Urban Climate

Article	Citations
Impact of lockdown on air quality over major cities across the globe during COVID-19 pandemic	141
Are urban water bodies really cooling?	102
Investigating the diversity of land surface temperature characteristics in different scale cities based on local climate zones	100
Land use/land cover change and its impact on surface urban heat island and urban thermal comfort in a metropolitan city	93
A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate	86
Examining the nexus between land surface temperature and urban growth in Chattogram Metropolitan Area of Bangladesh using long term Landsat series data	84
Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of haze and pollution particles in China based on spatial statistics	79
Combined nonlinear effects of urbanization and economic growth on CO2 emissions in Malaysia. An application of QARDL and KRLS	79
The evaluation on artificial neural networks (ANN) and multiple linear regressions (MLR) models for predicting SO2 concentration	78
Simulation and design of joint distribution of rainfall and tide level in Wuchengxiyu Region,China	76
Modeling mean radiant temperature in outdoor spaces, A comparative numerical simulation and validation study	74
Smog prediction based on the deep belief - BP neural network model (DBN-BP)	72
Review of urban computing in air quality management as smart city service: An integrated IoT, AI, and cloud technology perspective	72
Influences of joint action of natural and social factors on atmospheric process of hydrological cycle in Inner Mongolia, China	71
Impact of the wind conditions on COVID-19 pandemic: A new insight for direction of the spread of the virus	68
Non-linear relationship between urbanization paths and CO2 emissions: A case of South, South-East and East Asian economies	65
Predict the effect of meteorological factors on haze using BP neural network	62
Statistical analysis of regional air temperature characteristics before and after dam construction	60
Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity	58
Trend of extreme rainfall events using suitable Global Circulation Model to combat the water logging condition in Kolkata Metropolitan Area	56
Rapid urbanization and climate change significantly contribute to worsening urban human thermal comfort: A national 183-city, 26-year study in China	56
Assessing urban heat islands and thermal comfort in Noida City using geospatial technology	52
Multi-directional temporal convolutional artificial neural network for PM2.5 forecasting with missing values: A deep learning approach	51
The heat-health nexus in the urban context: A systematic literature review exploring the socio-economic vulnerabilities and built environment characteristics	51
The effects of land use on spatial pattern of urban green spaces and their cooling ability	50

Disaster management cycle and its application for flood risk reduction in urban areas of Pakistan	50
Assessing the relationship between local climatic zones (LCZs) and land surface temperature (LST) – A case study of Sriniketan-Santiniketan Planning Area (SSPA), West Bengal, India	50
Assessing the role of SuDS in resilience enhancement of urban drainage system: A case study of Gurugram City, India	49
Impervious surface growth and its inter-relationship with vegetation cover and land surface temperature in peri-urban areas of Delhi	49
Understanding the seasonal variations of land surface temperature in Nanjing urban area based on local climate zone	48
Land use optimization research based on FLUS model and ecosystem services–setting Jinan City as an example	48
Impact of urban expansion on land surface temperature and carbon emissions using machine learning algorithms in Wuhan, China	48
Evaluating the role of the albedo of material and vegetation scenarios along the urban street canyon for improving pedestrian thermal comfort outdoors	48
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of urban land area and PM2.5 concentration in China	48
Enrichment of road dust particles and adjacent environments with metals and metalloids in eastern Moscow	48
Policy innovation in low carbon pilot cities: lessons learned from China	47
Heavy metal pollution in groundwater of urban Delhi environs: Pollution indices and health risk assessment	46
Local climate zones in five southern European cities: An improved GIS-based classification method based on Copernicus data	45
Economic agglomeration and emissions reduction: Does high agglomeration in China's urban clusters lead to higher carbon intensity?	44
Climate change adaptation in Indian cities: A review of existing actions and spaces for triple wins	43
Characterization, seasonal variation, source apportionment and health risk assessment of black carbon over an urban region of East India	42
