出版社：Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
摘要：The paper is devoted to brief analysis of possible climate change impacts in rural and urban areas. Climate change due to enhanced greenhouse effect can result in about 2.5 °C mean global temperature increase until 2100. In Slovakia it is assumed as a range of 2 to 4 °C annually. On the other hand the additional warming of urban areas is caused mainly by changed heat balance of Earth’s surfaces in urbanized agglomerations (concrete, asphalt, buildings, cobblestones, etc.) and partly also by the thermal pollution (release of energy at heating and other human activities). In smaller cities the urban effect causes warming by about 0.5 °C, in the largest ones up to 2 °C annually in long-term average. Possible melioration options to improve urban microclimate are listed in the paper.
