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Urban flow and climate datasets for China
18 open urban flow resources for China: 8 field measurements, 6 simulation datasets and 4 tools and geometries. They cover urban boundary layer, urban heat & thermal comfort and wind loads & pedestrian wind. Each entry links to the original repository, with its licence, creators and how to cite it.
- 18 resources
- 8 field
- 6 simulation
- 4 tools & geometry
All 18 resources, largest first
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3D ultrasonic anemometer data from the Beijing 325 m tower for urban boundary-layer turbulence.
Field Measurements
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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
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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
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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
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Building-resolved LES wind fields for Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong (U3DWind)
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).
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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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.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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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.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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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.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Dataset for evaluating high-resolution WRF/Noah/SLUCM urban climate simulations.
Simulation Simulation outputMeasurements Mesoscale model
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Half-hourly time series, fluxes, quadrant and wavelet results behind the figures of the paper, from the 325 m Beijing tower and the 102 m Xianghe tower, July 2017.
Field Measurements
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Hourly 2024 observations from 48 automatic weather stations across Shenzhen, including wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity and pressure. Useful for urban climate and wind analysis.
Field Measurements
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Processed turbulence statistics and 10 Hz fluctuation records for four case studies from the 325 m Beijing tower and the 102 m Xianghe tower, July 2017.
Field Measurements
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Surface meteorological data (wind, temperature) from Hangzhou 2013-2015 for studying interaction of mountain-plain wind with urban breeze.
Field Measurements
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Data and scripts for a resistance-network model of near-surface winds, ventilation and pollutant transport in Yixing. Useful for urban ventilation studies.
Tools & geometry Simulation outputSoftware & tools Analytical
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Observations from the 325 m Beijing tower on non-stationary turbulence over a megacity.
Field Measurements
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Hourly divergence profiles over Beijing urban areas derived from radar wind profiler measurements.
Field Measurements
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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
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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.
Field Measurements