Publications
Pui Kwan Cheung, Naika Meili, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Identifying the mechanisms by which irrigation can cool urban green spaces in summer, Urban Climate (Accepted) | Dataset | PDF.
Branislava Godic, Selin Akaraci, Rajith Vidanaarachchi, Kerry Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Suzanne Mavoa, Ruth Hunter, Leandro Garcia, Mark Stevenson, Jasper Wijnands, Jason Thompson, A comparison of content from across contemporary Australian population health surveys, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (Accepted).
Kerry A. Nice, Matthias Demuzere, Andrew Coutts, Nigel Tapper, Present day and future urban cooling enabled by integrated water management, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2024. Journal article | Dataset | PDF.
Ben Beck, Chris Pettit, Meghan Winters, Trisalyn Nelson, Hai L. Vu, Kerry Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Meead Saberi, Association between network characteristics and bicycle ridership across a large metropolitan region, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2024. Pre-print | Journal article | PDF.
Mathew Lipson, Sue Grimmond, Martin Best, Gab Abramowitz, Andrew Coutts, Nigel Tapper, Jong-Jin Baik, Meiring Beyers, Lewis Blunn, Souhail Boussetta, Elie Bou-Zeid, Martin G. De Kauwe, Cécile de Munck, Matthias Demuzere, Simone Fatichi, Krzysztof Fortuniak, Beom-Soon Han, Maggie Hendry, Yukihiro Kikegawa, Hiroaki Kondo, Doo-Il Lee, Sang-Hyun Lee, Aude Lemonsu, Tiago Machado, Gabriele Manoli, Alberto Martilli, Valéry Masson, Joe McNorton, Naika Meili, David Meyer, Kerry A. Nice, Keith W. Oleson, Seung-Bu Park, Michael Roth, Robert Schoetter, Andres Simon, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Ting Sun, Yuya Takane, Marcus Thatcher, Aristofanis Tsiringakis, Mikhail Varentsov, Chenghao Wang, Zhi-Hua Wang, Andrew Pitman, Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2023. Journal article | PDF.
Marzie Naserikia, Melissa A. Hart, Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Mathew Lipson, Kerry A. Nice, Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality, Science of the Total Environment, 2023. Journal article | PDF.
Xinye Wanyan, Sachith Seneviratne, Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Marcus White, Nano Langenheim, Mark Stevenson, Scalable Label-efficient Footpath Network Generation using Remote Sensing Data and Self-supervised Learning, DICTA 2023, 2023 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia on 29 November-1 December 2023. Conference paper | Preprint | PDF
Nan Xu, Kerry Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Mark Stevenson, Leveraging Segment-Anything model for automated zero-shot road width extraction from aerial imagery, DICTA 2023, 2023 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia on 29 November-1 December 2023. Conference paper | PDF.
