Ting Sun

Publications

Publications

My published work on urban climate, hydrology and the built environment: journal papers, assessment reports, and preprints still under review. Each entry carries its abstract and a route to a version you can open: the published paper where it is free, otherwise the author copy in a repository.

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2026 Modelling infrastructure & data Preprint Open access

URAY v1.0: a 3D Monte Carlo model for urban shortwave radiation with explicit buildings and tree canopies

EGUsphere (in discussion)
2026 Urban heat & surface energy balance Preprint Open access

Vertical responses of urban heat islands to heatwaves and their local climate zones dependence: a case study of Guangzhou, China

EGUsphere (in discussion)
2026 Hydrology & water Preprint Open access

From prediction improvement to uncertainty propagation structure: revisiting hybrid hydrological models

EGUsphere (in discussion)
2026 Anthropogenic heat Preprint Open access

Anthropogenic Heat in Urban Climate Systems: Forcing, Sensitivity, and Feedback

arXiv (submitted to Reviews of Geophysics)
2026 Heat, health & society Report Open access

The Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment – Independent Assessment (CCRA4-IA) Technical Report, Chapter 4: Built Environment

Climate Change Committee, London
2026 Modelling infrastructure & data Preprint Open access Corresponding author

Rapid growth in urban climate science masks structural transferability gaps

ESS Open Archive
2026 Rainfall & weather Open access Corresponding author

Global Urban‐Rural Differences in Precipitation: Cities See More Light Rain But Milder Extremes

Earth's Future
2025 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

GUST1.0: a GPU-accelerated 3D urban surface temperature model

Geoscientific Model Development
2025 Rainfall & weather

Impacts of Qinling Mountains Elevation on Precipitation in Central China: A WRF Modelling Analysis

International Journal of Climatology
2025 Hydrology & water Open access Corresponding author

Enhancing urban pluvial flood modeling through graph reconstruction of incomplete sewer networks

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
2025 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

Modeling urban land surface dynamics using Arizona single-layer urban canopy model in Python (ASLUM-Py)

Journal of Environmental Management
2025 Modelling infrastructure & data Accessible version

Efficient city-scale wind mapping from building morphology: A CFD-based parameterization scheme

Sustainable Cities and Society
2025 Heat, health & society Open access

Compound urban heat risk revealed by co-location of social vulnerability and elevated temperatures in London, UK: A spatial analysis

Sustainable Cities and Society
2025 Rainfall & weather Open access

Background Wind Speeds Outweigh Urban Heat Islands in Downwind Precipitation Enhancement by Cities

Geophysical Research Letters
2025 Rainfall & weather Open access

Influence of Qinba Mountains on summer precipitation in the North-South transition zone based on WRF simulation

Environmental Research Communications
2024 Hydrology & water Open access

Hybrid hydrological modeling for large alpine basins: a semi-distributed approach

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
2024 Anthropogenic heat Open access

Structural Uncertainty in the Sensitivity of Urban Temperatures to Anthropogenic Heat Flux

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
2024 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

The Water Balance Representation in Urban‐PLUMBER Land Surface Models

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
2024 Modelling infrastructure & data Noted Open access Corresponding author

GLAMOUR: GLobAl building MOrphology dataset for URban hydroclimate modelling

Scientific Data
2024 Urban heat & surface energy balance Noted Open access

Persistent urban heat

Science Advances
2024 Anthropogenic heat Open access

Spatial and temporal variation of anthropogenic heat emissions in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Urban Climate
2024 Heat, health & society Open access

Effects of urbanization and topography on thermal comfort during a heat wave event: A case study of Fuzhou, China

Sustainable Cities and Society
2024 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access First author

WRF (v4.0)–SUEWS (v2018c) coupled system: development, evaluation and application

Geoscientific Model Development
2023 Heat, health & society Open access

Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality attributed to urban heat islands in European cities

Nature Communications
2023 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
2023 Green roofs & building physics Open access

