Datasets, simulation output and tools for urban flow research, newest additions first. https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/feed.xml 2026-11-13T00:00:00.000Z https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/favicon.svg https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/tracer-studies-around-madison-square-garden-and-in-midtown-manhattan-n/ 2026-11-13T00:00:00.000Z Pacific Northwest National Laboratory US Department of Homeland Security

Urban Dispersion Program field studies in 2005: two intensive periods around Madison Square Garden (March) and six in Midtown (August) with up to seven perfluorocarbon and SF6 tracers, street-level and rooftop samplers, sonic anemometers and sodars, plus indoor and subway sampling in MID05.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/year-long-urban-energy-balance-and-boundary-layer-campaign-in-toulouse/ 2026-11-13T00:00:00.000Z Météo-France, CNRM

Météo-France/CNRM campaign from February 2004 to February 2005: a city-centre flux tower and surface stations, boundary-layer profilers and intensive periods on the urban heat island, the urban boundary layer and aerosols. Widely used to evaluate urban canopy schemes such as TEB.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/tracer-and-meteorology-field-campaign-in-downtown-oklahoma-city-joint/ 2026-11-13T00:00:00.000Z Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dugway Proving Ground NOAA ARL Field Research Division

DTRA/DHS field study in July 2003: ten 8-hour intensive periods of SF6 releases in the central business district, sampled by 194 bag samplers and 25 fast-response analysers, with winds and turbulence measured at about 100 sites. A classic real-city dispersion benchmark.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-suburban-and-rural-flux-profile-and-tracer-measurements-in-basel/ 2026-11-13T00:00:00.000Z University of Basel ETH Zurich

Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment, 2001–02: a year-long network of energy-balance towers across urban, suburban and rural sites, with a June–July 2002 intensive period adding a wind profiler, sodar/RASS, lidar, a street-canyon tower and four SF6 tracer releases. A reference for urban roughness-sublayer turbulence and energy balance.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/building-resolved-les-wind-fields-for-beijing-shanghai-guangzhou-shenz/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Shixiong Zhou Huanxia Wei Chao Xia Yingying Xing Changmin Jiang Hai Yang Shuai Jia

720 time-mean lattice-Boltzmann LES cases at 10 m resolution, 144 per city, spanning 16 wind directions, 3 reference speeds and 3 seasonal profiles, with 3D mean velocity and TKE plus building, terrain and footprint geometry. Very large (about 25 TB).

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/building-footprints-with-height-function-and-age-for-3-667-chinese-cit/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Yecheng Zhang Huimin Zhao Ying Long

About 31 million vector building footprints with height, structure, function, age and other attributes: footprint-level geometry for LES and CFD domains anywhere in mainland China.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/long-term-urban-eddy-covariance-fluxes-over-basel/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Christian Feigenwinter Andreas Sigmund Roland Spirig Stavros Stagakis

One of the world's longest urban flux records (tower running since 2004, successor to the BUBBLE experiment): half-hourly CO2, heat and momentum fluxes, friction velocity and stability with footprints for 2015–2025.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/territory-wide-3d-building-infrastructure-and-terrain-models-of-hong-k/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Lands Department, HKSAR Government

LOD1 building and podium blocks for all of Hong Kong (plus textured landmarks), roads, bridges and a terrain model, updated every two months: realistic geometry for the dense high-rise city.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-and-suburban-eddy-covariance-fluxes-from-towers-in-indianapolis/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Jason Horne Kenneth Davis Scott Richardson Natasha Miles

Long-running tall-tower eddy-covariance records of momentum, sensible and latent heat and CO2 over downtown and suburban Indianapolis, with raw 10 Hz data for turbulence statistics.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-rural-and-bay-boundary-layer-gradient-observations-around-baltim/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Kenneth Davis

Year-long ARM Mobile Facility deployment with urban, rural and Chesapeake Bay nodes, measuring how the urban boundary layer differs from its surroundings through all seasons, including low-level jets and bay breezes. Doppler lidar, soundings, eddy covariance and profilers; free ARM account needed.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-eddy-covariance-fluxes-and-doppler-lidar-wind-profiles-in-zurich/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Stavros Stagakis Andreas Christen

