International Association for Urban Climate

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Sponsoring Organizations

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

International Geographical Union (IGU)

International Society for Biometeorology (ISB)

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

General Sites

• American Meteorological Society Board on the Urban Environment
• Stadtklima/Urban Climate home page
  • English
  • Deutsch
• Urban Climate Change Research Network (Earth Institute, Columbia University)
• Urban Climate Service Centre (Enviromental Studies Unit – Flemish Research & Technology Organisation)

Educational Programs

• Harvard Graduate School of Design: Master’s in Design Studies
• Arizona State University ASU Urban Planning

Research Projects and Groups

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering
• Baltimore Long-Term Ecological Research Site
• BUBBLE , Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment
• COST 715 Working Group 1 (Urban Wind Field)
• EPiCC Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities
• ESCOMPTE home page
  • English
  • Français
• FUMAPEX : Integrated Systems for Forecasting Urban Meteorology, Air Pollution and Population Exposure
• Göteborg University Urban Climate Group
• Hungarian Urban Climate Home Page
• Madison, Wisconsin UHI Network (Publicly available data)
• Meteorology Applied to Air Pollution – COST 715
• Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Site
• Salt Lake Valley Airshed Project
• Szeged Hungary: Urban – Rural Meteorological Data
• TRAPOS home page
• SATURN (Studying Atmospheric Pollution in Urban Areas )
• USDA Western Center for Urban Forest Research and Education
• UWERN Urban Meteorology Programme

Building-Scale Climate

• US DOE Building Energy Software Tools Directory
• BLDG-SIM – a mailing list for users of building energy simulation programs
• Building Energy Simulation User News

Urban Design and Planning

• Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
• Heat Island Group (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA)
• RUROS , Rediscovering the Urban Realm and Open Spaces
• SMART (Sustainable Materials and Renewable Technologies)  Program (Arizona State University)
• Sustainable Urban Design and Climate (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
• US Department of Energy Center for Sustainable Development
• US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Heat Island Information

Urban Areas and Climate Change

• Climate Change and Urban Design; Third International Council for European Urbanism Congress.

Remote Sensing Applications

• Ecole des Mines de Paris, Center for Energy Studies, Urban Studies
• Urban Heat Island Pilot Project (UHIPP), Sacramento, CA
• Urban Heat Island Pilot Project (UHIPP), Salt Lake City, UT