TY - JOUR

T1 - Parks Under Stress: Air Temperature Regulation of Urban Green Spaces Under Conditions of Drought and Summer Heat

AU - Kraemer, Roland

AU - Kabisch, Nadja Sigrun

N1 - Funding information: This work was part of the research project “Environmental-health Interactions in Cities (GreenEquityHEALTH)—Challenges for Human Well-being under Global Changes” (2017–2022) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), funding code: 01LN1705A.

PY - 2022/4/13

Y1 - 2022/4/13

N2 - The cooling capacity of urban green spaces constitutes a key measure for cities to mitigate heat events, which is gaining importance in climate change adaptation and mitigation. In this protocol article, we present details on two field campaigns aiming at collecting dense air temperature data in two urban inner city parks in Leipzig, Germany, under unprecedented heat and drought conditions. We introduce all the steps required to plan and conduct qualified fieldwork in environmental research, including study design, technical and logistical preparations, on-site work and data management steps from data acquisition, transfer into research outcomes to dissemination. We further share valuable lessons learned before, during and after field work that helped us improve our work and that could support and improve similar future project campaigns.

AB - The cooling capacity of urban green spaces constitutes a key measure for cities to mitigate heat events, which is gaining importance in climate change adaptation and mitigation. In this protocol article, we present details on two field campaigns aiming at collecting dense air temperature data in two urban inner city parks in Leipzig, Germany, under unprecedented heat and drought conditions. We introduce all the steps required to plan and conduct qualified fieldwork in environmental research, including study design, technical and logistical preparations, on-site work and data management steps from data acquisition, transfer into research outcomes to dissemination. We further share valuable lessons learned before, during and after field work that helped us improve our work and that could support and improve similar future project campaigns.

KW - drought

KW - ecosystem services

KW - heat

KW - Leipzig

KW - microclimate regulation

KW - random forests

KW - urban climate

KW - urban green spaces

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128856413&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3389/fenvs.2022.849965

DO - 10.3389/fenvs.2022.849965

M3 - Article

VL - 10

JO - Frontiers in Environmental Science

JF - Frontiers in Environmental Science

M1 - 849965

ER -