Standardized heat islands and persistence drive modelled urban heat events

Supporting data for “Standardized heat islands and persistence drive modelled urban heat events”. Included are outputs from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) land model LM4, coupled with a newly developed and evaluated urban canopy model (UCM), and the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5, which is the land component of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) version 2.0.1. For the GFDL model, we conducted the simulations at 2 latitude by 2.5 longitude from 1700 to 2000, with the period of 1700-1948 for spin-up, and focused on the simulations of the latest 40-year period from 1961 to 2000 for our analysis. For the CLM model, we conducted the simulations (uncoupled to the atmospheric model) at 0.9 latitude by 1.25 longitude based on an initial condition provided by the CESM, which is spin-up by the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 3 atmospheric forcing from 1970 to 2010. For the analysis, we focused on the simulations of the latest 40-year period from 1971 to 2010. Analysis_codes.zip contains the analysis code. It is provided as-is with no guarantee of usability.