Gaoyuan Yang

TL;DR: The cooling effect of blue-green space has been recognized as a promising approach to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI), while the quantitative role (threshold-size for cooling) is still uncertain this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used spatial/statistical methods to assess the cooling effect of blue-green spaces in different seasons and found that the area and cooling extent and intensity conform a logarithm function with significant correlations except for winter.

TL;DR: In PRDR, RHI expended with increasing connectivity, especially in the estuary areas where isolated UHI gradually merged during the rapid urbanization, and the area of 4 °C ≤ Relative LST is the stable and high-risk area, which provide scientific bases for the governance of the thermal environment on the regional scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-tier (two optimal patch sizes) distribution of the threshold value of efficiency (TVoE) of urban trees in seven selected hot-humid Asian cities was found.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the relationship between urbanization rate and temperature in the Pearl-River-Delta metropolitan region (PRDR) in southern China. And they found that the cooling effects of ecological land loss and gain are significantly different, which provides evidence that the existing natural ecosystems are valuable for climate adaptation because newly constructed ecological land does not provide the same cooling effect.