Excited to share our new paper modeling evergreen forest canopy temperatures, in collaboration with Chris Still and Bharat Rastogi. We show that:

1) Plant foliage will warm ~5-10% faster than air.
2) Evaporation is unlikely to offset extreme thermal stress.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1keyBcFXJo...

Number after each state is percent overlap with a perfect circle of the same size as the lake.

For the #30DayMapChallenge, I sought to find the most “circular”lakes in the US with Python and the lovely LAGOS dataset. In short, Pennsylvania understood the assignment. s-kganz.github.io/blog/2024/ci...