The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and  user-friendly model of city cooling

Broadbent, Ashley M.; Coutts, Andrew M.; Nice, Kerry A.; Demuzere, Matthias; Krayenhoff, E. Scott; Tapper, Nigel J.; Wouters, Hendrik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-785-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-785-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-785-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Model description paper

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20 Feb 2019

Model description paper |

| 20 Feb 2019

The Air-temperature Response to Green/blue-infrastructure Evaluation Tool (TARGET v1.0): an efficient and user-friendly model of city cooling

Ashley M. Broadbent, Andrew M. Coutts, Kerry A. Nice, Matthias Demuzere, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Nigel J. Tapper, and Hendrik Wouters

Model code and software

TARGETv1.0 Python code A. M. Broadbent, A. M. Coutts, K. A. Nice, M. Demuzere, E. S. Krayenhoff, N. J. Tapper, and H. Woulters https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1300023

TARGETv1.0 Java code A. M. Broadbent, A. M. Coutts, K. A. Nice, M. Demuzere, E. S. Krayenhoff, N. J. Tapper, and H. Woulters https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1310138

Short summary

We present a simple model for assessing the cooling impacts of vegetation and water features (green and blue infrastructure) in urban environments. This model is designed to be computationally efficient so that those without technical knowledge or access to high-performance computers can use it. TARGET can be used to model average street-level air temperature at canyon to block scales (e.g. 100 m resolution). The model is carefully designed to provide reliable and accurate cooling estimates.