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 …

Urban climates and climate change

V Masson, A Lemonsu, J Hidalgo… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Cities are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather episodes, which are expected to
increase with climate change. Cities also influence their own local climate, for example …

Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms

ZS Venter, T Chakraborty, X Lee - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The ubiquitous nature of satellite data has led to an explosion of studies on the surface
urban heat island (SUHI). Relatively few have simultaneously used air temperature …

Lower urban humidity moderates outdoor heat stress

T Chakraborty, ZS Venter, Y Qian, X Lee - Agu Advances, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Surface temperature is often used to examine heat exposure in multi‐city studies and for
informing urban heat mitigation efforts due to scarcity of urban air temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperlocal map** of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data

ZS Venter, O Brousse, I Esau, F Meier - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where
most of the world's population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts on ambient air …

CrowdQC+—a quality-control for crowdsourced air-temperature observations enabling world-wide urban climate applications

D Fenner, B Bechtel, M Demuzere, J Kittner… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the collection and utilisation of crowdsourced data has gained attention in
atmospheric sciences and citizen weather stations (CWS), ie, privately-owned weather …

Quality control for crowdsourced personal weather stations to enable operational rainfall monitoring

LW de Vos, H Leijnse, A Overeem… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Automatic personal weather stations owned and maintained by weather enthusiasts provide
spatially dense in situ measurements that are often collected and visualized in real time on …

[HTML][HTML] Map** urban temperature using crowd-sensing data and machine learning

M Zumwald, B Knüsel, DN Bresch, R Knutti - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the patterns of urban temperature a high spatial and temporal resolution is of
large importance for urban heat adaptation and mitigation. Machine learning offers …

Personal assessment of urban heat exposure: a systematic review

N Nazarian, JKW Lee - Environmental Research Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
To fully address the multi-faceted challenges of urban heat, it is paramount that humans are
placed at the center of the agenda. This is manifested in a recent shift in urban heat studies …

Combining high-resolution land use data with crowdsourced air temperature to investigate intra-urban microclimate

J Potgieter, N Nazarian, MJ Lipson, MA Hart… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The spatial variability of land cover in cities results in a heterogeneous urban microclimate,
which is often not represented with regulatory meteorological sensor networks …