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Varquez Lab
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The lab reads the climates of the world's cities through numerical models and satellite data.
AboutAbout the lab
A unified understanding of the climates of cities worldwide.
The Varquez Lab studies the climates of cities around the world from a global perspective.
As cities grow larger, the relationship between urbanization and the environment becomes more complex, and the problems each city faces differ.
Using numerical weather models and remote sensing technology, the lab studies the interactions between cities and climate.
It also works on urban heat island research and on building GIS databases covering cities worldwide.
Key terms
- Urban heat island
- A phenomenon in which the center of a city is warmer than the surrounding suburbs
- Remote sensing
- A technology for observing conditions of the ground surface from a distance, using satellites or aircraft
- Numerical weather model
- A system that expresses atmospheric motion with physical equations and solves them on computers to reproduce and predict weather
NewsLab news
A doctoral student's paper on inland air quality was published
A doctoral student's paper on urban climate and satellite observation was published
A paper from the lab was published in ISPRS Annals
A master's student received the Matsuno Award at the autumn meeting of the Meteorological Society of Japan
A doctoral student received the Best Poster Award at a heat island conference
ResearchResearch themes
As cities expand, the interaction between urbanization and the environment becomes more complex, and its impacts extend across social, cultural, and economic boundaries. Taking advantage of advances in computational efficiency, numerical weather models, and remote sensing technology, the lab aims to understand the interactions between cities and climate on a global scale.
*Illustrative imageClimate modeling of cities worldwide
Targeting cities around the world, the lab models the climates of multiple cities at a global scale.
*Illustrative imageUrban expansion and population analysis
The lab conducts high-spatial-resolution modeling and analysis of urban dynamics and population growth at annual time scales.
*Illustrative imageUrban heat islands
The lab studies urban heat islands at a global scale. In addition to model calculations, it also conducts observations.
*Illustrative imageApplying remote sensing
The lab applies remote sensing technologies such as satellite imagery and machine learning to building urban databases. It also develops models that automate the steps of this work.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Varquez Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and exchange students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorAlvin Christopher Galang VarquezPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Atlanta thermal” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Climate modeling of cities worldwide: “Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2023 (SVS AverageTemp 4K)” NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Mark SubbaRao, Jenny Marder Fadoul, Sally Younger, Gavin A. Schmidt, Reto A. Ruedy, Robert B Schmunk, Kathleen Gaeta, Peter H. Jacobs / Public domain (cropped)
- Urban expansion and population analysis: “Novomoskovsk urban agglomeration, Russia, Tula oblast, LandSat-7 satellite image” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Urban heat islands: “Running Through Paris Heat (153178 - vir 20240806 lrg)” NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang and Michala Garrison, using VIIRS Land Surface Temperature data, marathon route from Github, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland. / Public domain (cropped)
- Applying remote sensing: “Landsat 3 spacecraft” GE/NASA / Public domain (cropped)
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