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» Board on the Urban Environment - American Meteorological Society Board on the Urban Environment members, email list, and mission statement.

» 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.

» EPA: Heat Island Site - Explains how heat islands are measured, and how they can affect your health.

» 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.

» How Shiny Is L.A.? - Reports of surface albedo (reflectivity) of Los Angeles and California's South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB).

» 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.

» 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.

» Stadtklima / Urban climate - English version of German urban climate study group resource page.

» Sustainable Urban Design and Climate - Australian Bureau of Meteology information on the impacts of climate on urban design.

» Urban heat in Salt Lake City - NASA analysis of blistering - and refreshing - spots in Salt Lake City.

» 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] (August 15, 2000)

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