Fig. 2: Global trade-offs between mean retention and cooling potential.
From: Global climate-driven trade-offs between the water retention and cooling benefits of urban greening
(A) Global map of the sum of mean retention and cooling potential metrics. (B) Latitudinal summaries of mean retention and cooling potential. Shading maps the binned frequencies normalized for 1° latitude bands. Solid lines are medians across the latitudes. (C) Categorized performance of mean retention only >0.5 (RET), mean cooling potential only >0.5 (CP), mean retention and mean cooling potential both >0.5 (RET & CP), or neither mean retention or mean cooling potential >0.5 (None). (D) Latitudinal summaries by categories defined in (C) for large cities (defined as having population > 100,000 in the year 2000 CE). Inset indicates the median value of PET/P and coefficient of variation in daily precipitation (Pcov) for each mapped category. All results shown are for intensive substrates (h = 150 mm)—equivalent results for other substrates are given in Supplementary Figs. 10 and 11.
