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Mesoscale and urban climate model datasets

Output and input data for weather and climate models that represent the city through an urban canopy scheme, such as WRF with urban physics and other regional models. Includes city-scale temperature and wind fields, urban climate projections, and the land-cover and morphology data these models need.

  • 35 resources
  • 1 field
  • 34 simulation

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  1. 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

    Barcelona, Spain · 2025 · CC BY 4.0

  2. Core dataset for testing regional climate models and urban schemes over Paris.

    Simulation Case setupSimulation output Mesoscale model

    Paris, France · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

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

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  4. 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

    2020 · CC BY 4.0

  5. CityChem extension to the EPISODE model for urban atmospheric chemistry and dispersion at city scale.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model

    2026

  6. Code modifications making the U-Surf dataset compatible with WRF.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  7. Hourly 1 km WRF output over the Yangtze River Delta cities for a building-height change experiment, July 2020. Useful for urban morphology effects on weather.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Yangtze River Delta, China · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  8. WRF geo_em, wrfinput and wrfout files for high-resolution heat extreme runs over Sydney, with urban morphology.

    Simulation Simulation outputCase setup Mesoscale model

    Sydney, Australia · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  9. Input and output files for four WRF urban configurations over the Tel-Aviv coastal metropolitan area.

    Simulation Simulation outputCase setup Mesoscale model

    Tel Aviv, Israel · 2021 · CC0

  10. SURFEX outputs and verification data on town characteristics and urban climate in Vantaa.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Vantaa, Finland · 2020 · CC NC · Paper: Impacts of town characteristics on the changing urban climate in Vantaa ↗

  11. Configuration, code changes and scripts for WRF/Noah/SLUCM urban climate simulation of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen area. Useful as a mesoscale case setup.

    Simulation Case setupSoftware & tools Mesoscale model

    Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China · 2020 · CC BY 4.0

  12. HEAT-ALARM urban morphology and environment database for highly resolved urban WRF simulations, including LCZ.

    Simulation GeometryCase setup Mesoscale model

    2024 · CC BY 4.0

  13. Hourly UrbClim-HiREx simulation output for Ghent during the June 2023 heat wave: air temperature, humidity, wind speed at 100 m and meter-scale heat-stress indices. Useful for urban heat stress studies and model validation.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Ghent, Belgium · 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Paper: Modeling outdoor heat stress at meter-scale resolution: Validation of the UrbClim-HiREx framework ↗

  14. SUEWS V2020b inputs, model runs and code for heat and CO2 fluxes in Beijing. Useful for urban surface energy balance modelling.

    Simulation Simulation outputCase setupSoftware & tools Mesoscale model

    Beijing, China · 2022 · CC BY 4.0

  15. 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.

    Simulation Simulation outputCase setupSoftware & tools Mesoscale model

    California, USA · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  16. Data for evaluating high-resolution urban climate simulations with urban canopy parameters. Useful for mesoscale urban model set-up and evaluation.

    Simulation Simulation outputGeometry Mesoscale model

    2020 · CC BY 4.0

  17. Processed outputs and Python scripts from PALM, WRF and Fluent simulations for an urban model comparison.

    Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools LESRANSMesoscale model

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  18. 1 km gridded output from WRF v3.6.1 runs (apparently Birmingham BBUBL), for urban mesoscale meteorology.

    Collection · 2 parts Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Birmingham, UK · 2021

  19. Model code and data for COSMO-BEP-Tree, a coupled urban climate model with explicit street trees for regional simulations.

    Simulation Software & toolsSimulation output Mesoscale model

    2019 · CC BY 4.0

  20. Dataset for evaluating high-resolution WRF/Noah/SLUCM urban climate simulations.

    Simulation Simulation outputMeasurements Mesoscale model

    Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China · 2020 · CC BY 4.0

  21. WRF simulations with several urban canopy model configurations used to study urban weather modelling. Useful for comparing urban parameterisations.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  22. Single-column WRF output and observations from the King's College London tower used to study urban boundary-layer processes. Useful for evaluating urban boundary-layer schemes.

    Field Simulation outputMeasurements Mesoscale model

    London, UK · 2020 · CC BY 4.0

  23. Notebooks and datasets for uncertainty quantification of WRF-SLUCM simulations related to urban morphology and heat stress.

    Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools Mesoscale model

    2026 · CC BY 4.0

  24. Observed and simulated near-ground wind data from two model configurations over heterogeneous urban surfaces. Useful for evaluating urban wind models.

    Simulation Simulation outputMeasurements Mesoscale model

    2026

  25. Fortran code of a multilayer urban canopy model coupled with WRF.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

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

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    2025 · CC BY 4.0

  27. Met Office UKV output for 109 days (2016-2018) used to evaluate urban sensible heat flux skill. Useful for urban NWP evaluation.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    London, UK · 2025 · CC BY 4.0

  28. Source code of four modelling systems (CHIMERE, GRAMM, GRAL, VERT) for black carbon dispersion over Modena. Useful for urban air-quality and microscale dispersion modelling.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale modelRANS

    Modena, Italy · 2024 · GPL-3.0+

  29. W2W translates WUDAPT Local Climate Zone maps into urban canopy parameters for WRF.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model

    2022 · CC BY 4.0

  30. WOCSS adapters for coupled WRF and OpenFOAM simulations using preCICE.

    Simulation Software & tools RANSMesoscale model

    2023 · Open (other)

  31. Regional climate simulations from WRF-CM-BEM coupled with an urban canopy and building energy model for the Tokyo area. Useful for mesoscale urban heat studies.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Tokyo, Japan · 2023

  32. Met Office UKV model output for two days used to evaluate urban sensible heat fluxes against scintillometry in London. Useful for urban NWP evaluation.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    London, UK · 2022 · Paper: Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large‐aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: Demonstration in London ↗

  33. Eulerian urban air quality model with embedded subgrid dispersion for high-resolution pollutant concentrations.

    Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model

    2020 · RPL-1.5

  34. WRF 3.6 outputs at 2 km over the Malay Peninsula for urban climate studies of Kuala Lumpur.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 2020 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Paper: Precipitation over urban areas in the western Maritime Continent using a convection-permitting model ↗

  35. 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.

    Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model

    Hong Kong, China · 2019 · data.gov.hk terms (free reuse)