AS.270.103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Urban Heat Island
23 Jan 2017
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Dust/sand from sahara desert is what generates a lot of the aerosol pm in northern. Africa, whereas in india and china, high concentrations of pm are due to their large populations (energy consumption from power plants and automobiles: also due to burning of biomass (i. e. from forest fires and for fuel) Efficient technology, such as scrubbers, has dramatically reduced emissions of pm. Aspects of the climate system that have had observed changes. Increase in temperature by a little under a degree celsius and rise in sea level by. Order of impacts of climate change is dependent on degree of uncertainty. Hotter in the urban downtown than the surrounding area (atmospheric temperature)
