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Urban flow and climate datasets for the United Kingdom
17 open urban flow resources for the United Kingdom: 11 field measurements, 1 laboratory experiment, 4 simulation datasets and 1 tool or geometry. 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.
- 17 resources
- 11 field
- 1 lab
- 4 simulation
- 1 tools & geometry
All 17 resources, largest first
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City-scale 3D building and tree datasets for Glasgow from airborne LiDAR, in OBJ, shapefile and CityJSON formats. Useful as urban simulation geometry.
Collection · 2 parts Tools & geometry Geometry
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Street-level automatic weather station network data for Bristol, UK. Raw 2024 part 2.
Collection · 6 parts Field Measurements
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Part I of wind-tunnel flow measurements in a 1:200 model of part of Southwark, London, examining tall buildings and height variability. Useful for validating urban flow models.
Collection · 2 parts Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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High-density urban air temperature (and meteorological) network across the Birmingham conurbation, for urban heat island studies.
Collection · 3 parts Field Measurements
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Scanning Doppler lidar and sonic anemometer data used to observe tall-building wakes in London.
Field Measurements
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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
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41 PALM NetCDF files of building-resolved wind fields for Camden, London, for scientific machine learning.
Simulation Simulation output LESML / surrogate
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Aircraft profiles of wind, temperature, turbulence, sensible heat flux and trace gases in the urban boundary layer over the West Midlands (PUMA).
Collection · 2 parts Field Measurements
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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
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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
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Eddy-covariance flux and meteorological observations from Swindon, 2011-2013, with SUEWS forcing files. Useful for urban surface energy balance model evaluation.
Field Measurements
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One-minute wind speed and direction at 16 m from a Gill sonic at Honor Oak Park, London.
Field Measurements
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Avian-borne meteorological sensor package data from flights over Birmingham in 2018-19, giving data above rooftops in the urban boundary layer.
Field Measurements
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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
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Roadside measurements of NO released from a van, with wind speed and direction, used to validate CFD models in Oxford.
Field Measurements
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Mixed layer height from a ceilometer at Marylebone Road, London, 2012.
Field Measurements
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Perfluorocarbon tracer (PMCH) concentration measurements at sites around Birmingham characterising dispersion of pollutants within and from the city.
Field Measurements