Sentences with phrase «warmer than the surrounding area»

Towering buildings, dark roads and sparse vegetation combine to trap heat, making cities warmer than surrounding areas.

Simply put, as all climate scientists agree, urban / metro and airport areas are robustly warmer than surrounding areas, during both the daylight and night hours.

Not exact matches

One dramatic change is that cities can become «heat islands» that are warmer than surrounding rural suburban areas.

An urban heat island (UHI) is an urban area that is warmer than the surrounding rural areas due to human economic development.

This is a phenomenon where an urban area is warmer than the countryside surrounding it.

Protected from Pacific breezes by surrounding hillside, this region is warmer than other areas of Sonoma, yet cools a bit at night.

Urban areas are generally warmer than surrounding rural areas.

You say that the descending air would heat up more than the «surrounding atmosphere»... but the air mixes and descends over the entire area and the entire air mass warms, there is no «surrounding atmosphere» in the sense you mean.

An urban heat island is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas.

«Climate change: According to a study by professors at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Lake Superior may have warmed faster than its surrounding area.

In built - up urban areas the concentration of heat storing materials in buildings, roads, etc. such as concrete, bitumen, bricks and so on, and heat sources such as heaters, air - conditioners, lighting, cars, etc. all combine to produce a local «heat island»: a region where temperatures tend to be warmer than the surrounding rural land.

Urban areas are warmer than rural areas, and many weather stations around the world have become surrounded by urban sprawl since the Industrial Revolution.

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.

These bubbles, called «thermals», form over «thermal sources» such as concrete, bare sand and rocky hillsides, which become warmer on sunny days than surrounding areas of grass or forest.

It is well known that urban connurbations develop warmer micro-climates than surrounding rural areas due to numerous factors relating to the intensity of human activity.

Cities are warmer than surrounding rural areas.

The NASA article notes that UHI is not a newly discovered phenomena — that weather watchers have known for two centuries that cities were warmer than the surrounding rural areas.

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.