Numerical study of the urban heat island over Athens (Greece) with the WRF model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-111

  Giannaros, Theodore M ^a   Melas, Dimitrios ^a   Daglis, Ioannis A ^b   Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^b   Kourtidis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Athens; Data assimilation; Numerical modeling; Observations; Remote sensing; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATHENS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION ALGORITHMS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE CONTRAST; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; HEAT ISLAND; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITY; GREECE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUN; URBAN AREA;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84876334833     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.02.055     Document Type: Article

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