NO2 levels after the COVID-19 lockdown in Ecuador: A trade-off between environment and human health	42
Effects of landscape composition and patterns on land surface temperature: Urban heat island case study for Nigde, Turkey	42
Modelling approach for carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth: A systematic review	42
Hazardous thoracic and ultrafine particles from road dust in a Caribbean industrial city	41
Is Urban Heat Island intensity higher during hot spells and heat waves (Dijon, France, 2014–2019)?	41
Assessment methods of urban microclimate and its parameters: A critical review to take the research from lab to land	40
Parametric study of URBAN morphology on building solar energy potential in Singapore context	40
Urban form, land use, and cover change and their impact on carbon emissions in the Monterrey Metropolitan area, Mexico	39
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on human mobility and ambient air quality around the world: A systematic review	38
Forecasting of particulate matter with a hybrid ARIMA model based on wavelet transformation and seasonal adjustment	38
Air pollution and COVID-19 lockdown in a large South American city: Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile	38
Integrated urban hydrometeorological, climate and environmental services: Concept, methodology and key messages	38
Improved simulation of very heavy rainfall events by incorporating WUDAPT urban land use/land cover in WRF	38
Machine learning algorithm based prediction of land use land cover and land surface temperature changes to characterize the surface urban heat island phenomena over Ahmedabad city, India	38
Evaluation of the effect of geographical parameters on the formation of the land surface temperature by applying OLS and GWR, A case study Shiraz City, Iran	38
Urban sprawl during five decadal period over National Capital Region of India: Impact on urban heat island and thermal comfort	37
A review of the inter-correlation of climate change, air pollution and urban sustainability using novel machine learning algorithms and spatial information science	37
Improved air quality during COVID-19 at an urban megacity over the Indo-Gangetic Basin: From stringent to relaxed lockdown phases	37
Assessment of Urban Heat Islands in Brazil based on MODIS remote sensing data	37
Urban heat island mitigation in Singapore: Evaluation using WRF/multilayer urban canopy model and local climate zones	36
Ecological efficiency and its determining factors in an urban agglomeration in China: The Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration	36
A systematic approach for urban heat island mitigation strategies in critical local climate zones of an Indian city	36
COVID-19 lockdown and air quality of SAFAR-India metro cities	36
Effect of urbanization on aerosol optical depth over Beijing: Land use and surface temperature analysis	35
The projected effects of urbanization and climate change on summer thermal environment in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China	35
Estimates of change in surface meteorology and urban heat island over northwest India: Impact of urbanization	35
Exploratory analysis of cooling effect of urban lakes on land surface temperature in Bucharest (Romania) using Landsat imagery	35
The effect of building height diversity on outdoor microclimate conditions in hot climate. A case study of Dubai-UAE	34
Urban microclimate and its impact on building performance: A case study of San Francisco	34
Effects of land use and land cover pattern on urban temperature variations: A case study in Hong Kong	34
Hydrochemical characteristics, hydrochemical processes and recharge sources of the geothermal systems in Lanzhou City, northwestern China	34
Exploring the Spatio-temporal pattern of regional heat island (RHI) in an urban agglomeration of secondary cities in Eastern India	34
Impacts of urbanization on extreme precipitation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area	33
Impact of urbanization and land cover change on urban climate: Case study of Nigeria	33

Estimating summertime heat stress in a tropical Indian city using Local Climate Zone (LCZ) framework	33
Awareness of urban climate adaptation strategies –an international overview	33
The use of local climate zones in the urban environment: A systematic review of data sources, methods, and themes	33
Experimental study of urban microclimate on scaled street canyons with various aspect ratios	33
Climate change and infrastructure risk: Indoor heat exposure during a concurrent heat wave and blackout event in Phoenix, Arizona	32
Health risk for older adults in Madrid, by outdoor thermal and acoustic comfort	32
Mapping urban temperature using crowd-sensing data and machine learning	32
Spatial planning factors that influence CO2 emissions: A systematic literature review	32
