An urban parameterization for a global climate model. Part II: Sensitivity to input parameters and the simulated urban heat island in offline simulations

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1061-1076

  Oleson, Keith W ^a   Bonan, G B ^a   Feddema, J ^b   Vertenstein, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT STORAGE;

AIR TEMPERATURES; BOWEN RATIOS; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT ISLANDS; INPUT DATUMS; INPUT PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; OFFLINE SIMULATIONS; RURAL ENVIRONMENTS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUXES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SURFACE CONDITIONS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CLIMATES; URBAN ECOSYSTEMS; URBAN ENERGY BALANCES; URBAN HEAT ISLANDS; URBAN MODELS; URBAN SYSTEMS; WIDTH RATIOS;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT ISLAND; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; URBAN AREA; URBAN CLIMATE;

EID: 57649198453     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1598.1     Document Type: Article

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