Kun Bu

TL;DR: The results showed that urban green spaces did have significant cooling effects in all seasons, except for winter, but the effects varied considerably across the different seasons and green types, and seemed to depend on the NDVI and size of urbanGreen spaces.

TL;DR: Researchers should focus on rebuilding historical land-cover dataset with high spatial resolution by developing new models so that the study results could be effectively applied in simulations of climatic and ecological effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, both qualitative and quantitative models are employed to explore the effect of land use/land cover changes on the urban heat island (UHI) effect and the results showed that both the patterns of LUCC and UHI have had dramatic changes in the past 30 years, and the average LST of the study area has been continuously increasing as many other land use types have been transformed to urban regions.

TL;DR: The results showed that the urban parks exhibited a cooling island effect, and the PCIs showed significant monthly variations with the highest intensities in the hot months; the effects of composition on LSTs and PCIs show significant monthly variability and were stronger than the configuration effects; and larger parks tended to have stronger PCI intensities and extents of influence.

TL;DR: The results showed that there was a significant advance of SOS and a significant delay of EOS, especially in the north part of Northeast China, suggesting that the continuous climate warming in the future may bring no longer growing periods for the grass in the semiarid areas as the drought caused by climate warming may limit the vegetation growth.