Dr. Paul J. Alexander (MaREI, UCC), lead researcher on the EPA funded Urb-ADAPT project was invited to speak by the Local Authority Services National Training Group (LASNTG) at the Environmental Services Training Group Annual Conference in Clonmel (24 May 2017). Continue reading
Urb-ADAPT presented at the 12th International Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) for Remote Sensing in Urban Areas (Dubai)
The biennial international Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) is designed to be a forum of excellence where a selected group of researchers, practitioners, and students present and discuss their latest findings and results.
Update (February 2017) from WP2 (Data Assessment) so what do we need to start planning for adaptation in urban areas?
In previous posts, we’ve highlighted how we describe land cover in the Urb-ADAPT project for the purposes of modelling urban climate effects. These previous posts have been specific examples of what we might term our “theoretical framework”, by defining how we approach modelling and how we want to represent urban areas across EMRA, we are setting the parameters for addressing a more fundamental question: What data do we need to start planning for adaptation in urban areas?
Update (August 2016) The Urb-ADAPT modelling approach
Update from WP2 / WP3 – Devising a Modelling Approach for identifying climate risk
In a previous post, the treatment of the land cover included in Urb-ADAPT was outlined, in this post, we outline the overall modelling approach for the Urb-ADAPT project.
Update (July 2016) Work-package 2 Data Assessment: Land cover
One of the key questions when considering the interaction between the atmosphere and the surface is “what surface?” – most climate models are not equipped to handle urban areas, and in the earliest days of climate modelling, entire cities, from New York to London and Tokyo and beyond, were treated as a simple slab of concrete.
NOAA confirms June 2016 another record breaker
The majority of the world’s land surface had warmer to much-warmer-than-average temperatures during June 2016, with the largest temperature departures observed across much of north-central Russia, the Russian Far East, and northern Australia where temperature departures were 3.0°C or higher.