Pui Kwan Cheung, C.Y. Jim, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Measuring the instantaneous cooling effect of turf irrigation in Melbourne, Australia, in P. Rajagopalan, V. Soebarto and H. Akbari (Eds.), 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI), pp. 1–9. 2023, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. PDF
Debjit Bhowmick, Ben Beck, Meead Saberi, Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson, Meghan Winters, Trisalyn Nelson, Simone Zarpelon Leao, Sachith Seneviratne, Christopher Pettit, Le Hai Vu, Kerry Nice, A systematic scoping review of methods for estimating link-level bicycle volumes, Transport Reviews, 2022. Journal article | PDF
Pui Kwan Cheung, C.Y. Jim, Nigel Tapper, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Daytime irrigation leads to significantly cooler private backyards in summer, Urban Climate, 2022. Journal article | Dataset | PDF
Kerry A. Nice, Negin Nazarian, Mathew J. Lipson, Melissa A. Hart, Sachith Seneviratne, Jason Thompson, Marzie Naserikia, Branislava Godic, and Mark Stevenson, Isolating the impacts of urban form and fabric from geography on urban heat and human thermal comfort, Building and Environment, 2022. Preprint | Journal article | PDF
Mathew J. Lipson, Negin Nazarian, Melissa A. Hart, Kerry A. Nice and Brooke Conroy, A transformation in city-descriptive input data for urban climate models, Frontiers in Environmental Science: Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing, 2022. Journal article (open access) | PDF
Pui Kwan Cheung, Kerry Nice, Stephen Livesley, Irrigating urban greenspace for cooling benefits: the mechanisms and management considerations, Environmental Research: Climate, 2022. Journal article (open access) | PDF
Jasper S. Wijnands, Kerry A. Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Jason Thompson, and Mark Stevenson, The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air pollution: A global assessment using machine learning techniques, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2022. Journal article | Pre-print | PDF
Ben Beck, Meghan Winters, Trisalyn Nelson, Chris Pettit, Meead Saberi, Jason Thompson, Sachith Seneviratne, Kerry Nice, Simone Zarpelon Leao, Mark Stevenson, Developing urban biking typologies: quantifying the complex interactions of bicycle ridership, bicycle network and built environment characteristics, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022. Pre-print | Journal article | PDF
Jason Thompson, Rod McClure, Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson, Michael G. Baker, Jasper S. Wijnands, Thiago Herick De Sa, Kerry Nice, Camilo Cruz, Mark Stevenson, Modelling SARS-CoV-2 disease progression in Australia and New Zealand: an account of an agent-based approach to support public health decision-making, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13221 Journal article (open access) | PDF
↑ (Published as above) Jason Thompson, Rod McClure, Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson, Michael G. Baker, Thiago Herick De Sa, Kerry Nice, Jasper Wijnands, Gideon Aschwanden, Camilo Cruz, Mark Stevenson, Modelling the estimated likelihood of eliminating the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand under public health policy settings: an agent-based-SEIR approach, Pre-print
Sachith Seneviratne, Kerry A. Nice, Jasper Wijnands, Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson, Self-supervision, Remote Sensing and Abstraction: Representation Learning across 3 million locations, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2021, Gold Coast, 29 Nov-1 Dec 2021, 2021. Conference paper and Conference presentation | PDF
Pui Kwan Cheung, Stephen J. Livesley, Kerry A. Nice, Estimating the cooling potential of irrigating green spaces in 100 global cities with arid, temperate or continental climates, Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021. DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2021.102974, Journal article | PDF
Jasper S. Wijnands, Haifeng Zhao, Kerry A. Nice, Jason Thompson, Katherine Scully, Jingqiu Guo, Mark Stevenson, Identifying safe intersection design through unsupervised feature extraction from satellite imagery, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2020. DOI:10.1111/mice.12623, Journal article | PDF
K.A. Nice , J. Thompson, J. S. Wijnands, G.D.P.A. Aschwanden, M. Stevenson, The “Paris-end” of town? Deriving urban typologies using three imagery types, Urban Sci., 2020. Journal article | arXiv Pre-print | PDF
J. Thompson, M. Stevenson, J. S. Wijnands, K. Nice, G.D.P.A. Aschwanden, J. Silver, M. Nieuwenhuijsen, P. Rayner, R. Schofield, R. Harihara, and C. N. Morrison, A global analysis of urban design types and road transport injury: an image processing study, The Lancet Planetary Health, 2020. DOI:10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30263-3, Journal article | SSRN Pre-print | PDF | Supplement PDF
