Content: Provides a coherent system to describe, study, and understand the essentials of urban climates. Explores the physical principals governing the creation of distinct urban climates. Explains the ways cities interact with their atmospheres over scales that extend from walls and roofs up to whole cities. Also considers the effects of weather and climate on the city.


Syllabus: (pdf)

Cities and Climate Change (OECD, 2010): (pdf)

Development & Climate Cgange (World Bank, 2008): (pdf)

Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Concepts & Methods
Lecture 3: Airflow
Lecture 4: Radiation
Lecture 5: Energy Balance
Lecture 6: Urban Heat Island
Lecture 7: Water
Lecture 8: Atmospheric Moisture
Lecture 9: Cloud & Precipitation
Lecture 10: Air Pollution
Lecture 11: Geographical Controls & Cities and Climate Change
Lecture 12: Climates of Humans & Climate-Sensitive Design
Lecture 13: Urban Modeling

Textbook: Urban Climates (T. R. Oke, G. Mills, A. Christen & J. A. Voogt)

Interested persons should contact Dr. Zafer Boybeyi at zboybeyi@gmu.edu.

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