This repository contains the code to calculate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) from gridded data as described in
Valmassoi, A. and Keller, J. D.: How to visualize the Urban Heat Island in Gridded Datasets?, Adv. Sci. Res., 18, 41–49, https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-18-41-2021, 2021.
How to use: Modify the main.py accordingly to your case study. Fix the input variables so that they are all 1-D. The function that calculates the UHI is calc_uhi, which is contained in uhi_calculation.py
Two examples are given:
- the basic usage with a single timestep of the temperature field.
- A possible way to treat time-series calculations.
The repository includes the main dependencies in "requirements.txt".
Additional features: A simple plotting routine with Basemap: quick_uhi_plot. The main.py gives an example on how to use it.
This program is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 (GNU-GPLv3). You can redistribute and/or modify by citing the mentioned publication, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.