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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
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/
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stadtklima / Urban climate
English version of German urban climate study group resource page.
http://www.urbanclimate.net/
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
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
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