See also:

• Science: Agriculture: Forestry: Urban Forestry  (9)
• Science: Environment: Climate Change  (221)
• Science: Environment: Sustainability: Community Sustainability  (57)

• 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)