Publications
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 | 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
↑ 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 (Published as above)
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
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 | 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 | 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
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
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.
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
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, (Under Review). DOI:10.31219/osf.io/39ke6 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
Branislava Godic, Selin Akaraci, Rajith Vidanaarachchi, Kerry Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Suzanne Mavoa, Ruth Hunter, Leandro Garcia, Mark Stevenson, Jasper S. Wijnands, and Jason Thompson, Finding Australian Health Datasets: A content analysis within Australian population health surveys, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
Pui Kwan Cheung, C.Y. Jim, Nigel Tapper, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Measuring the instantaneous cooling effect of turf irrigation in Melbourne, Australia, Urban Climate.
Pui Kwan Cheung, Kerry A. Nice, Naika Meili, Stephen J. Livesley, Light irrigation is sufficient to induce strong daytime cooling benefits on turfed surface in non-heatwave conditions, Urban Climate.
Ellie Traill, Kerry A. Nice, Nigel Tapper, Julie Arblaster, Pavement watering as an urban heat mitigation technique, Urban Climate.
Kerry A. Nice, Matthias Demuzere, Andrew Coutts, Nigel Tapper, Present day and future urban cooling enabled by integrated water management, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
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.
Kerry A. Nice, Jason Thompson, et al., The combined effect of city designs on infectious disease, transport injury, and respiratory disease: a global observational study, Lancet Public Health.
Leandro Garcia, Mehdi Hafezi, Christopher Millett, Jason Thompson, Kerry Nice, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Ruth Hunter, Future-proofing cities against mobility and health impacts of impending epidemic and climate emergencies, Lancet Public Health.
Ruth F. Hunter, et al., Investigating the urban mobility impact and public health equity of pandemic recovery actions: a global natural experiment, Lancet Public Health.
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, Frontiers in Public Health.
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, C.Y. Jim, Nigel Tapper, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Measuring the instantaneous cooling effect of turf irrigation in Melbourne, Australia, The 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI 2023), Melbourne 2023.
Pui Kwan Cheung, C.Y. Jim, Nigel Tapper, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley, Daytime irrigation significantly reduces air and surface temperatures in backyards. ICUC11, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, Sydney 2023. | PDF
Marzie Naserikia, Melissa A. Hart, Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Kerry A. Nice, Understanding within-city interaction between surface and air temperatures. ICUC11, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, Sydney 2023. | PDF
Marzie Naserikia, Melissa A. Hart, Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Kerry A. Nice, Understanding within-city interaction between surface and air temperatures. EGU 2023.
Nigel Tapper, Andrew Coutts, Matthias Demuzere and Kerry Nice, Present day and future urban cooling enabled by integrated water management, ICUC11, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, Sydney 2023. | 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, ICUC11, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, Sydney 2023. | 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, The Urban-PLUMBER model evaluation project: Phase 1 results, ICUC11, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, Sydney 2023. | PDF