[HTML][HTML] Earth observation big data for climate change research

HD Guo, L Zhang, LW Zhu - Advances in Climate Change Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Earth observation technology has provided highly useful information in global climate
change research over the past few decades and greatly promoted its development …

[HTML][HTML] Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas

Z Liu, W Zhan, B Bechtel, J Voogt, J Lai… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Warming trends in cities are influenced both by large-scale climate processes and by local-
scale urbanization. However, little is known about how surface warming trends of global …

An overview of mainland China temperature change research

G Ren, Y Ding, G Tang - Journal of Meteorological Research, 2017 - Springer
There has been significant effort devoted to investigating long-term trends in land surface air
temperature over mainland China by Chinese scientists over the past 50 years, and much …

Contribution of urbanization to the increase of extreme heat events in an urban agglomeration in east China

X Yang, L Ruby Leung, N Zhao, C Zhao… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The urban agglomeration of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is emblematic of China's rapid
urbanization during the past decades. Based on homogenized daily maximum and minimum …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization effect on trends of extreme temperature indices of national stations over mainland China, 1961–2008

G Ren, Y Zhou - Journal of climate, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding the long-term change of extreme temperature events is important to the
detection and attribution of climate change. It is unclear, however, how much effect …

Urbanization effect in regional temperature series based on a remote sensing classification scheme of stations

SK Tysa, G Ren, Y Qin, P Zhang, Y Ren… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the urbanization effect on station and regional surface air temperature (SAT)
trends is a prerequisite for monitoring and detecting long‐term climate change. Based on the …

Quantitatively evaluating the effect of urbanization on heat waves in China

X Wu, L Wang, R Yao, M Luo, S Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the long-term trends and spatial characteristics of heat waves (HW) were
analyzed using observations at a dense network of 2000 meteorological stations in China …

Climate change may accelerate the decline of desert riparian forest in the lower Tarim River, Northwestern China: Evidence from tree-rings of Populus euphratica

H Zhou, Y Chen, C Zhu, Z Li, G Fang, Y Li, A Fu - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Although climate change has emerged as a major threat to biodiversity, few assessments
exist of the sensitivity of desert riparian forests to climate in extremely arid plain areas. We …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated procedure to determine a reference station network for evaluating and adjusting urban bias in surface air temperature data

G Ren, J Li, Y Ren, Z Chu, A Zhang… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Trends in surface air temperature (SAT) are a critical indicator for climate change at varied
spatial scales. Because of urbanization effects, however, the current SAT records of many …

Spatial-temporal characteristics of the urban heat island effect in Xiamen, China

J Wenqian, R Guoyu, J Fengjun, H Jiajun, Z Panfeng - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Applying air temperature at 2-m data observed actually from automatic weather stations from
September 2017 to August 2019 and the long-term air temperature data from 1960 to 2019 …