Urban Climate

Article	Citations
Impact of lockdown on air quality over major cities across the globe during COVID-19 pandemic	154
Land use/land cover change and its impact on surface urban heat island and urban thermal comfort in a metropolitan city	116
Investigating the diversity of land surface temperature characteristics in different scale cities based on local climate zones	110
Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity	96
The evaluation on artificial neural networks (ANN) and multiple linear regressions (MLR) models for predicting SO2 concentration	95
Combined nonlinear effects of urbanization and economic growth on CO2 emissions in Malaysia. An application of QARDL and KRLS	92
Review of urban computing in air quality management as smart city service: An integrated IoT, AI, and cloud technology perspective	90
Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of haze and pollution particles in China based on spatial statistics	85
Predict the effect of meteorological factors on haze using BP neural network	85
Smog prediction based on the deep belief - BP neural network model (DBN-BP)	81
Simulation and design of joint distribution of rainfall and tide level in Wuchengxiyu Region,China	81
Impact of the wind conditions on COVID-19 pandemic: A new insight for direction of the spread of the virus	75
Influences of joint action of natural and social factors on atmospheric process of hydrological cycle in Inner Mongolia, China	75
Rapid urbanization and climate change significantly contribute to worsening urban human thermal comfort: A national 183-city, 26-year study in China	74
Non-linear relationship between urbanization paths and CO2 emissions: A case of South, South-East and East Asian economies	72
Impact of urban expansion on land surface temperature and carbon emissions using machine learning algorithms in Wuhan, China	69
Evaluating the role of the albedo of material and vegetation scenarios along the urban street canyon for improving pedestrian thermal comfort outdoors	67
Assessing urban heat islands and thermal comfort in Noida City using geospatial technology	66
Impervious surface growth and its inter-relationship with vegetation cover and land surface temperature in peri-urban areas of Delhi	66
Heavy metal pollution in groundwater of urban Delhi environs: Pollution indices and health risk assessment	65
Assessing the role of SuDS in resilience enhancement of urban drainage system: A case study of Gurugram City, India	63
Statistical analysis of regional air temperature characteristics before and after dam construction	61
The effects of land use on spatial pattern of urban green spaces and their cooling ability	60
The heat-health nexus in the urban context: A systematic literature review exploring the socio-economic vulnerabilities and built environment characteristics	60
Policy innovation in low carbon pilot cities: lessons learned from China	59

Disaster management cycle and its application for flood risk reduction in urban areas of Pakistan	59
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	59
Land use optimization research based on FLUS model and ecosystem services–setting Jinan City as an example	58
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of urban land area and PM2.5 concentration in China	57
Multi-directional temporal convolutional artificial neural network for PM2.5 forecasting with missing values: A deep learning approach	57
Economic agglomeration and emissions reduction: Does high agglomeration in China's urban clusters lead to higher carbon intensity?	57
Urban form, land use, and cover change and their impact on carbon emissions in the Monterrey Metropolitan area, Mexico	57
Climate change adaptation in Indian cities: A review of existing actions and spaces for triple wins	52
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	52
Effects of landscape composition and patterns on land surface temperature: Urban heat island case study for Nigde, Turkey	50
The use of local climate zones in the urban environment: A systematic review of data sources, methods, and themes	50
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	49
A review of the inter-correlation of climate change, air pollution and urban sustainability using novel machine learning algorithms and spatial information science	49
Modelling approach for carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth: A systematic review	49
Characterization, seasonal variation, source apportionment and health risk assessment of black carbon over an urban region of East India	49
Is Urban Heat Island intensity higher during hot spells and heat waves (Dijon, France, 2014–2019)?	49
Experimental study of urban microclimate on scaled street canyons with various aspect ratios	48
