How Shiny Is L.A.?
- Reports of surface albedo (reflectivity) of Los Angeles and California's South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB).
- http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/Buildings/RResearch/LA.html

EPA: Heat Island Site
- Explains how heat islands are measured, and how they can affect your health.
- http://www.epa.gov/heatisland/

Board on the Urban Environment
- American Meteorological Society Board on the Urban Environment members, email list, and mission statement.
- http://mypage.iu.edu/~grimmon/AMS_Urban_board.html

Stadtklima / Urban climate
- English version of German urban climate study group resource page.
- http://www.urbanclimate.net/

Scientists Watch Cities Make Their Own Weather
- New York Times feature story about the urban heat island effect, focusing on Project ATLANTA. [Registration required -- free]
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/081500sci-environ-climate.html

Climatic Design of Buildings - An Overview
- An on-line course focusing on the effect of climate and architectural design upon each other in Hong Kong.
- http://www.arch.hku.hk/~cmhui/teach/65156-7.htm

Sacramento urban heat island
- California's capital glows - and has cool spots, too - in an aerial image from a study of how urban forests can help keep cities from overheating.
- http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd01jul98_1.htm

Urban heat in Salt Lake City
- NASA analysis of blistering - and refreshing - spots in Salt Lake City.
- http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd21jul98_1.htm

Sustainable Urban Design and Climate
- Australian Bureau of Meteology information on the impacts of climate on urban design.
- http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/design/design.shtml

Project ATLANTA - Urban Heat Island Study
- NASA's High Spatial Resolution Airborne Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data to Support Analysis and Modeling Tasks in EOS IDS Project ATLANTA.
- http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/atlanta/

Heat Island Group
- Livermore National Labs research group site. Contains information from a Heat Island informational pamphlet. The group studies the extent of the heat island phenomena and the effectiveness of different ways of combatting it.
- http://eande.lbl.gov/HeatIsland/