By Associate Professor Melissa Anne Hart

Journal articles

Naserikia M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Sismanidis P; Bechtel B; Meissner K, 2026, 'Two decades of urban heat intensification and exposure across 1400 cities', Communications Earth and Environment, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03665-y

Gettelman A; Vidale PL; Stevens B; Ziemen F; Feng Z; Konow H; Kölling T; Kluft L; Jones W; Pasqualetto S; Wu Y; Brose S; Clyne J; Fita L; Green S; Harris L; Hart MA; Kukulies J; Medeiros B; Merlis TM; Muetzelfeldt M; Pincus R; Da Rocha RP; Satoh M; Su H; Takasuka D; Terai C; Ullrich P; Zhou T, 2026, 'Hacking Kilometer-Scale Models: A Participative Model for Climate Information', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 107, pp. E1586 - E1598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0183.1

Sismanidis P; Ghent D; Nazarian N; Naserikia M; Hart M; Bechtel B, 2026, 'A multi-level Bayesian analysis of urban and rural warming trends across global climates', Environmental Research Communications, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae68e9

Batino L; Lennard C; Jamero ML; Hart MA; Stadler L; van der Wel N; Borges de Amorim P; Feba F; Kalele DN, 2026, 'Assessing the training needs of climate scientists: The role of the World Climate Research Programme Academy', Plos Climate, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000853

Nazarian N; Lu J; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Liu S; Krayenhoff ES; Blunn L; Martilli A, 2025, 'UrbanTALES: A Large-Eddy Simulation Dataset for Urban Canopy Layer Turbulence and Parameterization', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106, pp. E2461 - E2478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0061.1

Parchami M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Liu S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Can your smartwatch measure ambient air temperature?', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add6b5

Naserikia M; Hart M; Asadi Shamsabadi E; Bechtel B; Nazarian N, 2025, 'Advancing urban air temperature mapping with machine learning', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-243

Parchami M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Liu S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Can your Smartwatch Measure Ambient Air Temperature?', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-244

Hart MA; Lennard C; Van Der Wel N; Jamero ML, 2025, 'Engaging the urban climate community in the World Climate Research Program Academy ', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-245

Parchami M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Liu S; Martilli A, 2025, 'Machine-learning approach for predicting individual's thermal comfort and thermal sensation in outdoor environments', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-246

Naserikia M; Nazarian N; Hart M; Sismanidis P; Bechtel B, 2025, 'Surface urban heat growth and population exposure across global cities', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-242

van der Wel N; Francis F; Hart M; Lennard C; Jamero ML; Batino L, 2025, 'The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Academy      ', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-9020

Naserikia M; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Sismanidis P; Kittner J; Bechtel B, 2024, 'Multi-city analysis of satellite surface temperature compared to crowdsourced air temperature', Environmental Research Letters, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8be4

Nazarian N; Bechtel B; Mills G; Hart MA; Middel A; Scott Krayenhoff E; Langendijk GS; Zhao L; Pitman A; Chow W, 2024, 'Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse', Plos Climate, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000473

Lu J; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A, 2024, 'A one-dimensional urban flow model with an eddy-diffusivity mass-flux (EDMF) scheme and refined turbulent transport (MLUCM v3.0)', Geoscientific Model Development, 17, pp. 2525 - 2545, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2525-2024

Lu J; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A, 2024, 'Representing the effects of building height variability on urban canopy flow', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150, pp. 46 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.4584

Hart M; Nazarian N, 2024, 'Season’s mis-greetings: why timing matters in global academia', Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03245-0

Lu J; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Krayenhoff ES; Martilli A, 2023, 'Novel Geometric Parameters for Assessing Flow Over Realistic Versus Idealized Urban Arrays', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003287

Hart M, 2023, 'How to cold e-mail for a PhD', Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00786-8

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Nazarian N; Bechtel B; Lipson M; Nice KA, 2023, 'Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality', The Science of The Total Environment, 905, pp. 167306 - 167306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167306

Ulpiani G; Hart MA; Di Virgilio G; Maharaj AM; Lipson MJ; Potgieter J, 2022, 'A citizen centred urban network for weather and air quality in Australian schools', Scientific Data, 9, pp. 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01205-9

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Nazarian N; Bechtel B, 2022, 'Background climate modulates the impact of land cover on urban surface temperature', Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19431-x

Nice KA; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Seneviratne S; Thompson J; Naserikia M; Godic B; Stevenson M, 2022, 'Isolating the impacts of urban form and fabric from geography on urban heat and human thermal comfort', Building and Environment, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109502

Lipson MJ; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Nice KA; Conroy B, 2022, 'A Transformation in City-Descriptive Input Data for Urban Climate Models', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.866398

Pathmeswaran C; Sen Gupta A; Perkins-Kirkpatrick SE; Hart MA, 2022, 'Exploring Potential Links Between Co-occurring Coastal Terrestrial and Marine Heatwaves in Australia', Frontiers in Climate, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.792730

