Modelled temperature, mortality impact, and external benefits of cool roofs and rooftop photovoltaics in London - supporting data

Supporting data for "Modelled temperature, mortality impact, and external benefits of cool roofs and rooftop photovoltaics in London"

Included are outputs from the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model. All simulations cover London, United Kingdom over summer 2018. Scenarios include a "baseline" which represents the real urban climate of the region, and scenarios which model 100% coverage of rooftops with either high albedo materials or solar panels. Data are provided in netCDF format.

• The baseline simulation which models the current urban climate of the region WRF_Urb_BouLac_T2-V10-U10_20180525-20180831.nc
• The 100% rooftop-solar simulation WRF_Urb_BouLac_PV_T2-V10-U10-PSFC-RAINNC-TH2-Q2_20180525-20180831.nc
• The 100% high-albedo roof simulation WRF_Urb_BouLac_ClRf_T2-V10-U10-PSFC-RAINNC-TH2-Q2_20180525-20180831.nc
• The non-urban scenario is in WRF_NoUrb_BouLac_T2-V10-U10-PSFC-RAINNC-TH2-Q2_20180525-20180831.nc
• The power production estimates solarpv_prod_2018.nc
• wrf_popweighting-main.zip contains the analysis code. It is provided as-is with no guarantee of usability.

T2 means air temperature at 2m height. V10 and U10 are windspeeds at 10m height. PSFC is surface level pressure. TH2 is potential temperature. Q2 is specific humidity at 2m height.

More description of the simulations is given in the citing article.