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Publication Date
6 June 2024

naturf: a package for generating urban parameters fornumerical weather modeling

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The Neighborhood Adaptive Tissues for Urban Resilience Futures tool (NATURF) is a Python workflow that generates files readable by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. NATURF uses geopandas and hamilton to calculate 132 building parameters from shapefiles with building footprint and height information. These parameters can be collected and used in many formats, and the primary output is a binary file configured for input to WRF. This workflow is a flexible adaptation of the National/World Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT/WUDAPT) that can be used with any study area at any spatial resolution. The climate modeling community and urban planners can identify the effects of building/neighborhood morphology on the microclimate using the urban parameters and WRF-readable files produced by NATURF. More information on the urban parameters calculated can be found in the documentation.

Sweet-Breu, Levi T., Em Rexer, Chris R. Vernon, Melissa R. Allen-Dumas, and Stefan Krawczyk. 2024. “Naturf: A Package For Generating Urban Parameters Fornumerical Weather Modeling”. Journal Of Open Source Software 9 (98). The Open Journal: 6712. doi:10.21105/joss.06712.
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