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DOAJ_listed: '1'
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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 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.
article_number: e2020AV000303
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Athanasios
  full_name: Paschalis, Athanasios
  last_name: Paschalis
- first_name: TC
  full_name: Chakraborty, TC
  last_name: Chakraborty
- first_name: Simone
  full_name: Fatichi, Simone
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  last_name: Fatichi
- first_name: Naika
  full_name: Meili, Naika
  last_name: Meili
- first_name: Gabriele
  full_name: Manoli, Gabriele
  last_name: Manoli
citation:
  ama: Paschalis A, Chakraborty T, Fatichi S, Meili N, Manoli G. Urban forests as
    main regulator of the evaporative cooling effect in cities. <i>AGU Advances</i>.
    2021;2(2). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000303">10.1029/2020av000303</a>
  apa: Paschalis, A., Chakraborty, T., Fatichi, S., Meili, N., &#38; Manoli, G. (2021).
    Urban forests as main regulator of the evaporative cooling effect in cities. <i>AGU
    Advances</i>. American Geophysical Union. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000303">https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000303</a>
  chicago: Paschalis, Athanasios, TC Chakraborty, Simone Fatichi, Naika Meili, and
    Gabriele Manoli. “Urban Forests as Main Regulator of the Evaporative Cooling Effect
    in Cities.” <i>AGU Advances</i>. American Geophysical Union, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000303">https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000303</a>.
  ieee: A. Paschalis, T. Chakraborty, S. Fatichi, N. Meili, and G. Manoli, “Urban
    forests as main regulator of the evaporative cooling effect in cities,” <i>AGU
    Advances</i>, vol. 2, no. 2. American Geophysical Union, 2021.
  ista: Paschalis A, Chakraborty T, Fatichi S, Meili N, Manoli G. 2021. Urban forests
    as main regulator of the evaporative cooling effect in cities. AGU Advances. 2(2),
    e2020AV000303.
  mla: Paschalis, Athanasios, et al. “Urban Forests as Main Regulator of the Evaporative
    Cooling Effect in Cities.” <i>AGU Advances</i>, vol. 2, no. 2, e2020AV000303,
    American Geophysical Union, 2021, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000303">10.1029/2020av000303</a>.
  short: A. Paschalis, T. Chakraborty, S. Fatichi, N. Meili, G. Manoli, AGU Advances
    2 (2021).
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date_created: 2026-07-27T12:30:25Z
date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-08-12T08:20:04Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1029/2020av000303
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         2'
issue: '2'
language:
- iso: eng
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- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000303
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
publication: AGU Advances
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 2576-604X
publication_status: published
publisher: American Geophysical Union
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Urban forests as main regulator of the evaporative cooling effect in cities
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  name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)
  short: CC BY (4.0)
type: journal_article
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