Urban Climate Resources

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IAUC Teaching Resources

The Urban Canopy Layer Heat Island (Mills, 2004).

Urban Climate Bibliography

• Salmond, J. 2005. WMO Bibliography of Urban Climate 2000-2004 (Draft).
• Salmond, J. 2005. WMO Bibliography of Urban Climate 1996-1999 (Draft).

The Urban Flux Network

The Urban Flux Network is a database run by the IAUC with the aim to collect and share information about micrometeorological tower sites in urban environments.

Urban Flux Network

Siting of Instruments in Urban Areas

Links

The following web links may be useful to IAUC members.  The links will open in a new window.
If you have any suggestions for additions to this page, please send the exact URL and a brief title to the IAUC Webmaster .

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

Educational Programs

• Harvard Graduate School of Design: Master's in Design Studies

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
• 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