Full Coverage: Nicholas Rajkovish's Rolling Weather Station

WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio reported on UB climate change researcher Nicholas Rajkovich’s mobile weather station, a bike outfitted with weather monitoring equipment.

An article on Next City reports on research by Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who equipped a bike with 50 pounds of research-grade weather equipment to turn it into a mobile weather station in order to learn more about urban heat islands in Cleveland. “If you could start to correlate having trees with increased temperatures, or certain types of pavement with increased temperatures, you can start to write policies about what you want to do in the city to reduce the urban heat island effect,” he said.

An article on Fast Company’s Co.Exist reports on research by Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who equipped a bike with 50 pounds of research-grade weather equipment to turn it into a mobile weather station in order to learn more about urban heat islands in Cleveland. “Typically when you see a weather report, it’s from the airport where the main weather station is at,” he says. “It gives you a good idea of what’s going on at the regional scale. But it doesn’t let you know what’s happening in particular low-income neighborhoods, where they have less tree cover and a lot more asphalt than some of the higher-income neighborhoods.”

An article on Canada’s Trend Hunter reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners.

An article on Grind TV reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners. “Although airport weather stations and satellite data help to estimate temperatures in a city, finer-scale data is needed to support planning at the neighborhood level,” he said. An article also appeared on Road.cc, a British website for the cycling community.

An article on Gizmag, a new and emerging technology news outlet that reaches more than 5 million readers a month, reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners. “Although airport weather stations and satellite data help to estimate temperatures in a city, finer-scale data is needed to support planning at the neighborhood level,” he said. 

An article in The Atlantic’s City Lab reports on research by Nicolas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, on climate resilience and what cities should be doing to combat urban heat islands using a bicycle equipped with a research-grade weather station to gather data on surface and air temperature, solar radiation, sky view and more.