Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022
Data description paper
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29 Aug 2022
Data description paper |  | 29 Aug 2022

A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

Matthias Demuzere, Jonas Kittner, Alberto Martilli, Gerald Mills, Christian Moede, Iain D. Stewart, Jasper van Vliet, and Benjamin Bechtel

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Because urban areas are key contributors to climate change but are also susceptible to multiple hazards, one needs spatially detailed information on urban landscapes to support environmental services. This global local climate zone map describes this much-needed intra-urban heterogeneity across the whole surface of the earth in a universal language and can serve as a basic infrastructure to study e.g. environmental hazards, energy demand, and climate adaptation and mitigation solutions.
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