Impacts of urbanization on extreme precipitation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area	46
NO2 levels after the COVID-19 lockdown in Ecuador: A trade-off between environment and human health	46
Assessment methods of urban microclimate and its parameters: A critical review to take the research from lab to land	46
Urban heat island mitigation in Singapore: Evaluation using WRF/multilayer urban canopy model and local climate zones	45
Surface and canopy urban heat islands: Does urban morphology result in the spatiotemporal differences?	45
Urban microclimate and its impact on building performance: A case study of San Francisco	45
A systematic approach for urban heat island mitigation strategies in critical local climate zones of an Indian city	44
Forecasting of particulate matter with a hybrid ARIMA model based on wavelet transformation and seasonal adjustment	44
An integrated multiscale urban microclimate model for the urban thermal environment	44
Climate change and infrastructure risk: Indoor heat exposure during a concurrent heat wave and blackout event in Phoenix, Arizona	43
Effect of urbanization on aerosol optical depth over Beijing: Land use and surface temperature analysis	43
Sky view factor estimation from street view images based on semantic segmentation	43
Ecological efficiency and its determining factors in an urban agglomeration in China: The Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration	43
LCZ scheme for assessing Urban Heat Island intensity in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon)	42
Air pollution and COVID-19 lockdown in a large South American city: Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile	42
Improved air quality during COVID-19 at an urban megacity over the Indo-Gangetic Basin: From stringent to relaxed lockdown phases	42
Mapping urban temperature using crowd-sensing data and machine learning	42
Exploring the effect of urbanization on hourly extreme rainfall over Yangtze River Delta of China	41
Chemical characterization, source apportionment and transport pathways of PM2.5 and PM10 over Indo Gangetic Plain of India	41
The impacts of climate change on occupational heat strain in outdoor workers: A systematic review	40
Identification of factors affecting public willingness to pay for heat mitigation and adaptation: Evidence from Guangzhou, China	40
A comprehensive review on water pollution, South Asia Region: Pakistan	40
Exploratory analysis of cooling effect of urban lakes on land surface temperature in Bucharest (Romania) using Landsat imagery	40
Estimating summertime heat stress in a tropical Indian city using Local Climate Zone (LCZ) framework	40
Modelling the influence of high-rise urban geometry on outdoor thermal comfort in Singapore	40
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on human mobility and ambient air quality around the world: A systematic review	40
The projected effects of urbanization and climate change on summer thermal environment in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China	39
Assessment of Urban Heat Islands in Brazil based on MODIS remote sensing data	39
Classification and pedestrian-level wind environment assessment among Tianjin's residential area based on numerical simulation	39
Quantifying environmental and social vulnerability: Role of urban Heat Island and air quality, a case study of Camden, NJ	39
Hydrochemical characteristics, hydrochemical processes and recharge sources of the geothermal systems in Lanzhou City, northwestern China	39
COVID-19 lockdown and air quality of SAFAR-India metro cities	38
Exploring the Spatio-temporal pattern of regional heat island (RHI) in an urban agglomeration of secondary cities in Eastern India	38

Health risk for older adults in Madrid, by outdoor thermal and acoustic comfort	38
Response characteristics and influencing factors of carbon emissions and land surface temperature in Guangdong Province, China	38
Relationships between carbon emissions and urban population size and density, based on geo-urban scaling analysis: A multi‑carbon source empirical study	38
Does polycentric development produce less transportation carbon emissions? Evidence from urban form identified by night-time lights across US metropolitan areas	37
Awareness of urban climate adaptation strategies –an international overview	37
Spatial planning factors that influence CO2 emissions: A systematic literature review	37
Quantitative outdoor thermal comfort assessment of street: A case in a warm and humid climate of India	37
Effects of land use and land cover pattern on urban temperature variations: A case study in Hong Kong	37
Prediction of SO2 and PM10 air pollutants using a deep learning-based recurrent neural network: Case of industrial city Sakarya	36
