Workshop on Urban Heat Islands
Programme
| “Cool science: Urban heat islands” By Assoc Prof Matthias Roth, NUS |
| “Evaluation of Regional Climate Downscaling over the Maritime Continent” By Li Xian-Xiang, Koh Tieh Yong, Dara Entekhabi, Matthias Roth, Jagabandhu Panda, Leslie Norford, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, SMART |
| “Simulating climate change in UK cities using a regional climate model (HadRM3) and 21st Century climate forcing from urban growth” By Dr Charline Marzin and Dr Mark McCarthy, Met Office Hadley Centre, United Kingdom |
| “Urban flux towers: sources of data to evaluate/tune up meteorological and air quality models in cities” By Dr Erik Velasco, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, SMART |
| “UHI mitigation: A brief review of existing methods and their effectiveness” By Dr Winston Chow, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore |
| “Potential signature of influence of Urban Heat Island on extreme rainfall over Singapore” By Mr Cheong Wee Kiong, Centre for Climate Research Singapore |
| Dialogue session |
Abstracts
For the presentations, please download abstracts here.