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Any ideas for presentation to urban meteorology topic?

The thing is I have to do a presentation under the topic of urban meteorology and I am supposed to talk about one or two scientific articles/papers/projects. And also it shouldn't contain the general information and theory of urban meteorology. I'm desperate now because I just can't find or think of any interesting topic to search articles for. Any ideas? Thanks. Thanks for the tip about heat islands, but the thing is this topic is discussed during the lectures and I shouldn't make a presentation about it. That damn lecturer is so weird...

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1. Urban heat islands. Urban heat islands are areas in and around a city that are much warmer than the surrounding countryside. This has to do with all the construction in the city and how man made environments affect the local climate. You can also talk about what is being done to minimize the Urban Heat Island effect, mainly by planting trees Good luck here are some links to get you started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island http://www.epa.gov/hiri/ http://www.epa.gov/hiri/about/index.htm http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/heatisl.html Use the references on those pages too, they will have even more information for you, but some of them can be boring reads
2. How about the "Urban Heat Island". I've heard it mentioned on the weather channel when they talk about how city's, buildings, concrete absorb heat.....so it make them hotter than the rural areas nearby.
3. How about the urban heat island effect? http://www.epa.gov/hiri/ http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/11/urban-heat-island-uhie/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island If you want to take it a step further, explore whether UHI is skewing the claims of global temperature rise with data from surface observation stations as opposed to satellite temperature measurements.
4. How about the increase of erosion due to urbanization? I have read quite a few articles on that subject.