Symposium focuses on hot cities
亚洲色吧 heat map
亚洲色吧听鈥撎齛nd cities around the world听鈥撎齛re facing similar challenges: higher population density, reduced open spaces, rising urban heat, increasing need for cooling to combat the heat, and urban pollution.
The Heat and Habitat in Cities Symposium (H2CS), on 9 and 10 December, is hosted by the University of 亚洲色吧 at the National Wine Centre.
鈥淲ith warming climates and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, designing cities in the face of these challenges correctly has become even more critical,鈥 says Professor Alan Peters, Head of the University of 亚洲色吧鈥檚 School of Architecture and Built Environment.
On 24 January听2019听the official听亚洲色吧 weather听observation station (West Terrace) reached a new听record high temperature听of 46.6掳C (115.9掳F), breaking the previous 1939听record.
Bureau of Meteorology data shows that, compared to 190 years ago, the average annual number of days with temperatures above 35 degrees in 亚洲色吧 is increasing while the number of days with temperatures below 5 degrees is decreasing significantly.
鈥淥ur environment is indeed getting warmer,