TC (Tirthankar Chakraborty)

In 2022 (back when #Twitter was still a thing), I had made this #meme about the state of #urban #climate #research based on an #xkcd comic.

With all the recent changes in the #publication and #funding spaces due to the #AI + #machinelearning hype cycle, here is an updated version.

Your random forest model does not need a name.

A summary of recent key developments for #km-scale #urban-resolving #Earth system modeling is the feature article of this quarter's International Association for #Urban Climate newsletter: lnkd.in/gY7fDycp

Related, a report (lnkd.in/gs3j4Mjs) I led that provides more details on these developments.

📢 Check out our just published paper (authors.elsevier.com/c/1mF0A9C~Iu...) in @cp-oneearth.bsky.social on present to future county-wise sociodemographic disparities in #moistheat ( #heatindex ) for different @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios for the #UnitedStates.

Scientific Reports has been such a subpar journal for so long. They really rope you in with their atypical Nature-style formatting and as papers get rejected down the chain, some authors eventually submit there because they don't want to reformat everything again.

Have been getting a bunch of emails about Springer Nature's Discover XYZ journals over the last couple of months.

Seems like MDPI/Frontiers got hold of a tuxedo.

It's so over for #academicpublishing.

If you are attending IGARSS 2026, please consider submitting your abstracts to the #Community Contributed Theme focusing on monitoring #global #urban areas from #space we are organizing.

The submission deadline is Jan 10th: 2026.ieeeigarss.org/Papers/Submi...

And yes, our theme number is 42. :D

My citation collection has apparently crossed 5000, which is definitely a number.

Something strange is going on with @microsoft.com #Teams for the last few days, where it keeps flagging completely correct words.

Unhelpful and distracting.

I am sensing some #AI shenanigans.

I have promised 12 people that I will do 24 things by this weekend.

I am hoping to finish 2 of those things soon. 👀

Will be in Austin next week for the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins for Earth Systems workshop (aidt4es.usacm.org).

Looking forward to trying some Texas-style brisket😅; & yes, also presenting on several past/ongoing studies on applications of #machinelearning for #urban #microclimate.

Thanks, Matt!

Thanks, Adam!

This is a huge honor and I cannot overstate the tremendous amount of support I have received for this award and in other ways at the lab. I am also incredibly indebted to my nominator and my internal and external recommendation letter writers.

I am flabbergasted once again; this time on being one of the recipients of the Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement, one of the Laboratory Director’s Awards for Science and Engineering Achievement at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

University of Massachusetts Lowell is looking for a #postdoctoral research associate to implement #system #dynamics modeling to assess #decarbonization pathways, integrate #extremeweather scenarios and #energyresilience, and engage stakeholders in exploring energy futures for #Massachusetts.

🌍 The #ERL Focus Issue on Human–Earth System Interactions under Climate Change is now complete!

Explore research on how human activities interact with Earth system processes, plus a closing editorial from the Guest Editors:
🔗 iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
#ClimateChange #OpenAccess

I am co-chairing a couple of sessions at #AMS26.

'Mapping and Modeling Urban Environments Exposures and Corresponding Health Impacts': lnkd.in/g55YHZ-C

'Weather-human-energy dynamics in urban areas': lnkd.in/gMmaGbUb

You can submit to all sessions through: lnkd.in/g_KWM5tu

Deadline: 14 August

I keep complaining about people submitting their abstracts too close to the deadline; and here I am...

#AGU25

@agu.org

Perfect.

@agu.org

It's the last weekend before the #AGU25 #abstract submission #deadline, which means it is finally time to submit your abstracts and crash their website.

If you are working on #urban-scale processes, consider submitting to our sessions (links below).

1. lnkd.in/gXXtKvtb

2. lnkd.in/gWuN2Yw6

If you are working on #urban modeling across #scales (#process-based to #hybrid to #machinelearning models), including development, benchmarking, and implementation, please submit to our #AGU25 session on this topic: lnkd.in/gTpTrw-9

The deadline is July 30th.

17th Conference on Environment and Health The 106th AMS Annual Meeting will take place from 25 to 26 January, 2026 in Houston, Texas.

🚨Call for Abstracts! Submit to the 17th AMS Conference on Environment & Health at #AMS2026 by Aug 14, 2026 🗓️
See the list of topic sessions and joint sessions 🌡️🌍 🎓 Student awards available! Feel free to reach out for more info! annual.ametsoc.org/2026/program...
@ametsoc.org

PhD Intern - Urban Dynamics in Earth System Models in Multiple Locations | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL is hiring a PhD Intern - Urban Dynamics in Earth System Models in Multiple Locations. Review all of the job details and apply today!

I am looking to hire (careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/10733?l...) a PhD #intern to work on representing #urban expansion in the Earth system models. One goal after implementing this capability would be to examine the impact of different projections of urban land on #weather extremes & #climate.

Please share.

🚨In our new paper (doi.org/10.1016/S254... in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social, we develop the Healthy Urban Design Index (HUDI) to gauge the performance of 917 cities in 4 key domains in #Europe using #opensource data.

We hope the HUDI can be a starting point for informing #sustainable #urban design.

I had been guest editing a focus issue on 'Human-Earth System Interactions under Climate Change' for Environmental Research Letters with several of my colleagues.

Here (doi.org/10.1088/1748...) is the closing editorial on this issue, which details the insights gained from these studies.

Older #BlueSky thread on key results of the study: bsky.app/profile/tcha...

Article (www.pnnl.gov/publications...) on a few recent papers I have contributed to, particularly our @natgeosci.nature.com paper (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) on the impact of #agricultural #irrigation in the #UnitedStates on #urban #heatstress.

Love the schematic PNNL's comms team made for this.

U-Surf: a global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling Abstract. High-resolution urban climate modeling has faced substantial challenges due to the absence of a globally consistent, spatially continuous, and accurate dataset to represent the spatial heter...

Read more here: doi.org/10.5194/essd...

In our recent paper in @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Earth System Science Data, we develop #U-Surf, a global 1 km facet-level #urban property dataset.

U-Surf is structurally consistent with the urban canyon assumption in process-based #models & addresses a longstanding data gap in these models.