Understanding
urban climate.
An educational field-notes project about temperature, humidity and environmental observations in cities.
DATA SCIENCE · ENVIRONMENT · RESEARCH NOTES
01 / OVERVIEW
About the project
Urban environments influence local weather conditions. Building materials, vegetation, traffic and street geometry all affect how heat is absorbed and released.
This project explores publicly available environmental datasets and methods for comparing observations across different locations and time periods.
02 / METHODOLOGY
Research methods
Data collection
Reviewing open meteorological datasets, measurement intervals and sensor metadata.
Data processing
Exploring normalization, missing values, descriptive statistics and time-series analysis.
03 / FIELD NOTES
Topics under study
Urban heat islands. Built-up areas may retain more heat than surrounding vegetated regions.
Relative humidity. Changes in air temperature can affect relative humidity even when moisture content remains relatively stable.
Measurement quality. Sensor placement, calibration and sampling intervals influence observations.