Urban Heat Island Sample Clauses

Urban Heat Island. An urban heat island is the effect that occurs on warm summer days in which the air in urban areas is up to 10°F hotter than the air in its surrounding areas.67 Causes of the heat island effect include dark surfaces that absorb more heat from the sun and less vegetation that would provide shade and cool the air.68 The higher temperatures in urban heat islands increase air conditioning use and associated energy consumption, and raise pollution levels and heat-related illnesses and mortality. 65 Global Earth Observation System of Systems, GEOSS, 10-Year Implementation Plan, Group of Earth Observations, GEO 1000, February 2005. 66 Global Earth Observation System of Systems, GEOSS, 10-Year Implementation Plan Reference Document, Group of Earth Observations, GEO 1000R, February 2005. 67 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming- Heat Island, xxxx://xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx/oar/xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/content/ActionsLocalHeatIslandEffect.html. Accessed July 21, 2005. 68 Xxxxxxxx Berkeley National Laboratory, Heat Island Group, Learning About Urban Heat Islands, xxxx://xxxx.xxx.xxx/HeatIsland/LEARN/. Accessed July 21, 2005. Potentially Relevant NASA Resources ▪ Land use, weather, climatological, and air pollution data to help quantify and plan for mitigation of urban heat islands Current Status/Relevant Issues A number of studies and research groups on urban heat islands began in the 1990s, and research in this area is ongoing. A 1992 collaborative NOAA study69 was conducted to examine urban–rural differences and correlation between a vegetation index and minimum surface temperatures, using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The study authors concluded, “The use of satellite data may contribute to a globally consistent method for analysis of urban heat island bias.” In 1996, NASA researchers conducted a study entitled “High Spatial Resolution Airborne Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data to Support Analysis and Modeling Tasks in EOS [Earth Observation System] Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) Project ATLANTA.”70 This study observed, measured, modeled, and analyzed how the rapid growth of the Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan area since the early 1970s impacted the region's climate and air quality. The approach was to relate land cover changes with modifications in the local and regional climate and in air quality, predicated on the analysis of remote sensing data in conjunction with in-situ data (e.g., meteorological measurements) employed to initializ...
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