Earth

Urban heat: the thermal memory of a city

Compare streets and vegetation through a day-night cycle with sunlight, heat storage, wind exchange and anthropogenic heating.

By Mykhailo Makarov

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Run through noon and night. Compare vegetation, wind and anthropogenic heat while watching the temperature map.

The model and its limits

Surface energy grid with illustrative material capacities, evaporation and linear atmospheric exchange. Time is accelerated 300 times. This is surface temperature, not a calibrated air-temperature forecast.

Equations used in the module

Equations
C dT/dt = absorbed_solar + human_heat - evaporation - exchange + diffusion

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