ИСТИНА

Climate change has been governing by global changes of the greenhouse gases, aerosols, and regional variations of atmospheric circulation. Within large urban area, microclimate change (especially the warming) is amplified due to influence of sharply modified land properties. It can be characterized as the urban amplification of the global warming. The focus of this paper is the climate change of the Moscow megacity, including changes of the structure of the atmospheric boundary layer, changes of the urban heat island (UHI), and determination of the microclimatic features of the local environment.