URock 2023a: an open-source GIS-based wind model for complex urban settings

Bernard, Jérémy; Lindberg, Fredrik; Oswald, Sandro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5703-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5703-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5703-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

Model description paper

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16 Oct 2023

Model description paper |

| 16 Oct 2023

URock 2023a: an open-source GIS-based wind model for complex urban settings

Jérémy Bernard, Fredrik Lindberg, and Sandro Oswald

Data sets

URock 2023a: Data and Code to use to reproduce the evaluation of the model Jérémy Bernard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7681245

Model code and software

URock 2023a: Data and Code to use to reproduce the evaluation of the model Jérémy Bernard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7681245

Short summary

The UMEP plug-in integrated in the free QGIS software can now calculate the spatial variation of the wind speed within urban settings. This paper shows that the new wind model, URock, generally fits observations well and highlights the main needed improvements. According to this work, pedestrian wind fields and outdoor thermal comfort can now simply be estimated by any QGIS user (researchers, students, and practitioners).