Infrastructure-based heat reduction strategies can help cities adapt to high temperatures, but
simulations of their cooling potential yield widely varying predictions. We systematically …

Built environment changes the radiative, thermal and hydrological properties of the land
surface creating higher temperature over urban regions known as the Urban Heat Island …

This study examines the effect of land cover, vegetation health, climatic forcings, elevation
heat loads, and terrain characteristics (LVCET) on land surface temperature (LST) …

Cities are not only major contributors to global climate change but also stand at the forefront
of climate change impact. Quantifying and assessing the risk potentially induced by climate …

Rural-to-urban transformation (RUT) is the process of turning a rural or natural land surface
into an urban one, which brings about important modifications in the surface, causing well …

Urbanization plays an important role in human-induced climate change at the regional scale
through altered land-atmosphere interactions over urban areas. In this study, the impacts of …

Physical modeling of precipitation at fine (sub-kilometer) spatial scales is computationally
very expensive. This study develops a highly efficient framework for this task by coupling …

Climate change will impact urban areas. Decision makers need useful climate information to
adapt adequately. This research aims to improve understanding of changes in moisture and …

Most state-of-the-art climate simulation ensembles misrepresent the effects of urbanization
on local climate due to computational restrictions, posing a major limitation for urban climate …

The Mediterranean is recognized among the most responsive regions to climate change,
with annual temperatures projected to increase by 1–5° C until 2100. Large cities may …