Researchers have been using weather balloons and other technology to map heat in Arizona Meghan Finnerty/Arizona State University
For the past month, two trucks outfitted with weather sensors, lasers and balloons have roamed Arizona鈥檚 scorching cities measuring the heat in extraordinary detail. Such a ground-level view of urban 鈥渕icroclimates鈥 could help cities keep people cool more effectively as climate change boosts temperatures.
鈥淎rizona has been the most extreme environment where we鈥檝e deployed so far because of the intensity of the heat,鈥 says at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, who is leading the survey. On…
