The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies

J Yang, P Gong, R Fu, M Zhang, J Chen, S Liang… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Satellite remote sensing has provided major advances in understanding the climate system
and its changes, by quantifying processes and spatio-temporal states of the atmosphere …

Urban heat island and its regional impacts using remotely sensed thermal data—a review of recent developments and methodology

H Shi, G Xian, R Auch, K Gallo, Q Zhou - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many novel research algorithms have been developed to analyze urban heat island (UHI)
and UHI regional impacts (UHIRIP) with remotely sensed thermal data tables. We present a …

Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

X Lee, ML Goulden, DY Hollinger, A Barr, TA Black… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Deforestation in mid-to high latitudes is hypothesized to have the potential to cool the Earth's
surface by altering biophysical processes,,. In climate models of continental-scale land …

A global comparison between station air temperatures and MODIS land surface temperatures reveals the cooling role of forests

DJ Mildrexler, M Zhao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Most global temperature analyses are based on station air temperatures. This study
presents a global analysis of the relationship between remotely sensed annual maximum …

[HTML][HTML] Global land surface temperature change (2003–2017) and its relationship with climate drivers: AIRS, MODIS, and ERA5-land based analysis

J Liu, DFT Hagan, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in the water cycle and energy balance at
global and regional scales. Large-scale LST estimates can be obtained from satellite …

Creating a topoclimatic daily air temperature dataset for the conterminous United States using homogenized station data and remotely sensed land skin temperature

JW Oyler, A Ballantyne, K Jencso… - International Journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Gridded topoclimatic datasets are increasingly used to drive many ecological and
hydrological models and assess climate change impacts. The use of such datasets is …

Arctic air temperature change amplification and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

P Chylek, CK Folland, G Lesins… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding Arctic temperature variability is essential for assessing possible future
melting of the Greenland ice sheet, Arctic sea ice and Arctic permafrost. Temperature trend …

The US Historical Climatology Network monthly temperature data, version 2

MJ Menne, CN Williams Jr… - Bulletin of the American …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
In support of climate monitoring and assessments, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's (NOAA's) National Climatic Data Center has developed an improved …

Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

R Mahmood, RA Pielke Sr, KG Hubbard… - Bulletin of the …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
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 …

Evaluation of temperature and precipitation trends and long-term persistence in CMIP5 twentieth-century climate simulations

S Kumar, V Merwade, JL Kinter III… - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
The authors have analyzed twentieth-century temperature and precipitation trends and long-
term persistence from 19 climate models participating in phase 5 of the Coupled Model …