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Weather influences every part of our daily life. Climate shapes our culture, our history and our civilization. The changes in wind, temperature, humidity can not be underestimated.
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Atmospheric stability refers to air that does not rise, which can lead to fog, mist or frost formation. Instability occurs when air rises, forming clouds and rain. Clouds are classified by form, height, and whether convection or fronts caused them. Convectional rainfall happens when warm land heats the air above, causing it to rise and condense. Frontal rainfall occurs at boundaries of warm and cold air masses. Orographic rainfall results when air is forced to rise over mountain barriers, cooling and condensing. Hail forms through a process of freezing and melting within cumulonimbus clouds. Dew and radiation fog form on clear nights through surface cooling and condensation. Advection fog
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY - CASE STUDY: RIVER HARBOURNEGeorge Dumitrache
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Casestudies aren't included - sorry. Hope these are helpful. Good luck everyone with your exams.
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY REVISION: SETTLEMENTS - 6.4 THE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN SE...George Dumitrache
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY REVISION: HYDROLOGY AND FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY - 1.1 DR...George Dumitrache
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY - CASE STUDY: YEMEN AND ITS FOODGeorge Dumitrache
Yemen has a population of 25 million that is growing rapidly due to a high fertility rate of 4.4 children per woman. However, Yemen's food supply cannot keep up with this growth because agricultural methods are primitive, water is scarce, and much of the available land is used to grow the narcotic leaf qat rather than food. As a result, 26% of Yemen's population is undernourished. The country also relies heavily on food imports and revenues from oil exports, but oil exports have declined due to attacks on pipelines. The government is implementing a National Food Security Strategy to increase food security and decrease dependence on qat and oil by 2020, but Yemen faces significant challenges in improving agriculture and reducing poverty.
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Presentation on Urban Heat Island. An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas.
Main Cause of the UHI is Modification of the land surface by urban development which uses materials which effectively retain heat.
As population centers grow they tend to modify a greater and greater area of land and have a corresponding increase in average temperature.
The Effect of building materials on Albedo
The Effect of Building Materials on Storage of Internal Energy
Generation of Internal Energy By Human Activity
Reduced Evaporation
CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY - CASE STUDY: RIVER HARBOURNEGeorge Dumitrache
This case study examines the regular flooding of the village of Harbertonford by the River Harbourne in Devon, England. The river has flooded the village 21 times in the past 60 years due to its flashy nature and the physical geography of its catchment area on Dartmoor. To reduce flooding, a flood storage reservoir and flood defence works were constructed through the village using both hard and soft engineering, including bed lowering, channelization, and storm drains. Flood hazard mapping is also used to identify at-risk areas and plan flood management.
Geography notes Hydrology, Atmosphere, Weathering, Population and Migration
Casestudies aren't included - sorry. Hope these are helpful. Good luck everyone with your exams.
This document provides information about studying A-Level Geography at Guildford County School. In the AS level, students study both physical and human geography topics, including river floods, cold environments, coastal environments, hot deserts, population change, food supply issues, energy issues, and health issues. Geographical skills are developed through these topics and fieldwork. At A2 level, students investigate contemporary issues and complete a fieldwork investigation or geographical issues evaluation, choosing from options like plate tectonics, weather and climate, ecosystems, world cities, development, and conflicts. The program aims to develop skills like problem solving, world awareness, data analysis, literacy, numeracy, map reading, and teamwork that are useful for
CAMBRIDGE GEOGRAPHY AS ULTRA REVISION TEST 2 ATMOSPHERE AND WEATHERGeorge Dumitrache
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A2 CAMBRIDGE GEOGRAPHY: GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE - THE MANAGEMENT OF A TOURIST ...George Dumitrache
Tourism in Jamaica began in the late 19th century when wealthy visitors arrived to escape cold winters in Europe and North America. The natural beauty of Jamaica's beaches and tropical climate proved attractive to tourists. By the early 20th century, the Jamaican government was actively promoting tourism development through initiatives like an international exhibition. Today, tourism is a vital part of Jamaica's economy, contributing nearly $4 billion annually and employing many workers. Jamaica has worked to develop tourism sustainably through policies favoring local communities and protecting the environment in national parks.
REVISION AS CAMBRIDGE GEOGRAPHY: RIVERS - CHANNEL EFFICIENCYGeorge Dumitrache
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY REVISION: SETTLEMENTS - 6.4 THE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN SE...George Dumitrache
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY - CASE STUDY: CHINA'S ONE CHILD POLICYGeorge Dumitrache
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AS Level Human Geography - Population DynamicsArm Punyathorn
In this chapter, you will learn about how the human population change over the centuries and why those changes occur. You will also discuss the arguments regarding population and resources - the ideas of Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup.
