Evaluation of the simple urban energy balance model using selected data from 1-yr flux observations at two cities

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 693-715

  Kawai, Toru ^a   Ridwan, Mohammad Kholid ^b   Kanda, Manabu ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUX OBSERVATION; MESOSCALE SIMULATION; NATURAL LOGARITHMS; RADIATIVE TEMPERATURE; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE; SWITZERLAND; URBAN ENERGY BALANCE; WAVE RADIATION;

ERRORS; HEAT STORAGE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; VEGETATION;

ENERGY BALANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ASIA; BASEL; BASEL-STADT; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; SWITZERLAND; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 67549107528     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1891.1     Document Type: Article

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