When
to
Where
WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room
Speaker(s)
Christopher A. Scott
School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Stephen Yool
School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Eve B. Halper,
School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Andrew Comrie
School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Urban water demand in the Southwest is influenced by the type, age, and structure of residential and public landscaping. Urban heat island (UHI) coupled with regional climate change have important impacts on urban water demand. This brownbag seminar focuses on Tucson, Arizona and presents the results of research supported by a 104B grant from the Water Resources Research Center and the U.S. Geological Survey. We characterize Tucson's UHI in temporal terms based on climate station data, and spatially using Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite imagery. We relate the UHI to residential outdoor water use and discuss the implications of urban landscaping for UHI mitigation.