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Climate in Cities
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1. Air Pollution
2. Urban Climate
- What controls it?
- Heat Island
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Climate in cities

Basics

Unit 2:
Urban climate

The climate of a particular city is controlled by many natural factors e.g. latitude, topography, land cover and water bodies. As a city grows and develops, new factors (e.g. anthropogenic heat, air pollution) modify the local climate of a city and contribute to the formation of distinct urban climates.
 

 

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Large number of habitants and anthropogenic heat emission as well as the fact that the area of a city is built mainly of concrete, asphalt, bricks and stones make the temperature in a city higher than in a non-urban area. High density of buildings modifies wind speed and its direction; local air circulation called urban breeze is formed.
 

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