Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes—A review on its environmental consequences and climate change

PS Roy, RM Ramachandran, O Paul, PK Thakur… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Springer
The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

[HTML][HTML] Particulate matter accumulation by tree foliage is driven by leaf habit types, urbanization-and pollution levels

M Steinparzer, J Schaubmayr, DL Godbold… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Particulate matter (PM) pollution poses a significant threat to human health. Greenery,
particularly trees, can act as effective filters for PM, reducing associated health risks …

Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities

J Wang, Y Chen, W Liao, G He, SFB Tett, Z Yan… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Urban areas are experiencing strongly increasing hot temperature extremes. However,
these urban heat events have seldom been the focus of traditional detection and attribution …

Elucidating the Multi‐Timescale Variability of a Canopy Urban Heat Island by Using the Short‐Time Fourier Transform

L Zhang, F Luo, G Pan, W Zhang, G Ren… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Taking the megacity of Bei**g as an example, a short‐time Fourier transform (STFT) method
was employed to extract the multi‐timescale evolution pattern of the canopy urban heat …

The imprint of urbanization on PM2. 5 concentrations in China: The urban-rural gradient study

G Yun, S Zhao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization has been acknowledged as an important driver of PM 2.5 pollution, but the
spatial heterogeneity within cities remain largely unexplored in understanding urbanization …

Impact of urbanization on fine particulate matter concentrations over central Europe

P Huszar, L Bartík, J Karlický… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Rural-to-urban transformation (RUT) is the process of turning a rural or natural land surface
into an urban one, which brings about important modifications in the surface, causing well …

Urbanization and Land surface temperature changes over Hyderabad, a semi-arid mega city in India

K Srikanth, D Swain - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Develo**/developed cities have resulted in massive anthropogenic modifications of the
environment through replacement of natural land cover with concrete, bricks, asphalt and …

Role of local climate zones and urban ventilation in canopy urban heat island–heatwave interaction in Nan**g megacity, China

W Tian, Y Yang, L Wang, L Zong, Y Zhang, D Liu - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Different local climate zones (LCZs) and wind speeds (WSs) increase the uncertainties
related to canopy urban heat island (CUHI), heat waves (HWs), and their interactions …

PM2.5 Influence on Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect in Bei**g and the Possible Mechanisms

G Yang, G Ren, P Zhang, X Xue… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whether the urban heat island (UHI) is affected by air pollution in urban areas has attracted
much attention. By analyzing the observation data of automatic weather stations and …

Remote sensing of diverse urban environments: From the single city to multiple cities

G Chen, Y Zhou, JA Voogt, EC Stokes - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of urban environments has unveiled a significant shift from single-city
investigations to the inclusion of multiple cities. Originated from the ideas of the Remote …