While Cuttack and Bhubaneswar have become 0.5 degree C hotter due to urbanisation during the period 2001-2010, warming in smaller cities and towns has been relatively less, researchers at IIT Bhubaneswar find. How urbanisation of cities in the last decade can sharply increase the local temperature has been well documented by a recent study undertaken by … Continue reading Bhubaneswar shows how urbanisation can increase local temperature
Urban heat island effect
Urban areas in India cooler than non-urban areas during heat waves
Contrary to global evidence, a study by IIT Gandhinagar researchers has found that during daytime the urban areas are relatively cooler than the surrounding non-urban areas during heat waves. However, during night time, all urban areas are hotter than the surrounding non-urban areas. The reason being that unlike non-urban areas, the urban areas have perennial … Continue reading Urban areas in India cooler than non-urban areas during heat waves
Bhubaneswar: Urban heat island effect studied in a growing city
Urbanisation of Bhubaneswar, a tier-2 city in Odisha, India, has been rapid at 83% in the last 15 years (2000-2014) and this has led to about 89% decrease in dense vegetation and about 2% decrease in water bodies. This has led to about 1.8 degree C warming of the city compared with surrounding non-urban areas … Continue reading Bhubaneswar: Urban heat island effect studied in a growing city
Some Indian cities cooler than surrounding areas during summer days
More than 60% of the total 89 urban areas are 1-5 degree C cooler than their surrounding non-urban areas during April and 70% of cities are cooler in May. Between February and May, most of the 89 Indian cities that are to be developed as Smart Cities have been found to be 1-5 degree C … Continue reading Some Indian cities cooler than surrounding areas during summer days
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