🌍 What if cities could test plans before action? UrbanAIR is co-designing next-gen digital twins with Barcelona and Antwerp to model heat, wind and pollution, use AI emulators, and capture citizen behaviour. Linked with DestinE. Next tests in the learning cities of Bristol, Paris and Rotterdam.

🌍 Europe is breaking heat records. The latest #C3S Climate Bulletin shows climate extremes are today’s reality. UrbanAIR takes action at street level with: 🏙️ Digital twins 🔍 Behavioural modelling 🤝 Co-creation ➡️ Building cooler, cleaner, safer cities with #DestinE.

❓ Who protects us most during extreme heatwaves? Not public systems, but households and neighbourhoods. Researchers from TU Delft explore Community-Based Adaptation as a bottom-up way to build resilience and justice in climate action. #ClimateAdaptation #CommunityResilience #TUdelft

🌆 How do winds move between buildings? Our partners at NORCE use the Lattice Boltzmann Model with real wind data to run 100+ simulations. The result? High-resolution forecasts of urban airflow for planning, climate studies, and real-time city predictions. 🌬️ #UrbanClimate #WindModeling

🔥 Cities are heating up — but women, children, older adults, and low-income groups feel the heat first. The UrbanAIR project studies these inequalities and uses scientific data to give planners tools for fairer, cooler, more resilient cities. 🌍 Learn more: www.urbanair-project.eu #HorizonEU

🏙️ UrbanAIR is teaming up with DAFNI and STFC Scientific Computing to build digital twins that tackle air pollution, heat stress and climate resilience. 1️⃣ Their first milestone coming by the end of 2025! Stay tuned for updates and a live demonstration! ⚙️ #UrbanAIR #DigitalTwins #HorizonEurope

🏙️ Cities face rising climate risks like heat, pollution and wildfires. UrbanAIR helps designers build safer, more resilient cities using data, simulations and digital twins, with modelling support from our partners @CERFACS. Smarter planning starts with better air insights. 🌬️

🌿 VITO’s Tree Potential Map is evolving into the Green Potential Map, blending climate science, health, and how people use green spaces. Still in development, it could guide where green has the most impact. 🔗 Read it on our website: www.urbanair-project.eu/post/from-id...

🏙️ How do tall buildings shape city weather? At the Boundary Layer and Turbulence Conference in Turin, our partners @meteofrance.com shared first results from UrbanAIR using the AROME model at 200 m and 100 m for Paris and Antwerp, testing effects of building height on boundary layer fields.

🔓 We’ve gained access to the Destination Earth Data Lake (DEDL)! 🎉 This unlocks high-res climate and urban simulations using massive datasets and ML. A big step forward for our digital twin work 🌍 🛰️ Part of the EU’s DestinE initiative. 🔗 Learn more: destination-earth.eu/destination-...

Powerful tools only matter if cities can truly use them. 🛠️ UrbanAIR, with the help of Resilient Cities Network, is co-developing digital twins with local teams to make them usable, relevant, and trusted. Built from the ground up for those who need them most. 🌍

👋 Final spotlight in our partner series: Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) BFH supports UrbanAIR with emulation, super data generation, nowcasting, and uncertainty quantification to advance digital twin tools. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

👋 Meet our Partner: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) SMHI provides high-resolution forcing data for UrbanAIR’s urban simulations—adapting its weather prediction system to 100–200 m scale and subhourly output. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

SMHI’s team is now complete! 👏 We welcome Abhilash Menon, PhD, to the SMHI & UrbanAIR teams! 🎉 He'll work on turbulence modeling in the HARMONIE-AROME NWP system, focusing on 100–200 m simulations over urban areas. 🏙️🌬️ 🔗 Details about Abhilash’s scientific and research profile here: lnkd.in/dFBE8fhB

👋 Meet our Partner: @futureneedseu.bsky.social Future Needs leads communication & exploitation and supports stakeholder engagement to keep project results visible, user-driven, and ready for long-term impact. 🎥 Watch the video in the article to meet the team. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

Who are we really designing for? In #UrbanAIR, stakeholder mapping helps us co-create tools that are useful, used & usable — with real city actors, not ideal users. Inclusion, equity & relevance start with listening, mapping & co-production. 👂🌍 #ClimateTools #UrbanFutures #CoProduction

