LCZ maps

LCZ GENERATOR MAPS

Please find the LCZ maps generated by the LCZ Generator web application here.

GLOBAL LCZ MAP

The global map of Local Climate Zones has been published in the open-access data journal Earth System Science Data:

Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., Martilli, A., Mills, G., Moede, C., Stewart, I. D., van Vliet, J., and Bechtel, B. (2022). A global map of Local Climate Zones to support earth system modelling and urban scale environmental science, Earth Syst. Sci. Data 14(8) 3835-3873. DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-3835-2022.

The 100m global LCZ dataset is also available:

Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., Martilli, A., Mills, G., Moede, C., Stewart, I. D., van Vliet, J., and Bechtel, B. (2022). Global map of Local Climate Zones, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6364594.

Demuzere, M., Kittner, J., Martilli, A., Mills, G., Moede, C., Stewart, I. D., van Vliet, J., and Bechtel, B. (2022). Teaser Local Climate Zone maps extracted from the global map of Local Climate Zones, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6364705.

CONTINENTAL LCZ MAPS

Europe

The European LCZ map from Demuzere et al. (2019) is available for download as GeoTiff here. When using this dataset, please use the following citations:

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

Demuzere, M.; Bechtel, B.; Middel, A.; Mills, G. (2019): European LCZ map. Figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13322450

Continental United States

The CONUS LCZ map from Demuzere et al. (2020) is available for download as GeoTiff here. When using this dataset, please use the following citations:

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. Scientific Data, 7(1), 264. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00605-z

Demuzere, M., Hankey, S., Mills, G., Zhang, W., Lu, T., Bechtel B. (2020): CONUS-wide LCZ map and Training Areas. Figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11416950