selected publications

• academic article

  • Dynamically downscaled projection of urban outdoor thermal stress and indoor space cooling during future extreme heat.  urban climate.  51:101648-101648. 2023
  • A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science.  Earth System Science Data.  14:3835-3873. 2022
  • Quantifying Local and Mesoscale Drivers of the Urban Heat Island of Moscow with Reference and Crowdsourced Observations.  Frontiers in Environmental Science.  9. 2021
  • Can local fieldwork help to represent intra-urban variability of canopy parameters relevant for tropical African climate studies?.  Theoretical and Applied Climatology.  146:457-474. 2021
  • Evaluating the Urban Canopy Scheme TERRA_URB in the COSMO Model for Selected European Cities.  Atmosphere.  12:237-237. 2021
  • Impact of Urban Canopy Parameters on a Megacity’s Modelled Thermal Environment.  Atmosphere.  11:1349-1349. 2020
  • The local climate impact of an African city during clear‐sky conditions—Implications of the recent urbanization in Kampala (Uganda).  International Journal of Climatology.  40:4586-4608. 2020
  • A New Method to Assess Fine-Scale Outdoor Thermal Comfort for Urban Agglomerations.  Climate.  8:6-6. 2020
  • Heat risk assessment for the Brussels capital region under different urban planning and greenhouse gas emission scenarios.  Journal of Environmental Management.  249:109210-109210. 2019
  • Revealing Kunming’s (China) Historical Urban Planning Policies Through Local Climate Zones.  Remote Sensing.  11:1731-1731. 2019
  • WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.  99:1907-1924. 2018
  • The efficient urban canopy dependency parametrization (SURY) v1.0 for atmospheric modelling: description and application with the COSMO-CLM model for a Belgian summer.  Geoscientific Model Development.  9:3027-3054. 2016

• blog posting

  • A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science.  . 2022
  • A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science.  . 2022
  • Assessment of infrastructure-based reductions of future heat wave intensity with advanced mesoscale modelling.  . 2022
  • A global Local Climate Zone map: revealing intra-urban heterogeneity..  . 2022
  • Evaluating urban risks in Europe using publicly available continental-scale data.  . 2022
  • Evaluating the Urban Canopy Scheme TERRA_URB in the COSMO Model for Selected European Cities.  . 2021

• document

  • Reply on RC1.  . 2022
  • Reply on RC2.  . 2022
  • Reply on RC3.  . 2022