London's Urban Heat Island - Average Summer

<p>For an urban heat island map during a&nbsp;warm summer&nbsp;<a href="/dataset/london-s-urban-heat-island">see this dataset.</a></p> <p>This map shows the results of an &lsquo;UrbClim&rsquo; simulation for the mean temperature at midnight during the summer of 2011 (May to September) at a resolution of 250m. This summer has been selected as a typical summer for a West-European city.</p> <p>On average, the night-time temperature is approximately 4&deg;C higher in the city centre. During some hot nights, even larger effects are observed.</p> <p>UrbClim is an urban climate model designed to model and study the urban heat island effect (UHI) at a spatial resolution of a few hundred meters. This project was carried out by <a href="http://www.urban-climate.be/services/eu_cities/">VITO </a>as part of an EU-funded <a href="http://www.ramses-cities.eu/">RAMSES </a>programme on the urban impacts of climate change.</p> <p>For more information about the model, please see the Technical Information and Interpretation report. Please direct any enquiries to Hans Hooyberghs (<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>) or Koen De Ridder (<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <table style="display: table !important;" border="0" width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" width="40%"><img style="width: 200px;" title="Ramses" src="https://files.datapress.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/20170214105814/RamsesLogo.png" alt="Ramses logo" width="200" align="center" /></td> <td align="center" width="40%"><img style="width: 200px;" title="VITO" src="https://files.datapress.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/20170214105816/VITO_logo-300x114.png" alt="VITO logo" width="200" align="center" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>