Investigating temperature variability in the Trinidad island due to urban growth

Climate variability has been viewed as a prime field of interest among the environmental scientific communities, especially in the agriculture planning field. Variable climatic condition has a direct impact toward the agricultural productivity. This variability, especially change in temperature, could be due to the expansion of urbanization within the region. Rapid growth of urbanization due to population increment could create Urban Heat Island effects which consequently play a part in climatic fluctuation. For this reason, one of the Caribbean islands - Trinidad was selected to test this phenomenon. Performing time series trend and point change analysis for temperatures within the urban and rural region of the island concluded that development in urbanization has little effect in defining the temperature changes in the island.