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The Interaction of Climate Change with Landscape and Environment
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The Interaction of Climate Change with Landscape and Environment

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 8764

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Man Sing Wong

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Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: urban heat island effect; urban environmental quality; landslides; vegetation and ecosystems; spectral mixture analysis; aerosol retrieval; air quality monitoring; water vapor retrieval
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Dr. Rui Zhu

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Senseable City Laboratory, Future Urban Mobility IRG, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore
Interests: urban mobility; spatiotemporal data modeling; urban heat island; solar cities
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Dr. Hanfa Xing

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School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Interests: geospatial big data; urban studies; spatiotemporal data modeling; geographic information updating
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Prof. Dr. Janet E. Nichol

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Department of Geography, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN19RH, UK
Interests: geo-informatics; environmental change; landscape change; urban climate; air pollution; climate change; tropical forest ecology; aerosols
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We sincerely invite you to submit a paper to a Special Issue on “The Interaction of Climate Change with Landscape and Environment” in the open-access journal Climate.

Climate change is increasingly becoming one of the greatest problems for humankind. The impacts of climate change on the natural environment include extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts, heat waves, storms and hurricanes, as well as rising sea levels and destruction of biodiversity. In the urban environment, climate change may also create adverse effects for inhabitants, such as heat stress, respiratory problems from pollution exposure, and increased flood risk.

This Special Issue thus explores the interaction of climate change with landscape and environment, for adaption to, and mitigation of climate change for sustainable development. The focus of the analyses may vary from a short period to several decades, or from a small area (such as street blocks or a city) to a vast region (such as countrywide or global). All topics which focus on climate change adaptation, mitigation, as well as relevant analysis techniques and their linkages with policy making are warmly welcome.

We look forward to receiving original, high-quality unpublished manuscripts from different professions and expertise.

Dr. Man Sing Wong
Dr. Rui Zhu
Dr. Hanfa Xing
Prof. Dr. Janet Nichol
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Climate is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Sustainability
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geographical Information Science
  • Urban heat/sink island
  • Anthropogenic heat
  • Pollutions
  • 2D/3D solar radiation
  • Dynamic air flows
  • Land cover changes
  • Urban mobility
  • Urban informatics
  • Paris Agreement
  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Environmental engineering
  • Development studies

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Exploring Short-Term Climate Change Effects on Rangelands and Broad-Leaved Forests by Free Satellite Data in Aosta Valley (Northwest Italy)
by Tommaso Orusa and Enrico Borgogno Mondino
Climate 2021, 9(3), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9030047 - 15 Mar 2021
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Satellite remote sensing is a power tool for the long-term monitoring of vegetation. This work, with reference to a regional case study, investigates remote sensing potentialities for describing the annual phenology of rangelands and broad-leaved forests at the landscape level with the aim [...] Read more.
Satellite remote sensing is a power tool for the long-term monitoring of vegetation. This work, with reference to a regional case study, investigates remote sensing potentialities for describing the annual phenology of rangelands and broad-leaved forests at the landscape level with the aim of detecting eventual effects of climate change in the Alpine region of the Aosta Valley (Northwest (NW) Italy). A first analysis was aimed at estimating phenological metrics (PMs) from satellite images time series and testing the presence of trends along time. A further investigation concerned evapotranspiration from vegetation (ET) and its variation along the years. Additionally, in both the cases the following meteorological patterns were considered: air temperature anomalies, precipitation trends and the timing of yearly seasonal snow melt. The analysis was based on the time series (TS) of different MODIS collections datasets together with Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) collection obtained through Google Earth Engine. Ground weather stations data from the Centro Funzionale VdA ranging from 2000 to 2019 were used. In particular, the MOD13Q1 v.6, MOD16A2 and MOD10A1 v.6 collections were used to derive PMs, ET and snow cover maps. The SRTM (shuttle radar topography mission) DTM (digital terrain model) was also used to describe local topography while the Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE) land cover map was adopted to investigate land use classes. Averagely in the area, rangelands and broad-leaved forests showed that the length of season is getting longer, with a general advance of the SOS (start of the season) and a delay in the EOS (end of the season). With reference to ET, significant increasing trends were generally observed. The water requirement from vegetation appeared to have averagely risen about 0.05 Kg·m−2 (about 0.5%) per year in the period 2000–2019, for a total increase of about 1 Kg·m−2 in 20 years (corresponding to a percentage difference in water requirement from vegetation of about 8%). This aspect can be particularly relevant in the bottom of the central valley, where the precipitations have shown a statistically significant decreasing trend in the period 2000–2019 (conversely, no significant variation was found in the whole territory). Additionally, the snowpack timing persistence showed a general reduction trend. PMs and ET and air temperature anomalies, as well as snow cover melting, proved to have significantly changed their values in the last 20 years, with a continuous progressive trend. The results encourage the adoption of remote sensing to monitor climate change effects on alpine vegetation, with particular focus on the relationship between phenology and other abiotic factors permitting an effective technological transfer. Full article
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Potential Effects of Climate and Human Influence Changes on Range and Diversity of Nine Fabaceae Species and Implications for Nature’s Contribution to People in Kenya
by Risper Nyairo and Takashi Machimura
Climate 2020, 8(10), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli8100109 - 03 Oct 2020
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Climate and land-use changes are the main drivers of species distribution. On the basis of current and future climate and socioeconomic scenarios, species range projections were made for nine species in the Fabaceae family. Modeled species have instrumental and relational values termed as [...] Read more.
Climate and land-use changes are the main drivers of species distribution. On the basis of current and future climate and socioeconomic scenarios, species range projections were made for nine species in the Fabaceae family. Modeled species have instrumental and relational values termed as nature’s contribution to people (NCP). For each species, five scenarios were analyzed resulting in 45 species range maps. Representative concentration pathway (RCP) 4.5 and three shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs 1, 2, and 3) were used in the analysis. Species ranges under these scenarios were modeled using MaxEnt; a niche modeling software that relates species occurrence with environmental variables. Results were used to compute species richness and evenness based on Shannon’s diversity Index. Results revealed a mix of range expansion and contraction for the modeled species. The findings highlighted which species may remain competitive in an urbanized future and which ones are detrimentally affected by climate. Parts of the country where species abundances are likely to change due to climate and socioeconomic changes were identified. Management of species will be required in people-dominated landscapes to maintain interactions between nature and society, while avoiding natural resource degradation and loss of NCP. Full article
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