Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?
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SUBMITTER: Li D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447381 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
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Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?
Li Dan D Liao Weilin W Rigden Angela J AJ Liu Xiaoping X Wang Dagang D Malyshev Sergey S Shevliakova Elena E
Science advances 20190403 4
More than half of the world's population now live in cities, which are known to be heat islands. While daytime urban heat islands (UHIs) are traditionally thought to be the consequence of less evaporative cooling in cities, recent work sparks new debate, showing that geographic variations of daytime UHI intensity were largely explained by variations in the efficiency with which urban and rural areas convect heat from the land surface to the lower atmosphere. Here, we reconcile this debate by dem ...[more]
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