Assessing heat exposure to extreme temperatures in urban areas using the Local Climate Zone classification

Gilabert, Joan; Deluca, Anna; Lauwaet, Dirk; Ballester, Joan; Corbera, Jordi; Llasat, Maria Carmen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-375-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-375-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-375-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 1

Research article

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28 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 28 Jan 2021

Assessing heat exposure to extreme temperatures in urban areas using the Local Climate Zone classification

Joan Gilabert, Anna Deluca, Dirk Lauwaet, Joan Ballester, Jordi Corbera, and Maria Carmen Llasat

Data sets

EarthExplorer Geological Survey (U.S.) and EROS Data Center https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Població De Catalunya Georeferenciada a 1 De Gener De 2014 Barcelona Generalitat de Catalunya and Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya https://biblio.idescat.cat/publicacions/Record/21104

The ERA-interim archive. ERA report series P. Berrisford, D. P. K. F. Dee, K. Fielding, M. Fuentes, P. Kallberg, S. Kobayashi, and S. Uppala https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/

Short summary

Trends of extreme temperature episodes in cities are increasing 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 climate variability and are one of the main reasons for the climatic singularity of cities. This paper presents a methodology to evaluate the urban and peri-urban effect on extreme-temperature exposure using land cover and land use maps.