Sentences with phrase «called urban heat island»

An important part of the debate is something called the urban heat island effect (UHIE).

The complex phenomenon that drives up temperatures is called the urban heat island effect.»

Because they absorb so much heat, dark - colored roofs and roadways create what is called the urban heat island effect, where a city is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas.

Cities are generally warmer than nearby natural areas — an effect called an urban heat island.

This is due to a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect that causes air temperatures in New York City and other major cities to be warmer than in neighboring suburbs and rural areas.

It's called the Urban Heat Island effect.

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

These so - called urban heat islands result from various factors, such as population density, surface sealing, thermal radiation of buildings, industry, and transport as well as lacking vegetation.

These are called Urban Heat Islands.

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Reducing the so - called «urban heat island» effect by expanding urban forests and promoting white rooftops.

These so - called heat islands are simply urban areas surrounded by asphalt roads, concrete and less grass and tree shade.

The satellite data, for example, shows cooling... The argument is that there has been warming since then but, in fact, almost all of that is due to what is called the «urban heat island» effect... [DC: Nice...]

Having worked with many of the scientists in question, I can say with certainty that there is no grand conspiracy to artificially warm the earth; rather, scientists are doing their best to interpret large datasets with numerous biases such as station moves, instrument changes, time of observation changes, urban heat island biases, and other so - called inhomogenities that have occurred over the last 150 years.

In fact, Climategate as a story starts with the lengths one scientist, Phil Jones, (director of the Climate Research Unit and member of what we call The Team) went to in an effort to prevent others, principally Warwick Hughes, Steve McIntyre and Willis Eschenbach, from effectively reviewing his work and others on the Urban Heat Island effect.

Because it absorbs heat, concrete helps reduce what's called «urban heat islands,» a suspected global warming contributor.