{"id":393749,"date":"2025-08-08T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=393749"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:44:35","slug":"new-study-a-citys-industry-center-airport-up-to-12c-warmer-than-nearby-forests-vegetation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=393749","title":{"rendered":"New Study: A City\u2019s Industry Center, Airport Up To 12\u00b0C Warmer Than Nearby Forests, Vegetation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The urban heat island effect adds far more non-climatic heat to temperature station records than can be reliably controlled for.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

An analysis of 10 cities from across the globe (Kara and Yavuz, 2025<\/a><\/strong>) reveals airports and industry centers are, on average, 2.5\u00b0C to 2.8\u00b0C warmer than neighboring green spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAirports exhibited a mean daytime land surface temperature (LST) that was 2.5 \u00b0C higher than surrounding areas, while industrial zones demonstrated an even greater temperature disparity, with an average increase of 2.81 \u00b0C.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The urban heat island effect can leave airports and industrial centers as much as 12\u00b0C warmer than nearby vegetated, forested areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMexico City\u2019s green spaces are up to 12.13 \u00b0C cooler than its urban core.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warming trends in recent decades are generally confined to urban areas, whereas non-urban areas have been cooling. For example, from 2001-2021 urban areas warmed +0.04\u00b0C\/yr, but vegetated, bareland, and water body areas cooled -0.07\u00b0C, -0.03\u00b0C, -0.04\u00b0C\/yr, respectively, in the city of Chongqing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn contrast, cold spots characterized by dense vegetation showed a notable cooling effect, with LST differences reaching \u22123.7 \u00b0C. Similarly, proximity to water bodies contributed to temperature mitigation, as areas near significant water sources recorded lower daytime LST differences, averaging \u22124.09 \u00b0C.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Kara and Yavuz, 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The urban heat island effect adds far more non-climatic heat to temperature station records than can be reliably controlled for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":393753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Discover how urban heat islands raise temperatures at airports and industrial zones by up to 12\u00b0C compared to nearby green spaces.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Urban Heat Islands: Airports Up to 12\u00b0C Warmer Than Green Spaces","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691837114,691831581,691837115,691819263,691837113],"class_list":["post-393749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airports-and-industry-centers","tag-land-surface-temperature-lst","tag-mexico-city","tag-urban-heat-island-effect","tag-urban-microclimates","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNtwHkDy2B3dn9gOsvfmt4mSHXvgPiw0hQ0SID5MceV-UAfSGmJZx1V9Pjs1vPxjmEkBCG2HL-wunoX-YYa7u1FtjnQjWYtfvlyXbtwYdfHYxZDu10fJGRCiXiU0tOBQae5xSMtQdGLLAV63rArX3zzor2d-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1EqN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":447189,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=447189","url_meta":{"origin":393749,"position":0},"title":"No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn\u2019t Due to Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/29\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Climate Central claims in \u201cSummer Warming (1970\u20132025) Driven By Climate Change\u201d that summers have warmed in 97 percent of 243 U.S. cities and that human-caused climate change is the leading driver in 91 percent of them. 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