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Vegetation Limits City Warming Effects

New research quantifies how plants along urban roads, in parks, and in wooded neighborhoods can regulate the warming effects of urbanization.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from Bounoua, et al. (2015). Caption by Ellen Gray, NASA Earth Science News Team.

Published August 26, 2015
Data acquired 2001

Sources:
Landsat 7
Model
Terra > MODIS