Sunday, August 28, 2022

134: Urban heat island (UHI) - implications for climate analysis

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  Fig. 134.1: UHI evidence from six cities in the Southern Hemisphere.   In my previous six posts I highlighted six examples of temperature ...
Friday, August 26, 2022

133: UHI #6 - Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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The second largest city in South America by population is Buenos Aires in Argentina with a population of over thirteen million people. The l...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

132: UHI #5 - Pretoria (South Africa)

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The three largest cities in southern Africa are Kinshasa, Johannesburg and Nairobi. All have populations of more than ten million, so all th...
Monday, August 22, 2022

131: UHI #4 - Jakarta (Indonesia)

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Probably the most extreme example of an urban heat island (UHI) in the Southern Hemisphere is Jakarta. I first discussed it when analysing t...
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Saturday, August 20, 2022

130: UHI #3 - Perth (Western Australia)

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The population of Western Australia is only about 2.67 million but two million of that total live in the state capital Perth. So 75% of the ...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

129: UHI #2 - Melbourne (Victoria)

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The Australian state of Victoria has a total population of 6.7 million, of which 5.1 million live in the city of Melbourne. That means that ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

128: UHI #1 - Sydney (New South Wales)

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In my previous post I explained the concept of the urban heat island (UHI). Unfortunately, finding clear examples in the global temperature...