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Publikováno v:
Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 16, p 4047 (2022)
Rapid urban growth has coincided with a substantial change in the environment, including vegetation, soil, and urban climate. The surface urban heat island (UHI) is the temperature in the lowest layers of the urban atmosphere; it is critical to the s
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/9c1dd03221b84c9d8d42535ef0269041
Autor:
Darshana Athukorala, Yuji Murayama
Publikováno v:
Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 7, p 1396 (2021)
An urban heat island (UHI) is a significant anthropogenic modification of urban land surfaces, and its geospatial pattern can increase the intensity of the heatwave effects. The complex mechanisms and interactivity of the land surface temperature in
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https://doaj.org/article/a45270333a064dad9be06b06e7a54ad3
Publikováno v:
Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 2, p 316 (2021)
Urban wetland ecosystems (UWEs) play important social and ecological roles but are often adversely affected by urban landscape transformations. Spatio-temporal analyses to gain insights into the trajectories of landscape changes in these ecosystems a
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/52b53bebecd54c898b0200240aad0bca
Autor:
Ronald C. Estoque, Asif Ishtiaque, Jagadish Parajuli, Darshana Athukorala, Yasin Wahid Rabby, Makoto Ooba
Publikováno v:
Ambio. 52(2)
In the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (TAR and AR4, respectively) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), vulnerability is conceived as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. However, in its Special Report o
Publikováno v:
Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 11463, p 11463 (2021)
Sustainability
Volume 13
Issue 20
Sustainability
Volume 13
Issue 20
In this study, we examined the impacts of urbanization on the natural landscape and ecosystem services of the Muthurajawela Marsh and Negombo Lagoon (MMNL) located in the Colombo Metropolitan Region, Sri Lanka, with the goal to help inform sustainabl
Autor:
Darshana Athukorala, Yuji Murayama
Publikováno v:
Sustainability
Volume 12
Issue 19
Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7953, p 7953 (2020)
Volume 12
Issue 19
Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7953, p 7953 (2020)
Rapid urbanization is one of the most crucial issues in the world of the 21st century. Notably, the urban heat island phenomenon is becoming more prominent in megacities and their hinterlands in temperate and subtropical climatic regions. In the dayt