Urban Climate (Meteorology)

Urban Climate Sites:

Cooling Our Cities DOE site advocating a tree-planting program as a way to combat Urban Heat Islands http://www.eren.doe.gov/cities_counties/coolcit.html Project ATLANTA - Urban Heat Island Study NASA's High Spatial Resolution Airborne Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data to Support Analysis and Modeling Tasks in EOS IDS Project ATLANTA. http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/atlanta/ Sacramento urban heat island California's capital glows - and has cool spots, too - in an aerial image from a study of how urban forests can help keep cities from overheating. http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd01jul98_1.htm Climatic Design of Buildings - An Overview An on-line course focusing on the effect of climate and architectural design upon each other in Hong Kong. http://arch.hku.hk/~cmhui/teach/65156-7.htm Heat Island Group Livermore National Labs research group site. Contains information from a Heat Island informational pamphlet. The group studies the extent of the heat island phenomena and the effectiveness of different ways of combatting it. http://eande.lbl.gov/HeatIsland/ How Shiny Is L.A.? Reports of surface albedo (reflectivity) of Los Angeles and California's South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB). http://eande.lbl.gov/EAP/BEA/RResearch/LA.html New York City Urban Climate Research activities with a particular focus on air exchange in and out of the subway system. http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/climusa/projny.html Urban heat in Salt Lake City NASA analysis of blistering - and refreshing - spots in Salt Lake City. http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd21jul98_1.htm Board on the Urban Environment American Meteorological Society Board on the Urban Environment members, email list, and mission statement. http://www.indiana.edu/~climate/grimmond/AMS_Urban_board.html Urban Heat Islands - Melbourne, Australia Quantitative study of the heat island in Melbourne, Australia http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~jon//WWW/uhi-melb.html Stadtklima / Urban climate English version of German urban climate study group resource page. http://www.urbanclimate.net/ Sustainable Urban Design and Climate Australian Bureau of Meteology information on the impacts of climate on urban design. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/design/design.shtml Scientists Watch Cities Make Their Own Weather New York Times feature story about the urban heat island effect, focusing on Project ATLANTA. [Registration required -- free] http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/081500sci-environ-climate.html

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