In this webinar, VITO will present the Urban Climate Simulator, the online on-demand service that provides high-resolution (100 m) urban climate data. Besides hourly data also processed indicators as temperature percentiles, number of tropical nights, number of heat-wave days, heat stress indicators, cooling degree days, ... are provided for uptake inside urban climate action and/or research works. The webinar will include a demonstration of the service as well as 2 use case presentations. Finally, the engine of the service, the UrbClim urban climate model, will be presented by its inventor.
Agenda:
- Welcome and introduction
- Use of urban climate data by Nicholas Jones (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery at the World Bank)
- Demonstration of the Urban Climate Simulator by Niels Souverijns
- From data to information by Niels Souverijns
- UrbClim, the model engine, explained by Koen De Ridder
- Future outlook by Filip Lefebre
- Q&A