An integrated multiscale urban microclimate model for the urban thermal environment	32
Sky view factor estimation from street view images based on semantic segmentation	32
Quantifying environmental and social vulnerability: Role of urban Heat Island and air quality, a case study of Camden, NJ	32
Classification and pedestrian-level wind environment assessment among Tianjin's residential area based on numerical simulation	32
Identification of factors affecting public willingness to pay for heat mitigation and adaptation: Evidence from Guangzhou, China	31
Gaussian approach for probability and correlation between the number of COVID-19 cases and the air pollution in Lima	31
PM10 and PM2.5 in Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India: Chemical characterization, source analysis, and transport pathways	31
Impact of urban heat island formation on energy consumption in Delhi	31
Exploring the effect of urbanization on hourly extreme rainfall over Yangtze River Delta of China	31
Urban climate and resiliency: A synthesis report of state of the art and future research directions	30
Timing of rainfall occurrence altered by urban sprawl	30
The impacts of climate change on occupational heat strain in outdoor workers: A systematic review	30
Chemical characterization, source apportionment and transport pathways of PM2.5 and PM10 over Indo Gangetic Plain of India	30
A preliminary study on the influence of Beijing urban spatial morphology on near-surface wind speed	30
LCZ scheme for assessing Urban Heat Island intensity in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon)	30
Temporal convolutional denoising autoencoder network for air pollution prediction with missing values	30
Modelling the influence of high-rise urban geometry on outdoor thermal comfort in Singapore	30
Research on the relationship between urban morphology and air temperature based on mobile measurement: A case study in Wuhan, China	30
Sponge City and social equity: Impact assessment of urban stormwater management in Baicheng City, China	29
Surface and canopy urban heat islands: Does urban morphology result in the spatiotemporal differences?	29
A big picture of urban heat island mitigation strategies and recommendation for India	29
Estimation of monthly 1 km resolution PM2.5 concentrations using a random forest model over “2 + 26” cities, China	29
Future air temperature projection in high-density tropical cities based on global climate change and urbanization – a study in Singapore	28
Prediction of SO2 and PM10 air pollutants using a deep learning-based recurrent neural network: Case of industrial city Sakarya	28
Supporting urban adaptation to climate change: What role can resilience measurement tools play?	28
Assessment of underground water quality and water quality index across the Noyyal River basin of Tirupur District in South India	28
Exploring the pattern of outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) in a tropical planning region of eastern India during summer	28
Estimating PM2.5 from multisource data: A comparison of different machine learning models in the Pearl River Delta of China	28
Human behaviour change and its impact on urban climate: Restrictions with the G20 Osaka Summit and COVID-19 outbreak	28
Reduced urban green cover and daytime cooling capacity during the 2012–2016 California drought	28
Production and emissions reduction decisions considering the differentiated carbon tax regulation across new and remanufactured products and consumer preference	28
A tempo-spatial modelling framework to assess outdoor thermal comfort of complex urban neighbourhoods	28
Travellers' exposure to air pollution: A systematic review and future directions	27
Mapping local climate zones for a Japanese large city by an extended workflow of WUDAPT Level 0 method	27
Future urban expansion and local climate zone changes in relation to land surface temperature: Case of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand	27
Does polycentric development produce less transportation carbon emissions? Evidence from urban form identified by night-time lights across US metropolitan areas	27
Ecophysiological responses of tree species due to air pollution for biomonitoring of environmental health in urban area	27
The suitability of the urban local climate zone classification scheme for surface temperature studies in distinct macroclimate regions	26
Designing urban green spaces for climate adaptation: A critical review of research outputs	26
Response characteristics and influencing factors of carbon emissions and land surface temperature in Guangdong Province, China	26
Analytic Hierarchy Processes (AHP) evaluation of green roof- and green wall- based UHI mitigation strategies via ENVI-met simulations	26
