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Urban flow and climate datasets for Germany

13 open urban flow resources for Germany: 9 field measurements and 4 simulation datasets. They cover urban boundary layer, urban heat & thermal comfort and dispersion & air quality. Each entry links to the original repository, with its licence, creators and how to cite it.

  • 13 resources
  • 9 field
  • 4 simulation

All 13 resources, largest first

  1. 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

    Leipzig, Germany · 2026 · CC BY-NC 4.0

  2. 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

    Berlin, Germany · 2025 · CC BY 4.0

  3. 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

    Freiburg, Germany · 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Paper: Using Gradient Boosting for gap-filling to analyze temperature and humidity patterns in an urban weather station network in Freiburg, Germany ↗ +2

  4. 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

    Berlin, Germany · 2024 · Restricted

  5. PALM LES output for an urban crossing and a Berlin square (Ernst-Reuter-Platz) with different radiative transfer parameterisations. Useful for urban microclimate model comparison.

    Simulation Simulation output LES

    Berlin, Germany · 2020 · CC BY 4.0

  6. 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.

    Collection · 4 parts Field Measurements

    Berlin, Germany · 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Paper: urbisphere-Berlin Campaign: Investigating Multiscale Urban Impacts on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer ↗

  7. Raw microwave radiometer profile measurements of temperature and humidity at TU Berlin Charlottenburg campus, 2021-2022. Useful for urban boundary-layer thermodynamic structure.

    Collection · 2 parts Field Measurements

    Berlin, Germany · 2024 · Restricted

  8. Observations and CAIRDIO simulation results for an urban dispersion case study in Dresden. Useful for model evaluation.

    Simulation Simulation outputMeasurements LES

    Dresden, Germany · 2023

  9. Half-hourly observed and modelled turbulent fluxes at a Munich tall tower, 2024-2025, supporting CO2 emission estimates.

    Field Measurements

    Munich, Germany · 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  10. Harmonised data from a street-level automatic weather station network in Freiburg. Useful for urban microclimate and heat studies.

    Field Measurements

    Freiburg, Germany · 2025 · CC BY 4.0

  11. Eddy covariance measurements at Berlin-Mitte from the urbisphere campaign. Useful for urban turbulence and surface flux studies.

    Field Measurements

    Berlin, Germany · 2024 · Restricted

  12. Raw radiosounding profiles of temperature, humidity and wind during the urbisphere Berlin campaign. Useful for urban boundary-layer structure.

    Field Measurements

    Berlin, Germany · 2024 · Restricted

  13. Wind field, cloud base and mixing-layer height time series from a Doppler lidar and ceilometer network in Stuttgart ([UC]2 programme). Useful for urban boundary-layer studies.

    Field Measurements

    Stuttgart, Germany · 2018 · CC BY 4.0