Efforts Intensify to Mitigate Trapped Urban Heat
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin › August 01, 2006
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As development replaces Southern California's natural vegetation and soil, more of the sun's heat is absorbed, creating urban heat islands.
In the megalopolis the region has become, with housing stretching solidly from the desert to the Pacific Ocean, daily temperatures can be boosted anywhere from 3 to 7 degrees.See the full content of this document
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Efforts Intensify to Mitigate Trapped Urban Heat
"Los Angeles' downtown area has heated up since the 1930s by something like 6 degrees Fahrenheit,'' said Hashem Akbari, an engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and head of its...
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