Attribution

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Please use the following citation when using the LCZ Generator:

• Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., Bechtel, B. (2021). LCZ Generator: a web application to create Local Climate Zone maps. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9:637455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.637455

In case you use training area data of one or more cities, we suggest to add the following statement to the acknowledgements:

• We acknowledge all WUDAPT contributors for providing the training areas for our city/cities of interest.

All required Local Climate Zone context and in-depth methodological information is provided in the following papers. Please cite where appropriate.

• Stewart, I. D., & Oke, T. R. (2012). Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(12), 1879-1900. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00019.1
• Bechtel, B., & Daneke, C. (2012). Classification of local climate zones based on multiple earth observation data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5(4), 1191-1202. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2189873
• Bechtel, B., Alexander, P., Böhner, J., Ching, J., Conrad, O., Feddema, J., … Stewart, I. (2015). Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(1), 199-219. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4010199
• Gorelick, N., Hancher, M., Dixon, M., Ilyushchenko, S., Thau, D., & Moore, R. (2017). Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone. Remote sensing of Environment, 202, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031
• Bechtel, B., Demuzere, M., Sismanidis, P., Fenner, D., Brousse, O., Beck, C., … Verdonck, M.-L. (2017). Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX). Urban Science, 1(2), 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci1020015
• Ching, J., Mills, G., Bechtel, B., See, L., Feddema, J., Wang, X., … Theeuwes, N. (2018). WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(9), 1907-1924. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0236.1
• Bechtel, B., Alexander, P. J., Beck, C., Böhner, J., Brousse, O., Ching, J., … Xu, Y. (2019). Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data - Current status of production and evaluation. Urban Climate, 27, 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2018.10.001
• Demuzere, M., Bechtel, B., & Mills, G. (2019). Global transferability of local climate zone models. Urban Climate, 27, 46-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2018.11.001
• Demuzere, M., Bechtel, B., Middel, A., & Mills, G. (2019). Mapping Europe into local climate zones. PLOS ONE, 14(4), e0214474. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214474
• Bechtel, B., Demuzere, M., & Stewart, I. D. (2020). 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. Remote Sensing, 12(11), 1769. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12111769
• Demuzere, M., Hankey, S., Mills, G., Zhang, W., Lu, T., & Bechtel, B. (2020). Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US. Nature Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00605-z