{"id":17841,"date":"2019-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/01\/15\/professor-matthias-roth-featured-in-channel-news-asia-article\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:23:56","slug":"professor-matthias-roth-featured-in-channel-news-asia-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/01\/15\/professor-matthias-roth-featured-in-channel-news-asia-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Matthias Roth featured in Channel News Asia Article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: \u201cDr Roth adjusting the temperature sensor\u201d by CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Matthias Roth from the NUS Department of Geography was recently featured in this CNA article on rising temperatures in Singapore. He highlights that these rising temperatures are due to global warming and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, which is caused by the heat generated from human activities and trapped by urban surfaces. In fact, when tracking the temperature from rural Lim Chu Kang to Orchard Road, Prof Roth and \u201cKiller Heat\u201d programme host Mr Joshua Lim found that the latter was 4\u00b0C warmer.<\/p>\n

Prof Roth emphasizes the importance of leaving untouched Singapore\u2019s current unprotected forest areas, which could be subject to future development. He also stresses that adding roof gardens and vertical greenery to buildings would not help, especially since research has not really shown that greening initiatives benefit the local microclimate when it comes to reducing the actual UHI effect.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here: https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/cnainsider\/singapore-hot-weather-urban-heat-effect-temperature-humidity-11115384?fbclid=IwAR1muqc-PdUxeiTnKUFePTmc1vr51JDhd1rMleWLD_6XbAgp776p1tDAUj4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Matthias Roth from the NUS Department of Geography was recently featured in this CNA article on rising temperatures in Singapore. He highlights that these rising temperatures are due to global warming and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, which is caused by the heat generated from human activities and trapped by urban surfaces. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28397,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions\/28397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}