Representing complex urban geometries in mesoscale modeling

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 289-301

  Rasheed, Adil ^a   Robinson, Darren ^b   Clappier, Alain ^c   Narayanan, Chidambaram ^d   Lakehal, Djamel ^d  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d ASCOMP GMBH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complex urban geometry; Mesoscale modeling; Urban canopy model

Indexed keywords

BUILDING HEIGHT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAG FORCES; FIELD SURVEYS; IMMERSED SURFACES; INCIDENT RADIATION; MESOSCALE MODELING; MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; NEW APPROACHES; PARAMETERISATION; QUALITATIVE ESTIMATES; RADIOSITY; REGULAR ARRAY; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; STATISTICAL REPRESENTATIONS; URBAN CANOPY MODELS; URBAN GEOMETRY;

DRAG; RADIATION EFFECTS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEXITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRAG COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE FLUX; URBAN CLIMATE;

EID: 78751700817     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2240     Document Type: Article

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