🚀 UrbanAIR wrapped up a powerful week at #ICUC12 in Rotterdam We shared our work on digital twins for the urban atmosphere, linking physics-based models, real-world data, and local planning needs 🌍🏙️ A big thank you to all our partners for their energy and contributions throughout the week 🙏

Many thanks to our speakers, panelists & participants for a productive discussion to drive forward the future of Earth system #DigitalTwins! Find more detailed insights from the sessions by checking out our LinkedIn posts here: tinyurl.com/3seazhxj #DestinE @urbanair.bsky.social #WeatherGenerator

👋 Meet our Partner: @meteofrance.com Météo-France brings advanced weather and climate expertise to UrbanAIR. Using the AROME model at 200m resolution, the team provides forcing data for urban simulations, helping cities plan with precision. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

Progress in LES modelling at urban scale with Meso-NH 🌍 The LAERO team at Univ. of Toulouse is running high-res urban simulations with Meso-NH—part of UrbanAIR’s role in the DestinE Digital Twin. 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 Antwerp during a heatwave 🌡️ 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 ✔️ Model setup ✔️ Meteorological data ✔️ Performance testing

🌍 UrbanAIR at the 4th DestinE User eXchange 📍 Vienna, 25–26 June 2025 Great to see Natalie Theeuwes from @knmi.nl present UrbanAIR at @esa.int Living Planet Symposium. She used a user journey to show how we'll use #DestinationEarth infrastructure and build upon its services for our target users.

👋 Meet our Partner: imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Researchers from the Civil and Environmental Engineering department use the uDALES model in UrbanAIR to simulate street-level airflow and turbulence, improving forecasts and urban climate design. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

👋 Meet our Partner: Technische Universität Ilmenau TU Ilmenau contributes to UrbanAIR by improving uncertainty quantification and simulating control variables in digital twins, boosting trust in climate modelling tools for cities. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p... #UrbanAIRteam

👋 Meet our Partner: STFC Scientific Computing STFC is building the digital framework of UrbanAIR—defining parameters, generating data, and connecting UrbanAIR to Destination Earth. Their work shapes a scalable prototype for urban climate digital twins. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

🛰️ Urban modelling in action! Our partner @unihannover.bsky.social completed UrbanAIR’s first test case using the PALM-4U model. 📍Antwerp 📅 2024 heatwave 🎯 Simulating how buildings & surfaces affect heat and air quality A key step toward helping cities plan with high-res, real-time insights

👋 Meet our Partner: @uni-freiburg.de UFR provides evaluation data for UrbanAIR modelling. Its new urban weather network in Bristol captures city, terrain, and coastal effects, supporting real-time climate monitoring and digital twin validation. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

🌍 Join our first webinar! “Expanding Destination Earth: New #DigitalTwins for Climate, Urban and Weather Applications” 🗓️ 10 Jul 2025 | 10:30–12:00 CEST Showcasing 3 projects in the EU Digital Twin ecosystem: 🏔️ #TerraDT 🏙️ @urbanair.bsky.social ⛈ #WeatherGenerator 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/ujz272pk

👋 Meet our Partner: Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) R-Cities connects cities through knowledge sharing, partnerships, and funding. In UrbanAIR, it leads user engagement & coordinates the User Committee Meetings to co-create digital twin tools with stakeholders. www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

📢 UrbanAIR’s 1st Newsletter is live! UrbanAIR is co-developing digital twins with cities, merging climate models, real-time data & behavioural science to support decisions for safer, healthier urban environments. 👉 Read & subscribe: www.linkedin.com/pulse/issue-... #HorizonEU

Reflections from our @urbanair.bsky.social workshop: DigitalTwins are increasingly powerful, but more work is needed to translate even the most granular air pollution and climate models into actionable tools addressing urban dilemmas. Thanks for the inspiring discussions @tpmtudelft.bsky.social

📍 Just wrapped a 2-day working session in Delft. How can cities use digital twins to plan greener, healthier spaces? 🌳 Where would you plant trees to cut heat & improve air quality without harming access, equity, or safety? Let us know in the comments. #HorizonEU

