Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Sun, Fengpeng"
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End-of-century climate change in Missouri
(2023)Climate change is a significant threat to the environment and human society because it affects human health, reduces agriculture yield, and increases the number of extreme events. Researchers have been utilizing Atmosphere-Ocean ... -
Investigating changes of summer urban heat island in Kansas City from 2000 to 2023 with remote sensing
(2024)Rising average temperatures are having multiple effects on humans both financially and in healthcare. These temperatures are exacerbated within urban areas where the materials comprising the urban landscape absorb more ... -
Investigating Climate Impacts of Urbanization and the Potential for Cool Roofs to Mitigate the Kansas City Metropolitan Area’s Urban Heat Island Effect
(2020)An urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon where the temperatures within cities are greater than those of surrounding rural areas due to human activity and physical properties of urban surfaces. This effect can cause the ... -
The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(2021)When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections ...