Description
Next Generation City Climate Services Using Advanced Weather Models and Emerging Data Sources
In an era increasingly shaped by climate change and progressing urbanisation, the challenges faced by cities have grown more pronounced, impacting the health and well-being of their citizens. Recent record temperatures, declining air quality, and the complex interplay of wind patterns and humidity have emerged as pressing concerns for administrators and citizens alike. This is further exacerbated by the urban heat island (UHI) effect brought about by urbanisation.
As cities expand, they alter the thermal and radiative properties of natural landscapes, creating localised pockets of extreme heat and with altered diurnal temperature cycles. To mitigate this effect, the CityCLIM project brings together a consortium of pilot users, research organisations and industry committed to contributing to the next generation of data-driven climate services. By assimilating data from space and various in-situ data sources into a state-of-the-art weather model capable of real-time forecasting on urban scales, CityCLIM provides tools for administrators to analyse the impact of construction or urban redevelopment projects, for example, as well as alerts, information and personal health-focused services for citizens.CityCLIM is funded by the European Union as a research and innovation action under the Horizon2020 programme.
Consortium
OHB System AG
Institute for Applied Systems Technology Bremen GmbH
Meteologix AG
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH
University of Valencia
OHB Digital Solutions
Pilot Regions
City of Luxembourg (RTL Luxemburg)
Region of Central Macedonia
City of Valencia
City of Karlsruhe
Project Duration
10/2021 to 09/2024
Prototypes
Web References
Press Releases
Contact
Events
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101036814.