CAMBRIDGE GEOGRAPHY AS EXTRA REVISION - EXAM STYLE QUESTIONS 2 - ATMOSPHERE A...George Dumitrache
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY REVISION: HYDROLOGY AND FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY - 1.1 DR...George Dumitrache
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CAMBRIDGE AS GEOGRAPHY - CASE STUDY: YEMEN AND ITS FOODGeorge Dumitrache
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Presentation on Urban Heat Island. An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas.
Main Cause of the UHI is Modification of the land surface by urban development which uses materials which effectively retain heat.
As population centers grow they tend to modify a greater and greater area of land and have a corresponding increase in average temperature.
The Effect of building materials on Albedo
The Effect of Building Materials on Storage of Internal Energy
Generation of Internal Energy By Human Activity
Reduced Evaporation
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Human activity in urban areas increases cloud cover compared to rural areas. The higher temperatures in cities generate convection currents, resulting in more condensation nuclei and 10% more frequent cloud formation. Increased pollution in cities provides more hydroscopic nuclei, making clouds larger. Examples of cities with increased cloud cover due to pollution include London and Chicago. Changes in cloud cover can impact precipitation levels in urban areas. Humidity is also typically lower in cities than surrounding rural areas due to the warmer air holding more moisture but less evapotranspiration from a lack of vegetation.
This document summarizes a doctoral seminar on urbanization, urban heat islands, and solutions. It discusses how urbanization leads to increased built-up surfaces and reduced green spaces, contributing to higher temperatures in cities. Causes of the urban heat island effect include low-reflective surfaces that absorb heat, lack of vegetation, and increased air conditioning use. Effects include higher energy consumption, air pollution, risks to human health, and impacts on aquatic and wildlife. Solutions proposed are using lighter-colored materials like concrete and roofs to reflect more sunlight and reduce ambient temperatures.
This document discusses urban spaces and climatic factors. It begins by defining key terms like climate, weather, environment and built environment. It then describes different climate types such as tropical, mild, dry, continental and polar. Factors that affect urban climate are also outlined, including changes to earth surfaces, buildings, air pollution, and air movement. Different passive design strategies are presented for hot-dry, warm-humid, and cold climates. The concepts of thermal comfort, heat regulation in the human body, and ventilation are then explained in detail.
The document discusses macro and micro climates and their effects on building design and performance. It defines macro climate as the climate of a larger area, and micro climate as localized variations around buildings. Both macro and micro climates impact building energy and environmental performance. The site and design of a building can significantly affect its interaction with the local climate conditions. Meteorological data provides an overview of the macro climate, but the building and surroundings also impact the micro climate. Urban heat islands form where cities are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas due to human activities changing land surfaces. Strategies to reduce heat islands include increasing vegetation, creating green roofs, and using cool or reflective surfaces.
Urban heat islands occur when urban areas are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas, with temperatures sometimes up to 11°C higher. The main causes are dark surfaces like concrete and asphalt absorbing heat, buildings blocking the release of heat at night, and waste heat from energy use. Effects include increased energy consumption, air pollution, heat-related deaths, and reduced water resources from less precipitation. Mitigation strategies include planting more trees to provide shade and evapotranspiration, installing green roofs, and using cool roof surfaces that highly reflect sunlight.
The document discusses urban heat islands (UHIs), which are urban areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas due to human activities. Some key points:
1) The annual mean air temperature of cities with over 1 million people can be 1-3°C warmer than surrounding rural areas. At night, the difference can be as high as 12°C.
2) UHIs are caused by factors like increased surface temperatures from impervious materials like asphalt and concrete, lack of vegetation, and waste heat from buildings and vehicles.
3) UHIs have impacts like increased energy demand, air pollution, heat-related illness and mortality.
4) A case study of Bangalore, India
Urban Heat Island Effect is caused by urban areas being warmer than surrounding rural areas due to human activities replacing natural land with heat-absorbing constructed surfaces. This causes cities to experience temperatures up to 5.6°C higher and increases energy demands for cooling. Mitigation strategies include using light-colored and reflective materials for roofs, pavements, and buildings to reduce heat absorption, as well as increasing urban greenery through trees and green roofs which provide shade and cooling through evapotranspiration.
