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U-Surf: global 1 km urban surface properties for Earth system modelling

Tools & geometry 6.6 GB

U-Surf global urban surface property dataset for high-resolution urban climate modelling.

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CC BY-SA 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators; share adaptations under the same licence.
Size
6.6 GB

How to cite

Cheng, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, T., Oleson, K., Demuzere, M., Liu, X., Che, Y., Liao, W., Zhou, Y., & Li, X. (2024). U-Surf: a global 1km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14695837

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Resource
Geometry
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Parameterisation
Year
2024
Creators
Cheng, Yifan; Zhao, Lei; Chakraborty, TC; Oleson, Keith; Demuzere, Matthias; Liu, Xiaoping; Che, Yangzi; Liao, Weilin; Zhou, Yuyu; Li, Xinchang
Institution
Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA; B-Kode VOF, Ghent, Belgium; Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong, China; Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

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