Review of heat wave studies and related urban policies in South Asia	26
Hourly evolution of intra-urban temperature variability across the local climate zones. The case of Madrid	25
Quantitative outdoor thermal comfort assessment of street: A case in a warm and humid climate of India	25
The role of urban morphology on outdoor thermal comfort: The case of Al-Sharq City – Az Zarqa	25
Impact of lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic on the air quality of North Indian cities	25
Integrated urban services: Experience from four cities on different continents	25
Forecasting PM2.5 levels in Santiago de Chile using deep learning neural networks	25
How local climate zones influence urban air temperature: Measurements by bicycle in Dijon, France	24
Relationships between carbon emissions and urban population size and density, based on geo-urban scaling analysis: A multi‑carbon source empirical study	24
Spatio-temporal prediction and factor identification of urban air quality using support vector machine	24
Comparison of regional and urban outdoor thermal stress conditions in heatwave and normal summer periods: A case study	24
Urban expansion and its impacts on local temperature in San Salvador, El Salvador	24
Establishing a link between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) zones and COVID -19 over India based on anthropogenic emission sources and air quality data	24
Weighted clustering-based risk assessment on urban rainstorm and flood disaster	24
The climate justice pillars vis-à-vis urban form adaptation to climate change: A review	24
PM2.5 forecasting in Coyhaique, the most polluted city in the Americas	24
Using artificial neural networks to model the impacts of climate change on dust phenomenon in the Zanjan region, north-west Iran	24
Characterization and source apportionment of elemental species in PM2.5 with especial emphasis on seasonal variation in the capital city “Dhaka”, Bangladesh	23
Psychosocial determinants of household adoption of water-efficiency behaviors in Tehran capital, Iran: Application of the social cognitive theory	23
Evaluation of land use and land cover Spatio-temporal change during rapid Urban sprawl from Lahore, Pakistan	23
Application of a decision-making framework for multi-objective optimisation of urban heat mitigation strategies	23
Wind environment assessment and planning of urban natural ventilation corridors using GIS: Shenzhen as a case study	23
The making of a climate emergency response: Examining the attributes of climate emergency plans	23
A comprehensive review on water pollution, South Asia Region: Pakistan	23
Enhancing New York City's resilience to sea level rise and increased coastal flooding	23
Abating heat waves in a coastal Mediterranean city: What can cool roofs and vegetation contribute?	22
Risk assessment and zoning of flood disaster in Wuchengxiyu Region, China	22
Assessing effects of non-point source pollution emission control schemes on Beijing's sub-center with a water environment model	22
Assessment of macroclimate and microclimate effects on outdoor thermal comfort via artificial neural network models	22
Numerical characterization of spatial and temporal evolution of summer urban heat island intensity in São Paulo, Brazil	22
Divergent impact of urban 2D/3D morphology on thermal environment along urban gradients	22

Urbanization contribution to human perceived temperature changes in major urban agglomerations of China	22
Wintertime carbonaceous species and trace metals in PM10 in Darjeeling: A high altitude town in the eastern Himalayas	22
Evaluation and application of a low-cost measurement network to study intra-urban temperature differences during summer 2018 in Bern, Switzerland	22
Experimental study on the treatment of urban garment industry wastewater to mitigate groundwater contamination using a solar evaporative still	21
COVID-19 lockdown: Effects on selected volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions over the major Indian metro cities	21
Urban heat island effect of a polynuclear megacity Delhi – Compactness and thermal evaluation of four sub-cities	21
Spatial modeling of rainfall patterns and groundwater on the coast of northeastern Brazil	21
Modeling the outdoor cooling impact of highly radiative “super cool” materials applied on roofs	21
Urban land cover mapping under the Local Climate Zone scheme using Sentinel-2 and PALSAR-2 data	21
Investigation of urban air quality by performing mobile measurements using a bicycle (MOBAIR)	21
Assessment of urban cooling effect based on downscaled land surface temperature: A case study for Fukuoka, Japan	21
Predicting urban thermal comfort from calibrated UTCI assessment scale - A case study in Belo Horizonte city, southeastern Brazil	21
Heat vulnerability and extreme heat risk at the metropolitan scale: A case study of Taipei metropolitan area, Taiwan	20
