The international urban energy balance models comparison project: First results from phase 1

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1268-1292

  Grimmond, C S B ^a   Blackett, M ^a   Best, M J ^b   Barlow, J ^c   Baik, J J ^d   Belcher, S E ^c   Bohnenstengel, S I ^c   Calmet, I ^e   Chen, F ^f   Dandou, A ^g   Fortuniak, K ^h   Gouvea, M L ^a   Hamdi, R ⁱ   Hendry, M ^b   Kawai, T ^j   Kawamoto, Y ^k   Kondo, H ^l   Krayenhoff, E S ^m   Lee, S H ^d   Loridan, T ^a   Martilli, A ⁿ   Masson, V ^o   Miao, S ^p   Oleson, K ^f   Pigeon, G ^o   Porson, A ^b,c   Ryu, Y H ^d   Salamanca, F ⁿ   Shashua Bar, L ^q   Steeneveld, G J ^r   Tombrou, M ^g   Voogt, J ^s   Young, D ^a   Zhang, N ^t   more..

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^e LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES   (France)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

ⁱ ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^j EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁿ CIEMAT   (Spain)

^o CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^p NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^q BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^r WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^s UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^t NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

Energy budget; Model comparison; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MODEL; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY; ENERGY BUDGETS; EXCHANGE PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL COMPLEXITY; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODELING APPROACH; NATURAL SURFACE; PHASE 1; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SENSIBLE HEAT; STATISTICAL MEASURES; SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENERGY BALANCE; URBAN METEOROLOGY; URBAN SURFACES; VANCOUVER , BRITISH COLUMBIA; WATER EXCHANGE; WAVE RADIATION;

BUDGET CONTROL; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DATA SET; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODELING; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; URBAN AREA;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 77952210867     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2354.1     Document Type: Article

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