The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has partnered with communities across the country for the past eight years for their Urban Heat Island Mapping Program.
Atlanta previously participated in the 2021 heat mapping campaign. Applications are now open for NOAA’s 2024 campaign.
On Friday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Morgan Zabow, NOAA’s community heat and health information coordinator, and Guanyu Huang, an associate professor of public health and atmospheric science at Stony Brook University, explain why some communities are hotter than others and discuss the goal of the heat mapping campaign.
