City Climate Administration Services
The Identification Services enable users to perform statistical analysis on aggregated climate-related data drawn from the CityCLIM ecosystem. These services include the Heat Island Identification Service, the UltraHD-based City Air Flow Identification Service, and the UltraHD-based Pollution Area Identification Service. Each service is equipped with a graphical interface allowing users to analyze urban areas regarding different environmental parameters, identify sources of fresh air, and detect regions that tend to accumulate pollution. These are integral in understanding the environment of a city and how air and pollution are transported within. To complement identification services, a set of Simulation Services has been conceptualized, including the Heat Island Simulation and Mitigation Strategies Service, the City Air Flow Simulation and Mitigation Strategies Service, and the Pollution Simulation and Mitigation Strategies Service. These services grant users the ability to manipulate city models, create simulations to evaluate the impacts on various topics like Urban Heat Islands and city air flows, and receive suggestions for mitigation measures.
Identification Service
Administration Service
The CityCLIM Identification Services stands as a groundbreaking tool for understanding the nuanced atmospheric interplays at play within the confines of urban microclimates. Urban planners, researchers, and city administrators often grapple with the intricate dance of various climatic factors that dictate the living conditions in cities. With increasing urbanization, the need to comprehend and manage these microclimates becomes paramount. CityCLIM’s ability to tap into past UltraHD model runs (given an appropriate runtime) provides a rich data basis, enabling professionals to delve deep into historical local climatic patterns, understand temperature anomalies, and even compare specific areas within a city based on selected parameters.
Simulation Services
Administration Services
The CityCLIM solution includes a Simulation Editor that allows users to simulate local urban characteristics by adapting land cover types and elevation. The user can create a new set of simulated changes by drawing polygons of different colors representing different land cover types on a map. Clicking on the polygons allows the user to additionally enter elevation information. Every added information on the map is automatically saved, and already integrated changes can be reviewed and continued. Moreover, the user can request a simulated run by specifying a reference period, which then triggers the workflows of the simulation engine to produce manipulated EO data.
The user can request on-demand model runs. The service then calculats differences for certain parameters and model runs and produce maps using this data to study the influence of changes in land use or the digital elevation model.