Sensitivity of predictions of the urban surface energy balance and heat Island to variations of urban canopy parameters in simulations with the WRF model

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 573-595

  Nemunaitis Berry, Kodi L ^a   Klein, Petra M ^a   Basara, Jeffrey B ^b   Fedorovich, Evgeni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat islands; Land surface model; Numerical analysis modeling; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT FLUX; LANDFORMS; ROOFS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; URBAN PLANNING;

HEAT ISLAND; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; URBAN CANOPY PARAMETERS; URBAN METEOROLOGY; URBAN SURFACE ENERGY BALANCES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT ISLAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE ENERGY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85015230946     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0157.1     Document Type: Article

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