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Urban-CAPU-Bench: source inversion benchmark for urban pollutant dispersion

Benchmark Simulation 34 MB

Benchmark package for source inversion of urban pollution dispersion using building geometry and sparse sensors, including PPMLES/MUST summaries. Useful for testing inversion and sensing methods.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20916255
Licence
MIT Permissive open-source licence: use, change and redistribute it freely, keeping the copyright notice.
Size
34 MB

How to cite

Luo, C., Luo, Y., Yang, Y., & Yao, H. (2026). Urban-CAPU-Bench Reproducibility Package [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20916255

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Details

Resource
Case setup, Simulation output
Method
LES, ML / surrogate
Geometry
Realistic neighbourhood
Topic
Dispersion & air quality
Quantities
Concentration
Codes / models
PPMLES
Year
2026
Creators
Luo, Chuanxu; Luo, Yuanting; Yang, Yuqin; Yao, Haoyi
Institution
Yunnan Normal University

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