Urbanization impact on regional climate and extreme weather: Current understanding, uncertainties, and future research directions

Y Qian, TC Chakraborty, J Li, D Li, C He… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

Compound hydrometeorological extremes: Drivers, mechanisms and methods

W Zhang, M Luo, S Gao, W Chen, V Hari… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Compound extremes pose immense challenges and hazards to communities, and this is
particularly true for compound hydrometeorological extremes associated with deadly floods …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[HTML][HTML] Local mechanisms for global daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves

S Wu, M Luo, R Zhao, J Li, P Sun, Z Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves impose serious impacts on ecosystems, human health, agriculture, and energy
consumption. Previous studies have classified heatwaves into independent daytime …

Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective

SC Herring, MP Hoerling, JP Kossin… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective Special Supplement to the Bulletin
of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 96, No. 12, December 2015 From A Climate …

Unevenly spatiotemporal distribution of urban excess warming in coastal Shanghai megacity, China: Roles of geophysical environment, ventilation and sea breezes

Y Yang, M Guo, L Wang, L Zong, D Liu, W Zhang… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The complexity and uncertainty of urban excess warming are modulated by the morphology
of urban areas, canopy urban heat island (CUHI)–heat wave interactions, the geographical …

Greening in rural areas increases the surface urban heat island intensity

R Yao, L Wang, X Huang, W Gong… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this study, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer land cover, land
surface temperature (LST), and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) data were used to …

Future population exposure to daytime and nighttime heat waves in South Asia

S Ullah, Q You, D Chen, DA Sachindra… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to result in more frequent and intense heat waves (HWs) in
South Asia (SA). The simultaneous increases in temperature and population will exacerbate …

Increasing heat stress in urban areas of eastern China: Acceleration by urbanization

M Luo, NC Lau - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A combination of hot temperature and high humidity (high heat stress) has severe impacts
on environment, society, and public health, especially in urban areas where the majority of …

Amplified urban heat islands during heat wave periods

S Jiang, X Lee, J Wang, K Wang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves and urban heat islands (UHIs) may interact together, but the dependence of
their interaction on background climate is unclear. Hourly meteorological observations in …