Abstract The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is an international
community-based initiative to acquire and disseminate climate relevant data on the physical …

Researchers have made immense progress in understanding the urban-induced
microclimate by numerical modelling. It has been around two decades since urban canopy …

Change analysis of land use and land cover (LULC) is a technique to study the
environmental degradation and to control the unplanned development. Analysis of the past …

A growing research trend in additive manufacturing (AM) calls for layerwise anomaly
detection as a step toward enabling real-time process control, in contrast to ex situ or …

The potential ecological and economic effects of climate change for tropical islands were
studied using output from 12 statistically downscaled general circulation models (GCMs) …

The urban functional zone (UFZ) is the basic unit of urban planning, which is defined as an
area of similar social and economic functions. Despite the importance of UFZs, the stability …

Higher land surface temperature (LST) in cities than their surrounding areas presents a
major sustainability challenge for cities. Decision-makers and planners use the LST …

Heat waves are projected to increase in magnitude and frequency throughout this century
because of increasing global temperatures, making it critically important to acquire improved …

Over the past few decades, rapid urban development has created significant impacts on
land-use/land-cover (LULC) parameters (water bodies, built-up areas, agricultural and bare …

The temperate forests in Northeast China are an important ecological barrier. However, the
way in which temperate forests regulate the regional temperature and water cycling remains …