C. V Gál and K. A. Nice ‘Mean radiant temperature modeling outdoors: A comparison of three approaches’, in 100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) jointly with the 15th Symposium on the Urban Environment, 2020. Conference Paper | PDF
Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Paolo Burlando, Elie Bou-Zeid, Winston T.L. Chow, Andrew M. Coutts, Edoardo Daly, Kerry A. Nice, Matthias Roth, Nigel J. Tapper, Erik Velasco, Enrique R. Vivoni, and Simone Fatichi, An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0), Geosci. Model Dev., 2020. Journal article | PDF
Tatjana Todorovic, Geoffrey London, Nigel Bertram, Oscar Sainsbury, Marguerite A. Renouf, Kerry A. Nice, and Steven J. Kenway, 2019. 'Models for water sensitive middle suburban infill development', in 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 30 November - 5 December 2019, Perth, Western Australia. DOI: 10.25916/5efa774bda643. Conference Paper | PDF
K.A. Nice, J. S. Wijnands, A. Middel, J. Wang, Y. Qiu, N. Zhao, J. Thompson, G.D.P.A. Aschwanden, H. Zhao, and M. Stevenson, Sky pixel detection in outdoor imagery using an adaptive algorithm and machine learning, Urban Climate, 2020. Pre-print | Journal article | Dataset | PDF
Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson, Jasper Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Gideon Aschwanden, Haifeng Zhao, Opportunities to reduce road traffic injury: new insights from the study of urban areas. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2019. Journal article | PDF
J. S. Wijnands, J. Thompson, K. Nice, G.D.P.A. Aschwanden, and M. Stevenson, Real-time monitoring of driver drowsiness on mobile platforms using 3-D neural networks. Neural Computing and Applications, 2019. Journal article | Preprint | PDF
Haifeng Zhao, Jasper Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Gideon Aschwanden, Jingqiu Guo, and Mark Stevenson, Reducing Cyclist Crashes by Assessing the Road Environment: An Application of Google Imagery and Machine Learning. Journal of Transport & Health, 2019. Journal article | PDF
G.D.P.A. Aschwanden, J. S. Wijnands, J. Thompson, K.A. Nice, and M. Stevenson, Learning To Walk: modelling transportation mode choice distribution through neural networks. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2019. Journal article | PDF
J. Wijnands, K. Nice, J. Thompson, H. Zhao, and M. Stevenson, Streetscape augmentation using generative adversarial networks: optimising health and wellbeing., Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019. Journal article | Preprint | Dataset | PDF
D. Dommenget, K. Nice, T. Bayr, D. Kasang, C. Stassen, and M. Rezny, The Monash Simple Climate Model Experiments (MSCM-DB v1.0): An interactive database of mean climate, climate change and scenario simulations, Geosci. Model Dev., 2019. DOI:10.5194/gmd-12-2155-2019 Journal article | PDF
A. Broadbent, A. Coutts, K. Nice, M. Demuzere, E. Krayenhoff, N. Tapper, and H. Wouters, The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling. Geosci. Model Dev., 2019. Journal article | PDF
K.A. Nice, A. Coutts, and N.J. Tapper, Development of the VTUF-3D v1.0 urban micro-climate model to support assessment of urban vegetation influences on human thermal comfort. Urban Climate, 2018. DOI:10.1016/j.uclim.2017.12.008. Journal article | PDF
K.A. Nice, Development, validation, and demonstration of the VTUF-3D v1.0 urban micro-climate model to support assessments of urban vegetation influences on human thermal comfort, 2016. PhD Thesis. Monash University. Thesis | PDF
K.A. Nice, The micro-climate of a mixed urban parkland environment. Masters Thesis, 2011. Monash University. Thesis | PDF
Book Chapters
Lipson MJ, Nazarian N, Hart MA, Nice KA and Conroy B (2022) A Transformation in City-Descriptive Input Data for Urban Climate Models, p 196-213, In Middel, A., Bechtel, B., Demuzere, M., Nazarian, N., eds. (2023). Urban climate informatics. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-83251-592-1. Book chapter | PDF
Haifeng Zhao, Jasper S. Wijnands, Kerry A. Nice, Jason Thompson, Gideon D. P. A. Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson, Jingqiu Guo (2019) Unsupervised Deep Learning to Explore Streetscape Factors Associated with Urban Cyclist Safety. In: Qu X., Zhen L., Howlett R., Jain L. (eds) Smart Transportation Systems 2019. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 149. Springer, Singapore. Book chapter | PDF
Ellie Traill, Kerry A. Nice, Nigel Tapper, Julie Arblaster, Pavement watering as an urban heat mitigation technique, Urban Climate (1st revision under review).
