ANALYSIS OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN ŁÓDŹ, POLAND

Monika Bobrowska-Korzeniowska, Joanna Jerzyńska, MaŁgorzata Paciorek, WŁodzimierz Stelmach · 2024

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Monika Bobrowska-Korzeniowska and co-authors measure city heat in a 2024 study of Lodz, Poland. An urban heat island forms when a city runs warmer than the rural and forest land around it. Lodz is a large city in the center of the country, which makes it a good test case.

Weather model data from 2014 to 2019 were used to hunt heat island days. A day counted when the night low in the center beat the low at a cooler reference point by at least one and a half degrees. The study tallies how often that gap appeared and how it shifted across the years, informing health advice during heat.

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CREATORMonika Bobrowska-Korzeniowska, Joanna Jerzyńska, MaŁgorzata Paciorek, WŁodzimierz Stelmach
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE22 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11932381

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