urbisphere - coupling dynamic cities and climate

Project Information

urbisphere

Grant agreement ID: 855005

DOI

10.3030/855005

EC signature date 6 February 2020

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 31 March 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 12 720 904,00

EU contribution

€ 12 720 904,00

Coordinated by

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
Greece

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

It will outline how data will be handled during and after the project, how this data will be shared and made openly accessible and how it will be curated and preserved.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

Utility of thermal remote sensing for evaluation of a high-resolution weather model in a city

Author(s): Thomas W. Hall, Lewis Blunn, Sue Grimmond, Niall McCarroll, Christopher J. Merchant, William Morrison, Jonathan K. P. Shonk, Humphrey Lean, Martin Best
Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2024, ISSN 0035-9009
Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/qj.4669

urbisphere-Berlin Campaign: Investigating Multiscale Urban Impacts on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Author(s): Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond, Fred Meier, William Morrison, Matthias Zeeman, Janet Barlow, Jörn Birkmann, Lewis Blunn, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Matthew Clements, Russell Glazer, Denise Hertwig, Simone Kotthaus, Kai König, Dana Looschelders, Zina Mitraka, Dimitris Poursanidis, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Benjamin Bechtel, Kit Benjamin, Frank Beyrich, Ferdinand Briegel, Gregor Feigel,
Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105, E1929–E1961, 2024, Page(s) E1929–E1961, ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-23-0030.1

Climate projections of human thermal comfort for indoor workplaces

Author(s): Markus Sulzer, Andreas Christen
Published in: Climatic Change, Issue Volume 177, article number 28, (2024), 2024, ISSN 0165-0009
Publisher: Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-024-03685-7

Impact of building density on natural ventilation potential and cooling energy saving across Chinese climate zones

Author(s): Xiaoxiong Xie, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond, Ting Sun
Published in: Building and Environment, Issue Volume 244, 1 October 2023, 110621, 2023, ISSN 0360-1323
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110621

Simulating satellite urban land surface temperatures: sensitivity to sensor view angle and assumed landscape complexity

Author(s): William Morrison, Sue Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue Volume 293, 2023, Page(s) 113579, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113579

Modelling vertically resolved shortwave radiation in urban areas: evaluation of SPARTACUS-Urban Boundary-Layer Meteorology BOUN-D-21-00091

Author(s): Megan Stretton, William Morrison, Robin Hogan, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2022, ISSN 0006-8314
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-022-00706-9

Dynamic Anthropogenic activitieS impacting Heat emissions (DASH v1.0): development and evaluation

Author(s): Isabella Capel-Timms, Stefán Thor Smith, Ting Sun, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue Volume 13, Issue 10, 2020, Page(s) 4891–4924, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-4891-2020

Linkages between Typologies of Existing Urban Development Patterns and Human Vulnerability to Heat Stress in Lahore

Author(s): Nimra Iqbal; Marvin Ravan; Ali Jamshed; Joern Birkmann; Giorgos Somarakis; Zina Mitraka; Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Published in: Sustainability, Issue Volume 14, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 10561, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su141710561

Evaluation of vertically resolved longwave radiation in SPARTACUS-Urban 0.7.3 and the sensitivity to urban surface temperatures

Author(s): Megan Stretton, William Morrison, Robin Hogan, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue Volume 16, Issue 20, 2023, Page(s) 5931–5947, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-5931-2023

Spatial and temporal variation of anthropogenic heat emissions in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Author(s): Lewis Blunn, Xiaoxiong Xie, Sue Grimmond, Zhiwen Luo, Ting Sun, Narein Perera, Rangajeewa Ratnayake, Rohinton Emmanuel
Published in: Urban Climate, Issue Volume 54, March 2024, 101828, 2024, ISSN 2212-0955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2024.101828

Revising the definition of anthropogenic heat flux from buildings: role of human activities and building storage heat flux

Author(s): Yiqing Liu, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue Volume 22, Issue 7, 2022, Page(s) 4721–4735, ISSN 1680-7316
Publisher: European Geophysical Society
DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-4721-2022

Impact of building envelope design parameters on diurnal building anthropogenic heat emission

Author(s): Yiqing Liu, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Building and Environment, Issue Building and Environment, 2023, ISSN 0360-1323
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110134

Use of wind pressure coefficients to simulate natural ventilation and building energy for isolated and surrounded buildings

Author(s): Xiaoxiong Xie, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond, Lewis Blunn
Published in: Building and Environment, Issue Volume 230, 2023, Page(s) 109951, ISSN 0360-1323
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109951

Variability of physical meteorology in urban areas at different scales: implications for air quality

Author(s): Denise Hertwig, Sue Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus, Christina Vanderwel, Hannah Gough, Martial Haeffelin, Alan Robins
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 226, 2021, Page(s) 149-172, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00098a

High-resolution multi-scaling of outdoor human thermal comfort and its intra-urban variability based on machine learning

Author(s): Ferdinand Briegel, Jonas Wehrle, Dirk Schindler, and Andreas Christen
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue Volume 17, issue 4, 2024, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-17-1667-2024

Urban surface temperature observations from ground-based thermography: intra- and inter-facet variability

Author(s): William Morrison, Simone Kotthaus, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Urban Climate, Issue 35, 2021, Page(s) 100748, ISSN 2212-0955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100748

Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results

Author(s): Lipson M, S Grimmond, M Best, G Abramowitz, A Coutts, N Tapper, JJ Baik, M Beyers, L Blunn, S Boussetta, E Bou-Zeid, MG De Kauwe, C de Munck, M Demuzere, S Fatichi, K Fortuniak, BS Han, M Hendry, Y Kikegawa, H Kondo, DI Lee, SH Lee, A Lemonsu, T Machado, G Manoli, A Martilli, V Masson, J McNorton, N Meili, D Meyer, KA Nice, KW Oleson, SB Park, M Roth, R Schoetter, A Simón-Moral, GJ Steeneveld, T
Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Issue 150:126–169, 2024, ISSN 0035-9009
Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/qj.4589

Characterizing Physical and Social Composition of Cities to Inform Climate Adaptation: Case Studies in Germany

Author(s): Angela Wendnagel-Beck, Marvin Ravan, Nimra Iqbal, Jörn Birkmann, Giorgos Somarakis, Denise Hertwig, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Urban Planning, Issue Volume 6, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 2183-7635
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i4.4515

Characterising the vertical structure of buildings in cities for use in atmospheric models

Author(s): Megan A. Stretton, Robin J. Hogan, Sue Grimmond, William Morrison
Published in: Urban Climate, Issue Volume 50, 2023, Page(s) 101560, ISSN 2212-0955
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101560

Spatial variability of forward modelled attenuated backscatter in clear-sky conditions over a megacity: Implications for observation network design

Author(s): Elliott Warren, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Humphrey Lean, Simone Kotthaus, Sue Grimmond
Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Issue Volume 148, Issue 744, 2022, Page(s) 1168-1183, ISSN 0035-9009
Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/qj.4253

Evidence of horizontal urban heat advection in London using six years of data from a citizen weather station network

Author(s): Oscar Brousse, Charles Simpson, Nancy Walker, Daniel Fenner, Fred Meier, Jonathon Taylor, Clare Heaviside
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue Volume 17, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 44041, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0f

Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites

Author(s): Mathew Lipson, Sue Grimmond, Martin Best, Winston T. L. Chow, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Andrew Coutts, Ben Crawford, Stevan Earl, Jonathan Evans, Krzysztof Fortuniak, Bert G. Heusinkveld, Je-Woo Hong, Jinkyu Hong, Leena Järvi, Sungsoo Jo, Yeon-Hee Kim, Simone Kotthaus, Keunmin Lee, Valéry Masson, Joseph P. McFadden, Oliver Michels, Wlodzimierz Pawlak, Matthias Roth, Hirofumi Suga
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue Volume 14, Issue 11, 2022, Page(s) 5157–5178, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-5157-2022

