A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science

M Demuzere, J Kittner, A Martilli, G Mills… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
There is a scientific consensus on the need for spatially detailed information on urban
landscapes at a global scale. These data can support a range of environmental services …

[HTML][HTML] Transformational IoT sensing for air pollution and thermal exposures

J Pantelic, N Nazarian, C Miller, F Meggers… - Frontiers in Built …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Today's cities encounter significant challenges concerning urbanization and population
growth, resource availability, and climate change. Concurrently, unparalleled datasets are …

Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality

M Naserikia, MA Hart, N Nazarian, B Bechtel… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the scarcity of air temperature (T a) observations, urban heat studies often rely on
satellite-derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) to characterise the near-surface thermal …

Observations from personal weather stations—EUMETNET interests and experience

C Hahn, I Garcia-Marti, J Sugier, F Emsley… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
The number of people owning a private weather station (PWS) and sharing their
meteorological measurements online is growing worldwide. This leads to an unprecedented …

Lack of vegetation exacerbates exposure to dangerous heat in dense settlements in a tropical African city

J Van de Walle, O Brousse, L Arnalsteen… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Both climate change and rapid urbanization accelerate exposure to heat in the city of
Kampala, Uganda. From a network of low-cost temperature and humidity sensors …

Spatially explicit correction of simulated urban air temperatures using crowdsourced data

O Brousse, C Simpson, O Kenway… - Journal of applied …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Urban climate model evaluation often remains limited by a lack of trusted urban weather
observations. The increasing density of personal weather sensors (PWSs) make them a …

Satellite-based estimation of monthly mean hourly 1-km urban air temperature using a diurnal temperature cycle model

F Huang, W Zhan, Z Liu, H Du, P Dong… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cities worldwide face escalating climate change risks, underscoring the need for spatially
and temporally resolved urban air temperature (T a) data. While satellite-derived land …

[HTML][HTML] Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium

E Beele, M Reyniers, R Aerts… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The growing trend toward urbanisation and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme
weather events emphasise the need for further monitoring and understanding of weather in …

Differences in the intensity of surface and canopy-layer urban heat islands in Europe

L Krelaus, J Apfel, P Sismanidis… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The satellite-derived surface urban heat island is often not properly distinguished from the in
situ derived canopy-layer urban heat island in the field of remote sensing of urban climates …

From proof‐of‐concept to proof‐of‐value: Approaching third‐party data to operational workflows of national meteorological services

I Garcia‐Marti, A Overeem… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
National meteorological services (NMS) are limited by practical and financial boundaries in
the number of official meteorological measurements that it can collect. This means that large …