Aug 30: RSVP to All Hands Meeting due Sep TBD: Annual Report to DOE
Sep 12: Leadership Team Meeting
Sep 12: Resilient Solutions Meeting
Sep 26-27: SW-IFL 2024 All Hands Meeting in Tempe, Arizona
Oct 10: Leadership Team Meeting
Oct 10: Resilient Solutions Team Meeting
Oct 28-29: DOE UIFL Principal Investigators’ Meeting in Rockville, MD
*If you’d like a physical copy of this newsletter, please contact Shannon Zweig.
SW IFL UPDATES
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
I want to thank and congratulate everyone who played a role in our IOP field measurement campaigns this summer.
I especially want to thank the Team from Brookhaven who drove the two heavily-instrumented mobile observatories across the country (~2500 miles) to lead our measurement efforts
Starting in early June and continuing through out the month, SW-IFL researchers put in some very long hours, making a wide variety of urban climate measurements that will, no doubt, lead to new understanding of the urban climate system While some measurements are ongoing, it is safe to say that the 2024 summer IOP was a huge success!
I am looking forward to the SW-IFL All Hands meeting on Sept 26-27 at the ASU campus in Tempe Arizona, where we will share the tremendous progress that has been made on all fronts – observations, resilient solutions, and modeling.
Dave
CROSS-UIFL SEMNIARS SW-IFL
The four Department of Energy’s Integrated Field Laboratories have come together to offer a Cross-Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (UIFL) Seminar Series These are 90 minute webinars that incorporate two presenters from the IFL’s on various topics The objective is to facilitate technical exchanges and collaborations between the DOE’s UIFL teams, and they are recorded and open to all.
The next scheduled webinar is on Heat, presented by Darryn Waugh and Ali Eyni from Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative UIFL (BSEC) and David Sailor from Southwest Urban IFL (SW-IFL) It is scheduled for August 13 at 9:30 MST via Zoom You can find the webinar’s Zoom link in the SW-IFL Google Team Calendar.
SUMMER’S INTENSIVE OBSERVATION PERIOD (IOPS)
During the month of June, the SW-IFL Summer Campaigns was in full swing. First up was the arrival of Brookhaven’s two mobile labs Led by Katia Lamer, the Brookhaven team joined our activities, helping to capture various research data through out the Phoenix metro and Tucson areas.
(Left) The BNL team launches a raidosonde in Tucson.
(Right) The BNL team welcomes Phoenix area teachers on campaign ride alongs
Check out the Southwest Integrated Field Laboratory’s new logo, courtesy of the Department of Energy.
We reached out Phoenix area K-12 teachers to enlist their help in collecting air and surface temperatures in designated neighborhoods in the Phoenix metro area.
Sensor testing on our mobile eddy covariance tower was underway at two Phoenix locations during June and into July.
Our 2024 HeatMapper cohort (pictured left) assisted in all three locations (Tucson, Flagstaff, and Phoenix) with various projects.
Work with the City of Phoenix and the City of Tucson continued in both our Jackson Street testbed and our Oracle Corridor testbed
BROOKHAVEN’S MOBILE LABS CROSS-COUNTRY TREK
CMAS 1 and CMAS 2, the mobile labs from Brookhaven, made their trip from Upton, New York and hit the hot asphalt of Phoenix, Arizona on June 1st, in huge part to the willingness of Cole and Paul (Brookhaven Techs) who made the long drive possible. We were excited to have Katia and her team join us for the summer to collect data for our intensive observational period (IOPs)
SW-IFL COMMUNITY NIGHT
CMAS1 and CMAS2 resting up before heading into Arizona
ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL STRESSORS THROUGH RESILIENT SOUTIONS & NEXTGENERATION PREDICTIVE TOOLS
SW-IFL teamed up with Desert Botanical Garden’s “Flashlight Night” on June 22nd to host a SW-IFL Community Night. A core team of SW-IFL researchers was onsite to conduct media interviews and answer question on our ongoing research. We also had a chance to show off various instrumentation, including Brookhaven’s mobile lab, MaRTy cart, and thermal imaging to the attending public.
Edgar Ramirez chats with SW-IFL researchers
Alamin Molla discusses hot spots in the Valley with the Gyger Family
Smile! We’re ready to capture your thermal signature.
