TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping Europe into local climate zones
AU - Demuzere, Matthias
AU - Bechtel, Benjamin
AU - Middel, Ariane
AU - Mills, Gerald
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding:B.B.’sworkwassupportedthroughthe ClusterofExcellenceCliSAP(EXC177),University ofHamburg,fundedthroughtheGermanScience Foundation(DFG).A.M.wassupportedby TechnischeUniversita ¨tKaiserslautern,grant “MicroclimateDataCollection,Analysis,and Visualization.”A.M.wasalsosupportedbythe NationalScienceFoundation(NSF),AwardNumber 1635490“ASimulationPlatformtoEnhance InfrastructureandCommunityResilienceto
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Demuzere et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves. Typically, these issues are studied on a city-by-city basis owing to the spatial complexity of built landscapes, local topography and emission patterns. However, to ensure knowledge sharing and to integrate local-scale processes with regional and global scale modelling initiatives, there is a pressing need for a world-wide database on cities that is suited for environmental studies. In this paper we present a European database that has a particular focus on characterising urbanised landscapes. It has been derived using tools and techniques developed as part of the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project, which has the goal of acquiring and disseminating climate-relevant information on cities worldwide. The European map is the first major step toward creating a global database on cities that can be integrated with existing topographic and natural land-cover databases to support modelling initiatives.
AB - Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves. Typically, these issues are studied on a city-by-city basis owing to the spatial complexity of built landscapes, local topography and emission patterns. However, to ensure knowledge sharing and to integrate local-scale processes with regional and global scale modelling initiatives, there is a pressing need for a world-wide database on cities that is suited for environmental studies. In this paper we present a European database that has a particular focus on characterising urbanised landscapes. It has been derived using tools and techniques developed as part of the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project, which has the goal of acquiring and disseminating climate-relevant information on cities worldwide. The European map is the first major step toward creating a global database on cities that can be integrated with existing topographic and natural land-cover databases to support modelling initiatives.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0214474
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0214474
M3 - Article
C2 - 31017939
AN - SCOPUS:85064004638
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 4
M1 - e0214474
ER -