Uploaded on 2018-01-16 by Johannes Domeier

2) Malmö, being already quite northern, has no significant problems with UHI, yet they occur and the neighbouring Copenhagen shows that the differences can be up to 3°C between urban and rural areas. The only data I found is in a very low resolution and only from Copenhagen: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~wrobel/ramses/city-pages/city-page-copenhagen-uhi.html https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/40384 I guess the wide and not too high buildings in Copenhagen as well as Malmö contribute to a stronger UHI. The strong winds from the sea might not transport the heat from the materials, but the overall effect in Copenhagen is probably considered positive, as it never gets really hot here. 3) Maybe I would create smaller roads that don't go in the same direction as the usual winds, but slightly tilted, so the wind gets slowed down. In general it would be good for new building projects to take the surrounding environment into consideration for energy calculations. 4) Probably not. There is research about it and Copenhagen is monitoring it, but the effects are not in a scale that it affects the health, I would say. It's still important to consider it in future building projects, especially as the surrounding area is so often disregarded.