David Sailor talks with a visitor
Sunset at Desert Botanical Garden
Deepak Amaripadath discusses research with the Ramirez Family
HeatMappers recruited and surveyed 32 households across a variety of housing types in the Oracle Corridor. Deployed 100 temperature monitors inside and outside participant households
Surveys of participant households completed
AIR QUALITY/TEMPERATURE
DATA COLLECTION
Purple Air sensors installed at a weather station at Wildcat Inn, Sunnyside Unified School District, and the Flowing Wells neighborhood/School District.
K-12 ENGAGEMENT
Arizona Project WET – teacher training workshops: Implemented a 4th grade Arizona STEM curriculum that includes SW-IFL related content
Biosphere 2 collaboration: Ladd Keith and Kenneth Kokroko met with Biosphere 2 to explore educational workshop collaboration opportunities
ORACLE ROAD TESTBED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2024 University of Arizona (UA) researchers and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) conducted research activities focused on the Oracle Corridor testbed
Participants included: BNL: Katia Lamer, Edwin Davis, Parag Joshi. UA: Ladd Keith, Malini Roy, Heidi Brown, Mark Kear Community Partners: Tom Dang (National Weather Service), Irene Ogata (City of Tucson), Theresa Cullen (Pima County Health Department)
BNL mobile observatories collected localized climate data
BNL launched radiosonde and windsond weather balloons and provided outreach opportunities for researchers, community partners, and the media.
Media Day, UA campus, 8-2-2024 - SW-IFL researchers from the University of Arizona (UA) and Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) and community partners met with media outlets to discuss SW-ILF research activities and BNL’s mobile observatory trucks.
(Top) Brookhaven National Lab completes a windsond balloon launch for media outlets.
(Bottom Left) Katia Lamer (Brookhaven National Lab) and Resilient Solutions team members speak at Media Day at University of Arizona campus. .
(Bottom Right) The Brookhaven National Lab team provide information on CMAS mobile labs to media outlets.
Mittan, Kyle. “Weather trucks search for answers about extreme heat in Tucson's 'data deserts' ” University of Arizona, University Communications July 2, 2024 Interviewed: Ladd Keith (UA), Katia Lamer (BNL), Mark Kear (UA)
Medozoa, Katya. “Arizona researchers tackle urban heat with innovative weather data collection ” Arizona Public Media July 2, 2024 Interviewed: Ladd Keith (UA), Heidi Brown (UA), Edwin Davis (BNL)
Mayor, Analeise. “Two tricked-out trucks in Tucson help research extreme heat.” Interviewed: Ladd Keith (UA), Katia Lamer (BNL)
Popat, Mamta. “Photos: Weather balloon launched in Tucson to study extreme heat.” Arizona Daily Star. July 2, 2024. Interviewed: Ladd Keith (UA)
Macaluso, John. “Lab trucks collect climate data in Tucson.” KOLD News. July 2, 2024. Interviewed: Katia Lamer (BNL), Ladd Keith (UA), Theresa Cullen (Pima County Health Department)
Celaya, Eddie. “Partnership between national lab and UA tracks extreme heat at neighborhood level.” KGUN9 News. July 2, 2024. Interviewed: Katia Lamer (BNL), Ladd Keith (UA)
“Collecting Data on Extreme Heat ” (no link, live broadcast) ABC 15 Arizona July 3, 2024 Interviewed: Katia Lamer (BNL)
OTHER INTERVIEWS
Brodie, Mark. “Arizona has experience planning for extreme heat. New university partnership shares that knowledge ” , KJZZ, June 4, 2024
Interviewed: Ladd Keith (UA)
Serrato, Jafet “Mobile home residents have a tougher time cooling down ” , June 6, 2024
Interviewed: Mark Kear (UA)
PUBLICATIONS
Estacio I, Román-Palacios C, Hoover J, Li X, Lim C. Open-source automatic extraction of Urban Green Space: Application to assessing improvement in green space access ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2024 Jun 10;10:65-72 https://doi org/10 5194/isprs-annals-X-2-2024-65-2024
PLANNED ACTIVITIES
July 11, 2024, 10 am – 12 pm – Resilient Solutions Team Meeting, Zoom meeting, Ladd Keith or Patricia Solis
July 10-12, 2024 – Extreme Heat Workshop: Emerging Risks from Concurrent, Compounding and Record-breaking Extreme Heat across Sectors, Columbia University
Malini Roy (UA): presentation“Plan Evaluation for Coordinated Heat Resilience” Shaylynn Trego (ASU): poster“Exploring planning solutions to cool America’s hottest city through knowledge coproduction”
OBSERVATIONS TEAM
TEAM LEADS
Enrique Vivoni, ASU
Ted Schuur, NAU
Katia Lamer, BNL
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Observations team deployed a mobile platform (trailer with telescoping tower) at the edge of Encanto Park near downtown Phoenix for the purposes of measuring water, carbon dioxide, heat, and methane fluxes. The location was selected to offer a comparison to a similar setup that has been operational within the irrigated turf grass area of Encanto Park since February 2024. This deployment will last several months to capture the conditions at the park edge during the summer season.
