Assignment 2 is an individual task (30%) In Assignment 2 you collect and analyse urban microclimate and surface cover data in urban environments. The data may be related to outdoor surface covers at...

Assignment 2 is an individual task (30%)

In Assignment 2 you collect and analyse urban microclimate and surface cover data in urban environments.

The data may be related to outdoor surface covers at any university campuses or somewhere near your home which you can access conveniently for a few days.

• Essential instruments (IR thermometer) will be required and available to the students who can collect them from North Tce Campus.


• For those who cannot collect the instrument the specification will be provided for IR thermometer to be obtained from hardware stores, pharmacies, amazon or ebay.


• Data collection sheet and report template can be downloaded fromSoftware and Data Collection Resources.

Assignment requirements:

• Students are to select two common urban/building surface material (i.e. concrete, asphalt, paving, roof tile, roof sheet, grass or a building cladding.


• Each student observe and records surface temperature of the 2 selected surfaces 12 times during sunny/partly cloudy days at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm and 8pm (this means 2 days of 6 recordings of 2 samples).


• General weather information of the city has to be recorded at each data collection round.


• The collected data for the two samples are to be analysed, compared and discussed appropriately according to the template provided.