Data and source code used for "Simulation of tilted rooftop photovoltaic panels at city scale: Novel measurements, model development and application in WRF"

City-wide deployment of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) panels has been proposed as an effective mitigation strategy since PV panels can shade the underlying surface and generate electricity.

However, the effects of PV panels on near-surface air temperature are less conclusive. This study presents an upgraded physics-based rooftop PV numerical model UCRC-Solar and its implementation in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF), a widely used numerical weather prediction model. A full-year measurement campaign at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, was conducted to capture the surface-atmosphere exchange for a rooftop array of tilted PV panels.