Sentences with phrase «heat islands increase»

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«This also tells us that we need to plant more trees and vegetation in cities, increasing shade on impervious surfaces and limiting the «heat island» effect,» Frank says.

The huge amount of land devoted to parking lots leads to increased water pollution and the urban heat island effect.

Increasing levels of ozone, in turn, trap more heat, exacerbating the urban heat island effect: Cities are normally about five to 10 degrees hotter than surrounding suburbs because asphalt and cement absorb sunlight, generating a vicious cycle of escalating pollution and heat.

The region also experienced the highest rates of sea - level rise over the world, indicating large increases in ocean heat content and leading to substantial impacts on small island states in the region.

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.

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

Urban heat islands, combined with an aging population and increased urbanization, are projected to increase the vulnerability of urban populations to heat - related health impacts in the future (Ch.

Increasing evidence suggests that urban heat island effects extend to changes in precipitation, clouds and DTR, with these detectable as a «weekend effect» owing to lower pollution and other effects during weekends.

And urban heat islands will amplify already increasing temperatures.

Built surfaces increase energy demand and heat - island effects, adversely impact air quality, and produce greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

«Wavelet analysis shows that this relative urban warming trend was primarily manifested in the form of multi - decadal and interseasonal cycles that are likely attributable to gradual increased winter heating in Ottawa (heat island effects) associated with population growth.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

Why is it that climate sceptics have been going on about the Urban Heat Island * being the cause of the observed temperaure increase found in the global averages, if, as you say, there is no increase in the global averages?

I would note that since growing cities also enhance the urban heat island effect, not all of the increase in heavy downpours can be attributed to climate change.

Other important issues — Dan might be able to say more about urban heat islands, and how they might grow in the future, and be exacerbated by possible large temperature increases.

In Grand Rapids, MI, to offset the urban heat island effect, the city plans to increase its tree canopy cover to at least 37.5 % between 2011 and 2015.

This methodological guideline will provide measurement, quantification and monitoring methods to assess the hypothesis that current and increased Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savings.

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Urban heat islands can increase the average temperatures over quite large distances (the entire urbanized region).

Climate change may also augment or intensify other stresses on vegetation encountered in urban environments, including increased atmospheric pollution, heat island effects, a highly variable water cycle, and frequent exposure to new pests and diseases.

For example, although there are numerous benefits to urban greening, such as reducing the urban heat island effect while simultaneously promoting an active healthy lifestyle, 248,310,311 the urban planting of certain allergenic pollen producing species22 could increase human pollen exposure and allergic illness.

Urban heat islands, combined with an aging population and increased urbanization, are projected to increase the vulnerability of urban populations to heat - related health impacts in the future (Ch.

Urban heat islands can cause serious problems for city dwellers during the summer, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries, e.g., India, since they increase the frequency and strength of heatwaves in the city.

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

Thus even by the original UN (self serving) definition, «real» could be interpreted as anyone who acknowledges there is an observable increase in CO2, or any statistically distinguishable anthropogenic influence on climate, including converting forests to farms, and creating the «Urban Heat Island».

(7) A requirement that building retrofits conducted pursuant to a REEP program utilize, especially in all air - conditioned buildings, roofing materials with high solar energy reflectance, unless inappropriate due to green roof management, solar energy production, or for other reasons identified by the Administrator, in order to reduce energy consumption within the building, increase the albedo of the building's roof, and decrease the heat island effect in the area of the building, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards.

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.

For a station that has always been inside a city, say an inner city university, it will only be affected if the magnitude of the heat island effect increases.

«We evaluate to what extent the temperature rise in the past 100 years was a trend or a natural fluctuation and analyze 2249 worldwide monthly temperature records from GISS (NASA) with the 100 - year period covering 1906 - 2005 and the two 50 - year periods from 1906 to 1955 and 1956 to 2005... The data document a strong urban heat island eff ect (UHI) and a warming with increasing station elevation... About a quarter of all the records for the 100 - year period show a fall in temperatures... that the observed temperature records are a combination of long - term correlated records with an additional trend, which is caused for instance by anthropogenic CO2, the UHI or other forcings... As a result, the probabilities that the observed temperature series are natural have values roughly between 40 % and 90 %, depending on the stations characteristics and the periods considered.»

a), b) & c) combined imply that the urban - heat - island effect is NOT increasing on a global basis, and therefore CAN NOT serve as the «real» cause giving rise to the impression of global warming as an artefact.

Guideline 2 of the series Monitoring impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry on climate change mitigation and adaptation.This methodological guideline will provide measurement, quantification and monitoring methods to assess the hypothesis that current and increased Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savings.

Some of the temperature increases shown by Dr Jones in fact are caused by temperature recording stations that were once in rural locations on the outskirts of cities now being affected by the Urban Heat Island effect as urban development surrounded the weather stations.

Nobody would intentionally adjust the data in the opposite direction from what would be expected for an increasing urban heat island effect.

Environmental influences such as the Urban Heat Island in cities and regional towns may be contributing to the increase in temperatures since 2002, as may instrument influences such as the advent of Automatic Weather Stations at many ACORN locations since the early 1990s.

The data document a strong urban heat island eff ect (UHI) and a warming with increasing station elevation.

Increase of minimum temperatures rathern than daily maximum's could be a result of CO2, but is more likely a signature of urban heat islands.

By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.

The problem is not with taking surface temperature measurements; it's that so many of those thermometers are in heavily populated areas where the population has been increasing for a long time, creating heat islands.

Analyzing more than 90 Landsat scenes tracking the city's surface temperatures over several decades, Lucena has shown that Rio's surface heat island has intensified, increasing by an average of 4.4 to 6.1 °C during the past decade.

This change, with an increase in land temperature relative to sea, is consistent with poor compensation of the urban heat island effect.

Over the years, the city has filled in around the airport so the urban heat island has increased its influence beyond the wind effects.

When the readings from all rural and urban stations are taken together and adjusted for the urban heat island effect, it's clear global average temperatures are increasing.

Increased smog and air pollution further trap this heat — creating the: heat island effect.

In addition to finding seasonal and geographic variations in the urban heat island effect, Wang et al also found a substantial decrease in the urban effect during the periods of the «Great Leap Forward» (1958 - 61) and the «Cultural Revolution» (1966 - 71) and an increasing trend in the urban effect afterwards.

The urban heat island effect can increase surface - air temperature at urban locations.

In Wang et al (1990) Wang and Karl concluded that over the 30 year period of their study (which used the same raw data from eastern China for the same period as Jones at al) ``... results suggest a general increase in heat island intensity of about 0.1 C, but this has not been constant in time.»

Green roofs and rooftop gardens have many cooling benefits, they reduce the urban heat island effect, protect the «membrane» (aka roof), increase amenity space, and promote biodiversity.

So it's good news indeed that Louisville, in decidedly red - state Kentucky, is getting serious about tackling its urban heat island effect through increased urban forestry, as well as efforts to promote reflective surfaces and green roofs.

An increasing number believe that any warming is so small it is indistinguishable from the noise in the environmenal data sets, and that the data have not been properly adjusted for such things as urban heat island effects (are the city temps warmer than the suburbs where you live?