Publications - Journals & Meetings

2026

  • Nektarios Chrysoulakis*, Karen C Seto, Jörn Birkmann, Andreas Christen, Matei Georgescu, Sue Grimmond, Matthias Roth and Lei Zhao

Bridging urban climate science and decision-making: the role of earth observation

  • Jonas Kittner; Daniel Fenner; Matthias Demuzere; Benjamin Bechtel

Finding the sea level – Investigation of rural references for estimation of the urban heat island

  • Chrysoulakis, N., Birkmann, J., Christen, A. and Grimmond, S.

Coupling dynamic cities and climate: the urbisphere project

  • Marvin Plein; Carsten F. Dormann; Andreas Christen

How many stations are sufficient? Exploring the effect of urban weather station density reduction on imputation accuracy of air temperature and humidity

  • Svenja Ludwig; Ferdinand Briegel; Andreas Christen

Evaluating the potential for heat warning systems to account for intra-urban variability

  • Nimra Iqbal; Joern Birkmann; Marvin Ravan; Denise Hertwig; Sarah Lisa Mack; Maximilian Rembold

Assessment of heat-related adaptation options across different households and urban structure types in transforming cities: Case study Berlin

  • Guo-Shiuan Lin, Denise Hertwig, Megan McGrory, Tiancheng Ma, Stefán Thor Smith, Maider Llaguno-Munitxa; Sue Grimmond, Gabriele Manoli

Modelling human activities in a system of cities

  • H. J. Jongen, M. Lipson, A. J. Teuling, S. Grimmond, M. Best, J.-J. Baik, M. Demuzere, K. Fortuniak, Y. Huang, M. De Kauwe, N. Meili, S.-B. Park, C. Wang, Z. Wang, G. J. Steeneveld

Surface Runoff Discrepancy in Urban-PLUMBER Land Surface Models

  • Denise Hertwig

Impact of surface heterogeneity on urban modelling across scales

  • Russell Glazer

Implications of High Resolution Surface Representation in Hectometric NWP

  • Tiancheng Ma

Impact of Dynamic Multi-Mode Transport on Spatiotemporal Variability of Anthropogenic Heat Emissions in London

2025

  • Russell H. Glazer; Sue Grimmond; Lewis Blunn; Daniel Fenner; Humphrey Lean; Andreas Christen; Will Morrison; Dana Looschelders; Jonathan K. P. Shonk

Hectometric-scale modelling of the mixed layer in an urban region evaluated with a dense LiDAR-ceilometer network

  • William Morrison; Dana Looschelders; Jonnathan Céspedes; Bernie Claxton; Marc-Antoine Drouin; Jean-Charles Dupont; Aurélien Faucheux; Martial Haeffelin; Christopher C. Holst; Simone Kotthaus; Valéry Masson; James McGregor; Jeremy Price; Matthias Zeeman; Sue Grimmond; Andreas Christen

Harmonised boundary layer wind profile dataset from six ground-based Doppler wind lidars in a transect across Paris, France

  • Ferdinand Briegel; Joaquim G. Pinto; Andreas Christen

Is satellite land surface temperature an appropriate proxy for intra-urban variability of daytime heat stress?

  • Dana Looschelders; Andreas Christen; Sue Grimmond; Simone Kotthaus; Daniel Fenner; Jean-Charles Dupont; Martial Haeffelin; William Morrison

Inter-Instrument Variability of Vaisala CL61 Lidar-Ceilometer’s Attenuated Backscatter, Cloud Properties and Mixed-Layer Height

  • Jonas Kittner; Daniel Fenner; Matthias Demuzere; Benjamin Bechtel

Analysis of nocturnal urban heat advection using crowd weather stations

  • Ferdinand Briegel; Simon Schrodi; Markus Sulzer; Thomas Brox; Joaquim G. Pinto; Andreas Christen

Deep learning enables city-wide climate projections of street-level heat stress

  • Josephine Elena Reek; Thomas W. Crowther; Thomas Lauber; Sebastian Schemm; David Parastatidis; Nektarios Chrysoulakis; Mengtian Huang; Shilong Piao; Constantin M. Zohner; Gabriel Reuben Smith

Forest edges are globally warmer than interiors and exceed optimal temperatures for vegetation productivity

  • Nimra Iqbal; Marvin Ravan; Zina Mitraka; Joern Birkmann; Sue Grimmond; Denise Hertwig; Nektarios Chrysoulakis; Giorgos Somarakis; Angela Wendnagel-Beck; Emmanouil Panagiotakis

How does perceived heat stress differ between urban forms and human vulnerability profiles? Case study Berlin

  • Marvin Plein; Gregor Feigel; Matthias Zeeman; Carsten F. Dormann; Andreas Christen

Using Gradient Boosting for gap-filling to analyze temperature and humidity patterns in an urban weather station network in Freiburg, Germany

  • Denise Hertwig; Megan McGrory; Matthew Paskin; Yiqing Liu; Samuele Lo Piano; Heidi Llanwarne; Stefán T. Smith; Sue Grimmond

Connecting Physical and Socio‐Economic Spaces for Multi‐Scale Urban Modelling: A Dataset for London

  • Gregor Feigel; Marvin Plein; Matthias Zeeman; Swen Metzger; Andreas Matzarakis; Dirk Schindler; Andreas Christen

High spatio-temporal and continuous monitoring of outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas: A generic and modular sensor network and outreach platform

  • Olga Shevchenko; Markus Sulzer; Andreas Christen; Andreas Matzarakis

Coupling Indoor and Outdoor Heat Stress During the Hot Summer of 2022: A Case Study of Freiburg, Germany

  • Keisuke Nakao, Lewis Blunn, Hideki Kikumoto, Hiroshi Takimoto, Sue Grimmond, Hongyuan Jia, Xiang Wang

Mean wind speed profile parameterisation over an urban canopy with building height variability

2024

  • Matthias Zeeman, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond, Daniel Fenner, William Morrison, Gregor Feigel, Markus Sulzer, and Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Modular approach to near-time data management for multi-city atmospheric environmental observation campaigns

  • Chrysoulakis, N., Birkmann, J., Christen, A. and Grimmond, S

Coupling dynamic cities and climate: the urbisphere project

  • Yiqing Liu, Sue Grimmond, Zhiwen Luo, Denise Hertwig, Megan McGrory, Samuele Lo Piano, Stefan T. Smith

Dwelling conversion and energy retrofit modify building anthropogenic heat emission under past and future climates: a case study of London terraced houses

  • Beth Saunders, Sue Grimmond, Denise Hertwig, Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, Humphrey W. Lean, William Morrison

Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large-aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: demonstration in London

  • Jongen, H. J., Lipson, M., Teuling, A. J., Grimmond, S., Baik, J.-J., Best, M., et al.

The water balance representation in Urban-PLUMBER land surface models

  • Lewis Blunn, Xiaoxiong Xie, Sue Grimmond, Zhiwen Luo, Ting Sun, Narein Perera, Rangajeewa Ratnayake, Rohinton Emmanuel

Spatial and temporal variation of anthropogenic heat emissions in Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • Ting Sun, Hamidreza Omidvar, Zhenkun Li, Ning Zhang, Wenjuan Huang, Simone Kotthaus, Helen C. Ward, Zhiwen Luo, and Sue Grimmond

WRF (v4.0)-SUEWS (v2018c) Coupled System: Development, Evaluation and Application

  • Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond, Fred Meier, William Morrison , Matthias Zeeman, Janet Barlow, Jörn Birkmann, Lewis Blunn, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Matthew Clements, Russell Glazer, Denise Hertwig, Simone Kotthaus, Kai König, Dana Looschelders, Zina Mitraka, Dimitris Poursanidis, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Benjamin Bechtel, Kit Benjamin, Frank Beyrich, Ferdinand Briegel, Gregor Feigel, Carlotta Gertsen, Nimra Iqbal, Jonas Kittner, Humphrey Lean, Yiqing Liu, Zhiwen Luo, Megan McGrory, Swen Metzger , Matthew Paskin, Marvin Ravan, Thomas Ruhtz, Bethany Saunders, Dieter Scherer, Stefan Thor Smith, Megan Stretton, Katja Trachte, and Melania Van Hove

urbisphere-Berlin campaign: Investigating multi-scale urban impacts on the atmospheric boundary layer

  • Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Dana Looschelders, Daniel Fenner, Fred Meier, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond, and Joern Birkmann

Urban trees phenology and local climate feedbacks of a residential area in Berlin

  • Thomas W. Hall, Lewis Blunn, Sue Grimmond, Niall McCarroll, Christopher J. Merchant, William Morrison, Jonathan K. P. Shonk, Humphrey Lean, Martin Best

