Challenges Associated with Classifying Urban Meteorological Stations: The Oklahoma City Micronet Example

Challenges Associated with Classifying Urban Meteorological Stations: The Oklahoma City Micronet Example

During 2007-2008, a dense network of meteorological stations was deployed across the Oklahoma City metropolitan area to collect real-time, research-quality observations of atmospheric variables throughout the urban environment: the Oklahoma City Micronet (OKCNET). Because surface characteristics can be vastly different between rural and urban areas as well as throughout a city, significant vari...

Two Oklahoma City disasters: the Oklahoma City bombing and the tornadoes--a blood bank perspective.

The Effect of Citizen Participation on Promoting Social Health in Urban Areas (Case example: Shirvan city)

Social health and social capital are considered one of the important indicators of development in the new international assessment, because the health of the individual and the society are so interdependent that it is impossible to set boundaries between them. The health status of people in the society affects the health of others and their emotions in various ways, as well as the socio-economi...

Measurements and Observations at Aeronautical Meteorological Stations

This chapter deals with the requirements for observations at aeronautical meteorological stations and the instruments and methods that are used. Synoptic observations measure at one location a representative value for a rather large area, but meteorological observations for aeronautical purposes are often made at several locations at the aerodrome and in the surrounding area, at more frequent i...

Impact of Low-Level Jets on the Nocturnal Urban Heat Island Intensity in Oklahoma City

Previous analysis of OklahomaCity (OKC), Oklahoma, temperature data indicated that urban heat islands (UHIs) frequently formed at night and the observed UHI intensity was variable (18–48C). The current study focuses on identifying meteorological phenomena that contributed to the variability of nocturnal UHI intensity in OKC during July 2003. Two episodes, one with a strong UHI signature and one...