Event Summary

Speakers: Christopher A. Scott, Stephen Yool, Eve B. Halper, and Andrew Comrie, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona

Urban water demand in the Southwest is influenced by the type, age, and
structure of residential and public landscaping. Urban heat island (UHI)
coupled with regional climate change have important impacts on urban water
demand. This brownbag seminar focuses on Tucson, Arizona and presents the
results of research supported by a 104B grant from the Water Resources
Research Center and the U.S. Geological Survey. We characterize Tucson's
UHI in temporal terms based on climate station data, and spatially using
Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. We relate the UHI to residential
outdoor water use and discuss the implications of urban landscaping for UHI
mitigation.

 

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