Sentences with phrase «island effect because»

Urban land use creates a heat - island effect because asphalt, brick, and concrete absorb and conduct solar energy, while the cooling effect of evaporation from soil and vegetation is reduced.

Not exact matches

I want to say that there are some factors missing from his analysis — I remember reading about how the heat island phenomena can have an observable effect because of the dome of warm air which forms during the day.

The land has this effect perhaps because the islands themselves, like their human culture, are new and alive, sustained still by an inner fire.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

This could be because of the urban heat island effect, which causes temperatures in the city to rise as much 10 °C compared with those in the surrounding areas.

This phenomenon has been named the Central Park Effect because of the surprisingly large number of species found in New York's Central Park, a relatively small island of green within a metropolis.

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.

For now, the effect of Trump's appointments on environmental policy is limited because his appointments have not tipped the balance of liberal and conservative judges in any of the key appeals courts, including the 9th Circuit in California that encompasses Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The study of island populations is particularly valuable for detecting the effects of predators on local prey species, because of the relatively closed nature of island ecological systems (Blackburn et al., 2004; Swadling, 2010).

Also small statured, the remains are hypothesized by the authors to be a predecessor population, possibly Homo erectus and small statured because of the «island effect.

The tropical island setting, lifted from Jacques Tourneur's astonishing I Walked with a Zombie (astonishing mainly because it's an American horror film that understands it's a romance), is appropriately muggy and diseased; the gore effects (particularly a signature eye - pulping and inexplicable shark fight) are creative and protracted.

It was named by Captain Cook because of the apparent «magnetic» effect it had on the ship's compass as he passed the island when sailing up the east coast of Australia in 1770.

SculptureCenter in Long Island City features projects exclusively by women artists in 2016 — an unintentional effect of the museum's goal to «show work that has merit and doesn't have enough attention, and that happens to be more true for women than men because they don't get a lot of visibility in the art world.»

However, the actual claim of IPCC is that the effects of urban heat islands effects are likely small in the gridded temperature products (such as produced by GISS and Climate Research Unit (CRU)-RRB- because of efforts to correct for those biases.

And then move again when the variables change (because they could change, for example, by people moving all to the same area, creating a heat island effect, thereby being a self - defeating prediction).

Bindidon It's not surprising that you give the fully discredited (because of data manipulations and the urban heat island effects) GISS Surface Temperature to support your fallacious point about it being hotter now than in the»30s.

The word «island» is used because it is a localised effect which decreases as you leave the urbanized areas.

Much of it is forced down and it flows back to the east at 200 metres depth and when the warm water surfaces at the Galapogos Islands in 9 months (replaceing the water which is flowing east - west at the surface), it starts to slow down the Trade Winds because of the convection effect.

Because they live and work in highly urbanized areas that have the necessary attributes that cause a positive temperature feedback - often referred to as the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI).

Adjustments are done for many reasons: because there are gaps in the temperature recording stations, because recording stations break, because a new station differs from the old station, because recording stations must be moved, or because the time of day they're read changes, or they shut down because of funding cuts, or the person reading it retires or dies or can't do it as often as they once did, because of urban heat island effects, or because other stations are too close (or toop far) relative to the averge, etc.........

The reduction of heat - island effects during windy weather should be applicable to airports as well as to other sites, because of vertical as well as horizontal mixing.

Urban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetIsland profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetisland effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetation.

Muller spent two years investigating claims by global - warming deniers that temperature rises verified by multiple studies were skewed because of flawed analysis, unreliable weather stations and the effect of urban heat islands.

Whatever the average regional temperature, it's hotter in the cities, because concentrations of traffic, business, heating, cooking, lighting and air conditioning generate what has become known as the urban heat island effect: what makes this worse is that the asphalt, tarmacadam, stone, brick, glass and tile of which cities are made absorb radiation but prevent ground evaporation as a natural cooling device.

She's been spending the past year fighting against single - use plastics in Savannah because of the dangerous effects they are having on the coastal Georgia marine life and their unique barrier island waterway system.

The contracts given out for $ 3.3 B in new wind power in 2016 should be cancelled, as well as contracts for any projects not yet built, such as the Amherst Island project which has been dubbed «the worst place» for wind turbines because of its effect on migratory birds and other wildlife, to say nothing of a heritage Loyalist community.

How do you respond to claims that your 1990 Nature paper was flawed, misleading and even fraudulent — because it did not take proper account of the urban heat island effect on Chinese weather stations?

Those cycles and their good fit don't matter because they're off - message: There is no urban heat island effect and solar variance is neglibible, so the science remains settled: Doomsday is nigh, CO2 is ultra-powerful, and only world dictatorship can save us.

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.

The researchers think this breakthrough is important not just for keeping energy use down in individual buildings, but because of the major impact super cool roofs could have on the urban heat island effect.

The urban heat island effects arise because urban areas retain heat much more than non-urban areas and many urban areas in the US and elsewhere expanded rapidly in the late 20th Century.

For example, over many years these people have said that you can not reliably measure the average global surface temperature of the Earth, or have claimed it is in error because of the heat island effect or whatever (all untrue, but they keep repeating it).

For example, in the Croker Island case, if such a determination had been made, the specification of other rights such as the right to use and control resources, the right to trade and the right to protect places of importance would not have been crucial because, in effect, they are all subsumed under the global right of exclusive possession.