Satellite remote sensing of global land surface temperature: Definition, methods, products, and applications

ZL Li, H Wu, SB Duan, W Zhao, H Ren… - Reviews of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Land surface temperature (LST) is a crucial parameter that reflects land–atmosphere
interaction and has thus attracted wide interest from geoscientists. Owing to the rapid …

Land cover change in global drylands: A review

H Wang, Y Liu, Y Wang, Y Yao, C Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As a sensitive region, identifying land cover change in drylands is critical to understanding
global environmental change. However, the current findings related to land cover change in …

[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 …

The mark of vegetation change on Earth's surface energy balance

G Duveiller, J Hooker, A Cescatti - Nature communications, 2018‏ - nature.com
Changing vegetation cover alters the radiative and non-radiative properties of the surface.
The result of competing biophysical processes on Earth's surface energy balance varies …

Seasonal contrast of the dominant factors for spatial distribution of land surface temperature in urban areas

J Peng, J Jia, Y Liu, H Li, J Wu - Remote sensing of Environment, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Urban heat island (UHI) has become an urban eco-environmental problem globally. Land
surface temperature (LST) is widely used to quantify UHI. This study used Shenzhen, a …

A simplified urban-extent algorithm to characterize surface urban heat islands on a global scale and examine vegetation control on their spatiotemporal variability

T Chakraborty, X Lee - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
We develop a new algorithm, the simplified urban-extent (SUE) algorithm, to estimate the
surface urban heat island (UHI) intensity at a global scale. We implement the SUE algorithm …

Impact of vegetation cover loss on surface temperature and carbon emission in a fastest-growing city, Cumilla, Bangladesh

AA Kafy, A Al Rakib, MA Fattah, ZA Rahaman… - Building and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Human pressures, combined with changing hydrology and land resources, have a distinct
effect on the carbon chain and ecosystem resilience. The increase in urban areas …

Tropical forest restoration under future climate change

A Koch, JO Kaplan - Nature Climate Change, 2022‏ - nature.com
One of the most promising ways to rapidly remove CO2 from the atmosphere is through the
restoration of tropical forests. Ongoing and future climate change may, however, threaten the …

Response characteristics and influencing factors of carbon emissions and land surface temperature in Guangdong Province, China

C Song, J Yang, F Wu, X **ao, J **a, X Li - Urban Climate, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The continuous rise of carbon emissions has brought enormous pressure on the human
environment. To determine the response characteristics and influencing factors of carbon …

Marshland loss warms local land surface temperature in China

X Shen, B Liu, M Jiang, X Lu - Geophysical research letters, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
China has the third largest area of marshland in the world. Due to the effects of human
activities, marshland in China has been widely converted to built‐up land (BL) and cultivated …