Investigating the climate impacts of urbanization and the potential for cool roofs to counter future climate change in Southern California

The climate warming effects of accelerated urbanization along with projected global climate change raise an urgent need for sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategies to cool urban climates. Our modeling results show that historical urbanization in the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan ar...

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Main Authors: P Vahmani, F Sun, A Hall, G Ban-Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124027