Weather dynamics affect the long-term thermal and hydrological performance of different green roof designs.

Owing to climate change, numerous regions around the world are expected to experience heightened occurrences of extreme events, including heat waves and intense precipitation. This will disproportionately impact the well-being of urban populations. The implementation of green roofs is actively considered as a viable climate adaptation strategy enhancing the resilience of cities.

Characteristics of anthropogenic heat with different modeling ideas and its driving effect on urban heat islands in seven typical Chinese cities.

Anthropogenic heat (AH), an essential urban heat source, is often overlooked or simplified in research on the multiple temporal and spatial driving mechanisms of the urban heat island (UHI), and case studies investigating the impacts of different AH connotations are scarce. This study estimated the AH in seven typical Chinese cities based on a remote sensing surface energy balance model (AH) and an energy consumption inventory-machine learning model (AH). The intensity of the surface UHI was extracted using land surface temperatures, and then the linear mixed-effects model and geographic detectors were used to analyze the driving effect of AH on the UHI.

Anthropogenic heat variation during the COVID-19 pandemic control measures in four Chinese megacities.

Anthropogenic heat (AH) is an important input for the urban thermal environment. While reduction in AH during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have weakened urban heat islands (UHI), quantitative assessments on this are lacking. Here, a new AH estimation method based on a remote sensing surface energy balance (RS-SEB) without hysteresis from heat storage was proposed to clarify the effects of COVID-19 control measures on AH.

Spatial Distribution of PM-Related Premature Mortality in China.

PM is a major component of air pollution in China and has a serious threat to public health. It is very important to quantify spatial characteristics of the health effects caused by outdoor PM exposure. This study analyzed the spatial distribution of PM concentration (45.