Publications by authors named "Benjun Jia"
Article Synopsis
- The Yangtze River Delta faced intense heat during the summer of 2022, with the study examining how the urban heat island and dry island effects have evolved due to urban expansion since 2001.
- Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, researchers simulated historical land use to assess how this expansion has increased near-surface temperatures and decreased moisture, significantly affecting daytime and nighttime temperatures during heatwaves.
- Key findings indicated that reduced evapotranspiration was a major factor behind the daytime warming, with temperatures rising by 7 °C in July, while urban growth at the city's edges also contributed to overall heat in densely populated areas, emphasizing the need for effective climate adaptation strategies.
Climate change and human activities have great impacts on runoff. With the gradual development of cascade hydropower in the watershed, the reservoirs have increasingly impacted runoff. However, the current study mainly focuses on quantifying the impacts of human activities and climate change on runoff, lacking the exploration of the impacts of cascade reservoirs, and the attribution results are relatively rough.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF