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DOI: 10.1002/joc.5996
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85060438481
论文题名:
Effects of urbanization and global climate change on regional climate in the Pearl River Delta and thermal comfort implications
作者: Wang Y.; Chan A.; Lau G.N.-C.; Li Q.; Yang Y.; Yim S.H.L.
刊名: International Journal of Climatology
ISSN: 8998418
出版年: 2019
语种: 英语
英文关键词: climate change ; heat stress ; thermal comfort ; urban climate ; urbanization
Scopus关键词: Atmospheric temperature ; Climate models ; Health risks ; Land surface temperature ; Surface properties ; Thermal comfort ; Thermal stress ; Climate change adaptation ; Critical temperatures ; Global climate changes ; Heat stress ; Surface temperatures ; Urban climates ; Urban temperatures ; urbanization ; Climate change
英文摘要: Urbanization and climate change are affecting regional climate; therefore, thermal comfort should be fully understood, especially from a public health perspective. We applied a climate model driven by a combination of land-cover development and two representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) to predict composite climatic adjustments in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. Our findings showed that a 10% increase in urban land cover can cause a 0.11 K increase in surface temperature in PRD, and urban temperature will rise by 0.15–0.21 K because of global climate change alone. We found that urbanization has marginal effects on thermal comfort despite increasing surface temperature in PRD. Moreover, global climate change will increase the frequency at which temperatures exceed critical temperatures reported in the literature and the extreme heat stress level (95th percentile of baseline year). Our findings offer a scientific basis for understanding heat-related health risk and climate change adaptation in urban areas. © 2019 Royal Meteorological Society
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/116650
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作者单位: Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong; Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, The Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China; Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong; School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong

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Wang Y.,Chan A.,Lau G.N.-C.,et al. Effects of urbanization and global climate change on regional climate in the Pearl River Delta and thermal comfort implications[J]. International Journal of Climatology,2019-01-01
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