Quality-controlled half-hourly fluxes of momentum, sensible and latent heat and CO2 from city towers in Zurich and Paris, plus Doppler wind-lidar profiles, released by the EU ICOS Cities (PAUL) project.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-eddy-covariance-fluxes-and-turbulence-near-highways-in-chicago-c/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Bhupendra Raut Scott Collis Max Berkelhammer

30-minute fluxes of momentum, heat, water vapour and CO2, plus raw 10 Hz sonic data, from a site among highways and buildings at UIC; part of the Chicago CROCUS network, which also runs Doppler lidar and SODAR (open but raw, not quality-controlled).

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/doppler-lidar-wind-turbulence-and-boundary-layer-height-over-baltimore/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Nicholas Prince Kenneth Davis Scott Richardson Natasha Miles

Continuous Doppler lidar in Baltimore from the BSEC Urban Integrated Field Lab: vertical-velocity variance, skewness and kurtosis, VAD wind profiles, boundary-layer and cloud-base height as daily CF-NetCDF files at 15-minute resolution.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/harmonised-building-footprints-and-heights-for-europe-eubucco/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Nikola Milojevic-Dupont Florian Nachtigall Felix Creutzig

Open database of over 300 million individual buildings across the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland, with height, type and age, for city-scale geometry and morphology parameters.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/open-3d-city-models-of-over-300-japanese-cities-plateau/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)

Japan's national open CityGML city models: LOD1 buildings with heights everywhere and LOD2 in many core districts (e.g. central Tokyo), in CityGML, 3D Tiles, OBJ and other formats; ready-made realistic geometry for CFD of Japanese cities.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/street-level-weather-station-network-across-baltimore/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Darryn Waugh

BSEC network of street-level weather stations across Baltimore: temperature, humidity, wind, rain and solar radiation as 5-minute, hourly and daily CSV files from 2023.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/3d-building-models-of-the-netherlands-lod1-to-lod2-2-3dbag/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z TU Delft 3D geoinformation group 3DGI

About 10 million buildings for the whole of the Netherlands at several levels of detail, in CityJSON, GeoPackage and OBJ: realistic geometry for Dutch urban CFD.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/coastal-urban-boundary-layer-and-convection-observations-around-housto/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Michael Jensen

A year of ARM Mobile Facility observations around Houston, aimed at sea-breeze convection and aerosol–cloud interaction, with Doppler lidar, soundings, flux and tethered-balloon data on the coastal urban boundary layer. Free ARM account needed.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/long-term-urban-eddy-covariance-fluxes-over-helsinki-smear-iii-kumpula/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Leena Järvi Annika Nordbo Pasi Aalto

Fluxes of CO2, heat, momentum and particles from the SMEAR III urban tower in Helsinki, 2005–2021.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/qes-quic-envsim-fast-gpu-urban-wind-turbulence-and-dispersion-model/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Eric Pardyjak Rob Stoll Pete Willemsen Fabien Margairaz Matthew Gibbs Behnam Bozorgmehr

Open-source successor to LANL's QUIC: a mass-conserving diagnostic wind solver on GPU (QES-Winds), a turbulence closure (QES-Turb) and Lagrangian dispersion (QES-Plume) for building-resolving runs much faster than real time.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/10-m-building-height-map-of-china-for-2020-cnbh-10m/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Wan-ben Wu

National 10 m raster of building height for 2020, estimated from radar, optical and night-light imagery (RMSE about 6 m); a source of urban morphology for parameterisations and mesoscale models across China.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/global-3d-building-footprints-with-heights-3d-globfp/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Sun Yat-sen University

Building footprints with estimated heights worldwide for 2020, as regional shapefile tiles; strongest in China, weaker in Japan and Korea.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/weather-profiler-and-rooftop-flux-networks-in-new-york-city-nys-mesone/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z University at Albany, State University of New York

17 street-level stations across the five boroughs plus rooftop eddy-covariance and Doppler-lidar / microwave-radiometer profiler sites. The flux readme warns of rooftop flow distortion.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/simulated-site-wind-availability-across-hong-kong-for-air-ventilation/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Planning Department, HKSAR Government

