World Urban Morphological Parameters Open Dataset (WUMPOD)

WUMPOD is available with a spatial resolution of 500 m in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format and WRF-WPS format for easy access and utilization within the WRF modelling system. The COG format uses "Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW)" compression, overviews are embedded, and contains separate files of the following urban morphological parameters; MH (mean building height), STDH (standard deviation of building height), HGT (area weighted mean building height), LP (building plan area fraction), LB (building surface to plan area fraction), LF (frontal aspect ratio for cardinal directions of 0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees), LC (complete aspect ratio), H2W (height to width ratio), HI [0-75 m] (percentage distribution of building heights at every 5 m up to 75 m), Z0M, ZDM (Roughness length and displacement height according to Macdonald et al. (1998) for 0, 45, 90, and 135 directions), urban fraction (from WorldCover 2021) and missing building fraction. The WRF-WPS binary dataset contains additional variables, i.e., Z0S, ZDS (Roughness length and displacement height according to Grimmond and Oke (1999)), Z0R, and ZDR (Roughness length and displacement height according to Raupach (1994) for 0, 45, 90, and 135 directions), but it does not contain missing and urban fraction variables. Please read WRF-WPS readme file to use it in the WRF simulations. It is important to note that WRF-WPS binary, when uncompressed is approximately 630 GB. It is advised that user check disk space before uncompressing the file. The urban fraction in WRF-WPS format is available at https://zenodo.org/records/7298393