Kerry A. Nice, Jason Thompson, Haifeng Zhao, Sachith Seneviratne, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Leandro Garcia, Ruth F. Hunter, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Pedro C. Hallal, Christopher Millett, Ruoyu Wang, Mark Stevenson, How city design influences road transport mode choice and associated health risks during a crisis: a global observational study, Lancet Planetary Health. (1st revision under review)
Leandro Garcia, Mehdi Hafezi, Larissa Lima, Christopher Millett, Jason Thompson, Ruoyu Wanga, Selin Akaracia, Rahul Goel, Rodrigo Reis, Kerry A. Nice, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Pedro Hallal, Esteban Moro, Clifford Amoako, Ruth Hunter, Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards, Lancet Planetary Health. (1st revision under review)
Ruth F. Hunter, Selin Akaraci, Ruoyu Wang, Rodrigo Reis, Pedro C. Hallal, Alex Pentland, Christopher Millett, Leandro Garcia, Jason Thompson, Kerry Nice, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Esteban Moro, A global natural experiment on city mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lancet Public Health. (1st revision under review)
Pui Kwan Cheung, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Impacts of irrigation scheduling on urban green space cooling, Landscape and Urban Planning (2nd revision under review).
Debjit Bhowmick, Danyang Dai, Meead Saberi, Trisalyn Nelson, Mark Stevenson, Sachith Seneviratne, Kerry Nice, Christopher Pettit, Hai L. Vu and Ben Beck, Collecting population-representative bicycling GPS data to understand bicycling activity and patterns using smartphones and Bluetooth beacons, Travel Behaviour and Society (Under review).
Jixuan Chen, Peter M. Bach, Kerry A. Nice, João P. Leitão, Modelling urban microclimate to bridge heat, greenery and walkablity in the built environment, Sustainable Cities and Society. (1st revision under review)
Sachith Seneviratne, Jasper Wijnands, Kerry Nice, Haifeng Zhao, Branislava Godic, Suzanne Mavoa, Rajith Vidanaarachchi, Mark Stevenson, Leandro Garcia, Ruth Hunter, Jason Thompson, Urban feature analysis from aerial remote sensing imagery using self-supervised and semi-supervised computer vision, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, (Under review) Pre-print | PDF
Ruth F. Hunter, Leandro Garcia, Mark Stevenson, Kerry Nice, Jasper S. Wijnands, Frank Kee, Geraint Ellis, Neil Anderson, Sachith Seneviratne, Mehdi Moeinaddini, Branislava Godic, Selin Akaraci, and Jason Thompson, Computer vision, causal inference and public health modelling approaches to generate evidence on the impacts of urban planning in non-communicable disease and health inequalities in UK and Australian cities: A proposed collaborative approach, (Under Review) Pre-print | PDF
K.A. Nice, G.D.P.A. Aschwanden, J. S. Wijnands, J. Thompson, H. Zhao, and M. Stevenson, The Nature of Human Settlement: Building an understanding of high performance city design. arXiv Pre-print | PDF
Blesson M. Varghese, Berhanu Wondmagegn, Matthew Borg, Michael Tong, Matthias Demuzere, Kerry Nice, Nigel Tapper, Peng Bi, Heat-attributable hospitalisations and associated costs: current risk, future projection, and intervention effectiveness: A Multi-site Study in Australia, 2010-2019, Medical Journal of Australia.
Haifeng Zhao, Jason Thompson, Kerry A. Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Leandro Garcia, Ruth Hunter, Mark Stevenson, et al., Designing healthy urban environment using machine learning.
Valentina Marchionni, Christopher Szota, Claire Farrell, Stephen Livesley, Kerry A. Nice, Veljko Prodanovic, Sally Thompson, Edoardo Daly, Pui Kwan Cheung, Hamideh Nouri, Brandon Winfrey, The role of water in urban greening in a hotter and drier climate: benefits, costs, and future challenges for Australian cities, Journal of Hydrology.
