PNNL

Abstract

The Neighborhood Adaptive Tissues for Urban Resilience Futures tool (NATURF) is a Python workflow that generates files readable by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. NATURF uses geopandas [@kelsey_jordahl_2020_3946761] and hamilton [@DBLP:conf/vldb/KrawczykI22] to calculate 132 building parameters from shapefiles with building footprint and height information. These parameters can be collected and used in many formats, and the primary output is a binary file configured for input to WRF. This workflow is a flexible adaptation of the National/World Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT/WUDAPT)[@ching2009national; @mills2015introduction] that can be used with any study area at any spatial resolution. The climate modeling community and urban planners can identify the effects of building/neighborhood morphology on the microclimate using the urban parameters and WRF-readable files produced by NATURF. The source code for NATURF can be found on GitHub(https://github.com/IMMM-SFA/naturf/tree/main), and more information on the urban parameters calculated can be found in the documentation.