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UHIE
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UHIEUrban Heat Island Effect
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Urban areas tend to have less green space and more impervious cover, which contribute to the urban heat island effect.
Mapping community determinants of heat vulnerability by Reid, Colleen E.; O'Neill, Marie S.; Gronlund, Carina J.; Brines, Shannon J.; Brown, Daniel G.; Diez / Environmental Health Perspectives
The topic of urban heat occupied many researchers who gathered in January for the 2009 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, held appropriately enough in Phoenix, the site of many recent studies of the urban heat island effect.
Urban heat: cities sizzle as more people move in by Perkins, Sid / Science News
Devitt said artificial turf has some other unintended consequences as well, such as adding to the urban heat island effect, which means artificial turf, like concrete and asphalt, radiates heat back into the air at night, giving cities warmer nights.
Fake grass has a drawback: It gets too hot, study says by Phoebe Sweet / Las Vegas Sun
 
 
 
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