"There's a huge opportunity here to help offset some of the heat we expect even with climate change. Addressing the urban heat island is one of the biggest opportunities that we have in the next 20 to 30 years," he said. The University of Minnesota study also found the urban heat islan...
解析 【答案】D【核心短语/词汇】urban 城市的【翻译】城市热岛效应的后果可能是什么?【解析】A.温度更低;B.能量再生;C.燃料短缺;D.空气污染。根据常识可知,城市热岛效应的后果就是温度升高,能量消耗增多,燃料使用增多,导致空气污染,故选D。 反馈 收藏 ...
URBAN heat islandsCONVECTIVE flowSTORMSCITIES & townsThere is strong empirical evidence that the urban heat islands can initiate storms due to the triggering of the deep convection, which then leads to severe weather events over the large urban areas. However, the conditions...
Densely populated cities can experience an urban "heat island" effect, where manmade surfaces absorb sunlight, leading to higher temperatures than nearby areas with more grass and tress. This is especially hazardous when temperatures fail to cool off sufficiently at night. How does humid heat affect...
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Microclimates exist, for example, near bodies of water which may cool the local atmosphere, or in heavy urban areas where brick, concrete, and asphalt absorb the sun's energy, heat up, and re-radiate that heat to the ambient air: the resulting urban heat island is a kind of microclimate...
Roberta Fusaro:What does all this mean in terms of the socioeconomic mobility of Black Americans? Munya Muvezwa:When I look at what I would call the short-term effects—for example, from extreme heat—we see that Black communities are 1.4 times more...
What does biodiversity net gain mean for clients? Biodiversity net gain is not a new concept. It has been present in ecology for years. It is embedded in the National Planning Policy Framework and some local plans and core strategies already have a policy for net gain, where the main...
Researchers posited that greening, it and of itself, contributes little to mitigate the urban heat island effect. How does the Government and the upcoming URA Masterplan accommodate the drawbacks of greater urbanisation particularly rising temperatures, and how does it gel with our desire to leave ...
Urban Soils Richard V. Pouyat, Susan D. Day, Sally Brown, Kirsten Schwarz, Richard E. Shaw, Katalin Szlavecz, Tara L. E. Trammell, and Ian D. Yesilonis 7 Introduction The global population is expected to exceed 11 billion before the end of the ...