Green roof mitigation potential for a proxy future climate scenario in Chicago, Illinois

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 507-522

  Smith, Kathryn R ^a   Roebber, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate sensitivity; Mesoscale models; Urban meteorology; Vegetationndashatmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; APPARENT TEMPERATURE; BREEZE CIRCULATION; CHICAGO; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLIMATE WARMING; FUTURE CLIMATE; GREEN ROOF; ILLINOIS; MESOSCALE MODELS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POLLUTION CONCENTRATION; URBAN CANOPY MODELS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN METEOROLOGY; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZED AREA; VEGETATIONNDASHATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS; HEALTH HAZARDS; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; ROOFS; URBAN PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955015042     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2337.1     Document Type: Article

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