Category Archives: UHI

Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 113 Comments

New paper and stunning video from the Space Station – UHI much?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Professor Ross McKitrick has just released a new paper on UHI, after reading it, it reminds me of this video from the space station. Weather stations exist in the points of light that define humanity at night, even in rural … Continue reading →

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UHI in South Korea – responsible for over half of the warming

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

This new study published in  the Journal of Atmospheric Environment quantifies the different components of warming there, with UHI making up over half of the total warming: On average, the total temperature increase over South Korea was about 1.37 °C; … Continue reading →

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The Impact of Urbanization on Land Temperature Trends

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

by Zeke Hausfather , Steven Mosher, Matthew Menne , Claude Williams , and Nick Stokes [Note: this is an AGU poster displayed at the annual meeting, available here as a PDF. I’ve converted it to plain text and images for … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, UHI, weather_stations | 134 Comments

Climategate 2.0: Phil Jones and Tom Wigley – calling a scientist “the jerk” over his UHI discoveries in California

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

I’ve not had time to read through all these emails, but this one really, really Stick in my craw. Dr. Phil Jones and Dr. Tom Wigley respond to this graph published in BAMS in 1996: This is from Goodridge 1996 … Continue reading →

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Pielke Sr. on a new paper discussing urban climate issues

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

New Paper “Climatic Trends In Major U.S. Urban Areas, 1950–2009″ By Mishra and Lettenmaier By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There is a new paper Mishra, V., and D. P. Lettenmaier (2011), Climatic trends in major U.S. urban areas, 1950–2009, Geophys. Res. … Continue reading →

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New paper “Climatic trends in major U.S. urban areas” quantifies the UHI effect and the impact on climate trends

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

There’s a new paper which quantifies the effects of the Urban Heat Island and opines on the effect of urban areas on multi-decadal surface temperature trends. It was just published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters and is quite interesting and … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Temperature, UHI, weather_stations | 47 Comments

New paper: UHI, alive and well in China

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D14113, 12 PP., 2011 doi:10.1029/2010JD015452 Observed surface warming induced by urbanization in east China Key Points The rapid urbanization has significant impacts on temperature over east China A new method was developed to dynamically … Continue reading →

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UHI, this is London

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Since BEST claims they will work to take UHI into consideration, it seems worthwhile to highlight this new paper. Guess who’s a co-author? Phil Jones of UEA’s CRU. Image above from Arizona State, Center for Environmental Science Applications (CESA). From … Continue reading →

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Here, let me fix that headline for you

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Deadly collision? Really? This must be before they remove all the automobiles from London per the recent edict from the EU/EC. The author must have suffered through too many “BBQ summer” heat waves in the London tube. Here’s more:

Posted in Government idiocy, media, UHI | Tagged , , , | 68 Comments

3% of Earth’s landmass is now urbanized

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

This study, from 2005, is not one I’ve covered here before, but I thought it was relevant to have a look at as a logical followup to the recent announcement from NASA at AGU that satellites have identified strong UHI … Continue reading →

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UAH and UHI

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast. It can also be demonstrated that the UHI biases the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Land use land cover change, UHI | Tagged , , , , , , , | 155 Comments

Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

Gee where have we seen something like this before? Dads/Moms and Grandparents: if you’d like your children/grandchildren to be able to do something on UHI for the spring science fair, here’s an easy to do idea. – Anthony From Science … Continue reading →

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Phil Jones and the Chinese weather station corruption

Posted on November 7, 2010 by

WUWT readers may recall the bizarre saga of Douglas Keenan’s attempt to bring the research data of CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones and SUNY’s Dr. Wei Chyung Wang to sunlight, which I’ve covered here and here. At issue, is the metadata … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, IPCC, UHI, weather_stations | 66 Comments

BoM embraces UHI

Posted on October 14, 2010 by

They join the UK Met office in embracing UHI now. Of course, my friend Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist, had this nailed in 1996 with his study of surface temperature in California: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot … Continue reading →

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They only come out at night: “The Dark Side of Climate Change”

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

Looks like they’ve discovered what great heat sinks asphalt and concrete make: From the National Resources Defense Council via press release posted at investorideas.com (h/t to Mark) WORST SUMMER EVER? NEW ANALYSIS OF 2010 SUMMER HEAT TO HIGHLIGHT LITTLE-DISCUSSED “DARK … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, UHI | 108 Comments

UHI study of the UK Armagh Observatory

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Via Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. and with a h/t to Erik, I found this most interesting, because it demonstrates the even small things like hedges can influence temperature readings. This paper originally had only 1 diagram, but I’ve added photography … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI, weather_stations | 33 Comments

The Big Valley: Altitude Bias in GHCN

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

Foreword: The focus of this essay is strictly altitude placement/change of GHCN stations. While challenge and debate of the topic is encouraged, please don’t let the discussion drift into other side issues. As noted in the conclusion, there remain two … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, Land use land cover change, NOAA, UHI, Uncategorized, weather_stations | 161 Comments

Cooler white roofs – no complaints there

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

Maybe now NOAA will get rid of all remaining rooftop climate monitoring stations or stations sited over asphalt, like this one. As for the carbon emissions issue, that remains to be seen. Global Model Confirms: Cool Roofs Can Offset Carbon … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | 181 Comments

Calculating global temperature

Posted on July 13, 2010 by

I’m happy to present this essay created from both sides of the aisle, courtesy of the two gentlemen below. Be sure to see the conclusion. I present their essay below with only a few small edits for spelling, format, and … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, GHCN, NOAA, UHI | 194 Comments

Shocker: Heat wave story from Associated Press – no mention of global warming

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

Some supporting research conducted at New York City follows the news item below.  h/t to WUWT reader Phil (not the grouchy one) -A Heat islands: Cities heat quickly, cool slowly By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | 104 Comments

New Temperature Record at BWI: atmospheric or asphaltic?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

UPDATE: Another new record at BWI on July 7th: RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 522 PM EDT WED JUL 07 2010 …RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT BALTIMORE MD… A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 101 DEGREES WAS … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI, weather_stations | 122 Comments

Shocker! ABC says UHI making cities hotter!

Posted on June 26, 2010 by

Above: NOAA Satellite IR image showing UHI of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC Above: A trend comparison slide from my tour, courtesy of my friend, former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge. Simon at ACM writes: So reads the … Continue reading →

Posted in media, ridiculae, UHI | 58 Comments

More weather BoM’s in Oz

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

NOTE: There’s an error here. I misidentified the Laverton airport in the Google Earth Map. My bad. But I will say when I typed in Laverton Airport, thats what GE gave me. There are two Laverton Airports in Australia as … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI, weather_stations | 44 Comments

Grave concerns by Pielke Senior: Nature duped with claim of independent surface temp data sets

Posted on June 18, 2010 by

Image: NOAA USHCN COOP station at Hanksville, UT, sited over a grave. Click for larger image. Photo by surfacestations volunteer Juan Slayton First the article at issue: How best to log local temperatures? Peter A. Stott1 & Peter W. Thorne2 … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, UHI, weather_stations | 102 Comments