Daytime urban surface temperature (IMAGE)

American Geophysical Union

Daytime urban surface temperature

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Higher temperatures correspond to regions of the United States with more poor, non-white residents, including this example of extreme summer daytime urban surface temperature anomalies (left), lower median income (center) and share of non-Hispanic white residents (right) from western Washington State, with King County and the greater Seattle metropolitan area at center. Maps of Similar data for other U.S. locations can be browsed in an online interactive map feature.

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Credit: Suzanne Benz

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