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Hidden, local climate impacts of drought-friendly vegetation

2016-08-06 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: To address the recent drought in California, policymakers have created incentives for homeowners to replace existing lawns with drought tolerant vegetation. However, new research from George Ban-Weiss, an assistant professor in the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has found that these efforts might have some hidden consequences on local climate. Ban-Weiss and post-doctoral scholar Pouya Vahmani used a model of the Los Angeles basin...

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