International Urban Climate Homepage - A tool for Urban Climate

The internet project “International Urban Climate Homepage” (URL address http://www.stadtklima.de) is a teamwork between the Department of Urban Climatology, Office of Environmental Protection of the City of Stuttgart, Germany, and the Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany. The idea for the “International Urban Climate Homepage” was born during the second Japanese-German Meeting on „Climate Analysis in Urban Planning“ which took place in Kobe, Japan, in September 1997.

The objective of the international urban climate homepage is to focus and to provide information on urban climate which comprises both the thermal and the air quality component. At present the homepage consists of the following main sections:

- a list of cities world-wide about which urban climate information are so far available. The homepage presents general information about these cities, contact persons and institutions which work in the field of urban climate as well as climatic and air pollution data about the cities. Also included is information about past, present and future planned investigations and projects in urban climatology for the listed cities.

- a current list of urban climate - related meetings, literature/bibliography and glossary of urban climatology. Furthermore, the homepage contains a list of companies working in the field of urban climatology and links about current weather and air pollution conditions in various cities.

- Demo versions of urban climate models as well as other software and instruments for investigations on urban climate.

- An “Urban Climate Forum” and an “Online Journal of Urban Climate”.