Impact of urbanization on exposure to extreme warming in megacities

Cities warm up due to two main factors: global climate change and urbanization-induced warming (so-called, urban heat island effect). In the projection of future climate, coarse-resolution global climate models are not suitable for looking into the heterogeneous urban surface and their changes. On t...

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Main Authors: Do Ngoc Khanh, Alvin C.G. Varquez, Manabu Kanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-04-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023027184