Urban data & tools
Measurements, simulation output, codes, geometries and benchmark cases for urban flow, gathered from the community and from open repositories (Zenodo, CEDA). Largest and most reusable resources first.
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Large-eddy simulations of turbulent airflow over 314 realistic urban neighbourhoods from 62 cities in 20 countries, with plan-area densities from 0.05 to 0.75 and several wind directions. Provides canopy-averaged statistics and flow fields, which are useful for canopy parameterisation, model validation and machine learning of urban wind.
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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UrbanTALES: idealised building blocks
224 cases224 large-eddy simulations of flow over idealised building-block arrays. They systematically vary plan-area density (8 values, 0.0625 to 0.64), aligned and staggered layouts, 7 building-height distributions, and perpendicular or oblique wind. A parameter sweep for canopy parameterisation and model validation.
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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High-resolution morphology, land cover and modelled UTCI thermal comfort data for seven European case study areas of CARMINE. Useful as urban geometry input and thermal comfort reference.
Collection · 9 parts Simulation GeometrySimulation output LES
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The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) urban wind environment benchmark suite: wind-tunnel and field data for cases A–M, from a single high-rise building and cube arrays to real districts such as Shinjuku and Niigata, many with STL geometry. Widely used to validate CFD for pedestrian-level wind and dispersion.
Collection · 12 parts Benchmark Lab MeasurementsCase setup Wind tunnel
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Boundary-layer wind tunnel surface pressure measurements on parametric low-rise prismatic buildings. Useful for wind load studies and model validation.
Collection · 4 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Precursor LES turbulent inflow boundary conditions for AIJ actual-urban benchmark case.
Benchmark Simulation Simulation outputCase setup LES
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Input data for PALM-4U large-eddy simulations of coupled atmospheric and subsurface energy fluxes in Berlin. Useful as a case setup.
Collection · 3 parts Simulation Case setupSimulation output LES
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WindEEE wind-field and aerodynamic pressure data for a CAARC high-rise building in atmospheric boundary layer and downburst-like flows. Useful for wind-load validation.
Collection · 3 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Harmonised data from a street-level network of 42 automatic weather stations in Freiburg for 2022. Useful for intra-urban temperature and wind variability.
Collection · 27 parts Field Measurements
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Non-stationary pressure and velocity measurements on a low-rise duo-pitch building model in the WindEEE Dome under ABL, downburst and combined winds. Useful for wind-load studies of non-synoptic winds.
Collection · 2 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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urbisphere Doppler wind lidar: Paris
11 partsRaw Doppler wind lidar measurements at the Paris-region site Arboretum Vallee-aux-Loups from the urbisphere campaign. Useful for urban boundary-layer wind and turbulence profiles.
Collection · 11 parts Field Measurements
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UT-GLOBUS global building height dataset for urban studies and modelling.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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High-resolution synthetic 3D concentration fields of an air pollutant in urban environments. Useful for ML training and dispersion model comparison.
Simulation Simulation output ML / surrogate
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Wind-tunnel tests of a selected area of Benidorm.
Collection · 2 parts Lab MeasurementsGeometry Wind tunnel
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URANS cross-comparison on the AIJ Niigata case against wind-tunnel data.
Benchmark Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS
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WRF-Chem concentration output for four land-use scenarios over the Barcelona metropolitan area during a heatwave. Useful for mesoscale urban air-quality and climate studies.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Core dataset for testing regional climate models and urban schemes over Paris.
Simulation Case setupSimulation output Mesoscale model
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Present and future daily air temperature and heat-stress indicator maps from UrbClim for 54 African cities.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Turbulent inflow data of a rough atmospheric boundary layer for LES of Michelstadt, the semi-idealised Central European city model from the University of Hamburg wind-tunnel test cases (CEDVAL-LES), not the real town.
Simulation Simulation outputCase setup LES
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Benchmark package for source inversion of urban pollution dispersion using building geometry and sparse sensors, including PPMLES/MUST summaries. Useful for testing inversion and sensing methods.
Benchmark Simulation Case setupSimulation output LESML / surrogate
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Raw Doppler wind lidar measurements at Berlin Rothenburgstrasse from the urbisphere campaign. Useful for urban boundary-layer wind and turbulence profiles.
Collection · 16 parts Field Measurements
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Supplementary files for LES of firebrand transport and deposition over 12 idealised cubical arrays.
Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools LES
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Full-scale surface pressure and velocity measurements on the 6 m Silsoe cube in natural wind, with wind-tunnel comparisons. Used as the CWE2000 validation case for CFD; time series and compiled means and variances are available.
Benchmark Field MeasurementsCase setup Wind tunnel
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European tiles of the GlobalBuildingAtlas, with building footprints and heights split into 0.1 degree tiles by country. Useful as geometry input for urban flow and microclimate modelling.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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World Urban Morphological Parameters Open Dataset in COG and WRF-WPS formats.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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City-scale 3D building and tree datasets for Glasgow from airborne LiDAR, in OBJ, shapefile and CityJSON formats. Useful as urban simulation geometry.
Collection · 2 parts Tools & geometry Geometry
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Modified source code, simulation directories and postprocessing for multi-layer SURFEX-TEB coupling with Meso-NH for urban climate of high-rise cities. Useful for mesoscale urban modelling.
Simulation Software & toolsSimulation output Mesoscale model
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PALM model inputs and source code for high-fidelity urban air quality sensitivity simulations. Useful for dispersion LES setups.
Simulation Case setupSoftware & tools LES
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Global LCZ map at 100 m from earth observation. Usable as input for urban climate models and morphology classification.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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LES output of an urban canopy and dense vegetated canopies over varying terrain complexity, for roughness-sublayer momentum statistics and TKE budgets.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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