Compound climate extremes in China: Trends, causes, and projections

Y Yu, Q You, Z Zuo, Y Zhang, Z Cai, W Li, Z Jiang… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human society and ecosystems are impacted by climate extremes more than by climate
averages. In contrast with climate extremes that are driven by individual climatic variables …

Increased heat risk in wet climate induced by urban humid heat

K Zhang, C Cao, H Chu, L Zhao, J Zhao, X Lee - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cities are generally warmer than their adjacent rural land, a phenomenon known as the
urban heat island (UHI). Often accompanying the UHI effect is another phenomenon called …

Global multi-model projections of local urban climates

L Zhao, K Oleson, E Bou-Zeid, ES Krayenhoff… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Effective urban planning for climate-driven risks relies on robust climate projections specific
to built landscapes. Such projections are absent because of a near-universal lack of urban …

Rapid urbanization and climate change significantly contribute to worsening urban human thermal comfort: A national 183-city, 26-year study in China

Z Ren, Y Fu, Y Dong, P Zhang, X He - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban residents are gradually being exposed to increasing urban high temperatures and
extreme heatwave events under rapid urbanization and global warming. Although there is …

Urbanization amplified asymmetrical changes of rainfall and exacerbated drought: Analysis over five urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin, China

S Huang, Y Gan, X Zhang, N Chen, C Wang… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization has become a prominent anthropogenic activity globally, resulting in the
substantial modification of temperature and rainfall in and around urban areas. Studies also …

Impact assessment of climate change and urbanization on the nonstationarity of extreme precipitation: A case study in an urban agglomeration in the middle reaches …

H Liu, L Zou, J ** of 30-m time-series global impervious surface area (GISA)
X Huang, Y Song, J Yang, W Wang, H Ren… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
As an important indicator of urbanization, accurate and long-term global artificial impervious
surface area (ISA) monitoring is vital to biodiversity, water quality assessment, urban heat …

Widespread global exacerbation of extreme drought induced by urbanization

S Huang, S Wang, Y Gan, C Wang, DE Horton, C Li… - Nature Cities, 2024 - nature.com
Urbanization exerts considerable impact on ecological, environmental and meteorological
processes and systems. However, the effects of urbanization on local drought remain under …