WNYC News highlights CREST Research

Posted on August 26, 2014

WNYC News published an article on NOAACREST Research titled "Beware the Light Box Effect — and Other Secrets of NYC's Microclimates"

The research led by Dr. Brian Vant Hall was all part of a project to map and understand the city’s “microclimates”: how temperatures vary from one neighborhood to another depending on elevation, building type and other factors.

Over the last two summers, teams of students fanned out across Manhattan carrying equipment that looked half high-tech, half dime-store. They carried expensive, hand-held devices in their hands connected to a supersensitive thermometer that hung off their backpacks. In order to keep the thermometers from being overly affected by the sunlight, however, they were covered by Styrofoam cups and mounted on pieces of cardboard wrapped in white paper.

For more information, click here  to read the article