Uploaded on 2018-02-02 by Lars Duindam

1) - 2) In the file included in the report you can find an image showing the temperatures in different parts of Amsterdam. This data was collected on a warm summer day with an average temperature of 29 degrees. The local variations are evident, the city centre is exposed to temperatures 10 degrees Celsius higher than average, while the temperatures outside the centre are significantly lower. 3) Trees have a positive influence on the Urban Heat Island effect. One tree is equivalent to ten AC's and is in addition of course more sustainable. With about 1 million trees, Amsterdam is much greener than for example Paris (about 90.000 trees). Still I think we can improve by implementing more sustainable ideas, such as green roofs. On top of that I would ameliorate the underground MTR-system, this will reduce the use of cars in the city and thus reduce the UHI-effect. 4) I'm not very informed about policies reducing the UHI-effect. Because of the relative cold climate that we have in the Netherlands, I think in general people are quite happy when temperature rises. So taking measurements to reduce the UHI-effect is not really necessary.