Project contents
Adapting to climate change is one of the central tasks of modern urban planning. Extreme summers, in particular, pose major challenges for municipalities: protecting the population from heat stress, ensuring healthy work and living environments, and maintaining the quality of recreational spaces all depend on accurate meteorological data. However, existing official monitoring networks are often too coarse-grained to capture the complex, fine-scale temperature differences in urban areas, such as those between built-up areas and parks. Furthermore, establishing high-resolution monitoring networks involves high costs and logistical hurdles.
The Project Goal: Data Aggregation and Forecasting
The goal of the HEATMAP project (“High-Resolution Real-Time Models for the Analysis and Forecasting of Heat Stress in Urban Areas”) is to bridge the gap between point measurements and comprehensive, area-wide information.