Territory-wide modelled wind climate on a 500 m grid: annual, summer and winter directional wind frequencies and speeds at several heights, used to set inflow conditions for Hong Kong's statutory wind-tunnel and CFD air ventilation assessments.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/global-100-m-average-building-height-ghsl-built-up-height/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Martino Pesaresi Panagiotis Politis

JRC Global Human Settlement Layer estimate of average building height on a 100 m grid worldwide for 2018; a consistent source of urban morphology for parameterisations and mesoscale models.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/multi-level-sonic-anemometer-turbulence-from-the-tianjin-255-m-tower-s/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Lu Zhang Hongsheng Zhang

10 Hz sonic data at 40, 80, 120, 160 and 200 m on an urban meteorological tower, July–August 2017, with fluctuations, spectra and statistics; suited to momentum and heat transport in the convective urban boundary layer.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-flow-and-pollutant-exchange-between-a-street-canyon-and-in/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Štěpán Nosek

1:400 wind-tunnel model with uniform and non-uniform roof heights at 90° and 45° wind: LDA velocities and fast-FID concentrations quantifying pollutant exchange through canyon tops and lateral openings, packaged as a CFD validation case.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/large-chlorine-releases-inside-a-mock-urban-container-array-dugway-jac/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z DHS Chemical Security Analysis Center Dugway Proving Ground Utah Valley University

5–20 tonne pressurised liquefied chlorine releases in 2015–16, partly inside a staggered array of about 80 shipping containers, with concentration arcs out to 11 km: the key dense-gas benchmark for built environments.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/minute-resolution-weather-station-network-across-singapore/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z National Environment Agency, Singapore

National Environment Agency stations across Singapore with minute-level air temperature, humidity, wind and rainfall from 2016, available through an API.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-les-validation-data-for-an-idealised-european-city-a-cube/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Bernd Leitl Frank Harms Denise Hertwig Michael Schatzmann

Time-resolved wind-tunnel velocity data built to validate LES: three approach boundary layers, flow and puff dispersion in a cube array, and the 1:225 idealised Central-European city Michelstadt with flat or slanted roofs.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/field-and-wind-tunnel-tracer-dispersion-in-a-central-european-city-cen/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z University of Hamburg, Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory

A real-city SF6 field release sampled at 20 detectors, plus wind-tunnel pedestrian-level concentration time series for continuous and puff releases in a model of the same downtown.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-dispersion-from-continuous-and-puff-releases-in-an-idealis/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Bernd Leitl Silvia Trini Castelli Kathrin Baumann-Stanzer

Flow and concentration data in the 1:225 Michelstadt model for seven ground-level release scenarios, two wind directions, continuous and puff releases; the blind-test benchmark for emergency-response dispersion models.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-flow-and-dispersion-in-the-must-container-array-geometry-c/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z University of Hamburg, Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory

Hamburg wind-tunnel replica of the Mock Urban Setting Test container array, with flow statistics and dispersion; the main validation case of the COST 732 CFD best-practice guideline.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-pressure-time-series-on-low-rise-gable-roof-buildings-nist/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z NIST University of Western Ontario

95 boundary-layer wind-tunnel datasets from the University of Western Ontario with pressure-tap time series on gable-roofed low-rise building models in several terrains, as self-documenting HDF files.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-flow-and-dispersion-around-single-buildings-street-canyons/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Bernd Leitl Michael Schatzmann

The classic Hamburg validation database of wind-tunnel flow and concentration data with fully documented boundary conditions, for isolated obstacles, street canyons and obstacle arrays.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-tracer-and-meteorology-experiment-downtown-salt-lake-city-urban/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory NOAA ARL Field Research Division

Classic multiscale urban dispersion campaign: SF6 and perfluorocarbon tracer releases with meteorology around a single building, across the downtown grid and over the wider city, mostly in stable night-time conditions. Files are openly downloadable by IOP.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/wind-tunnel-flow-and-dispersion-in-a-model-of-downtown-oklahoma-city-c/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z University of Hamburg, Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory

Hamburg wind-tunnel model of the Joint Urban 2003 area of Oklahoma City, used in COST 732; the openly obtainable counterpart to the Joint Urban 2003 field data, whose archive is offline.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urbisphere-radiation-measurements-berlin/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-08T00:00:00.000Z Fenner, Daniel Morrison, William Zeeman, Matthias Grimmond, Sue Christen, Andreas

One-minute radiation (direct, global, diffuse, longwave) and basic meteorological data from the Friedrichstadt rooftop station in Berlin during the urbisphere campaign. Useful for urban surface energy balance and model evaluation.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/hourly-meteorological-dataset-from-a-40-station-network-on-the-nus-cam/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z Lim, Joie Ignatius, Marcel Xu, Ruohan Tong, Shanshan Lu, Yijun Tan, Erna Oo, May Lwin Chen, Xueyu Zhu, Lujia Biljecki, Filip

Hourly temperature, humidity, pressure, irradiance, wind speed and direction from 40 automatic stations on the NUS campus during 2025. Useful for urban microclimate and model evaluation.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/code-and-data-for-spatially-concentrated-heat-emissions-from-data-cent/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z Hao Hu

Notebooks, WRF-SLUCM configuration files and processed outputs assessing local warming from data-center heat emissions in California. Useful as a mesoscale urban simulation case setup.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/a-physics-trained-surface-forced-wind-operator-ptswo-v1-0-for-fast-sim/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z Liu, Zhenxin Li, Weimin Zhong, Xuanhui Zhang, Chao Han, Wei Zhang, Yi Liu, Jia Hu, Jianlin

Data and scripts for a fast surrogate wind model over heterogeneous urban surfaces and terrain. Useful for rapid urban wind simulation.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/spatial-heterogeneity-in-urban-ventilation-and-pollutant-transport-a-r/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z Li, Weimin Liu, Zhenxin Zhong, Xuanhui Mao, Yuhao Liao, Hong

Data and scripts for a resistance-network model of near-surface winds, ventilation and pollutant transport in Yixing. Useful for urban ventilation studies.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/palmgeo/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z Hauschopp, Jens

palmgeo converts open national or municipal geodata into verified static drivers for PALM. Useful for generating urban LES geometry inputs.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/turdata-a-database-of-low-cost-air-quality-and-remote-sensing-measurem/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z Tesařová, Petra Šindelářová, Adriana Keder, Josef Vlček, Ondřej Patiño, William Resler, Jaroslav Krč, Pavel Řezníček, Hynek Geletič, Jan Bureš, Martin

TURDATA from the TURBAN Prague campaign: low-cost air quality sensor network, meteorological station and remote-sensing vertical profiles in the Legerova street domain. Intended for validating micro-scale urban dispersion models.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/envireader/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z Marchesani, Graziano Enzo Cocci Grifoni, Roberta Khodaparast, Mohammadjavad

EnviReader reads and visualises ENVI-met simulation outputs including 2D maps and 3D viewer with wind. Useful for postprocessing urban microclimate simulations.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/lcz-wizard/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z Anders, Julian

LCZ-wizard builds customised urban environments for microscale simulations from local climate zones. Useful for generating idealised urban geometry.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/dataset-for-multi-scale-flow-analysis-for-scale-aware-urban-canopy-mod/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z Huang, Jingzi van Reeuwijk, Maarten

Large (10 GB) dataset accompanying a study of multi-scale flow for scale-aware urban-canopy models; description is missing. Likely simulation output.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/present-and-future-daily-air-temperature-records-and-indicator-maps-fo/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z Lanssens, Benjamin Crols, Tomas De Ridder, Koen Souverijns, Niels Uljee, Inge

Present and future daily air temperature and heat-stress indicator maps from UrbClim for 54 African cities.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/envi-met-automation-protocol-standardized-environmental-modeling-autom/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z Marchesani, Graziano Enzo

Standardised protocol and QGIS plugin to automate ENVI-met microclimate model setup. Useful for generating urban microclimate cases.

https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-wind-lab-an-interactive-lattice-boltzmann-tool-for-wind-analysis/ 2026-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-10-19T00:00:00.000Z Al-Obaidi, Karam M.

Interactive D3Q19 lattice-Boltzmann wind analysis tool for 3D urban context.