Urban Heat Island Effect occurs when urban areas become significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas due to human activities and infrastructure that replace open land and vegetation. Impervious surfaces like concrete and asphalt absorb and re-emit more solar radiation than natural landscapes, causing surface and ambient air temperatures to increase in cities. Additional factors like reduced evapotranspiration from plants, waste heat from energy usage, and decreased wind speed between buildings exacerbate the higher temperatures. As temperatures rise, greater air conditioning usage produces more waste heat in a self-perpetuating cycle of increasing the Urban Heat Island Effect.
Sustainable Design Part Two: Climate Related IssuesTerri Meyer Boake
What is Sustainable Design Part Two: Climate Related Issues looks at the bioclimatic regions and how they affect the approach to environmental building design. This also looks at the comfort zone as a way to reduce energy consumption.
This document discusses design considerations for buildings in warm humid climates. Key factors include:
- Locating settlements on northern slopes and at higher elevations to benefit from cooler microclimates.
- Orienting buildings and placing rooms to maximize shade and wind flow while minimizing solar radiation, especially on east and west walls.
- Using vegetation for landscaping to improve microclimate through shade and transpiration, balancing humidity levels.
- Designing compact building shapes with high volume-to-surface ratios to reduce heat exchange with the environment. Orientation, shading, ventilation, and greenery are all important design elements for comfortable living conditions with minimal energy usage.
Global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities like burning fossil fuels. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, causing temperatures to rise and driving climate change effects like rising sea levels and more extreme weather. As the climate continues to warm due to inaction, serious consequences are expected, including severe summer heat and drought as well as wetter, stormier winters and increased flooding. Political and individual responses aim to reduce emissions through alternatives to fossil fuels, conservation efforts, and raising fuel prices to encourage lower consumption.
This document provides an overview of rooftop gardening and outlines the key steps to plan a rooftop garden. It discusses the urban heat island effect and how rooftop gardens can help reduce temperatures. The main types of rooftop gardens - container gardens and green roof systems - are described. Planning steps include evaluating the roof's condition and structural capacity, determining garden weight and design, and selecting appropriate plants. Case studies of the City Hall rooftop garden in Chicago are also presented.
Buildings have a major impact on the local environment and climate. They raise ambient temperatures, change humidity and air flow around them. At a large scale, they can impact precipitation patterns. In cities, lack of vegetation and presence of heat-absorbing materials like concrete and asphalt cause Urban Heat Islands where temperatures can be 10°C warmer than surrounding rural areas. This extra heat raises energy consumption and air conditioning costs while worsening air quality, health impacts, and the urban climate. Strategies to mitigate heat islands include installing cool and green roofs, using cool paving materials, and planting more trees and vegetation in urban areas.
The document describes building design techniques for hot, dry climates. It discusses traditional courtyard houses with surrounding rooms that enclose an outdoor space for shade. Wind towers called "badgirs" are also described, which capture cooler winds at the top and distribute air through enclosed rooms. Different types of walls and roofs that provide thermal insulation and reflect solar radiation are outlined, such as cavity walls, radiant barriers, and double-skinned designs with ventilated layers.
The document proposes a study of the urban heat island effect in Singapore. It discusses what an urban heat island is, noting temperatures can be 11°C higher in cities than surrounding rural areas. Causes include heat-absorbing materials in cities and lack of vegetation. Effects are increased energy use for cooling, impacts on health, precipitation patterns, and air quality. The proposed study would test different roofing materials and arrangements of plants to evaluate their effects on reducing ambient temperature in cities. This could help lower energy use and emissions that contribute to global warming and pollution.
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1) Post-war instability and economic crisis weakened established political systems in countries like Germany and Italy. 2) A sense of nationalism was used by fascist leaders to promote unity and scapegoat others for the nation's problems. 3) Charismatic leaders like Hitler and Mussolini were able to gain followers by promoting fascism as an alternative to communism and liberal democracy.
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2. INTRODUCTION
This case study follows precisely the Cambridge AS 2019 syllabus requests
for the “Atmosphere and Weather” case study.
Candidates must study an urban area which shows the effects of human
activity on climate:
temperature (heat island), humidity, precipitation and winds.
3. CHICAGO
The terrain of the Midwest and Lake Michigan is flat and this aspect is making
Chicago’s weather unpredictable and very often extreme.
Summer is very warm and humid.
The highest temperatures occur during July and August and can reach
35-38 degrees Celsius.
The coldest month is January, with temperatures around
-18 or -20 degrees Celsius.
Chicago receives an average annual rainfall of 80.5cm per year.
5. TEMPERATURE
Chicago, with an estimate population of 2,705,994 (2018), is warmer than
the surrounding rural areas.