Analytic Hierarchy Processes (AHP) evaluation of green roof- and green wall- based UHI mitigation strategies via ENVI-met simulations	36
Temporal convolutional denoising autoencoder network for air pollution prediction with missing values	36
Supporting urban adaptation to climate change: What role can resilience measurement tools play?	36
Divergent impact of urban 2D/3D morphology on thermal environment along urban gradients	36
Estimation of monthly 1 km resolution PM2.5 concentrations using a random forest model over “2 + 26” cities, China	36
Exploring the pattern of outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) in a tropical planning region of eastern India during summer	35
Examining land surface temperature and relations with the major air pollutants: A remote sensing research in case of Tehran	35
Estimates of change in surface meteorology and urban heat island over northwest India: Impact of urbanization	35
A big picture of urban heat island mitigation strategies and recommendation for India	35
Impact of urban heat island formation on energy consumption in Delhi	35
Towards sustainable wastewater treatment by biological methods – A challenges and advantages of recent technologies	34
Production and emissions reduction decisions considering the differentiated carbon tax regulation across new and remanufactured products and consumer preference	34
Research on the relationship between urban morphology and air temperature based on mobile measurement: A case study in Wuhan, China	34
Sponge City and social equity: Impact assessment of urban stormwater management in Baicheng City, China	34
Spatio-temporal prediction and factor identification of urban air quality using support vector machine	34
Urban climate and resiliency: A synthesis report of state of the art and future research directions	34
Future air temperature projection in high-density tropical cities based on global climate change and urbanization – a study in Singapore	34
Flood susceptibility mapping using machine learning boosting algorithms techniques in Idukki district of Kerala India	34
A preliminary study on the influence of Beijing urban spatial morphology on near-surface wind speed	33
Designing urban green spaces for climate adaptation: A critical review of research outputs	33
Effects of different tree layouts on outdoor thermal comfort of green space in summer Shanghai	33
Establishing a link between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) zones and COVID -19 over India based on anthropogenic emission sources and air quality data	33
Ecophysiological responses of tree species due to air pollution for biomonitoring of environmental health in urban area	33
Travellers' exposure to air pollution: A systematic review and future directions	33
An assessment model for urban resilience based on the pressure-state-response framework and BP-GA neural network	33
Application of weather data morphing for calibration of urban ENVI-met microclimate models. Results and critical issues	32
Weighted clustering-based risk assessment on urban rainstorm and flood disaster	32
Assessment of underground water quality and water quality index across the Noyyal River basin of Tirupur District in South India	32
Risk assessment and zoning of flood disaster in Wuchengxiyu Region, China	32
Reduced urban green cover and daytime cooling capacity during the 2012–2016 California drought	31
The suitability of the urban local climate zone classification scheme for surface temperature studies in distinct macroclimate regions	31
Wind environment assessment and planning of urban natural ventilation corridors using GIS: Shenzhen as a case study	31
The climate justice pillars vis-à-vis urban form adaptation to climate change: A review	31
Psychosocial determinants of household adoption of water-efficiency behaviors in Tehran capital, Iran: Application of the social cognitive theory	31
Integrated approach for the investigation of groundwater quality through hydrochemistry and water quality index (WQI)	31
Evaluation of land use and land cover Spatio-temporal change during rapid Urban sprawl from Lahore, Pakistan	31
Future urban expansion and local climate zone changes in relation to land surface temperature: Case of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand	31
Review of heat wave studies and related urban policies in South Asia	30
Human behaviour change and its impact on urban climate: Restrictions with the G20 Osaka Summit and COVID-19 outbreak	30
Strengthened tropical cyclones and higher flood risk under compound effect of climate change and urbanization across China's Greater Bay Area	30
Impact of lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic on the air quality of North Indian cities	30
Tree-configuration and species effects on the indoor and outdoor thermal condition and energy performance of courtyard buildings	30
