This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the actual knowledge on the atmospheric
pollution sources, transport, transformation and levels in the East Mediterranean. It focuses …

Motivated by the international tendency to improve the urban microclimate, minimize
building energy consumption and improve air quality, this paper carries out a literature …

Urban heat islands, one of the fundamental anthropogenic impacts on local climates, have
been a growing concern especially for high-density urban areas such as Istanbul. This …

In short, the above discussion clearly identified the importance of LULCC in the climate
system. It has also been established in the literature that biases, inaccuracies, and …

In the present study, the trends in the reference evapotranspiration (ETO) estimated through
the Penman‐Monteith method were investigated over the humid region of northeast (NE) …

The urban heat island (UHI), together with summertime heat waves, foster's biophysical
hazards such as heat stress, air pollution, and associated public health problems. Mitigation …

The land surface influences local, regional and global climate across many time scales.
Accurate representation of land surfaces is an important factor for climate modelling studies …

Climate change and its urban-induced bias in selected Turkish cities is studied with a quality
controlled temperature and precipitation data of Turkish stations in the period of 1950–2004 …

Abstract Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region has experienced a remarkable urbanization
during the past 30 years, and regional climate change and air pollution are becoming more …

There have been tremendous changes in the global land use pattern in the past 50 years,
which has directly or indirectly exerted significant influence on the global climate change …