Published February 11, 2025 | Version v2
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Land surface temperature (LST) metadata related to observations and modelling (primarily related to): London, UK

  • 1. ROR icon University of Reading
  • 2. ROR icon University of Freiburg

Description

This document provides background information for a large number of Zenodo Archives (section 2) associated with observations and modelling of urban  land surface temperatures, predominately in London (UK).

Details of Optris sensors used in London are provided at:

·       Grimmond, S., Benjamin, K., Gabey, A., Kotthaus, S., Morrison, W., Offerle, B., Pauscher, L., Ward, H., zum Berge, K., Brown, J., Crawford, B., Saunders, B., Sun, T., & Warren, E. (2022). Multi-city Urban Hydroclimate Data (MUHD) - Meta data for observations Release 2022-03-21. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13134582

The data have been used in a number of papers (section 4). The work was made possible by a number of grants (Section 3). These are gratefully acknowledged.

A wide range of people have contributed to this work. They are (hopefully) all identified in individual papers (section 4) and the Grimmond et al. (2022) report.

 

1.1.  Access to these files prior to embargo date

If you would like access to these files prior to the embargo date please contact Dr William Morrison and/or Prof Sue Grimmond either directly or via  urbisphere_ur@gmail.com

Please cite the individual Zenodo Archives (section 2)  and the publications (section 4).

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Funding

UK Research and Innovation
Data Assimilation for the REsilient City (DARE) EP/P002331/1
European Commission
urbisphere - urbisphere - coupling dynamic cities and climate 855005
UK Research and Innovation
Climate service for resilience to overheating risk in Colombo, Sri Lanka: a multi-scale mapping approach (COSMA) NE/S005889/1
Met Office
IUS-UM100 MO Strategic Priorities Fund Climate Resilience Programme
European Commission
URBANFLUXES - URBan ANthrpogenic heat FLUX from Earth observation Satellites 637519