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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - Higher temperatures in urban areas expose a large fraction of the human population
    to potentially dangerous heat stress. Green spaces are promoted worldwide as local
    and city-scale cooling strategies but the amount, type, and functioning of vegetation
    in cities lack quantification and their interaction with urban climate in different
    settings remains a matter of debate. Here we use state-of-the-art remote sensing
    data from 145 city clusters to disentangle the drivers of surface urban heat islands
    (SUHI) intensity and quantify urban-rural differences in vegetation cover, species
    composition, and evaporative cooling. We show that nighttime SUHIs are affected
    mostly by abiotic factors, while daytime SUHIs are highly correlated with vegetation
    characteristics and the wetness of the background climate. Magnitude and seasonality
    of daytime SUHIs are controlled by urban-rural differences in plant transpiration
    and leaf area, which explain the dependence of SUHIs on wetness conditions. Leaf
    area differences are caused primarily by changes in vegetation type and a loss
    of in-city forested areas, highlighting the importance of maintaining “natural
    reserves” as a sustainable heat mitigation policy.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Athanasios
      foaf_name: Paschalis, Athanasios
      foaf_surname: Paschalis
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: TC
      foaf_name: Chakraborty, TC
      foaf_surname: Chakraborty
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simone
      foaf_name: Fatichi, Simone
      foaf_surname: Fatichi
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Naika
      foaf_name: Meili, Naika
      foaf_surname: Meili
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Gabriele
      foaf_name: Manoli, Gabriele
      foaf_surname: Manoli
  bibo_doi: 10.1029/2020av000303
  bibo_issue: '2'
  bibo_volume: 2
  dct_date: 2021^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/2576-604X
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: American Geophysical Union@
  dct_title: Urban forests as main regulator of the evaporative cooling effect in
    cities@
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