Inadvertent Weather Modification in Urban Areas: Lessons for Global Climate Change

1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley A. Changnon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Weather Modification

scholarly journals Direct Impacts of Global Climate Change on Urban Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-215
Author(s):  
Roberto San José ◽  
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Juan L. Pérez ◽  
Libia Pérez ◽  
Julia Pecci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Global Climate

scholarly journals Red-leafed species for urban “greening” in the age of global climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Ermes Lo Piccolo ◽  
Marco Landi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Trees ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Change Factors ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractUrban trees provide vital ecosystem services such as mitigating heat island, improving air quality by removing various air pollutants, capturing rainwater, and acting as topsoil carbon storage. The aesthetic value of urban trees is also another feature that has to be considered in the context of urban greening. Classical criteria for the selection of urban trees have to respond to new challenges imposed to the cities in a near future. Global climate change factors increase the harshness of our cities, and thereby the plant resilience to abiotic stresses has also to be seriously considered for planning the urban greening. Red-leafed species, characterized by the permanent presence of foliar anthocyanins, show a greater tolerance to different environmental cues than green-leafed species commonly used in our cities. In addition, red tree species own a great aesthetic value which has been underestimated in the context of urban areas, especially in the harsh Mediterranean cities. In this study, we emphasize the “privilege of being red” from different point of view, in order to drive the attention to the possibility to increase the use of red-leafed species for urban “greening”. Some possible negative aspects related to their use are rebutted and the direction of future researches are proposed.

A review of the adaptation and mitigation of global climate change using sustainable drainage in cities

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Engineered Structures ◽  
Quality Water ◽  
The Uk

Sustainable drainage (SUDS) is well known for its equal emphasis on water quality, water quantity, amenity and biodiversity. What is now beginning to be realised is that this approach can also help mitigate the impacts of global climate change (GCC) and provide assistance to city dwellers in adapting to the changes which have already occurred. By using case studies from around the world, this paper illustrates how vegetated SUDS devices can sequester and store carbon, cool urban areas and increase perceptions of health and well-being in the populace. Both vegetated and hard-engineered structures can evaporate water contained within them and are thus being used in cities to cool the overlying air. Also shown is the extent to which SUDS devices such as green roofs and wet pavements are being used to mitigate the urban heat island effect, which, while not caused by climate change, exacerbates its impacts. Of the houses needed by 2040 in the UK, 80% already exist. In order to take advantage of the ability of SUDS to tackle some of the impacts of GCC, the emphasis must be placed on retrofitting technologies to existing buildings and this review proposes a simple hierarchy of suitable measures based on the density and land-use of the built-up area.

scholarly journals Influence of global climate change on air pollution in urbanized areas and spread of COVID-19 morbidity

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Olena Voloshkina ◽  
Tetyana Shabliy ◽  
Volodymyr Trofimovich ◽  
Volodymyr Efimenko ◽  
Artem Goncharenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Anthropogenic Aerosols ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to confirm for the conditions of Ukraine the hypothesis of a number of foreign authors on the relationship between the presence of air pollution by aerosol particles in urban areas and the number of patients with COVID-19. On the example of the main large cities of Ukraine the analysis between temperature factors, dust pollution of the atmospheric phenomena and processes of distribution of morbidity of the population on COVID-19 is made. The linear dependences in the logical coordinates between nature are obtained due to the confirmation of the cases of morbidity and the index of aerosol pollution of the atmospheric air of urban areas by solid private particles PM2.5 (AQIPM2.5). The correlation coefficients of the obtained dependences are in the range of 0.65–0.91. These data suggest the possibility of unification of data for the country for different climatic zones to assess and predict the incidence of population depending on air pollution in urban areas and climatic conditions, and may be promising in the future to find ways to reduce the impact of aerosols in the air on the human body and the purpose of finer cleaning in production processes and air exchange technologies in modern buildings and structures. According to the authors, there is a need for further research on the impact of humidity and the impact of the percentage distribution of natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the air of urban areas. Such studies will further make more accurate predictions about the impact of air pollution on human health in the context of global climate change.

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