Sentences with phrase «heat islands significantly»

If urban heat islands significantly biased the temperature record, then you'd expect a global map of temperature change to have red spots where the population is concentrated.

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This is the urban heat island, where city temperatures can be significantly warmer than the surrounding rural regions.
An urban heat island is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas.
«The urban heat island effect is locally large and real, but does not contribute significantly to the average land temperature rise.
Now, an innovative new 2MW solar structure at ASU seeks to do even more — significantly reducing the heat island effect by providing dappled shade to a large parking lot.
An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to human activities.
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.
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