Jia Wang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the spatial configuration of trees and land surface temperature (LST) using different statistical approaches, and conducted the analyses using spatial units of different sizes, based on trees mapped from 1-m high resolution imagery.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of patch size of trees on the two key cooling processes (shading and transpiration) were investigated. And the authors found that with a fixed area of tree cover, a number of small patches can provide more shade than a single large patch, suggesting a monotonic increase of shading provision with the division of a large patch into smaller ones.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper focused on the residential landscapes in the central area of Beijing, and quantified the relationships between the vertical structure of buildings and land surface temperature (LST).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the spatial variation of cooling efficiency across biomes in the continental USA, and how it is affected by ecological context, especially climatic conditions, and calculated CE for 118 cities from 10 different biomes using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) linear regression models with percent of urban trees as the independent variable, and land surface temperature (LST) as the dependent variable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated urban sprawl in a megaregion, particularly from a multiple spatial and temporal scale perspective, focusing on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) metropolitan area, using a combination of density (land consumption per capita) and centrality (Moran's I coefficient of developed land) indicators.