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Town characteristics and urban climate simulations for Vantaa

Simulation 4.2 GB

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

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3753897
Licence
CC NC Free to use and share for non-commercial purposes.
Size
4.2 GB

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Saranko, O., Fortelius, C., Jylhä, K., Ruosteenoja, K., Brattich, E., Di Sabatino, S., & Nurmi, V. (2020). Repository for data used in STOTEN article "Impacts of town characteristics on the changing urban climate in Vantaa [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3753897

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Details

Resource
Simulation output
Method
Mesoscale model
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Urban heat & thermal comfort
Quantities
Temperature
Codes / models
SURFEX
Location
Vantaa, Finland · more from Finland
Year
2020
Creators
Saranko, Olli; Fortelius, Carl; Jylhä, Kirsti; Ruosteenoja, Kimmo; Brattich, Erika; Di Sabatino, Silvana; Nurmi, Väinö
Institution
Finnish Meteorological Institute; University of Bologna

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