Strong contributions of local background climate to the cooling effect of urban green vegetation

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 6798 - 9
• Main Authors: Yu, Zhaowu, Xu, Shaobin, Zhang, Yuhan, Jørgensen, Gertrud, Vejre, Henrik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158/858; 704/106/694/682; Cities; Climate; Climate effects; Climatic conditions; Cooling; Grasslands; Humanities and Social Sciences; Monsoons; multidisciplinary; Rainfall; Relative humidity; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Temperature; Urban heat islands; Vegetation; Wind speed

Utilization of urban green vegetation (UGV) has been recognized as a promising option to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) effect. While we still lack understanding of the contributions of local background climate to the cooling effect of UGV. Here we proposed and employed a cooling effect framework...