ORBIDENSE
Research Programme

Research at ORBIDENSE

The research direction of ORBIDENSE is moving from environmental data retrieval toward empirical, reproducible and decision-relevant climate-risk analysis.

Urban climate and extreme heat

A principal research direction is neighbourhood-scale urban heat exposure and vulnerability, including differences between surface temperature, near-surface atmospheric temperature, thermal stress and night-time heat.

Uncertainty

Future research will explicitly examine measurement uncertainty, spatial heterogeneity and the sensitivity of risk classifications to different environmental datasets and modelling assumptions.

Adaptation

Longer-term work will investigate the accessibility, equity and effectiveness of urban climate-adaptation measures rather than assuming that the presence of an intervention automatically implies a quantified benefit.

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