Assessing long-term urban surface water changes using multi-year satellite images: A tale of two cities, Dhaka and Hong Kong.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.05.019
Abstract: Water is a fundamental component of an urban environment. Management of water resources is important to facilitate a liveable environment and urban sustainability. Several factors affect water resources, including urbanization, climate change and seasons. Moreover,… read more here.
Keywords: surface water; topography; water; hong kong ... See more keywords
Modeling the impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on urban surface ecological status: A case study of Milan and Wuhan cities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112236
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedent negative impacts on our society, however, evidences show a reduction of anthropogenic pressures on the environment. Due to the high importance of environmental conditions on human life quality, it… read more here.
Keywords: impact covid; milan wuhan; impact; urban surface ... See more keywords
Temporal and spatial variation of benthic macroinvertebrates on the shoreline of Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, under the influence of urban surface runoff
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101289
Abstract: Abstract In recent decades, the management of urban surface runoff in coastal regions has become a global priority. However, in Brazil, whose coastline is 8,500 km, these actions are still scarce. This study aimed to… read more here.
Keywords: surface runoff; paulo brazil; urban surface;
Effectiveness of urban surface characteristics as mitigation strategies for the excessive summer heat in cities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103072
Abstract: Abstract Extreme urban heat, influenced by surface characteristics, negatively affects human thermal comfort. Understanding the thermal behaviour of different urban surface parameters (USPs) at large spatial scales is essential for strategic heat mitigation. This study… read more here.
Keywords: heat mitigation; heat; urban surface; surface characteristics ... See more keywords
Mathematical model for radiation energy from an urban surface penetrating the atmospheric infrared window
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DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2018.06.084
Abstract: Abstract This paper established a mathematical model to explore the characteristics of infrared energy of 8–14 μm emitted from an urban surface and analyzed the atmospheric transmittance under actual weather conditions. Then, the amount of infrared… read more here.
Keywords: energy; atmospheric infrared; infrared window; mathematical model ... See more keywords
Review of urban surface parameterizations for numerical climate models
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DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.10.006
Abstract: Abstract 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 (UHI), enhancement of precipitation and warm season thunderstorms causing… read more here.
Keywords: surface parameterizations; surface; climate; weather climate ... See more keywords
Assessing catchment scale flood resilience of urban areas using a grid cell based metric.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114852
Abstract: Urban flooding has become a global issue due to climate change, urbanization and limitation in the capacity of urban drainage infrastructures. To tackle the growing threats, it is crucial to understand urban surface flood resilience,… read more here.
Keywords: urban drainage; flood resilience; resilience; resilience urban ... See more keywords
Evaluating the contributions of urban surface expansion to regional warming in Shanghai using different methods to calculate the daily mean temperature
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DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2018.1530563
Abstract: ABSTRACT The contributions of urban surface expansion to regional warming over subregions of Shanghai and Shanghai as a whole using different methods to calculate the daily mean surface temperature (SAT), including the averages of four… read more here.
Keywords: expansion; using different; contributions urban; surface expansion ... See more keywords
Sampling Robustness in Gradient Analysis of Urban Material Mixtures
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DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.3040342
Abstract: Many studies analyzing spaceborne hyperspectral images (HSIs) have so far struggled to deal with a lack of pure pixels due to complex mixtures of urban surface materials. Recently, an alternative concept of gradients in urban… read more here.
Keywords: surface material; material; material gradients; analysis ... See more keywords
Contribution of Urban Surface Expansion to Regional Warming in Beijing, China
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DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-17-0019.1
Abstract: AbstractThe contribution of urban surface expansion to regional warming as detected from meteorological observational station data may vary with considerable uncertainty because of the spatial heterogeneity of such data—a situation that promotes a requirement for… read more here.
Keywords: contribution urban; expansion regional; surface; surface expansion ... See more keywords
The Influence of Urban Surface Expansion in China on Regional Climate
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DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-15-0604.1
Abstract: AbstractIncorporating satellite-based urban surface data for the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s in China, contributions to regional warming, and changes in the precipitation due to urban surface expansion were explored using the nested Fifth-generation Pennsylvania… read more here.
Keywords: climate influence; surface; surface expansion; urban surface ... See more keywords