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  • Climate change affects the energy demand for heating and cooling in cities, which in turn leads to additional urban warming. Here, the authors show that when including such two-way biophysical feedbacks, the cooling (heating) energy demand more than doubles (is halved) under high emissions.

    • Xinchang ‘Cathy’ Li
    • Lei Zhao
    • Yiwen Zhang
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 14, P: 1056-1063

  • Climate change is expected to intensify the global hydrological cycle and to alter evapotranspiration, but direct observational constraints are lacking at the global scale. Now a data-driven, machine-learning technique and a suite of process-based models have been used to show that from 1982 to 1997 global evapotranspiration increased by about 7.1 millimetres per year per decade. But since 1998 this increase has ceased, probably because of moisture limitation in the Southern Hemisphere.

    • Martin Jung
    • Markus Reichstein
    • Ke Zhang
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 467, P: 951-954

  • This study considers how large-scale application of solar panels will affect climate. Electricity generation leads to regional cooling but this is countered by the power’s use, affecting global circulation patterns with changes in regional rainfall.

    • Aixue Hu
    • Samuel Levis
    • Warren G. Strand
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 290-294

  • An urban climate model emulator has been used with a multi-model archive to estimate that in a high-emissions scenario, many cities will warm by over 4 K during local summers. Near-global relative humidity decreases highlight the potential for green infrastructure and more efficient urban cooling mechanisms.

    • Lei Zhao
    • Keith Oleson
    • Michael Oppenheimer
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 11, P: 152-157

  • Understanding the uncertainties associated with urban heat wave (UHW) projection is critical for local actions to mitigate extreme heat risks in cities. Here, the authors show that choices of model structural design contribute a large proportion of the uncertainty in projecting UHWs under climate change.

    • Zhonghua Zheng
    • Lei Zhao
    • Keith W. Oleson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9

  • Climate modelling is used to show that for cities across North America, geographic variations in daytime urban heat islands—that is, the temperature differences between urban and adjacent rural areas—are largely explained by variations in the efficiency with which those areas convect heat to the lower atmosphere.

    • Lei Zhao
    • Xuhui Lee
    • Keith Oleson
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 511, P: 216-219