Towards better understanding the urban environment and its interactions with regional climate change - The WCRP CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study URB-RCC
High-quality climate information tailored to cities' needs assists decision makers to prepare for and adapt to climate change impacts, as well as to support the targeted transition towards climate resilient cities. During the last decades, two main modelling approaches emerged to understand and analyse the urban climate and to generate information. Firstly, meso- and microscale urban climate models commonly resolve the street to city scale climate (1 m to 1 km) through simulating short “weather” type episodes, possibly under climate change conditions. Secondly, regional climate models (RCMs) are currently approaching the kilometer scale grid resolutions (1–4 km) and becoming increasingly relevant to understand the interactions of cities with the regional climate on timescales from decades up to a century. Therefore, the WCRP CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study “ URBan environments and Regional Climate Change (FPS URB-RCC)” brings together the urban climate modelling community and the RCM community and focuses on understanding the interactions between urban areas and regional climate change, with the help of coordinated experiments with an RCM ensemble having refined urban representations. This paper presents the FPS URB-RCC, its main aims, as well as the initial steps taken. The FPS URB-RCC advances urban climate projections and information to support evidence-based climate action towards climate resilient cities. • There is a need to better simulate the interactions between urban areas and regional climate change. • FPS URB-RCC aims to investigate the effect of urban areas on the regional climate & vice versa. • Using coordinated regional climate modelling experiments with urban schemes. • Improved urban climate change information supports adaptation and the transition towards climate resilient cities.
Authors
- Eloisa Raluy-López (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6071-867X)
- Joni‐Pekka Pietikäinen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9270-4739)
- Rui Ito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3170-0232)
- Marianna Adinolfi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8341-2742)
- Kwok Pan Chun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9873-6240)
- Gaby S. Langendijk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0178-7832)
- Diana Rechid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6035-2935)
- Sophie Bastin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1951-6798)
- Chris Lennard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6085-0320)
- Olivier Asselin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3621-2737)
- Panos Hadjinicolaou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1170-2182)
- Fuxing Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-2752)
- Benjamin Bechtel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8802-7934)
- Pedro M. M. Soares (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9155-5874)
- Jiacan Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-4490)
- Benjamin Le Roy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5496-2462)
- Aude Lemonsu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8894-0088)
- David Grawe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4961-2000)
- Jan-Peter Schulz
- Hendrik Feldmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6987-7351)
- Rafiq Hamdi
- Yuya Takane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-2748)
- Eleni Katragkou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3411)
- Erika Coppola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6944-5815)
- Josipa Milovac (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5648-5279)
- Peter Hoffmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5192-4858)
- Mario Raffa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0124-4600)
- Sara M. Top (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-790X)
- Mathew Lipson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5322-1796)
- Michal Belda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9514-4888)
- Sven Kotlarski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-6781)
- Jesús Fernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3483-0008)
- Matthias Demuzere (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3237-4077)
- Bert Van Schaeybroeck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9507-7929)
- Katiana Constantinidou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0513-2198)
- Quang‐Van Doan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2794-5309)
- Marcus Thatcher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4139-5515)
- Frederico Johannsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-1292)
- Jason P. Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1776-3429)
- Tomáš Halenka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1584-791X)
- Angelo Campanale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-5514)
- Marie Hundhausen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-3088)
- Shailendra K. Mandal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1881-4400)
- Aitor Aldama Campino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8453-4322)
- Lluís Fita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6046-4806)
- Claas Teichmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2478-7074)
- Angelina Bushenkova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-4888)
- Nour El Islam Kerroumi
- Luís E. Muñoz Pabón
- Vassileios Pavlidis
Institutions
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (IT)
- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SE)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Universidad de Cantabria (ES)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- Cyprus Institute (CY)
- University of the West of England (GB)
- Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR)
- Charles University (CZ)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Deltares (NL)
- CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (IT)
- Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (FR)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (DE)
- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (ES)
- Instituto Franco-Argentino sobre Estudios de Clima y sus Impactos (AR)
- Laboratoire atmosphères, milieux, observations spatiales (FR)
- Ouranos (CA)
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Urban Climate
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102165
- Citations
- 17
- Primary Topic
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.50
Funders
- Univerzita Karlova v Praze
- University of the West of England
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Grand Équipement National De Calcul Intensif
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación