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  2. Urban heat island - Wikipedia

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    A definition of urban heat island is: "The relative warmth of a city compared with surrounding rural areas." [14]: 2926 This relative warmth is caused by "heat trapping due to land use, the configuration and design of the built environment, including street layout and building size, the heat-absorbing properties of urban building materials, reduced ventilation, reduced greenery and water ...

  3. Urban thermal plume - Wikipedia

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    An urban thermal plume describes rising air in the lower altitudes of the Earth's atmosphere caused by urban areas being warmer than surrounding areas. Over the past thirty years there has been increasing interest in what have been called urban heat islands (UHI), [1] but it is only since 2007 that thought has been given to the rising columns of warm air, or ‘thermal plumes’ that they produce.

  4. Urban heat inequity - Wikipedia

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    Unequal threat of heat stress in urban environments is often correlated with differences in demographics, including racial and ethnic background, income, education level, and age. [1] While the general impacts of urban heat inequity depend on the city studied, negative effects typically act on historically marginalized communities. [ 1 ]

  5. What are urban heat islands and what can we do to ... - AOL

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    The Big Apple is one of many cities around the world that is impacted by the urban heat island effect, a phenomenon where urban areas are warmer than their surrounding suburbs. ... One example of ...

  6. More than 40M Americans living in cities experience ‘heat ...

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    More than 40 million Americans in cities live with the impact of the “heat island” effect, in which city centers absorb more heat than surrounding areas, according to an analysis published ...

  7. Where are OKC's hottest neighborhoods? City's urban heat ...

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    As summertime temperatures approach, Oklahoma City has renewed a conversation about a project undertaken last year to measure the "urban heat island" effect.. In August 2023, dozens of volunteers ...

  8. Urban climatology - Wikipedia

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    Fluxes across this plane comprise those from individual units, such as roofs, canyon tops, trees, lawns, and roads, integrated over larger land-use divisions (for example, suburbs). The urban heat island effect has been a major focus of urban climatological studies, and in general the effect the urban environment has on local meteorological ...

  9. Urban green space - Wikipedia

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    Urban heat islands are areas with man-made infrastructure that contribute to increased temperatures. [23] [40] The average temperature during the day in cities can be 18–27 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in the surrounding rural regions. [23] This is an example of one type of UHI, surface heat islands. Surface heat islands encompass the area ...