The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Board of the Urban Environment (BUE) warmly invite you to the joint 8th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC8) and AMS 10th Symposium on the Urban Environment to be held in Dublin, Ireland from August 6–10, 2012. These meetings are preeminent events for the presentation of research on the urban climate effect at all scales and have set important benchmarks for the development of the field. The aims of this joint conference are to provide an international forum where the world’s urban climatologists can discuss modern developments in research, and the application of climatic knowledge to the design of better cities.