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Urban heat island and thermal comfort datasets
Observations and model output on the urban heat island and outdoor thermal comfort: dense networks of air-temperature and humidity sensors, surface energy balance and heat-flux measurements, radiation, and urban climate simulations from street to city scale. They are used to evaluate urban land-surface schemes, to study heat and health, and to test climate-adaptation designs.
- 68 resources
- 25 field
- 37 simulation
- 6 tools & geometry
- 2 benchmarks
All 68 resources, largest first
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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
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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
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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
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WRF-Chem concentration output for four land-use scenarios over the Barcelona metropolitan area during a heatwave. Useful for mesoscale urban air-quality and climate studies.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Present and future daily air temperature and heat-stress indicator maps from UrbClim for 54 African cities.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Full ENVI-met outputs and configuration for Via Milano, Pescara, with current and 2050 scenarios before and after redesign. Useful for urban thermal comfort case studies.
Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS
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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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Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment, 2001–02: a year-long network of energy-balance towers across urban, suburban and rural sites, with a June–July 2002 intensive period adding a wind profiler, sodar/RASS, lidar, a street-canyon tower and four SF6 tracer releases. A reference for urban roughness-sublayer turbulence and energy balance.
Benchmark Field Measurements
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ENVI-met 5.6.1 simulation results for green infrastructure and nature-based solutions in the LIFE AGREEN_NET project (2019 and 2030). Useful for urban thermal comfort studies.
Simulation Simulation output RANS
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Raw 16-second data from about 110 citizen-science low-cost weather stations in Leuven, 2019-2025. Useful for urban temperature and microclimate studies.
Field Measurements
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Gridded ENVI-met outputs and visualisations for four European cities assessing urban heat mitigation measures. Useful for microclimate and thermal-comfort studies.
Simulation Simulation output RANS
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PALM-4U input and output data for the Granollers domain from the KNOWING project. Useful as an urban microclimate LES case.
Collection · 2 parts Simulation Simulation outputCase setup LES
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Hourly 1 km WRF output over the Yangtze River Delta cities for a building-height change experiment, July 2020. Useful for urban morphology effects on weather.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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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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WRF geo_em, wrfinput and wrfout files for high-resolution heat extreme runs over Sydney, with urban morphology.
Simulation Simulation outputCase setup Mesoscale model
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Companion dataset for LES analysis of the role of trees in a street canyon.
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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Data accompanying the uDALES 1.0 GMD paper, an LES model for urban environments. Useful as validation and case setups.
Simulation Software & toolsSimulation outputCase setup LES
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PALM model source, configuration and input data for implementing traffic-induced heat and velocity in street-scale LES (Legerova street case). Useful for urban LES of traffic effects.
Simulation Software & toolsCase setupSimulation output LES
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Input and output spatial data of ENVI-met microclimate simulations for Florence studying tree design scenarios in an industrial area. Useful for urban heat mitigation modelling.
Collection · 2 parts Simulation Simulation outputCase setup RANS
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RANS simulations of thermal street canyon pollutant dispersion with surrogate models.
Collection · 2 parts Simulation Simulation outputSoftware & tools RANSML / surrogate
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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
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OBJ 3D model of 914 buildings in Celje with triangle-level material attributes, built for high-resolution urban simulations.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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SURFEX outputs and verification data on town characteristics and urban climate in Vantaa.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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PALM simulation results on the effects of street trees, green roofs and green walls on urban microclimate. Useful for urban greening studies.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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Simulation results for the Holesovicky domain in Prague covering air quality and thermal comfort scenarios. Useful for urban microclimate scenario studies.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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SanDyPALM is a toolbox for creating static and dynamic drivers for PALM urban microclimate simulations. Useful for setting up urban LES cases.
Simulation Software & toolsGeometry LES
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Hourly UrbClim-HiREx simulation output for Ghent during the June 2023 heat wave: air temperature, humidity, wind speed at 100 m and meter-scale heat-stress indices. Useful for urban heat stress studies and model validation.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Integrated geospatial database of land cover, building morphology and local climate zones for Vicosa, Brazil. Useful as urban geometry input for microclimate models.
Tools & geometry Geometry
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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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Standardised protocol and QGIS plugin to automate ENVI-met microclimate model setup. Useful for generating urban microclimate cases.
Simulation Software & toolsCase setup RANS
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LCZ-wizard builds customised urban environments for microscale simulations from local climate zones. Useful for generating idealised urban geometry.
Tools & geometry Software & toolsGeometry
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Notebooks, WRF-SLUCM configuration files and processed outputs assessing local warming from data-center heat emissions in California. Useful as a mesoscale urban simulation case setup.
