Urban heat, climate and wind for any site
OSMosis reads a site's climate for design: how hot the ground and roofs get on clear days in the hottest months (seen from satellite, compared with the land around), temperature, humidity, wind and what the air feels like in shade, month by month, and how air moves round the buildings at any point.
What you get
- Surface heat: the hottest ground and roofs, and how the area compares with its surroundings.
- Climate month by month: temperature, comfort in shade hour by hour, humidity and wind, with the share of hours that are neither cold nor under heat stress.
- Sun on the ground and on walls by the way they face.
- Wind: where the layout shelters and where it funnels, at any point you click.
- Green then and now: green ground gained, lost or kept, and how much stays green through the hottest months.
- Combine: find the buildings where the hottest ground meets, say, the longest walk to a stop.
Questions
How can I map the urban heat island of a neighbourhood?
Open Surface heat in OSMosis Diagrams: it shows how hot the ground and roofs get on clear days in the place's hottest months, from satellite, and how the area compares with the land round it.
Can OSMosis show the climate of my site?
Yes. The Climate tool gives temperature, comfort in shade, humidity and wind month by month for the site, read for design.
Does OSMosis do wind analysis?
OSMosis shows how the air moves round the buildings at any point you click: where the layout shelters and where it funnels. It is a reading for early design, not a detailed wind study.
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