Websites in Urban Climate

1. 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
   
   
2. 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
   
   
3. 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
   
   
4. 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/
   
   
5. 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
   
   
6. 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
   
   
7. 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/
   
   
8. 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
   
   
9. 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
   
   
10. Stadtklima / Urban climate
    English version of German urban climate study group resource page.
    http://www.urbanclimate.net/
    
    
11. 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
    
    
12. 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
    
    
13. 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
    
    

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