Sentences with phrase «than the surrounding countryside»

We now understand that many cities are 7 or 8 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside.

This results in towns and cities remaining noticeably hotter than the surrounding countryside, particularly at night on calm, clear summer nights.

He discovered that temperatures were higher in built up areas than the surrounding countryside.

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.

The term refers to the fact that buildings and asphalt are darker than surrounding countryside, often making cities and population centers hotter.

Cities, with their abundance of black roofs and asphalt parking lots, tend to absorb more sunlight and radiate more heat than the surrounding countryside.

It is undisputed that the centres of cities such as New York are significantly warmer than the surrounding countryside.

A new study of the effect of land use changes on surface temperatures demonstrates what anyone who lives in a city intuitively knows: Urban areas are hotter than the surrounding countryside — the heat island effect has been

Even in the early 19th century, it was already noticed that city temperatures were artificially warmer than the surrounding countryside:

If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside — the «urban heat island».

St Louis is often 7 - 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside, it has a massive UHI.

There was the case of the paper the IPCC relied upon to show that urban heat islands (the fact that cities are generally warmer than the surrounding countryside, so urbanisation causes local, but not global, warming) had not exaggerated recent warming.