Heat Island Effect

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Heat Island Effect

description: " A ""dome"" of elevated temperatures over an urban area caused by structural and pavement heat fluxes, and pollutant emissions."

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Roofingâs Green Alternatives: Thereâs more to green roofs than merely white membrane

Garden Roofs: The benefits of garden roofs, most commonly referred to as 'green' roofs, are numerous. There are two types of garden roofs, intensive and extensive systems. Intensive refers to garden roofs with thick layers of soil ranging from six inches ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Interiors & Sources]

Entities: Membrane, Brian Lambert, Heat Island Effect

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

U.S. Foodservice Expands Topeka Warehouse, “Green” Efforts

-- U.S. Foodservice-Kansas City today completed a 50,000-square-foot expansion project at its distribution facility in Topeka which will allow the warehouse to stock nearly 13,000 food and food service products.The expansion increased the facilityâs cooler ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Street Insider]

Entities: US Foodservice Inc, Topeka (Kansas, United States), Gary Myers, Heat Island Effect

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Real estate shonks must take the BoMs pictures

How much faith can we put in the Bureau of Metreorology's measurements of the heating it's detected in Australia?The Bureau says plenty, because its Reference Climate Station Network is made up of 100 measuring stations it's carefully selected:Preference ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Herald Sun]

Entities: REAL ESTATE, Heat Island Effect, Climate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Contamination

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Steven Chu

The hot topic of cool roofs

Similar storiesChanging weather conditions and energy efficiency concerns are raising the awareness of roof cooling solutions, writes Roland Langset of Envirocoatings.As weather conditions around the world place greater demands on architectural structures ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Cleantech]

Entities: Heat Island Effect, Climate, Global Warming/Climate Change, Steven Chu

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Domtar Inc

U.S. Foodservice Expands Topeka Warehouse, "Green" Efforts

U.S. Foodservice (http://www.usfoodservice.com)-Kansas City today completed a 50,000-square-foot expansion project at its distribution facility in Topeka which will allow the warehouse to stock nearly 13,000 food and food service products.The expansion ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by TradingMarkets]

Entities: US Foodservice Inc, Topeka (Kansas, United States), Domtar Inc, Gary Myers, Heat Island Effect

First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 02 2010 - 1 Documents

Salisbury University

Campus Architecture Database: Wayne Street Garage

Salisbury University, Salisbury, Md.Building Type: OtherConstruction Type: NewCost: $16-millionSquare Footage: 218,000Architect: FON ArchitectsContractor: Whiting-Turner Contracting CompanyOpened: 2009This structure, the university's first parking garage, ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by Chronicle of Higher Education]

Entities: Architecture, Database, Salisbury University, Architect, Heat Island Effect

First Reported Feb 25 2010 - Updated Feb 25 2010 - 1 Documents

The white way to go for cooler cities

Painting all the world's city rooftops white could significantly cool urban areas and perhaps ease the impact of global warming, according to a climate study released in January.Considered a fanciful notion by some critics, the white-roof idea was championed ... [Published Feb 25 2010 by South China Morning Post]

Entities: Heat Island Effect, Solar Radiation, Global Warming/Climate Change, Climate Research, US National

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

NASA calls for reflective roofs to cool towns

This is the conclusion of research carried out by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It has long been known that dark roofs and asphalt road and pavement surfaces absorb the sun's heat during daylight hours, ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Environmental Data Interactive Exchange]

Entities: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Carbon Dioxide, Emission, Climate

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

Hard Rockin Denier' Endorses CRU Data!!! (BigCityLib Strikes Back)

By night AGW Denier and Creationist Roy Spencer rocks out with his band Christian rock band EcoFreako. By day, he maintains the UAH (University of Alabama) database of daily satellite temperature readings .Lately, Roy has been engaged in a little side-project--comparing ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Progressive Bloggers]

Entities: Heat Island Effect, Roy Spencer, University of Alabama

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 22 2010 - 1 Documents

Curbing the 'Urban Heat Island' Effect

Many studies have demonstrated over the past few years that cities tend to be hotter than their surrounding landscape, with the temperature difference situated at around two or three degrees Celsius. This is what is generally referred to as the urban ... [Published Feb 22 2010 by Softpedia]

Entities: Heat Island Effect

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 22 2010 - 1 Documents

Company shows clients how to cut energy costs by up to 80%

is mid-way through a building renovation that will take its green culture to the next level.The sustainable building company wants its 3,800-square-foot facility to be an example to clients and other businesses of what design can do to reduce its owners ... [Published Feb 22 2010 by Business Journal of Jacksonville]

Entities: Green Culture, Heat Island Effect, Solar Panels

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Urban parks: a global warming downer?

