Sentences with phrase «urban area averaging»

The MUHI is most pronounced in winter months (December» $» March), with temperatures in the urban area averaging 2 °C warmer than in the surrounding tundra and occasionally exceeding 6 °C.

Not exact matches

The resulting standard of living in the most expensive urban area, Manhattan, was more than twice the national average at 223.9 percent, whereas the cost of living in the least expensive urban area is 20 percent below the national average.

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

In fact, those living in remote areas are at greater risk of food insecurity than their urban counterparts as, on average, food is up to 50 per cent more expensive in remote communities,» he stated.

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

Ranching, which is a major part of farming in the mountain West, is less heavily subsidized, as is fruit growing and wine making which is a particularly large part of farm economies in Florida, California and Arizona, each of which has a larger than average percentage of people living in urban areas.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

The dominant approach to conservation has been to focus on protecting pristine environments, but new research from Australia demonstrates that on average, urban environments contain disproportionately more threatened protected species in a given area than non-urban environments.

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.

In urban areas during the winter when snow cover is less pervasive, temperatures are higher than rural areas in the daytime by an average of 2 °F.

In winter, the effect was smaller but snow cover played a role in an average 2 degree temperature difference between urban and rural areas.

This translates into an average temperature rise of 4.3 C over land in the northern hemisphere where most of the world's population lives, and even more in urban areas.

We estimate that the average difference between a school within two miles and a school within two to five miles is roughly six additional driving minutes for families in both rural and urban areas.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

Displaced students from district schools that closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of learning in reading relative to the comparison group; in math, it was thirty - four days.

The study noted that urban areas like Boston, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, and Nashville «appear to provide their students with strong enough annual growth in both math and reading that continuous enrollment in an average charter school can erase the typical deficit seen among students in their region.»

The researchers found that «displaced students from district schools that closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of learning in reading» and «thirty - four days of learning» in math by their third year in a new school.

Fact 6: While charter schools are predominantly located in urban areas, charter schools, on average, are more racially / ethnically diverse * than their traditional district school counterparts (comparative districts).

The average national cost of non-sectarian private schools is approximately $ 17,000 a year, and the yearly tuition at schools in urban areas such as New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. can be more than $ 40,000 for just a day school program.

Writing at The Atlantic, Paul Barnwell says that, on average, high - poverty public schools, especially those in urban areas, lose up to a fifth of their faculty annually.

Respondents in these urban areas were far more supportive of school choice generally and charter schools in particular than the national average: no less than 83 percent (in Tulsa) and as much as 91 - 92 percent (in Atlanta, Boston, Memphis, New Orleans and New York City) agreed that parents should have more school choices.

In deciding between two urban metro areas in the Southeast, the user admitted his worry that he and his wife were worried about «snootiness» in one of the wealthy suburbs and inquired about «which area would be best for «commoners» of average means.»

Urban / metro areas where you'll find most modern sports cars (as BMW has pointed out, true two - seat sports cars and roadsters are losing any remaining popularity) have too much traffic for the average enthusiast to want to exercise his or her left leg, especially when many manufacturers can claim faster shift times and better 0 - 60 mph results with a dual - clutch setup.

The average buyer, according to BookNet Canada, is a college educated woman, over 45 who works fulltime and lives in an urban area.

What this list does offer is a glimpse into the urban areas where the economy is on the move and employers are — at least on average — charting a path for growth.

Even with a huge percent of drivers living in urban or near - urban areas, the average cost of Utah auto insurance is relatively low.

The average figure for the major urban areas we evaluated was about 10 percent.

For that year, the average number granted in our pool of urban areas was 1,484.

The District of Columbia is one of the most polarized urban areas in the nation when it comes to income, which explains why it has a higher percentage of high - income households than San Jose despite a significantly lower average pay.

On average, the large urban areas we looked at grew by 0.4 percent.

The city's Walk Score is around average for the big urban areas on our list, at 54.5, but it's still high enough to make reaching attractive destinations by bike an easy task.

Arizona Exotic Animal Hospital, which I co-founded, averages 10 hamsters a week, but this is a specialty hospital in a densely populated, large, urban area.

Corporate relocations often prefer this area as it is so close to the city, with an urban cosmopolitan residential feel — you will not find an average city apartment tower in Darlinghurst.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

It seems clear that the UHI effect is a real physical effect and the complaint from AGW skeptics and denialists is that the strong (and real) warming in urban areas is contaminating regional and global temperature averages.

Averaged out over a year, temperatures in greater urban areas, cities and megacities all across the world are now one to two Kelvin higher than in the surrounding rural areas.

There is little doubt that a global average rise in temperatures of 4 degrees Celsius would render a majority of our planet's 100 - largest urban areas non-viable due to water supply shortages and cause immense refugee flows.

Urban pollution concentrations depend on the magnitude of local emissions sources and the prevailing meteorological ventilation of the area — i.e., the height of the atmospheric layer through which the pollutants are being mixed and the average wind speed through that layer.

The average relative humidity in cities is usually several percent lower than that of adjacent rural areas, primarily because of increased runoff of precipitation and the lack of evapotranspiration from vegetation in urban areas.

The mean daily temperature of the urban and rural areas is calculated using a representative sample of core sites, and the UHI magnitude (MUHI) is calculated as the difference in the group averages.

Whether you learn to build your tiny house with us, or we build it for you, our houses are hundreds of thousands of dollars less than the cost of the average house in most urban areas, and much less than the cost of any standard size house, anywhere.

I believe that that is supposedly about the fact that many land based stations were located close to urban areas 100 years ago, and are now in urban areas, that is the world average temperature is supposedly overstated because the weather stations aren't representative.

In the Boise urban area the low temperatures during the past month have all been well above average while the rural McCall area shows no such behavior.

During hot, humid summer weather, many urban areas experience heat inversions — cold air in the upper atmosphere holds much warmer air close to the ground, sustaining higher - than - average temperatures and trapping smog.

A 2004 study in Atlanta showed that men in more suburban, purely residential neighborhoods were on average 10 pounds heavier than the same demographic who lived in more urban, mixed - use areas.

So, if one billion atomic bombs had actually rained down at random over the Earth's surface over the last decade, then on average 30 million such bombs would have landed in urban areas.

Therefore when we just use an average of all these urben and near urban temperature stations we make the grave error that we treat the tiny urban area as if it covered a lot of the Earth.

As expected, the average rates in urban (large cities) are higher than the rates in rural areas.

Nationwide average home values in areas considered more urban are higher than home values in suburban or rural areas.

The average premiums are calculated after surveying around 2,400 cars and by taking the insurance rates from 6 large insurers, and from 10 zip codes per state representing the rural and the urban areas.