The role of urban morphology on outdoor thermal comfort: The case of Al-Sharq City – Az Zarqa	30
Estimating PM2.5 from multisource data: A comparison of different machine learning models in the Pearl River Delta of China	30
Hourly evolution of intra-urban temperature variability across the local climate zones. The case of Madrid	30
Abating heat waves in a coastal Mediterranean city: What can cool roofs and vegetation contribute?	29
The influences of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature at the block scale in Chinese megacities	29
Exploring the response of shallow groundwater to precipitation in the northern piedmont of the Qinling Mountains, China	29
Systematic exploration of heat wave impact on mortality and urban heat island: A review from 2000 to 2022	29
Application of a decision-making framework for multi-objective optimisation of urban heat mitigation strategies	29
How local climate zones influence urban air temperature: Measurements by bicycle in Dijon, France	28
Using artificial neural networks to model the impacts of climate change on dust phenomenon in the Zanjan region, north-west Iran	28
Forecasting PM2.5 levels in Santiago de Chile using deep learning neural networks	28
Predicting urban thermal comfort from calibrated UTCI assessment scale - A case study in Belo Horizonte city, southeastern Brazil	28
Predicting next hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the Istanbul Metropolitan City using deep learning algorithms with time windowing strategy	28
Heat vulnerability and extreme heat risk at the metropolitan scale: A case study of Taipei metropolitan area, Taiwan	28
Improving accuracy in simulation of urban wind flows by dynamic downscaling WRF with OpenFOAM	27
Estimating the cooling effect magnitude of urban vegetation in different climate zones using multi-source remote sensing	27
The effects of passive design on indoor thermal comfort and energy savings for residential buildings in hot climates: A systematic review	27
Characterization and source apportionment of elemental species in PM2.5 with especial emphasis on seasonal variation in the capital city “Dhaka”, Bangladesh	27
Assessment of urban cooling effect based on downscaled land surface temperature: A case study for Fukuoka, Japan	27
CityFFD – City fast fluid dynamics for urban microclimate simulations on graphics processing units	26
Evaluation and application of a low-cost measurement network to study intra-urban temperature differences during summer 2018 in Bern, Switzerland	26
Assessment of macroclimate and microclimate effects on outdoor thermal comfort via artificial neural network models	26
Comparing cooling efficiency of shading strategies for pedestrian thermal comfort in street canyons of traditional shophouse neighbourhoods in Guangzhou, China	26
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	26
Intensification of sub-daily rainfall extremes in a low-rise urban area	26
Employing categorical boosting (CatBoost) and meta-heuristic algorithms for predicting the urban gas consumption	26
Assessing effects of non-point source pollution emission control schemes on Beijing's sub-center with a water environment model	26
Modeling the outdoor cooling impact of highly radiative “super cool” materials applied on roofs	25
MODIS-based climatology of the Surface Urban Heat Island at country scale (Romania)	25

The dynamic role of green technological innovation, financial development and trade openness on urban environmental degradation in China: Fresh insights from carbon efficiency	25
Discussion on inapplicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) for outdoor thermal comfort in cold region	25
Climate-informed decision-making for urban design: Assessing the impact of urban morphology on urban heat island	24
Spatio-temporal variation of groundwater hydrochemistry and suitability for drinking and irrigation in Arba Minch Town, Ethiopia: An integrated approach using water quality index, multivariate statist	24
Analyzing outdoor thermal comfort conditions in a university campus in hot-arid climate: A case study in Birjand, Iran	24
Measuring and comparing thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces in tropical Singapore	24
Wintertime carbonaceous species and trace metals in PM10 in Darjeeling: A high altitude town in the eastern Himalayas	24
Influence of global warming and urbanization on regional climate of Megacity: A case study of Chengdu, China	24
Retracted: Enhancing waste management and prediction of water quality in the sustainable urban environment using optimized algorithm of least square support vector machine and deep learning techniques	24
Urbanization contribution to human perceived temperature changes in major urban agglomerations of China	24
