LOCAL CLIMATE ZONES MAP AND URBAN CANOPY PARAMETERS OF BERN Noémie Wellinger - Institute of Geography & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research - University of Bern 8 - September -2023 Description ----------- The data set includes (1) a Local Climate Zones (LCZ) map of the city of Bern (Switzerland) (2) 8 Urban Canopy Parameters: Sky view factor (SVF), building surface fraction (BSF), impervious surface fraction (ISF), height of roughness elements (HRE – either build height (-BH) or vegetation height (-VH), Sealed Surface Fraction (SSF), Forest Surface Fraction (FSF), and Water Surface Fraction (WSF) (3) Two R-Scripts that perform a revision and an analysis of a LCZ map (4) a colormap (.clr) file for ArcGIS to correctly display the LCZ map (5) Two auxiliary csv-files containint UCP values, used by the R-Scripts The resolution of the LCZ map is 78.8 x 78.8 m The resolution of UCPs data sets is 10 m Keywords -------- Local Climate Zones Urban Heat Island Urban Climate Urban Canopy Parameter Geodata Data collection and computation ------------------------------- The LCZ map is calculated from an 'original' LCZ map generated by the online tool "LCZ-Generator" (Demuzere et al., 2021) in a workflow developed by Wellinger et al. (in preparation). The UCP data sets were calculated or obtained from previous research (Burger et al., 2021; Ginzler & Hobi, 2015), the European Environment Agency (2020), the Office for Geoinformation of the Canton of Bern (2021), and from the administrative land cover dataset MOPUBE (Office for Geoinformation of the Canton of Bern, 2021). Data Format ----------- The data is available in a geoTIFF format (.tif) with the coordinate system CH1903+ LV95 . NoData has the value -999 License ------- The data is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For more details see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ References ---------- Burger, M., Gubler, M., Heinimann, A., & Brönnimann, S. (2021). Modelling the spatial pattern of heatwaves in the city of Bern using a land use regression approach. Urban Climate, 38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100885 Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., & Bechtel, B. (2021). LCZ Generator: A Web Application to Create Local Climate Zone Maps. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.637455 European Environment Agency (EEA) (2020): Imperviousness Density (IMD) 2018. © European Environment Agency. https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/high-resolution-layers/impervious-ness/status-maps/2015 Ginzler, C., & Hobi, M. L. (2015). Countrywide stereo-image matching for updating digital surface models in the framework of the swiss national forest inventory. Remote Sensing, 7(4), 4343–4370. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70404343 Office for Geoinformation of the Canton of Bern (2021): Amtliche Vermessung Vereinfacht (Version: 23.03.2021). © Office for Geoinformation of the Canton of Bern. https://www.agi.dij.be.ch/de/start/geoportal/geodaten/detail.html?type=geoproduct&code=MOPUBE Wellinger, N., Gubler, M., Müller, F. & Brönnimann, S. (in preparation). GIS-based revision of a WUDAPT Local Climate Zones map of Bern, Switzerland.