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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levermore, Geoff
• Parkinson, John
• Lee, Kwanho
• Laycock, Patrick
• Lindley, Sarah

Titel

The increasing trend of the urban heat island intensity

Ist Teil von

• Urban climate, 2018-06, Vol.24, p.360-368

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper examines the urban heat island intensity in detail in the city of Manchester, UK. An increasing intensity is found over time. The urban heat island intensity (UHII) data is examined in more detail giving relationships between weather parameters, cloud cover, wind speed and the urban morphology. The urban heat island intensity in Manchester has a highly significant rising trend which by the end of the century could add 2.4K to the average annual urban temperature, on top of the predicted climate change increase. An analysis of the urban morphology showed that the urban site had indeed become more urban over 9years of the study, losing green spaces which mitigate against the UHII. •The UHII is increasing significantly in Manchester, UK.•Manchester has an increasing urbanisation.•The cloud cover has a small decreasing trend over time.•Wind has an even less significant trend over time than the cloud cover.•Increasing urbanisation is considered the prime cause of the increasing UHII.