Sentences with phrase «like urban heat island»

4.4 Anthropogenic impact studies about direct human influence like urban heat island and land use changes (eg — not about GHG emissions)

The uncertainty in the European averaged temperature due to effects like the Urban heat Island effect is discussed by Chrysanthou et al. (2014).

I have got used to the usual bunkum (like urban heat islands, water vapour, medieval warm period etc.) but quoting Stefan - Boltzmann equations was new to me.

The Pairwise Homogenization Algorithm was designed as an automated method of detecting and correcting localized temperature biases due to station moves, instrument changes, microsite changes, and meso - scale changes like urban heat islands.

Through this, they can cross analyze different types of environmental data, on a scale that has never been achieved before, or build a more detailed understanding of transportation on a citys infrastructure and study dynamic phenomena like urban heat islands.

Not exact matches

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

Urban heat islands are the result of replacing the natural landscape, such as vegetation and waterways, with heat - absorbing materials like concrete or asphalt.

But he, like the authors of the study, is optimistic that such data will help policymakers to understand the importance of local policies to mitigate urban heat islands and larger patterns of climate change.

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 experieheat 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 experieheat 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 experieHeat 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.

In like manner, if I believe that the urban heat island effect is responsible for AGW, why can't I just subtract the urban temperature profile from the global surface temperature record and «whalla», problem solved.

Somebody like Anthony Watts will never look at this kind of data because it blows holes in his urban heat island fantasy world.

An urban cool island can form in high - density cities like Hong Kong because tall buildings provide extra heat capacity and shade.

So no need to appeal to the usual, debunked «skeptic» talking points about urban heat island effects and the like, in order to explain lack of amplification over land.

Like other occupied roof decks, they provide an active amenity to building tenants, and bring eco-system services such as mitigating urban heat island effect and managing stormwater.

Other groups like NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) take data from NCDC and other sources and perform additional adjustments, like GISS's nightlight - based urban heat island corrections.

But what about the urban heat island effect around major cities like Babylon and Alexandria?

It's also a «homogenizing» process that tries to account for the many variables that affect temperature over time — like when a population boom in a formerly rural area leads to an «urban heat island.»