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Board on the Urban Environment
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The Board on Urban Environments includes within its interests (but
is not restricted to): urban vegetation/atmosphere interactions,
turbulent transport and dispersion processes (in urban areas and around
buildings), urban air quality (urban airshed modeling and urban air
chemistry experiments), measurement challenges and observation techniques
in urban environments, urban winds and circulation systems, mesoscale
interactions between cities and their surroundings, the energy and water
balance of cities, the urban heat island effect and its possible
contamination of long-term air temperature records, remote sensing of
urban meteorological variables, heat waves and urban biometeorology,
models of the urban biosphere, cities as agents of global change, building
climate, road climatology, implications for planning and policy, urban
effects on weather, and weather forecasting for urban areas and city
dwellers. Observational, modeling, theoretical, and applied studies are
all included.
The Board consists of six members with a number of ex-officio members who are members of other STAC committees with interests that intersect with the urban environment. The purpose and functions of the Board on Urban Environment are to: 1. Provide
a focal point for those working in Urban Meteorology and related fields,
and to foster interaction with other AMS committees and other societies in
matters related to the Meteorology of Urban
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