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Progressing urban climate research using a high-density monitoring network system

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An increasing number of urban meteorological networks (UMNs) and automated data acquisition are irreplaceable tools in modern urban climate monitoring, evaluation, and analysis. The most serious issue in such systems is data loss, caused primarily by communication problems between stations and servers. The Novi Sad Urban Network (NSUNET) consists of 28 remote stations and 2 servers built solely on open-source technologies. It is used for monitoring climate peculiarities and acquiring long-term meteorological data from the urban area of Novi Sad, as well as for the early warning notification to the city emergency services of the current urban weather conditions. Since its deployment, the system has managed to overcome most of the problems related to today’s UMNs, to operate at a low Internet service fee, and ensure high reliability and performance on low-budget hardware. This study includes details on how to develop such a system and it presents a statistical analysis of the NSUNET system’s performances and the measurement data. Furthermore, this kind of monitoring system provides good results in the analysis of air/surface temperature and outdoor human thermal comfort in the local climate zones (LCZs) of urban and surrounding areas and can help identify hot spots/districts in the urban area.

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This study is a result of the following projects: (a) URBAN-PATH project funded by the Hungary-Serbia IPA Cross-border Co-operation EU Program (Project Grant: HUSRB/1203/122/166) and (b) state project funded by Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Research Grant: 176020).

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Climatology and Hydrology Research Centre, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, Novi Sad, 21000, Serbia

    Ivan B. Šećerov, Stevan M. Savić, Dragan D. Milošević, Daniela M. Arsenović & Dragan M. Dolinaj

  2. Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, Novi Sad, 21000, Serbia

    Srdjan B. Popov

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Šećerov, I.B., Savić, S.M., Milošević, D.D. et al. Progressing urban climate research using a high-density monitoring network system. Environ Monit Assess 191, 89 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7210-0

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