Аннотация:This study presents a simple urban climate numerical model aimed at being used as decision support tool by urban planners.The paper first presents the principles and equations of the model, then an evaluation of simulated surface temperatures and air temperatures against remote-sensed observations and in situ measurements, and finally an example of application for urban planning scenarios evaluation.The model C1 GMDD Interactive commentPrinter-friendly version Discussion paper is intended to by applied for evaluating urban design choices at very fine scale but is however based on very simple approaches: Thank you for your comments.We welcome the opportunity to clarify TARGET's scientific value.Based on the comments from this referee it is clear that we need to improve communication of TARGET's purpose and limitations in the manuscript.We have also decided that based on all the referees comments we will recommend a minimum spatial resolution of 100 m. for air temperature simulations This way, the model is not attempting to resolve microscale features.We have redone our analysis at 100 m and have clarified this in manuscript (specific modifications are listed below).We hope that this adjustment will assuage the referees main concerns.
