Sep 2025
Urban climate · HKUST
Our Future
Lies in Cities
We are interested in the mass, momentum and energy transport within cities, and its interaction with the overlying atmosphere.
Our group
Urban Climate
Research Group
Welcome to the Urban Climate Research Group at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology!
Urban
areas, concentrating most of the world’s population, are hot spots that drive environmental changes
at multiple scales. We are interested in the mass, momentum and energy transport within cities, and its
interaction with the overlying atmosphere. Our group investigates the challenges posed to water resources,
energy, infrastructure, human health, as well as other aspects of sustainability in cities under a
changing climate and the solutions for these challenges. The ultimate goal is to advance fundamental
understanding of the human-environment nexus and promote smart cities in the future.
Research directions
Understanding cities.
Informing their future.
Urban climate, the built environment and human–environment interactions.
Recent publications
All publications ↗- Lieber, J., & Yang, J.* (2026). Assessing urban microclimate modeling variability: A comparative analysis of ENVI-met and single-layer urban canopy model across multiple local climate zones in Hong Kong. Urban Climate, 67, 102885.
- Wang, H., Chen, Y., & Yang, J.* (2026). Leveraging atmospheric information across scales for local temperature forecasting using a novel multi‐scale perception network. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 3, e2025JH001083.
- Wang, H., Tang, J., Zhang, J., & Yang, J.* (2026). Intra-city scale graph neural networks enhance short-term air temperature forecasting. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(2), 947–961.