Application of weather data morphing for calibration of urban ENVI-met microclimate models. Results and critical issues	20
A representative urban driving cycle for passenger vehicles to estimate fuel consumption and emission rates under real-world driving conditions	20
Strengthened tropical cyclones and higher flood risk under compound effect of climate change and urbanization across China's Greater Bay Area	20
Potential role of urban forest in removing PM2.5: A case study in Seoul by deep learning with satellite data	20
Low carbon urban strategies: An investigation of 124 European cities	20
Virtual carbon emissions in the big cities of middle-income countries	20
Tree-configuration and species effects on the indoor and outdoor thermal condition and energy performance of courtyard buildings	20
Discussion on inapplicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) for outdoor thermal comfort in cold region	20
Improvement of air quality index prediction using geographically weighted predictor methodology	20
CityFFD – City fast fluid dynamics for urban microclimate simulations on graphics processing units	20
Intensification of sub-daily rainfall extremes in a low-rise urban area	20
Exploring the response of shallow groundwater to precipitation in the northern piedmont of the Qinling Mountains, China	20
Flood-hazard risk classification and mapping for urban catchment under different climate change scenarios: A case study of Hyderabad city	20
MODIS-based climatology of the Surface Urban Heat Island at country scale (Romania)	20
A decision support tool for calculating effective shading in urban streets	20
Compatibility of local climate zone parameters for climate sensitive street design: Influence of openness and surface properties on local climate	19
Integrated approach for the investigation of groundwater quality through hydrochemistry and water quality index (WQI)	19
The effects of passive design on indoor thermal comfort and energy savings for residential buildings in hot climates: A systematic review	19
On the effect of sea breeze regime on aerosols and gases properties in the urban area of Rome, Italy	19
Awareness-development in the context of climate change resilience	19
Combined impacts of the abnormal and urban heat island effect in Guiyang, a typical Karst Mountain City in China	19
Effect of land use change on summertime surface temperature, albedo, and evapotranspiration in Las Vegas Valley	19
An integrated indicator-based approach for constructing an urban flood vulnerability index as an urban decision-making tool using the PCA and AHP techniques: A case study of Alexandria, Egypt	19
Urban climate awareness and urgency to adapt: An international overview	19
Comparing cooling efficiency of shading strategies for pedestrian thermal comfort in street canyons of traditional shophouse neighbourhoods in Guangzhou, China	19
Environmental impact of COVID-19 led lockdown: A satellite data-based assessment of air quality in Indian megacities	19
Climate-informed decision-making for urban design: Assessing the impact of urban morphology on urban heat island	19
Wind comfort and solar access in a coastal development in Malmö, Sweden	19
Spatiotemporal trends of PM2.5 concentrations and typical regional pollutant transport during 2015–2018 in China	19
On the effects of flood reduction for green and grey sponge city measures and their synergistic relationship—Case study in Jinan sponge city pilot area	19
Case-study of neighborhood-scale summertime urban air temperature for the City of Vienna using crowd-sourced data	18
Impact of COVID-19 induced lockdown and unlock down phases on the ambient air quality of Delhi, capital city of India	18
A wide-ranging investigation of the COVID-19 lockdown effects on the atmospheric composition in various Italian urban sites (AER – LOCUS)	18
Numerical study of air pollution exposure in idealized urban street canyons: Porous and solid barriers	18
How does anthropogenic heating affect the thermal environment in a medium-sized Central European city? A case study in Szeged, Hungary	18
Ozone sensitivity factor: NOX or NMHCs?: A case study over an urban site in Delhi, India	18
Green infrastructure indicators to plan resilient urban settlements in Pakistan: Local stakeholder's perspective	18
Trends, topics, and lessons learnt from real case studies using mesoscale atmospheric models for urban climate applications in 2000–2019	18
Modeling of the Urban Heat Island on local climatic zones of a city using Sentinel 3 images: Urban determining factors	18
Spatio-temporal variation in fine particulate matter and effect on air quality during the COVID-19 in New Delhi, India	18
Investigations of high-density urban boundary layer under summer prevailing wind conditions with Doppler LiDAR: A case study in Hong Kong	18
