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Re: UHI Study Shows Temperature Variation Across City

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> UHI Study Shows Temperature Variation Across City
>> http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/uhi-study-shows-temperature-variation-across-city.html
> 
>> New urban heat island study shows surprising variation in air
>> temperatures across the Twin Cities. Results provide valuable
>> insights into efforts to reduce heat-related harm in metro areas
>> globally
> 
>> Abstract
>>
>> Data from a dense urban meteorological network (UMN) are analyzed,
>> revealing the spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of the
>> Twin Cities (Minneapolis?St. Paul, Minnesota) canopy-layer urban heat
>> island (UHI). Data from individual sensors represent surface air
>> temperature (SAT) across a variety of local climate zones within a
>> 5000-km2 area and span the 3-yr period from 1 August 2011 to 1 August
>> 2014. Irregularly spaced data are interpolated to a uniform 1 km ? 1
>> km grid using two statistical methods: 1) kriging and 2) cokriging
>> with impervious surface area data. The cokriged SAT field exhibits
>> lower bias and lower RMSE than does the kriged SAT field when
>> evaluated against an independent set of observations. Maps, time
>> series, and statistics that are based on the cokriged field are
>> presented to describe the spatial structure and magnitude of the Twin
>> Cities metropolitan area (TCMA) UHI on hourly, daily, and seasonal
>> time scales. The average diurnal variation of the TCMA UHI exhibits
>> distinct seasonal modulation wherein the daily maximum occurs by
>> night during summer and by day during winter. Daily variations in the
>> UHI magnitude are linked to changes in weather patterns. Seasonal
>> variations in the UHI magnitude are discussed in terms of
>> land?atmosphere interactions. To the extent that they more fully
>> resolve the spatial structure of the UHI, dense UMNs are advantageous
>> relative to limited collections of existing urban meteorological
>> observations. Dense UMNs are thus capable of providing valuable
>> information for UHI monitoring and for implementing and evaluating
>> UHI mitigation efforts.
>>
>> Citation
>>
>> Dense Network Observations of the Twin Cities Canopy-Layer Urban Heat
>> Island by Brian V. Smoliak, Peter K. Snyder, Tracy E. Twine, Phillip
>> M. Mykle, and William F. Hertel published in Journal of Applied
>> Meteorology and Climatolology, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0239.s1.
 
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