Cristina E. Ramalho, Brenda Lin, Kerry A. Nice, Melanie Davern, Kate Lee, Steve Livesley, Luis Mata, Caragh G. Threlfall, Jason Byrne, Thomas Astell-Burt, Melanie Lowe, Leila Farahani, Casey Furlong, Kirsten Parris, Alison Haynes, At the nexus between urban green space attributes and functions – a framework to support planning and design, Landscape and Urban Planning.
Haifeng Zhao, Jasper S. Wijnands, Kerry A. Nice, Jason Thompson, Gideon D.P.A. Aschwanden, Jingqiu Guo, and Mark Stevenson, Identifying features of road environments associated with cyclist crashes using generative adversarial networks, Remote Sensing.
Pui Kwan Cheung, David Bergmann, Ninad Dharmadhikari, Kerry Nice, Stephen Livesley, Potential of irrigation to cool urban green spaces in heatwaves, Ozwater'24.
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
- Urban Climate
- 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI)
- DICTA 2023
- DICTA 2023
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Science of the Total Environment
- Atmospheric Pollution Research
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Building and Environment
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Environmental Research: Climate
- Frontiers in Environmental Science: Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing
- Transport Reviews
- Urban Climate
- Digital Image Computing
- Sustainable Cities and Society
- 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference
- 100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
- Geoscientific Model Development
- The Lancet Planetary Health
- Urban Science
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Geoscientific Model Development
- Geoscientific Model Development
- International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
- Journal of Transport & Health
- Neural Computing and Applications
- Sustainable Cities and Society
- Urban Climate
- Urban Climate
Summary, SRJ in 2024
- 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI)
- 9th State of Australian Cities National Conference
- 100th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- Atmospheric Pollution Research (Atmos Pollut Res) (SRJ Q1 0.96, h-index 62, IF: 4.9)
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJ Public Health) - 2 (SRJ Q2 0.85, h-index 84, IF: 2.8)
- Building and Environment (Build Environ) (SRJ Q1 1.58, h-index 189, IF: 7.9)
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (Comput-Aided Civ Inf) (SRJ Q1 2.96, h-index 99, IF: 10.7)
- Digital Image Computing
- DICTA 2023 - 2
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (Environ Plan B)- 2 (SRJ Q1 1.03, h-index 104, IF: 3.9)
- Environmental Research: Climate
- Frontiers in Environmental Science: Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing (Front Environ Sci) (SRJ Q1 1.01, h-index 61)
- Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Front Sustain Cities) (SRJ Q2 0.53, h-index 13)
- Geoscientific Model Development (Geosci Model Dev) - 3 (SRJ Q1 2.23, h-index 115, IF: 5.2)
- International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot) (SRJ Q2 0.58, h-index 43, IF: 2.3)
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Int J Sustain Transp) (SRJ Q1 1.15, h-index 51, IF: 4.9)
- Journal of Transport & Health (J Transp Health) (SRJ Q1 1.05, h-index 46, IF: 3.8)
- Lancet Planetary Health (Lancet Planet Health) (SRJ Q1 3.59, h-index 58, IF: 9.4)
- Neural Computing and Applications (Neural Comput Appl) (SRJ Q1 1.17, h-index 111, IF: 6.9)
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (QJR Meteorol Soc) (SRJ Q1 3.26, h-index 157, IF: 9.8)
- Science of the Total Environment (Sci Total Environ) (SRJ Q1 1.95, h-index 317, IF: 10.9)
- Sustainable Cities and Society (Sustain Cities Soc) - 2 (SRJ Q1 1.31, h-index 103, IF: 12.9)
- Transport Reviews (Transp Rev) (SRJ Q1 2.9, h-index 100, IF: 9.8)
- Urban Climate (Urban Clim) - 4 (SRJ Q1 1.19, h-index 63, IF: 6.4)
- Urban Science (Urban Sci)