Kerry Nice

Estimating the cooling potential of irrigating green spaces in 100 global cities with arid, temperate or continental climates

PK Cheung, SJ Livesley, KA Nice

Journal article  |  2021  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

Modern agricultural irrigation can produce extensive cooling that is strong enough to mask the current effect of global climate ch..

Managing urban heat in water sensitive cities: research and policy responses

Kerry Nice

Report  |  2021

Urban heat is an increasing threat to the liveability and productivity of cities, made worse by more frequent and extreme heat day..

Identifying safe intersection design through unsupervised feature extraction from satellite imagery

Jasper S Wijnands, Haifeng Zhao, Kerry A Nice, Jason Thompson, Katherine Scully, Jingqiu Guo, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

The World Health Organization has listed the design of safer intersections as a key intervention to reduce global road trauma. Thi..

Streetscape augmentation using generative adversarial networks: Insights related to health and wellbeing

Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Jason Thompson, Haifeng Zhao, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

Deep learning using neural networks has provided advances in image style transfer, merging the content of one image (e.g., a photo..

An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando, Elie Bou-Zeid, Winston TL Chow, Andrew M Coutts, Edoardo Daly, Kerry A Nice, Matthias Roth, Nigel J Tapper, Erik Velasco, Enrique R Vivoni, Simone Fatichi

Journal article  |  2020  |  Geoscientific Model Development

Increasing urbanization is likely to intensify the urban heat island effect, decrease outdoor thermal comfort, and enhance runoff ..

Mean radiant temperature modeling outdoors: A comparison of three approaches

Csilla V Gál, Kerry Nice

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) jointly with the 15th Symposium on the Urban Environment

Knutsford Urban Heat Modelling Report

Y Zhu, Kerry Nice, M Eadie

Report  |  2020

The "Paris-end" of Town?: Deriving Urban Typologies Using Three Imagery Types

Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Jasper Wijnands, Gideon Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Urban Science

Urban typologies allow areas to be categorised according to form and the social, demographic, and political uses of the areas. The..

A global analysis of urban design types and road transport injury: an image processing study.

Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson, Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Gideon Dpa Aschwanden, Jeremy Silver, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Peter Rayner, Robyn Schofield, Rohit Hariharan, Christopher N Morrison

Journal article  |  2020  |  Lancet Planetary Health

BACKGROUND: Death and injury due to motor vehicle crashes is the world's fifth leading cause of mortality and morbidity. City and ..

Water sensitive outcomes for infill development: Infill performance evaluation framework

MA Renouf, SJ Kenway, Nigel Bertram, G London, T Todorovic, O Sainsbury, Kerry Nice, M Moravej, B Sochacka

Report  |  2020