Ulpiani G; Hart MA; Di Virgilio G; Maharaj AM, 2022, 'Urban meteorology and air quality in a rapidly growing city: Inter-parameter associations and intra-urban heterogeneity', Sustainable Cities and Society, 77, pp. 103553, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103553

Di Virgilio G; Hart MA; Maharaj AM; Jiang N, 2021, 'Air quality impacts of the 2019–2020 Black Summer wildfires on Australian schools', Atmospheric Environment, 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118450

Potgieter J; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Ulpiani G; Morrison W; Benjamin K, 2021, 'Combining High-Resolution Land Use Data With Crowdsourced Air Temperature to Investigate Intra-Urban Microclimate', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, pp. 720323, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.720323

Liu S; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Niu J; Xie Y; de Dear R, 2021, 'Dynamic thermal pleasure in outdoor environments - temporal alliesthesia', Science of the Total Environment, 771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144910

Hirsch AL; Evans JP; Thomas C; Conroy B; Hart MA; Lipson M; Ertler W, 2021, 'Resolving the influence of local flows on urban heat amplification during heatwaves', Environmental Research Letters, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0377

Liu S; Nazarian N; Niu J; Hart MA; de Dear R, 2020, 'From thermal sensation to thermal affect: A multi-dimensional semantic space to assess outdoor thermal comfort', Building and Environment, 182, pp. 107112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107112

Di Virgilio G; Evans JP; Clarke H; Sharples J; Hirsch AL; Hart MA, 2020, 'Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia', Geophysical Research Letters, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088893

Lipson MJ; Thatcher M; Hart MA; Pitman A, 2019, 'Climate change impact on energy demand in building-urban-atmosphere simulations through the 21st century', Environmental Research Letters, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5aa5

Lipson MJ; Thatcher M; Hart MA; Pitman A, 2018, 'A building energy demand and urban land surface model', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144, pp. 1572 - 1590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.3317

Di Virgilio G; Hart MA; Jiang N, 2018, 'Meteorological controls on atmospheric particulate pollution during hazard reduction burns', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18, pp. 6585 - 6599, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6585-2018

Ma S; Pitman A; Yang J; Carouge C; Evans JP; Hart M; Green D, 2018, 'Evaluating the effectiveness of mitigation options on heat stress for Sydney, Australia', Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57, pp. 209 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0061.1

Ma S; Pitman A; Hart M; Evans JP; Haghdadi N; MacGill I, 2017, 'The impact of an urban canopy and anthropogenic heat fluxes on Sydney's climate', International Journal of Climatology, 37, pp. 255 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.5001

Yue RPH; Lee HF; Hart MA, 2017, 'Perceptions of visibility degradation in Hong Kong', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 60, pp. 1073 - 1091, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2016.1197826

Jiang N; Scorgie Y; Hart M; Riley ML; Crawford J; Beggs PJ; Edwards GC; Chang L; Salter D; Virgilio GD; Di Virgilio G, 2017, 'Visualising the relationships between synoptic circulation type and air quality in Sydney, a subtropical coastal-basin environment', International Journal of Climatology, 37, pp. 1211 - 1228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4770

Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Thatcher M, 2017, 'Efficiently modelling urban heat storage: An interface conduction scheme in an urban land surface model (aTEB v2.0)', Geoscientific Model Development, 10, pp. 991 - 1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-991-2017

Yue RPH; Lee HF; Hart MA, 2016, 'The human dimension of visibility degradation in a compact city', Natural Hazards, 82, pp. 1683 - 1702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2263-7

Wong PPY; Lai PC; Low CT; Chen S; Hart M, 2016, 'The impact of environmental and human factors on urban heat and microclimate variability', Building and Environment, 95, pp. 199 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.09.024

Sailor DJ; Georgescu M; Milne JM; Hart MA, 2015, 'Development of a national anthropogenic heating database with an extrapolation for international cities', Atmospheric Environment, 118, pp. 7 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.07.016

Cheung CSC; Hart MA, 2014, 'Climate change and thermal comfort in Hong Kong', International Journal of Biometeorology, 58, pp. 137 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0608-9

Thorpe AL; Hart MA, 2013, 'Changing Climates, Changing Cities? Planning Reform and Urban Sustainability in New South Wales', The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, 16, pp. 133 - 156, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=204711638848451;res=IELHSS

Wong P; Lai P-C; Hart M, 2013, 'Microclimate Variations between Semienclosed and Open Sections of a Marathon Route', Advances in Meteorology, 2013, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/287934

Siu LW; Hart M, 2013, 'Quantifying urban heat island intensity in Hong Kong SAR, China', Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185, pp. 4383 - 4398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-012-2876-6

Cheung CSC; Hart M, 2012, 'Climate change and thermal comfort in Hong Kong', International Journal of Biometeorology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-012-0608-9

Hart MA; Sailor DJ, 2009, 'Quantifying the influence of land-use and surface characteristics on spatial variability in the urban heat island', Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 95, pp. 397 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-008-0017-5

Sailor DJ; Smith M; Hart M, 2008, 'Climate change implications for wind power resources in the Northwest United States', Renewable Energy, 33, pp. 2393 - 2406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2008.01.007

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