Sentences with phrase «dense city air»

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At some airports — especially those with long runways in temperate regions and at low altitude where the air is relatively dense, like New York City's John F. Kennedy, London's Heathrow, and Paris's Charles de Gaulle airports — impacts should be minimal, the researchers report today in Climatic Change.

«In addition to cooling urban microclimates, these trees, which are integrated within dense urban street networks, also provide other benefits, such as reducing the risk of flash flooding and cleaning the air,» says Peter Edwards, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory and Director of the Singapore - ETH Centre.

Away from the dense network of heat absorbing (daytime) then heat radiating (nighttime) structures which is the Urban Heat Island and above the air with high water vapor content trapped by the valley along the river, not to mention the pall of coal dust over the city, morning low temps were much more like what the natural countryside would experience.

Denser, greener cities have lower transport costs and reduced health bills, especially for illnesses caused by air pollution.