Impact of building density on natural ventilation potential and cooling energy saving across Chinese climate zones

Building and Environment
2023 Hydrology & water Accessible version

Enhancing process-based hydrological models with embedded neural networks: A hybrid approach

Journal of Hydrology
2023 Anthropogenic heat Open access

Deciphering the sensitivity of urban canopy air temperature to anthropogenic heat flux with a forcing-feedback framework

Environmental Research Letters
2023 Hydrology & water Accessible version

Improving LSTM hydrological modeling with spatiotemporal deep learning and multi-task learning: A case study of three mountainous areas on the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Hydrology
2023 Hydrology & water Open access

Where does the irrigated water in the Tarim Basin go? A hydrological analysis of water budgets and atmospheric transport

Environmental Research Letters
2023 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

SHAFTS (v2022.3): a deep-learning-based Python package for simultaneous extraction of building height and footprint from sentinel imagery

Geoscientific Model Development
2022 Heat, health & society Open access

Impact of climate change on hospital admissions: a case study of the Royal Berkshire Hospital in the UK

Meteorological Applications
2022 Heat, health & society Accessible version

Impact of 3-D urban landscape patterns on the outdoor thermal environment: A modelling study with SOLWEIG

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
2022 Rainfall & weather Free to read

Advances in the Application and Utility of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictions

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2022 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access Corresponding author

Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme (v2020a) in vegetated areas: parameter derivation and performance evaluation using FLUXNET2015 dataset

Geoscientific Model Development
2022 Heat, health & society Open access

Non-linear response of temperature-related mortality risk to global warming in England and Wales

Environmental Research Letters
2022 Green roofs & building physics Accessible version

Impact of inter-building longwave radiative exchanges on building energy performance and indoor overheating

Building and Environment
2021 Green roofs & building physics Accessible version Corresponding author

Urban meteorological forcing data for building energy simulations

Building and Environment
2021 Urban heat & surface energy balance Accessible version

Impact of heat storage on remote-sensing based quantification of anthropogenic heat in urban environments

Remote Sensing of Environment
2021 Urban heat & surface energy balance Accessible version

Seasonal and Interannual Variations in the Surface Energy Fluxes of a Rice–Wheat Rotation in Eastern China

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
2021 Hydrology & water Free to read

A multi-factor integrated method of calculation unit delineation for hydrological modeling in large mountainous basins

Journal of Hydrology
2020 Heat, health & society Open access

Weather regimes and patterns associated with temperature-related excess mortality in the UK: a pathway to sub-seasonal risk forecasting

Environmental Research Letters
2020 Anthropogenic heat Open access

Dynamic Anthropogenic activitieS impacting Heat emissions (DASH v1.0): development and evaluation

Geoscientific Model Development
2020 Urban heat & surface energy balance Open access

Urban storage heat flux variability explored using satellite, meteorological and geodata

Theoretical and Applied Climatology
2019 Hydrology & water

基于 WRF 湖泊模型的糯扎渡水库未来水温模拟

水力发电学报
2019 Rainfall & weather Free to read

Modeling the Impacts of Urbanization and Open Water Surface on Heavy Convective Rainfall: A Case Study over the Emerging Xiong'an City, China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2019 Modelling infrastructure & data Noted Open access First author

A Python-enhanced urban land surface model SuPy (SUEWS in Python, v2019.2): development, deployment and demonstration

Geoscientific Model Development
2019 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access Corresponding author

Evaluation of the WRF lake module (v1.0) and its improvements at a deep reservoir

Geoscientific Model Development
2018 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

Urban Multi-scale Environmental Predictor (UMEP): An integrated tool for city-based climate services

Environmental Modelling & Software
2017 Heat, health & society Accessible version

Impact of climate variability and change on crime rates in Tangshan, China

Science of The Total Environment
2017 Urban heat & surface energy balance Open access First author

