Urban heat island data by local weather types in Lisbon metropolitan area based on Copernicus climate variables dataset for European cities.

ABSTRACT: Here we provide Urban Heat Island (UHI) by local weather types (LWT) maps for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA). These maps were produced from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service climate variables dataset that contains hourly air temperature raster data for 100 European cities (2008-2017), namely Lisbon and part of its metropolitan area. Over 61000 maps (2008-2014) were extracted in NetCDF format and processed in geographic-information-systems (GIS). An urban mask was created from the recently updated Local Climate Zones (LCZ) classification for this area and a cell of the LCZ class "Low Plants" (non-urban) was chosen to calculate the temperature difference. UHI intensity was estimated using an R script. The outputs of this process were divided by thermal seasons and LWT. Ultima

SUBMITTER: Reis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9133548 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature