Igor Ezau

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Project leader of the following projects

  1. SERUS: Building Socio-Ecological Resilience through Urban Green, Blue and White Space
  2. TRAKT-2018: Transferable Knowledge and Technologies for High-Resolution Environmental Impact Assessment and Management
  3. GCloudl: Arctic clouds (Research Collaboration)
  4. HIARC: Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic - Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems and Society

NERSC Principal Investigator of the following projects

  1. ALERTNESS: Advanced models and weather prediction in the Arctic: Enhanced capacity from observations and polar process representations (

Peer Review Publications and Books

90 total publications.

2023

  1. Miles V, Esau I, Miles MW. The urban climate of the largest cities of the European Arctic. Urban Climate. 2023;48.

2022

  1. Kähnert M, Sodemann H, Remes TM, Fortelius C, Bazile E, Esau I. Spatial variability of nocturnal stability regimes in an operational weather prediction model. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2022;186.

2021

  1. Wolf T, Pettersson LH, Esau I. Dispersion of particulate matter (PM2.5) from wood combustion for residential heating: Optimisation of mitigation actions based on large-eddy simulations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 2021;21(16).
  2. Esau I, Bobylev L, Donchenko V, Gnatiuk N, Lappalainen HK, Konstantinov P, et al. An enhanced integrated approach to knowledgeable high-resolution environmental quality assessment. Environmental Science and Policy. 2021;122.
  3. Fedorov RY, Sizov OS, Kuklina VV, Lobanov A, Soromotin A, Pechkin AS, et al. Possibilities of applying the concept of “winter city” in the Russian Arctic (On the example of the city of Nadym). Arktika: Ekologija i ekonomika. 2021;11(2).
  4. Lappalainen HK, Petäjä T, Vihma T, Raisanen J, Baklanov A, Chalov S, et al. Recent advances on the understanding of the Northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China-Pan Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) program perspective. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 2021;

2020

  1. Wolf T, Pettersson LH, Esau I. A very high-resolution assessment and modelling of urban air quality. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 2020;20(2).
  2. Venter ZS, Brousse O, Esau I, Meier F. Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2020;242.
  3. Esau I, Varentsov M, Laurelle M, Miles MW, Konstantinov P, Soromotin A, et al. Warmer Climate of Arctic Cities [Internet]. In: The Arctic: Current Issues and Challenges. 2020. Available from: https://novapublishers.com/shop/the-arctic-current-issues-and-challenges/

2019

  1. Esau I, Miles V, Varentsov M, Konstantinov P, Melnikov VP. Spatial structure and temporal variability of a surface urban heat island in cold continental climate. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 2019;137(3).
  2. Guernaoui OE, Reuder J, Esau I, Wolf T, Maronga B. Scaling the decay of turbulence kinetic energy in the free-convective boundary layer. Boundary-layer Meteorology. 2019;

2018

  1. Konstantinov P, Varentsov M, Esau I. A high density urban temperature network deployed in several cities of Eurasian Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. 2018;13(7).
  2. Varentsov M, Konstantinov P, Baklanov A, Esau I, Miles V, Davy R. Anthropogenic heating strongly amplifies the urban heat island in Arctic cities. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 2018;18.
  3. Esau I, Miles V. Exogenous drivers of surface urban heat islands in Northern West Siberia. Geography, Environment, Sustainability. 2018;11(3).
  4. Outten S, Esau I, Otterå OH. Bjerknes compensation in the CMIP5 Climate Models. Journal of Climate. 2018;31(21).
  5. Esau I, Tolstykh MA, Fadeev RY, Shashkin VV, Makhnorylov S, Miles V, et al. Systematic errors in northern Eurasian short-term weather forecasts induced by atmospheric boundary layer thickness. Environmental Research Letters. 2018;13:125009(12).
  6. Varentsov M, Konstantinov P, Baklanov A, Esau I, Miles V, Davy R. Anthropogenic and natural drivers of a strong winter urban heat island in a typical Arctic city. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 2018;18(23).

2017

  1. Wolf T, Esau I, Reuder J. The large scale circulation during air quality hazards in Bergen, Norway. Tellus. Series A, Dynamic meteorology and oceanography. 2017;69(1).
  2. Bentamy A, Piolle JF, Grouazel A, Danielson R, Gulev S, Paul F, et al. Review and assessment of latent and sensible heat flux accuracy over the global oceans. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2017;201.
  3. Chernokulsky A, Esau I, Bulygina ON, Davy R, Mokhov II, Outten S, et al. Climatology and interannual variability of cloudiness in the Atlantic Arctic from surface observations since the late nineteenth century. Journal of Climate. 2017;30(6).

Other Publications

2022

  1. Lappalainen HK, Petäjä T, Vihma TP, Räisänen J, Baklanov A, Chalov S, et al. Overview: Recent advances in the understanding of the northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China-a Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programme perspective [Internet]. 2022;22. Available from: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26454

2016

  1. Spengler T, Renfrew IA, Terpstra A, Tjernström M, Screen J, Brooks IM, et al. High-Latitude Dynamics of Atmosphere–Ice–Ocean Interactions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2016;97(9):ES179 - ES182.

2012

  1. Esau I, Repina I. Wind Climate in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, and Attribution of Leading Wind Driving Mechanisms through Turbulence-Resolving Simulations. Advances in Meteorology. 2012;2012:1 - 16.
  2. Esau I, Argentini S, Przybylak R, Repina I, Sjöblom A. Svalbard Meteorology. Advances in Meteorology. 2012;2012:1 - 3.
  3. Esau I, Djolov G, Luhunga P, de Rautenbach CJW, Zilitinkevich S. Links between observed micrometeorological variability and land-use patterns in the highveld priority area of South Africa. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 2012;118:16.

2011

  1. Nickola MM, BOTHA RC, Esau I, DJOLOV GD, COMBRINCK WL. SITE CHARACTERISATION: ASTRONOMICAL SEEING FROM A TURBULENCE-RESOLVING MODEL. South African Journal of Geology. 2011;114(3-4):581 - 584.
  2. Esau I. Dårlig luft i Bergen [Internet]. Forskning.no. 2011;:Kronikk. Available from: http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2011/januar/275382
  3. Esau I. Vi kan skaffe mer kunnskap om giftlokket. Bergens Tidende. 2011;
  4. Esau I. A user-defined approach to utilize climate change information in local implementation of national construction standards. [Internet]. 2nd International BaltCICA conference. 2011;Available from: http://www.baltcica.org/meetings/conference11.html
  5. Esau I, RECON team. A User-defined Approach to Utilize Climate Change Information in Local Implementation of National Construction Standards. 2011;
  6. Esau I. Large-Eddy simulation for the central Paris area. 2011;
  7. Esau I. Turbulence numerical model as a research tool. 2011;
  8. Esau I. Self-organisation of the Ekman boundary layer turbulence. 2011;
  9. Esau I. Klimaendringer utfordrer ingeniørene [Internet]. Klima. 2011;Available from: http://www.cicero.uio.no/fulltext/index.aspx?id=9016
  10. Artamonov S, Shokurov M, Esau I. Large eddy simulation of neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer. 2011;
  11. Esau I, Alexeev VA, Repina I, Sorokina S. Decoupling of the Arctic planetary boundary layer. 2011;
  12. Esau I. Dynamics and climatology of the planetary boundary layer in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic. 2011;
  13. Esau I. Observations and fine-resolution large-eddy simulations of the katabatic wind over Kongsvegen glacier, Kongsfjorden and Ny Alesund. 2011;
  14. Epchtein N, Esau I, PLT team. The Polar Large Telescope a Synoptic Survey of the Southern Sky in the infrared [Internet]. 2011;Available from: http://www.sf2a.asso.fr/

2010

  1. Esau I. Urbanized Turbulence-Resolving Model and Evaluation for Paris [Internet]. 2010. Available from: http://megapoli.dmi.dk/publ/MEGAPOLI_sr10-06.pdf
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