Climate changes and urban sprawl are dramatically increasing the heat island effect in urban environments, whatever the size and the latitude are, affecting these latter parameters the effect intensity. The urban heats island is a phenomenon observed since the last decades of the XIX century but demonstrated at large scale only one century later, characterised by the increase of air temperature in densely built urban environments respect to the countryside surround cities. Many studies are available, showing urban heat island intensities up to 12°C . This thermal stress causes social, health and environmental hazards, with major consequences on weaker social classes, as elderly and low income people, it is not by chance that survey demonstrated the increase of deaths in such categories during intense and extended heat waves. This study presents the results of a comparative analysis of temporal temperature variations in Moscow (Center for Geophysical Monitoring of Moscow of Sadovsky Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of Russian Academy of Sciences) and the Moscow Region (Mikhnevo Geophysical Observatory of Sadovsky Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of Russian Academy of Sciences). Registration data for 2021 is used.
Mots clés : tempeture|variation|urban|rural|anomaly
A105081SR