Simulation Simulation outputCase setupSoftware & tools Mesoscale model
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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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Global 100 m gridded building height and morphology for 13189 urban areas in 2020, usable for urban climate modelling and geometry.
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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Calibration measurements, PALM simulations and survey data for urban thermal hotspots in a Czech city. Useful for evaluating urban microclimate LES and thermal comfort.
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Naphthalene sublimation measurements in a wind tunnel street canyon model from Reading, giving scalar transfer in urban canyons.
Collection · 3 parts Field Measurements Wind tunnel
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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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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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PALM results for heat exposure and mitigation in a densely populated neighbourhood during a hot day.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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Dataset for evaluating high-resolution WRF/Noah/SLUCM urban climate simulations.
Simulation Simulation outputMeasurements Mesoscale model
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City-wide PALM microclimate raster outputs for Tallinn for a reference period and 2030-2050 development scenarios. Useful for city-scale heat studies.
Simulation Simulation output LES
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EnviReader reads and visualises ENVI-met simulation outputs including 2D maps and 3D viewer with wind. Useful for postprocessing urban microclimate simulations.
Simulation Software & tools RANS
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Hourly temperature, humidity, pressure, irradiance, wind speed and direction from 40 automatic stations on the NUS campus during 2025. Useful for urban microclimate and model evaluation.
Field Measurements
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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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uDALES is open-source LES software for urban flow, dispersion and microclimate.
Simulation Software & tools LES
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Hourly 2024 observations from 48 automatic weather stations across Shenzhen, including wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity and pressure. Useful for urban climate and wind analysis.
Field Measurements
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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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Monitoring campaign (Oct 2023-Jul 2024) of urban canyon climate including wind, temperature and humidity in vulnerable Madrid neighbourhoods. Useful for street-canyon field evaluation.
Field Measurements
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Harmonised automatic weather station and temperature logger observations from the UHIARC campaign in North-Eurasian Arctic cities.
Field Measurements
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WRF/BEP+BEM simulation outputs of rooftop heat-mitigation technologies across six tropical cities. Useful for urban thermal microclimate impacts.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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Harmonised data from a street-level automatic weather station network in Freiburg. Useful for urban microclimate and heat studies.
Field Measurements
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Measured air temperature, humidity, radiation, globe temperature, wind speed and UTCI at static points and along walking routes in four Santiago neighbourhoods. Useful for outdoor thermal comfort studies.
Field Measurements
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Year-long ARM Mobile Facility deployment with urban, rural and Chesapeake Bay nodes, measuring how the urban boundary layer differs from its surroundings through all seasons, including low-level jets and bay breezes. Doppler lidar, soundings, eddy covariance and profilers; free ARM account needed.
Field Measurements
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Observations from a summer 2023 heat-stress campaign at Sterre campus, Ghent, with devices in varied micro-environments including green spaces. Useful for urban thermal comfort and microclimate model validation.
Field Measurements
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10-minute air temperature and humidity from a 27-station urban network.
Field Measurements
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Hourly air temperature from 12 urban sites in Novi Sad, Serbia, for 2016-2017. Useful for urban heat island analysis and model evaluation.
Field Measurements
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Regional climate simulations from WRF-CM-BEM coupled with an urban canopy and building energy model for the Tokyo area. Useful for mesoscale urban heat studies.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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BSEC network of street-level weather stations across Baltimore: temperature, humidity, wind, rain and solar radiation as 5-minute, hourly and daily CSV files from 2023.
Field Measurements
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Metadata for the Schools Weather and Air Quality citizen-science network of weather stations across Sydney.
Field Measurements
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Hourly temperature and humidity from 20 aspirated sensors within Madrid's urban canopy layer, 2014-2017 onwards.
Field Measurements
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VCWG predicts urban microclimate relative to a nearby rural climate.
Tools & geometry Software & tools
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Eddy-covariance water, energy and carbon fluxes with ancillary meteorology at four urban landscapes in Phoenix during 2015.
Field Measurements
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WRF 3.6 outputs at 2 km over the Malay Peninsula for urban climate studies of Kuala Lumpur.
Simulation Simulation output Mesoscale model
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17 street-level stations across the five boroughs plus rooftop eddy-covariance and Doppler-lidar / microwave-radiometer profiler sites. The flux readme warns of rooftop flow distortion.
Field Measurements
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National Environment Agency stations across Singapore with minute-level air temperature, humidity, wind and rainfall from 2016, available through an API.
Field Measurements