Data used in: Utility of thermal remote sensing for evaluation of a high-resolution weather model in a city

This dataset contains the processed data and analysis code used in the article:

Hall, T.W., Blunn, L., Grimmond, S., McCarroll, N., Merchant, C.J., Morrison, W., et al. (2024) Utility of thermal remote sensing for evaluation of a high-resolution weather model in a city. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150(760), 1771–1790. Available from:

https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4669

The data consists of LST data, UM100 model output and ancillary files (all netCDF format).

LST_data contains:

Landsat LST data retrieved in this study (CALC) on four study days, LST data from FORTH and NASA JPL on two days

MODIS LST data for 2018-07-15

UM100_output contains model output from initial and final runs for the four study days

The python script plot.py can be used to generate the figures shown in this article.