Utility of thermal remote sensing for evaluation of a high-resolution weather model in a city

  • Ferdinand Briegel, Jonas Wehrle, Dirk Schindler, Andreas Christen

High-resolution multi-scaling of outdoor human thermal comfort and its intra-urban variability based on machine learning

  • Markus Sulzer, Andreas Christen

Climate projections of human thermal comfort for indoor workplaces

2023

  • Mathew J. Lipson, Sue Grimmond, Martin Best, Gab Abramowitz, Andrew Coutts, Nigel Tapper, Jong-Jin Baik, Meiring Beyers, Lewis Blunn, Souhail Boussetta, Elie Bou-Zeid, Martin G. De Kauwe, Cécile de Munck, Matthias Demuzere, Simone Fatichi, Krzysztof Fortuniak, Beom-Soon Han, Margaret A. Hendry, Yukihiro Kikegawa, Hiroaki Kondo, Doo-Il Lee, Sang-Hyun Lee, Aude Lemonsu, Tiago Machado, Gabriele Manoli, Alberto Martilli, Valéry Masson, Joe McNorton, Naika Meili, David Meyer, Kerry A. Nice, Keith W. Oleson, Seung-Bu Park, Michael Roth, Robert Schoetter, Andrés Simón-Moral, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Ting Sun, Yuya Takane, Marcus Thatcher, Aristofanis Tsiringakis, Mikhail Varentsov, Chenghao Wang, Zhi-Hua Wang, Andy J. Pitman

Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results

  • Megan Stretton, William Morrison, Robin Hogan, Sue Grimmond

Evaluation of vertically resolved longwave radiation in SPARTACUS-Urban 0.7.3 and the sensitivity to urban surface temperatures

  • Jörn Birkmann

Urbisphere: New dynamics and risks between cities and climate

  • Matthias Zeeman, Ferdinand Briegel, Gregor Feigel, Daniel Fenner, Marvin Plein, Andreas Christen, Giorgos Somarakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond

How can we manage real-time re-use of observational data?

  • Gregor Feigel, Marvin Plein, Matthias Zeeman, Swen Metzger, Andreas Matzarakis, Dirk Schindler, Andreas Christen

One year data of a customisable real-time weather monitoring system at street level, with public outreach in Freiburg, Germany

  • Sue Grimmond

Simplicity and complexity trade-offs in modelling urban-atmosphere

  • Megan McGrory, Denise Hertwig, Samuele Lo Piano, Jose Luis Ramirez-Mendiola, Stefán Thor Smith, Matthew Paskin, Yiqing Liu, Sue Grimmond

Dynamic Anthropogenic actiVities and feedback to Emissions (DAVE): – An agent based model for heat and exposure to other anthropogenic emissions

  • Denise Hertwig, Megan McGrory, Matthew Paskin, Samuele Lo Piano, Yiqing Liu, Jose Luis Ramirez-Mendiola, Stefán T. Smith, Sue Grimmond

Connecting physical and socio-economic spaces for urban agent-based modelling

  • Denise Hertwig, Yiqing Liu, Megan McGrory, Matthew Paskin, Martina Frid, Jiayi Han, Yilin Chen, Samuele Lo Piano, Jose Luis Ramirez-Mendiola, Stefán T. Smith, Sue Grimmond, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Dimitris Poursanidis, Giorgos Somarakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Nimra Iqbal, Angela Wendnagel-Beck, Marvin Ravan, Jörn Birkmann

Modelling anthropogenic heat emissions from residential buildings: Comparison between Berlin and London

  • Thomas Hall, Lewis Blunn, Sue Grimmond, Niall McCarroll, Christopher Merchant, William Morrison, Jon Shonk, Humphrey Lean, Martin Best

Utility of Thermal Remote Sensing for Evaluation of a High-Resolution Weather Model in a City

  • Valéry Masson, Estelle De Coning, Jorge Amorim, Clotilde Augros, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ana Carvalho, Andreas Christen, Julie Demuth, Vincent Dupuis, Arnaud Forster, Charmaine Franklin, Brian Golding, Sue Grimmond, Martial Haeffelin, Kirsty Hanley, Theresa Kiszler, Simone Kotthaus, Rajesh Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Humphrey Lean, Aude Lemonsu, Sylvie Leroyer, Dr Malika Madelin, Thibaut Montmerle, William Morrison, Adriaan Perrels, Jeremy Price, Lina Rodriguez, Olivier Sanchez, Karine Sartelet, Akane Saya, Jan-Peter Schulz, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Birgit Suetzl, Scott Swerdlin, Natalie Theeuwes, Jean Wurtz