Thesis and dissertations (6)

A simple model for rapid forecasting of solar photovoltaic energy production across entire cities

Author(s): Karthik Buchireddy Sri
Published in: M.Sc. in Thesis REM, 2021
Publisher: Universität Freiburg

Urban-rural differences in the vertical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer during a hot summer day in Berlin, Germany

Author(s): Carlotta Gertsen
Published in: B.Sc. in Umweltnaturwissenschaften, 2023
Publisher: Universität Freiburg

Effects of anthropogenic water use on energy and water balance in an urban change context in suburban Vancouver

Author(s): Oliver Michels
Published in: M.Sc. in Thesis Environmental Sciences, 2021
Publisher: Universität Freiburg

Representing vertical variation of radiation in cities: a model evaluation and comparison

Author(s): Stretton, M. A.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: University of Reading
DOI: 10.48683/1926.00113195

Assessment of indoor heat hotspots in Freiburg's University Hospital based on indoor measurements during summer 2023

Author(s): Katharina Epp
Published in: B.Sc. in Liberal Arts, 2024
Publisher: Universität Freiburg

Analysis of differences in radiation levels between urban and rural areas in and around Berlin

Author(s): Leon Hofmann
Published in: B.Sc. in Umweltnaturwissenschaften, 2022
Publisher: Universität Freiburg

Other (1)

Metadata for the urbisphere-Berlin campaign during 2021-2022: technical documentation

Author(s): Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Carlotta Gertsen, Sue Grimmond, Kai König, Dana Looschelders, Fred Meier, Swen Metzger, Zina Mitraka, William Morrison, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Matthias Zeeman
Published in: 2024
Publisher: urbisphere
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10833090

Conference proceedings (6)

Variability of physical meteorology in urban areas at different scales: implications for air quality

Author(s): Grimmond, Sue; Hertwig, Denise; Kotthaus, Simone; Vanderwel, Christina; Gough, Hannah; Robins, Alan; Barlow, Janet
Published in: Air quality in megacities Faraday Discussion, Issue 16, 2024
Publisher: Air quality in megacities Faraday Discussion
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11356674

High resolution observations and modelling during a heatwave: urbisphere-Berlin

Author(s): Glazer, Russell; Grimmond, Sue; Blunn, Lewis; Lean, Humphrey; Fenner, Daniel; Christen, Andreas; Morrison, William; Clements, Matthew; Meier, Fred; Barlow, Janet
Published in: Workshop on hectometric scale model physics and predictability, Issue 9, 2024
Publisher: DWD headquarters (Offenbach am Main, Germany)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11369448

Initial development of the urbisphere urban hyperspectral library: Berlin, Germany

Author(s): Giannis Lantzanakis, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Andreas Christen, Joern Birkmann
Published in: 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2023, ISSN 2642-9535
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144154

100 m modelling and observations of Berlin during 4 August 2022 heatwave

Author(s): Glazer, Russell; Grimmond, Sue; Blunn, Lewis; Lean, Humphrey; Fenner, Daniel; Christen, Andreas; Morrison, William; Clements, Matthew; Meier, Fred; Barlow, Janet
Published in: Workshop on hectometric scale model physics and predictability, Issue 6, 2024
Publisher: DWD
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11367627

Exploring the link between socio-economic and physical structure in cities to inform heat adaptation options: the case of Stuttgart

Author(s): Angela Wendnagel-Beck, Ali Jamshed, Nimra Iqbal, Marvin Ravan, Joanna McMillan, Jörn Birkmann
Published in: 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) Proceedings, 2023, ISSN 2642-9535
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144129

Assessment of human heat vulnerability of different Local Climate Zones in Lahore: Coupling remote sensing and socioeconomic data

Author(s): Nimra Iqbal, Ayman Aslam, Ali Jamshed, Marvin Ravan, Jörn Birkmann, Irfan Ahmad Rana
Published in: 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) Proceedings, 2023, ISSN 2642-9535
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144180