This dataset includes artificial/scenario Urban Canopy Parameterization (UCP) data for urban climate modelling with COSMO-CLM/DCEP and the hourly 2-meter temperature output of the corresponding simulations. Each simulation has a resolution of 0.009 degree (~1km) and covers a domain of around 300x300km centred at Berlin area. The temperature output covers a 1-week heatwave event which lasted from 1st to 7th of August 2003. All the simulations are driven by the same lateral boundary climate data down-scaled from ERA-Interim data, and the purpose of the work is to study the influence of urban morphology on urban heat island effect. UCP files are created using R package (https://github.com/sebschub/dcepucp) by incorporating designed scenarios (varying urban forms) of detailed urban street canyon structures which include urban fraction, street canyon orientation, building width, street canyon width and building height distribution. The details about the generation of the UCP dataset and conducted simulations can be found in Li Y, Schubert S, Rybski D, Kropp JP (2020): Urban Form and Heat. Nature Communications.
Objective: Societies in their urban (and also non-urban) segments, are extracting materials and energy from their natural environment, processing these flows, eventually accumulating portions of them as stocks and, in the end, deleting them into the environment as wastes, emissions or deliberate discharges. Urban settlements cities are a specific type of stocks in the metabolism of societies, and the way these cities are being built and operated has a substantial influence on the quantities and qualities of material and energy flows needed to sustain their existence. In SUME, the urban metabolism shall be understood as a metaphor for our societies way of dealing with its natural environment. With global climate change, limited resources and sources of energy, the question of how a healthy level of metabolic exchange with the environment can be achieved is gaining a dramatic new actuality. It is the question of how existing urban areas shall be transformed and new cities or expansions should be planned to be researched in SUME with a truly comprehensive approach.