Climate Change and Thermal Comfort in Greece

Kambezidis, H. D.; Psiloglou, Basil Ε.; Varotsos, Konstantinos V.; Giannakopoulos, Christos

doi:10.3390/cli9010010

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“…The annual average, maximum and minimum monthly rainfall was 31.9mm, 102.6mm and 1.0mm respectively. Many authors and institutes (Bank of Greece 2011; Drogoudi et al 2017;Kambezidis et al 2021) mention that in last 10 years extreme climate change conditions affect horticultural crops in the experimental area.…”

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Assessing Peach Farmers Technical Production Vulnerabilities and Their Perception to Climate Change

Kalorizou¹

2021

An. U Craiova, Biol. Hortic. Food. Env.

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This study was carried out to investigate technical production vulnerabilities among professional groups related to peach farming in Greece under extreme biotic and abiotic environmental exposures. Peach technical productivity under a wide variety of physiological type of stresses coupled with applied farming practices and raw environmental data were taken into account. Interviews on a structured questionnaire and farmer workshops were used for data collection. Most of peach farmers understand that extreme temperature as the core problem of climate change; however, few of them realize that traditional knowledge could be used to alleviate extreme environmental conditions effect. Furthermore, very few of them use internet tools in order to find resilient and climate change resistance peach varieties. Potential use of genetic modified peach trees was found by the farmers as a resilient strategy to support their income and their local agri-food industrial networks respectively.

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Section: Materials and Methods Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Peach Farmers Technical Production Vulnerabilities and Their Perception to Climate Change

Kalorizou¹

2021

An. U Craiova, Biol. Hortic. Food. Env.

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“…Currently, most studies focusing on the climate comfort of the human-settlement environments address the spatio-temporal distribution of climate comfort, tourism climate comfort, and the influence of individual natural and human factors on climate comfort. However, our knowledge on the climate comfort of human-settlement environments is incomplete at country (e.g., China) (Kong et al, 2019;Kambezidis et al, 2021;Katavoutas et al, 2021;, economic corridor (e.g., the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) (Zeng et al, 2020), regional (e.g., northwest China) (Yao et al, 2021), urban agglomeration (e.g., Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Area) (Liu et al, 2020), provincial (e.g., Liaoning) (Cheung and Hart, 2014;Cao et al, 2016), city (Urumqi) , county (district) (e.g. Changsha county) (Liu et al, 2013), and township scales (e.g., Qiankou town) (Yu et al, 2021).…”

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Spatio–temporal evolution and factors of climate comfort for urban human settlements in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area

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Cao

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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This study used both temperature-humidity and wind efficiency indices at three time-scale resolutions (year, season, and month) for the first time, to analyze the spatio–temporal evolution of urban climate comfort in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA). The main factors affecting human-settlement climate comfort were elucidated and the annual changes in both indices used in the study area exhibited fluctuating growth from 2005 to 2020. Moreover, the annual growth of the temperature-humidity and wind efficiency indices in the southern cities of the GBA was relatively fast. In contrast, the annual growth of these indices in the northern cities of the GBA was relatively slow. Overall, the climate of the human-settlement environments in the GBA was the most comfortable in spring and autumn, and summer and winter were characterized by hot and cold climate conditions, respectively. We did not identify any prominent change in the climate comfort of spring and autumn from 2005 to 2020; however, the climate comfort degree deteriorated in summer and ameliorated in winter. On a monthly scale, the human-settlement environments in the GBA were the coldest in December and the hottest in July. The urban human settlements were cold in January and February, hot in May, June, August, and September, and the most comfortable in March, April, October, and November in 2020. We analyzed the factors affecting the climate comfort of human-settlement environments in the study area and found that elevation, gross industrial production, population scale, and construction land area were the most influential parameters. Notably, the impact of natural factors on the climate comfort of human-settlement environments was more significant than that of anthropogenic factors. Moreover, the related factors affected the temperature-humidity index more strongly than the wind efficiency index. Overall, our results provide data-driven guidelines for improving the climate comfort of urban human settlements in the GBA.

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“…According to these scenarios, the mean global temperature is expected to increase on average by 1-4.5 • C by the end of this century, relative to the 1850-1860 mean temperature [9]. Studies focusing on the Mediterranean Sea estimate that the temperature will increase by 3-5 • C under the RCP 8.5 emission scenario until the end of the century, varying with the region and the season [10][11][12][13].…”

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Future Climate Change Impact on Urban Heat Island in Two Mediterranean Cities Based on High-Resolution Regional Climate Simulations

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The Mediterranean is recognized among the most responsive regions to climate change, with annual temperatures projected to increase by 1–5 °C until 2100. Large cities may experience an additional stress discomfort due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. In the present study, the WRF-ARW numerical weather prediction model was used to investigate the climate change impact on UHI for two Mediterranean cities, Rome and Thessaloniki. For this purpose, three 5-year time-slice simulations were conducted (2006–2010, 2046–2050, 2096–2100) under the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 emission scenario, with a spatial resolution of 2 km. In order to comprehensively investigate the urban microclimate, we analyze future simulation data across sections crossing urban/non-urban areas, and after grouping them into three classes depending on the location of the grid cells. The urban areas of both cities present increased average minimum temperature (Tmin) in winter/summer compared to other rural areas, with an UHI of ~+1.5–3 °C on average at night/early morning. Considering UHI under future climate change, we found no significant variations (~±0.2 °C). Finally, we found that the numbers of days with Tmin ≥ 20 °C will mostly increase in urban coastal areas until 2100, while the largest increase of minimum Discomfort Index (DImin) is expected in urban low-ground areas.

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Climate Change and Thermal Comfort in Greece

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Assessing Peach Farmers Technical Production Vulnerabilities and Their Perception to Climate Change

Assessing Peach Farmers Technical Production Vulnerabilities and Their Perception to Climate Change

Spatio–temporal evolution and factors of climate comfort for urban human settlements in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area

Future Climate Change Impact on Urban Heat Island in Two Mediterranean Cities Based on High-Resolution Regional Climate Simulations

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