NIHHIS Urban Heat Island Map

A map of North America with orange circles representing urban heat islands.

NIHHIS Urban Heat Island Map

Explore urban heat island maps from the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS).

The online mapping projects shows:

Urban Heat Island maps, as well as the underlying datasets used to produce them, from the NIHHIS-CAPA Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns from 2018 to present. Products from the most recent campaigns will be made available here when ready (in late 2022). Data sets include the mobile transect points (observed every second) as well as the ultimate map product as a raster. Details on the data sets and the methods used are available in the readme file.

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