Introduction
On this homepage we give you a
lot of informations on the subject "Urban Climates". You can find
information about addresses, literature, companies and meetings. In addition you can find
a list with interesting homepages about Urban Climates and information about urban climate
from cities all over the world. With a klick on the flags 
You can
switch between the german an the english Version.
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WHY
THIS HOMEPAGE ? - URBAN CLIMATES |
This homepage Urban Climates does not treat about the actual
weather but about the special climatic changes in the cities. More and more people live in
big cities, sometimes with more than 10 million inhabitants. For a long time we know
that the climate and the air-quality in cities strongly differ from those of the
surrounding area. The Urban-Climatology explores these phenomenas.
A lot of the climatic effects in the cities are disadvantageous
to the people who live in the cities. For example heat stress in summer and smog in winter
and in summer. Climatologists try to improve the environmental conditions by a
city-planning which involves climatic experiences. Therefore climatic investigations take
place in a lot of cities to get climatic and air-pollution data for city-planning.
To make possible an exchange of experiences, we are developing
this homepage " STADTKLIMA / URBAN CLIMATES" which allows to get information
about this subject all over the world. The idea to create this homepage came up on the
"Second Japanese / German Meeting" in Kobe (Japan) in september 1997.
In strong connection to the Urban-Climatology we must see the
Human-Biometeorology, the Agricultural-Meteorology and the Technical-Meteorology.
WEATHER : WEATHER in
meteorology is the physical situation of the atmosphere at a special time on a special
location, destinated by the meteorological elements and their combination. Typical for
WEATHER is the quick change sometimes.
CLIMATE: CLIMATE is the sum of all weather conditions, which characterize the mean conditions of
the atmosphere on a special place in the world. The mean conditions are representated by
statistical parameters (mean, frequency, extremes, periods and others)
over a long time (e.g. 30 years)
URBAN CLIMATES: URBAN CLIMATES is the climate modified by the resulting effects of the development of
cities ( including antropogenic heat and air pollution), (WMO, 1981)
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