Signal: Urban areas
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Major cities in U.S. warming up due to climate change

by on 16. Aug, 2011 in Uncategorized

We evaluate changes in climatic indices for the 100 largest U.S. urban areas and paired surrounding non-urban areas. During the period 1950–2009, we find that there were statistically significant changes in as many as half of the urban areas in temperature-related indices, such as heating and cooling degree-days and number of warm and cool nights, [...]