Abstract The 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change aims to keep global average temperature increases well below 2° C of …

Urban areas confront a number of environmental issues including excessive thermal stress
and concentrated emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants. In past decades, many …

Many of the world's major cities have implemented tree planting programs based on
assumed environmental and social benefits of urban forests. Recent studies have …

Urbanization, a dominant global demographic trend, leads to various changes in
environments (eg, atmospheric CO2 increase, urban heat island). Cities experience global …

Based on a uniquely dense network of surface towers measuring continuously the
atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), we developed the first …

Assessing the carbon storage capacity of terrestrial ecosystems is crucial for land
management and carbon reduction policymaking. There is still a knowledge gap regarding …

Building height is one of the key variables in studying anthropogenic activities and built
environments in the urban system. However, the information of urban building height over …

Governments restricted mobility and effectively shuttered much of the global economy in
response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Six San Francisco Bay Area counties were the first …

As important determinants of urban thermal environment, surface roughness and
morphology have been extensively studied for sustainable urban development. In this study …

Cities are concentrated areas of CO2 emissions and have become the foci of policies for
mitigation actions. However, atmospheric measurement networks suitable for evaluating …