Overview 

To understand the causes and develop solutions for urban heat, flooding, and air pollution, it is necessary to have neighborhood-scale information on weather conditions. This is particularly true as these conditions are not evenly distributed across cities, with low-income communities are often in the hottest neighborhoods with little vegetation, few trees, and large areas of impervious surfaces.

However, there is lack of surface weather measurements within cities which prevent needed analysis of the causes of spatial variability, and the efficacy of active or proposed interventions (see more). 

To address this lack of data, the Baltimore Weather Community Network (BCWN) is placing instruments to measure weather conditions within Baltimore City, with a focus on neighborhoods that currently lack measurements. 

BCWN is a university-community-city partnership established by the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC).