Influence of global warming and climate continentality on the Moscow urban heat island

Abstract

Abstract The intensity of an urban heat island depends on the location, layout and development of the city, the number and density of its population, and the energy consumption of the urban economy. These dependencies can vary greatly from city to city. In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the dependence of the city’s climate characteristics on global and regional climate processes, their trends and variations. At present, there is no clear answer to the question of how climate changes affect the evolution of an urban specific city, since modern climate changes in different cases can both increase and decrease the intensity of the urban heat island. This work discusses the reasons some stabilization of the intensity of the Moscow heat island, observed in the second half of the XX century and early XXI century, and the relationship of this phenomenon with the weakening of continentality climate in the Moscow region.