Flood susceptibility mapping using machine learning boosting algorithms techniques in Idukki district of Kerala India	18
The effects of meteorological parameters on PM10: Health impacts assessment using AirQ+ model and prediction by an artificial neural network (ANN)	18
Natural resources, environment and the sustainable development	18
An integrated approach to project the future urban climate response: Changes to Lisbon's urban heat island and temperature extremes	18
Estimating the cooling effect magnitude of urban vegetation in different climate zones using multi-source remote sensing	18
Nocturnal cooling in Local Climate Zone: Statistical approach using mobile measurements	18
Spatio-temporal concentration of atmospheric particulate matter (PM2.5) during pandemic: A study on most polluted cities of indo-gangetic plain	18
Human-centric microclimate analysis of Urban Heat Island: Wearable sensing and data-driven techniques for identifying mitigation strategies in New York City	18
Measuring and comparing thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces in tropical Singapore	17
The effect of graduated urban park size on park cooling island and distance relative to land surface temperature (LST)	17
COVID-19’s lockdown effect on air quality in Indian cities using air quality zonal modeling	17
Regional scenario of air pollution in lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from major urban agglomerations of India	17
Examining land surface temperature and relations with the major air pollutants: A remote sensing research in case of Tehran	17
Heavy metals in the water environment of Yangtze River Economic Belt: Status, fuzzy environmental risk assessment and management	17
Spatial temperature differences in local climate zones of Seoul metropolitan area during a heatwave	17
Assessment of air pollution tolerance index of Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack in Kolkata metro city, West Bengal, India	17
Effects of urbanization on heat waves based on the wet-bulb temperature in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, China	17
Towards sustainable wastewater treatment by biological methods – A challenges and advantages of recent technologies	17
Refined urban canopy parameters and their impacts on simulation of urbanization-induced climate change	17
Variation of urban vegetation cover and its impact on minimum and maximum heat islands	17
Anticipatory planning: Finding balance in climate change adaptation governance	17
Effects of urban land expansion on decreasing atmospheric moisture in Guangdong, South China	17
Distribution of ring PAHs in particulate/gaseous phase in the urban city of Delhi, India: Seasonal variation and cancer risk assessment	17
Most tolerant roadside tree species for urban settings in humid tropics based on Air Pollution Tolerance Index	17
Thermal impacts of built and vegetated environments on local microclimates in an Urban University campus	17
A new approach of urban livability in Tehran: Thermal comfort as a primitive indicator. Case study, district 22	17
Probability of occurrence of extreme precipitation events and natural disasters in the city of Natal, Brazil	17
Improving accuracy in simulation of urban wind flows by dynamic downscaling WRF with OpenFOAM	17
Evaluating the effects of different mitigation strategies on the warm thermal environment of an urban square in Athens, Greece	17
Quantitative seasonal outdoor thermal sensitivity in Guangzhou, China	17
Feminization of surface temperature: Environmental justice and gender inequality among socioeconomic groups	17
Long-term change in aerosol characteristics over Indo-Gangetic Basin: How significant is the impact of emerging anthropogenic activities?	16
Vertical structure of the cool island in a large urban park	16
Land surface temperature and energy expenditures of households in the Netherlands: Winners and losers	16
Water conservation policy and agricultural economic growth: Evidence of grain to green project in China	16
Effects of pavement texture and colour on Urban Heat Islands: An experimental study in tropical climate	16
Assessment of pollutant dispersion in deep street canyons under different source positions: Numerical simulation	16
Analyzing outdoor thermal comfort conditions in a university campus in hot-arid climate: A case study in Birjand, Iran	16
Comparative assessment of heatwave vulnerability factors for the districts of Budapest, Hungary	16
Day and night surface and atmospheric heat islands in a continental and temperate tropical environment	16
Assessing the impact of telework enhancing policies for reducing car emissions: Exploring calculation methods for data-missing urban areas – Example of a medium-sized European city (Besançon, France)	16