Quality and sensitivity of high-resolution numerical simulation of urban heat islands

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Li, Dan ^a,b   Bou Zeid, Elie ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

thermal roughness length; urban canopy model; urban heat island; WRF

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; URBAN CANOPY MODELS; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF;

URBAN GROWTH;

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT ISLAND; PARAMETERIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROUGHNESS; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84901769263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/5/055001     Document Type: Article

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