7,8,12- 1Université Paris Cité, LIED, France (martin.hendel@u-paris.fr)
- 2Univ Gustave Eiffel, ESIEE Paris, département SEED
- 3Marie & Louis Pasteur University, THéMA, UMR 6049, CNRS (manon.kohler@univ-fcomte.fr)
- 4CEREMA, BPE (auline.rodler@cerema.fr)
- 5Soleneos, Nancy, France (benjamin.morille@soleneos.fr)
- 6Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CETHIL (lucie.merlier@insa-lyon.fr)
- 7LabSTICC, Vannes, France (jeremy.bernard@zaclys.net)
- 8Université de Bordeaux, I2M (ryad.bouzouidja@u-bordeaux.fr)
- 9Université de Toulouse 2, LISST (julia.hidalgo@univ-tlse2.fr)
- 10CEREMA, TEAM (julien.bouyer@cerema.fr)
- 11Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, EPHOR (sophie.herpin@institut-agro.fr)
- 12Univ de Lorraine, LERMAB (francois.leconte@univ-lorraine.fr)
The urban climatology community has been structured internationally at different levels for several years with venues such as ICUC, AGU, EGU or IC2UHI which regularly bring together different members of academia addressing urban climate-related research and engineering challenges from different disciplines, countries and perspectives. Late 2018, a series of meetings of the French community were launched. Two in-person meetings occurring in Paris, France in early and late 2019, bringing together 30-40 academics from different French research groups and universities across the country.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown episodes, networking and research sharing took place in the form of a series of online webinars in 2021 offered a venue for young researchers to present their work to their peers and research community. In-person meetings took place once again starting in 2022. Building on the community’s engagement and interest, the research network began formalizing its existence and organization, currently structured into four thematic groups focused on:
- numerical modeling
- field observations
- knowledge transfer for operational applications
- teaching and public dissemination of scientific and technical information
The community currently comprises around 150 members from 50+ different research institutes, as well as the public (government agencies), private (startups and SMEs) and local government (municipalities, urban planning agencies, …) sectors. These members are involved in work spanning a wide range of disciplines from the technical, natural and human and social sciences and conducted at a variety of spatial scales ranging from urban materials to the regional scale (“nano”, “indoor”, micro, local and meso-scale climates) and focusing on the study of urban climate: from fundamental science to climate change adaptation solutions.
The proposed contribution will present the network, its membership as well as work undertaken by its thematic groups, including a literature review of radiation shields.
How to cite: Hendel, M., Kohler, M., Rodler, A., Morille, B., Merlier, L., Bernard, J., Bouzouidja, R., Hidalgo, J., Bouyer, J., Herpin, S., Gros, A., and Leconte, F.: Climate, Cities and Societies: the French Urban Climatology Network, 12th International Conference on Urban Climate, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7–11 Jul 2025, ICUC12-1007, https://doi.org/10.5194/icuc12-1007, 2025.
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