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Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG): urban microclimate model

Tools & geometry 6 MB

VCWG predicts urban microclimate relative to a nearby rural climate.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4457501
Licence
Open (other) Open licence; see the repository for the exact terms.
Size
6 MB

How to cite

Moradi, M. (2021). The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4457501

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Details

Resource
Software & tools
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Urban heat & thermal comfort, Parameterisation
Quantities
Temperature
Codes / models
VCWG
Year
2021
Creators
Mohsen Moradi
Institution
School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

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