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Topic: Heat island

Photo showing the sun rises above the Empire State Building in New York City on August 4, 2022, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey.

NOAA expands availability of new heat forecast tool ahead of summer

April 22, 2024

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Earth science news

Photo showing the sun rises above the Empire State Building in New York City on August 4, 2022, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey.

Photo showing Stacey Henry, founder of the Delaware Resilience Hub, and her daughter, Mylee, volunteered to collect temperature, humidity, time and location data for the 2023 NOAA-supported Urban Heat Island mapping campaign in Wilmington, Delaware and surrounding townships. They joined other volunteers who attached sensors to their cars to collect the data that was used to create a detailed map of the hottest areas in their community.

Federal agencies, communities to map heat inequities in 14 U.S. cities

April 16, 2024

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Photo showing Stacey Henry, founder of the Delaware Resilience Hub, and her daughter, Mylee, volunteered to collect temperature, humidity, time and location data for the 2023 NOAA-supported Urban Heat Island mapping campaign in Wilmington, Delaware and surrounding townships. They joined other volunteers who attached sensors to their cars to collect the data that was used to create a detailed map of the hottest areas in their community.

Map image showing the difference between 30-meter and high-resolution land cover data can mean the difference between seeing large amounts of impervious surface versus neighborhoods with patches of forested area. The image on the right shows 30-meter land cover data for Shelter Bay in Skagit County, Washington, while the image on the left shows the same area with 1-meter high-resolution land cover data, making the product 900 times more detailed.

Biden-Harris Administration shares new land cover data to help communities understand coastal change

January 25, 2024

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

coastal communities

America the Beautiful

Map image showing the difference between 30-meter and high-resolution land cover data can mean the difference between seeing large amounts of impervious surface versus neighborhoods with patches of forested area. The image on the right shows 30-meter land cover data for Shelter Bay in Skagit County, Washington, while the image on the left shows the same area with 1-meter high-resolution land cover data, making the product 900 times more detailed.

Kyra Woods, policy advisor for the city of Chicago, hands out sensors to volunteers who will attach a sensor to their car and drive established routes in the city. The sensor can record temperature, humidity and location. The data are then used to create a detailed map of urban heat pockets in the city.

NOAA seeks applications for 2024 urban heat island initiative

December 19, 2023

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citizen science

Kyra Woods, policy advisor for the city of Chicago, hands out sensors to volunteers who will attach a sensor to their car and drive established routes in the city. The sensor can record temperature, humidity and location. The data are then used to create a detailed map of urban heat pockets in the city.

Photo showing Derek Van Dam, CNN meteorologist, and Brionna Findley, community volunteer, used a sensor attached to a car to measure temperature, humidity, time and location during NOAA’s 2021 urban heat island mapping campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. The data from volunteers was used to create a map to pinpoint the areas of the city most in need of cooling strategies.

Biden-Harris Administration announces $5 million funding opportunity to help communities address extreme heat through Investing in America Agenda

July 11, 2023

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Inflation Reduction Act

Environmental justice

Photo showing Derek Van Dam, CNN meteorologist, and Brionna Findley, community volunteer, used a sensor attached to a car to measure temperature, humidity, time and location during NOAA’s 2021 urban heat island mapping campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. The data from volunteers was used to create a map to pinpoint the areas of the city most in need of cooling strategies.

Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

NOAA and partners release 2022 urban heat island mapping results

November 10, 2022

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Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

NOAA seeks applicants for 2023 urban heat island initiative

October 18, 2022

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Photo showing Nicholas Mullenix, volunteer from Bethesda, Maryland, and Morgan Zabow, NOAA Climate Program, Climate and Health Communications and Outreach Coordinator, attach the heat sensor to a car before they head out to collect heat data on August 7, 2022, as part of the Montgomery County Urban Heat Island mapping campaign.

Volunteers Octavia Jones and her two children Taegan and Tristen Harris used the sensor attached to car to collect heat data in the Bronx as part of the NOAA and partner Heat Island Mapping Campaign, July 2021. Courtesy of Octavia Jones (Ms. Jones signed a permission to allow her photo to be used by NOAA and others to tell the story of the Heat Island Mapping Campaign)

NOAA summer urban heat mapping

May 27, 2022

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media teleconference

Volunteers Octavia Jones and her two children Taegan and Tristen Harris used the sensor attached to car to collect heat data in the Bronx as part of the NOAA and partner Heat Island Mapping Campaign, July 2021. Courtesy of Octavia Jones (Ms. Jones signed a permission to allow her photo to be used by NOAA and others to tell the story of the Heat Island Mapping Campaign)

A community volunteer attaches the heat sensor that will collect heat data as part of NOAA’s Heat Island Mapping Campaign in Kansas City, Missouri on Aug. 6, 2021.

NOAA seeks applicants for 2022 urban heat island initiative

November 17, 2021

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A community volunteer attaches the heat sensor that will collect heat data as part of NOAA’s Heat Island Mapping Campaign in Kansas City, Missouri on Aug. 6, 2021.

A man exercising along an urban waterfront bends down due to the extreme heat.

NOAA and communities to map heat inequities in 11 states

April 14, 2021

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A man exercising along an urban waterfront bends down due to the extreme heat.

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