed in several cities across the urban corridor, and assessment protocols to determine how the reports are used have been initiated. K-12 ENGAGEMENT Arizona Project WET (APW) pilot teaching training workshop was evaluated and plans for integration of SW-IFL content in 2024 workshops were developed. Completed collocation of PurpleAir sensors at air quality monitoring site for deployment in Spring 2024.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES Testbeds: Identify a timeline for funded interventions and coordinating data collection during the Intensive Observations Period (IOP) for summer 2024. Urban Residential Discovery: Identify specific sites for household recruitment. Mobility Discovery: Analysis of National Household Travel Survey Analysis. 2024 SW-IFL Discovery Fellowship: A cohort of four community fellows at three sites will engage in work focused on a them relate to one of the modeling, observation, or solutions challenges in the overarching SW-IFL research agenda. Placement is expected to begin in March 2024. 2024 SW-IFL HeatMappers: Recruitment and placement of six undergraduate students at three sites from the SWIFL region’s universities will be selected for a six-week summer research aligned to the observation, modeling, or solutions activities and/or the annual testbed experiences. K-12 Activities: AZ Project WET (APW) will offer multi-day teacher workshops that integrate SW-IFL content, and provide collaborative check-ins with participating teachers to strategize in-class site visits. Expanding activities and monitoring at Paideia Academy as a school demonstration site.
OBSERVATIONS TEAM TEAM LEADS Enrique Vivoni, ASU Ted Schuur, NAU Katia Lamer, BNL
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS In collaboration with CAP-LTER, established operational eddy covariance systems at two Arizona locations: Desert Botanical Gardens - remaining open desert in city, with nearby urban land covers Maryvale - low rise residential Phoenix neighborhood Obtained ancillary data from nearby weather stations (Salt River Project and Maricopa County Flood Control District) for gap filling. Completed design study for the second CMAS mobile observatory and subcontracted the assembly work to Prosensing Inc. This allows us to deploy the CMAS instrumentation on rooftops/ground if needed, collect data on tilted terrain, and double the spatial coverage during data collection. Began urban dispersion study using field data collected in 2022 around the Wells and Fargo complex in Houston, Texas, which improves the design of experiments coupling dynamic and thermodynamic measurement, provide hands on experience on use of Doppler lidar data, and improve our fundamental understanding of dispersion flow patterns around curved buildings. SW-IFL Observation team members participated in the themed workshop, “LandAtomosphere Exchanges inComplex Urban Landscapes: From Process Diagnosis to Climate Impacts” hosted by AmeriFlux Management Project at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, IL in November 2023. More than 25 researchers from the U.S., Mexico, Europe, and Asis discussed challenges and potential solutions with repect to the application of eddy covariance method in urban areas. Maryvale Tall Tower
PLANNED ACTIVITIES We are seeking potential sites for the following deployments: Tall tower in either a high-rise urban setting (ASU Tempe Campus) or near transportation corridor (Mesa Community College near US-60) in Phoenix area. Mobile deployment locations for summer 2024 Intensive Observational Period (IOP), including sites in Tucson and Phoenix metro area. Will refine the optimal experimental design study using Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) and machine learning techniques for Earth sciences. Will finalize planned field work for summer 2024 IOP. In coordination with AZMET, we will be re-deploying an eddy covariance system in the urban park, Encanto Golf Course, which is irrigated and a managed turf grass facility.
Eddy covariance system - Encanto Gold Course
MODELING TEAM TEAM LEADS Kevin Gurney, NAU Matei Georgescu, ASU
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Onroad sector is down to onroad segment level for greenhouse gas emissions for the whole state of Arizona. That level is hourly for 12 years. The Air Quality (AQ) species (other than lead) across the onroad sector is still at an aggregate scale at one kilometer, but plans are to downscale that further and adding anthropogenic heat. Comparing Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) with Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) to enable new paradigm of regional climate modeling. Extracted morphological data on 2,555,152 buildings in Arizona and developed the processing workflow for aggregating building morphology and energy information.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES Working on the challenge of passing data from one model to another in the Model of Models (MoM). Completed inputting initial data, cleaning the data, and passing it on to the next model. Simultaneously, work is being done on a public interfacing system for the researchers (not general public) to input their data, the system then cleans the data and allows it to be ingested by the next model. This is the first step of many. Initiate dialogue for presentation of data to stakeholders in front-end of reduced order of model
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UPCOMING REMINDERS Jan 17th, 2024: The SW-IFL will present their progress report for 2023 Q4 to the DOE via Zoom at 11 am MST (1 pm ET). Jan 28th - Feb 1st, 2024: 104th America Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting in Baltimore, MD & online. Feb 2024: US Department of Energy, Office of Science Director may be visiting our SWIFL in February. More details will follow. Feb 3rd, 2024: Southern Arizona Heat Summit presented by City of Tucson and University of Arizona.
ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL STRESSORS THROUGH RESILIENT SOUTIONS & NEXTGENERATION PREDICTIVE TOOLS
PROJECT LEADS David Sailor, ASU Jean Andino, ASU
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