Geography · Climatology and Urban Heat Islands
Consider the following statements: Statement I: Cities in tropical and subtropical regions can warm faster than surrounding rural areas even under the same global mean temperature rise scenario. Statement II: The Urban Heat Island effect is mainly caused by higher urban humidity and increased cloud cover over cities, which trap outgoing longwave radiation. Statement III: City-scale temperature amplification is fully captured in current IPCC global climate models because they explicitly resolve urban morphology and land-surface heterogeneity at neighbourhood scales. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
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- 1All statements I, II and III are correct
- 2Neither Statement II nor Statement III is correct, but Statement I is correct✓
- 3Both Statement II and Statement III are correct, but only one of them explains Statement I
- 4Both Statement II and Statement III are correct, and both of them explain Statement I
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Neither Statement II nor Statement III is correct, but Statement I is correct
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