Multi-output TCN autoencoder for long-term pollution forecasting for multiple sites	24
Variation of urban vegetation cover and its impact on minimum and maximum heat islands	23
Seasonal different effects of land cover on urban heat island in Wuhan's metropolitan area	23
COVID-19 lockdown: Effects on selected volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions over the major Indian metro cities	23
Observing the impact of urban morphology and building geometry on thermal environment by high spatial resolution thermal images	23
Modeling of the Urban Heat Island on local climatic zones of a city using Sentinel 3 images: Urban determining factors	23
Improvement of air quality index prediction using geographically weighted predictor methodology	23
Measuring the urban heat island of Rome through a dense weather station network and remote sensing imperviousness data	23
How does anthropogenic heating affect the thermal environment in a medium-sized Central European city? A case study in Szeged, Hungary	23
Combined impacts of the abnormal and urban heat island effect in Guiyang, a typical Karst Mountain City in China	23
A decision support tool for calculating effective shading in urban streets	23
Mapping urban socio-economic vulnerability related to heat risk: A grid-based assessment framework by combing the geospatial big data	23
Integrated community-based approaches to urban pluvial flooding research, trends and future directions: A review	23
Environmental impact of COVID-19 led lockdown: A satellite data-based assessment of air quality in Indian megacities	23
Spatiotemporal trends of PM2.5 concentrations and typical regional pollutant transport during 2015–2018 in China	22
Virtual carbon emissions in the big cities of middle-income countries	22
Distribution of ring PAHs in particulate/gaseous phase in the urban city of Delhi, India: Seasonal variation and cancer risk assessment	22
Potential role of urban forest in removing PM2.5: A case study in Seoul by deep learning with satellite data	22
Flood-hazard risk classification and mapping for urban catchment under different climate change scenarios: A case study of Hyderabad city	22
Experimental study on the treatment of urban garment industry wastewater to mitigate groundwater contamination using a solar evaporative still	22
Low carbon urban strategies: An investigation of 124 European cities	22
Diurnal and interannual variations of canopy urban heat island (CUHI) effects over a mountain–valley city with a semi-arid climate	22
Green infrastructure indicators to plan resilient urban settlements in Pakistan: Local stakeholder's perspective	22
COVID-19’s lockdown effect on air quality in Indian cities using air quality zonal modeling	22
Spatial modeling of rainfall patterns and groundwater on the coast of northeastern Brazil	22
An integrated approach to project the future urban climate response: Changes to Lisbon's urban heat island and temperature extremes	22
Assessment of Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) climate scenarios and its impacts on the Greater Accra region	22
Urbanization-induced drought modification: Example over the Yangtze River Basin, China	22
Assessment of air pollution tolerance index of Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack in Kolkata metro city, West Bengal, India	22
Comprehensive analysis of thermal stress over northwest India: Climatology, trends and extremes	22
Effect of land use change on summertime surface temperature, albedo, and evapotranspiration in Las Vegas Valley	22
Climate change impacts and urban green space adaptation efforts: Evidence from U.S. municipal parks and recreation departments	21
Green space configuration and its impact on human behavior and URBAN environments	21
Estimation of soil erosion for a semi-urban watershed in Tamil Nadu, India using RUSLE and geospatial techniques	21
Spatial temperature differences in local climate zones of Seoul metropolitan area during a heatwave	21
A representative urban driving cycle for passenger vehicles to estimate fuel consumption and emission rates under real-world driving conditions	21
The effect of graduated urban park size on park cooling island and distance relative to land surface temperature (LST)	21
Climate driven trends in London's urban heat island intensity reconstructed over 70 years using a generalized additive model	21
Investigations of high-density urban boundary layer under summer prevailing wind conditions with Doppler LiDAR: A case study in Hong Kong	21
Exploring the connection between morphological characteristic of built-up areas and surface heat islands based on MSPA	21
Impact of COVID-19 induced lockdown and unlock down phases on the ambient air quality of Delhi, capital city of India	21
