Urban Heat Mitigation Under Realistic Roof and Land Area Constraints: Austin, TX
Authors/Creators
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Kamath, Harsh
(Contact person)1
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Lin, Tzu-Shun
(Research group)2
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Sudharsan, Naveen
(Research group)1
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Fung, Kwun Yip
(Research group)3
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Zonato, Andrea
(Research group)4
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Singh, Manmeet
(Research group)1
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He, Cenlin
(Research group)2
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Yang, Zong-Liang
(Supervisor)1
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Coudert, Marc
(Research group)5
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Niyogi, Dev
(Supervisor)1
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The University of Texas at Austin
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NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
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NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories
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Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
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Description
This .zip file contains the follwing 3 sub-folders:
WRF_Simulations folder: Contains the WRF-Urban simulation outputs for all the cases (Control, Cool roof, Green roof, Solar PV, Gradens, Trees, Realistic cool roof, realistic green roof, realistic solar PV, realistic cool roof + graden, and realistic cool roof + trees).
Others folder: Contains some additional files are the required to reproduce the plots from the paper.
SOLWEIG_Simulations: Contains the SOLWEIG UTCI simulations on 13th August 2020 at 10 AM, 2 PM and 6 PM. The original SOLWEIG UTCI data is at 2-meter resolution while the SOLWEIG aggregated and WRF-Urban data are at 1 km resolution.
Jupyter notebook:
Figures .ipynb file is a Jupyter notebook that contains the codes for the plots shown in the main and supplementary material of the paper.
Files
Data.zip
Additional details
Funding
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) 80NSSC20K1262