Modeling and simulation of the Tokyo urban heat island

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3431-3442

  Saitoh, T S ^a   Shimada, T ^b   Hoshi, H ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NKK Steel Corporation   (Japan)

^c TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic heat emission; Cross over; Field observation; Heat island; Multilateral element method; Three dimensional simulation; Vorticity velocity vector potential method

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; JAPAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

JAPAN, HONSHU, TOKYO;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODERNIZATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; URBAN PLANNING;

ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT EMISSION; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; ECONOMIC GROWTH; HEAT ISLAND; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MULTILATERAL ELEMENT METHOD; TOKYO; URBANIZATION; VORTICITY VELOCITY POTENTIAL METHOD;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030251184     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00489-0     Document Type: Article

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