Weather, climate and human settlements.

Abstract

Weather and climate are all-pervasive. They control comfort of people as well as efficiency of workers. Housing needs to be disigned to optimise health and comfort indoors. Urban areas exercise their own effects on the atmosphere, some of them undesirable. These have to be taken into account in planning new towns and in revamping old cities. Energy needs for heating and cooling are directly governed by the atmospheric environment. -C.Laverick