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Rooftop heat-mitigation simulations for six tropical cities

Simulation

WRF/BEP+BEM simulation outputs of rooftop heat-mitigation technologies across six tropical cities. Useful for urban thermal microclimate impacts.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17764229
Licence
CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.
Size
93 kB · 6 cities

How to cite

Khatun, R. (2025). Advanced urban rooftop systems for scalable cooling and energy optimization in tropical cities [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17764229

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Details

Resource
Simulation output
Method
Mesoscale model
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Urban heat & thermal comfort
Quantities
Temperature
Codes / models
WRF
Year
2025
Creators
Khatun, Rupali
Institution
Jadavpur University

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