Publications – Yuchuan Lai

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:

Lai, Y., T. Lopez-Cantu, D.A. Dzombak, and C. Samaras. 2022. Framing the Use of Climate Model Projections in Infrastructure Engineering – Practices, Uncertainties, and Recommendations. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 28 (3), 04022020. Editor's Choice. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000685

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2021. Assessing the Effect of Changing Ambient Air Temperature on Water Temperature and Quality in Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Water. 13(14), 1916, https://doi.org/10.3390/w13141916

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2021. Use of Integrated Global Climate Model Simulations and Statistical Time Series Forecasting to Project Regional Temperature and Precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 60, 695–710, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0204.1

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2020. Use of the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model to Forecast Near-term Regional Temperature and Precipitation. Weather and Forecasting, 35, 959–976, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-19-0158.1

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2019: Use of Historical Data to Assess Regional Climate Change. Journal of Climate, 32, 4299–4320, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0630.1

Published datasets and software:

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2020. Statistical Climate Forecasting Integrated for Civil and Environmental Engineering (scifi) R Package, https://github.com/yuchuan-lai/scifi.

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2019. Compiled historical daily temperature and precipitation data for selected 210 U.S. cities. Carnegie Mellon University, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/7890488.v5

Lai, Y. and D.A. Dzombak. 2019. Historical changes of annual temperature and precipitation indices in the U.S. cities. Carnegie Mellon University, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/7961012.v5.