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Hot Biel Summer

This app visualizes data from the 2023 Biel/Bienne summer measurement campaign, the 2022 Bern summer measurement campaign, and the FITNAH-3D UHI model and Bern UHI data

Check out the modelling app for Biel here.

UHI = Urban Heat Island = How much hotter it is in the city due to the built environment

Data Sources

  • FITNAH Data: Taken from the UHI and temperature model commissioned by the canton of Bern in 2022
  • Digital Elevation Model: Taken from the SwissTopo Alti-3d via the SwissGeoDownloader plugin available through QGIS
  • Station Data and Heat Index Results in Biel: Collected during the 2023 Biel measurement campaign undertaken by your author and support significantly by the Geographic Institue of the University of Bern (GIUB) and the City of Biel.
  • Station Data and Heat Index Results in Bern: Collected during the 2022 Bern measurement campaign undertaken by the GIUB and the city of Bern.
  • Meteorological Data: Taken from the three SwissMetNet Automatic Weather Stations located closest to Biel
  • Map Layers: Taken from the wmts access provided by SwissTopo

Built With

  • Streamlit: Main app framework.
  • Plotly: For interactive plots.
  • Geopandas, Rasterio, Shapely, Xarray, Numpy: Used during data preparation.

Learn More

  • Full Thesis: Available once I get my final grade...
  • Limited App Data: Explore the GitHub repository for the subset of data available in this app.
  • Other App: Check out the other app: here.

Feedback Welcome

Have comments, questions, suggestions, or critiques? I'd love to hear from you!

-TGE

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Visualize the distribution of urban heat in Biel/Bienne and Bern.

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