Local Climate Zone (Local Climate Zone Classification System) - 2

Local climate zones have been developed in the climatology field to characterize the landscape surrounding climate monitoring stations, toward adjusting for local landscape influences on measured temperature trends. For example, a station surrounded by tall buildings may be influenced by the urban heat island effect compared to a station in an agricultural area. The local climate zone classification system was developed by Iain Stewart and Tim Oke at the University of British Columbia. The classification scheme has been adopted by the World Urban Database Access and Tools Portal (WUDAPT) project, which aims to produce local climate zone maps for the entire world at a scale of ~ 100m. Local climate zones take building and vegetation type and height into account, and therefore serve as indicators of urban form, from dense urban (high building with little vegetation) to industrial/commercial (large lowrise buildings with paved areas) and natural (dense trees, low plants, water). How local climate zones are related to human health is a new area of research.CANUE staff and students worked in collaboratation with WUDAPT researchers to map local climate zones for Canada, using scripts developed in Google Earth Engine and applied to LandSat imagery for key time periods. Each postal code has been assigned to one of 14 local climate zone classes. In adition, seven groups have been created by aggregating similar local climate zones, and the percentage of group in the neighbourhood (1km2) around each postal code has been calculated.

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Last Updated August 20, 2024, 19:36 (UTC)
Created September 18, 2023, 23:40 (UTC)
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Environment
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.pdf - application/pdf
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Metadata Identifier
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Published Date
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2018-10-01
Time Period Data Span (start date)
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1986-01-01
Time Period Data Span (end date)
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2016-12-31
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
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Canada
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visible
Limits on use
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These data files are provided solely for the purposes stated in the CANUE Data Sharing and Use Agreement and should not be re-distributed for any reason. These data also contain proprietary postal code data and may only be used for the project named in the CANUE Data Sharing and Use Agreement. Data can be shared only within a project team for the exclusive purposes of teaching, academic research and publishing, and/or planning of educational services in accordance to DMTI End User Agreement associated with the Spatial Mapping Academic Research Tools (SMART) Program.
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https://www.canue.ca
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CANUE (Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium)|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Author
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CANUE (Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium)|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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info@canue.ca
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Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2023-09-18
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27
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English
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No
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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Source
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https://canue.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Stewart-and-Oke-2012-Data-Sheets-Local-Climate-Zones.pdf
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Census year
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NoData = -9999 (for numeric fields) - NoData=null (for category fields) - Data insufficient to calculate value = -1111
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