100m climate and heat stress information up to 2100 for 142 cities around the globe

Related publication: Souverijns, N. et al. (in review). 100m climate and heat stress information up to 2100 for 142 cities around the globe. Scientific Data.

Related dashboard: https://climate-risk-dashboard.climateanalytics.org/

A zip archive of decadal climate, heat stress and impact indicators for 142 cities around the world obtained using the UrbClim model. Information is available at 100m resolution for each decade up to 2100 for three future clilmate scenarios (including climate model uncertainty):

Current Policies 

Shifting Pathways 

Delayed Action / Gradual Strengthening 

The cities are listed in the table below and are offered in separate zip archives per country.

Country
City
Country
City
Country
City
Country
City

Albania
Tirana
France
Nantes
Japan
Tokyo
Singapore
Singapore

Argentina
Buenos Aires

Nice
Jordan
Amman
Slovakia
Bratislava

Australia
Melbourne

Paris
Kenya
Nairobi

Kosice

Sydney

Strasbourg
Latvia
Riga
Slovenia
Ljubljana

Austria
Graz

Toulouse
Lithuania
Klaipeda
Somalia
Mogadishu

Vienna
Germany
Berlin

Vilnius
South Africa
Cape Town

Bangladesh
Dhaka

Cologne
Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Tschwane

Belgium
Antwerp

Dusseldorf
Mexico
Mexico City
Spain
Alicante

Brussels

Frankfurt am Main
Montenegro
Podgorica

Barcelona

Charleroi

Hamburg
Morocco
Marrakesh

Bilbao

Ghent

Leipzig

Rabat

Madrid

Liege

Munich
Netherlands
Amsterdam

Malaga

Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sarajevo
Ghana
Accra

Rotterdam

Murcia

Brazil
Curitiba
Greece
Athens

Utrecht

Palma de Mallorca

Salvador

Thessaloniki
New Zealand
Auckland

Sevilla

Bulgaria
Sofia
Hungary
Budapest
Nigeria
Lagos

Valencia

Varna

Debrecen
North Macedonia
Skopje
Sweden
Goteborg

Canada
Toronto

Gyor
Norway
Oslo

Stockholm

Chile
Santiago

Miskolc
Pakistan
Islamabad
Switzerland
Basel

China
Hong Kong

Pecs

Karachi

Geneva

Nanjing

Szeged
Peru
Lima

Zurich

Columbia
Bogota
Iceland
Reykjavik
Poland
Gdansk
Turkey
Istanbul

Croatia
Split
India
Chennai

Krakow
United Arab Emirates
Dubai

Zagreb
Indonesia
Jakarta

Lodz
United Kingdom
Birmingham

Czech Republic
Prague
Iran
Teheran

Warsaw

Edinbugh

Denmark
Copenhagen
Ireland
Dublin

Wroclaw

Glasgow

Egypt
Cairo
Italy
Bari
Portugal
Lisbon

Leeds

Estonia
Tallinn

Bologna

Porto

London

Tartu

Genoa
Romania
Brasov

Newcastle

Ethiopia
Addis Abeba

Milan

Bucharest
United States
Houston

Finland
Helsinki

Naples

Cluj Napoca

Los Angeles

France
Bordeaux

Padua
Russia
Moscow

New York

Lille

Palermo
Saudi Arabia
Medina

Phoenix

Lyon

Rome
Senegal
Dakar
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh

Marseille

Trieste
Serbia
Belgrado

Montpellier

Turin

Novi Sad

The data is provided in both Geotiff and NetCDF format. A zip archive for each city is generated. Each zip file contains two folder:

Geotiffs

Netcdfs

Each file has the following file structure: [indicator_filename]_[decade]_[climate_scenario]_[uncertainty]_[projection].[format]

Indicator name (a defintion for each indicator can be found in the publication above):

Indicator (full definition in Souverijns et al. (in review)
Indicator filename

Average daily maximum temperature
T2M_daily_mean_max

Average daily minimum temperature
T2M_daily_mean_min

Average daily temperature
T2M_mean

Maximum temperature of the warmest month
MTWM

Maximum temperature of the coolest month
MTCM

Daytime Urban Heat Island
T2M_daily_mean_max_topography

Nighttime Urban Heat Island
T2M_daily_mean_min_topography

Annual heatwave days
heatwave_days

Annual heat-wave magnitude index daily (HWMId)
HWMI

Annual number of days exceeding [25°C; 30°C; 35°C]
T2M_dayover25; T2M_dayover30; T2M_dayover35

Annual number of nights exceeding [20°C; 25°C; 28°C]
T2M_nightover20; T2M_nightover25; T2M_nightover28

Annual cooling degree hours
cooling_degree_hours

Annual number of days WBGT > [25°C; 28°C; 29.5°C; 31°C]
WBGT_dayover25; WBGT_dayover28; WBGT_dayover295; WBGT_dayover31

Annual number of nights WBGT > [25°C; 28°C]
WBGT_nightover25; WBGT_nightover28

Annual number of hours WBGT > [25°C; 28°C; 29.5°C; 31°C]
WBGT_hourover25; WBGT_hourover28; WBGT_hourover295; WBGT_hourover31

Annual lost working hours for intense activities
LWH_int

Annual lost working hours for moderate activities
LWH_mod

Annual lost working hours for light activities
LWH_light

Population exposed to heatwave warning days
population_exposed_heatwave

Population exposed to heat stress days (WBGT > [25°C; 28°C; 29.5°C; 31°C])
population-exposed-WBGTover25; population-exposed-WBGTover28; population-exposed-WBGTover295; population-exposed-WBGTover31

Decade:

2011-2020; 2021-2030;...;2091-2100

Climate scenario:

Climate scenario
Climate scenario in filename

Current Policies
CurPol

Delayed Action / Gradual Strengthening 
GS

Shifting Pathways
SP

Uncertainty:

Uncertainty
Uncertainty filename

Median of the climate scenario ensemble
ensmean

5th percentile of the climate scenario ensemble
enspctl05

95th percentile of the climate scenario ensemble
enspctl95

Projection:

The Geotiffs and NetCDFs are always provided in a local projection depending on the country / continent (This can be retrieved from the metadata of the files). Furthermore, the Geotiffs are also provided in EPSG:4326 which is then denoted in the filename

Format:

Format
Extension

Geotiff
.tif

NetCDF
.nc