Of great interest are the days classified as excessive heat warnings since we expect to observe that heat will be advected laterally from surrounding areas into Encanto Park
For instance, the large pavement surface of the Arizona State Fair Grounds is located just to the south of the deployment site. Urban heat built up over the pavement and released can be transported into the park and consumed as evapotranspiration within the irrigated turf grass This deployment was also coordinated with the mobile truck observations from the Brookhaven National Laboratory facilities during our summer intensive observation period (IOPs)
MODELING TEAM
TEAM LEADS
Kevin Gurney, NAU
Matei Georgescu, ASU
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Per the SW-IFL proposal, ORNL worked with Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University to understand which building properties and simulation output variables are required to be used as inputs for the WRF Model, Hestia Model, and ICARUS Model as well as any outputs from other parts of the digital twin that must be integrated into AutoBEM (occupancy, etc.). ORNL provided sample data files for other tools to use and results from the coupling/ingest of output from other tools
ORNL completed the following deliverables (ORNL backup at Y:\Projects\FY24\SWIFL\T5 - data coupling\):
A web-based Urban Heat Island (UHI) analysis for Maricopa County, AZ https://evenstar.ornl.gov/autobem/Maricopa/Maricopa.html
Supports building-specific color by: anthropogenic emissions, electricity consumption, gas consumption, building square footage, year built, and building type
Files generated for model coupling:
Maricopa Parameters 03072024.csv - 132 NUDAPT urban parameters (see image below) generated with NATURF using MAv1
Maricopa zip - 100m resolution aggregated parameters as a binary file
Climate/Met* - lab notes on variable, definitions, instructions, and code for converting WRF output into EPW files for model-coupling microclimate impacts to building energy
Thanks to Frank Li, Shovan Chowdhury, and Avery Stubbins at ORNL for their work on this deliverable.
Please let Joshua New (ORNL) know if you have any questions or concerns
RESOURCES AND REMINDERS
UPCOMING REMINDERS
Sep 26-27, 2024:
Mark your calendars for the SW-IFL 2024 All Hands Meeting hosted by Arizona State University at the Tempe campus. Invites were sent out via email on July 9th with an RSVP of August 30, 2024. Agenda will be provided closer to the start date
October 28-29, 2024:
The 2024 Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (UIFL) Principal Investigators’ (PI) Meeting will be held October 28-29 in Rockville, MD. This venue is for funded participants of the UIFL projects to exchange results, foster and sustain collaborations, and allows program managers to evaluate the progress of UIFL-funded activities More information and meeting website coming soon.
CALL FOR SW-IFL PHOTOS
Did you capture images or videos during the SW-IFL Summer IOP activities? If so, we’d love to have them
Feel free to upload your photos and videos throughout the year, but especially of this summer’s IOP campaigns and activities using this GOOGLE PHOTO FORM
Please note, uploaded images and videos will be shared in our public facing annual report and in other various report outs for conferences and meetings through out the year.
RESOURCES
SW-IFL Team Google calendar
SW-IFL Website
SW-IFL SharePoint Page
SW-IFL Newsletter Sign Up
Email SW-IFL
ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL STRESSORS THROUGH RESILIENT SOUTIONS & NEXTGENERATION PREDICTIVE TOOLS
