A Double-Canyon Radiation Scheme for Multi-Layer Urban Canopy Models

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 439-468

  Schubert, Sebastian ^a   Grossman Clarke, Susanne ^a   Martilli, Alberto ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mesoscale modelling; Radiation energy balance; Urban canopy parametrization

Indexed keywords

BASEL URBAN BOUNDARY LAYER EXPERIMENTS; BUILDING EFFECTS; BUILDING HEIGHT; DIFFUSE SHORTWAVE RADIATIONS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; GROUND SURFACES; LONG WAVES; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCALE MODELLING; MESOSCALE NUMERICAL MODEL; MULTI-LAYER URBAN CANOPY MODEL; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXCHANGE; RADIATIVE INTERACTIONS; REGIONAL WEATHER; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; URBAN CANOPY MODELS; URBAN CANYONS; URBAN REGIONS; URBAN STREET CANYON;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; ENERGY BALANCE; ROOFS;

RADIATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STREET CANYON; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN REGION;

EID: 84868510195     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9728-3     Document Type: Article

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