Can surface-cover tiles be summed to give neighborhood fluxes in cities?

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-149

  Salmond, J A ^a   Roth, M ^b   Oke, T R ^c   Christen, A ^c   Voogt, J A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; MORPHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROUGHNESS SUBLAYERS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOLAR ANGLE; SOURCE AREA; SWITZERLAND; SYSTEMATIC CONTROL; URBAN METEOROLOGY; WIND DIRECTIONS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; QUALITY CONTROL; ROOFS;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EDDY COVARIANCE; HEAT FLUX; LAND COVER; MORPHOMETRY; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84856144763     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-078.1     Document Type: Article

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