Abstract Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Heat Waves (HWs) are very important research topics
as they have a strong impact on society and their synergies are not enough understood …

Climate change increases the risks of heat stress, especially in urban areas where urban
heat islands can develop. This literature review aims to describe how severe heat can occur …

The study determined the influence of changes in land use and land cover (LULC) on land
surface temperature (LST) over a 33-year period based on a medium-sized European city …

The paper critically evaluates the urban climate change adaptation policy and practise in
Central Europe using Polish cities as an example. The study focused on local policy …

The thermal environment is an important aspect of the urban environment because it affects
the quality of life of urban residents and the energy use in buildings. Urban Heat Island (UHI) …

Dendromonitoring helps answer the question of how polluted cities are and how this
pollution will change over the years. However, due to many possible over-interpretations of …

R is an open-source programming language which gained a central place in the
geosciences over the last two decades as the primary tool for research. Now …

This study analyzed the occurrence of cold days, very cold days and cold spells in Poznań in
the years 2008/09-2022/23. A cold day was defined as a day with Tmax< 0.0° C and≥-10.0° …

The objective of the paper was to characterize the occurrence of cold days and cold waves
in Poznań in the years 1966/67–2015/16, as well as to characterize thermal conditions in the …

The paper examines the variability of long-wave radiation fluxes in two contrasting types of
urban active surfaces–grassy surface and surface without plants (bare soil) in Wrocław …