Nature Communications (May 2021)

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities

  • Angel Hsu,
  • Glenn Sheriff,
  • Tirthankar Chakraborty,
  • Diego Manya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22799-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Individual exposure to heat is associated with adverse health and economic outcomes. Here, the authors show that people of color and people living in poverty bear a disproportionate burden of urban heat exposure in almost all major cities in the continental United States.