The workshop aims to facilitate collaborations between researchers and will have substantial dialogue and networking activities as well as invited overview presentations, panel discussions and the opportunity to present your work in poster sessions. Sessions planned for the programme are:

  • Overview presentations by invited speakers
  • Plenary discussions
  • Networking activities
  • Breakout discussion groups
  • Poster session

In addition to the main programme we will have a practical activity on the Monday afternoon where we will all take measurements of surface temperature in and around the Reading campus. Practical details are given on the meeting logistics page here.

An outline of the programme is given below:

 

Agenda for EarthTemp IV: Exploring the Complexity of Urban Surface Temperatures

 

Monday 8th June 2015

12:00 – 13:00: Registration and lunch

Assemble at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. Time to meet your fellow attendees. A buffet lunch will be provided 

 

13:00 – 17:00: Measurement time

So how complex are urban surface temperatures? Well here is your chance to found out. We will spend the afternoon measuring small scale temperature variations in and around the university campus in Reading using multiple measurements methods. This will be a fun but educational start to the meeting and offer a unique insight into small-scale temperature variability. We intend that this activity will lead to a publication for all participants (weather permitting!).

 

Tuesday 9th June 2015 

08:30 – 09:00: Late registration

 

09:00 – 09:15: Welcome, logistics, and introduction to workshop

09:15 – 09:30: The EarthTemp Network and Visiting Scientist Scheme

09:30 – 09:45: Report on EarthTemp African Workshop 2014

09:45 - 10:00: Aims and objectives for this workshop

10:00 – 10:30: Making connections

 

10:30 to 11:00 Coffee

 

11:00 to 12:30: Session 1:  Meaning(s) of temperature in urban environments - the complexity of linkages between temperatures measured different ways, including remote sensing

11:00 to 12:00 – Keynote presentations

Keynote 1a - "Meanings of Urban surface temperatures" - Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia

Keynote 1b - "Complexity of ST in the urban environment" - Jean-Pierre Lagouarde, INRA

12:00 – 12:30: Plenary discussion on session 1

 

12:30 to 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 to 15:00: Session 2:  Three-dimensional temperature in urban spaces - temperature variability, urban materials and spaces, linking the 3D state to the 2D remote sensing view 

13:30 to 14:30: Keynote presentations

Keynote 2a - "Linking the 3D state to the 2D remote sensing view" - James Voogt, University of Western Ontario

Keynote 2b - "Radiative transfer over urban surfaces" - Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, CESBIO 

14:30 to 15:00: Plenary discussion on session 2

 

15:00 to 15:30 Coffee

 

15:30 – 16:30: Collaboration incubator I 

16:30 to 19:00: Poster session and welcome reception

All participants are asked to bring 1 poster. We will split everyone into 3 and spend 30 minutes on each group of posters.

 

 20:00 onwards: Informal gathering for dinner (sign up during the day)

 

Wednesday 10th June 2015

 

09:00 - 10:00: Session 3:  Urbanisation and the climate record - using SAT / LST links be used to understand/address this topic

09:00 to 09:30 – Keynote presentation

Keynote 3 - "LST and land use change" - Christopher Small, Columbia University 

09:30 to 10:00: Plenary discussion on session 3

 

10:00 – 10:30: Coffee

 

10:30  - 11:30: Session 4:  Application needs for urban temperatures - reconciling ideal requirements and available measurement systems

10:30 to 11:00 – Keynote presentation

Keynote 4 - "Urban heatwaves" - Bénédicte Dousset, University of Hawai'i

11:00 to 11:30: Plenary discussion on session 4

  

11:30 – 13:00: Breakout groups 1: Addressing key questions from plenary sessions

 

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

 

14:00 to 15:00 Collaboration incubator I 

15:00 – 15:30: Breakout groups 2: Synthesis of findings – writing of community paper(s)

 

15:30 to 16:00 Coffee

 

16:00 – 16:30: Breakout groups 2: Synthesis of findings – writing of community paper(s) - continued

16:30 to 17:00: Wrap-up

 

17:00: End of EarthTemp IV