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    Urban water bodies mitigate heat waves, the case of the Chinese city Kunming

    With the continuous deepening of global warming and urbanization processes, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are increasing. Additionally, the increase in energy usage exacerbates climate ...

    Yue Ma, Yao Fu, Zhibin Ren, Chang Liu in Discover Cities (2024)

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    A Multilevel Digital Watermarking Protocol for Vector Geographic Data Based on Blockchain

    A digital watermarking protocol is a kind of electronic transaction protocol that addresses the challenges of protecting copyright and ensuring trust in the transaction of vector geographic data. Existing digi...

    Na Ren, Heyan Wang, Zefeng Chen in Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial An… (2023)

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    Biometeorology

    Volume 1 / 2009 to Volume 5 / 2021

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    Conclusions and Moving Forward

    Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities argues for the recognition of climate as a key element of healthy cities. In doing so, it adds to a legacy of encouragement by urban climatologists and enlightene...

    Glenn McGregor, Chao Ren in Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (2021)

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    International Research Collaboration and Programmes for Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities

    Science has shown how climate change fundamentally influences cities—their infrastructure and inhabitants—and how cities may plan for the future. Effective and dedicated support should continue for the interna...

    Boram Lee, Hunter Jones, Chao Ren in Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (2021)

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    Guidance on Integrated Urban Hydro-meteorological, Climate and Environmental Services: Challenges and the Way Forward

    This chapter describes a new World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) approach to the provision of science-based services to assist the planning of safe, healthy, resilient and climate-friendly cities. The appr...

    Paul Joe, Alexander Baklanov, Sue Grimmond in Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy… (2021)

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    Air Pollution Prevention and Urban Planning Response: Building a Healthy Bei**g

    Building a healthy city is our goal. Herein, we take Bei**g as an example to elaborate the aspects of air pollution governance, air quality status and causes, and urban planning response. Especially after 200...

    **aoyi Fang, **n Li, **yan Ren, Jian He in Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy… (2021)

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    Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities

    The rise of mega- and high-density compact cities are now irreversible trends of human urban development. While megacities and high-density urban living may make lives more convenient and society more economic...

    Glenn McGregor, Chao Ren in Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities (2021)

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    A Simulation Platform for Transportation, Land Use and Mobile Source Emissions

    This study describes an for assessing the interaction among land use, transportation, and mobile source . In the proposed integrated , LandSys, a home grown land use model, produces land use change over th...

    Liyuan Zhao, Zhong-Ren Peng in Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities (2019)