Urbanization leads to an increase in urban heat islands (UHIs), which is a cause for concern
because they endanger the ecological environment and human health. Scenario …

Abstract The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is one of the regions
with the fastest urbanization process in China in the past 4 decades. The urbanization …

The unprecedented wave of urbanization has led to the development of the urban heat
island (UHI) effect in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area (GBA) of China. In …

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become a hot topic in the 21st century. As the
main source of urban carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions, reducing transportation CO 2 …

Concurrent drought and heatwave (CONDH) can cause tremendous ramifications on
socioeconomic activities and human health, and the drought-heatwave (DH) dependence …

Urbanization induced changes have attracted widespread attention. Key challenges arise
from the inherent uncertainties in attribution models diagnosing the driving mechanisms and …

Regional climate changes have adverse socioeconomic impacts, especially in a megacity.
As a case study, we investigate the regional climate changes of Chengdu, the most densely …

Microplastic deposition in subtropical lakes and the influences of human activities remain to
be deeply and fully understood. Owing to the intensification of urban construction and …

Improving urban resilience is crucial to counteract rising high-temperature disasters. This
study constructed a framework for a process-based heat stress resilience (HSR_phy) …

Impact of urban morphology on urban-scale building energy consumption under mesoscale
climate has not been elucidated. A new model was developed to examine the impact using …