Urban Versus Lake Impacts on Heat Stress and Its Disparities in a Shoreline City.

ABSTRACT: Shoreline cities are influenced by both urban-scale processes and land-water interactions, with consequences on heat exposure and its disparities. Heat exposure studies over these cities have focused on air and skin temperature, even though moisture advection from water bodies can also modulate heat stress. Here, using an ensemble of model simulations covering Chicago, we find that Lake Michigan strongly reduces heat exposure (2.75°C reduction in maximum average air temperature in Chicago) and heat stress (maximum average wet bulb globe temperature reduced by 0.86°C) during the day, while urbanization enhances them at night (2.75 and 1.57°C increases in minimum average air and wet bulb globe temperature, respectively). We also demonstrate that urban and lake impacts on temperature (particu

SUBMITTER: Chakraborty TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664081 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature