Title: Exploring the diurnal variation of urban heat island intensity of Birmingham, using surface temperature data from the SEVIRI geostationary satellite
Abstract:
Urban heat islands have many potential impacts on human life and are one of the topics that of deep concern. This project studies the meteorological data from 20 Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory (BUCL) weather stations and 2 weather stations from UK Met office from September 2013 to August 2014，as well as satellite surface temperature data, trying to explore the diurnal characteristics of the surface urban heat islands (SUHII) derived from satellite data and the canopy urban heat islands (CUHII) derived from weather stations data, and to explore the relationship between SUHII and CUHII. The results indicate that the variation of both SUHII and CUHII were relatively steady at night but drastic during the day, and the day and night trends were opposite. Both SUHII and CUHII showed greater variation in spring and summer, and less variation in winter. At night, SUHII was more representative of CUHII, and was more representative in spring and summer, but less representative in cold seasons. Under low wind conditions, CUHII was estimated with greater confidence from SUHII
Biography:
Cong Wen has completed his master degree from University of Birmingham.
