About the Authors

Bin Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhoub@post.bgu.ac.il

Affiliations Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

Stephan Thies

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

Ramana Gudipudi

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

Matthias K. B. Lüdeke

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany

Jürgen P. Kropp

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany, Department of Geo- and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Diego Rybski

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany, Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. As One of the coauthors of this manuscript (Dr. Diego Rybski) guest-edits the special collection ”Cities as Complex Systems” we are submitting to, we have to reiterate that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.