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Zhihua Wang

Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Wang studies land-atmosphere interactions in a changing climate, turbulent transport and the urban heat island through analysis, models and measurements of anthropogenic stressors effect on the urban hydrological cycle.

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A Gilbert, Arizona, park with grass and trees being watered with sprinklers.

How can cities go green to beat the heat?

May 15, 2024

ASU researchers pioneered first-of-its-kind research to understand how green spaces and irrigation can reduce the urban heat island effect and carbon emissions.

irrigation in a field

Monitoring the impacts of Arizona’s drought

June 6, 2022

Doctoral student Zhaocheng Wang has earned a Babbitt Dissertation Fellowship for his proposed research tracking the effects of water usage on farmers.