The Link between Urbanization and Climatic Factors : A Concept on Formation of Urban Heat Island

• Main Authors: Nurakmal, Abdullah@ Goh Tuo Ho, Khairul Nizam, Abdul Maulud, Mazlan, Mohd Tahir, Muhammad, Nor, Che-Ani, A. I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: WSEAS 2010
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences; TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31150/1/The%20Link%20between%20Urbanization.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31150/; https://wseas.org/cms.action?id=4031

Increasing the number of population, pollutions, urban expansion and many other kinds of urbanization factors in metropolitan areas are affected climatic factors and vice versa. In fact, there is a correlation between these two factors in general. This paper put forward the conceptual model and two...