Richmond, VA created a temperature map to allocate resources against urban heat
Richmond, VA created a temperature map to allocate resources
Students and faculty from Virginia Commonwealth University partnered with the City of Richmond and local non-profit organizations to measure localized temperatures to create a high-resolution temperature map that is used to allocate resources during heat waves.
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Urban Heat Island | Spatial Analysis Lab at University of Richmond
The temperature of the planet is rising at unprecedented rate. But not all geographic locales are experiencing the same degree of warming. Even if the Earth were not warming overall, we would still…
OSF | Richmond, VA Urban Heat Island Assessment July 2017
Shapefiles and ambient temperature surface raster files of data from the 13 July 2017 community-based science study of Richmond, VA's urban heat island effect. Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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