Urban expansion moderates warming yet intensifies absolute heat exposure across rapidly growing Arabian Peninsula cities - Communications Earth & Environment (doi.org)
From 2000-2020, 13.1 million new residents settled in newly urbanized areas in Arabian Peninsula that cooled relative to deserts yet remained hotter than existing cities, according to high-resolution analysis combined land-cover change, population growth, and land surface temperature data.
The authors included RRIDs in their in Communications Earth & Environment paper! Thanks for making your methods matter!