Urban Heat Data 2021 Evening Traverse

Charlottesville participated in the 2021 NIHHIS-CAPA Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign, a nationwide citizen-science based effort to collect local data on temperatures and humidity levels across the city. How urban environments and neighborhoods are built affects the amount of heat absorbed and retained, which can increase or reduce the impact of extreme heat events. Increases in extreme heat are one of the top projected impacts Charlottesville will experience from climate change. Data was collected by ~30 volunteers on August 24, 2021 along 7 pre-set routes (5 driving routes and 2 bicycle routes) during a heat wave on a day with high heat and low precipitation. The collected data was processed by CAPA Strategies and is now available through the City of Charlottesville's Open Data Portal. A PDF Report, including generated maps and explaining the data collection methodology, is also available. More information can be found on the City's Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign webpage. File Notations: traverses (.shp, vector shapefile) = data collected by campaign participants rasters (.tif, geotiff) = heat surface models am = morning; af = afternoon; pm = evening t = temperature; hi = heat index f = fahrenheit e.g. pm_hi_f.tif = evening heat index geotiff raster with fahrenheit values.