Urban Climate Insurgency

Insurgency, Terrorism and Organised Crime in a Warming Climate

Modeling insurgency, counter-insurgency, and coalition strategies and operations

We model insurgency and counter-insurgency (COIN) operations with a large-scale system of differential equations and a dynamically changing coalition network. We use these structures to analyze the components of leadership, promotion, recruitment, financial resources, operational techniques, network communications, coalition cooperation, logistics, security, intelligence, infrastructure develop...

Approaches to Modeling Insurgency

For the purposes of this paper, we define insurgency as an organized movement that uses armed violence to overthrow a country’s government while often hiding within the civilian population and using civilians to perform combat support functions. The use of civilian population differentiates insurgency from the regular warfare where such an exploitation of civilians would constitute a war crime....

Advances in urban climate modeling.

Cities interact with the atmosphere over a wide range of scales from the large-scale processes, which have a direct impact on global climate change, to smaller scales, ranging from the conurbation itself to individual buildings. The review presented in this paper analyzes some of the ways in which cities influence atmospheric thermodynamics and airborne pollutant transport. We present the main ...

The Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory

AFFILIATIONS: Chapman, muLLer, Warren, Cai, anD Ferranti— School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom; young anD grimmonD—Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Lee Chapman, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,...