Introduction of urban canopy parameterization into MM5 to simulate urban meteorology at neighborhood scale

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 423-427

  Dupont, Sylvain ^a,c   Ching, Jason ^a   Burian, Steve ^b  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSCALE MODELS; THERMODYNAMIC CANOPY MODEL; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; URBAN CANOPY PARAMETERIZATION (UCP);

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 2442443894     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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