Liangxia Zhang

TL;DR: Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, it is shown that the UHI effect decayed exponentially toward rural areas for majority of the 32 Chinese cities, and an obvious urban/rural temperature “cliff” is found.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper quantified the diurnal and seasonal surface UHI intensity (SUHII, urban-suburban temperature difference) in China's 32 major cities, and analyzed their spatial variations and possible underlying mechanisms.

TL;DR: Using MODIS data between 2007 and 2013, Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the trends of the phenological metrics (i.e., start, end, and length of growing season: SOS, EOS and GSL) of individual cities and across cities relative to rural areas for China's 32 major cities.

TL;DR: It is shown that ignoring urban agglomeration effect (using suburban/rural areas as the unaffected references) would lead to large biases of SUHII estimates in terms of magnitude and spatial distribution, and the necessity of considering cities altogether when assessing the urbanization effects on climate in an urban aggLomeration area is emphasized.

TL;DR: The results highlight the strong and highly diverse urbanization effects on local climate cross China and offer limitations on how these certain methods should be used to quantify UHI intensity over large areas.