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Capturing the long-term interdependencies between building thermal energy supply and demand in urban planning strategies

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A wavelet coherence approach to prioritizing influencing factors of land surface temperature and associated research scales

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Spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation phenology along the urban–rural gradient in Coastal Dalian, China

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Optimizing local climate zones to mitigate urban heat island effect in human settlements

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How to quantify the cooling effect of urban parks? Linking maximum and accumulation perspectives

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Meteorological controls on daily variations of nighttime surface urban heat islands

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Impacts of urban configuration on urban heat island: An empirical study in China mega-cities

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Public perceptions of the health risks of extreme heat across US states, counties, and neighborhoods

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Urban heat island impacts on building energy consumption: A review of approaches and findings

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Validation of Collection 6 MODIS land surface temperature product using in situ measurements

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Polycentric urban development and urban thermal environment: A case of Hangzhou, China

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Distributed or centralized? Designing district-level urban energy systems by a hierarchical approach considering demand uncertainties

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Climate-Conscious Urban Growth Mitigates Urban Warming: Evidence from Shenzhen, China

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Impact of urban heat island on energy demand in buildings: Local climate zones in Nanjing

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Rethinking the role of occupant behavior in building energy performance: A review

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Artificial neural network models using thermal sensations and occupants’ behavior for predicting thermal comfort

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Six research priorities for cities and climate change

(2018) Xuemei Bai et al.   NATURE

Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks

(2018) Edward Comyn-Platt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Characterizing spatial and temporal trends of surface urban heat island effect in an urban main built-up area: A 12-year case study in Beijing, China

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Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

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Early emergence of anthropogenically forced heat waves in the western United States and Great Lakes

(2018) Hosmay Lopez et al.   Nature Climate Change

Achieving a climate justice pathway to 1.5 °C

(2018) Mary Robinson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C

(2018) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

City-level climate change mitigation in China

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Identification of typical diurnal patterns for clear-sky climatology of surface urban heat islands

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Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals

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Improving pedestrian level low wind velocity environment in high-density cities: A general framework and case study

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Toward cities without slums: Topology and the spatial evolution of neighborhoods

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Deciphering Human Contributions to Yellow River Flow Reductions and Downstream Drying Using Centuries-Long Tree Ring Records

(2018) Jinbao Li et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Impacts of climate change on electricity demand in China: An empirical estimation based on panel data

(2018) Jing-Li Fan et al.   ENERGY

Prediction of outdoor air temperature using neural networks: Application in 4 European cities

(2016) Sotiris Papantoniou et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Improving the Accuracy of Daily PM2.5 Distributions Derived from the Fusion of Ground-Level Measurements with Aerosol Optical Depth Observations, a Case Study in North China

(2016) Baolei Lv et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Impacts of major vehicular roads on urban landscape and urban growth in an arid region: A case study of Jiuquan city in Gansu Province, China

(2016) Yuchu Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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(2016) Richard D. Pancost   Nature Geoscience

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Contribution of urbanization to warming in China

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Efficient use of land to meet sustainable energy needs

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Interaction between urban microclimate and electric air-conditioning energy consumption during high temperature season

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A study of the “wall effect” caused by proliferation of high-rise buildings using GIS techniques

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Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: A study in Hong Kong

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A simple method for designation of urban ventilation corridors and its application to urban heat island analysis

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