Sentences with phrase «heat island group»

Co-author Hashem Akbari emphasizes that cool roofs and pavements are only a part of the solution: «Two years worth of emissions is huge, but compared to what we need to do, it's just a dent in the problem,» says Akbari, the former head of the Berkeley Lab Heat Island Group and now Hydro - Quebec Industrial Research Professor at Concordia University in Montreal.

Substantial research over the years from Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group has found that reflective roofs and walls can cool buildings and cars.

For instance, in the following 2 minute clip, two researchers from the Heat Island Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (California, USA) discuss different types of materials which could be used for making pavements and car parks:

Scientists in Berkeley Lab's Heat Island Group, in collaboration with the UC Pavement Research Center (UCPRC), the University of Southern California (USC), and thinkstep Inc., conducted life cycle assessments of conventional and cool pavements.

Not exact matches

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodel.»

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader's Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodels.»

A group of scientists of the Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW) and the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research — Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing Division (IMK - ASF) of KIT as well as of ETH Zurich recently analyzed above - ground and underground heat islands in four big cities in Germany in relation to each other.

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Assessment: The group check - ins before the designs are tested can be used as formative assessment to make sure students understand the components of their design and how those components will help minimize the effects of the urban heat island.

Villa L'Oasis was an amazing villa perfect for large groups like we were 16 people... Location is perfect close to town, beach is very nice its windy side of the island but for us it was a blessing with the heat, the beach can be a little rough you can still swim though very nice and private..

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His most recent group exhibitions throughout 2011 include Heat Island, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York; Festival of Ideas for a New City, New York; Black Sunday, Saint Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn; and Synthetic Supports: Plastic Is the New Paper, Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

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Our samples were collected approximately 5 months after the peak heat stress, and this delayed response may explain the lack of difference between island groups studied here.

Not only the public, but industry and every other country have accepted the science and the idea that emissions need to be reduced, so a rag - tag group of skeptics would have a hard time with making their case for urban heat islands or whatever their current fad is.

Other groups like NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) take data from NCDC and other sources and perform additional adjustments, like GISS's nightlight - based urban heat island corrections.