Sentences with phrase «island temperature effect»

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Giving buildings cool - surface makeovers counters the urban heat island effect and reduces the temperature inside a building.

Segregated in the inner city, they're more susceptible to the «heat island» effect, where temperatures are magnified by concrete and asphalt.

This could be because of the urban heat island effect, which causes temperatures in the city to rise as much 10 °C compared with those in the surrounding areas.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages the creation of green roofs for mitigating the urban «heat island effect,» whereby temperatures in crowded cities can soar some 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in less developed areas nearby.

It would take a 5 °C rise to cause the same effect in Bald Head Island in North Carolina, at which stage the higher temperatures would already be causing more than 75 % of deaths among the all hatchlings in Florida.

Heat waves in cities interact synergistically with the urban heat island effect to raise temperatures more than would be expected from a simple summation calculation.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

Other apps would be used as a «sensor kit» to measure temperature and humidity, something that might be used to teach people about the heat island effect in their hometowns.

A third focuses on the urban heat island effect and a fourth looks specifically at temperature stations that have been labeled as problematic by skeptics.

The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including nearby Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather - related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature build - up and urban heat island effect.

Some parts of the Twin Cities can spike temperatures up to 9 °F higher than surrounding communities thanks to the «urban heat island» effect, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota.

As buildings replace forest or grasslands, the local temperature rises — the so - called urban heat island effect.

However, temperature is officially measured at just a few locations in most cities, so awareness of the extent and variability of urban heat island effects was limited,» said lead author Brian Smoliak.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Explanation of the urban heat island effect in terms of both temperature and precipitation.

With national and local computer models forecasting a major winter storm — including heavy snow, strong winds and coastal flooding — for Long Island this coming weekend, Central Veterinary Associates (CVA) is reminding pet owners that freezing temperatures and blustery weather can have an adverse effect on the well - being of their animal.

Significant changes in sea water temperature like those caused by El Nino events appear to have significant effects on pinniped populations around the Channel Islands.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

However, the actual claim of IPCC is that the effects of urban heat islands effects are likely small in the gridded temperature products (such as produced by GISS and Climate Research Unit (CRU)-RRB- because of efforts to correct for those biases.

Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that climate change will take on a life of its own independently of what we do in the future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).

There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record — which shows a warming of approximately 0.6 ° -0.8 °C over the last century (depending on precisely how the warming trend is defined)-- is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.

Any station that is not very rural will suffer from a heat island effect, which may be constant over time but means the station does not give an unbiased estimate of the mean temperature for the area it is supposed to represent.

That said, the scientific analyses that the BEST team has done with the new data set are controversial, including the impact of station quality on interpreting temperature trends and the urban heat island effect.

* Urban Heat Island: It is well - known that the effect of heat from buildings in urban areas, as well as the thermal properties of high concentrations of concrete, raise the temperatures of Urban areas to above the surrounding area.

Back in ’88 there was still quite a debate about whether the world was in fact warming or whether the temperature record had been contaminated by the urban heat island effect of cities springing up around former rural weather stations.

With climate change leading to a rise in temperatures and rapid concretisation exacerbating urban heat island effect, it has become important to develop both mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce and combat heat stress... Read More

In like manner, if I believe that the urban heat island effect is responsible for AGW, why can't I just subtract the urban temperature profile from the global surface temperature record and «whalla», problem solved.

When anyone says that urban heat island has no meaning I laugh you can not have that much absorption of radiation not effect ambient temperatures.

So, there is less impact of the urban heat island effect on the temperature records.

The other effect that may exist here (but I am less certain of the science, commenters can help me out) is that by saying «your hometown» we put the bet into the domain of urban heat islands and temperature station siting issues.

Even the most pronounced warming, evident from the cities of Hobart and Melbourne, is within what could be considered natural — though the trends shown here are likely to be artificially exaggerated by the method of measuring temperature since 1996 ** (electronic probes) and the urban heat island (UHI) effect.

Bindidon It's not surprising that you give the fully discredited (because of data manipulations and the urban heat island effects) GISS Surface Temperature to support your fallacious point about it being hotter now than in the»30s.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Surface global temperature data may have been hopelessly corrupted by the urban heat island effect and other problems which may explain some portion of the warming that would otherwise be attributed to GHGs / CO2.

I do know that there is an urban heat island effect — as does everyone, so there's no need, false netdr, to re-discover it — but I do accept that that DFW, at least, doesn't show that this real and well known effect actually contaminates the temperature record.

Although he doesn't actually come out and say it, Evans suggests that the global warming trend in the surface temperature record is an artifact caused by the urban heat island (UHI) effect:

This technical document presents the effects of increased temperatures and sea - level rise, together with other climate - linked changes to the Pacific Islands.

Correcting that estimate for the millennium warming cycle, ie, the temperature recovery from the Little Ice Age, and the urban heat island effect gives an ECS best estimate of 1.0 °C.

«The urban heat island effect is locally large and real, but does not contribute significantly to the average land temperature rise.

Answer: Urban Heat Island Effect has been examined quite thoroughly (PDF) and found to have a negligible effect on temperature tEffect has been examined quite thoroughly (PDF) and found to have a negligible effect on temperature teffect on temperature trends.

In the same sense, I know that urban heat island effect is damn important to the validity of Dr Phil Jones claims that China has seen significant temperature increases.

Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

The urban heat island (UHI) effect on temperature records is one such impact that the IPCC keeps trying to minimize but the actual science keeps refuting the IPCC's agenda - driven science.

And another thing, when we look at the past 100 + years of temperature change, even when we have to try to peer through grossly mis - adjusted warmist data and a growing urban heat island effect, we see little discernible changes in the rate of early 20th century (low CO2) and later 20th century (higher CO2) change.

I think the heat island effect is not handled evenly, I see all kinds of adjustments to historical data and the spacial temperature models GISS are grossly stretched and statistical unreliable.

He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling.

@Mike Edwards: There are lots of studies — hundreds, at least — of the urban heat island effect, and quite a lot of effort has gone into identifying, quantifying, modelling, and adjusting for the effect of UHI on global temperature records.

The thermometer network is made up of a patchwork of non-research quality instruments that were never made to monitor long - term temperature changes to tenths or hundredths of a degree... Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.

Thus the congestion with pollution created urban - heat - island effect at the surface and as well upto the level of skyscrapers through temperature inversions.

Based on my travel both developed and developing countries, I noted cold - island effect is under emphasized in the averaging of the global temperature with sparse network and over emphasized the.