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New publication in “Climate”

19 July 2022

Title: Exploring Methods for Developing Local Climate Zones to Support Climate Research / Meteorological and climate prediction models at the urban scale increasingly require more accurate and high-resolution data. The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) system is an initiative to standardize a classification scheme of the urban landscape, based mainly on the properties of surface structure (e.g., building, tree height, density) and surface cover (pervious vs. impervious).

Local Climate Zones of Barcelona published in the LCZ Wudapt repository

18 June 2021

The cartography of Local Climate Zones (LCZ) of Barcelona has been published in the lcz-generator repository. Elaborated by Joan Gilabert.

Local Climate Zones of Oslo published in the LCZ Wudapt repository

4 June 2021

The cartography of Local Climate Zones (LCZ) of Oslo has been published in the lcz-generator repository. Elaborated by Laurence Sigler and co-directed by Joan Gilabert and Gara Villalba

Publication in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

4 February 2021

Trends of extreme-temperature episodes in cities are increasing (in frequency, magnitude and duration) due to regional climate change in interaction with urban effects. Urban morphologies and thermal properties of the materials used to build them are factors that influence.