Urban Heat Island Effect

Question 1

Urban heat island

Answer 1

1. Building materials - high heat capacities, conduct and store heat which they slowly release heat.
2. Vertical walls and roofs of buildings - increase area exposed to surface
3. Removal of vegetation and High impervious surface covers - means more solar energy as limits evapotranspiration as water quickly deposited in drains.
4. Anthropocentric heat - bodies release heat, high density of bodies, traffic, heat, factories, air conditioning releases heat.