Sensitivity of WRF model to urban parameterizations, with applications to Chicago metropolitan urban heat Island

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM

Volumn 1D, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sharma, Ashish ^a   Fernando, Harindra J S ^a   Hellmann, Jessica ^a   Chen, Fei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FLUID MECHANICS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; ROCKETS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; ANTHROPOGENIC HEAT; FRESHWATER SOURCES; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SURFACE WIND SPEED; URBAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84919934684     PISSN: 08888116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FEDSM2014-21292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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