Uploaded on 2020-01-07 by peter khoury

1. New york: 2.7°c Dallas: 3.8°c Des Moines: 2.9°c . As i observed that there is a variation in temperatures. The temperature in the cities is a bit more than the temperatures in the rural areas due to the heat island effect. 2.In Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, the UHI effect was modelled using the Town Energy Balance (TEB) model. Simulated urban canyon temperatures showed 6°C difference between areas of high vegetation fractions and dense urban fabric areas for summer and 2°C for winter . © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license 3. Green Roof could minimise the impact of the UHI 4. In Lebanon specialy in beirut there is no planned policies to do such things , already we are a third world country and we are facing bad economical situation plus to a political corruption.