
Coupled with rapid growth in computing power, those advancements augment traditional urban climate methods and provide unprecedented insights into urban atmospheric states and dynamics. Novel research directions now emerge through recent advancements in sensing and communication technologies, algorithms, and data sources. The scientific field of urban climatology has long investigated the two-way interactions between cities and their overlying atmosphere through in-situ observations and climate simulations at various scales.
7Department of Geography, Urban Climatology Group, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. 6ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extreme, Sydney, NSW, Australia. 5City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
4School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
3Urban Climate Research Center (UCRC), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States. 2School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States. 1School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States. Ariane Middel 1,2,3*, Negin Nazarian 4,5,6, Matthias Demuzere 7 and Benjamin Bechtel 7