ABSTRACT
The Urban Climate Group (UCG) in Gothenburg, Sweden, started to develop local climatic maps in the 1970s influenced by the ‘Geländeklimatologie’ (landscape climatology) in Central Europe. However, the work was focused more on typical effects under anticyclonic weather conditions (cold air drainage, cold air ponds, urban heat islands, etc.) that were studied during mobile measuring traverses than on the analysis of climate statistics. This choice depended on the low relief of the landscape and the sparse network of meteorological stations and on our own interest in understanding the physical processes. It is well known that the local climate is caused by the synoptic weather situation, but governed by the physical landscape. The beauty of this is that the distribution of local climate effects is repeated each time this weather situation appears and that this distribution can be mapped.
