Calibrating and validating the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) urban cooling model: case studies in France and the United States
Understanding the cooling service provided by vegetation in cities is important to inform urban policy and planning. However, the performance of decision-support tools estimating heat mitigation for urban greening strategies has not been evaluated systematically. Here, we further develop a calibrati...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1788662024-07-15T15:30:48Z Calibrating and validating the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) urban cooling model: case studies in France and the United States Hamel, Perrine Bosch, Martí Tardieu, Léa Lemonsu, Aude De Munck, Cécile Nootenboom, Chris Viguié, Vincent Lonsdorf, Eric Douglass, James A. Sharp, Richard P. Asian School of the Environment Earth Observatory of Singapore Earth and Environmental Sciences Ecosystem service Infrastructure planning Understanding the cooling service provided by vegetation in cities is important to inform urban policy and planning. However, the performance of decision-support tools estimating heat mitigation for urban greening strategies has not been evaluated systematically. Here, we further develop a calibration algorithm and evaluate the performance of the urban cooling model developed within the open-source InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) software. The urban cooling model estimates air temperature reduction due to vegetation based on four predictors, shade, evapotranspiration, albedo, and building density, and was designed for data-rich and data-scarce situations. We apply the calibration algorithm and evaluate the model in two case studies (Paris, France, and Minneapolis-St Paul, USA) by examining the spatial correlation between InVEST predictions and reference temperature data at a 1 km horizontal resolution. In both case studies, model performance was high for nighttime air temperatures, which are an important indicator of human wellbeing. After calibration, we found medium performance for surface temperatures during daytime but low performance for daytime air temperatures in both case studies, which may be due to model and data limitations. We illustrate the model adequacy for urban planning by testing its ability to simulate a green infrastructure scenario in the Paris case study. The predicted air temperature change compared well to that of an alternative physics-based model (r2Combining double low line0.55 and r2Combining double low line0.85 for daytime and nighttime air temperatures, respectively). Finally, we discuss opportunities and challenges for the use of such parsimonious decision-support tools, highlighting their importance to mainstream ecosystem services information for urban planning. National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This research has been supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore (grant no. NRF-NRFF12-2020-0009), and by ADEME, the French Ministry for an Ecological Transition (CGDD and PUCA), and AgroParisTech. 2024-07-09T07:15:09Z 2024-07-09T07:15:09Z 2024 Journal Article Hamel, P., Bosch, M., Tardieu, L., Lemonsu, A., De Munck, C., Nootenboom, C., Viguié, V., Lonsdorf, E., Douglass, J. A. & Sharp, R. P. (2024). Calibrating and validating the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) urban cooling model: case studies in France and the United States. Geoscientific Model Development, 17(12), 4755-4771. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4755-2024 1991-959X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178866 10.5194/gmd-17-4755-2024 2-s2.0-85196626808 12 17 4755 4771 en NRF-NRFF12-2020-0009 Geoscientific Model Development © 2024 Author(s). This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. application/pdf |
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Understanding the cooling service provided by vegetation in cities is important to inform urban policy and planning. However, the performance of decision-support tools estimating heat mitigation for urban greening strategies has not been evaluated systematically. Here, we further develop a calibration algorithm and evaluate the performance of the urban cooling model developed within the open-source InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) software. The urban cooling model estimates air temperature reduction due to vegetation based on four predictors, shade, evapotranspiration, albedo, and building density, and was designed for data-rich and data-scarce situations. We apply the calibration algorithm and evaluate the model in two case studies (Paris, France, and Minneapolis-St Paul, USA) by examining the spatial correlation between InVEST predictions and reference temperature data at a 1 km horizontal resolution. In both case studies, model performance was high for nighttime air temperatures, which are an important indicator of human wellbeing. After calibration, we found medium performance for surface temperatures during daytime but low performance for daytime air temperatures in both case studies, which may be due to model and data limitations. We illustrate the model adequacy for urban planning by testing its ability to simulate a green infrastructure scenario in the Paris case study. The predicted air temperature change compared well to that of an alternative physics-based model (r2Combining double low line0.55 and r2Combining double low line0.85 for daytime and nighttime air temperatures, respectively). Finally, we discuss opportunities and challenges for the use of such parsimonious decision-support tools, highlighting their importance to mainstream ecosystem services information for urban planning. |
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Calibrating and validating the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) urban cooling model: case studies in France and the United States |
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Calibrating and validating the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) urban cooling model: case studies in France and the United States |
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