Urban Heat Islands and Global Warming (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 493
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Interests: air quality modeling; stratospheric ozone; aerosols
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Interests: weather; radar meteorology; real meteorology; meteorological aspects of emergency management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After successfully launching the first and second volumes of this Special Issue (“Urban Heat Islands and Global Warming”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/Urban_Heat_Islands; “Urban Heat Islands and Global Warming (2nd Edition)”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/4423Y6Q51W), we have decided to expand our Special Issue into a third volume.
The intensity of heat islands can vary significantly between cities and may have impacts on energy consumption, air quality, public health, and social equity. Although the urban heat island effect has had little connection to the global climate, recent research findings suggest that on a global average, urban heat island warming will probably be equivalent to about half of the warming caused by climate change by 2050. In a city that may experience warming from climate change, this could exacerbate the risk of vulnerable populations in communities living under heat island conditions.
This Special Issue aims to solicit research related to urban heat islands from local to global perspectives, including (1) weather and climate extremes; (2) energy consumption, air quality, human health, and natural resources; (3) adaptation and mitigation strategies; and (4) social equity and environmental sustainability.
Dr. Sen Chiao
Dr. Robert Pasken
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban heat islands
- global warming
- climate change
- weather and climate extremes
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