Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity (90th percentile), Jan. 2020

This vector dataset shows the Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity (in degrees Celsius °C) for 100 European cities, based on their elevation above sea level, land use, soil sealing, vegetation index and anthropogenic heat flux. The Urban Heat Island intensity exacerbates high temperatures in cities and thus may pose additional risks to human thermal comfort and health.

The UHI intensity is represented by spatial P90 (90th percentile) urban heat island intensity of a given city ("P90" field in the dataset). This indicator is calculated by subtracting the rural (non-water) spatial P10 (10th percentile) temperature value from the average, height-corrected (to exclude terrain effects), air temperature map. This indicator represents the specific exposure of single cities and due to the height correction will be comparable across Europe.

The dataset has been created by VITO within the Copernicus Health contract for C3S and is based on UrbClim model (De Ridder et al. 2015). The 100 European cities for the urban simulations were selected based on user requirements within the health community.

Date (Creation): 2019-07-09T00:00:00

Date (Publication): 2020-01-07T00:00:00

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_v_4326_100_k_uhi-intensity_p_2008-2017_v01_r00

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Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

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Keywords

GEMET

climate
climate change impact
urban environment, urban stress
climate change adaptation
urban area

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Norway
Finland
Germany
Lithuania
Spain
Austria
Croatia
Belgium
Ireland
Romania
Albania
Switzerland
France
Italy
Montenegro
Poland
Denmark
Serbia
United Kingdom
Portugal
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Slovenia
North Macedonia
Sweden
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovakia
Hungary
Czechia
Iceland
Latvia
Bulgaria
Greece
Estonia

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: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language of dataset: English

Topic category

Environment
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2008-01-01

End date: 2017-12-31

Additional Information: The scale provided is approximate.

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Distribution format

SHP ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_4326_100_k_uhi-intensity_p_2008-2017_v01_r00/
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/8b6a3182-0889-4109-ad22-a021e3126b60	Direct download
OGC:WMS	https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/UAMV/Urban_Heat_Island_Intensity/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
ESRI:REST	https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/UAMV/Urban_Heat_Island_Intensity/MapServer

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: The intensity of UHI was estimated for 100 European cities in the framework of the Copernicus European Health contract for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

High resolution (100m) hourly temperature (2008-2017) was simulated with the urban climate model UrbClim (De Ridder et al., 2015). Summer season is June, July and August. The intensity of UHI is represented by spatial P90 (90th percentile) UHI intensity of a given city. This indicator is calculated by subtracting the rural (non-water) spatial P10 (10th percentile) temperature value from the average, height-corrected (to exclude terrain effects), air temperature map.

Taking the spatial P90 value for a given city conforms the methodology of Dosio (2016). This indicator represents the specific exposure of single cities and due to the height correction will be comparable across Europe.

References:

De Ridder, K, Lauwaet D. and Maiheu, B. (2015): UrbClim – A fast urban boundary layer climate model, Urban Climate, Vol. 12, pp. 21–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2015.01.001.

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.

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