Overview of the Paris 2024 Olympics WMO project and PANAME experiment synergie to improve weather forecasting in urban areas at neighborhood scale

  • Simone Kotthaus, Martial Haeffelin, Sophie Bastin, Christophe Boissard, Sophie Bouffies-Cloché4, Ghuylaine Canut5, Chris Cantrell, Jonnatha Céspedes, Andreas Christen, Bernie Claxton, Salem Dahech, Cyrielle Denjean, Vincent Douet, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Vincent Dupuis, Jean-Charles Dupont, Olivier Favez, Lluis Fita, Gilles Foret, Olivier Garrouste, Sue Grimmond, Valérie Gros, Melania Van Hove, Morgane Lalonde, Dominique Legain, Aude Lemonsu, Juliette Leymarie, Fabienne Lohou, Malika Madelin, Pauline Martinet, Valéry Masson, Vincent Michoud, Will Morrison, Jean-Eude Petit, Jerem Price, Michel Ramonet, Jean-Francois Ribaud, Axel Roy, Karine Sartelet, Vinciane Unger, Jean Wurtz, Matthias Zeeman

PANAME – Project synergy of atmospheric research in the Paris region

  • Yiqing Liu, Megan McGrory, Denise Hertwig, Samuele Piano, Stefan Smith, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond

Effect of household size on building anthropogenic heat emission: a case study in London terrace housing

  • William Morrison, Jonnathan Cespedes, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Daniel Fenner, Sue Grimmond, Martial Haeffelin, Rainer Hilland, Simone Kotthaus, Joshua Lartey, Matthew Paskin, Beth Saunders, Melania Van Hove, Matthias Zeeman

The urbisphere boundary-layer observational campaign in Paris, France: observation network design and initial results

  • Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus, Fred Meier, Dieter Scherer, William Morrison

Urban-rural and intra-urban variability of mixed layer height based on a dense network of ground-based Lidars in Berlin, Germany

  • Yiqing Liu, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond, Ting Sun

Impact of building density on natural ventilation potential and cooling energy saving across Chinese climate zones

  • Megan Stretton, Robin Hogan, Sue Grimmond, William Morrison

Characterising the vertical structure of buildings in cities for use in atmospheric models

  • Dimitris Poursanidis, Emmanouil Panagiotakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Sub-pixel Material Fraction Mapping in the UrbanScape using PRISMA Hyperspectral Imagery

  • Nimra Iqbal, Ayman Aslam, Ali Jamshed, Marvin Ravan, Jörn Birkmann, Irfan Ahmad Rana

Assessment of human heat vulnerability of different Local Climate Zones in Lahore: Coupling remote sensing and socioeconomic data

  • Giannis Lantzanakis, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Andreas Christen, Joern Birkmann

Initial development of the urbisphere urban hyperspectral library: Berlin, Germany

  • Angela Wendnagel-Beck, Ali Jamshed, Nimra Iqbal, Marvin Ravan, Joanna McMillan, Jörn Birkmann

Exploring the link between socio-economic and physical structure in cities to inform heat adaptation options: the case of Stuttgart

  • William Morrison, Sue Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus

Simulating satellite urban land surface temperatures: sensitivity to sensor view angle and assumed landscape complexity

  • Gregor Feigel, Marvin Plein, Matthias Zeeman, Ferdinand Briegel, Andreas Christen

A compact and customisable street-level sensor system for real-time weather monitoring and outreach in Freiburg, Germany

  • Matthias Zeeman, Kit Benjamins, Ferdinand Briegel, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Gregor Feigel, Daniel Fenner, Simone Kotthaus, Rainer Hilland, Fred Meier, William Morrison, Marvin Plein, Swen Metzger, Karthik Reddy, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Andreas Christen

A modular data management approach for environmental observation campaigns in multiple cities

  • Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Melania Van Hove, Simone Kotthaus, Fred Meier, William Morrison, Matthias Zeeman

Impact of a large isolated city on the mixed layer height during different weather conditions

  • Marvin Plein, Gregor Feigel, Matthias Zeeman, Ferdinand Briegel, Carsten Dormann, Andreas Christen

A sensor network for real-time monitoring and modelling of street-level heat exposure in Freiburg, Germany

