Welcome to the UMEP tutorial website¶

To help users getting started with UMEP, the community is working on setting up tutorials and instructions for different parts of the UMEP tool. The tutorials available are found in the table below.

Note

One essential part when working with geodata in a GIS is to make sure that a common coordinate reference system (CRS) is used, both for the data itself and the current QGIS-project you are working in. For more info, see here. It is strongly recommended to reproject/transform all geodatasets into the same projected coordinate system before any processing starts as well using a CRS that is based on meters.

Topic	Parts of UMEP	Name	Application	Location
Source Area Footprint	Pre-Processor	Footprint modelling	Interpretation of eddy covariance flux source areas	London, UK
Urban energy balance	Processor	Urban Energy Balance - SUEWS Introduction	Energy, water and radiation fluxes for one location	London, UK
Urban energy balance	Pre-Processor and Processor	Urban Energy Balance - SUEWS Advanced	Energy, water and radiation fluxes for one location	London, UK
Urban energy balance	Pre-Processor, Processor and Post-processor	Urban Energy Balance - SUEWS Spatial	Energy, water and radiation fluxes for a spatial grid	New York City, US
Urban energy balance	Pre-Processor, Processor and Post-processor	Urban Energy Balance - SUEWS and WUDAPT	Making use of WUDAPT local climate zones in SUEWS	New York City, US
Urban energy balance	Pre-Processor, Processor and Post-processor	Urban Energy Balance - SUEWS, WUDAPT and WATCH	Making use of WUDAPT local climate zones as well as WATCH meteorological forcing data in SUEWS	Beijing, China
Solar Energy	Pre-Processor, Processor and Post-processor	Solar Energy - Introduction to SEBE	Amount of solar energy received on building facets	Gothenburg, Sweden; London, UK
Outdoor thermal comfort	Pre-Processor, Processor and Post-processor	Thermal Comfort - Introduction to SOLWEIG	Mean radiation temperature modelling in complex urban settings	Gothenburg, Sweden; New York City, US
Anthropogenic heat	Processor	Anthropogenic heat - GQF	Anthropogenic heat modelling in London using GQF (uses the GreaterQF methodology)	London, UK
Anthropogenic heat	Processor	Anthropogenic heat - LQF	Anthropogenic heat modelling in London using LQF (uses the LUCY methodology)	London, UK