Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 20
Articles | Volume 16, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5703-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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

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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).
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