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by Andreas Christen

New Engagement Committee hosts monthly webinars starting November 6

2020-10-21 in IAUC Admin, IAUC Statements, Meetings, Members, Resources

The IAUC is looking forward to engage with you and continue the Urban Climate dialogue despite the ongoing global pandemic. We have formed an Engagement Committee with a plan for virtual activities in the absence of face-to-face events in 2020-2021. As part of this effort, we are initiating monthly virtual webinars that include presentations and discussions.

We are very pleased to invite you to the historic, first IAUC webinar 6 November that will celebrate our very own Luke Howard Award winners: Janet Barlow (2019 winner) and Alberto Martilli (2020 winner).

Date and time: 6 November 11:00 – 12:15 UTC, which is 6:00 New York (EST), 12:00 in Paris (CET), 16:30 in Dehli (IST), 19:00 in Beijing (CST), and 22:00 in Sydney (AEDT).

Theme: Celebrating IAUC’s Luke Howard award winners and discussion on ‘Observing and Modelling the Urban Boundary Layer’.

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by James Voogt

ICUC-9 Special Issue in Urban Climate now available

2018-03-04 in Meetings, Resources

We are happy to announce that the ICUC9 special issue is now published in Urban Climate:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/urban-climate/vol/23/suppl/C

A promotional free access is available for 3 months for all the papers.

The 9th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC-9), held in July2015 in Toulouse, France, provided a recent forum for urban climate scientists to share the results of their research. This special issue presents 20 original research papers, representative of the variety of the themes encompassed by the urban climate community.

Special Issue Editors: Aude Lemonsu, Valéry Masson & James Voogt

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by James Voogt

Call for Participants in HUMINEX 2.0 Study

2017-09-02 in Projects, Resources

The HUMan INfluence EXperiment (HUMINEX) is happy to launch an open call for participants for its HUMINEX 2.0 study.
Central aim of HUMINEX is the evaluation of the human influence on the supervised Local Climate Zone classification employed in the WUDAPT initiative (http://www.wudapt.org/).
Details and results of the first phase of HUMINEX are published in an open access publication by Benjamin Bechtel et al. (http://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/1/2/15), also featured in the June 2017 newsletter of the International Association for Urban Climate: http://urban-climate.org/newsletters/IAUC064.pdf.
HUMINEX 2.0 continues this work with an advanced experiment setup, focusing on the city of Berlin, Germany. The experiment is open to everyone, from individuals to university courses.
At the moment already close to 100 contributions to HUMINEX 2.0 have been made, but we are still searching for participants.
Deadline for contributions is November 1, 2017. For more information please visit the WUDAPT website (http://www.wudapt.org/huminex-2-0/), where you can find all the information and course materials for HUMINEX 2.0.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information or to inform us of your participation under huminex.wudapt@gmail.com.

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by James Voogt

Summer in the City Climate Videos Released by WMO

2017-07-06 in Resources

WMO in partnership with Climate Central launched a new series of a dozen videos on “Summer in the City” contributed by weather presenters.  The videos will be subtitled in English, French, and Spanish. They each conclude with an encouraging statement by Miguel Mancera, Mayor of Mexico City and Vice Chair of C40 Cities for Latin America.

Watch the “summer in the city” climate reports on the WMO YouTube channel here and WMO is also  using the hashtag #cityheat on Twitter

See also the ‘shifting cities‘ resource from Climate Central.

Schedule:

  • 5 July – Madrid and Barcelona, TVE
  • 6 July – Montreal, MétéoMédia
  • 7 July – Frankfurt, ARD
  • 10 July – Sofia, NOVA TV
  • 11 July – Hanoi, VTV
  • 12 July – Cape Town, SABC
  • 13 July – Brussels, VTM Nieuws
  • 14 July – Buenos Aires, National Meteorological Service
  • 17 July – Berlin, ZDF
  • 18 July – Paris, France TV
  • 21 July – Havana
  • Mid-July – Miami, NBC/El Mundo
  • August – Tokyo, NTV

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by James Voogt

Urban Meteorology Course 28 Aug – 8 Sep 2017 Malaysia

2017-07-05 in Meetings, Resources

Description

28 August – 8 September 2017
Gelang Patah, Malaysia (University of Reading Malaysia Campus)

This training course will cover all aspects of urban meteorology, environment (including air quality) and climate. By the end of the course participants will be able to critique siting of instrumentation in urban areas, undertake modelling of urban areas and know how to deliver climate services in urban areas.

Detailed Description

This course is part of the WMO education and training programme.

All participants are required to register to apply for a place on the course.  This is done by completing a purchase (FREE OF CHARGE) on this system (see link below).   Following registration, participants will be sent an application form by email which should be returned no later than 14 July.  The number of spaces on the course is limited to 25 participants. The local cost of the training course is 450 GBP (578 CHF) which will cover course fees, accommodation, breakfast and lunch.

http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculty-of-science/meteorology/registration-urban-meteorology-environment-and-climate-services-training-course

Note there are some funded places available (review of these will start on 17 July).

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by James Voogt

Earth Observations: Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

2017-04-13 in Resources

The eoPortal News posted this story that may be of interest to those using remote sensing over urban areas.

https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/news/research/-/article/urban-monitoring-boosted-by-new-data-processor

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by James Voogt

ESA Releases new “Global Urban Footprint” map

2016-11-24 in Resources

IAUC Members may be interested in the newly available Global Urban Footprint map available from the European Space Agency.

 

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by James Voogt

2016-10-07 in Meetings, Resources

IAUC members may be interested in the special editions of the journals Science and Nature that have recently focused on cities.

Science: Rise of the City

Nature: A New Urban Agenda

These come in advance of the UN Habitat III meeting.  IAUC will participate as a part of the WMO delegation at this meeting.

 

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by James Voogt

Training Workshops: Data Assimilation and Intro to the WRF model

2016-06-10 in Meetings, Resources

Two training workshops will be held on Sunday, 11 September 2016 in Trieste, Italy, in connection with the EMS Annual meeting & ECAC Conference (www.ems2016.eu ):

– Workshop: Basic Data Assimilation Concepts: http://www.ems2016.eu/workshops/basic_data_assimilation_concepts.html  

– Training workshop on: Introduction to the WRF model: http://www.ems2016.eu/workshops/introduction_to_wrf.html  

Early bird registration is possible until 15 June 2016, next week. The registration deadline for both workshops is 09 July.

For more information, contact
Gert-Jan Steeneveld

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