Green is good — right? Not necessarily when it comes to lawns, according to a new study by UCI researchers. For the first time, scientists compared the amount of greenhouse gases stored by ornamental turfgrass to the amount emitted in the irrigation, ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by Greenspace]

Entities: Irrigation, Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Global Warming/Climate Change

Quotes

"Considering the current state of the economy and the business impact of efficiency and sustainability efforts, I believe the interest in our new facility derives from executives wanting to understand how improved building performance reduces operating costs, improves productivity and generates a measureable return on investment" ESI President Paul Oswald says

Environmental Systems Receives Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Award [PR-USA.net - 13 hours ago]

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Environmental Systems Receives Commercial Real ... [PR-USA.net - 13 hours ago]
Roofingâs Green Alternatives: Thereâ... [Interiors & Sources - Mar 20 2010]
U.S. Foodservice Expands Topeka Warehouse, “Gre... [Street Insider - Mar 20 2010]
Real estate shonks must take the BoMs pictures [Herald Sun - Mar 20 2010]
Spring about to 'explode' in Britain, conservat... [Guardian.co.uk - Mar 19 2010]
A New Standard for High-Performance Green Build... [Interiors & Sources - Mar 19 2010]
Foodservice Supply Chain Addresses Facility Ene... [Environmental Leader - Mar 17 2010]
The hot topic of cool roofs [Cleantech - Mar 15 2010]
U.S. Foodservice Expands Topeka Warehouse, &quo... [TradingMarkets - Mar 15 2010]
A New Standard for High-Performance Green Build... [Buildings - Mar 13 2010]
Minding your ABCs in the climate change debate [Crikey Media - Mar 12 2010]
Norway’s Jotun ramps up R&D, manufacturing ... [Malaysian Insider - Mar 10 2010]
Climate science: dealing with the (minor) errors [Inside Story - Mar 10 2010]
Slums and Climate Change on the Agenda for Linc... [Earthtimes.org - Mar 09 2010]
Lincoln world forum [Poten & Partners - Mar 09 2010]
Gilbert earns Tree City USA honors [Arizona Republic - Mar 05 2010]
MeadWestvaco's New HQ Earns Top Green Globes Ra... [Greener Buildings - Mar 03 2010]
A Closer Look At ASHRAE Standard 189.1 And The ... [Eco-Structure - Mar 02 2010]
Campus Architecture Database: Wayne Street Garage [Chronicle of Higher Education - Mar 02 2010]
The IPCC needs to change and switch to shorter,... [Guardian.co.uk - Mar 02 2010]
Shouting from the rooftops [Builder & Engineer - Mar 02 2010]
NYS Concrete Masonry Association Donates Green ... [Masonry Magazine - Mar 01 2010]
A Pending American Temperaturegate [American Thinker - Feb 27 2010]
7-Eleven Goes 'Green' in Fla. [Convenience Store/Petroleum - Feb 26 2010]
The white way to go for cooler cities [South China Morning Post - Feb 25 2010]
NASA calls for reflective roofs to cool towns [Environmental Data Interactive Exchange - Feb 24 2010]
Curbing the 'Urban Heat Island' Effect [Softpedia - Feb 22 2010]
Company shows clients how to cut energy costs b... [Business Journal of Jacksonville - Feb 22 2010]
Delay on emissions vote [Melbourne Age - Feb 18 2010]
Minister slams critics of UN climate panel [The Australian - Feb 18 2010]

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Another UHI effect – thunderstorms & lightning [Watts Up With That? - Mar 17 2010] The March-April edition of WeatherWise magazine has an interesting article in it regarding UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects of enhancing thunderstorm formation in ...
Dr. Nicolas Scaffeta summarizes “why the anthro... [Watts Up With That? - Mar 14 2010] Dr. Nicolas Scaffeta has written an extensive summary of the state of climate science today. He’s done some very extensive analysis of the solar contribution that ...
Spencer: Global Urban Heat Island Effect Study ... [Watts Up With That? - Mar 10 2010] by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. This is an update to my previous posts [here and here on WUWT] describing a new technique for estimating the average amount of urban ...
Spencer: Using hourly surface data to gauge UHI... [Watts Up With That? - Mar 03 2010] I believe this is a truly important piece of work. I hope Dr. Spencer will submit it to a journal. I’m grateful to Dr. Spencer for his email suggesting I post it ...
Global Warming Fraud: The Big Picture [Power Line - Feb 28 2010] The recent revelations of scientific errors (not to say fraud) in the U.N.'s global warming documents are important, but Fred Singer reminds us not to lose sight ...

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