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BIBLIOGRAPHY ON URBAN AND BUILDING CLIMATOLOGY. Period 1996-1998 Prepared by Ernesto Jauregui WMO Rapporteur on Urban/Building Climatology Center Atmospheric Sciences National University Mexico In accordance with our stated terms of reference (Res. 9/5 CCL-XII) we have prepared the present bibliography on urban and building climatology covering both mid-latitude work as well as articles dealing with the tropical urban environment. We refer to the interested reader to previous bibliographies on urban climate published by the World Meteorological Organization: WMO/TD No. 552 and WMO/TD No. 759 covering the years 1981-1991 and 1992-1995 respectively. The present report extends over the period 1996-1998. The main source of information has been as in previous bibliographies the Journal Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts and books of proceedings of various meeting such as those organized by WMO, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the International Geographical Union (IGU), the Association of American Geographers (AAG), etc. Activity in urban climate studies has steadily increased when comparing the 1990’s with the previous decade (see Table 1). While production of papers on urban climate in the tropics is still a small fraction of mid-latitude activity in this field it has doubled with respect to the 1980’s. Figure 1 shows the evolution of urban climate studies during the last decade of the century. Table 1. Activity on urban climate studies in the tropics. N° of papers on UC. Period 1981-98 Period Tropics Mid-Lat. % 1981-89 63 630 10 1990-98 158 758 20 While the 1980’s saw a proliferation of descriptive screen-level urban heat island studies (also air pollution) in the tropics a gradual diversification of topics is observed during the present decade and such subjects as physical modeling, remote sensing, energy issues, physical urban climatology are now more frequently seen in journals (Table 2). Table 2. Papers published on urb