Birmingham's Urban Heat

23 January 2012

Researchers at the University of Birmingham are currently setting up a project to examine Birmingham’s urban heat island (UHI) in more detail than ever before – UHIs occur in towns and cities as they experience higher air temperatures compared to surrounding rural areas.

The project will result in Birmingham having the densest network of air-temperature sensors in the world, allowing world-leading, high-quality urban climate research to be conducted in our city!

University of Birmingham/Birmingham Urban Climate Lab would like to offer schools and colleges in the region the opportunity to become involved in this exciting project!

We are looking for schools or colleges in suitable areas who will allow us to locate a small battery powered, WiFi air temperature sensor on their school grounds.

We will install the system and provide the full technical support and maintenance (which we envisage to be minimal). The sensor will require use of a WiFi system to allow the small amount of data to be transmitted and displayed online, near real-time. The data will be publicly available.

Interested? For more information please follow the link

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