Cool pavement project expanding in Phoenix
The coating is to address heat island effects that come with all the pavement in the Valley.
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The coating is to address heat island effects that come with all the pavement in the Valley.
Laurence Hawker is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His work focuses on developing flood models, supporting disaster response and developing elevation and population datasets. Currently, I work on a number of projects developing and improving hydrodynamic models in data-sparse regions, namely in Africa (with a focus on Congo Basin and Mozambique) and Vietnam. Recently, along with several co-authors, I have published a 30m resolution global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed called FABDEM. In my research I use remo...
The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analy...
Science Advances found just five other heat waves since the 1960s were more extreme
Science Advances found just five other heat waves since the 1960s were more extreme