Description: Extreme urban heat and wind events increasingly challenge conventional urban climate assessment tools. While parameterized, CFD, and RANS models are effective for routine analysis and design comparison, short-duration, high-risk events require explicit representation of turbulence, radiation, and interactions with complex urban morphology. High-resolution Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models such as PALM address these processes at the urban scale, but their adoption remains limited due to complex configuration workflows and lack of integration with standard GIS environments.

Funding: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this project by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the Comisión Fulbright España. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Fulbright Program, the Government of the United States, or the Fulbright Spain Comission. We also gratefully acknowledge the Institute of Material Technologies Research and Dr. Javier Orozco at the Universidad Politècnica de València for serving as our Fulbright Hosts