heat island in English

noun

urban heat island, area (such as a a city or industrial compound) with higher temperatures than in the surrounding region resulting from the generation and retention of heat by its structures or pavements and heat created by human activity

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1. Like most other large cities, Birmingham has a considerable urban heat island effect.

2. Like other metropolitan cities, incheon has a strong effect of urban heat island effect.

3. Integrating thermal remote sensing and climatology provides a new method for observation and mechanism analysis of urban heat island.

4. Osaka Heat Island Countermeasure Technology Consortium (HITEC) was established in January 2006, for the purpose of the development and spread of heat island Countermeasure technologies, implementation of measures and verification of their effects, and the collaboration between industry, academia, government, and the private sectors [15]

5. The suburbs of Seoul are generally cooler than the center of Seoul because of the urban heat island effect.

6. Urata and Ito appeared in a movie for the first time, Heat Island which opened in theaters 20 October 2007.

7. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the new World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) land-use dataset, the urban heat island Circulations (UHICs) and other local atmospheric Circulations over Beijing and Tianjin were studied during a …

8. After a lethal 1995 heat wave turned refrigerator trucks from the popular Taste of Chicago festival into makeshift morgues, Chicago became a recognized leader, tamping down on the urban heat island impact through opening cooling centers, outreach to vulnerable neighborhoods, planting trees, creating cool white or vegetated green roofs.