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Climatic changes have the potential to impact electricity generation in the U.S. Southwest and methods are needed for estimating how cities will be impacted. This study builds an electricity vulnerability risk index for two Southwest cities (Phoenix and Los Angeles) based on climate-related changes in electricity generation capacity. Planning reserve margins (PRM) are used to estimate the potential for blackouts and brownouts under future climate scenarios. Reductions in PRM occur in both cities in 2016 with the most significant reductions occurring in regions relying more heavily on hydropower.
Already the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, extreme heat events (EHEs) are expected to occur with greater frequency, duration and intensity over the next century. However, not all populations are affected equally. Risk factors for heat mortality—including age, race, income level, and infrastructure characteristics—often vary by geospatial location. While traditional epidemiological studies sometimes account for social risk factors, they rarely account for intra-urban variability in meteorological characteristics, or for the interaction between social and meteorological risks.
This study aims to develop estimates of EHEs at an intra-urban scale for two major metropolitan areas in the Southwest: Maricopa County (Arizona) and Los Angeles County (California). EHEs are identified at a 1/8-degree (12 km) spatial resolution using an algorithm that detects prolonged periods of abnormally high temperatures. Downscaled temperature projections from three general circulation models (GCMs) are analyzed under three relative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios. Over the next century, EHEs are found to increase by 340-1800% in Maricopa County, and by 150-840% in Los Angeles County. Frequency of future EHEs is primarily driven by greenhouse gas concentrations, with the greatest number of EHEs occurring under the RCP 8.5 scenario. Intra-urban variation in EHEs is also found to be significant. Within Maricopa County, “high risk” regions exhibit 4.5 times the number of EHE days compared to “low risk” regions; within Los Angeles County, this ratio is 15 to 1.
The project website can be accessed here.
Provides eviction models emanating from COVID-19 for the greater Phoenix, Arizona area.
The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists - Resite I, November 6, with works by a dance MFA candidate, performed at the Icehouse.
The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists II, February 14-17, with works by dance BA and MFA students Cassie Roberts, Katie McCaskill, Lydia Sakolsky-Basquill, Kelly Doherty, and Kristin Tovson, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre.
The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists I, October 8-10, with works by dance MFA candidates Randi L. Frost, Emily Spranger, and Omilade Davis, performed at the Dance Lab, FAC 122.
The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists II, November 5-7, with works by dance MFA candidates Rebecca A. Ferrell, Rebecca Blair Hillerby, and Crystal Bedford, performed at the Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.
The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists I, October 24-26, with works by dance MFA candidates Sara Malan-McDonald and Holly Woodridge, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents New Dance Works 3, January 24-27, with works by dance MFA candidates C-c Braun, Janie D. Ross, and Julia Vessey, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre.
The ASU School of Dance presents New Dance Works 1, October 11 - 14, with works by dance MFA candidates Christina Harrison, Nicole Manus, and Emily Wright, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre.