Land surface albedo is a key parameter controlling the local energy budget, and altering the
albedo of built surfaces has been proposed as a tool to mitigate high near‐surface …

Modeling the climate of urban areas is of interest for studying urban heat islands (UHIs).
Reliable assessment of the primary causes of UHIs and the efficacy of various heat …

Evapotranspiration (ET), an essential process in biosphere‐atmosphere interactions, is
highly uncertain in cities that maintain cultivated and irrigated landscapes. We estimated ET …

Land surface temperature (LST) derived from satellite observations and weather modeling
has been widely used for investigating Earth surface-atmosphere energy exchange and …

This study presents a comprehensive modeling approach for simulating the spatiotemporal
distribution of urban air temperatures with a modeling system that includes the Weather …

Semi-arid urban environments are undergoing an increase in both average air temperatures
and in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events. Within cities, different composition …

Urban expansion and climate change can considerably influence the regional thermal
environment. In this study, the effects of changes in land cover type and vegetation coverage …

As many regions worldwide are increasingly affected by water scarcity caused by
unprecedented climate change and population growth, current practices of landscape …

The ecological environment in China's arid and semi-arid regions has been improving over
the past few decades. Using the Mu Us Sandy Land (MUSL) as a case study, we examine …

Transpiration of urban forests in southern California is highly uncertain and challenging to
quantify because of variability of tree characteristics and stomatal responses among species …