Sentences with phrase «canyon of tall buildings»

«It would create a canyon of tall buildings around the High Line,» she said.

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geometry: affects radiative, convective evaporative, and conductive heat transfer; urban geometries tend to selectively block or intensify winds, tend to impact the extent of greenspace, increase exposed surface area, change the sky view factor, add overall heat capacity when compared to rural areas; example — «The canyon structure that tall buildings create enhances the warming.

tall buildings do several things a) reduce the skyview at night, reducing escape of LW b) create radiative canyons during the day c) reduce turbulant mixing 4.