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Thermal Assessment Tool

The Thermal Assessment Tool provides interactive visualisations of past and projected heatwave characteristics across European regions. It translates climate data into risk-relevant categories (warning, alert, alarm) to support local heat risk assessment, planning, and awareness-raising.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Explore past and projected heatwave characteristics for three selected European cities
  • Review climate data translated into warning, alert and alarm risk categories
  • Use historical, present and forward-looking observational, reanalysis, climate-model and socio-economic data

Output

  • Maps, graphs, reports and decision-support material on heatwave risk
  • Datasets and indicators on heat risk categories

Use it to

  • Assess local heat risk using warning/alert/alarm categories
  • Support heat-related planning and awareness-raising
  • Monitor and evaluate heat risk over time

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Turns complex heatwave data into simple, actionable warning/alert/alarm categories, and is unusually strongly validated for a project-based tool (peer-reviewed methodology, case-study and expert validation). Coverage is currently limited to three European cities, and it offers no nature-based-solution, cost-benefit or just-resilience functionality.

Used in

  • Local heat risk assessment, planning and awareness-raising in three selected European cities, developed through Horizon Europe REACHOUT by Tecnalia
  • Buildings, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, land use planning, tourism and urban sectors

Metadata

User Group
Commission services and/or AgenciesTransboundary networksNational authorities
Geographic coverage
Municipalities & other:
Three selected cities
Spatial resolution

Local; NUTS3; NUTS2

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Step 6: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Adaptation sectors
BuildingsDisaster Risk ReductionEnergy
Climate hazards
Heat
Type of outputs
Maps and graphsReports and decision supportDatasets and indicators
Temporality of data
Historical/pastPresentForward-looking
Language
English
Accessibility and usability
High
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsMixed sources
Tool validation use
Peer-reviewed methodologyCase-study validationExpert validation / reputable institution

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