MD
Matthias Demuzere
Urban climatologist and data scientist (Earth sciences; Built environment and design; Environmental sciences; Physical sciences)
Ghent, Belgium
Publications
- Lack of vegetation exacerbates exposure to dangerous heat in dense settlements in a tropical African city
- Evaluating the Urban Canopy Scheme TERRA _ URB in the COSMO Model for Selected European Cities
- The water balance representation in Urban-PLUMBER land surface models
- A global Local Climate Zone map: revealing intra-urban heterogeneity.
- Evaluating urban risks in Europe using publicly available continental-scale data
- Quantifying Local and Mesoscale Drivers of the Urban Heat Island of Moscow with Reference and Crowdsourced Observations
- Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods: a case study on data from Uccle, Belgium
- LCZ Generator: online tool to create Local Climate Zone maps
- Modelling the impact of a Sub-Saharan metropolis (Kampala) on the local climate during specific meteorological conditions of a dry season
- W2W: A Python package that injects WUDAPT’s Local Climate Zone information in WRF
- A hybrid 100-m global land cover dataset with Local Climate Zones for WRF
- Technical documentation for the hybrid 100-m global land cover dataset with Local Climate Zones for WRF
- Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review
- The characteristic and transformation of 3D urban morphology in three Chinese mega-cities
- Modeling Large‐Scale Heatwave by Incorporating Enhanced Urban Representation
- Can local fieldwork help to represent intra-urban variability of canopy parameters relevant for tropical African climate studies?
- A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science
- Earth Observation for Flood Applications: Progress and perspectives
- Urban climate modelling, anywhere, at any time
- Modeling present-day and future extreme events in the Lake Victoria Basin
- Exploring the Effect of Occurrence-Bias-Adjustment Assumptions on Hydrological Impact Modeling
- Quantifying the Effect of Urban Heat Advection using Crowd Weather Stations
- A Global Database of quality-controlled Crowd Weather Station Data
- A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science
- A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science
- Representation of precipitation and top-of-atmosphere radiation in a multi-model convection-permitting ensemble for the Lake Victoria Basin (East-Africa)
- Mapping Local Climate Zones: A Bibliometric Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
- LCZ Generator: a web application to create local climate zone maps
- Assessing and mitigate the heat vulnerability from morphological regions perspective – a case study in Beijing city
- Future multivariate weather generation by combining Bartlett-Lewis and vine copula models
- National Empirical Models of Air Pollution Using Microscale Measures of the Urban Environment
- Analyzing the Transformation of 3D Urban Morphology and Corresponding Surface Heat Island Effect in Beijing
- Urban Climate Informatics: An Emerging Research Field
- From cloud to refugee camp
- Utilising Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) for urban tree structure characterization and its impact on modelled human thermal comfort
- GCM selection based on weather patterns for extreme heat: a case study over Belgium
- CrowdQC+ - a quality-cControl for crowdsourced air-temperature observations enabling world-wide urban climate applications
- Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban‐PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results
- Projecting high resolution population distribution using Local Climate Zones and multi-source big data
- Disagreements among current-generation global urban estimates across scales
- Crowdsourcing von Lufttemperaturmessdaten zur kleinräumigen Modellierung von städtischen Temperaturverteilungen
- Multi-temporal LCZ maps for Canadian functional urban areas
- Global map of Local Climate Zones
- Global map of Local Climate Zones
- CONUS-wide LCZ map and Training Areas
- European LCZ map
- Mapping urban form into local climate zones for the continental US from 1986–2020
- Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications
- Present day and future urban cooling enabled by integrated water management
- Implementation of global soil databases in NOAH-MP model and the effects on simulated mean and extreme soil hydrothermal changes
- CONUS-wide LCZ map and Training Areas
- Consistent scale-dependency of future increases in hourly extreme precipitation in two convection-permitting climate models
- Beyond the urban mask
- Influence of neighbourhood information on ‘ Local Climate Zone ' mapping in heterogeneous cities
- Impact of urban canopy models and external parameters on the modelled urban energy balance in a tropical city
- Evaluation of an urban land surface scheme over a tropical suburban neighborhood
- The influence of convection-permitting regional climate modeling on future projections of extreme precipitation: dependency on topography and timescale
- Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction
- Sentinel‐1 detects firn aquifers in the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX)
- Supplementary material to "Global hydro-climatic biomes identified via multi-task learning"
- Can we use Local Climate Zones for predicting malaria prevalence across sub-Saharan African cities?
