Search query: urban
Categories: Geoscience: Severe Weather
13142 records searched, 21 records found, top 20 matches displayed
Search Hints:
- Use a + (plus sign) or - (minus sign) to include or exclude a word: +mars -venus
- Use a ? (question mark) as a wildcard for a single letter: te?t (test,text)
- Use a * (asterisk) as a wildcard for multiple letters: he*t (heat, heart)
- Use a ~ (tilde) to expand word endings: meteor~ (meteorite, meteorid, meteorology)
Most frequent words in this category for articles published in the last 45 days:
change (11),
climate (11),
urban (7),
tropical (5),
weather (5),
wildfires (5),
across (4),
data (4),
events (4),
impact (4),
rural (4),
species (4),
storm (4),
years (4),
extreme (3),
global (3),
heat (3),
july (3),
last (3),
northern (3)
Published New nationwide modeling points to widespread racial disparities in urban heat stress - New Nationwide Modeling Points to Widespread Racial Disparities in Urban Heat Stress
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Using a combination of satellite data and modeling to study the temperatures and humidity people mig...
Published Preventing urban flooding in the face of climate change - Preventing Urban Flooding in the Face of Climate Change
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Planners have come up with many innovative ways to prevent flooding caused by heavy downpours -- fro...
Published Stopping storms from creating dangerous urban geysers - Stopping Storms from Creating Dangerous Urban Geysers
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers develop a computational model of stormwater piping to study storm geysers. They used thi...
Published For many urban residents, it's even hotter than their weather app says
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source There's a strong chance that last week's scorching temperatures were even hotter than reported for t...
Published Urban street networks, building density shape severity of floods
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source The design of streets and layout of buildings have an impact on a city's resilience in the face of i...
Published Study reveals urban trees suffer more from heat waves and drought than their rural counterparts
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A recent study details how trees in New York City and Boston are more negatively impacted by heat wa...
Published Designing cities for 21st-century weather
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers have investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future population ...
Published Death toll shows extreme air pollution events a growing urban threat
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source New research has estimated that 1454 avoidable deaths (one person every five days) occurred in Austr...
Published Nighttime light data shows inequities in restoring power after Hurricane Michael
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Using nighttime lightdata from NASA, remote sensing, official outage records and census information,...
Published Hydrometeorology and location affect hospitalizations for waterborne infectious diseases in the US
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source An analysis of 12 years of data collected from over 500 hospitals in 25 different states shows that...
Published A changing flood recipe for Las Vegas - A Changing Flood Recipe for Las Vegas
(via sciencedaily.com) Las Vegas, with its rapid urbanization and desert landscape, is highly vulnerable to flooding. For t ...
Published Extremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe - Extremely Hot Days in North-West Europe are Warming Twice as Fast as Average Summer Days
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source New study analyzed data on near-surface air temperatures recorded for North-West Europe over the pas...
Published Fungal-rich soil may improve green roofs
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Green roofs have become increasingly popular thanks to their benefits related to climate adaptation,...
Published City buildings could blow air taxi future off course - City Buildings Could Blow Air Taxi Future Off Course
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Air taxis may be coming to our cities in the near future, but a new study warns regulations will nee...
Published Science of sediment transport key to river conservation and protection - Science of Sediment Transport Key to River Conservation and Protection
(via sciencedaily.com) Researchers have devised a better way to measure how fast sediment flows in rivers -- information th...
Published Human-wildlife conflicts rising worldwide with climate change - Human-Wildlife Conflicts Rising Worldwide with Climate Change
(via sciencedaily.com) Scientists reveal that a warming world is increasing human-wildlife conflicts globally. They show th...
Published Bringing back large herbivores to the steppes - Bringing Back Large Herbivores to the Steppes
(via sciencedaily.com) On 24th October 2017, the first group of nine kulan (Asiatic wild ass) was released into an acclimat...
Published Ticks prove resilient to extreme temperatures - Ticks Prove Resilient to Extreme Temperatures
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A recent study shows blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are actually really good at surviving ext...
Published Cities will need more resilient electricity networks to cope with extreme weather - Cities Will Need More Resilient Electricity Networks to Cope with Extreme Weather
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Dense urban areas amplify the effects of higher temperatures, due to the phenomenon of heat islands ...
Published Improved estimates of Brazilian Amazon gains and losses - Improved Estimates of Brazilian Amazon Gains and Losses
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study generated improved annual maps of tropical forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000-...