urban climate

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• - An on-line course focusing on the effect of climate and architectural design upon each other in Hong Kong.
  
• - NASA analysis of blistering - and refreshing - spots in Salt Lake City.
  
• - NASA's High Spatial Resolution Airborne Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data to Support Analysis and Modeling Tasks in EOS IDS Project ATLANTA.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Australian Bureau of Meteology information on the impacts of climate on urban design.
  
• - New York Times feature story about the urban heat island effect, focusing on Project ATLANTA. [Registration required -- free]
  
• - Quantitative study of the heat island in Melbourne, Australia
  
• - Research activities with a particular focus on air exchange in and out of the subway system.
  
• - English version of German urban climate study group resource page.
  
• - Reports of surface albedo (reflectivity) of Los Angeles and California's South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB).