2022 Climate Assessment Cards: Urban Climate Maps for Berlin

The dataset provides climate assessment maps forming the basis for integrating climatic concerns into urban planning. It includes representations of polluted areas, discharge chambers, and guideways, as well as separate assessments for day and night situations. The Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie produced these maps, which also highlight particularly polluted and vulnerable areas and include recommendations from the Urban Development Plan (StEP) Climate 2.0.

Use Cases

• Identify urban heat islands and vulnerable areas based on the maps of polluted and vulnerable zones.
• Plan infrastructure to mitigate thermal stress using the provided recommendations for measures.
• Assess environmental impacts of development projects based on the separate day and night climate situation assessments.
• Guide urban development decisions using the overall climate assessment and planning notes.

Strengths

• Maps are based on conclusively determined recommendations from the StEP Climate 2.0 plan.
• Assessments cover both overall climate impact and separate day and night situations.
• Data is specifically tailored to the urban structure types of the state of Berlin.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Derived from urban structure types and planning instructions for Berlin.

Time Range

2022

Geography

Berlin, Germany