Because of that, Chicago is considered to be an urban heat island.
The temperature difference can be as great as 3 degrees Celsius on a sunny
day and 6 degrees Celsius at night in winter.
Temperature differences have a number of causes.
6.
7. CAUSES FOR DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE
BUILDING MATERIALS
Building materials have a lower specific heat capacity than grass and trees.
Specific heat capacity is the amount of heat required to raise one unit of the
material 1 degree Celsius.
The specific heat capacity of concrete is 800 Joules/Kg degrees Celsius and
for the soil it can be 2000 Joules/kg degrees Celsius.
So concrete heats up more quickly in the day, warming the air around it.
8. CAUSES FOR DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE
WET SURFACES
Rural areas have more wet surfaces (in towns, rivers are often covered and
water runs off into drains).
Evaporation from these wet surfaces produces cooling because heat is
absorbed by the process of evaporation.
9. CAUSES FOR DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE
BUILDINGS
Buildings are heated, and vehicles and air conditioning systems
generate heat.
10. CAUSES FOR DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE
WINDS
Buildings act as a barrier to winds.
As winds could convey cooler temperatures from Lake Michigan, this has the
effect of keeping the city warmer.
11. CAUSES FOR DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE
ALBEDO
Buildings with dark surfaces such as roof tiles have a lower albedo – they
reflect less solar radiation, absorb more and become hotter.
Dark coloured tarmac, often used as a road surface, has a low albedo.
12. CBD – THE WARMEST PART OF THE CITY
The denser the built-up area, the hotter it tends to be, so the central
business district is the warmest part of the city.
Temperature contrasts are greatest when wind speeds are low because
wind will carry in cool air from outside the city.
Wind speeds are always lowest when air pressure is high.
13. THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
The urban heat island effect tends to be greater in winter because more
heat is being generated to keep buildings warm.
The effect is also greater at night because buildings store heat generated
during the day and lowly emit it at night.
A field in a rural area is pointing towards the sky and will re-radiate long-
wave radiation back into space if the sky is clear.
A canyon of buildings does not point towards the sky and this lack of a “sky
view” impedes reradiation.
14. DECLINE IN ALBEDO
The City of Chicago
government aims to
mitigate the urban heat
island effect by giving
grants to residents and
firms who plant rooftop
gardens and trees in their
gardens.
They have also resurfaces
pathways in the city with
surfaces that have a
higher albedo and reflect
more solar energy.
16. HUMIDITY
Chicago is less humid than the surrounding rural areas because:
- The city is warmer, and higher temperatures lower the relative humidity
- Precipitation is quickly removed from the surface into drains. Surfaces in
towns are impermeable and water runs off quickly into drains. In rural areas
water is held in the soil and this raises the humidity of the air above.
- Vegetation in rural areas emits water vapour by the process of
transpiration.
18. PRECIPITATION
Because Chicago is warmer, the hot air is more likely to rise and if it has a
high humidity it will cause convectional rainfall – short intense bursts of rain
and thunderstorms.
Urban areas produce particles of dust and these act as condensation nuclei,
which encourage rain production.
Because of the warmer temperatures there is less snow in the city than
surrounding areas.
20. PRECIPITATION
Winds are lower in Chicago than the countryside because the buildings act
as barriers (wind beaks).
Long streets with tall buildings can act as wind tunnels in which winds are
funnelled down the street, and Chicago is notoriously gusty as winds are
channelled round buildings (eddying).
22. CHICAGO’S CITY HALL
Chicago’s most famous rooftop garden sits atop the City Hall, an 11-storey
office building in the Loop.
The City Hall and the adjacent Cook County buildings appear to most people as
one building spanning a city block bounded by LaSalle, Randolph, Clark and
Washington streets.
Initiated in 2000, the City Hall rooftop garden was conceived as a
demonstration project—a part of the City’s Urban Heat Island Initiative—to test
the benefits of green roofs and how they affect temperature and air quality.
The garden consists of 20,000 plants of more than 150 species, including shrubs,
vines and two trees. The plants were selected for their ability to thrive in
conditions on the roof, which is exposed to the sun and can be windy and arid.
Most are prairie plants native to the region.
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24. MITIGATING THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
The rooftop garden mitigates the urban heat island effect by replacing what
was a ballasted, black tar roof with green plants.
The garden absorbs less heat from the sun than the tar roof, keeping the City
Hall cooler during summers and requiring less energy for air conditioning.
The garden also absorbs and uses rainwater.
It can retain 75% of a 1-inch rainfall before there is stormwater runoff into
sewers.