  • Yiqing Liu, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond

Impact of building envelope design parameters on diurnal building anthropogenic heat emission

2022

  • Xiaoxiong Xie, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond, Lewis Blunn

Use of wind pressure coefficients to simulate natural ventilation and building energy for isolated and surrounded buildings

  • Mathew Lipson, Sue Grimmond, Martin Best, Winston Chow, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Andrew Coutts, Ben Crawford, Stevan Earl, Jonathan Evans, Krzysztof Fortuniak, Bert Heusinkveld, Je-Woo Hong, Jinkyu Hong, Leena Järvi, Sungsoo Jo, Yeon-Hee Kim, Simone Kotthaus, Keunmin Lee, Valéry Masson, Joseph McFadden, Oliver Michels, Wlodzimierz Pawlak, Matthias Roth, Hirofumi Sugawara, Nigel Tapper, Erik Velasco, Helen Claire Ward

Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites

  • Marvin Plein, Gregor Feigel, Matthias Zeeman, Carsten Dormann, Andreas Christen

A two-tier sensor network for real-time monitoring and modelling of urban-scale weather in Freiburg, Germany

  • Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond, Fred Meier, William Morrison, Matthias Zeeman

Chasing the plume – Investigating the urban boundary layer (downwind) of a city with transects of fixed and mobile ceilometer measurements

  • Nimra Iqbal, Marvin Ravan, Ali Jamshed, Joern Birkmann, Giorgos Somarakis, Zina Mitraka, Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Linkages between Typologies of Existing Urban Development Patterns and Human Vulnerability to Heat Stress in Lahore

  • Swen Metzger, Gregor Feigel, Benedikt Steil, Samuel Rémy, Andreas Christen

Influence of horizontal resolution on aerosol hygroscopic growth effects in urban and remote boundary layers in the context of climate impact and adaptation studies

  • Dimitris Poursanidis, Dimitris Tsirantonakis, Zina Mitraka, Haron Akala, Sue Grimmond, Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Mapping informal settlements using UAS in support of local climate models

  • Megan Stretton, William Morrison, Robin Hogan, Sue Grimmond

Evaluation of the SPARTACUS-Urban radiation model for vertically resolved shortwave radiation in urban areas

  • Oscar Brousse, Charles Simpson, Nancy Walker, Daniel Fenner, Fred Meier, Jonathon Taylor, Clare Heaviside

Evidence of horizontal urban heat advection in London using six years of data from a citizen weather station network

  • Yiqing Liu, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond

Revising the definition of anthropogenic heat flux from buildings: role of human activities and building storage heat flux

  • Daniel Fenner, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Fred Meier, Swen Metzger, William Morrison, Dieter Scherer

Dynamic interactions between city and atmospheric boundary layer - urbisphere Berlin campaign

  • Elliott Warren, Cristina Charlton-Perez, Humphrey Lean, Simone Kotthaus, Sue Grimmond

Spatial variability of forward modelled attenuated backscatter in clear-sky conditions over a megacity: Implications for observation network design

2021

  • Angela Wendnagel-Beck, Marvin Ravan, Nimra Iqbal, Jörn Birkmann, Giorgos Somarakis, Denise Hertwig, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond

Characterizing Physical and Social Compositions of Cities to Inform Climate Adaptation: Case Studies in Germany

  • Daniel Fenner, Will Morrison, Jörn Birkmann, Andreas Christen, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Sue Grimmond, Denise Hertwig, Fred Meier, Swen Metzger, Dieter Scherer

Die 'urbisphere' Berlin-Kampagne - Auswirkungen der Stadt Berlin auf die regionale atmosphärische Grenzschicht

  • Swen Metzger, Gregor Feigel, Benedikt Steil, Samuel Rémy, Andreas Christen, Sue Grimmond

On the influence of aerosol hygroscopic growth on meteorology using model data — from global to urban scales

  • William Morrison, Simone Kotthaus, Sue Grimmond

Urban surface temperature observations from ground-based thermography: intra- and inter-facet variability

  • Denise Hertwig, Sue Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus, Christina Vanderwel, Hannah Gough, Martial Haeffelin, Alan Robins

Variability of physical meteorology in urban areas at different scales: implications for air quality

2020

  • Isabella Capel-Timms, Stefán Thor Smith, Ting Sun, Sue Grimmond

Dynamic Anthropogenic activitieS impacting Heat emissions (DASH v1.0): development and evaluation