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Investigating Climate Impacts of Urbanization and the Potential for Cool Roofs to Mitigate the Kansas City Metropolitan Area’s Urban Heat Island Effect
(2020)An urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon where the temperatures within cities are greater than those of surrounding rural areas due to human activity and physical properties of urban surfaces. This effect can cause the ...