Summary of impervious surface area statistics for selected cities, covering global urban land cover products and CORDEX-CORE regional climate models.

Repository containing the summary of impervious surface area statistics for selected cities, covering global urban land cover products and regional climate models (REMO2015 and RegCM4) for CORDEX-CORE (0.22⁰).This repository supports the article “Representation of global mega-cities and their urban heat island in CORDEX-CORE regional climate model simulations” by Langendijk, et al. (2025), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15691322. Explanation file columns: ID_HDC_G0: city identifier (from GHS-UCDB, Florczyk et al., 2019) UC_NM_MN: city name (from GHS-UCDB, Florczyk et al., 2019) CTR_MN_ISO: the ISO 3 code of the main country (from GHS-UCDB, Florczyk et al., 2019) AREA: surface area (km2) of the city (from GHS-UCDB, Florczyk et al., 2019) B15: Total built-up area in 2015 (km2) (from GHS-UCDB, Florczyk et al., 2019) P15: Total resident population in 2015 (Number of people) (from GHS-UCDB, Florczyk et al., 2019) CORDEX: CORDEX domain name (see eg. Diez-Sierra et al., 2022) IPCC: IPCC AR6 reference region (see eg. Diez-Sierra et al., 2022) Impervious surface area statistics for the GHSL-UCD geometry for ESA, ESRI, LCZ, REF, REMO, REGCM, and CLM: Mean Percentiles 0, 5, 25, 50, 75, 95, 100 gt0 and gt01: number of pixels with ISA greater than 0 / 0.1, for REGCM, REMO and CLM only. References: Diez-Sierra, J., Iturbide, M., Gutiérrez, J. M., Fernández, J., Milovac, J., Cofiño, A. S., Cimadevilla, E., Nikulin, G., Levavasseur, G., Kjellström, E., Bülow, K., Horányi, A., Brookshaw, A., García-Díez, M., Pérez, A., Baño-Medina, J., Ahrens, B., Alias, A., Ashfaq, M., … Zittis, G. (2022). The Worldwide C3S CORDEX Grand Ensemble: A Major Contribution to Assess Regional Climate Change in the IPCC AR6 Atlas. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103(12), E2804–E2826. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0111.1 Florczyk, A.J., Melchiorri, M., Corbane, C., Schiavina, M., Maffenini, M., Pesaresi, M., Politis, P., Sabo, S., Freire, S., Ehrlich, D., Kemper, T., Tommasi, P., Airaghi, D. and L. Zanchetta, Description of the GHS Urban Centre Database 2015, Public Release 2019, Version 1.0, Publications Office of the Europe an Union, Luxembourg, 2019, ISBN 978-92-79-99753-2, doi:10.2760/037310, JRC115586