Canada is warming at double the rate of the global average caused in part to a fast-growing
population and large land transformations, where urban surfaces contribute significantly to …

Climate change and urbanization have exacerbated concerns about urban overheating,
affecting thermal comfort, heat-related mortality, and urban energy consumption, especially …

This study explores the sensitivity of high-resolution mesoscale simulations of urban heat
island (UHI) in the Chicago metropolitan area (CMA) and its environs to urban physical …

Urban climate models can predict the environmental impacts of urban development by
simulating the exchange processes between the atmosphere and urban surfaces. A …

Chicago’s Heat Island and Climate Change: Bridging the Scales via Dynamical
Downscaling in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 54 Issue 7 (2015) …

This study used the latest Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with
multilayer urban canopy models to investigate contrasting effects from urbanization and lake …

Passive daytime radiative cooling is gaining increasing relevance as recent studies report
that newly developed materials with very high reflectivity and emissivity could be able to …

In the face of future climate change, it is prudent to seek sustainable adaptation strategies to
address regional and local impacts. These impacts are multidimensional, involving …

Abstract The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG) is a computationally efficient urban
microclimate model developed to predict temporal and vertical variation of potential …

Modelling the response of plants to climate change is limited by our incomplete
understanding of the component processes of photosynthesis and their temperature …