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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 ...
Within most U.S. cities, people of color are more likely to live in areas of high Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity than white people in the same cities. According to a study by climatologist Angel Hsu and colleagues, "the average person of color lives in a census tract with higher SUHI intensity than non-Hispanic whites in all but 6 of the ...
You might wonder how we disentangle the effects of urban heat islands from climate change. Well, evidence of warming across the planet has been seen in the oceans, too, where urbanization is not a ...
Climate urbanism aims to protect physical and digital infrastructures of urban economies from the hazards associated with climate change. Being that cities bring in 80% of the world's revenue, it is important for the infrastructure and planning of these urban areas to be planned out using carbon management and climate resilient infrastructure.
About 41 million people in the U.S. live in urban heat islands, where city topography elevates temperatures by at least 8 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an analysis published Wednesday by ...
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.
Urban climatology is the study of urban climate. It is a branch of climatology that concerns interactions between urban areas and the atmosphere , the effects they have on one another, and the varying spatial and temporal scales at which these processes (and responses) occur.
Urban heat inequity, also termed as thermal inequity, is based on disparities in urban demographics, specifically racial and ethnic backgrounds, income, education level, and age range. [1] While the general impacts of urban heat inequity depend on the city studied, adverse effects typically reflect on historically marginalized communities. [ 1 ]