Technical Conference on
Tropical Urban Climates, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28 March - 2 April 1993: extended abstracts.
Technical Conference on
Tropical Urban Climates, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28 March - 2 April 1993 / co-organizers, World Meteorological Organization [et al.]; co-sponsors, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific [et al.].
Not exact matches
The disease does occur more in
tropical climates where there is likelihood of standing water or flooding; rat infestations in densely populated
urban areas are also a factor.
Located at the Palazzo Bembo, Fragments of an
Urban Future answers to the most pressing issues facing megacities today — unprecedented urbanization, accelerating
climate change, and the need for preservation of
tropical biodiversity.
Influenced by the
tropical climate and vegetation of her home country as well as by the
urban vibe of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Milhazes combines traditional imagery and cultural clichés with plain geometric forms and accurate structured composition, creating dynamical and unexpected works.
Bibliography of
urban climatology for the period 1992 - 1995 including a special section on
urban climate in
tropical / subtropical areas prepared by Ernesto Jáuregui.
Scientists at Lamont are developing a
tropical cyclone risk model that can be used in
urban planning, which incorporates
climate factors in determining the probability of a
tropical cyclone making landfall at a given location.
These measurements can be used to locate weather fronts, monitor the El Niño - Southern Oscillation, determine the strength of
tropical cyclones, study
urban heat islands and monitor the global
climate.