👋 Meet our Partner: European Centre for Advanced Training and Scientific Computing (CERFACS) CERFACS brings expertise in simulation and emulation to UrbanAIR, providing detailed wind & temperature maps with uncertainty data to support climate planning. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

UrbanAIR supports cities facing climate risks with tools for better decisions. 💭 ✔️ Scenario planning ✔️ Local-to-regional climate models ✔️ AI-accelerated forecasts ✔️ Behavioural modelling ✔️ Standards-based planning ✔️ Real-world validation 🔗 Learn more: www.urbanair-project.eu #HorizonEurope

It's Europe Day! Today we honour #C3S and #CopernicusAtmosphere for their pivotal contributions of data and tools to help better understand climatic and atmospheric conditions in Europe. #EuropeDay

👋 Meet our Partner: @bsc-cns.bsky.social BSC develops advanced data fusion and super-resolution methods for UrbanAIR—delivering precise, street-level insights on air quality and heat. They also lead service co-design with users in Barcelona & Antwerp. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-p...

👋 Meet our Partner: @unihannover.bsky.social LUH supports UrbanAIR with advanced urban climate modelling—preparing high-resolution 3D city data and simulations that help integrate climate insights into the #DestinationEarth platform. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-o... #UrbanAIRTeam

UrbanAIR is building fit-for-purpose digital tools for climate resilience. At #EGU25, our coordinator Femke Vossepoel from TU Delft presented how we integrate climate physics & human behaviour in modular urban twins—designed with cities, for cities. #UrbanAIRproject #DigitalTwins

UrbanAIR goes beyond modelling air quality and heat—it captures how people actually respond to extreme climate conditions. Integrating behavioural modelling in our DT helps cities design strategies based on real human actions, not just theoretical assumptions. #UrbanAIR #HorizonEurope

👋 Meet our Partner: NORCE NORCE brings expertise in uncertainty modelling and data assimilation to UrbanAIR—enhancing digital twin climate models and decision tools that help cities better manage urban heat and air quality. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-o... #UrbanAIRteam

👋 Meet our Partner: VITO VITO, a leading Belgian research institute, brings high-resolution climate modelling, air quality expertise, and digital twin innovation to UrbanAIR—helping cities prepare for a more sustainable and resilient future. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-o...

👋 Meet our coordinator: TU Delft TU Delft, the Netherlands' largest technical university, leads UrbanAIR’s scientific and technical work to advance the use of digital twin cities for cleaner and more climate-resilient European cities. 🔗 Read more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-o...

🌍 Over half the world lives in cities. UrbanAIR helps simulate how urban design, human behaviour, and hazard risks combine to shape air quality, heat exposure, and climate response before anything is built. Clean air begins with smart, data-informed planning. What would you change in your city? 💬

In many cities, rising heat and air pollution strike hardest in communities with the fewest resources. UrbanAIR is building a digital twin to help cities pinpoint those risks, understand how people respond, and act with speed, fairness and insight. 📊🤝 #UrbanAIR #HeatEquity #ClimateJustice

🏙️ Cities face rising heatwaves, pollution & climate hazards, impacting health & resilience. UrbanAIR develops physics-based #DigitalTwins, integrating climate modelling, AI-trained emulators & behavioural insights to help cities adapt faster & smarter. 🔗 Learn more: www.urbanair-project.eu

Over the last decade, women in the EU made great strides, now representing 41% of scientists & engineers. UrbanAIR celebrates their vital role in climate science, digital technologies & urban planning. 🌍 Let's keep accelerating gender equality! ⚖️ #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #AccelerateAction

UrbanAIR, a #HorizonEurope project, integrates physics-based & behavioural modelling with AI-driven digital twins to help European cities make real-time climate decisions to combat extreme heat & air pollution while promoting urban resilience. 🌍 📢 Learn more: www.urbanair-project.eu/_files/ugd/a...

Our Partners @tudelft.bsky.social & @bfh-ch.bsky.social offer fully funded PhD & postdoc positions as part of @urbanair.bsky.social in machine learning, Earth observation, and atmospheric sciences. 📅 Start Date: Spring 2025 (flexible) 🔗 More details & application: www.angela-meyer.net/general-9