Chen-et-al-2021-Environmental Research Letters_supplement_2.xlsx

	A	B
1	Short names	Explanations to the shortnames
2	ID	A unique number for each megacity
3	Lat	Latitude
4	Lon	Longitude
5	City_name	Name of the megacity
6	Country_Region	Countries/regions that the megacity belongs to
7	Continent	Continent
8	Subregion	Subcontinent names. WNA: western North America; ENA: Eastern North America; WSA: western South America; ESA: Eastern South America; WEU: western Europe; EEU: eastern Europe; SSA: Sub-Saharan African; WCA+SAH: Western and Central Asia + Saharan Africa; SSEA: South and Southeast Asia; EA: East Asia; OC: Oceania.
9	Area_U	Area of urban in km2
10	Area_R	Area of rural in km2
11	IGBP	1: Forests, 2: Short woody + Natural herbeceous vegetation, 3: Croplands
12	Koppen	1: Tropical, 2: Arid/dry, 3: Temperate, 4: Continental
13	Pop_U	Population over urban area in 2000
14	Short name	Long name
15	Pop_R	Population over rural area in 2000
16	Pop_T	Total population in 2000, Pop_U + Pop_R
17	delta_Pop_2020_2000	Total population change over between 2020 and 2000
18	Aridity_index	Aridity index, Precip/PET
19	Precip	Precipiatation from ERA5
20	LAI_U	Climatological mean LAI over urban area
21	LAI_R	Climatological mean LAI over rural area
22	LAI_dif	Climatological mean difference of urban-rural LAI
23	LAI_trend_U	Urban LAI trend (per decade)
24	LAI_sig_U	P value of the urban LAI trend
25	LAI_trend_R	Rural LAI trend (per decade)
26	LAI_sig_R	P value of the rural LAI trend
27	LAIdif_trend	Trend in LAIdif (per decade)
28	LAIdif_sig	P value of the LAIdif trend
29	LAIdif_trend_rel	Relative trend in LAIdif (% per decade)
30	LAI_trend_match	Trend category match for urban and rural LAI. 1: uB-rB, urban browning and rural browning. 2: uB-rG, urban browning and rural greening. 3: uG-rB, urban greening and rural browning. 4: uG-rG, urban greening and rural greening.
31	SUHII_Terra_mean	Climatological mean SUHII from MODIS Terra
32	dSUHII_Terra	Trend in MODIS Terra SUHII (K per decade)
33	sig_dSUHII_Terra	P value of Terra SUHII trend
34	dSUHII_due_to_LAIdif	Trend in SUHII due to vegetation biophysical effects (K per decade)
35	dSUHII_dLAIdif	Sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif (K per LAI)
36	dSUHII_dLAI_albedo	Sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif (K per LAI), albedo pathway
37	dSUHII_dLAI_ra	Sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif (K per LAI), aerodynamic resistance pathway
38	dSUHII_dLAI_rs	Sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif (K per LAI), surface resistance pathway
39	dSUHII_dLAI_REB	Sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif (K per LAI), ground heat flux pathway (residual of the energy balance equation)
40	dSUHII_dLAI_emis	Sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif (K per LAI), emissivity pathway
41	dSUHII_dLAI_dominate_catogery	Dominant factor in controlling the sensitivity of SUHII to LAIdif, 1: albedo, 2: aerodynamic resistance, 3: surface resitance, 4: ground heat flux, 5: emissivity
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