Abstract: Modern public water systems require energy to provide reliable high-quality water, and two particular data problems exist. The first is the quantification of their energy requirements, for which literature is sparse and ...

Abstract: Assessing the long-term reliability and vulnerability of municipal water supply systems often employs system modeling to analyze performance. Generally, decision-makers have long been in search of a metric that presents a ...

Abstract: There is increasing evidence that large coastal cities, like Houston, Texas, can influence weather through complex urban land use?weather?climate feedbacks. Recent work in the literature establishes the existence of enhanced ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a remote sensing?based approach to rapidly derive urban morphological characteristics using radar satellite data. The approach is based on the expectation that the magnitude of the synthetic aperture ...

Abstract: ssessing climate change risk to municipal water supplies is often conducted by hydrologic modeling specific to local watersheds and infrastructure to ensure that outputs are compatible with existing planning frameworks and ...

Abstract: This study investigates annual river basin–level water criticality (ratio of available water to withdrawals) considering effects of climate change on supply and of future population change on demand. A steady-state water ...

Abstract: Designing urban water infrastructure systems for environmental sustainability requires consideration of hydrologic performance design criteria and results from life cycle assessment (LCA). The objective of this paper is ...

Abstract: Based on the need for advanced treatments of high-resolution urban morphological features (e.g., buildings and trees) in meteorological, dispersion, air quality, and human-exposure modeling systems for future urban ...