Urban climate monitoring network at the Wolf site in Basel for improved urban planning, utilisation concepts and user comfort.

An innovative urban climate monitoring network records the effective temperatures to which users are exposed in urban areas, enabling better forecasting and planning.

For persons and infrastructure in urban areas, climate change is increasing summer heat stress. Today’s architectural and ventilation concepts are becoming less and less capable of ensuring well-being. Heat stress inside and outside buildings is increasingly becoming a problem for sensitive population groups (such as elderly people, people with cardiovascular problems).
The heat also affects infrastructure due to damage (e.g. damaged tarmac, rail deformation).

The first step is to install measuring networks within urban areas to measure the extent and duration of the heat.
In a second step, calculation models are created that calculate the heat distribution for each location in the city.
In the third step, the models are used to create forecasts, scenarios and planning bases.

What does this mean for users?
Residents and visitors receive the current temperatures at their location via web or app, not from a remote measuring station. The relevant persons responsible can plan measures on the basis of location-specific forecasts. Specialists, such as city planners, can use the models to objectively record conditions in cities, digitally test and evaluate planning scenarios and create planning bases.