Heat Watch engages local communities in a heat mapping campaign to gather data and create high-resolution descriptions of ambient heat at the human level.
By choosing Heat Watch, teams advance:
Community
Climate Science
Activate local community members in an educational and meaningful role to collect climate data about their place.
Heat Focused
Partnerships
Convene stakeholders from government agencies, non-profits, universities, and other groups with a specific focus on heat resilience.
High Resolution
UHI Mapping
Map ambient air temperatures across your region at a granularity of 10m resolution using mobile sensors.
Cohort of
Peers
Learn and share with a cohort of cities that participate in the heat mapping campaign each summer.
Enhance the impact of your Heat Watch campaign with CAPA’s
Engagement, Analysis, and Additional Monitoring products.
Partnership Highlight
Heat Watch campaigns are supported annually through a public-private partnership with the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NIHHIS seeks to provide actionable, science-based information to help decision makers reduce exposure and manage risk. Together, the CAPA-NIHHIS partnership have conducted mapping campaigns in over 75 domestic and international cities, and counting.
Click to visit the NIHHIS website
Follow along with this year’s heat mapping campaigns and learn about
ongoing NIHHIS opportunities through the Heat Beat Newsletter