Comparison of selected approaches for urban roughness determination based on voronoi cells

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 189-198

  Ketterer, Christine ^a,b   Gangwisch, Marcel ^b   Fröhlich, Dominik ^b   Matzarakis, Andreas ^b,c  

^a iMA Richter & Röckle ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Displacement height; Roughness length; SkyHelios; Stuttgart; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

CITY; GERMANY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND;

CITIES; GERMANY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WIND;

EID: 84976500220     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-016-1203-2     Document Type: Article

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