[Special Issue Call] Advancing Urban Air Quality, Green Spaces, and Microclimate Science

The new Special Issue Urban Air Quality, Green Spaces, and Microclimate Analysis, edited by Dr. Mariella Aquilino and Prof. Dr. Shady Attia, is now open in Atmosphere.Cities are facing unprecedented challenges related to extreme heat, air quality degradation, and microclimate instability.

This Special Issue focuses on rigorous, evidence-based approaches that integrate vegetation performance, urban morphology, atmospheric processes, and human exposure to produce actionable insights for sustainable urban environments.

We particularly encourage contributions that advance methodological depth, including:

• Long term and seasonal monitoring, fixed and mobile networks • Multimodal mapping, combining EO data, transects, sensed microclimate, and human physiological responses

• Mechanistic microclimate modeling using ENVI-met, CFD, UCMs, and coupled indoor-outdoor models

• High-resolution calibration protocols, validation datasets, and reproducible workflows

• Green and blue infrastructure performance, urban ventilation corridors, shading strategies, and nature-based cooling solutions.This Special Issue is fully aligned with the scientific agenda of IEA EBC Annex Annex 97 Sustainable Cooling in Cities Peter Holzer Philipp Stern, where our community is currently defining KPIs for outdoor cooling, guidelines for microclimate simulation and experimentation, and climate-appropriate cooling strategies. It highlights the need for robust KPIs, experimental protocols, and solution profiles for urban heat mitigation and cooling technologies, reinforcing the urgency of this work. Check https://lnkd.in/eS8nuUV8

Colleagues from Annex 97 are invited to contribute: Peter Holzer, Philipp Stern Vincenzo Corrado Anna Laura Pisello Ronnen Levinson Priya Rajagopalan Dahai Qi, Chen Zhang, Abhishek G. Theofanis Psomas, Prof. Dr. Michael Bruse, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Tove Malmqvist, Jianlei Niu, Edward NG, Baojie He, Chao Cen, Liangzhu Leon Wang (Professor, Associate Director, CZEBS), Xudong Zhao, Zhuangbo Feng, Junqi (Alan) Wang, Yuming Guo, MD, PhD, FTSE, FASSA, FAHMS, Mohamed Elhadi Matallah, Dyna Zitouni, Tianyi Wang. If anyone don't want to be tagged, please let me know to remove the tag immediately.

Researchers working on air quality, climate resilience, nature-based solutions, environmental sensing, and urban overheating are welcome to submit.

📅 Submission deadline: 20 April 2026 🔗 Details and submission: https://lnkd.in/gyRZNkqH

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