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Urban climate refers to climatic conditions in an urban area that differ from neighboring rural areas and are attributable to urban development. Urbanization tremendously changes the form of the landscape and also produces changes in an area's air.
Temperature
Main article: urban heat island
Urban areas tend to be significantly warmer than their rural (and possibly suburban) surroundings, particularly at night. As population centers grow in size from village to town to city, they tend to have a corresponding increase in average temperature (which is more often welcome in winter months than in summer). The U.S. EPA says: "On hot summer days, urban air can be 2-10°F hotter than the surrounding countryside." Not to be confused with global warming, scientists call this phenomenon the "urban heat island effect." [http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ActionsLocalHeatIslandEffect.html
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New Urban City: How Climate Change Affects Transportation ...: Megan McConville at The City Fixreports on a panel titled http://url4.eu/yuDn
CSR_ticker (Freie Mediale S.) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:29:26 -0000
New Urban City: How Climate Change Affects Transportation ...: Megan McConville at The City Fixreports on a panel titled http://url4.eu/yuDn
Biomimicry & Climate on the green bar: http://bit.ly/rPrQx; Nocera, urban agriculture, Willie Smits, biochar, Benyus #TED #COP15
TrackerNews (Janet A. Ginsburg) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:39:58 -0000
Biomimicry & Climate on the green bar: http://bit.ly/rPrQx; Nocera, urban agriculture, Willie Smits, biochar, Benyus #TED #COP15
Improve #ecology #environment #climate ... as a consequence of #Urban #Transformation
davidnock (David Nock) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:54:16 -0000
Improve #ecology #environment #climate ... as a consequence of #Urban #Transformation
PhD: Urban Flood Risk & Resilient Technologies: Climate change and rapid urbanisation will result in increasing urb... http://bit.ly/5heLdA
PhDPostDoc (AcademicTransfer) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:05:05 -0000
PhD: Urban Flood Risk & Resilient Technologies: Climate change and rapid urbanisation will result in increasing urb... http://bit.ly/5heLdA
Urban infill as a climate strategy - http://ow.ly/OB8Q
CDhubPgh (CDhub Pittsburgh) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:43:41 -0000
Urban infill as a climate strategy - http://ow.ly/OB8Q
Banksy's comment on the Copenhagen climate talks? http://designyoutrust.com/2009/12/21/urban-street-art-new-works-from-banksy
TheIspot (Theispot.com) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:13:29 -0000
Banksy's comment on the Copenhagen climate talks? http://designyoutrust.com/2009/12/21/urban-street-art-new-works-from-banksy
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.
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.
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How Shiny Is L.A.? - Reports of surface albedo (reflectivity) of Los Angeles and California's South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB).
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New York City Urban Climate - Research activities with a particular focus on air exchange in and out of the subway system.
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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.
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.
Meta Description: [ California's capital glows - and has cool spots,
too - in an aerial image taken yesterday from a study of how urban forests can help
keep cities from overheating. ]
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]
Stadtklima / Urban climate - English version of German urban climate study group resource page.
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Sustainable Urban Design and Climate - Australian Bureau of Meteology information on the impacts of climate on urban design.
Urban heat in Salt Lake City - NASA analysis of blistering - and refreshing - spots in Salt Lake City.
Meta Description: [ Urban Heat in July: NASA's 'heat hunters' measure blistering - and refreshing - spots in Salt Lake City. ]
Urban Heat Islands - Melbourne, Australia - Quantitative study of the heat island in Melbourne, Australia
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