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 …

Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

Z Li, WKM Lau, V Ramanathan, G Wu… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing severity of droughts/floods and worsening air quality from increasing
aerosols in Asia monsoon regions are the two gravest threats facing over 60% of the world …

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

X Zhang, M Brandt, X Tong, P Ciais, Y Yue, X ** 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 …

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 …

Map** 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 …

Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas

Z Liu, W Zhan, B Bechtel, J Voogt, J Lai… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Warming trends in cities are influenced both by large-scale climate processes and by local-
scale urbanization. However, little is known about how surface warming trends of global …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetation greening, extended growing seasons, and temperature feedbacks in warming temperate grasslands of China

X Shen, B Liu, M Henderson, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Vegetation activity and phenology are significantly affected by climate change, and changes
in vegetation activity and phenology can in turn affect regional or global climate patterns. As …

[HTML][HTML] Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends

A Dewan, G Kiselev, D Botje, GI Mahmud… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is currently a lack of knowledge regarding the spatiotemporal variation of day and
night surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) in the major cities of Bangladesh. These …

Analyzing spatial relationships between urban land use intensity and urban vitality at street block level: A case study of five Chinese megacities

C **a, AGO Yeh, A Zhang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban sprawl in urbanizing China has resulted in a series of ecological and environmental
problems. Urban planners have been committed to promoting compact development …