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Datasets for urban canopy parameterisation and modelling
Resources for representing cities in weather, climate and dispersion models: building-height and morphology maps, urban canopy parameters such as plan-area and frontal-area density, drag and exchange coefficients derived from simulations and experiments, and benchmark cases for testing urban schemes.
- 49 resources
- 8 field
- 2 lab
- 21 simulation
- 18 tools & geometry
- 1 benchmark
All 49 resources, largest first
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Large-eddy simulations of turbulent airflow over 314 realistic urban neighbourhoods from 62 cities in 20 countries, with plan-area densities from 0.05 to 0.75 and several wind directions. Provides canopy-averaged statistics and flow fields, which are useful for canopy parameterisation, model validation and machine learning of urban wind.
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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UrbanTALES: idealised building blocks
224 cases224 large-eddy simulations of flow over idealised building-block arrays. They systematically vary plan-area density (8 values, 0.0625 to 0.64), aligned and staggered layouts, 7 building-height distributions, and perpendicular or oblique wind. A parameter sweep for canopy parameterisation and model validation.
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry LES
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Core dataset for testing regional climate models and urban schemes over Paris.
Simulation Case setupSimulation output Mesoscale model
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World Urban Morphological Parameters Open Dataset in COG and WRF-WPS formats.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Modified source code, simulation directories and postprocessing for multi-layer SURFEX-TEB coupling with Meso-NH for urban climate of high-rise cities. Useful for mesoscale urban modelling.
Simulation Software & toolsSimulation output Mesoscale model
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Global LCZ map at 100 m from earth observation. Usable as input for urban climate models and morphology classification.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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U-Surf global urban surface property dataset for high-resolution urban climate modelling.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Météo-France/CNRM campaign from February 2004 to February 2005: a city-centre flux tower and surface stations, boundary-layer profilers and intensive periods on the urban heat island, the urban boundary layer and aerosols. Widely used to evaluate urban canopy schemes such as TEB.
Benchmark Field Measurements
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Resulting data and source code for an inhomogeneous wind scheme for urban street canyons, validated against CFD. Useful for street-canyon pollutant dispersion parameterisation.
Collection · 5 parts Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools RANSAnalytical
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Code modifications making the U-Surf dataset compatible with WRF.
Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model
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Raw simulation data and MATLAB scripts for a multi-scale analysis of flow over heterogeneous urban environments. Useful for urban boundary-layer and roughness research.
Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools LES
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Large (10 GB) dataset accompanying a study of multi-scale flow for scale-aware urban-canopy models; description is missing. Likely simulation output.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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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
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Input and output files for four WRF urban configurations over the Tel-Aviv coastal metropolitan area.
Simulation Simulation outputCase setup Mesoscale model
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Global building height to side length ratio and roof albedo parameters for urban land surface models.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Urban morphology parameters for British Columbia, Canada, for WRF.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Grid-cell morphology and microclimate indicators for 67 cities with STL building models for CFD.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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HEAT-ALARM urban morphology and environment database for highly resolved urban WRF simulations, including LCZ.
Simulation GeometryCase setup Mesoscale model
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Training and testing data and code for UCNN, a deep-learning urban canopy model for complex building morphologies.
Simulation Software & toolsSimulation output ML / surrogate
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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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100 m Local Climate Zone maps and morphology parameters for five Greek cities for numerical modelling.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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ENVI-met parameterisations, inputs and postprocessing scripts for assessing grass grid pavers' heat mitigation. Useful for reproducing urban microclimate scenarios.
Simulation Case setupSoftware & tools RANS
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Open database of over 300 million individual buildings across the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland, with height, type and age, for city-scale geometry and morphology parameters.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Data for evaluating high-resolution urban climate simulations with urban canopy parameters. Useful for mesoscale urban model set-up and evaluation.
Simulation Simulation outputGeometry Mesoscale model
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Raw urban canopy parameter measurements from fieldwork in Kampala (2018). Can be turned into detailed input fields for urban climate models.
Field GeometryMeasurements
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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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JRC Global Human Settlement Layer estimate of average building height on a 100 m grid worldwide for 2018; a consistent source of urban morphology for parameterisations and mesoscale models.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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Data and scripts to develop the dyOHM storage heat flux parameterisation and apply it in SUEWS at neighbourhood scale. Useful for urban surface energy balance modelling.
Tools & geometry Software & toolsSimulation output Analytical
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Model code and data for COSMO-BEP-Tree, a coupled urban climate model with explicit street trees for regional simulations.
Simulation Software & toolsSimulation output Mesoscale model
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Offline one-dimensional multi-layer urban canopy model code based on BEP and BEM.
Tools & geometry Software & tools
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WRF simulations with several urban canopy model configurations used to study urban weather modelling. Useful for comparing urban parameterisations.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Notebooks and datasets for uncertainty quantification of WRF-SLUCM simulations related to urban morphology and heat stress.
Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools Mesoscale model
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Reference implementation of the GSCC method for mapping relative urban ventilation capacity from building morphology at global scale. Useful for city-scale ventilation screening.
Tools & geometry Software & tools Analytical
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Analysis and visualisation code for simulating vertical profiles of meteorological variables in urban neighbourhoods with UVDM-SLUCM.
Tools & geometry Software & tools
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Fortran code of a multilayer urban canopy model coupled with WRF.
Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model
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Fortran code of the Real Urban Roughness scheme, an aerodynamic parameterisation for real urban morphology. Useful for urban canopy models.
Tools & geometry Software & tools Analytical
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One of the world's longest urban flux records (tower running since 2004, successor to the BUBBLE experiment): half-hourly CO2, heat and momentum fluxes, friction velocity and stability with footprints for 2015–2025.
Field Measurements
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Long-running tall-tower eddy-covariance records of momentum, sensible and latent heat and CO2 over downtown and suburban Indianapolis, with raw 10 Hz data for turbulence statistics.
Field Measurements
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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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W2W translates WUDAPT Local Climate Zone maps into urban canopy parameters for WRF.
Simulation Software & tools Mesoscale model
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Quality-controlled half-hourly fluxes of momentum, sensible and latent heat and CO2 from city towers in Zurich and Paris, plus Doppler wind-lidar profiles, released by the EU ICOS Cities (PAUL) project.
Field Measurements
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CFD vertical wind profile results, wind-profile scheme functions and validation against observations for inhomogeneous urban canopies. Useful for parameterising urban wind profiles.
Simulation Simulation output RANS
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VCWG predicts urban microclimate relative to a nearby rural climate.
Tools & geometry Software & tools
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Fluxes of CO2, heat, momentum and particles from the SMEAR III urban tower in Helsinki, 2005–2021.
Field Measurements
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MLUCM v1.0 source code, a one-dimensional multi-layer urban canopy model.
Tools & geometry Software & tools
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Python program to derive urban canopy parameters from 3D building and land-use datasets.
Tools & geometry Software & tools
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2D PIV wind-tunnel data of turbulent boundary layers over twelve urban roughnesses with different frontal and plan solidities. Useful for studying turbulence statistics and parameterising urban roughness.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel
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Urban atmospheric observations in London, including meteorological measurements on the BT Tower and Doppler lidar boundary-layer wind profiles. Useful for urban wind profiles, roughness and boundary-layer studies.
Field Measurements
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Wind-tunnel measurements of near-wall flow over urban-like roughness, including form drag and roughness sublayer behaviour. Useful for rough-wall boundary-layer studies and surface parameterisation.
Lab Measurements Wind tunnel