Not Everything Is Broken with U.S. Transportation and Water Infrastructure
Dec 5, 2017
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Geographic Smoothing of Solar Photovoltaic Electric Power Production in the Western USA 2018
We examined the geographic smoothing of solar photovoltaic generation from 15 utility-scale plants in California, Nevada, and Arizona and from 19 commercial building installations in California.
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SUCCEED: Summer Center for Climate, Energy, and Environmental DecisionMaking 2018
Conference paper describing an annual summerschool held at Carnegie Mellon University that was started by Kelly Klima.
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Surface Heat Assessment for Developed Environments: Probabilistic Urban Temperature Modeling 2018
We describe how fine resolution simulations of historic extreme heat events are generated and used to train a probabilistic spatio-temporal model of the temperature distribution in an urban area.
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Preparing For Local Adaptation: A Study of Community Understanding and Support 2018
We surveyed 1385 Pittsburghers on: (1) beliefs and knowledge about stormwater, (2) drivers of events, (3) support for green and gray infrastructure, and (4) the factors that explain their support.
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Surface Heat Assessment for Developed Environments: Optimizing Urban Temperature Monitoring 2018
A variety of metrics are used to optimize the placement of temperature measures to best support decision-making for monitoring and responding to extreme heat risk. This optimal sensor placement methodology is demonstrated for Pittsburgh.
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Hidden-Model Processes for Adaptive Management Under Uncertain Climate Change 2018
This paper proposes a set of optimization procedures based on the Markov decision process (MDP) framework to support decision making depending on the assumed learning rate.
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Chesapeake Bay Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook for 2018: Extreme Precipitation Analysis 2018
This web-based tool is part of a quarterly series that draws from a variety of scientific resources to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed policymakers, practitioners, residents, and community leaders on historical and projected future climate trends. An in-depth analysis of changes in seasonal precipitation and extreme precipitation events over multiple decades is displayed using interactive maps.
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Deep Decarbonization as a Risk Management Challenge 2018
As governments, organizations, businesses, and other institutions pursue deep decarbonization with the goal of reducing net human greenhouse gas emissions to zero by the second half of the 21st century, they will find risk management central to the challenge. This Perspective explores three concepts that are particularly important to the implementation of risk management for deep decarbonization -- risk governance, complexity, and robustness.