ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in the Indian online publication “The Hindu,” in an article entitled “Factors affecting urban warming.” Murtugudde explained that two types of Urban Heat Island (atmospheric and surface) effect temperatures differently dependent upon the time of day or night.
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
