Comparison of climate change vs. urbanization
Abstract
Urbanization has long been identified as one of the major human impacts on the micro-climate of urban areas and has been linked to large (and often disastrous) changes into several hydroclimatic processes such as temperature, humidity and precipitation. However, climate change studies have rarely separated the urban local-scale influence from the global one. In this study, we thoroughly investigate and compare the changes in the variability of the above hydroclimatic processes in urban regions and in the ones with small or negligible human impact. The analysis includes global historical databases of the above processes as well as of the urbanization impact through land-use change. Acknowledgement: This research is conducted within the frame of the course "Stochastic Methods" at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. The students, PhD candidates, Fellow Researchers, Post-Doc Researchers and Professors are struggling to deliver research results without any financial support.
- Publication:
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EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- April 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018EGUGA..2018598S