Bicycle sports its own full weather station

An article on Gizmag, a new and emerging technology news outlet that reaches more than 5 million readers a month, reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners. “Although airport weather stations and satellite data help to estimate temperatures in a city, finer-scale data is needed to support planning at the neighborhood level,” he said. An article also appeared on Futurity.

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http://www.gizmag.com/weather-station-bicycle/42053/

http://www.futurity.org/bicycle-weather-heat-islands-1111622/