Add to ORKGInternational audienceIn order to assess the impact on cities on the regional climate, either present or future, an adequate description of the cities is needed. In global climate models, cities are most often not represented. In high-resolution climate models, they are now physically represented by dedicated surfaces schemes, as TEB (Town Energy Balance) model (Masson 2000). However, the urban description itself is most often very crude, based on land cover classes. First these land cover classes are at typically 1km of resolution, a coarse resolution from the stakeholders point of view, and secondly, the urban parameters associated with these classes are uniform for each class (same building height for all suburban areas for example). Rec...