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  • Environmental modeling
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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  • Accurate urban meteorological modeling is crucial for city planning and forecasting.
  • Existing methods for generating urban morphometric parameters have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel methodology for generating urban morphometric parameters using deep neural networks and inverse modeling.
  • To compare the performance of this new method against existing approaches using Chicago as a case study.
  • To assess the impact of urban morphometry on meteorological simulations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Urban Canopy Parameters (UCPs) from the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT) as input for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model.
  • Performed WRF simulations incorporating Local Climate Zones (LCZs) from the World Urban Data Analysis and Portal Tools (WUDAPT).
  • Generated a Digital Synthetic City (DSC) using deep neural networks and inverse modeling, recalculating UCPs for LCZs.

Main Results:

  • The introduction of LCZs improved urban air temperature simulations.
  • Digital Synthetic City (DSC) simulations performed as well as or better than WUDAPT simulations.
  • Changes in UCPs significantly affected simulated temperature gradients and wind speeds.

Conclusions:

  • The study successfully implemented a digital urban visualization dataset within a Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) system.
  • This methodology offers a scalable approach for accurate urban meteorological modeling and forecasting, particularly beneficial for developing cities.
  • City planners can leverage synthetic cities to analyze environmental impacts.