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Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity modelling, Jan. 2020

The raster dataset of urban heat island modelling shows the fine-scale (100m pixel size) temperature differences (in degrees Celsius °C) across 100 European cities, depending on the land use, soil sealing, anthropogenic heat flux, vegetation index and climatic variables such as wind speed and incoming solar radiation.



In the framework of the Copernicus European Health contract for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), VITO provided 100m resolution hourly temperature data (2008-2017) for 100 European cities, based on simulations with the urban climate model UrbClim (De Ridder et al., 2015). As the cities vary in size, so do the model domains. They have been defined with the intention to have a more or less constant ratio of urban vs. non-urban pixels (as defined in the CORINE land use map), with a maximum of 400 by 400 pixels (due to computational restraints). From this data set, the average urban heat island intensity is mapped for the summer season (JJA), which is the standard way of working in the scientific literature (e.g. Dosio, 2016). The UHI is calculated by subtracting the rural (non-water) spatial P10 temperature value from the average temperature map.



The 100 European cities for the urban simulations were selected based on user requirements within the health community.

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Date (Creation)
2019-07-08T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2020-01-07T00:00:00
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_100_m_uhi-modelling_p_2008-2017_v01_r00

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Meteorological geographical features
  • Atmospheric conditions
Keywords
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • urban environment, urban stress

      • urban area

      • climate

      • climate change impact

      • climate change adaptation

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • Hungary

      • Norway

      • Finland

      • Germany

      • Slovakia

      • Iceland

      • Austria

      • Czechia

      • United Kingdom

      • Switzerland

      • Latvia

      • Greece

      • Albania

      • Romania

      • Serbia

      • Portugal

      • Italy

      • Bulgaria

      • Belgium

      • Slovenia

      • Denmark

      • Croatia

      • Ireland

      • Spain

      • North Macedonia

      • Estonia

      • France

      • Luxembourg

      • Sweden

      • Lithuania

      • Netherlands

      • Bosnia and Herzegovina

      • Montenegro

      • Poland

      Spatial scope
      • European
      EEA topics
      • Climate adaptation

      Resource constraints

      No information provided.
      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Use constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints

      EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright).

      Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA), Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

      Spatial representation type
      Grid
      Distance
      100  m
      Language of dataset
      English
      Topic category
      • Environment
      • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
      Begin date
      2008-01-01
      End date
      2017-12-31
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      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • GeoTIFF ( )

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FILEPATH

      https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_uhi-modelling_p_2008-2017_v01_r00/UHI_JJA_combined.tif

      WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

      https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/knowledge/tools/urban-adaptation

      WWW:URL

      https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/45b703bb-d4f3-4eaa-8b73-13fde2041f01

      Direct download

      ESRI:REST

      https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/UAMV/Urban_Heat_Island_modelling/MapServer

      OGC:WMS

      https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/UAMV/Urban_Heat_Island_modelling/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset

      Conformance result

      Title

      Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

      Date (Publication)
      2010-12-08
      Explanation

      See the referenced specification

      Statement

      In the framework of the Copernicus Health contract for the C3S data platform, VITO has provided 100m resolution hourly temperature data (2008-2017) for 100 European cities, based on simulations with the urban climate model UrbClim (De Ridder et al., 2015). From this data set, the average urban heat island intensity is mapped for the summer season (JJA), which is the standard way of working in the scientific literature (e.g. Dosio, 2016). The UHI is calculated by subtracting the rural (non-water) spatial P10 temperature value from the average temperature map.

      The model data are published on the Climate Data Store of C3S and can be downloaded here: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/sis-urban-climate-cities?tab=form.

      In-depth documentation on the methodology used to model the urban climate data with UrbClim model can be downloaded from here: http://datastore.copernicus-climate.eu/c3s/published-forms/c3sprod/sis-urban-climate-cities/UrbClim_extra_documentation_v2.pdf.

      References

      De Ridder K., Lauwaet D., Maiheu B., 2015. UrbClim – a fast urban boundary layer climate model. Urban Climate, 12, 41-58.

      Dosio, A. (2016), Projections of climate change indices of temperature and precipitation from an ensemble of bias-adjusted high-resolution EURO-CORDEX regional climate models, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 5488–5511, doi:10.1002/2015JD024411.

      Metadata

      File identifier
      45b703bb-d4f3-4eaa-8b73-13fde2041f01 XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2021-11-10T08:48:23.477Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139

      Metadata standard version

      1.0

      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

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      Keywords

      EEA topics

      Climate adaptation
      GEMET

      climate climate change adaptation climate change impact urban area urban environment, urban stress
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Atmospheric conditions Meteorological geographical features
      Spatial scope

      European


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