Development of an Urban Multilayer Radiation Scheme and Its Application to the Urban Surface Warming Potential

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-328

  Aoyagi, Toshinori ^a   Takahashi, Shunji ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multilayer radiation scheme; Radiation; Radiative equilibrium; Radiosity method; Urban surface warming; Urban warming

Indexed keywords

BLACK BODY; BLOCK ARRAYS; BUILDING HEIGHT; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; FLAT SURFACES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; RADIATION DISTRIBUTION; RADIATIVE EQUILIBRIUM; RADIATIVE TEMPERATURE; RADIOSITY METHOD; SINGLE LAYER; STANDARD MATERIALS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CANYONS; URBAN SURFACES; URBAN WARMING;

ASPECT RATIO; BUILDING CODES; HEAT RADIATION; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MULTILAYERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SURFACES;

ALBEDO; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84855345420     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9679-0     Document Type: Article

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