Fine Structure in Manhattan's Daytime Urban Heat Island: A New Dataset

Authors

Brian Vant-Hull, City University of New YorkFollow
Maryam Karimi, City University of New YorkFollow
Awolou Sossa, New York City College of Technology
Jade Wisanto, City University of New York
Rouzbeh Nazari, Rowan UniversityFollow
Reza Khanbilvardi, City University of New YorkFollow

Document Type

Article

Version Deposited

Published Version

Publication Date

7-1-2014

Publication Title

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering

DOI

10.4090/juee.2013.v8n1

Abstract

A street-level temperature and humidity dataset with high resolution spatial and temporal components has been created for the island of Manhattan, suitable for use by the urban health and modelling communities. It consists of a set of pedestrian measurements over the course of two summers converted into anomaly maps, and a set of ten light-post mounted installations measuring temperature, relative humidity, and illumination at three minute intervals over three months. The quality control and data reduction used to produce the anomaly maps is described, and the relationships between spatial and temporal variability are investigated. The data sets are available for download via the project website.

Comments

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering is an Open Access Journal.

Recommended Citation

Vant-Hull, B., Karimi, M., Sossa, A., Wisanto, J., Nazari, R., & Khanbilvardi, R. (2014). Fine Structure in Manhattan’s Daytime Urban Heat Island: a New Dataset. Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering 8(1), 59-74.