Spatio-temporal variation in fine particulate matter and effect on air quality during the COVID-19 in New Delhi, India	21
Detailed investigation of vegetation effects on microclimate by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in a tropical urban environment	21
Day and night surface and atmospheric heat islands in a continental and temperate tropical environment	21
Urban carbon accounting: An overview	20
Anticipatory planning: Finding balance in climate change adaptation governance	20
Modelling spatiotemporal carbon dioxide emission at the urban scale based on DMSP-OLS and NPP-VIIRS data: A case study in China	20
Most tolerant roadside tree species for urban settings in humid tropics based on Air Pollution Tolerance Index	20
Trends, topics, and lessons learnt from real case studies using mesoscale atmospheric models for urban climate applications in 2000–2019	20
Dominant urban form and its relation to nighttime land surface temperature in the rapidly urbanizing National Capital Region of India	20
Urban extreme heat, climate change, and saving lives: Lessons from Washington state	20
Heavy metals in the water environment of Yangtze River Economic Belt: Status, fuzzy environmental risk assessment and management	20
An investigation into the effects of green space on air quality of an urban area using CFD modeling	20
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)	20
Micro-scale UHI risk assessment on the heat-health nexus within cities by looking at socio-economic factors and built environment characteristics: The Turin case study (Italy)	20
Municipal solid waste classification and real-time detection using deep learning methods	20
Evaluating the effects of different mitigation strategies on the warm thermal environment of an urban square in Athens, Greece	20
Spatio-temporal concentration of atmospheric particulate matter (PM2.5) during pandemic: A study on most polluted cities of indo-gangetic plain	20
The effects of meteorological parameters on PM10: Health impacts assessment using AirQ+ model and prediction by an artificial neural network (ANN)	20
Flood forecasting in urban reservoir using hybrid recurrent neural network	20
Rethinking urban heat stress: Assessing risk and adaptation options across socioeconomic groups in Bonn, Germany	20
Natural resources, environment and the sustainable development	20
Assessing current and future heat risk in Dublin city, Ireland	19
Evaluating the performance of cool pavements for urban heat island mitigation under realistic conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Probability of occurrence of extreme precipitation events and natural disasters in the city of Natal, Brazil	19
Outdoor thermal comfort in urban and rural open spaces: A comparative study in China's cold region	19
Implementation and evaluation of mean radiant temperature schemes in the microclimate model ENVI-met	19
Estimating urban PM2.5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree	19
Impact of well-watered trees on the microclimate inside a canyon street scale model in outdoor environment	19
Influence of street configuration on human thermal comfort and benefits for climate-sensitive urban planning in Santiago de Chile	19
Refined urban canopy parameters and their impacts on simulation of urbanization-induced climate change	19
On the effect of sea breeze regime on aerosols and gases properties in the urban area of Rome, Italy	19
Comparative assessment of heatwave vulnerability factors for the districts of Budapest, Hungary	19
Quantitative seasonal outdoor thermal sensitivity in Guangzhou, China	19
Feminization of surface temperature: Environmental justice and gender inequality among socioeconomic groups	19
A mechanistic assessment of urban heat island intensities and drivers across climates	19
Urbanization effects on high-frequency temperature variability over South China	19
Analyzing the influence of urban morphological features on pedestrian thermal comfort	19
Numerical study of air pollution exposure in idealized urban street canyons: Porous and solid barriers	19
Effects of pavement texture and colour on Urban Heat Islands: An experimental study in tropical climate	19
Effects of using different urban parametrization schemes and land-cover datasets on the accuracy of WRF model over the City of Ottawa	19
Sensitivity study of PBL schemes and soil initialization using the WRF-BEP-BEM model over a Mediterranean coastal city	18
Ozone sensitivity factor: NOX or NMHCs?: A case study over an urban site in Delhi, India	18
Assessment of pollutant dispersion in deep street canyons under different source positions: Numerical simulation	18
Human-centric microclimate analysis of Urban Heat Island: Wearable sensing and data-driven techniques for identifying mitigation strategies in New York City	18