Tropical Urban Heat Islands

Tropical Urban Heat Islands
Author: Nyuk Hien Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-08-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1134221096

Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the air can be 3–5°C hotter than its surrounding areas and where pollution levels are consequently raised. Including a colour section with thermal images and maps, this book explores the complex relationships between climate, buildings and plants, especially in urban heat islands. These relationships bear very critically on a range of environmental issues and point to some corresponding solutions. One chapter highlights some of the extensive research work carried out in Singapore, especially investigating the thermal benefits of greenery in buildings in the urban setting. Though several books have been written on urban heat islands, this work uniquely examines the linkages between climate, buildings and plants. It forms a reference for researchers and professionals such as architects, architectural science, landscape architects, building services engineers, urban planners and urban climatologists. It may also be useful for final year undergraduates or graduate students in these disciplines.

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them
Author: Marianne Willburn
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0760368945

Adventurous Gardener seeks relationship with Tropical Plant… Tropical plants are energizing. They awaken a tired summer garden with lush, sensuous foliage and fascinating flowers and turn a suburban patio into a sophisticated, late-night paradise. But if you garden in a temperate climate and have been reluctant to commit to what you’re sure will be too much work, it’s time to let Tropical Plants and How to Love Them author Marianne Willburn act as your tropical matchmaker. Using five relationship types to help you understand the different levels of care required for many common (and uncommon!) tropicals, Marianne introduces you to an impressive array of outstanding tropical plants by providing care instructions, easy tips for seeing these tropical beauties safely through the winter, and advice for designing a tropical paradise of your own. Tropical Plants and How to Love Them gives you permission to jump headfirst into: A summer romance that ends with the first frost. A long-term commitment to beautify indoor and outdoor spaces. A friends-with-benefits relationship that yields exotic flavors and fragrances. A breakup with that high-maintenance beauty. A best friend relationship that lasts a lifetime. From the striking red leaves of the Abyssinian banana to the unusual flowers and healing powers of turmeric, there are hundreds of tropical plants worth loving. Find your new sweetheart in the pages of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them.

Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat
Author: John Lutz
Publisher: John Curley & Assoc
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781555045791

From posh Florida beach resorts to the smuggled drugs, mosquito-infested swamps, and backwoods cabins to the Everglades, Fred Carver, a private investigator, searches for Willis Davis, a man believed to have committed suicide by everyone except his loverEdwina Talbott

Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates

Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates
Author: Ansar Khan
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128225580

Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates takes into account the different urban physics in tropical environments, presenting a way of UHI scaling for tropical cities. Topics include measuring, modeling and proper mitigation strategies, which account for the surface energy balance of tropics. Tropical cities are more susceptible to the effects of projected global warming because of conditions in tropical climates and the rapid growth of so many cities in this zone. The need for research on measuring, modeling and mitigation of UHI effects in tropical cities is of growing importance. This book walks through the basics of Urban Heat Islands, including causes, measurement and analysis then expands upon issues as well as the novel techniques that can be used to address issues specific to the region. - Reviews topics related to understanding the fundamentals of modeling and impacts of urban heat islands - Covers many techniques, from remote sensing, to numerical modeling and then applying them to urban climate studies in general, and in tropical cities - Describes the scaling of urban heat islands based on long-term seasonal thermal parameters as feature-based classification systems using a probabilistic and fuzzy logic approach, unlike local climate zones (LCZs)

Wooed by You

Wooed by You
Author: Sophia Knightly
Publisher: Victoria Koch
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0990969843

Linc is a tough cop on a mission. Isabel avoids cops like the plague. He'll take the challenge... Single mom Isabel Garcia’s blood runs cold when an innocent dig in her garden unearths evidence of her late husband’s criminal activity, one she knew nothing about! When she calls narcotics detective Linc Heller, she faces another shock-- her wild attraction to the hot detective. Yet Linc’s perilous profession makes him unsuitable as a potential husband and stepfather. Protecting her little daughter from further heartache, Isabel vows to avoid Linc. But the alpha lieutenant is determined to woo the elusive Latin beauty and show her some risks make life worth living. TROPICAL HEAT SERIES - Each book is a standalone. Wooed by You, Book 1: Linc and Isabel Wild for You, Book 2: Clay and Marisol Sold on You, Book 3: Marcos and Gabriela Kissed by You, Book 4: Alex and Georgiana Loved by You, Book 5: Roman and Piper

Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat
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Release: 2001
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Tropical Heat takes viewers on an incredible tropical adventure.

Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat
Author: Patt Bucheister
Publisher: Loveswept
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780553440638

Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat
Author: Joan Grove
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780440190042

Tropical Secrets

Tropical Secrets
Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1429919817

Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .

Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat
Author: John A. Miller
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429978007

"[Miller] draws the 1950s perfectly. . . [Tropical Heat] is a finely crafted, superbly written novel that deserves wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, ** starred review ** When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, the murder sets in motion a sequence of events that will forever change the life of Sheriff A.G. Farrell. A.G.'s investigation is hampered by a strangely hostile provost marshal from the murdered captain's base and by the captain's enigmatic widow, Theresa Fitzgerald, whose beauty, like the terrible heatwave that hangs heavily in the Southern summer air, leaves soldiers and civilians alike gasping for relief. When a thin thread ties together the otherwise unsuspicious deaths of four young women over the past four years, A.G. struggles to retain his sense of objectivity and propriety as sexual tension grows between Theresa and himself, while facing down the provost marshal whose rush to judgement will get the wrong man hung for murder. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.