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Asphalt holds heat from the sun. Cities produce heat plumes that grow as the area of asphalt grows. Even without wind the plumes will expand to the airport an
by LinuxBender 2y ago
Asphalt holds heat from the sun. Cities produce heat plumes that grow as the area of asphalt grows. Even without wind the plumes will expand to the airport and the temperature will increase. Cities grow in circumference expanding the overall area and temperature of the heat. This also increases the heat at night as the asphalt slowly releases the heat after dusk.
- zahlman 2y agoWhat I'm asking is, what mechanisms allow such expansion to occur over distances that would be relevant to the measurement? The expanding edge of an urbanized area might be many kilometres away.