- The potential of local climate zones maps as a heat stress assessment tool, supported by simulated air temperature data
- Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling
- Impact of bias nonstationarity on the performance of uni- and multivariate bias-adjusting methods
- Revealing Kunming’s (China) Historical Urban Planning Policies Through Local Climate Zones
- A convection-permitting model for the Lake Victoria Basin: evaluation and insight into the mesoscale versus synoptic atmospheric dynamics
- Global biosphere-climate interaction: a causal appraisal of observations and models over multiple temporal scales
- Snow depth variability in the Northern Hemisphere mountains observed from space
- A New Method to Assess Fine-Scale Outdoor Thermal Comfort for Urban Agglomerations
- Climate-relevant urban canopy parameter measurements in Kampala, Uganda.
- Modelling and mapping the intra-urban spatial distribution of Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate using very-high-resolution satellite derived indicators
- Introduction to the special issue "In-depth study of air pollution sources and processes within Beijing and its surrounding region (APHH-Beijing)"
- Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US
- Heat stress increase under climate change twice as large in cities as in rural areas: A study for a densely populated midlatitude maritime region
- A New Regional Climate Model for POLAR‐CORDEX: Evaluation of a 30‐Year Hindcast with COSMO‐CLM2 Over Antarctica
- The local climate impact of an African city during clear‐sky conditions—Implications of the recent urbanization in Kampala (Uganda)
- A non-linear Granger-causality framework to investigate climate–vegetation dynamics
- Global hydro-climatic biomes identified via multi-task learning
- Should future wind speed changes be taken into account in wind farm development?
- Sky View Factor footprints for urban climate modeling
- Global hydro-climatic biomes identified via multitask learning
- Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation
- Global transferability of local climate zone models
- Using Local Climate Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa to tackle urban health issues
- The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling
- The Human Influence Experiment (Part 2): Guidelines for Improved Mapping of Local Climate Zones Using a Supervised Classification
- Mapping Europe into local climate zones
- SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities
- Heat risk assessment for the Brussels capital region under different urban planning and greenhouse gas emission scenarios
- The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling
- Introduction to Special Issue – In-depth study of air pollution sources and processes within Beijing and its surrounding region (APHH-Beijing)
- Surrogate climate change projections for the Lake Victoria region with a convection-permitting model.
- Comparison of univariate and multivariate bias-adjusting methods for hydrological impact assessment under climate change conditions
- Comparison of occurrence-bias-adjusting methods for hydrological impact modelling
- A Weighted Accuracy Measure for Land Cover Mapping: Comment on Johnson et al. Local Climate Zone (LCZ) Map Accuracy Assessments Should Account for Land Cover Physical Characteristics that Affect the Local Thermal Environment. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2420
- Global biosphere–climate interaction: a multi-scale appraisal of observations and models
- Impact of Urban Canopy Parameters on a Megacity’s Modelled Thermal Environment
- Corrigendum to ‘Pathway using WUDAPT's digital synthetic city tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling’ [Urban Climate 28 (2019) 100459]
- European LCZ map
- Drivers of future changes in East African precipitation
- Simulating the surface energy balance over two contrasting urban environments using the Community Land Model Urban
- Modeling the energy balance in Marseille: Sensitivity to roughness length parameterizations and thermal admittance
- Assessing the effect of soil tillage on crop growth: A meta-regression analysis on European crop yields under conservation agriculture
- A new method to estimate air-quality levels using a synoptic-regression approach. Part II: Future O3 concentrations
- The implementation of biofiltration systems, rainwater tanks and urban irrigation in a single-layer urban canopy model
- Tracking mesoscale convective systems in the Sahel: relation between cloud parameters and precipitation
- The Impact of the African Great Lakes on the Regional Climate
- How well can a convection-permitting climate model reproduce decadal statistics of precipitation, temperature and cloud characteristics?
- Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure
- The cooling effect of irrigation on urban microclimate during heatwave conditions
- The microscale cooling effects of water sensitive urban design and irrigation in a suburban environment
- The COST733 circulation type classification software: An example for surface ozone concentrations in Central Europe
- Seasonal surface urban energy balance and wintertime stability simulated using three land-surface models in the high-latitude city Helsinki
- How fast do gully headcuts retreat?
- The impact of impervious water-storage parametrization on urban climate modelling
- Multidecadal convection permitting climate simulations over Belgium: Sensitivity of future precipitation extremes
- A new statistical approach to downscale wind speed distributions at a site in northern Europe
- Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment
- Thermal evaluation of the Local Climate Zone scheme in Belgium
- Understanding cities: Advances in integrated assessment of urban sustainability
- MIRA Climate Report 2015, about observed and future climate changes in Flanders and Belgium.
- Validation and comparison of two soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer models for tropical Africa
- Application of urban climate modelling for assessment of WSUD
- An analysis of present and future ECHAM5 pressure fields using a classification of circulation patterns
- The impact of weather and atmospheric circulation on O3 and PM10 levels at a mid-latitude site
- Modelling strategies for performing convection-permitting climate simulations
- Assessment of natural climate variability using a weather generator
- Relations between atmospheric circulation and precipitation in Belgium
- Classifications of atmospheric circulation patterns: recent advances and applications.
- A height dependent evaluation of wind and temperature over europe in the cmip5 earth system models
- An analysis of present and future ECHAM5 pressure fields using a classification of circulation patterns
- Regime-dependent evaluation of accumulated precipitation in COSMO
- The diurnal evolution of the urban heat island of Paris: A model-based case study during Summer 2006
- COST Action 733: Harmonization and Application of Weather Type Classifications for European Regions ; Final Scientific Report
- Comparison of one-moment and two-moment bulk microphysics for high-resolution climate simulations of intense precipitation
- Watering our cities: The capacity for Water Sensitive Urban Design to support urban cooling and improve human thermal comfort in the Australian context
- The urban land use in the COSMO-CLM model: a comparison of three parameterizations for Berlin
- Working Group 4: Testing methods for various applications
- Evidence on the contribution of green urban infrastructure to climate change mitigation and adaptation
- COST Action 733, harmonization and application of weather type classifications for European regions
- Application of urban climate modelling for assessment of WSUD
- Efficient urban canopy parametrization for atmospheric modelling: description and application with the COSMO-CLM model (version 5.0_clm6) for a Belgian Summer
- The efficient urban canopy dependency parametrization (SURY) v1.0 for atmospheric modelling: description and application with the COSMO-CLM model for a Belgian summer
- Supplementary material to "Efficient urban canopy parametrization for atmospheric modelling: description and application with the COSMO-CLM model (version 5.0_clm6) for a Belgian Summer"
- Optimizing climate model selection in regional studies using an adaptive weather type based framework: a case study for extreme heat in Belgium
- LCZ-Generator Training Areas
- The Water Balance Representation in Urban‐PLUMBER Land Surface Models
- U-Surf: A Global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling
- Supplementary material to "U-Surf: A Global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling"
- The hectometric modelling challenge: Gaps in the current state of the art and ways forward towards the implementation of 100‐m scale weather and climate models
- Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel‐1 SAR Derived Snow Depth Retrievals Over the Extratropical Andes Cordillera
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Co-workers & collaborators
- GM
Gerald Mills
- BB
Benjamin Bechtel
- SH
Steve Hankey
- ES
Eleanor Setton
- AM
Ariane Middel
- WZ
Wenwen Zhang