Impact of regional climate change on human health

JA Patz, D Campbell-Lendrum, T Holloway, JA Foley - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Abstract The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends
due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives …

Urbanization impact on regional climate and extreme weather: Current understanding, uncertainties, and future research directions

Y Qian, TC Chakraborty, J Li, D Li, C He… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

High-spatiotemporal-resolution map** of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

X Liu, Y Huang, X Xu, X Li, X Li, P Ciais, P Lin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High-resolution global maps of annual urban land coverage provide fundamental
information of global environmental change and contribute to applications related to climate …

A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

X Zhang, M Brandt, X Tong, P Ciais, Y Yue, X ** global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data
X Li, P Gong, Y Zhou, J Wang, Y Bai… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies.
However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a great challenge …

Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry

S Menon, KL Denman, G Brasseur, A Chidthaisong… - 2007 - osti.gov
The Earth's climate is determined by a number of complex connected physical, chemical and
biological processes occurring in the atmosphere, land and ocean. The radiative properties …

Land use/land cover change and its impact on surface urban heat island and urban thermal comfort in a metropolitan city

MW Naikoo, ARMT Islam, J Mallick, A Rahman - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing urban heat island intensity (UHII) is a matter of concern for the sustainable
urban planning and maintaining urban thermal comfort in the metropolitan cities of …

Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: A new data set from 1850

P Brohan, JJ Kennedy, I Harris… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The historical surface temperature data set HadCRUT provides a record of surface
temperature trends and variability since 1850. A new version of this data set, HadCRUT3 …