Attribution and mitigation of heat wave-induced urban heat storage change

Environmental Research Letters
2017 Modelling infrastructure & data Open access

Developing a Research Strategy to Better Understand, Observe, and Simulate Urban Atmospheric Processes at Kilometer to Subkilometer Scales

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2017 Rainfall & weather Accessible version Corresponding author

An idealized LES study of urban modification of moist convection

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
2017 Rainfall & weather Free to read Corresponding author

Atmospheric rivers over the Bay of Bengal lead to northern Indian extreme rainfall

International Journal of Climatology
2017 Urban heat & surface energy balance Open access First author

The Analytical Objective Hysteresis Model (AnOHM v1.0): methodology to determine bulk storage heat flux coefficients

Geoscientific Model Development
2017 Heat, health & society Accessible version

Contrasting impacts of heat stress on violent and nonviolent robbery in Beijing, China

Natural Hazards
2017 Anthropogenic heat Accessible version

Evapotranspiration estimation considering anthropogenic heat based on remote sensing in urban area

Science China Earth Sciences
2017 Anthropogenic heat Free to read Corresponding author

Impacts of Anthropogenic Heat on Summertime Rainfall in Beijing

Journal of Hydrometeorology
2017 Hydrology & water Open access Corresponding author

Remapping annual precipitation in mountainous areas based on vegetation patterns: a case study in the Nu River basin

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
2016 Urban heat & surface energy balance Accessible version

Changes in Wind Speed under Heat Waves Enhance Urban Heat Islands in the Beijing Metropolitan Area

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
2016 Urban heat & surface energy balance Free to read Corresponding author

Impacts of surface heterogeneity on dry planetary boundary layers in an urban-rural setting

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2016 Green roofs & building physics Accessible version First author

How do green roofs mitigate urban thermal stress under heat waves?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2015 Rainfall & weather Accessible version Corresponding author

Better knowledge with more gauges? Investigation of the spatiotemporal characteristics of precipitation variations over the Greater Beijing Region

International Journal of Climatology
2015 Green roofs & building physics Accessible version

The joint influence of albedo and insulation on roof performance: A modeling study

Energy and Buildings
2015 Urban heat & surface energy balance Open access Corresponding author

Contrasting responses of urban and rural surface energy budgets to heat waves explain synergies between urban heat islands and heat waves

Environmental Research Letters
2015 Green roofs & building physics Free to read

The joint influence of albedo and insulation on roof performance: An observational study

Energy and Buildings
2015 Urban heat & surface energy balance

Contrasting Characteristics of the Surface Energy Balance between the Urban and Rural Areas of Beijing

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
2015 Rainfall & weather

城市化对北京地区降水的影响研究进展

水力发电学报
2015 Green roofs & building physics Accessible version Corresponding author

Saturation-excess and infiltration-excess runoff on green roofs

Ecological Engineering
2014 Anthropogenic heat Corresponding author

Spatiotemporal characteristics of anthropogenic heat in an urban environment: A case study of Tsinghua Campus

Building and Environment
2014 Hydrology & water

北京校园区降雨径流产污特性及其对水环境的影响

清华大学学报(自然科学版)
2014 Green roofs & building physics First author

To irrigate or not to irrigate: Analysis of green roof performance via a vertically-resolved hygrothermal model

Building and Environment
2013 Urban heat & surface energy balance

Turbulent Transport of Momentum and Scalars Above an Urban Canopy

Boundary-Layer Meteorology
2013 Urban heat & surface energy balance Noted Free to read First author

Revisiting the hysteresis effect in surface energy budgets

Geophysical Research Letters
2013 Green roofs & building physics First author

Hydrometeorological determinants of green roof performance via a vertically-resolved model for heat and water transport

Building and Environment
2012 Green roofs & building physics First author

绿化屋顶雨水滞蓄能力试验研究

水力发电学报
2012 Green roofs & building physics First author

绿化屋顶热效应的观测试验

清华大学学报(自然科学版)