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Using OpenStreetMap (OSM) to enhance the classification of local climate zones in the framework of WUDAPT [PDF]

Urban Climate, 2019
Abstract The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project has adopted the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme as a basic and consistent description of form and function of cities at neighbourhood scale. LCZs are classified using crowdsourced training samples, open data and open source software but the quality of the maps still needs ...
Benjamin Bechtel, Cidalia Costa Fonte, Linda See   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation [PDF]

Urban Climate, 2019
Abstract The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project has grown out of the need for better information on the form and function of cities globally. Cities are described using Local Climate Zones (LCZ), which are associated with a range of key urban climate model parameters and thus can serve as inputs to high resolution urban ...
Benjamin Bechtel, Cidalia Costa Fonte, Christoph Beck   +2 more
exaly   +7 more sources

Contributing to WUDAPT: A Local Climate Zone Classification of Two Cities in Ukraine [PDF]

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2016
Local climate zones (LCZs) divide the urban landscape into homogeneous types based on urban structure (i.e., morphology of streets and buildings), urban cover (i.e., permeability of surfaces), construction materials, and human activities (i.e., anthropogenic heat).
Benjamin Bechtel, Linda See, Dmitry Schepaschenko   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Mapping the local climate zones of urban areas by GIS-based and WUDAPT methods: A case study of Hong Kong

Urban Climate, 2018
Abstract Local Climate Zone (LCZ) developed by Stewart and Oke has become an international standard to analyse urban morphology and the corresponding urban heat island phenomenon. Primary methods for LCZ mapping include in-situ measurements, geographic information system (GIS)-based and remote-sensing-image-based calculations.
Chao Ren, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Yuan Shi
exaly   +2 more sources

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Mapping local climate zones for a Japanese large city by an extended workflow of WUDAPT Level 0 method

Urban Climate, 2020
Abstract World Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) Level 0 method announced a workflow of mapping Local Climate Zones (LCZs). However, the low accuracy of LCZ classifications in Level 0 especially for the built-up areas caused by recognition of classes and operator bias is becoming an obstacle for further study in WUDAPT Level 1 and 2.
Tsubasa Okaze, Akashi Mochida, Chao Ren   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Local Climate Zone Study for Sustainable Megacities Development by Using Improved WUDAPT Methodology – A Case Study in Guangzhou

Procedia Environmental Sciences, 2016
AbstractHigh density urban development in the past has not only changed natural landscape into artificial constructions and pavements, but also brought along many environmental problems like air pollution, urban heat island (UHI) and dust haze, which can affect the public health condition.
Chao Ren, Meng Cai
exaly   +2 more sources

Investigating the influence of urban land use and landscape pattern on PM2.5 spatial variation using mobile monitoring and WUDAPT

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2019
Edward Y Y Ng, Chao Ren, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Integration of the WUDAPT, WRF, and ENVI-met models to simulate extreme daytime temperature mitigation strategies in San Jose, California

Building and Environment, 2020
Abstract An obstacle to the modeling of strategies to mitigate extreme urban temperatures is frequently the lack of on-site meteorological data. The current study thus reports on a method that used the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to generate inputs for the ENVI-met model to produce building-scale canyon temperatures within a 300 m ...
Ana Lucrecia Rivera Rivera, Xinwei Li, Robert Bornstein   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid

Urban Climate, 2016
Abstract Nowadays, the absence of suitable data that describes the urban landscape in climate relevant terms for climatic models is a significant impediment to progress, even if the physics that underpins these models is universal. To address this data gap the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project focuses on creating a global ...
Benjamin Bechtel, OSCAR Brousse, Alberto Martilli   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Implications of employing detailed urban canopy parameters for mesoscale climate modelling: a comparison between WUDAPT and GIS databases over Vienna, Austria [PDF]

International Journal of Climatology, 2018
ABSTRACTOne of the major obstacles to using numerical weather prediction models for guidance on mitigating urbanization's impact on local and regional climate is the lack of detailed and model ready morphological data at urban scale. The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (WUDAPT) is a recent project developed to extract climate relevant ...
Kris Hammerberg, OSCAR Brousse, Alberto Martilli   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources