Evaluation Simulations of the REMO2020 Town Energy Balance Urban Model

Pietikäinen, Joni Pekka

Experiment
climateCORDEXregional climate modelingregional climate simulationregional modellingurban
Summary
This dataset contains simulations performed with the REMO2020 regional climate model to evaluate the coupling of the Town Energy Balance (TEB) urban canopy model. Simulations were conducted at horizontal resolutions of 0.11° (2011-2020) and 0.0275° (2020), using 49 vertical levels and ERA5 reanalysis data as lateral boundary forcing.

The dataset includes simulations with the standard REMO2020 configuration, REMO2020 coupled to TEB, simulations using the Interactive MOsaic-based VEgetation model (iMOVE), and vegetation-only experiments in which urban areas were replaced by natural vegetation. Static fields used by the model, including land-sea mask, orography, urban fraction, urban masks, and lake fraction, are also provided.

The published variables were selected to support evaluation of urban climate processes, near-surface meteorological conditions, and land-atmosphere interactions in the REMO2020-TEB model configuration.
Project
REMO2020-TEB (REMO2020 simulations for the evaluation of the Town Energy Balance (TEB) urban model coupling)
Contact
Dr. Joni Pekka Pietikäinen (
 joni-pekka.pietikaeinen@nullhereon.de
 0000-0002-9270-4739)
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -47.98 to 68.65 Latitude 21.28 to 74.35
Temporal Coverage
2011-01-01 to 2020-12-31 (proleptic_gregorian)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Format
NetCDF
Status
metadata only
Creation Date
Review Date
2026-11-03
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Pietikäinen, Joni Pekka (2026). Evaluation Simulations of the REMO2020 Town Energy Balance Urban Model. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=REMOTEB

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Dr. Joni Pekka Pietikäinen
0000-0002-9270-4739
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Author
Dr. Joni Pekka Pietikäinen
0000-0002-9270-4739
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Investigator
Dr. Joni Pekka Pietikäinen
0000-0002-9270-4739
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

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[1] DOI Pietikäinen, Joni-Pekka; Sieck, Kevin; Buntemeyer, Lars; Frisius, Thomas; Nam, Christine; Hoffmann, Peter; Pop, Christina; Rechid, Diana; Jacob, Daniela. (2025). REMO2020: a modernised modular regional climate model. doi:10.5194/gmd-18-7907-2025
[2] DOI Diez-Sierra, Javier; Quintana, Yaiza; Langendijk, Gaby S.; Milovac, Josipa; Demuzere, Matthias; Nogherotto, Rita; Pietikäinen, Joni-Pekka; Rechid, Diana; Zazulie, Natalia; Solman, Silvina A.; Fernández, Jesús. (2025). A global CORDEX-based dataset delineating urban areas and their surroundings to assess climate change in megacities. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-06257-1
[3] DOI Diez-Sierra, J.; Quintana, Y.; S. Langendijk, G.; Milovac, J.; Demuzere, M.; Nogherotto, R.; Pietikäinen, J.-P.; Rechid, D.; Zazulie, N.; A. Solman, S.; Fernández, J. (2025). URCLIMASK: A Python Package for Delineating Urban Areas and Their Surrounding Reference Rural Regions from Regional Climate Models (RCMs). doi:10.5281/zenodo.17257445
[4] Pietikäinen, Joni-Pekka. (2026). Analysis scripts for the manuscript "The REgional climate MOdel REMO2020-TEB: integration, development, and evaluation of the Town Energy Balance model.". https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23339587

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REMO2020 simulations for the evaluation of the Town Energy Balance (TEB) urban model coupling

[Entry acronym: REMOTEB] [Entry id: 5387507]