Impacts of urban albedo increase on local air temperature at daily-annual time scales: Model results and synthesis of previous work

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1634-1648

  Krayenhoff, E Scott ^a   Voogt, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1D MODELING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING; CHICAGO; COMBINED MODEL; COOLING DEGREE-DAYS; HEATING DEGREE-DAYS; ILLINOIS; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING APPROACH; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SOIL-VEGETATION; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE REDUCTION; TIME-SCALES; URBAN AIR; URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ROOFS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; BOUNDARY LAYER; MIXING; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN AREA;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957737134     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2356.1     Document Type: Article

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