Implementation of an urban canopy parameterization in a mesoscale meteorological model

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1648-1665

  Otte, Tanya L ^a   Lacser, Avraham ^b   Dupont, Sylvain ^a   Ching, Jason K S ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; KINETIC ENERGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

FRICTION VELOCITY; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; URBAN CANOPY PARAMETERIZATION (UCP); WIND SPEED;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; FRICTION; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11344282030     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2164.1     Document Type: Article

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